Living With Madeley
"Living With Madeley" is a nostalgic TV based podcast that attempts to take a humorous look at some of the most weird, wonderful and woeful moments in UK television history.
Titled "Living With Madeley" as neither host can remember a week of their lives where Richard Madeley hasn't been on their screens, join Andrew and Liam as they take you on a journey to TV past.
Living With Madeley
Midweek Madeley - 21/08/24
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Remember that time Steve insisted on calling Andrew "Andy" despite all pleas otherwise? We kick off our episode with a light-hearted chat about nicknames and a quick apology to the Major for missing out on a podcast featuring the ever-entertaining Richard Madeley. Then, we dive headfirst into the land of TV comedy nostalgia with a nod to the Fast Show. Listener Berlin Blade chimed in, and we found ourselves agreeing—some things just don’t age like fine wine. Attempting to identify the stern-faced, short-dark-haired cast member turned into a comedic escapade that you won't want to miss.
Ever wondered why some celebrities seem to be on TV all the time, while others from the 90s have all but disappeared? We traverse this fascinating terrain with viral tweets and listener feedback guiding our way. From speculating about who people find most annoying on the telly to dissecting the absurdity of a bizarre moment at the Republican National Convention involving Hulk Hogan and Trump, nothing is off-limits. Our hopes are high for a potential reboot of "Renford Rejects," and we can’t help but reflect on Judy’s talents, especially in comparison to her husband, Richard Madeley. Your comments and our impressions add a whole new layer to the discussion.
Who can forget the jingles and catchphrases that turned TV adverts into cultural touchstones? We stroll down memory lane, sharing personal memories and humorous critiques of some iconic commercials. Whether it's the catchy Intel jingle or the quirky humor of Mbongo and Fairy Liquid ads, these slogans have a way of sticking with us. Listener feedback enriches our conversation as we revisit classics like Babybel, Green Giant, and Go Compare. The nostalgic trip culminates in reflecting on how these adverts connect us to specific moments in our lives, bringing both laughter and fond memories. Tune in for a delightful blend of humor, nostalgia, and engaging listener interactions.
Hello and welcome to the first midweek episode of Series 8. I'm Liam, one of the co-hosts of the TV nostalgia-based podcast Living With Madeley. The other host is Andrew. He sometimes calls himself Andreas and he is on the line. How are you Andre.
Speaker 1I sometimes call myself Andre Anderson. You call me. I've never called myself Anderson, but that's one of yours, isn't it? Yeah, I don't know where that. No one's ever called me Andy Ever. Big Steve sometimes calls you Andy. Oh, he does actually, doesn't he? Yeah, like sometimes it works now, then Andy. Yeah, but it's normally. Haig innit like but Andy.
Speaker 2I like how your dad calls you by your surname when when he had it first yeah, he does.
Speaker 1Hey, like that, are you getting drinks in a walk, like what? What are you talking about, anyway? So this is like a lot of comments and stuff that we're going to go through. Most of them are Jingles Bay, so bear with us, but there's also some other stuff that we need to tick off that we didn't, as they, got round to talking about yet. And I want to start off with an apology to the Major, the great man himself, because he said there's a podcast that featured Maidley and I have to admit I've totally forgot to listen to it.
Speaker 2I presume you have as well. I have an even bigger apology because I didn't see the post. What was?
Speaker 1it a message or a yeah, we're on. I think it's like Life After 60 or something like that, but I will listen to it. I put it on my to listen to list, but I only remembered that he sent it as I went through the comments for this episode. There's no get an agenda.
Speaker 2I didn't see that one, so sorry, yeah.
Speaker 1Major also said he's just had the fast show on and, goodness me, it really is the most overrated and crap comedy show of, I think, all time, and that you sort of I don't think it's the worst of all time, but you had like some bad things to say about it, didn't you? I think you had to get rid of it.
Speaker 2Yes, was it in that or was it overrated? Remedies?
Speaker 1Sorry, you had it in overrated TV. Yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2But as I said at the time, a bit like Harry Enfield, it was funny in the moments. It did have something at the time, but yeah, it's just not stood up at all. It's dated really badly. Really it's dated really badly, really badly.
Speaker 1Actually, it's awful well, you've ruined it for Berlin Blades. Berlin Blade replied and he put catchphrase comma there. Ever since I heard Liam from Liverpool and Maidley tear it apart, I've never been able to watch it again. But he does say having said that, pretty much the entire cast are genius in their own right. They've just made a shit comma there.
Speaker 2Shame yeah, that's a good summary actually, because I would say all of them have kind of had some levels of success, haven't they? I'm sorry, who's the guy who does? Suits you, sir, with? Mark Williams yeah, mark Williams, I know Charlie. Ixson, isn't it? It's not him I'm thinking of then straight-faced man, it's Whitehouse isn't it? Oh yeah, of course it is. Of course it is. Who's the sort of more straight-faced dark hair?
Speaker 1man, who was that one? I thought who.
Speaker 2He's got. He's a stern-faced man.
Speaker 1Oh, you mean Simon Day.
Speaker 2I don't know, because I don't know his name. I don't know his name, I don't know anything else he's done, he's good.
Speaker 1Is it him who plays Monkfish in this?
Speaker 2No, I don't think. So Hold on, let's get the cast, let's solve this one live. We'll do a live, live over there.
Speaker 1Yeah, Simon Day. He did that Brian Pern documentary, Simon Day, which was brilliant. To be fair, if anyone's never seen that Comedy sp documentary about picking, up.
Speaker 2No, not Samaday, I know him. He's gone on to do other stuff. Yeah, I mean, it's not him I'm thinking of, but Jeff Harding just did like the American voice guy it's not him, yeah, yeah yeah, Rory Jennings was in it. What as Toby I mean, the guy I'm thinking of was that kind of unimportant. He's not even on the cast list.
Speaker 1Oh, what that fucking hell? Right, according to this, rory Jennings played, you know, the competitive dad's son.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, I can kind of see that now. Yeah, wow.
Speaker 1Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2No, he's a talk sport. He is a presenter, isn't he? He does a few of them the one who played clips of him completely contradicting himself in the World Cup. I'm just trying to find him now. So it's not a great podcast at all. I'll look into it.
Speaker 1I'll have to let you know in the next midweek we're looking for a stern faced man who you don't think went on to do anything.
Speaker 2No, he had dark short hair. I almost think he might have been bald.
Speaker 1You do this quite often on this podcast, where you describe someone that could be about a billion people Short, dark hair with a stern face.
Speaker 2Could be Webbo, couldn't it?
Speaker 1Well, yeah, every single person Looks like everyone, ever doesn't he.
Speaker 2Now I'll look into it. He's like a posh voice.
Speaker 1Posh voice stern-faced man.
Speaker 2It's like the worst description ever, isn't it.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm looking at him posh, stern-faced. Imagine going into like I don't know, like I don't know someone's like assaulted you. What do you look like? You're very stern-faced.
Speaker 2What Posh voice? Stern-faced man Short hair, short hair. Anyway, ted said I imagine him kind of being in.
Speaker 1Let's drop that. Let's drop it, drop it, leave it. It's a terrible start. Ted got involved as well and he said this has always been the crux of his argument about fascio catchphrase humour. He says sorry, but it's for dullards it's like watching a panto which is going to upset a lot of people listening to this, to be fair, because obviously we are a nostalgic podcast and that was one of the big shows.
Speaker 2How have people got funnier, do you think? Do you think part of it is because people did just use to say catchphrases to each other, didn't they? Do you think that would wash these days?
Speaker 1It took on this podcast, judging by this?
Speaker 2no, that was like sort of humour, wasn't it? Like I know we were, we were younger, but I'm sure people just said to each other like suits you sir, suits you sir that was like as a joke.
Speaker 1Yeah, or only me. Don't believe you want to do that. I don't feel the use of repeaters in the old time maybe it'll come back.
TV Personalities and Nostalgia
Speaker 2Maybe it'll be one of the things like the miniskirt. Maybe it'll come back.
Speaker 1Catchphrases this was interesting. By the way, bill and Blake tagged us in a comment by Anon. Do you know that Anon account where people send things in anonymously? Yeah, I don't know why they put this in anonymously, because loads of people say it, but the tweet was everyone knows who I'm talking about when I say why is this cunt on my telly again? Now, obviously he's tagged us in it thinking, you know.
Speaker 2On the assumption.
Speaker 1Yeah, on the assumption they're on about Big Rich Madeley Not actually that many mentions of Madeley in the comments. Loads of James Corden, some said Farage, some said Clarkson, but I read through all the replies to this tweet so many funny ones. Someone said Johnny Vaughan. I don't think he's ever on TV anymore, is he? What do you mean?
Speaker 2He can't get on TV for love nor money anymore, can he Well?
Speaker 1on that thing, schofield. Someone said who literally can't get on TV for love nor money, and then someone followed that up with Barrymore. Last time you saw Barrymore on TV, yeah, not at all yeah go on. Sorry sorry, because this is like why is this coming to my telling Sam? Yeah, go on. Sorry, because this is like why is this coming to my telly? Sam Matterface? You don't see Sam Matterface and he's a commentator. There's a YouTube thing, don't they?
Speaker 1But yeah, you very rarely see him, you won't be asking, though why is he on my telly? What is he doing here? These are good ones, Craig Charles. He's in Craig's never-on-TV Joe Pasquale.
Speaker 2I can't remember the last time Joe Pasquale were on TV no, these are all, unless somebody's, like I don't know, just turned on to like gold TV or something, because these are all 90s, aren't they?
Speaker 1these next two. Well, the first one's Katie Hopkins, who you know she has. I'm pretty sure she's been pretty much banned from TV. And then someone's put Mrs Brown's boys. What is this cunt on my TV? Who am I talking about? Mrs Brown's boys, why is he knobbing? Yeah, that's who it'll be. That's who it'll be.
Speaker 2Yeah, I'm trying to think who I have down in that chair.
Speaker 1It's got to be Berlin Blade's man. Eh, what's his face? Oh, come on. Oh. What's his name? Oh, come on. Oh, what's his name?
Speaker 2magician man Muller, oh yeah, that makes sense, wouldn't it?
Speaker 1Stephen Muller. It's got to be Stephen Muller, like he's on TV more than like anyone I've at the moment.
Speaker 2I don't know Alex Scott, he's on.
Speaker 1TV a lot, to be fair, alex Scott. Yeah, you're probably right, unless you say not seen. A lot to be fair, alex Scott. Yeah, you're probably right.
Speaker 2Unless it's Lineker. A lot of people don't like Lineker.
Speaker 1Yeah, but anyway, moving on, Nelson said he wants a full review of the speech for the opening episode, which we didn't do, and this was about Hulk Hogan. Do you know what the Republican National Convention? I presume you saw this.
Speaker 2Where he ended up ripping his shirt off.
Speaker 1Yeah, and he went like Hulkamania brother. And then Trump ridiculous, Absolutely ridiculous, I mean I think it's probably as long as he's gone. Well, he did lie, I suppose, because he said Trump were great for America. But yeah, I'm not going to review that. No offence to Nelson we do not condone or condemn.
Speaker 1I do not condone or Hulk Hogan for that matter, but I think there's better Hogan stuff out there that we might get to later on. The I can never pronounce this the Yagdra, yigdra system, yigdra, yep, whatever he said. He didn't have 2024 West and Sent as Renford Rejects are apparently coming back, so we've gone from killing people to getting things back. He says there'll be a Threads remake next Reincarnation.
Speaker 2Is it like rerun or remake?
Speaker 1No, it's a remake which I don't know if they're going to do it. I don't know if it's going to be like the original cast, which I think it'd be better, I think, if could make a decent comedy. You know, like sort of going to see what they're up to now and they're all quite downbeat or whatever, because they never made it. Yeah, and they reform like a pub team or something.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think that genuinely could be a proper, proper good show. I think just rebooting it with you know young kids now it's not going to be as good. On the Mavely episode that we did the first episode of this series, navdeep said he was more of a Judy guy, which is interesting. That, to be honest, not many people say that do they. She's just sort of I don't know.
Speaker 2She doesn't really offend anybody but I don't know if she's got huge fans at the same time, kind of seen as the sort of straight man, isn't she? But, as we discussed, and I think actually very talented journalist in her own right and actually nurtured him through the process, didn't she? So, yeah, which?
Speaker 1was his mother. Anne said the impression of the doctor asking about someone's scrotum was an unexpected gem. Yeah, that was. I don't know why I said that. I said two weird things. Someone else has commented as well about mine.
Speaker 2I told you this is going to sound like the most narcissistic man in the world. I do not go to bed or to sleep listening to our podcast. I promise that, no no idea.
Speaker 1As soon, as soon as this one's done, I bang it on even before you release it. Just go through it.
Speaker 2I went to sleep listening to a podcast, don't know what it was, can't remember. It could be frank skinner, who knows whatever it was. Can't remember. It could be Frank Skinner, who knows Whatever it was. Anyway, and if it keeps running, it skips through random things that I've played previously and I genuinely woke up in the middle of the night to you from our mysteries show saying oh, what did he say? He said it was shortbread and heroin.
Speaker 1Yeah, my it caught me off guard.
Speaker 2It sort of shocked me out of my sleep the way that you said it.
Speaker 1Sean. Ben Meakin's dad said that he would same thing. He would listen to a podcast that wasn't us and he fell asleep he would walk up to oh, mysterious girl, brilliant, yeah. Wemthing said he'd love to get his bow from a tufty club and get sweating about vagagra usage and porn habits. And obviously this is about me saying that I wasn't going upstairs to watch porn when I was sick. I was playing games. And obviously you saying that you didn't sell Viagra or use Viagra. I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 2I never said I never used it. Oh interesting, yeah, admits it. I never said, I never used it.
Speaker 1Oh, interesting yeah admits it.
Speaker 2I never said I hadn't sold it either. I just weren't walking around a lead mill selling it. I was passing it on at cost price. I think, this is another one of my, For a restricted amount of time. Let's not go into it. Let's let Red Pink interrogate us one day.
Speaker 1Yeah, we'll go on and let him do it. Jp said we missed a fantastic opportunity of, I imagine, you doing this as well. Blame it On the Weatherman Bewitched, because obviously we're talking about. You know what's his name the pedo weatherman. It was all there, wasn't it? It was an open goal. Open goal. And he said I could have done it in a Jamaican accent as well. Like, blame it On the Weatherman.
Speaker 2We're not playing the clip, but you've still got that in. Got it in.
Speaker 1Got it in anyway. We're going to Chapel St Leonard soon. I don't know exactly when, but we've got two microphones this time Roadshow. Yeah, I am going to be recording some, but I am genuinely hopefully going to record some Jamaican versions of popular hits as well.
Speaker 2it's like a sort of speaker system, so in theory we could take it out live.
Speaker 1Who remembers? Who remembers? Well, that's the thing guys, who's winning that at the moment?
Speaker 2Because obviously we put a poll out, didn't we? Yeah, I meant to. I mean, we had a huge amount of votes. If I'm honest, We've had 12 votes. Well, I voted and you voted, so we've had 10 votes.
Speaker 1Yeah, and it's 50-50. Literally can't separate it. What a pointless vote. If you've not voted, did you vote from?
Speaker 2the Maidly account, by the way. No, you're not allowed to. You're not allowed to. That would be interesting if that swung it.
Speaker 1But it's interesting that 181 people have seen it and not bothered to vote.
Speaker 2Maybe they just think they're both that good. They just can't yeah, just like waiting until the last minute, technically what we could say is that we've had 181 votes, just the 50-50s just couldn't press a button. We didn't have a draw button, did we?
Speaker 1do you know what you were on about just before we get to my adverse? Do you know when you were on about Secret Lemonade Drinkery in St John and Jimmy Greaves? Yeah, yeah, I come across a YouTube video yesterday and I think you've watched it at my house before, way back when. Do you remember Jimmy Greaves' it's a Fanny Game VHS. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2Yeah.
Classic TV Adverts and Nostalgia
Speaker 1I saw it re-uploaded to YouTube. There's a bit in it where someone just scores and I'll just flick it through it scores a normal goal. You remember this? I'm sure you do, yeah, yeah. And his face comes up in corner and goes it's a funny, it's a funny old game.
Speaker 2It's something like a slightly missed time back pass, or like it's not like a it's not a.
Speaker 1There's one where a ball goes in Crazy goal, is it? But goalkeeper on air like so slowly and he goes. It's a fanny hole. Yeah, it's the shittiest video I've ever seen. The comments underneath are brilliant. Someone said Jimmy has definitely not watched this video. They've just said go in a studio and just say it's a fanny hole. Yeah, yeah, but onto adverts. We We've got a lot of feedback for this. Thank you very much. Travelling sent us a message. He put a few in here that I'm pissed off that I didn't think of myself. Ba, ba, ba ba. Baby bell, that's a good one.
Speaker 2Yeah, good, definitely. I mean to be fair. We only did three each. Yeah, it's a good shout, though.
Speaker 1I do like that one. This one I really wish I'd have.
Speaker 2I don't know if I'd have had it, but erm ho, ho ho, green giant yeah, which again I suppose a bit like cow gun, if I said to you I need some sweet corn half a piece is it sweet corn?
Speaker 1I think so. Is it green? It's got to be green giant. No green giant. Why is it green?
Speaker 2I think they's all sweet. Colin, I think you have not got the advert right here. He's got vegetables.
Speaker 1He's all different. He does them all, he's got them all. We might do that actually I've written this down actually for maybe not this series, but Best Advert Mascots. This guy's quite an imposing character. Autoglass repair, autoglass repair, autoglass replace. Yeah, good, go compare. Eggie said this one to me as well.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is one I've. Someone said to me. This one, yeah. The only thing I'd say with it, though, is because I was thinking about this. Everyone knows that tune. Do you know exactly what they do? No, why? Because, again, this is a failed advert, isn't it? What is it they're comparing? I know he's comparing something?
Speaker 1Is it just a website where he can compare everything Like sort of for prices?
Speaker 2Well, I think it might be comparing like it's, it's, it's oh, insurance quotes.
Speaker 1Yeah, it's insurance, car insurance, home insurance, just insurance, any insurance.
Speaker 2But I didn't know that. Well, you think you should say then go compare for your insurance like quick like Well, no, I just wondered your prime example there. I wasn't sure what he's comparing and we were doing. Catchy tune is great, so it ticks that box, but is it a great advert if you don't know what he's comparing?
Speaker 1well, this is one as well here, cavonia. You know the cover, cavonia. I don't know if he says it like that, but you know what I mean. The advert is that like a throat spray or something. I think it's a throat spray, so maybe that one does work. I'm going to play this one because he sent us the link. So I think it's only fair and I'm like, yeah, we missed a trick here, actually. So this is a suggestion from TJ Fern is it?
Speaker 1yeah right, finish land, Is it? Yeah right, Finish Land. Maybe she's born with it, Maybe it's Maybelline. Obviously, we should have said maybe it's Maybelline. That would have been fantastic Instead of I don't know. We should have come up with that last week. I'm disappointed.
Speaker 2Yeah, we didn't even think about it, did we? But yeah, has that been done before? Maybe it's made Lee. Maybe it's made Lee I doubt it.
Speaker 1I don't think many people talk about it as much as we do to be fair, I can imagine him doing it to Jude.
Speaker 1Maybe it's well to yeah like off in front of his kids or whatever. Wb Yeats, which is a brilliant username. Yeats and Keats are on your side. He said washing machines live longer with Calgon. Obviously we mentioned Danone, which we'll come to later because he's mentioned and this one here. I want to play this because I didn't know what it were. This is Kanika. Colours Are Calling Me. And he said he used to know someone who would go to whisper something.
Speaker 2Cornica colours are calling me.
Speaker 1Yeah, I'll play it because I can't remember it. So I thought it's a good one to play. But he said he used to know someone who would go to whisper something secret and highly important in your ear and then say the second like this Cornica, colours are calling me.
Speaker 2Carnica colors are calling me.
Speaker 1Carnica colors. Are calling me Carnica colors.
Speaker 2are calling me Carnica colors are calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me, calling me. I'm a man.
Speaker 1I knew that one there's another one here, actually Chimpman. I know that's not his name, but that's what he's going for. That's what we're going for. It's the Chimpanay, isn't it? Yeah, it is yeah. But you know, chip?
Speaker 2oh no, it's Chipman, chipman A we can't believe it's from from Chimp, from Chimpanay to Chimpanzee, so it's Chimpanay.
Speaker 1Chimpanay. That's it. Anyway, beaverbrooks, can you remember this one For the special time? It doesn't go out, I'm going to play it. Fuck it, I'll play it.
Speaker 2I thought this was going to be clip light. I thought I was going to be putting loads of clips in this. I don't know what's going on here.
Speaker 1Well, there's only three.
Speaker 2I do remember that yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, well, in fact there's another one coming up, who remembers? But then he says, and he's put musical notes inside of it, but I don't know what the tune is there's something really different coming your way the taste of a high life, the Caribbean way. It's Montego, montego, hey, montego. Then he put Cadbury's Montego. That's another, and I thought, I don't remember that it might have been Roundtree.
Speaker 2I cannot think of a Montego. It's making me think of Montel Williams, but I can't think of a Montego.
Speaker 1I presume it's Montego, it's Mont ego.
Speaker 2Montego. Montego Bay is a place in Jamaica.
Speaker 1Montego yeah, that makes, yeah, but I don't know what he's on about so Montego is.
Speaker 2do you remembercom? Do you remembercouk Jacobs Montego, so it was Jacobs.
Speaker 1Jacobs, that's why I tried to to look for it. Last night I put Roundtree and put Cabras in.
Speaker 2Nothing, jacob, yeah well, and underneath that it says Roundtree's Montego. I wonder if Roundtree's is part of the Jacob's branch. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 1Anyway, over to yours, Liam. Alright okay, in fact, liam, I've put play on the Monty Python sketch. Don't bother, there's only four clips, I think. Go on.
Speaker 2So we've actually had some feedback today, but the stuff that we've got to read out from before today. So Bill said you mentioned Atkinsons of Sheffield, a friendly family store on the moor. Tried to find it on YouTube but can't. I have no memory of that being.
Speaker 1I can't remember this, I know the shop.
Speaker 2Do you remember Atkinsons?
Speaker 1Yeah, of that being, I can't remember this. I know the shop. Do you remember Atkinson's? Yeah, but it's still going. Atkinson's is still the only. It's the only. Oh, come on, how would you describe Atkinson's? Department store, yeah, department store. So blah, blah, blah. It opened in 1872 in Sheffield-on-the-Moor and it is the only store. The family-owned store is now the only department store left in Sheffield.
Speaker 2Makes me think of a Ron Atkinson song. It's fat, he's round, he bounces on the ground, Atkinson.
Speaker 1He's taking Wednesday down. Another long one isn't?
Speaker 2it Couldn't get away with that these days, Couldn't get away with it not these days, no, but yeah, I do remember Atkinson.
Speaker 1Well, yeah, I went in not so long ago.
Speaker 2I do remember. I mean I'd be intrigued if Bill could. I suppose he can't find the video, can he, but I don't? Was it a Christmas advert? Is it a recurring song that I might remember? I've got no idea. I typed it into.
Speaker 1Google myself. I mean, I'm not doubting Bill's research skills, but I couldn't find anything myself. I had a jacket potato last year and it was bloody lovely, I have to admit.
Speaker 2I think of it as going there to get a key cut at Timpson's.
Speaker 1I got my mum an air fryer from there last Christmas. I think, yeah, they do it all, they'll do it all. We're not sponsored by them, but if they want to get involved, give generously. They probably.
Speaker 2yeah, I mean, it'd be interesting to go and try and catch them out. See what you can. I sometimes like to do this at Jeff's DIY in Drumfield. Sometimes, if I need something, I like to go and see if he's not got it, and it's very, very rare that he's not got what I need.
Speaker 1Why do you go places and see if you've not got stuff?
Speaker 2It's like a little old-fashioned hardware store.
Speaker 1And do you know, like one I'm a bit bored. I'm going to go to Jeff's DIY.
Speaker 2I bet he hasn't got one of these, he's got one again. He's got most things. Again, no sponsorship in place. But yeah, jeff's DIY for all your DIY needs. Carl sent us a message, not listening yet, and he's asking about the Maynard's wine gums, about the Maynard's wine gums. Does it get a shout? And we've actually got a clip to play.
Speaker 1Yeah, the reason I asked to play this clip is because I didn't remember it, but then, as soon as it came on, I knew it immediately. Maynard's original wine gums are filled with delicious juicy flavour just waiting to be set loose. All you've got to do is chill, set the juice loose. About this house, about the goose the guy you were used to with him as well, John Wild Goose, and he once got really, really angry because people were singing that to him. Boots a juice, a bootless goose, and he was so angry about it. It's not offensive, is it?
Speaker 2No, ljd he sent us actually we were going to play it, but I don't think we are playing it now. I think you're in control of clips for this one.
Speaker 1Yeah, but the only reason we're not playing it is because the entire thing's nine minutes. I think you might have to. I don't think a clip would do it justice.
Speaker 2I have watched it, but so legendary Monty Python sketch that's a piss take of Robin Hood. The lyrics changed from the original song and he's wondering if this was an influencer.
Speaker 1Don't know the.
Speaker 2Weetabix guys may well have seen that and taken inspiration. Yeah, webding. So back to Mr Webster. He's pointing out that I didn't understand the brief for what we were doing, even though I'd set the brief always the same mind blown and it weren't, even though I'd set the brief Always the same, always the same yeah, mind blown.
Speaker 2And it weren't even one where I was overthinking it. I just kind of couldn't really decide what I thought we should be doing. I couldn't decide if it were best jingles or most effective jingles, I suppose. So we went effective. Hopefully that was okay with everyone. And I also can't believe that the midweek thing that we did, where I you'll have heard it on the intro to this episode we didn't really record a theme. I just said midweek. Over the top, he's saying that we stole that from Dixon's, I think well, we've mentioned this before.
Speaker 1He's very much like Bob Monkhouse. Bob Monkhouse never accused people of plagiarism, but he used to carry a joke book around with him, didn't he?
Speaker 2Yeah, and there was always a danger. When you said a joke, monkhouse had got there first.
Speaker 1Yeah. So if anyone made a joke Of you could say, no, hang on, he's dated here. Webding's very much like that. He's not actually accusing you of a plaguer Him this time, which is progress, but yeah, plaguer in a Dixon's advert instead.
Speaker 2Yeah, if I did it it was subconsciously, which I suppose is a great.
Speaker 1The advert worked great, I'll bat for you here, because I know Well I'll say a no for a foul. I say it could be subconscious. When I played you the clearance, the sale, should I say, dixon, that was the first time you'd ever heard it you said anyway, unless you're lying to me as well, it's all on the act.
Speaker 2Yeah, um, yeah, and andrew messages which confused me because I thought, even though I never referred to you as andrew, I thought you were saying this is, this is your comment. But andrew had go for broke. His nan thought his gambling was immoral. She had no problems with uh, rapacious capitalism. So she liked monopoly, and panchero's fact was correct. Game of Life is an older game turned into a board game in the 60s. It's a game, it's all a game. A book by Tristan Donovan covers it.
Speaker 1So there's more evidence out there.
Speaker 2But I mean to be fair, Andrew's given you the credit. I think we were both right there, because what I was saying is it can't have been a board game in 1960 or 16 or whatever.
Speaker 1I'd like to know how it didn't. How did it work before it were a board game?
Speaker 2Be a winner in the game of life.
Speaker 1Just thinking that.
Speaker 2Yeah, I don't know. Do you want to go to uni? Yeah, here's some money.
Speaker 1Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2Another comment from Degontier. I don't know. Another comment from De Gontier. I don't know if that's how he likes it to be pronounced, in a mock French style, or I don't know. Radio is always better for cheesy jingles. I'm glad you mentioned Cold Seal as they were masters of it and this is brilliant. So initially he sort of said oh yeah, we used to have a tape of all the old Cold Seal adverts. He's actually sent us a link on SoundCloud. I think he's put it on Twitter so anyone can find it.
Speaker 1I've re-chatted it on the Maitley account if you want to see. It's every Cold Seal jingle Brilliant yeah.
Speaker 2Absolutely.
Speaker 1Fantastic bit of nostalgia there. I think he's right as well. Radio were always better. It's not my favourite advert because I'm sick of hearing it, but I don't think I think when I've lost my mind in my 90s I will still remember I've forgotten it.
Speaker 2Is it Kid Talks Paul.
Speaker 1Yeah, what's it called Selco? It's where the trade go.
Speaker 2Yeah, ridiculous. How many times I've heard that advert. Yeah.
Speaker 1Selco, it's where the trade go. Yeah, they were better jingles on radio to be fair.
Speaker 2Well, they have to be, don't they? Because there's no visual stimuli, so they have to get you with the jingles. So yeah, I mean it's not a jingle in any way, but I always remember Bruno Brooks I think's quiz, where it was whack, whack, oops.
Speaker 1The Slop it. No, they were. They were a radio. They had the sloppy bit as a feature and they had like a, a jingle for it. People will remember this. I'm not going mad. I can't remember where it were. It might have been Not so Sloppy bit. Radio 1 Hang on, who did your song?
Speaker 2Gary Davis, my.
Speaker 1Sloppy Valentine. It was called.
Speaker 2No, I've got no memory of that. I remember we used to use. This is a local based one, I think so. I think it was Radio Sheffield or Hallam, but Scotty McClue came on for a bit and he used to play there's a moose loose about this moose. Da da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da da, scotty.
Speaker 1McClough did a few. It wasn't just obviously based in Sheffield. So people who aren't based in Sheffield- you just move around local radio stations might have had him. Yeah, I used to find him so funny when I was younger and I watched, but he's again. You can look at YouTube videos from him from the 90s. So unf, unfunny, it's unbelievable yeah, yeah, yeah I used to phone him up.
Speaker 2Yeah, some people did at our school. I think I tried to get through, but I don't think I ever spoke to him I once phoned up and he said what do you want to talk about?
Speaker 1and I said shredded wheat. And he said and I even got it wrong as well, because I said shredded wheat and he said what do you want to say about it? And I said, because I was panicking a bit, I went hunger strikes bomb to the bomb da-da-bomb, da-da-bomb, da-da-bomb. But it's just Shreddy's advert, so I got it wrong.
Speaker 2Oh no. Don't embarrass yourself on my clue. Yeah, oh well, chimpanay's back in business. So he was telling us, his first job ever bargate. And I must admit Webbo kind of got involved to clear this up, didn't he? Because?
Speaker 2I thought, what does he mean? He's using a long stick to turn TVs on with a remote. That seems like an electrical store completely misunderstood the use of a remote control, didn't it what we do? We put on any stick and push that button over there. But yeah, apparently there was a risk from a distance of turning on and off different bunches of TVs. So I'm still not completely sure, but I think he's given enough evidence to back up this. Well, I never doubted him, to be honest. But yeah, it checks out. He was using another stick to press a button at closer range to the TVs. I think Absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1Yeah. I like how he put.
Speaker 2They were 1987, a different time technologically side note store was officially opened by Norman Collier and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Again, I don't quite. I don't quite get that, because I don't know who Norman Collier is. And Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car, isn't it?
Speaker 1yeah, you know who Norman Collier is, don't you?
Speaker 2is he in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is a car, isn't it? Yeah, you don't know what Collier is, don't you? Is he in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang?
Speaker 1I'm guessing it's like the lead actor of that. Do you know what? I've heard his name man, and it's not the person I thought it were. But it says here he was most famous for his faulty microphone routine and his chicken impressions.
Speaker 2I mean to be fair, actually now routine and his chicken impressions. I mean to be fair, actually now a fair play if Chimpanay's covered himself again. Yeah, chitty maintained a dignified silence on the pavement outside.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2Does anyone remember this?
Speaker 1Now, I mean 1987, a little bit too early, I think it's not impossible.
Speaker 2We'd have been there to see it, but I don't remember it.
Speaker 1No, if you know anything about Norman Collier, let us know.
Speaker 2And final one from Nav. So Peter Reid also appeared in the All Whites advert. He was standing by the fridge door with an empty glass in his hand. I don't remember that. No, I can't say I do. Shredder Wheat adverts were far more star-studded than the Wheatlebyx ones, brian Qu ones, brian Quilfe, brian Robson and Sir Ian Botham yeah, this is where Ian Botham used to say bet you can't eat three.
Speaker 1And then Brian Clough's one, where I think the Brian Clough one where his team were going out to play football and he had his famous green thing on and he said to, and Shelton's coming out, he goes hey, have you had your shredded wheat or something? And he goes, oh, no boss. He goes right, get back in there. Something like that. Well, young man, I think you should have your shredded wheat. It's not anything like that.
Speaker 2I don't know, young man, if I had your shredded wheat, it's got him a clue.
Speaker 1It's got him a clue, that one. Yeah, we've got some stuff after as well, actually, which we're not going to play because we've just got too many clips. But Anthony sent us he said he can't believe we didn't mention the Shaken Vac ad and he has sent us something that sounds like the Dixon Sailor. We might share that later, but I can't play it.
Speaker 2Well, you say that a little bit. It's like I don't get the context of that. It made me laugh. It's some sort of like duck things with some music behind it, and then it's just saying things like Dick and flange Grotum. Yeah, it's like it's crazy. Yeah, we might share that. I don't know what it is, but yeah, thanks for that. And I was, if you. I don't know if I said the words out loud or if I just thought it, but Shaking Back was very, very nearly one of my three.
Speaker 1My, yeah, I just I don't really remember it being on.
Speaker 2Oh, no, yeah, I do, I remember that.
Speaker 1You could shake him back, put the pressure on his back.
Speaker 2Anyway.
Speaker 1Webding said he can't believe that the kids these days won't have the advert frame of reference growing up. They're almost like a secret code to figure out someone's age.
Speaker 2So what it means by that is if you go to someone you'll say, if you buy, one.
Speaker 1What would you say? You get one free. Any mention of the word ambassador. Someone would say, with this Ferrero Rocher, you are really spoiling us. And then hang on, he's got another one here, exactly, yeah, exactly. Go on, he's got another one here, exactly, yeah, you know exactly. Go on, give us some. Go on An insurance cost. Stupid, you're stupid, which I don't really know that one. I don't know that one.
Speaker 2So is this like? Is he proving his point? Is that one slightly?
Speaker 1Slightly yeah.
Speaker 2Webbo's a little bit older than us, isn't he? Yeah, he is. Yes, have we just missed it by a year or two?
Speaker 1Yeah, I'm not sure about that one. Berlin Blaze a great episode. Really enjoyed it. Thank you, berlin. Also, getting the I'm Irish and I've got this Braxie double in within the first 12 minutes is impressive and perhaps a record. And he's picked out quickity, quick microchips, which is one that I will get. Like it were on my list at the beginning, but I didn't go go for it in the end.
Speaker 2Has anyone else ever done a version of microchip? Nobody, ever kind of cracked that.
Speaker 1That's the same one, though. How about it? Yeah?
Speaker 2good on that. Is there another one?
Speaker 1I don't know. He actually says that is the greatest two words, Like it's a piece of art. He thinks I can't.
Speaker 2Not how you're doing it. It's like a. I don't even know if I want to attempt it. It's done like as a I don't know. It's like a French female singing voice like have. I got this wrong then it's not a bloke going Mm then on.
Speaker 1What am I talking about then? Mm then on.
Speaker 2Well, yeah, it is that. I just think it's a bit more sort of sing-songy doing it. Do you know what it is?
Speaker 1I don't know what the thing. All I remember about this is Sheffield United used to have a player called Ben Doan, and when he played which weren't very often I used to go. Mmm Ben Doan, that's it.
Speaker 2It was not an advert for him, no, it was like for yogurts.
Speaker 1Yogurts, yeah, mmm. Ben Doan, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2But yeah, he loves it.
Speaker 1Berlin Thinks he's absolutely fantastic.
Speaker 2Well, his last one there is the Intel, isn't it Boom, boom, boom.
Speaker 1Yeah, classic, that isn't it. Boom boom, boom. Is that Jingle? I don't know. If that is that, I don't know. I suppose if Calgon is it, I don't know yeah.
Speaker 2I suppose it's a little tune associated with a brand, isn't it? So yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, good one.
Speaker 1If you will indulge me, then I'm going to tell you some what I had on my list that I didn't say Wamba Rumbongo, which I'll make Jake and recite word for word. He once did it on a train in Italy Mbongo, mbongo, stick it up, your jongo. I don't know what it.
Speaker 2I can't do it. What is it Fairly sure it's not that they drink it in the Congo. I think it is Drink it in the Congo, Don't they just stick it up?
Speaker 1your Django. I don't think Stick it up your Django and you were going to have, so I didn't have it. Oh, vitalite, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, Morning drinking some breakfast.
Speaker 2Everybody. Come back here, mark, here's Well. Actually, just while you say that, sorry, I'm just going to jump in there, but something that makes me think of that was I nearly had, and people might think what the hell is he on about here? You might even, do you remember, grab an outspan, small ones on what do you see?
Speaker 1naturally, Don't think so.
Speaker 2So that was. They were for like little satsumas, I think, but I can't quite remember it and I thought if I can't remember what it is, I can't really have it. So yeah, outspan, I think, was one Famous one, trio, yeah, trio.
Speaker 1We want a trio and we want one now. Another one I've just thought of actually is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. It's not really a jingle, because it's just a song, isn't?
Speaker 2it yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1This one, I think, is quite creepy. Fairy Liquid With my dream fairy liquid.
Speaker 2Yeah, you put it that way. It used to be like this guy's done some washing up, but this scout has done 400 times more.
Speaker 1Yeah, it used to be quite Ones. I remember is like a mum would be washing pots or something and a kid would say can I feel your hands? I don't know why he'd say that. Anyway, he'd touch her hands and then he'd say let me put your hands on wrinkly, and she'd go yeah, you know why. What is it?
Speaker 2my whatever fairy liquid yeah, one went where a kid would wait to build his bottle a rocket from a bottle but it took longer so he couldn't have it.
Speaker 1But yeah, I think it's a Scout one With my fairy liquid, my green fairy liquid it used to be green didn't it.
Speaker 1What are the words for fairy liquid? All that now. Hands that do dishes can feel soft as your skin With mild green fairy liquid, mild green. Couple more. If you like a lot of chocolate on your biscuit, join our club. Didn't think of it, but yeah, good, I should have had that. And then the other one I had on the list was you can't get better than a quick, quick fitter. Can't get better than a quick, quick fitter, quick fit, yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah and that concludes all the well. We might have got some more, but they're the ones that I wrote down.
Speaker 2Yeah, I mean, even the midweek episodes are more sporadic.
Speaker 1So if you do think of any great advert jingles, we might still mention them in future midweek ones so don't don't be afraid to send them in, don't be afraid, get them sent in, get them sent in, um. So next up, as we said in the last episode, it's tfi friday. Um, liam's already watched it. Um, we're not going to give any spoilers away, but we're going to use what we, what we're watching, which is the best of 1997 tfi friday as just sort of a almost like a reference point to talk around it. I think, aren't we?
Speaker 2Yeah, sometimes if we watch a documentary we kind of say, oh yeah, if you kind of want to be on board with what we're talking about, watch the documentary. You absolutely do not need to watch this, because the best of 97 skips through so much stuff at such a fast pace.
Speaker 1So we're not going to be going. And this happens, and this happens, and this happens.
Speaker 2No, no, but we'll use some examples from that. We might play a few clips from that. But yeah, we'll talk more about the show in general. So don't worry if you haven't got time to watch the best of 97.
Speaker 1I mean, to be fair, it's only about 45 minutes. If you do want to watch it, do you reckon? Instead of having midweek Maylight. We could have called this it's your comments, it's your garments.
Speaker 2It's your garments well, yeah, we we could have called it that, but there's no way that we can make people read it like that would. It would just be called it's your comments yeah, quite boring points of view works.
Speaker 1What do you mean? It's like that's a boring name for a show, but but I like Points of View. I think it's a good show.
Speaker 2I don't even know if it's still a thing.
Speaker 1Yeah, we should cover it. There's no point now, is there? Except we're just going to get on Twitter and say it's fucking shit. But I used to like it when they'd say, but whatever, wasn't happy with the.
Speaker 2Yeah, Mr Winchester from Rotherham said he was really disappointed with the way they covered it.
Speaker 1There were one. This weren't points of view, but this were. I can't remember where it went now. Then it goes. And now let's go to Kevin from Sheffield, and it was Kevin McCabe talking about it, weren't TV, it was something else Like. I can't remember what it was.
Speaker 2Was it actual Kevin McCabe? Yeah, it was actually him.
Speaker 1Yeah, I can't remember where it was during lockdown. I can't remember what they were talking about. It weren't like anything to do with what he's involved in with his Scarborough.
Speaker 2Aldies, he was just thinking of like a news show where they say now we go to this place, no, no, no.
Speaker 1He was just like he was put on as a member of the public. He weren't like he was, but anyway, thank you for sticking with us with that. We're going to have TFI Friday coming up very shortly. Yeah, and I'll see you next time, leroy.
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