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Right, ladies and gentlemen, Gobblins and Coals, welcome back to the episode of The Witch Fiders Podcast. I'm James in fall within Southern England. So that's episode 44B James. Yes. Yes. So I'm John Pountney. I am here. I went a bit thingy in the undergrowth, then, didn't I? What's his name? I'm your David Bellamy. Yeah, there was a Bellamy vibe going on. And I do look a bit like him as well. Yeah, look, I look tired. Shrunk down with like ladybirds and stuff. That was my favourite.
Shrunk down with ladybirds. Remember, there was a program when they shrunk him down. Oh, like with blue scree. Yeah. I always see a color separation overlays to BBC would have it. I'm John Pountney and I'm in South Wales, which is still as we speak, clinging on to the south of Wales. I'm Ross in Dorchester. And this time we watched. You're in Southern England. In Southern England. I'm Ross in Dorchester. So I'm in England. And this time we watched during party's party.
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We now leave the smashed up movie set of the dummy with its snarling wife runs, but wearing gilded laughter. It's et cetera. Apologies. Apologies to anyone listening to this podcast on their headphones. I'm eating the tea. Please don't sue us. Yeah. And join Angie and Roger Truscott in their secluded Hampshire. I think Alton Ross. I had a look on the map. I think it's Alton. And they're secluded Hampshire home for during party's party.
This episode features the only actual beasts as the main threat. In this case, large, super evolved intelligent rats. And where have we met them before? Exactly, John. Exactly. War on this to come. Elizabeth Sellers plays Angie Truscott known for the mummy shroud. And Angie Bates plays Roger Truscott's heavily channeling Michael Bryant's Peter Rock character from the stotape. Another absolute icon of this spot. It's shouting.
Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. As you can see, I've written shouting shouting shouting. Birmingham, Birmingham, Birmingham. Brilliant. You know rats. Sounds like. It says Bates was cast as Dr. Fendelman in image of the Fendel. But what is that? What is that? It's season 15. I think story of comedy. Right. Right. It's a pretty good. Yeah. It's one of the best. It's right. Okay. But he drops out with Dennis Slyll taking the role. Colin Bell plays Barty Willis.
The local DJ hostess thing, the titular Barty's party is regular rock and roll roll radio show. Like the rest of the cast, Bell is only heard, not seen. He is seen, however, in the sea devils and invasion of the dinosaurs by the company stories. Yes, another doctor. I tried to trust. We've got to start changing this up. Come on now. So many jolly actors from that era. Of course, probably in porridge as well or survivors. Yeah. Or do what?
Yes. So it says Norman Mitchell plays the police sergeant. Supposedly, a 18-mitchell walked from Sheffield to London to become an actor. Leading to nearly 200 film appearances. It's 500 radio broadcasts. And an estimated 2000 television appearances. He developed a niche of playing policemen appearing as such in 12 episodes of the quite frankly weird and disturbing ITV children's TV show from the late 70s, early 80s, Wersel Gummage.
Frankenstein and the monster from hell, more on this very soon, apparently. Yeah. And now the screaming starts exclamation mark. Oliver exclamation mark. And the first Doctor Who Christmas episode, the feast of Stephen. And I did not know this Jonathan Reese Davis plays P. Senule. Famous, of course. What? What? What? What? What? What? What? What? No. No, this is dreadful, Ross. And as usual, Dylan listener. I've done is I've not even looked at the script until I've come to record it.
Standard practice. But then right, it says Jonathan Reese Davis. And I'm preparing myself to read a number of things about the beloved genre actor who appeared in as salad in three of the Indiana Jones dress. What's your dreadful Brexit man now? Well, this is just what I'm finding out. And it's it's shaking me to my core. So for the sake of everybody else, oh God, this is really depressing. Oh. So famous for his parts in Lord of the Rings is Gimli.
And Radies of the Lost Ark, Reese Davis is a support of the British Conservative Party. Reese Davis was a radical leftist in the 60s who tried to heckle a young Tory MP. But the parliamentarians shut down the first two hecklers in such a brilliant fashion that I decided I ought to once for shut up and listen. The MP in question was Margaret Thatcher. No way. Oh, he is a supporter of Brexit.
Yeah. On the 25th of April 2019, he appeared as a panelist on the BBC's quite frankly a bismill of the British politician time. That's my God. Not Ross's. That's on the poster. Oh dear, his conducts on the programme towards politician Caroline Lucas was later described as a thuggish and sexist by some viewers. And I know how disappointing. Never meet your heroes. Not that he was a massive hero of mine.
But you know, he always seems like such a jock killer and a, you know, kind of happy, go lucky fellow and whatever you. And oh my God, that's really depressing. Yeah, he's dreadful in real life. I went to a horror film festival in Bournemouth recently called Screams by the Sea. And it was a lot of kind of very low budget, very low budget horror films, but there was a short bit in the middle with short films.
And there's a really good one about a lady who was living on a farm with an old father who had dementia who was played by John Reesavius. Wow. But it turns out that he was actually a vampire. And then loads of like like Catholics, policemen came in and killed him. But it was pretty good. Yeah, a bit like it was a bit like ultraviolet. But he was really, really good at that. And it was probably the best thing I saw on that weekend. So let's crash on with this one then.
So this one starts off with, it starts off with like a car in a country lady. Yeah, I love the beginning. And it starts off, and my first note just says the steering wheel cover. And you don't really get, you really don't get steering wheel covers anymore. Not so much from a bygone era, don't they? Yeah, I used to have a leopard print one. Yeah, my daughter saw one today in a car. She was all like that car's got like a fluffy steering wheel. And I said, wow. And it also had a novelty gistik.
It did. Yeah, you used to have a lot of, you used to get a lot more stuff like that. There used to be a wonderful shop in Scarborough opposite boys, which specialized in a lot of automobile of that standard, which was like things to kind of customize your car. Yeah, my dad had a billiard ball one. Oh, yeah, they were great. Yeah. I think my friend in college had an eight ball on his gear knob in his VWB. But I think the car at the start is an Austin Healy 3000 in a non-standard color.
But it might be some kind of kick car based on the Austin Healy 3000. It's quite hard to tell what it is. Later on in the script, she refers to it as quite a new car, which it certainly isn't. I don't think. Well, it might have been at the time. It might have been at the time, but I don't think you'd have called it quite a new car. And whereas the husband immediately corrects her and tells, actually does all the way through this. It completely sort of patronizes her. Yes. It's just a kick car.
I've written here that he doesn't, Nigel Neal doesn't write women very well. And then I've written after it. Maybe he doesn't write anybody very well because his characters are often quite grumpy. The women in his frail, weak-minded kind of used susceptible to kind of suggestion and stuff. And that's Jane Asher, that's Barbara Binging in Quatermass and the film version. Obviously, she is the one that gets taken over by the alien spaceship and stuff.
I can't think of one really strong female character in this. Well, there's old people who live in the junk pile in the last Quirtymass one, which played by F.B.L. Authoriesenders. Everybody thinks. Very mind his good lady wife was Judith Care, the author who wrote the tiger that came to see of course. Yes. And I'm hitting so much stuff. Pink rabbit with something like that, which is excellent. That was her as well, wasn't it? And there's a wonderful photo of her with sat with a cat, I think.
And that's the cat in the story. I think. So anyway, yeah. So you see the Austin Healy. It's a non-standard color, folks. It looks like Inquiello, which is a triumph color. Or is it Aztec Gello? I can't remember which. And you hear a lot of screaming. And then you kind of fade into a very 70s bedroom, which either looks like a bedroom from survivors or from stigma, which we've watched in this podcast, haven't we? Peter Bolz shouting and his Volvo.
There's no dialogue for quite a long time. And then the first thing we hear is the horror, the most horrific thing that we've ever dealt with on this podcast. And that is shout by Lulu. Now, now, now dear listener, this is not set up in any way, shape or form. John and I have not spoken to each other about this before. I hold down my notes. And if I point what of my note? What does my notes say? It says the horror of Lulu. That's the new title. That's the new title. You type a lot of cassocks.
The horror of Lulu. Supposedly something that Jason Orange has ever taken off for. Absolutely. Or was it Howard Donald? It's one of the two. Oh, that's not too much. That's not staying in. But it's quite rough. Just spit it out and then leave your laughter in. That facts about Lulu having some, some, some sexual congress with a member of take that. Right. I remember that as well. And I only saw that documentary once because it was all about take that, wasn't it?
And it must have only just been what it, but it's like that stayed with me. Along with of course, Gary Barlow's tax avoidance, which is will, which as a teacher, I will mention every single time. You're stealing money out of my pockets, Barlow. I won't forget. I'll just give it back. No, it's probably given it back. Anyway. But yeah, I remember that John anyway. Yeah. So Lulu, moving on. Sorry. That's the basic. I just was like, she's sort of woken up as if she heard the screaming.
But then it's like, I can very sort of, weird. But it's it becomes apparent that she thinks part of a dream, doesn't it? Because she's taken a pill and she's had a drink. I don't know how much you fucking drunk today. You're stupid woman. That's basically how her husband talks. But I better catch up. Yeah. So he comes in, pulls himself a jug of whiskey. You missed that on the car, John. So he arrives home quite interestingly. This is all on a sound stage.
So there's a, there's an actual driving car with its engine running, pulling into the garage, isn't there? So I hope they had the back door open that day. So they're all gouging, they never go back to it. No, no, no, no, it's amazing. It's amazing. So he's got a Rover P6 and she's got a mini. And I've written Rover P6 in the studio and a mini for the wife.
And this is how cars were marketed back then that minis were just a women to go shopping and then the man of the house would have a bigger car, which would be like the Rover or it would be full granada or something like that. You just got to be careful you don't drive your mini behind a van with someone dross of an alien in the back because then you might just get a little bit freaked out and crash into a pile of sand.
Throw that for anyone thinking that the, the, the Rossus maybe had a stroke there. That is what happens at the start of the start. Oh, it just, does it really? Yeah. Yeah. She's driving a million long and then she's, it's an Austin match. Oh, so okay. That's why I fucked it up. Yeah. I thought that was something that we had done in college or something. No, no, no, no. So, um, so he comes in, takes the record off and I've written, I'd smash the record if I'd, um...
And why do you say rock and roll? You look like this. Yeah. So, why would they have it in the house? It's not really rock and roll and it's weird to think that at that point, that record is literally only about 11 years old or something. And that's now like, you know, 11 years ago now is something that came out in like 2013. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But also the thing that he was shocked that she was playing it. Yes. And she, it makes it, she doesn't like it, but it was the only record.
That's not enough. Also, but it was any record next to the record player. So, if she does, they don't like it and they, and they're surprised to have it. Why have they got it in the house? Well, it's the daughter's record, isn't it? Oh, obviously. But obviously this being 1976, what she could have had on was never mind the ball looks. He is the sexist of this. Which would have done a much better job. And I really like that. And I really like that. And I really like that.
And when I'm watching things like this, I do, as you know, like to imagine what's happening outside of the, the studio when they've left to go to the pub. Do they go to the pub after recording this and discuss, like, Grundy and Johnny Rotten. You feel, feel, feel what you do. You feel, feel what I'm doing. Do they all go and discuss that? I mean, it's just, it's brilliant. Does it all exist in the same universe? So, we visit a bit like the last episode.
We've visioned mixing again rather than editing. But it does work a bit better in this one, I think. There's fewer people in this, in this much smaller set. And I think this is where it works better. Yes. It absolutely feels like a stage plate. Yes. As I was watching it, it's all set up. And feels like, even though as John rightly says, you know, they built this large bit for the car to go. Yes. Once they're both in the house together, it really feels like a stage.
And I really like the fact that they're the only ones in it. And all the other, every house has phone calls, radio, someone outside. I really like that as it works really well. It made me think a lot of the road radio play. So I think, for me, it was like a radio play with pictures. Because there's a lot, I feel like there's a lot of exposition in the dialogue, which is a bit like a, when you, you know, in a radio play, it's like, why are you holding that knife?
Why, why you stop pointing that knife at me? Oh my god, you're coming closer. It's like that, isn't it? This was a little bit like that. I just want to say, trust Scott is one of Helen's, my partner, hell, for listeners, is one of her familial names on her mother's side. And it's the name, the real name of Ray Milan, who is rumored to be related to Helen Martin. So who's, who's a person you said, Ray Milan? Ray Milan, he's a famous Hollywood actor, Cleaps. Oh, okay.
And he was, I think he won an Oscar for some of the last weekend, I think it was cool. He's in quite a few horror genre films later on in his career. He's in one with Peter Cushion, where, where cats, I think he's killed by cats. Okay. But he's real name was trust Scott. So, I felt like this was very similar to baby, where there's a woman left at home on her own, who sounds like she, they might have lived in the city before, but they've now moved to the country.
Yeah. She's sort of like going a bit nuts, because she's been isolated left on her own. Because women can't bear to be alone, can they? No. And all they're doing is waiting for their husbands to come home. Yes. And they bluster in. Yeah. So, what, if you forgot to make dinner and, and it's basically the dismiss, anything the woman says to them, it starts getting drunk straight away. Yeah. Basically what I do. Yeah, and just shout, just shout. Check.
It's quite lazy writing, and I hadn't thought of the baby parallel until you pointed it out. And I think if you've watched this, and baby was on last week or whatever, you'd be like, this is the same story. Yeah. The guy needs to get some new ideas, Nigel Neal. Yeah. It, I've said, there's the annoying subtext of women being hysterical. And I think it is really annoying in this.
There is also the idea of perception in fear, and how you perceive something can ruin your day, you know, if you suffer from anxiety or whatever, the way you perceive something can really knock you off-kilter. That is an interesting idea for writing, but not done in the way that it's done here. But one of the things I, when I watched this the first time, I was thinking, this is quite sexist. They're always making out the women a week and can be over, there's overbearing men shouting.
But then, when I watched it the second time, I was like, oh, actually, the men a week in this as well. And if you think about some of these other stories, the men are always weak, but they use this bluster and bravado and stuff to sort of try and, like, must the fact that they are weak and unsure themselves, because he only gets angry when she kind of, like, sticks up for herself.
But the rest of the time, he's like, jovial and kind of like, just trying to sort of, like, look her out of this whole kind of thing where she does, which doesn't feel good, and she feels weird and stuff. But if she starts pushing back a bit too hard, that's when he gets angry and insulting towards it. And then later on, there's a bit, when he ends up crying and being weak and she's the one who's trying to save him.
Yes. And I think, actually, it's not, I think he's equally scathing to men and women in this. It's not just anti-women. Essentially, yes. And I think what Nigel Neal would say in his defence if he wasn't dead is that everyone is weak and it's, you know, everyone is blustering and trying to muscle on through or whatever. But I think that's because we've watched so many of his things now, I think that's kind of slightly laced, because it's the same thing as that.
He does it in literally almost everything, where besides Professor Quayton has, who is obviously unrufflable. I mean, we're not talking about the film version now, but in the TV version, he's unrufflable and very stoic. Everyone else is just, just goes raping mad. And obviously they go raping mad in this, like the husband by the end goes absolutely awful. I've written these gone full bananas. But he comes home and I think you can hear rats quite soon, can't you?
And then it's like, where's the dog? And Buster, the dog has run off and then Buster cops for it because he says, you know, the dog's fucking useless. And then he's even addicted to the dog. Like, you open the door. Buster, stupid dog. So, there's an amazing tracking shot where he opens the back door and he calls for the dog. And then there's quite a nice tracking, the kind of tracks in on him. And I thought, that's done really well. If that's done on a vision mixed kind of live studio setup.
And then you hear something in the bushes outside, but he doesn't go to look and then he goes back in the locks. So as it started off, I thought, God, 50 minutes of him shouting and her being hysterical is going to be quite annoying. But I've got about halfway through my notes, I've said, there's good feeling of impending doom. Good example of a way to fill 50 minutes with only two people, which is a really interesting. It's a bit like lock that film with, yes.
Who's in that now? What's his name? Tom? Tom Hardy. Yes. Right. It's just him and he's in his range over. Yeah, so he rings various people, doesn't he, throughout this journey. And this is a bit like that where they turn the radio on and they hear some snatches of stuff and they ring some people and blah, blah, blah. This is a bit like that where it's a kind of exercise in filling 50 minutes with events. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead. Go ahead.
I'm actually message. No, I'll catch an element time. Oh Jim, just a moment. I think he's here now. Oh, but just got in. Peter, Rod and Trasco. No, no. Peter too, I've been home for ages. I've got a bloody side, I've got a gold boy. Well, I won't keep it from that drink. Just one small piece to what we agreed. Here we go. On the second stage layout, I think the limit ought to be 9 and a quarter percent. You found out what you're going to take. That's all. I'll leave it with you.
Right. Hey, listen. What about that crap on the radio? What? I've got a car, radio. Of course. Well, I'm listening to the music. I'm cooking, Lord, you miss everything. They get the most marvellously funny items. Well, they have this bit. They're making things about you. It was about go part of the universe. Peter. And I've brought to myself, oh Trasco, you'll be listening to this. I wonder if he's seen anything. He's seen what? A bloody red migration. Oh, a joke item.
No, no, more freaky than jerky. It was about reds crossing country roads. People have seen them thousands of people. Yes, I'm very amusing. No, no, no, no. But they're serious. Yeah, one for your collection. That's happened. I've read about it. Oh, bloody columns of reds on the market. Well, since I didn't hear it, I've signed. But apparently they can be very nice. Peter, I won't keep you from that drink any longer. Oh, you're putting a win-win WMI. Sorry, old boy.
It's 9 and a quarter percent, all right? Look, all right. You're saying you're right, right Peter. Right. Notting full, once you get started, you're going precious. So essentially, he rings up John Restavis, who he talked to him about some business. Is that who it is? Yeah, insurance. He's the businessman. Yeah. Yes. And then he tells him that, did you hear on the news about this thing where people have seen lots of rats or rats going in columns? Yeah, but yeah.
But somehow, the wife hears this conversation and then she starts going, there's something going on with the rats and it's almost like it's triggering some memory, which he's repressing. Yes. And she then starts to worry. And the concern is that the car that we saw at the very opening, the very opening of the episode has been parked, opposite the house all day long and being deserted. And it still... And she feels, yeah, that something has happened to them.
And the two things that I put, which is very, very 70s, is that the husband dismisses this. First of all, he goes, it's a well-known lovers lane. And I thought, you know, really get with the advent of dogging in this country. And I'm pleased, you know, and I'm very much aware that I am a teacher. It's fucking doggoers again. And as a result, you know, I'm not setting myself up as an expert on dogging here in any way she has a lot of money. That's a new title for the podcast.
But since the advent of dogging, you don't get people talking about lovers lane. No, no, no. Do they? It's not quite so romantic anymore, is it? That's right. And then just saying, having it off, which is... That's about to say, Ross, that's other 70snessy, then says, they're probably having it off. And he says something like, there's not a piece of corn, which is not laid flat by the end of the summer. Yes. Which in itself is Barry James Herbert. And I don't know which one.
And I don't know where this is. So, where does this fit it? In which the rats publish it? Well, two years before this, wasn't it? Yes, I was saying. Because this is my vibe, is that he had he read James Herbert's The Rats. And then this feels like it's like a cut chapter of The Rats. Yeah. In a way. So, in that field, there's a tramp having his cock gourd off. That's what I was saying off the penchalous bosoms. This feels like lots of views. Oh, yeah, don't you remember?
So, when we read it, he went into great detail. But, like, I think it sounds pubes and barb. Who said that? She's Christ. This feels very much like a prolog to Lear, which is the second. Yes. Okay. Rats, part of The Rats trilogy. And what year did that come up? Oh, I'm not sure. 79 or something like that. When was Lear? To say, it's a really good Rats t-shirt available on our general, which one does t-shirt? Good to get your friend. It's got a small smooth. Yeah. A smoothest silk, then.
I think that a writer like Nigel Neal must have been aware of The Rats. Yes. At that point, even knowing Nigel Neal, he probably poured great scorn on it. Like, he poured scorn on absolutely everything. Lear was not in 79. Is that what I said? I think I said 79. Not sure. So, yeah. So, Jameson, but himself might have seen this episode. The one networked ITV at some point in 1910. It was on an opera's lap. A opera's a rat circle. Okay. What's he saying? I think he's trying to say a Roborus.
Yeah. As in it's a, a self-petuating cycle. Oh, I see. He's so terrible. A Roborus. Generating itself. Anyway, so meanwhile, back to it. We, the wife, then decides that she's going to put on turn on the radio, which is a sound system, slash stereo that I've said, a whole forest must have been decimated. The word in that thing is enormous. Yeah. It's a substantial piece of furniture, isn't it? Yes. Yes. Nicely put Rossi. Indeed it is. So she puts on the radio and as I put, oh, that's the title.
Oh, yeah. I'm not a smart people, but we're not just party. Yeah, just party. People are so up in a minute. Yeah, yeah. That's what I was thinking too. But then we find out that she listens to a radio program. And I'm like, this is something I was going to talk to you guys about. It's weird. And I don't remember obviously, but I was born very, as we all were, right at the tail end of the 70s. But it's like, is this what radio sounded like? Yeah. I think it's still sound like that, James.
You need to know what radio is. If you're to listen to Red Dragon of Fam. It's, I just thought this sounds like Steve Wright in the 90s. It's just these. Well, it's just a horror of commercial radio, isn't it? The same adverts every six minutes. Radio, you tree. Well, more, are we going to discuss Doc Cox later? Are we going to? Yes. I think so. It's Eddie Maristot. That's the something for Erific this week, isn't it?
And so yes, though, the local radio DJ then starts mentioning that, oh, we've had a few weird strange poems. Where some people in all don't quote me on this, but they sound like they might be slightly mad. Of course, up and said, this rats. That's right. Rats, not bats. You know, it's like this. It was on and on and on. Yeah. Where he basically then says lots of people have run up saying that they've seen columns of rats marching around. And the wife is like, see, I told you I told you.
Put the hop. Put the hop. And then he starts beating the floor of a poker gun. Yes, that's my line that I wrote down that he's put right on the bastard. He's smashed. He stamps on the floor and shouts right on the bastard. He pulls out a chainsaw and he cuts the radio in half. And then he chops his own head off and he's still shouting on the floor. He said, don't pull the shadows in your rats. Whatever happened to our beautiful evening. Hickassant. Jaaah! And then.
You're in your bed, all rumps and bucks and agg- Oh! Mr. Feef, any of you? Put it out. There might be something. We'll start you Monday. And now, back to. Can it be funny? You listen to me sometimes. Yes, it is. And now, a studio is filled with a past with mildew and cobwebs and old old people from the rest of his life. So yes, so this is the point where I've written shouting, shouting, shouting. And then I've written the horror of commercial radio.
So we've got the horror of Lulu and the horror of commercial radio this week. But yeah, so she rings up the station, don't she? So there's an expert on there who's talking about the... When he rings up the police spurs and the policeman doesn't believe him really does he? Yeah, dismisses it. Bring the council in the morning, you idiot. Yeah. And he's like, oh, okay, jolly good. Yeah. And they realize the rats have followed them around. Yes. That was the hangar for the, um...
Yes, end of part one. Yeah. An usual episode structure, I thought, where it's like 30 minutes to the ad break and then like 20 minutes after the ad break. Not two equal parts of 25 minutes, which I thought was quite interesting. That's also in keeping with sort of like the stage play S Club, because I'm going to go and see most plays. The act two is always shorter than act one. Oh, okay. Normally when you go back. I don't go to this. I'm not a regular theater goer to be honest.
Then I've just written hysteria. Radio. I was going to say my only local radio thing because, ah, it's now, um, it was called two CR. Two counties radio. I mean, it's now being subsumed on the the heart network, you know, the generic heart network in this country. Hamshia. Yeah. Dawson and Hamshia. And it's just next to Dawson. Yes, it is. No way.
And to that, to that extent, that two CR, before it got subsumed under the heart network, it was like, two CR before it got subsumed under the heart network. Um, there used to be a thing, a show called late night love with Graham Thompson, which was amazing. And I don't know if it was like syndicated or not. I hope not.
But I would occasionally tune in in the hope of hearing someone that I knew bringing up and like exposing the, you know, dark, but yeah, the dark furniture of their hearts, because it was like a whole show of art of art tune by Simon Bates, which again, there's one for the teenagers on Radio One in the 1980s. Simon Bates, the DJ became very, very popular. People would write in with like a, like, there's inevitably sad love stories to do with their lives.
And then he would like, and here's a record to remind them of that time together. And people loved it. So like the whole show was like this and it was people going, look, just, just, if she's listening, I just look like crying on it. Just tell her I really love her. I just love her and I want to back. I know I've made some mistakes.
But if you are, listen, and so it was, you know, the dreadful dreadful, you know, like the boy earned me was just like, and the part of us that likes the slow down and look at a car crash. I should really enjoy listening to these people's tragic lives. And then it was always like, come on, please be somebody I know just once. But yeah, that's just my late night radio thoughts and local radio thoughts. Graham Torrington has presented on the aforementioned BBC WM and CWR.
Wow, it's all coming together. The show is still broadcast on Barkshire and North Hamsters Glow Radio. Wow. Yeah, it was networked by global radio. Yeah. And I think that's how you will have heard it, Japanese. Yes. He presented it for 12 years and it had over 1 million listeners of 4C1 UK radio stations. Where he was. He's still going Graham Torrington. I would have heard that. Very sad report. He did not do any updates on columns of rats. I love rats maybe.
He's age 64. There was a late night love podcast. It's there from by Graham. Let's have a look. What do you got? A scripted discussion. So I think about love. Not sure. No, James O just is doing that way. We're not interested. That's not me. We are not made with the sooner. Torrington. Torrington. I just spent it. T-O-O-R-I-N-G. I-N-G. Are you going to drop some bits into the podcast list? If I can find any. I'm a night-lover. I'm a night-lover. Why are you in a relationship you're not happy?
I'm happy. I'm happy. You're sticking with her because her parents think you should be with her. Her parents are piling on the pressure here and saying, well, you should be with that daughter. She's the girl for you. Well, I'll be saying, well, I'll make that's my decision, not your decision. What she said about what is done to you? He apologises he didn't mean to do it. He didn't mean to do it. Crack driven or a broken collarbone? He disagreed with something Colour is saying.
Please don't knock back to this man. He's going to end up killing you. It's going to get worse. Not better. Please stay away. Find somebody else. The only thing a bad man does in this world is keep a good man away. I'm actually trying to get you to actually say how you feel about it. Yeah, I'm not happy about it. No way you've been yourself through it then. Because every woman has her needs, I swear. Every man has his needs, every person has their needs.
She's caught you at the right of her little finger, isn't she? Yeah, pretty much. Does it actually come home to you exactly what you are allowing her to put you through? Like some pretty stupid idea. You're saying it on me? No, no, no. No, no. No, no. You need protection, help. Because a man of your age should not be with a girl of 16. You're doing it and it's every year's older. And to see him admitment to prove if it happens in real life, we talk about it. Graham Tarrington. I agree.
Lane I love. I think to think of a man writing one star of you right now. Yeah. Diculous. They spent five minutes talking about that. Like Jonil. That is your Neil. They spent 40 minutes talking about local radio. The horror of local radio. It is, I mean, we used to have, my dad used to have a radio on in the milking parlour. And it must have been only on longwave because it was a terrible whistling reception. But I remember that it was adverts for all Bri Annan's got meat.
We always remember all kinds of meat that you're wanting to eat Aubrey Allen's, which is a butcher's chain in Coventry. I always remember your dad having football on in the car James, but it was like, it was like it was being transmitted from the moon or something. Yeah. It's just a medium wave. Yeah. Yeah. Medium wave and longwave is where it's at. It's so atmospheric. And when I put, I tried to listen to five lives through my phone recently, I didn't have the exhibition in, in Abertrida.
And I couldn't handle it without the bad reception. It didn't sound right. So, but what this film reminds me of. Have you seen a film called, oh, fuck, written it down here. Ponte pool. Ponte pool. Ponte being. Yeah, some of that. Yeah. So, almost tell you what, I've also been to the place, please. But, yeah, but the American film Ponte pool. Yes. It's almost like this film in reverse as well. I went to see in chapter.
Yeah. It's like some kind of sort of end-of-world event happening outside of the radio station. And the guy is in the, the DJ is like receiving calls into the station about what's happening. And that was really good. But it's spread through language, isn't it? Yeah. It's on vacation. Yeah, it's a good film. And I think they've done it recently as a stage play. That's come into Cardiff maybe.
I will say that watching this, I've been asked to revisit my party at the end of the world's on-be script. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I did think that this episode is a good or this story is a good kind of exercise in building a sense of dread and prolonging a sense of, well, I don't know what, it's just dread, isn't it? You feel that something's going to go wrong. And then you get kind of get towards the end. Are we towards the end? No, I can't move.
Yeah, yeah, so basically he's trying to, the, the, the, the stuck in the house. You can hear what the scratching comes from underneath. He's going to make chlorine gas, isn't he? Yeah. He is. And also she then rings into party's party. Yes, yes, that's where we go. Yes. So it's a fact. Yes, there's got an hour around. She's got an hour around. And she goes, she goes a bit mental, but then they get cut off while she's having a breakdown. And she's described with the rats and stuff too, the DJ.
But they've misheard her name and they've said, press Scott, not trust Scott. Yes. So then that's when he goes totally bananas then. Yes. So really good bit of it though, where she think she's not, she doesn't realise she's been cut off. So she's still thinking she's done a conversation. Yes. And then he's talking to her. Yeah. And then they said, oh, we can't hear anymore. And then they're trying to send help, but to the, like you said, to the wrong place. To the wrong people.
But also in the right help, but not necessarily in the right order. Yes. And also I did, but thank God the competition is still going to be going ahead tomorrow night. Marty goes out of his way to go, look, everybody, this is an emergency. But I will reassure you the competition will go ahead. The scheduled competitor, I was like, oh my god, thank Christ. People's lives are in danger, but it's all right. The competition's we inevitably win some Alvin stardust.
So then they're going to make a run for it. So they go and get what everyone's got on their cupboard, a couple of fencing masks. Seeing masks. Yeah. To protect their faces. I love that bit. Yeah. We're going to make, we're going to go for the car. But the car is inside. So why did they need to put that bit was weird, wasn't it? But you see some, and I'm going to say at no point you see a rat. No, and you start seeing something's gnawing through the doors.
Well, that's a very, that's a very obvious ploy, isn't it? And an art of it that you don't see a rat at any point. And that's what made me think that it's like a radio play that it did deliberately. You don't see this what is meant to be the scary object. And then you hear, you suddenly hear voices from next door. The next door neighbors have come back. So it's like, oh God, yeah, back to the Liberty. Oh, I think it's going to be all right.
But then you hear, you don't see, but you hear and you watch them react to the rat attacking the next family. Yeah. And eating them overwhelming. Yes. Yes. And then that's when he's gone polybanan by then as an either husband. Yeah. And then they run upstairs. And I think then it's implied that they have been eaten. And is it just the radio just carries on? Yeah, they said they were in the house. They can see we can't see the rats. They're reacting to the rats being. Yeah. And then it is.
Yes. Yes. Yes. Yeah. I think I thought it was excellent. Yeah, all in all, I think it was, I mean, the dummy was, like I said, one of the worst things we've ever watched for this podcast, which is quite strange. I mean, considering it's Nigel Neal because we've all enjoyed this stuff so much. This one did make me question a lot of his characterization is quite same. Yeah. I think that he said he seems to write a lot of the characters, like the same. Yes. But I do like that.
But maybe it's maybe we started to hit our sort of over saturation of Nigel Neal now. I don't think you can ever have an over saturation of Nigel Neal. I read a short story by him last night, which is called, um, my nuke, uh, N-I-N-U-K-E. And it's about a, um, poltergeist or kind of, well, well, it really is one of his usual themes. It's about a bungalow built on a site. And it's about what lies beneath the bungalow and the kind of supernatural events that occur there.
But there's also a kind of sequence where there's maybe a flash forward to an alternative future, which is quite interesting. Okay. Where a guy gets a phone call from someone in the house and that then hasn't happened yet. It's quite interesting. It's a really good story. Yeah. Again, cool. Great ideas. He's always got brilliant ideas. But then maybe ends up putting the same characters into it. So it maybe just needs to. Because this, the story is from like literally like 1948 or something.
So I can't think of anyone that was writing stuff like that in 1948. It's wild, really. Um, he was very unique in his kind of the way he put existing ideas. But the way he put existing ideas together, I don't think anyone else was doing that. And putting sci fi and horror together in the way that he did was very, very. Well, I think this was very effective. And I know you guys talk about being a play. I can imagine this being an excellent stage. But you could kind of like. I love to see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because around the thing. So it feels like the rats are under the chairs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Excellent. Yeah. Yes. So a scores out of schools on the doors. I'm giving it a three out of five. Yeah, I think three years, a lot of three point five. James. I'm going to go for it. If it's not, I'm going to go for the 2.5. Two and a half interesting James. So there's some interesting stuff here, as you said. And you know, all of that. It would work as a stage play.
I really enjoyed the whole kind of like a heart unraveling. As you said, the characters are very. You know, kind of very, very boilerplate Nigel Neal. And I'm the dumb of the couple more twists and turns in it. Yeah. To really start to elevate it. And it's also very, very much of its time. The kind of stuff of what. What. What. They thought they could. It's how men and women were portrayed there. But I think it is somewhat it's a bit edgy because. You know, you're showing them having.
What we said, like a top level of being a patronizing. Sexist pick, but still having that. Under the belly that he's actually just scared of she is. Not more. So yeah, interesting. But that is kind of an obvious way for his character to go, isn't it? That's just kind of like. Yeah, could be Steve Beppelton. I reckon if they did it again. Yeah. Well, yeah, that would be. It could be a bit like the episode. What's the episode of inside number nine?
Where Jesus turns up and they end up stabbing him by mistake. Oh, I can't remember. Oh, it's very, very good. And that is the last night of the problems or something like. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. Wow, that blew me away. And it could this could be redone in that way. Very, very well. And of course that immediately reminds me of another one that we covered on. This podcast from Never Trust the Rabbit by Jeremy Dyson. Love in the time of mulling you.
Where it turns out, his flatmate is the second coming of Jesus. Oh, yeah. And he betrays him. Is that wall? Is that also Wolf's stadium James? Do they play it all in you? Yes, written in exactly the same way. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Written in exactly the same way. Yes. Yes. There we are. So Johnny good. So what are we going to talk about dot cobstone? Well, we can talk about. Candy. And you think a horrific. You're going to talk about that. I went to all Ghostbusters. Friends in the choir today.
How was that? How was that, Leaves? Well, everything I heard about it was everyone saying it's shit. Yeah. And my brother who loves Ghostbusters was given it was still. It was saying it wasn't that good. Nice to know God. Like he loves everything. But he loves everything. Everything. Ghostbusters related. But back what did they go and see? Doon to an idol. He's seen it. So she learned to see Doon. And I took a talistic. Go and see. Ghostbusters. Yes. And it was all right.
There's so many fucking characters in it. Like, they, they, it's got like all the original Ghostbusters. It's got all the people out of the last one they did. And like James A. Carcer turns up. And it's a new ghost. That's why I would watch it. So many people. James A. Carcer. He's like a stand up comedian. He's does like, um, He's a British. Yeah. He does that off menu. I don't know if he, if he, if he, if come across it to John, but it's called the off menu podcast. I'm calling it out now.
I'm not sure. I'm sure James A. Carcer won't be losing too much sleep. Got to watch out when I'm seeing loads. He went nuts or some guy into that. That's right. That's right. Yeah. And he's telling me about that. That Ross. Because so, so somebody dead. It's a question is mental health. Yeah. And he just left. He left like 20 minutes before the end. Oh, I hate him. No. That's why I said that. That's why I'm going to see it, John. I think he's a dick.
I only got one facial expression in his photos. Like a stupid supercellular. A smug. Yeah. A smug. What? But there's weird things happen. Like so you're watching it. And then they go to a place. And like they don't go with race dance. And they were talking for ages and then suddenly he's there. Like, and he's wearing sunglasses indoors. I'm like, well, maybe that's going to be a thing later on that he's possessed. And he's covering his eyes up because no, he just.
I reckon like he had his sunglasses on and forgot to take him off. And they just filmed that scene or something was completely cut out of it, which wasn't. Yeah. And the whole thing is like called frozen empire. And they sort of make at the beginning, they sort of get what's really hot and people talk. But then they just forget about that for ages. And the frozen thing does happen to like 20 minutes before the end. Wow. And it's like. And what. What empire is frozen as well? Well, it's meant.
Well, that's exactly. It was a one. It's just like New York. Empire State Building. Yeah. And it's just like. It's the lowest stuff on the trailer, which isn't in the film. So again, you think this is being cut to pieces. Oh, that's a sign of a way. And like, that's weird. How long is it, please? Oh, two hours. Oh, my God. Modern films are so long. And there's so many characters in it. Like the, the end. Like there's, when there's like the big thing, I was freaking. There's about 15 characters.
Like standing there. All, all dresses go spusters. And you're like, I don't know like half these people's names. Now, you like, you've been saying, you haven't had enough time to deduce who everyone is. Yes. So they set up. They set up. They just stuff. It doesn't go anywhere. Like having some kind of like. Proce one thing like wrist shooting gun thing. But they have in the lady ghostbusters. Yeah. Do they have any lady go well, the woman of Houston.
No, no, no, that's what they they had the like shooting them from the wrist. All right. Yeah. They don't cut. They've been their non canonical. Exactly. Yeah. But it's just like so much. And like. It's obvious that you know, Peter Beckman just was like, I'm going to do two days. And that's it. Yeah. Yeah. It's just it's so weird. But I think films like this have very obviously money making exercise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There's no. Yeah. Well, there's just no kind of love in it or kind of.
There's no stories. This stuff happens. Yeah. And there's just lots of like lines, which you feel like that's meant to be in a, that's a trailer line. That's a true. Yeah. And that's a true. People are saying things which there's no like natural conversation ever. No. For anyone. But it's time for some sort of it was okay. I'll spite that it was actually. It is. I think why isn't Dan Acroid in more stuff apart from he's fucking nuts? Well, also he's quite rich.
He's not a wife for himself because you know, I've done Acroid. And I will say this if Dan's listening, his crystal skull vodka is lovely. That's what I was really about. It's probably that you can drink it like he, he was on Saturday. He sat in a kitchen live or whatever it's called. And he's talking about it. And he was really good fun. He really threw himself into it. Yes. And he said, oh, you know, I designed it to be a vodka that's got virtually hardly any after. Like kick.
Yeah. So it's really smooth. It's beautiful. It's really nice. But he was like, and it's a crystal skull because of course the Aztecs of the crystal skull. And he started banging on about all that. And you know, as Ross says, you do start thinking he is slightly nuts. He is nuts. I read a really good book that was all about sort of like the rise of sort of like the role of Saturday night live.
And the rise of 1980s comedy and sort of 80s comedy blockbusters like Beverly Hills Cop and Ghostbusters and things like that. And he's a described Dan Acroid as a man who's who loves both criminals and the police. And they say he's the sort of guy whose dream is to design the perfect crime and then arrest himself for doing it. I think they are. And that's really stayed with me. I did get they were given away badges when I came out of the cinema.
Wow. So I was like, oh, that's just going to get an extra half a star for me. I can sit in your drawer for the next four to years. On the films are maybe too long, but then also going to the cinema tomorrow night guys. I'm going to go and see it. Then if you see this film, I have a size late night with the devil. Yeah, I really want to see that. Yeah. I literally see only hour and a half long today. Oh, no, you're okay. Yes. A couple of people said it's basically ghost watch.
Yes. Which is like, I'll be the judge of that. When I heard that people like, oh, it's inspired by the UK's ghost watch. I was like, well, come on. As a man who was 15 when ghost watch was originally on and was terrified by it. I'll be the judge as to how much this channel's ghost watch lives. But the fact they're even using it as a touchstone for the film. I mean, Trees. Yes. And I always say the guy's name wrong. I think the main guy in it is he's not David Dalmatian.
Now, you know, that's the dog. But it's how do you say it? Sorry, David. I don't know his name. He's a great guy. He's a great, a creepy face. Yes. They've seen him in photos, but I all my thoughts. Dastamount. Dastamount. Dastamount. I can't say it. Anyway, I'm really looking at your own words up to you. Because that's all. Yeah. Him. But I'm really looking forward to see it to see that tomorrow. That's going to be good, I think. And I think that's my something horrific this week.
Is the career of the British musician and former television journalist Robert Doc in inverted commas. Cox. Born first to July 1946. So James and I were discussing him today. I don't know. Did you discuss anything about him, please? I was at the cinema when this. Right. We should we should point out for the listener how this came about. As we do, I and Ross has mentioned on previous episodes that the general rich fight finders a group chat is entertaining at that. It's a repository of.
Of. Of truly. What's the phrase, Cleves? Um, um, not just. I would call it Moronic Tward. Moronic Tward, yes. It started off. That chat started off as me tweeting pictures of the pages from the unexplained magazine. And then it evolved into our podcast chat. So, yeah, the often what we'll do is if we find that, or while I do, is if I see pictures or things that I know these other two will like, I will share it. Rather than Twitter, I will just share it directly with them.
And today, as people do, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, I'm going to say, whoever I think that is the cause that people do on Twitter. And in your face, Elon Musk, I'm going to continue to Gullet Twitter. Yeah, and I do as well. How about, yeah. Good, Mad Chris. Is that代? Is that somebody reposted, a just like a, an ad from Saturday night on 1994 on BBC died on them. And of course, we, this is me and Drake for us. This was our time as young men.
Correct. And of course, it started off with the Paul Daniels magic show. Incredible. But remarkably halfway through the evening, even though traditionally that's life used to be on Sundays. What's that? Sundays. Yes. Yeah. And that by 94, that's life would be shunted to a Saturday. Saturday. It's not a Saturday night program. It's not. What's that?
And then John and I started talking about the wrongness of one of the contributors, contributors, sorry I should even say, to that show was a guy for our international listeners who used to do novelty songs in your first place. Often with strong sexual, is sexual in-your-endos. Yes. He is just, well, I'll let John take it probably. Well, all I'm going to do is refer you, dear listener, to the I for Biggin section of his Wikipedia entry, which reads,
just two paragraphs. Under the biggin name, Cots, Franzaheem, respond that is sometimes built simply as I for Biggin or variously I for Biggin and the red-nosed burglars or I for Biggin and the left-handed wankers. Also, I for Shivers, Les Roos. Ross really is doing this. Or I for Biggin's vulgar band. He specialises in double and tonneur, laden, smutty songs. But there's no double and tonneur in the left-handed wankers. That is an
genre. That's a single on tonneur. A best. I for Biggin has released four albums of Bordysongs and recorded with Judge Dread. I don't know if that's the actual content. Not the comic, that's an A.D. And David screaming lords such. Yes. With most recent being 2005's Handling Swollen Goods. Johnny Rotten selected the wankers song Miss Print in brackets as a single of the week in 1978 when he was a guest reviewer for the
new musical at Spress. The single sold well, reaching number 22 in the UK singles chart, thanks to Rotten the port. However, it was banned by nearly all radio stations due to its explicit lyrics. The singles bras on 45 family version, credit to I for Biggin and the decaps reach number 50 in the UK singles chart in 1981 and remaining the chart for three weeks. And this was like Saturday night TV. Yeah. So many ways. He is like a dreadful dark universe
or dark universe of like Frank side bottom. He was genuinely fine. Yes. But was that the two mainstream television. Streams. Yes. In the 1980s. He was on from 1982 to 1992. Oh god. So I was watching Black Outer recently and it's yes. And he plays one of the do you remember in Black Outer free when there's the election. That's okay. So he's one of the he's the one he's almost like candidates. The monster Ravenloony party. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He now resides in Suffolk where he's in several pub
bands including the trembling wheelbarrows. He is the kind of person that you never want to get stuck within a pub. I would say it's me. One word Brexit. Yes. Agreed. Absolutely agreed. Terrified. You know that Nigel Farage. I don't agree with everything he says but I tell you what he's a damn good politician. He's got some sensible ideas. He's very sensible ideas. So that is my truly horrific for this. Is it called? Is it called truly horrific?
Uh, something horrific. Well that is my truly horrific. I'm looking at lots of pictures of him at the moment. I'm not. But you are. With his trembling wheelbarrows. One week or one week. One episode I will get around to talk about Lake Mungo. Which is really what I recommend. Well it's good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Come on. That's it. It's all about photography John as well. I think you're really. Okay. What is in on that flex? Because we're looking for things to watch.
It's it's on out. I think I had to pay for it. It was on Amazon but I was highly recommended. I can do that with the last shop. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. It's like Mungo. Yeah. It's a found footage. Hello. Yeah. Yeah. That's good. But spooky. Obviously genuinely spooky. I should recommend while this is going to be. I think this will all come to go over in the edit the way. Yeah. I should recommend. If you are a if you are a fan of Beasts or you've
gone on to watch Neil. Nigel Neal. Nigel Neal is Beasts. You've watched all these before or listen to us talk about it as many go away and watch them and enjoy it. I highly recommend the Book of Beasts by Andrew Screen. Which is full of way more information and lots of really interesting articles all about each of the episodes of Beasts. And it was a really good read. There we go. So thank you for sending us a copy of that Andrew.
Thanks Andrew. I never got my copy. I'd also like to salute. I should this is the sort of thing I would have normally put on social media but I'm here now. As I was walking home from my weekly visits to my parents this week I walked past a number of houses and as is the way of course you can see into people's homes and you can often see what people are watching on TV normally it's whatever is being broadcast by the main channels that time but as I walked
home tonight somebody was watching um Commando. The Harnels was the negative moving. Amazing. And I walked past the exact moment of the tooling up sequence. You know and he's just like loving himself up with firearms and then I put the black paint on him and I thought good man. Yes. Because inevitably it would have been a man. Yeah. Yeah. When he looked at it. Could you see Tom Bacon is fourth doctor costume sat next to two kids
watching Doctor Who. Yeah. No, I'm definitely. Oh, it's almost very bad. Yeah. Okay, so coming up next. Yes. Next time we're going to go back. We haven't watched a Frank's line film since episode two. Oh, right. So we are going to be watching. Which one do I see it was going to be monster from hell. We're going to watch be watching Frankenstein the monster from hell. Is that right? Yes. Yes. I'm so pleased to be back in amateur. When did we last do a
hammer film? Oh, I'm so glad to be back in amateuretry because I feel a scholarly love hammer. How my films made me the man I am today. Let's face it. They hammered you into shape. Yes. Yes. Didn't we watch the one the Dracula one with not big Chris Lee in it? We watched probably to Dracula. That was a lot of time. Right. Dracula. We watched about the same November. That's quite a while ago. And we discussed that fantastic article that we've been seeing about the yes, the subtext
and that movie. Yes. Yes. Which elevated the whole thing. So this one is this is probably the last gasp of the great canon of hammer films. It's a stupras one. Yes. Oh, brilliant. That means we can talk about they frowze legs. Okay. So let's join us next time for Frank's line and the monster from hell. And Darth Vader and the great crosscode man and the guy frotty who's in a clockwork orange. Is it? And the man yes. And the man who genuinely believed he was going to be cast as superman.
But in fact, we'll go to all of this. All of the only good time who thought his actual voice was going to be Darth Vader's voice. Is this voice? Yeah. And the man who was leaking all the plots elements for the former. Yes. We got all of this to come. And so also dear listener, if you if you ever ran into miserable Dave Rouse because Christ is miserable. I can be quite for his a little graph. Please do let us know. I would like a good slew of miserable Dave Rouse.
But remember, do not touch the robot. Do not touch the robot more on that next one. Okay. Okay. So then, happy day. Hey, thanks for listening to everyone. Peace. You don't have nightmares. Well, there were some foreign menus that lent themselves to a song. All quite genuine, but all quite disgusting. So to put you right off ever touching foreign food again and to put us all into a proper holiday mood, let's remember the moment Doc went to Brighton to sing the Salmonella serenade.
When I go on holiday, I'm usually keen to sample foreign cooking and the local cuisine. But some folks vacationing in far away venues, fine stuff. That's quite unusual. They're listed on menus. There's Tartop the House and there's Oozoo with it. Like Disney loving testing's wound on a spit. They've got scum of chocolate to tickle the palate, thread rabbit, thread chicken and even red mallet. But just try my lesbian sauce.
And one swipe of one and banana spoon or cock mince with wine and this little fried lardoons. And I feel well too cold at the bistro display in perfect English broken here. We're open to the public, wow's it cold. Warm beer, look, breakfast with diesel and a nice fishman made from hedgehog on the top and on the top and on the top and corn on the top. There's cold parts with salad.
Maybe you tried large holes with vinegar and fried, but you're in a quite complete old Duke on the sea as for you will repeat. You always remember your name at the restaurant area. Oh, I don't feel well. And down at the restaurant, purgatory. Enjoy a nice liquor block of gold. Maybe clap sandwich and a big few like roasts. How about dropping his goat? How about dropping his goat? They duckling backgrounds with arissa sauce hot sweat on the day. In your second course, some lovely piss fruits.
First hit with a little rose lion and mandolin dink. You want at the burger opera? I don't know. Hi, it's Ross from a general witch finders. Did you know that I also do another podcast with my friend David? I don't know. I don't know. David and I do our own supernatural research and investigations in our home county of Dorset. So if you think that's up your street, why don't you give it a listen. It's dark, dark, D-A-R-Z-E-T. You can find it wherever you get your podcasts. It's not a mask.
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Well, I put, thank Christ the AA of Got Involved. And once again, this is something that confused me a lot as a teenager watching a lot of American films as well for our American cousins who may be listening to this in this country, in Great Britain. The AA is the automobile association, not alcoholic synonymous. In America, triple A is the American automobile association. For many, many years, especially as a teenager, I was always really confused where they're like, oh, the AA.
I was like, what? Well, they had a problem. What the moment of the spot? John, didn't your nan have AA membership number four? I thought you were going to bring, I... I was going to bring that up and then I thought, I've talked about this before. No, not the podcast. No, not the podcast. No, it's that I thought I'd done it on the podcast. As far as I know, my great-grandfather, I think on my nan site, was member 00001 or something like that.
I think the AA started in West Yorkshire or it had a regional service. So when you got the badge back then, stamped on it was your AA number to put on your car. On your grill, wasn't it? On the outside of the car. He was member number one and that was like... That was probably like 100 years ago. There's an ITV Sunday tea time drama about that, isn't there? They should do one. I've missed that one to be car-beat. Yeah, Robson Green being the first AA man.
Where there's literally no car strength to fix. Because there's only one car in the whole area. It's a great-grandfather, Pantney. Well, he would have been... I think he would have been Hague. And he had a chain of sweet shops. So you know, this thing is right in itself. There's a lot of money in sweets. So yeah, she rings her and she's on the line and this is a bit like me ringing up CWR as a kid to do the quizzes because there was no one who was listening to CWR and I would win every week.
Oh, what did you win? Really? I think I won. Yeah, I think one time I won a making of Star Trek book. I try to think I won quite a lot and eventually I was asked to go to the station. Which is very... This is very young. Which is in Coventry. So CWR was Coventry and Warwickshire Radio, BBC and it was a tiny audience because it was literally for Coventry and Warwickshire, which isn't the Hague just there. And then obviously next to Birmingham, which was Radio WM, which had a huge listenership.
I think of... This is very boring. No, it's good. No, no, no, no. It's good meaning was twaddle. It's good feeling. It's good feeling. Yeah. So yeah, I was asked to go there and I can't remember what I went and actually talked about, but it was invited on as the like the teenage fan of CWR. Yeah. Amazing. That's what it was out there. It was out there. That audio's out there somewhere. It would have been the same year I was on Kill Write. Got one exciting year in your life.
And also the same year that I was on the Ross King show of course. And did either of you watch the Oscars a couple of weeks ago? Were you on that as well? No, it was fun to see that Ross King was on the Oscars. Was it? Yes. Well, Ross King still presents like live from L.A. I think I watched it on YouTube. Still, and he's had a lot of work done. A lot of work done. He has. But I can still remember the theme tune, which was that was the Ross King show and then he was in Pebble Mill.
So Pebble Mill is gone. So your life was all downhill after that then, John, really? When you get those good heights of him. I was recognised as John Pantley in Abbey of any of the other day when I was. Wow. That's cool. When I went for a coffee with friends, a man came over and said, When you were on the Ross King show, he said, he's not easy to do. A guy came over and said, is that John Pantley? He's a photographer that follows my word. That's cool. That's cool.
I tried to hide in a cafe while I was ordering at the counter. But he kind of insisted on coming to talk to me. Oh, wow. Oh. If you're listening, David, it was nice to meet you. Yeah. If you were to say, well, the other person we down knows this show. I was going to say, if we do have listeners in America who are members of the AAA, let us know we'd like to hear from you. Does your AAA stories? Yeah. Do you live in Montana? Have you broken down in Montana? But John, are you AA or RAC?
I think I'm RAC now. To be honest, they're not very good. I had a lot of issues. When I went to St. Ives in 2018 in my Rover to 20, I think I had at the time, it wouldn't start. And the AA, the RAC wouldn't send an RAC van. They would only send like a franchise guy out. And he was clueless and never got the car running. In the end, I had to get a taxi to Mausel to buy some spark plugs, which I had to fit myself. What? The lights of the road, aren't they? So the taxi cost me 80 quid. Bloody hell.
And then, but it turned out that the driver was a lovely guy who had gone to school with Sean Ryder. It took us on a little tour of all the like beauty spots in that part of Cornwall, because he felt bad for us, because we were on holiday and couldn't drive anywhere. So when we left, I took him a load of cans, or I can't remember if his cans are bottles of beer. And it was a lovely guy.
And those things happen in life where you have misfortune, and then good fortune comes along and shows you the kind of milk of humankindness where you can end up hanging out with someone who was Sean Ryder's school friend. Really? Yeah. I had a picture on extra, because I would have cut that. No, no, no, no. I was just leaning on that in 100% because I was worried to see those reviews. Do you ever feel like your brain is on overdrive? And your mind is constantly racing?
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