CheapShow - Ep 478: Journey To Screaming Wood (Mono)
Episode Date: March 13, 2026Mono Version It’s finally time for CheapShow to escape the confines of their usual recording space and venture out into the big wide world once again. For their first major “walkabout” adventure... of 2026, Paul wants to visit the UK’s “most haunted” wood, which is situated near the equally as haunted Pluckley village in Kent… But Eli and Paul aren’t going there, they are heading to “Dering Wood” to look for something, ANYTHING spooky. It’s also been called the “Screaming Wood” but will the only screams Paul hears be the angry, frustrated and howls of his pissed off co-host? Eli is not happy getting lost in a part of the UK he doesn’t know AND he is very not happy to do it on winding country lanes. Will the Cheap Chaps ever get to their destination? Will Eli be able to guess the price of the shite Paul has also brought along? This is Part One of one of CheapShow’s most calamitous of rambles! See pics/videos for this episode on our website: https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-478-journey-to-screaming-wood www.patreon.com/cheapshow If you want to get involved, email us at thecheapshow@gmail.com For all other information, please visit: www.thecheapshow.co.uk Like, Review, Share, Comment... LOVE US! MERCH Official CheapShow Magazine Shop: www.cheapmag.shop Send Us Stuff: CheapShow PO BOX 1309 Harrow HA1 9QJ
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Achoo.
Archu?
Achu.
I sneeze, acho.
No.
What the fuck?
Was that?
I'm not going with that intro.
Hello, everyone.
Hello.
You've caught us?
I'm going to start again.
I'm not happy with that either.
Not happy with that either.
Fine.
Just do it.
Just be straight.
Don't think of a joke.
You can't start with a joke.
I'll start with a fucking joke, mate.
Here we go.
Hello.
It's such a dick.
Why don't it?
Hello, it's a cheap show.
It's another week.
week we are out and are about and wow have we got an potentially epic hopefully two-part episode
to cover Eli going away to America for a fortnight episode of Cheap Show this week and with me as
always is my good children friend and co-host of this podcast Mr Eli Silverman hi everybody
Eli Silverman here I'm pumped I'm amped I'm ready to get spunk off in my trousers that's
metaphorically and that's um that's how I'm feeling in my mind my mind dick is rockard and it's
gone gloopy. My mind is all flaccid and wimpy. Yes. And sad and drippy. It is. Well, here we are
in Embankment Gardens and we're about to embark from Embankment Gardens to the town of
Pluckley. No, but the station isn't Pluckley, is it? Yes. Oh, it is. I thought you
about to go to Ashton. No, Pluckley. Okay, we're going to Pluckley. And why are we going there,
Paul? Because I, we last year, our last walkabout was a spooky walk through the woods, right,
in North London. And I thought, oh, well, because this is the last.
last chance to do another wintry walk
because the clocks go back in a couple of weeks, don't they?
And it's beginning of spring. To be fair, it's
feeling very spring-like here
in the Bankment Gardens. The temperature's gone
up. We're both overdressed
slightly. A little bit. But you know what?
This is quite far out of London. We're into Kent
and it will be at least
a degree and a half Celsius.
We don't so. And Paul's
now familiar with the Celsius
everybody because it's appeared on his phone.
It took me four years.
Anyway, we're here because we're right outside Charing Cross Station
and we're going to walk on right now, aren't we, to a board?
Because the reason why we've picked Pluckley, we've plucked Pluckley out of a hat.
But why, Eli, why do you think?
Is it something to do with the supernatural, Paul?
Absolutely, because I went to a spooky wood last year.
The screaming woods or whatever, no, screaming mad old woman woods or something it was called?
Yes, we both went there.
Fat cow woods or something?
No, we found that on our walk, didn't we?
We discovered that.
Where was that?
That was...
That was up by Ryslip.
That's right.
Ryslip Lido, and there's like, if you walk up for the woods, you remember, the screaming lady woods.
And I thought, you know what?
Mad Mary.
Mad, I don't know.
Mad Cowwoods.
Oh, Mad Mary.
Daft, cunt Mary.
No, she wasn't, she wasn't daft?
She was mad.
Either way.
She was a boss lady.
Wasn't she?
She owned shit, and she used to scare poachers.
Well, it's all a bit, well, it's all in.
bit of the ability to actually even fucking existed.
But anyway, with all that being said,
Pluckley is renowned for being the most haunted village in the UK.
Wow.
And we'll be going past that and heading towards Daring Woods,
which is also colloquially named Screaming Woods.
Ah.
So today we'll be doing a bit of a picnic, a bit of a snacky woo,
a bit of a price of shite as we roam around.
Pluckley.
Oh, I've picked the stairs way.
This is the quick way, though.
Is it? Yeah.
I always find Charing Cross quite confusing in terms of how you access it, you know?
It has many entrances and exits, like my sex doll.
It's sort of nested, sort of tucked in on a bridge, hard to conceptualise spatially.
Yeah.
But we have.
We have.
We very much spatially conceptualised, and here we are.
Here we are. We're going in now.
Oh, it's exciting now. We need to find the right gate.
There are no toilets.
Platforms on train stations, Paul.
and trains.
Yes, that's right.
Okay, good boy.
Yeah, where are we?
Oh, it hasn't come on the gate yet.
So anyway, we're at the station waiting for the platform.
Is that what it's?
That's right.
Hey look, they've got the new British Rail clock.
Oh, it's a good clock.
Do you like it?
I like it.
The little arrows.
Go around and then when it gets to 12,
12 basically they meet and it looks like the logo it looks like the logo maybe we should take a picture of it so when people go to our website the Cheapes dot Coe UK they can look at the images of this or our Instagram right
which guy which guy oh yeah no he does oh my god I mean that is a look I mean to each of their own right he really looks like Hitler everyone I'm not just saying it hipster Hitler he looks like a hipster Hitler he looks like a hipster Hitler what's happened to this
this world. I think you could rock that. I wouldn't rock that. Rock that look. Go on. What now?
Chaplain tash. Wow. Wow. Wow. I think you might just be a hipster because they often leave taste
behind for the sake of looking weird and fashionable. Right. This is our intro to this week's episode.
We've got 10 minutes till our train. Yeah. And it hasn't appeared on the board yet. It hasn't.
What's the destination? Oh no, hang on. There is. There we go. Wait, 36 Dartford.
Is that the one? Yeah, because it goes to.
wait, do we have to change?
Right, we're going to have to start the episode with the credits.
I have, because it said Charing Cross from this thing, going here, 1236.
I'm now going to have a little look.
So anyway, while we figure out what could potentially be our first fuck-up of the day,
why don't you listen to the theme tune to this podcast,
for it appears in the podcast at the right junction,
and it is the junction now. Here we go.
How did Chari-cross to Pluckley?
To part 1234.
So, yeah, it's the Ramsgate one.
Right?
Oh, I?
Oh, I wasn't looking at the green.
Platform 6.
I wasn't even looking at the green.
I sorted it out.
He knows where a train leaves from, not a gate.
On a weirdo.
On a platform, you say.
Right, we're off.
We'll see you a bit.
Yes, the time is like tiki talk.
All right.
This is the floor.
That is your mouth.
Here is my dog.
Mouth.
Right, yeah.
I'm glad you had to point that out so I'd recognize it.
Oh.
Right, we're going.
We're getting on the train.
We're getting on the train.
We'll get on the train.
It looks to be a quiet, quiet, empty train up here.
That's how we like it though, right?
It's a very nice long one.
Thank you, Eli, but what about the train?
This is my knob.
This is your mouth.
I love this Platform 6 at Charing Cross.
And it's all postmodern, the architectural style.
So it's almost like referencing deco.
See this with the lights?
It's like a ballroom or something down here, you know what I mean?
Oh, Deco-esque.
I love it.
Can I just say, before you go any further, that,
Unless you've got something to reveal,
then that guy who's walking in front of us
definitely farted at us.
Yes, no, there was an egg.
There was a big egg.
And he went straight into the toilet,
so he must have been biting down on something.
Well, that kind of poo you don't bite down on.
You sort of just hold in
because it's a big gloshing,
galloping, sloap.
Schlop, Gallagher Schlop.
Anyway, I just walk, I love walking through another man's ass mist.
Right at the end, and we've emerged into the daylight again.
Oh, I?
Excellent.
Look at this.
Have we got, we're looking at, what's that we're seeing?
That's the other side, that's the, what's over there?
That's the Royal Festival Hall.
That's right, yeah.
Because the Millennium Eyes there.
And there's the bridge.
Oh, you can see the eye as well everywhere.
We're right in the centre here.
We're looking almost at Waterloo, aren't we over that way?
I think that lady works on the...
I think she drives the train.
She's the train driver.
I think she does.
Excellent.
Excellent. What a great job.
I want to be a train driver.
You could train, retrain.
train? No punning.
You have to have a driver's license, a car driver's license to be able to drive a train?
I'm sure you do, yeah.
Really?
I never really thought about it because it's not as if it's the same rules or regulations
or whatnot.
No, and perhaps technically you don't, but in terms of sort of practicalities, you have to
be able to drive to where your train is stationed.
Do you know what I mean?
It just make it, I would have thought, make it really impractical to do if you didn't drive
yourself.
I want to drive a chuff-chuff-chuff train up and down the...
I'd like to drive a chuff-chuff-tuff train.
No, you're a trucker. I see you more as a trucker.
I don't like trucks. I don't like road vehicles.
I know, but if I had to, I'd paint you as a trucker.
254-699-9. I'm heading on down the old convoy rate, Buddha Breaker.
Two-four breaker, two-four going to ride my knob-nob train up your chuff-chuff-hole.
Got a couple of dead prostitutes in the bay.
Dead prostitutes, uh, cliche box trucker tick.
Tick! Any more?
No, that's it. Pissing bottles.
They shit at the side of the road.
Yeah, there you guys.
Let us drive on with no regard.
No regard.
Anyway, what time is it?
We better get on the train.
We're getting on.
Oh, it's our first big day out episode of the...
Fucking no one here.
Well, there's that guy there.
Where?
Right behind us.
I'm going to go here.
So this journey is about an hour on the train out to Pluckley.
And I have also brought a fact.
sheets, Mr. Silverman, because apparently there's like 15 ghosts in this village alone from
outside ghosts to inside ghosts to like haunted chariots or whatever.
Was this village the one that was featured in Usbourne's Unexplained as the most haunted
village? I think it was. Yeah. I think it was. I think it was. That's exciting for me because
not being a believer, being somewhat of a skeptic, I get to go somewhere that was featured in a book
I liked, basically.
I should have brought that book now.
I don't know why I didn't.
Because I printed out a fact sheet with information and whatnot,
and I thought, oh, haven't I done well?
But actually, I should have brought that book
because, yeah, it had pertinent information.
But honestly, mate, I've got facts of plenty here today.
You're going to be absolutely bent over this table
and fact right up from behind.
Yes.
You're going to be facked up the bonger.
Is the penis train going up my chuff-chuff-hoff hole?
Yes.
Slimy chuff chuff hole?
It is the slimyst of slimy chuff chuff holes.
Oh, I have things to say, but I've forgotten them all.
That's the name of my autobiography.
I'd sound to say, but I forgot it all.
Question mark.
With a picture of you standing on a wooden fence looking out of the...
Standing on a fence?
Yeah, like on a style, on a style.
You know, like a wooden style on a fence.
Standing on a style?
Yeah, looking out at the countryside, looking quizzical.
That's not wouldn't suit me at all, Paul.
Yeah, but it's a...
It's an aspirational book.
It's all a load of bullshit.
I aspire to be some kind of farmer.
Yeah.
Ars farmer.
Yeah.
I know you're going to say that.
This is cool.
This is going to be a great little trip down.
Where is Pluckley Kent?
So it's south.
Yeah.
It's quite far out.
Yeah.
The countryside.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
I looked at the map and saw that for my own eyes.
All I'm saying,
is that the journey itself ain't that long.
It's about an hour and five minutes, something like that.
It's not too bad.
So, we're just going to get settled anyway now.
I don't believe these trains have toilets, just so you know.
Of course they fucking do, you idiot.
No, because what?
The announcement.
Look at that sign there.
Oh, well, all right, that's fine.
I just heard a thing on the way in saying,
this train doesn't have a toilet.
No, it would only be a train that, I think there's a time limit for journeys.
they can't they can't they have to provide a toilet
especially if it's an hour train there's a toilet
there is I mean you're fine we've established that
all I was worried about was the fact that the voice on the
intercom said there might there's no toilet on this train
that's all I'm saying did you just do it as soon as you heard that
did you do an internal sort of poo-poo check sort of you know what I mean
when you sort of tense it a bit see how bad it is
it's like you test the muscle memory don't we
No, you know what?
I was kind of worried about that
because the last few days
I have been a bit more liquid than sodded lately
and I was thinking I can't really be doing with that
if I'm out and about.
But luckily, when I got home from work
at around about 5am,
text button dropping.
I feel like I've emptied myself out
so I'm not really pinching down on anything.
Excellent. Anyway.
Good.
How about your movements?
Are we going to...
More frequent than they used to be.
But I'm very...
Very regular in the morning.
That's good.
7 a.m.
I'm turning into an old man.
I wake up at 7.
I don't, there's no,
sometimes I'll go back to sleep.
But.
And I get really tired at about 10.30 at night as well.
Like I want to go to bed.
Like I really do just want to go to bed then.
Like day's done.
I don't.
No.
You still have that night out.
I'm still a night owl.
And I will be a night owl until I am dead, I think.
Possibly.
do say there's two types of people or whatever, don't they?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Excellent people who are cool, like me, just pulling a name out of the air,
and then, you know, degraded, horrible, hollow human beings.
Who get up on?
Just thinking of, who can I think of it?
Like you, maybe, yeah.
You.
You, look, we've sort of swapped.
I'm less, my degeneracy's alleviating, and your degeneracy's going up.
That isn't shit.
That's coffee.
I'm like, fine, I wasn't going to say that.
Because I wasn't sure when I left the house today,
I looked at my palm and it had brown smirkings on.
Smarkings.
I go, I know that, though.
Again, a Peter Genius.
Smarkings, that's like a smear and a mark.
Marking, it's smir on my palm.
And I thought, oh, did my tissue break this morning
when I was doing business?
But it turns out it was just when I was making the coffee.
Yes.
It's a couple of granules bedded in.
That's right.
I could tell that was instant because, like, ground coffee doesn't
leave a stone like that. It's the soluble type that...
Yeah, it gets into the grooves.
Steens leaked it, you know.
So, I just want people to know
that I haven't got shit, Palm.
You do not. I wouldn't accuse you that. I don't think of you as someone
like that. That's a problem. You can't sustain even, you know,
a platonic relationship with someone for a number of years
if often they smell and have poo on them. It would something that would come
up. Unless they're into it. Some people are into it, aren't they? They love the
bouquet. The other was into it. You're... The other was into it.
it unless we were both into it.
Oh, you want to be into, oh yeah.
I was talking about somewhere else in general.
I'm just saying.
I'm not telling what I'm saying.
I'm just saying if you're the type of person
who gets shit on their hands all the time,
I wouldn't be your friend.
Aw, what a shame.
Oh, there's old palmy.
Over there, there's old palm me coming in.
Oh, stinky palm.
And of course, the first thing he does when he sees you.
All right, mate, put your hand out.
I'm a hug, mate.
I'm a hug.
But then you get it on your shoulder.
Yeah, you get it on the back of your head.
Oh, dirty old shit, Palmer.
Robert Palmer.
Oh, he gave me the old Robert Palmer last night.
I had a great pun or something.
When I was falling asleep last night,
it's not going to come back, is it?
You never know.
I might come.
No, it was one of those ones.
We were always like, that's brilliant.
I should write that down or something.
Hang on, am I asleep already?
I am already asleep.
So that's, you know what I mean?
It's weird how I can remember having an insight,
but I can't remember what it is, you know.
Anyway, look, we could rattle on all day, and we are going to.
But right now, how long, what time is it, do you make it?
32.
So we're going to leave in a couple of minutes.
34 it was, wasn't it?
Yeah, so a couple of minutes, well remembered.
Then our journey to Pluckley and the Screaming Woods is on its way.
We'll have a lovely view going down through South London,
with the sun poking through the hazy clouds.
It's actually a nice day.
The weather when I first got the tickets said it was going to be radiating cloudy,
but actually it's all right, in it?
Lovely.
The fact, it looks like the sun is going to come out.
The hour leading up to sunset.
So it might be really lovely up in the woods there.
Oh, I was hoping it'd be a little bit gloomy and spooky.
But it still might when we get there, because we're going to be there when it gets dark.
So we'll get to investigate the woods in the dark, Eli.
Sunset today at 5.54.
5.4, yeah, because I don't think I'll train back until it's like 8.30.
I think I'll train from Plugley.
Yeah.
Right, look.
oh we'll get back to you once the train's on the
getting on the tracks rolling on down the tracks
alright see it a bit bye bye
that wasn't a ghost by the way
that was the sound of Eli Silverman yawning
uh we are just a few more stops now
away from our destination
the train journey has been
lovely
lovely and the sun's come out
and um I just had a little
lipper v tan which is an energy drink from Japan
everyone I got this on discount
because it's about past its best before
for only 30p usually go north of two quid
however it seems to make me really sleepy
so it's train vibes and then sun coming in through window
equals cozy nice sleepy time
I really have an intense sleepiness around the eyes you know
oh I can feel it pulsing there
so Eli's wearing new shades or something
what are they because they look weird
Protective eyeglasses.
For shooters or something.
Cycling.
Cycling, because it looks like the kind of thing,
like, you know, a rifle marksman would wear.
Essentially protective goggles, but for cycling.
They make you look like Dennis Raider.
I'll say that.
Dennis Raider?
Yeah.
Who's that?
Serial killer.
Okay.
Lock him up.
I can go with that.
You look like him.
I wouldn't go.
I wouldn't say that.
Okay.
I got these charity shop.
Yeah.
Very cheap.
And they're brand new.
So they're rock bros.
Yeah.
Rock Bross is the brand.
And I like technical glasses, so there you go.
It's just, you know, it's a strange visual choice, I think,
because it makes it look like you're about to shoot up a train.
So I'm just going to put that out.
Is that what Dennis Raider did?
No, he was just a nice old-fashioned serial killer.
Did he use guns?
I can't remember what he did now.
They're all dirty bastards.
He all did something horrible.
Probably chop people up.
I'd have to look it up.
There's so many of them.
Oh, they're almost running out of fashion.
Anyway, we're heading in now, and London has fallen away, the villagers,
and their little satellite towns have dropped away,
and now we're getting right into the guts of the countryside.
Kent.
All right, mate, you don't have to say that.
Just trying to explain to people where we are.
The oldies are the goodies, aren't they?
Dennis Raider?
No.
Oh, what are you looking up there?
I don't know.
Oh, well, I thought you were about to say something.
He had your phone out.
He went, uh, and then I thought it was going to be followed up by salient facts.
So sleepy.
Sleepy.
Bye-bye.
Sleepy bye-bye time.
Anyway, what else happened?
A bit of coffee is fine.
No, honestly, this has been a journey without incident so far.
Just been nice and cozy.
Lovely.
Honestly, lovely.
But anyway, we're getting off in a minute, so we'll come back once we get off this train.
I think we're coming in now, I think.
Yes, we are.
We've just been through Headcorn.
Spunk corn.
Wow.
Wow.
You know what?
What a head corn made me think of.
That story I heard, no, it made me think of that story I heard about, maybe epigraphal,
but about someone having aneur, unprotected anal with their girlfriend,
and then having some kind of inflamed knob and then...
They were joined.
No, they had a little bit inside a corn on the cob.
Right, I'm moving on.
That's fine.
Yeah, good.
It was infected at the base of their peepee.
Do you think people want to hear that?
God pass was coming out there, wee hole.
Right, good.
Do you think...
Ha ha ha ha ha.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Shut up.
What are you...
Yeah, we're pulling into the station now.
Nowhere, by the way.
I'm getting antsy.
I'm getting anxiety because I'm...
You're going to press the button.
There's no button.
There is, is it.
I can't...
I can't...
I've got it.
Well, I'm doing it.
I've done it.
Yeah, no, that's it.
Here we are.
Say again?
One other person got off.
Yeah, no, let me just check where all my gubbins are.
Because I also want to take a picture of this platform as well,
because this is one of those platforms
that you expect the Harry Potter train to stop at, in it?
It's like that kind of old British out in the middle of nowhere,
railway station.
How's that look?
There's some wasteland just by the side of the station.
Yeah.
It looks like to be an old car park that's all overgrown.
Oh, my guts have suddenly started.
playing up. I don't know what's wrong. I've got like a curdling in my belly bolt.
I think you need to go to the loo? No, I just think I need to do a really cracking
big fart and then I'll be fine. Well I'm gonna go off up there. I've already done a few
on the train if I'm being honest. Well I didn't pick up on that. Good. I find
away from, uh, I don't know what? I just want to take a picture of the platform before we go
because look at it. It's kind of old-fashioned like the olden days. So here we are
Pluckley, Pluckley Station. Very quiet. Very quiet. Incredibly.
dead. Only one other person got off the train.
Stop, why is everything about your guts?
They can't hear it. The microphone's too far away. It won't pick anything up.
The only way they'll know is if you dob me in.
Oh, look, it's a little ticket office.
Waiting room. But there's like a nice leather couch and a little kind of fireplace.
I don't think you're allowed in here.
Yeah, it's a waiting room.
Yeah, but it looks like it's a waiting room for posh people.
It says way out when the ticket office is close.
It's the way out.
No, it's...
Well, all right, fine, but either way.
The toilets are there.
Well, we can't get in there either.
It's a very payable from station staff.
Well, we're not going there, are we?
Do you need to go?
No, yes.
So look, where we are on the map.
So we've travelled out here somewhere.
Seven, folks.
Ramsgate, Margate.
So we are somewhere here.
Can you see it?
Yeah, I'll find it at home.
Oh, oh, no.
I've got bad tummy all of a sudden.
You do?
It's really come on quite bad, bad style.
I can't fucking find it.
It's here, Canterbury East Chartham.
Chartham?
Charton.
Why West?
Pluckley.
There we are.
We're here right now.
There's here, Pluckley.
There we go.
Yeah, you take a little picture of that
because that's where we are.
So very much south east of London towards Ashley.
Towards Dover, really, when you think about it in Hastings.
It's that neck of the woods, isn't it?
Yeah, right out there.
It's the furthest of it.
No, it's not the first we've been out for an episode.
We went to fucking LA, you idiot.
Oh, that was a proper burble.
Oh, stop, guys.
Where is it again, guys?
Pluckley, next to head corn.
Remember?
Yes.
The shit up the urethra.
Gag.
Gag.
That's a real classic story that.
Bring that out.
Oh, I know, Sam.
I've got a little piece of sweet corn stuck down their knob.
What happened to their knob?
Did they get 30 and drop off?
got swollen. Now, shall we leave here
or do we go over the footbridge? Well, there are no
regular bus services serving Pluckley Railway
Station. It has no taxi rank or cab
office. So advanced booking is
important, so it just means we need to do a bit of
walking. We need to
basically
go
this way, Eli, he says, because we're not
going to the village. We're not going anywhere near
the village. The woods is over here.
So we're going to go along Chambers
Green Road or... There's no shops.
There's nothing. I thought they were...
I was hoping I could get a Red Bull.
You just had an atomic rat or whatever it was?
It's not an Lipo-V-Tan.
Atomic rat.
Where did you get that from?
That sounds like a 2000 AD cartoon.
Yeah, it is.
No, it isn't.
It was Strontium dog.
Atomic rat?
No.
Look, a little spider.
It's only got six legs.
Oh, no, there I steer the other two.
He was hiding them.
Anyway, there's a little spider.
I don't know what to do next.
So that's 10 minutes.
So judging by that, we're probably out of 20 minutes.
it walk away from actually
uh thing that seems but we should go get
into the village just to get some provisions
well no because we're going to have to go half an hour out to get to the village
and then come half an hour back in
well no there's some there must be a shop just here just there
just around here somewhere i bet you there isn't
can we just have a little two minute look over there okay
Eli's going to be disappointed i reckon so there's the station that's the
road so station road
dear.
I don't know why he's going that way.
I think we've got to go over that big bridge
because we're in a car park right now.
We're going to be spending the majority.
We're not going near Pluckley.
There's a few reasons why we're not going to Pluckley.
One is it's too far out in terms of the village.
And the second thing is, apparently,
the people who live around here
fucking hate people who come here looking for ghosts.
Really, I bet you can't you?
Because around the... I might be wrong.
Oh, I need to change.
this. Right. No, let's say it
and we'll see. Oh,
no, because I always ended up having to edit stuff out, but I think
like Pluckley was near where
that haunted house
that's just literally popped out of my
fucking head. Bawley Rectory.
Hawley. Bawley. But maybe
I'm wrong, actually. I'm feeling
quite bawly. Hang on.
Where was Bawley Rectory?
There's Bawley, Essex.
Well, that's not here. No, so it's not.
anywhere near anyway. At least we're fact-checking live. But here we are. And it's very
quiet. It's extremely quiet. I haven't seen another living soul since we left the station.
Apart from the man on the bridge clearing up the trash. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. On the bridge clearing up the rubbish. Rubbish. Trash. You keep, you're like,
where's the gate in the train station? Hey, buddy, how can I settle my bill?
They don't say that
They do
They say the cheque
You got that wrong
You got that wrong
There's a footpath that way
And there's a
footpath that way
But I think we need to go
We need to take one of those
Probably
Yeah maybe
Don't we
Probably that one
Going that way
Because at some point
Green sand way is that way
Yeah
The footpath is there
I bet that goes
towards the woods
But we need to check
No no
Because the woods
Are over in this
direction over that way
Well let's just
Can we just have a look
Around the corner
Yes
What is this place
Is this little hotel
or is this a...
Yeah, it looks like a pub, hotel thing.
House for all is no dog.
No children unless under 12 years.
No, it's a pub.
No children are under 12, not unless under 12 years.
No children that's their 12 years old.
This is the Daring Arms Free House,
but I don't know if it doesn't look like a pub.
Look at that old sign.
That is like a, it's a folk horror sign, isn't it?
Yeah.
See, it might be a pub because there's a no dog sign and everything.
But I also get the impression that this is one of those places
that don't like those people come around here, no, no, no, no, no.
There's no, no.
There are no shops.
So, we need to go this way if we're going to go to...
Do we want to walk along this station ride?
Well, we have to.
There's no pavement, though, is there?
So...
Oh, look, green sand way, there's been signposted.
So that must be like an official trail, as they say.
You know, like the capital ring.
Because, look, it's been signposted.
It has, but I don't know.
see if it will let's see what green sand way takes us to green sand way is a 108 mile so the green
sand way is a 108 mile long distance walking route in southeast London sorry in southeast England
running between holmeshire and surrey and ham street in kent follows the ridge of greens and rock
scenic trails through the surrey hills and kent down's area but i don't know if this will take us past
I don't know if this will take us past
the woods
because I honestly think this is not
this path's not going to take us by the woods
Okay, should we go back up over the station then?
Well, we need to go across that road
We need to go up and over the bridge
Well, but it's unsafe because there's no pavement
Let's go back on the station and cross the bridge there
That's a thought, yeah
If indeed we can do that
I'm sure we can.
Well, I'm thinking that it might be
be like the other platform is just where the other platform is and the bridge just takes you there
there's actually no other exit have a little look on google maps yeah yeah because i'm
yeah yeah so that's where we are right now right and we need to go over here so this uh walking
40 minute walk so okay actually yeah no we do i was right we have to go back that over the bridge
over this bridge yeah because look see if i point this way we're going that way so we're going
up and then we're going to go across and over and down and then we get there so it's
about a 40 minute walk, mate.
Seven minute drive.
Yeah, well, guess what option we don't have there?
I've got 48 minute walk on Google.
That's because you've got shorter legs,
so it's probably factoring in that time, isn't it?
It's not factoring in my leg.
It's probably like factoring in short-arse time.
How are you lie?
It's going to take a poor half an hour,
but it'll take you 55 minutes.
Shut up.
Because you're little, little potty legs.
We also need to remember, mate,
we need to get back here for the right time.
So we can't afford to dawdle.
We can't be too far out.
otherwise we get fucked.
What times our train?
820, 8.30.
We're going to be stuck here with no food and drink for fucking eight hours.
I mean, I've got drink, food.
You got food?
Yeah, I bought stuff.
Anyway, hang on.
Also, in the voice message I left to you the other day, I was like, oh, Eli, I'm going to grab this, this, this and this, right?
I've got hot water.
You're in charge of snacks and drinks, and so all you've brought is hot water.
And two gin and tonic cans.
And...
You see how that might be a problem.
and a pocketner-a-a-groni, and...
and...
...some gherkins.
And...
And...
I've got some sources. I've got hot sauce.
So nothing of any value?
I didn't know it'd be this fucking bad in terms of no shops.
Who are these people out here?
Villagers living a quiet sedate life,
away from the hustle and the bustle of a major city or town.
I need water, though.
well we'll just drink hot water
just drink it
is why do you
you just
yeah
look he's going to manufacture some conflict
no no I'm not
I'm just saying your planning is
traditionally
fucking awful
you never prepare
ever you just go rock up
whatever
I did prepare I've got loads of stuff
I've got the picnic blanket
I've got the hot water
yeah but you bought a picnic picnic
picnic blanket but no picnic
I thought there'd be
I stopped laughing at me.
I thought there'd be a shop.
There's nothing out here.
It's just a wood.
40 minutes away.
We're going to die out here.
Honestly, mate, I think that just takes to the other platform.
I don't think we need to...
I don't think we need to...
Investigate this anymore.
No, no, no, no, because I think it's just the other platform,
in it?
Let's have a little look.
See what I mean.
See, it's just going to take us to that platform.
which is the only way of hack is here
so we need to go over that bridge
we can walk out there we can walk out there
that just takes us to this side
that's any car park wasteland we can't get out that way
I'm just having a little look now
but honestly it just looks like
that guy's park there
but I don't think there's an access in
I mean there is a
no we can't because we can't get out through that gate
so no we've got to go and take the bridge
so desolate
mate I told you we're going somewhere
desolate today
But there's no, no shops, I'm starving.
I'm thirsty.
I'm going to die dehydration.
Well, we don't know that.
We won't see something on the other side of the bridge, all right?
You're right.
So how about you put your knickers back on?
No, it takes a shot.
It's beautiful day.
It is actually a beautiful day.
It's lovely.
Lazy, sunny.
Now, as ever, we have got the 360 camera,
and we will be doing little bits,
but this will not be an extensive 360 video.
So, uh, we're just going to film little bits.
I feel like you're talking in my head because it's so quiet.
It's still as fuck, ma'am.
Look down.
there's nothing there.
No, I know.
I know.
It's called not being in London.
There's loads of things like this
across the UK.
Look at that shed over there.
There's a couple of dead people in it.
It has that vibe.
It has a real horror vibe.
Shall we start making steps then?
Because we've been here.
Making steps?
Yeah, we've been here 50 minutes.
Start making steps.
Yes, start making steps.
That's a perfectly normal thing that people say.
Of course it is.
Yeah, let's start making steps.
Before I fucking crush you into some smarking on the road,
smacking.
Okay, you're right, though.
We're going to put this away for a bit.
A little bathtub.
Go sit, stand by that.
You really are like the dogging up, aren't you?
Christ.
Does he just say things he sees?
Yeah, squirrel.
It's that kind of thing.
Here I am.
Is that chives?
It looks like there's some chives in the bathtub.
Taste those chives.
No.
Catch pollen, rye.
What does it say?
Kent.
They made that bathtub?
Yeah, so it's a kent.
bath. Right mate.
The noise of the bath?
Oh, it would twang if it wasn't
filled with soil.
Taste those chives.
Let's just, can we just agree now that it's time to just
sit up, put our best foot forward?
Shall we do that if nothing else?
It's not making steps, man.
Yeah, let's put our best foot forward.
Right.
No way through. It's, no.
Like Pierre Ginn's, we've got to go around and about.
All right.
Careful, because there's no pavement on that.
mate I am abundantly aware of that.
No single file yeah.
Alright.
Anyway, yes, there will be an accompanying 360 video
but I'll not be an extensive one.
Just a little kind of video diary,
kind of fun as we do it kind of thing, all right?
So calm down.
Right, let's get over this bridge and then we'll figure out
where we're going next.
Right, so even though
we're going to the woods,
Pluckley is like a mile and a quarter that way.
So if you're interested,
Pluckley, a historic Kent village,
often sighted
Is that the church we can see there?
Yeah
Up that way
You see the church spire
coming up from the mist of Pluckley
I'll take a shot of that
Take a shot of that
Is that pluckly there?
It must be right?
It took that way
Yeah about a mile and a bit away
That looks like perfect
That must be Pluckley right
So that's really haunted church
It looks incredibly sort of gothic
Well we'll go into all the ghost's locations later
But
apparently it's England's most haunted village
It holds the 1989
Guinness World Record
For its reported 12 or 14th
14 ghosts, including a phantom coach, a highway man, and a red...
I'm telling them.
I'm telling them, because they're more important to me than you.
That guy who's coming right up here.
No fucking slowing down for pedestrians.
Well, they've probably never seen one up here.
No.
No, that's the right accent for this part of the world.
Captain Curis's accent.
Oh, shit.
Anyway, look, it's a haunted village.
Right.
And the Guinness World Record book in 1989 awarded it Most Haunted Village,
which, you know what?
I got fucks me off.
Because like with most world records, there's some kind of imperial measurement of success.
Yeah.
But ghosts don't exist.
So how can you possibly get...
Yeah.
I can just go, oh, my street's got 20 ghosts on.
Oh, now I've got the Guinness Book of World Record.
Anyway, there is a...
But also, the Guinness Organisation...
are fucking evil cunts.
And it's not just that they don't give a lot of fuck.
They're actively cunts.
Yeah, you have to pay for whatever.
Yeah, so some cunt paid for it, basically, didn't they?
Yeah.
Just because they wanted to attract.
The town of Plutliolet all got together and went,
here's a couple of Bob Guinness.
Yeah, yeah, why not?
And if anyone said they got more ghosts, you fucking fuck off.
They have a phantom coach, a highway man and a red lady.
Also, it's a filming location for the TV series Darling Buds of May.
and features picturesque oast houses
of 14th century church
and the daring widows
The screaming woods though
is where we're going
Daring widows
Daring widows
Wendows yeah
Windows windows
Windows
Daring windows
See me by the body heat
Dairy windows
The Screaming Woods is where we're going to
Or more famously
Daring Woods
It's famous for a report of
Daring.
Daring woods.
It's daring.
But it's only one R.
Daring woods.
Daring woods.
I would say it's probably daring.
You might be right, but there's only one R.
Anyway, it's reportedly famous for blood curdling screams, Eli.
I'd love to hear that.
If you don't lube up,
because if you don't lube up tonight,
Gannon's going to be making a parallel.
Is that really?
Is that really?
Is that really?
Gannon's going to make some phallic normal,
uh, uh, paranormal.
Oh, fuck.
Fuck my brain.
Fuck you, brain.
I've looked after you.
Dangle normal,
dangle normal activity.
A dangle, homosexual activity.
Oh, fuck it.
Regret it.
Are those daffodils?
Yes.
They're coming out.
It's very spring-like today.
Spring is coming a little bit early,
even though it's been a really wet winter,
isn't it?
Well, the wet probably helps with the flowers,
doesn't it?
It's the cold.
cold that kills the flowers.
Anyway, the Daring family was a big name around Pluckley back in the day.
I'm sure, because they're everywhere.
Well, this is, it was because the thing is with, with, like, villages like this,
is that they were quite important for kind of big families to establish properties
and their legacy as a rich family.
Yeah.
You know, because you're making your money through city work, you know,
whether that's like slavery or corn or you run the docks,
you build ships, but then when you make your money, you come out of London and you build a big
mansion somewhere in a town like this. But as a result, like for instance, the Archibishop of Canterby
once owned all of Pluckley. I did that? Yeah. And it became, it's just one of these little
villages that you see a lot of where they become really important to those families who are becoming
you know, like Nouveau-reach. Like the royal families, the royalty of the UK was breaking up and so
more people were making their money and becoming lords and ladies by self-proclaiming that they were, right?
And building a big fucking house and saying, look, look who we know and how much money we've got.
But then, obviously, as the years go on and you roll into the 1900s, all those families start losing their money, whatever, lots of nerd-de-well stories who fritted their cash away from previous generations hard work.
And then you get haunted houses effectively out the back of that.
Right. So that's sort of the process. And then a cynical person might say,
And then you get the haunted houses because these families no longer have the generational wealth.
They're down on their luck.
So they need something to attract people to put it back on the map to make money.
You know, it's what I'm getting at.
The hauntings arise because people want to make money.
And people would argue, oh, that's a new thing, really, with the birth of Most Haunted and those kind of shows and paranormal tourists.
But no, it was going back to like the 1920s, 1930s, early late 1800s, where you've got basically these scam artists.
Well, you've got people who did.
inherit these houses or marry into these houses that were once beautiful but now run down,
shit, out of date. And so they would have to make their own kind of entertainment. And part of that
was the rising job of spiritualism. So you marry that with your house. You add legacy, you add history,
you add a story to it. It's all part of like the identity of like preserving your wealth and
identity. Yes. And so would you say that the rise of spiritualism in the late 1800s really was
The real forefather two things like Most Haunted
and the ghost hunting sort of content we get online now.
I mean, ish, effectively, yeah,
because spiritualism and things of that ilk
always blossom after financial disasters in the country or war.
First World War must have been a big thing then.
Or the Boer War.
There's also another one, you know,
where we're sending hundreds of young people out to die.
That's where the Brits invented concentration camps, isn't it?
Is it?
Yeah.
Well, I'm glad we invented something of worth.
So anyway, a village like Pluckley, to reduce it down to the basics,
it's prime for ghost stories because of its association with like landowning
and building houses and, you know, village history and legacy and characters.
I just don't know why, out of all the places in the UK,
Pluckley was plucked out of the areas being the most haunted.
It just seems like a bit random.
Well, we won't see, but perhaps it's got that look, you know.
Oh, mate, we've got coal, charcoal gas logs, kind of.
Maybe this is a place here where you can buy a thing.
No, you can only buy types of fuel to burn and no red bull to fuel me.
I thought it might have been a little, you know, like a garden centre with like...
Is there a shop? No.
They sell colour gas?
Yeah. Do you think you could squirt that down my throat and it would keep me going?
Wow.
no I think it would kill you
and then I'd have to carry you
and this bag of shit with me
and my bag of shit
I'd leave my bag of shit
wouldn't you
I know yeah I would
I'd leave you in a ditch
everyone just think it was
a natural end to an obvious end to your life
a natural and obvious end to my life
how nice of you
of course Eli was going to be found in a ditch
it was written in the stars
anyway we went the wrong way at the start
anyway so now we had to backtrack
so here we are we're backtracking
and we're still
Let me say we went the wrong way.
Just take a little blame.
See, we're...
I need a piss.
We're 29 minutes away.
We can't even cut across the field.
If you could cut across that way,
it could take 10 minutes off,
but it's all private land and shit.
No, there's no footpath.
Oh, look, there's a footpath.
Do you think that's going to go the right way?
No.
If anything.
Can I just go in there and piss, though?
I mean, you could, mate, you can potentially piss anywhere you like.
I'm just going to pop in there, though.
All right, well, then go ahead and do that.
The odds are good that no one will see you,
apart from the people live in that house with open windows
who might be staring at you right now.
That's the only thing I can think of.
Also, that path looks, again, blocked off.
It does, and that's a kind of stye, type of stye.
It feels like it's like, here's all these footpaths.
Good fucking luck being allowed to use them.
Well, that's a big issue in Britain at the moment, isn't it?
Right to ramble and all of that.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Anyway, I just want to look at this thing.
There could be cows,
Careful of cows. There's a cow sign.
In the county of Kent, in southern England, you'll find the Pictress village of Pluckley.
Even the town itself is pretty meaningless.
It's a bit harsh.
It is much loved by tourists, especially by ghost hunters.
Pluckley has a high ghost density of at least 12.
Yeah, we've read all this.
What about the woods?
People who have seen ghosts in the village as well as in the woods.
The woods are originally called Daring Woods.
Daring.
named after the village's most important residents, the Daring family, interestingly,
spelt with two oz.
Oh, the family has two oz?
Yeah, but the wood has one.
Weird.
I knew I thought it saw the...
Continent economy, isn't it?
No.
What?
Consonant economy.
Don't need the extra R, do you?
Okay.
You don't.
Anyway, throughout the years, the woods have been called the screaming woods, for the people of Pluckley would hear screams coming from the woods at night.
They claim it's from people who got lost there through the centuries.
A long time ago, a man who dug clay pits for the brick factory got buried under a large pile of clay.
He was buried alive in his own freshly dug pit.
And apparently it could be his blood-curdling screams that you hear to this day.
The woods are also the stage of a brutal murder of a robber.
He was probably killed by other criminals while fleeing into the woods on his horse.
when he saw a hollow tree trunk
he hid there hoping his horse
would return home as horses
normally do but his horse
stayed there and revealed
him to his attackers
that's proper Tudo
anyway
they saw he was hiding
and then one of the
Anacres
where's Eli to laugh at that
Eli you missed that
I was meant to say
attackers but the word actually came out as
Anacres
There you go, got gild.
Anyway, the man was stabbed in the woods
and his spirit
is seen there.
And then another woman was the mistress
of some daring men.
She might have been fed up with the love triangle
and drank poison and then went into the woods
to die.
The red lady has still seen wandering around.
What's this? Churches and cemeteries are known to attract spirits.
The church of St. Nicholas has a few.
The who would be going anywhere near there,
unfortunately.
but I've got some more printouts and stuff
so you know
we'll reveal more about the ghosts of Pluckley later
as well as our price of shite once we get to the fucking woods
Christ
by the time we get there we're going to have to turn back
Christ
I didn't expect it to be hot today I've got four layers on
I'm fucking sweating my tith off
I knew that would happen
just have to say I knew that would happen
well done you we're going to
I think we're in the throat
Oh, I've pooed.
Have I?
Oh no, it's just a fabric of my boxes.
I thought I'd pooed them.
Anyway, God.
Going well, everyone.
I go to the end of this street
and we turn left
and then go down that way a bit.
There's an oast house.
Oh, is that one what they look like that?
That's an oast house.
What do you do?
They put oats?
Yeah, I guess.
Why don't they spell it properly then?
Uh, I think you were.
I don't know.
Are we looking at a host house?
Why has it got a weird, wonky steeple?
I don't know.
Cool, huh?
It is cool.
I like him.
Cool looking host house.
On the Oest House, Alan Partridge.
Was he in a converted Oest House?
Yeah.
That's where he made it.
This where he makes his podcast from, yeah.
From the Oest House.
Right, okay, we're off.
Will we find a shop?
Will we get to the woods within the hour?
Otherwise, we'll probably have to leave around six.
30 to make sure we get here for the train home.
Anyway, we'll figure it out.
We're off on a spooky walk and when we get settled,
I'll bring out the first price of shite eye to me.
How about that?
Okay, cool.
All right, cool.
And we might go to lapel mics as well
when we get to the woods and do it that way from there at this point on.
I like lapel mics.
Mike's such a great guy.
And with the lapels, they're just so entertaining.
You go, there you go, hello, I'll have this with the usual.
And they go, and then Mike comes out.
No.
And he's got huge lapels.
And that's why they call it lapel mics,
because he's known as lapel mic.
Because it's just like, wow, big lapel.
No.
I mean, he's got massive...
Stop this.
Massive lapels.
Lapels, lapels.
Oh, the bells.
Oh, the bells.
I'm fucking knackered as far.
I know, we're knackered.
We've fucking just walked up the road a bit.
I've got a big bag on,
a fucking heavy, thick coat,
thinking it was going to piss down to me cold today.
and now I've got to be some civilisation there's literally not a pluckley farm shop there it's not shut it's
it's not open it's not I have antiques there as well but I ain't gonna work for us
right take a left here you think I think for the next half an hour or so we're just gonna be
dodging cars on a main road as we fucking try and get out of here or it's gonna be good walking
back in the dark isn't it well I've got a big torch well so I'm not too bothered about that
I bought a new torch and it's fucking boss
Yeah, it's top boss.
Hi, Lumens.
Mate, the Pluckley Farm Shop is open.
Is it?
A woman just came out and she's in their car.
Now she's looking at us because she don't...
They don't like...
Do you think they have drinks in there?
Maybe.
Oh, let's check.
Pop in?
Right, we're going to go to the shop.
I'm going to get off the road.
All right.
Perfect time for a little break.
Right.
Okay, Paul.
Yeah.
What's the state of play?
I need you to...
I need you to adult now.
Because I'm feeling a little bit child.
So I'd like you to do a little bit of what...
you I deserve from you okay and daddy it up and tell me what's going on because we're by a quarry
it's fucking fucking getting cold it's getting dark I'm getting massive evil dead vibes from the trees
and I'm not into this that's what I'm saying I tired I've had something to smoke and now I feel
all freaked out and I'm having a wait and if you think about it life just is pain isn't it
all right life is suffering son let
Daddy protect you. Okay, yes.
Daddy will protect you because Daddy's got a plan.
What's the plan, man? Have you looked at the...
We are. I mean, we're literally facing the woods, but from where we are, we can't get to them.
There's a path up there which might potentially take us to the woods.
If not, we've got to go back the way we came and go round.
Let's try that way then.
Because that's potentially closer, isn't it?
Hopefully.
But judging by the map, it could be this private property, but maybe there's a gate between the houses that take us up there.
Can I just say, I'm sorry I spent so much of your actual money.
on this massive bottle of apple juice.
Yeah, Eli went to the farm shop
and paid like 20 pounds for some glass of fucking.
It's 420.
What's it called?
420.
420, yo.
Yeah, 420, yo.
What's it called?
Forskin.
Oh, no, Duskin.
I thought it said Forskin.
You think everything, says Forskin.
Duskin, single variety, English apple juice.
This is the good stuff.
Cox.
Me?
Yeah, cox.
Cocks.
Cocks apples.
No, I thought, why weren't the quarry?
Pluckly Quarry, danger, deep water, safety helmets and high visibility clothing must be worn beyond this point.
Do you see there's a bit of tape over the bottom of the sign and you know what it's covering?
In a case of an emergency please call and they used to be a number but now there's no number.
They've redacted it with a big piece of tape.
So if you go in there and you have an accent, you are fucked but also CCTV cameras so they can laugh at you while you die.
But before we got going, I thought why not since we're into the episode and this is part one of two, hopefully.
Let's get the price of shite going.
All right, but you have a pen and paper?
Write it on your phone.
There's only four items.
I've got pen and paper.
Oh, I don't like beepy, beepy, man.
That was fucking Texas Chainsville massacre shit.
They're beeping us.
That's like the hitchhiker.
I don't want to have old pitties, old young fish is coming out of the country.
Yeah.
He saw your mic.
They're going to come around.
Oh, they have.
They've stopped.
They've turned around.
Shut up.
No, this is a stupid cat.
Yeah, I know.
I'm just a little stinker
You literally can't act for shit, can you?
It's weird
How often have I said that out loud though
acknowledging that fact?
No, no, I wasn't having a go.
I wasn't having a go.
I just found it quite amazing
how you couldn't just go
Oh, they're turning around
You couldn't do it flat, you know what I mean?
Oh no mate, they're coming round
No, they really are this time
They really are, look
It's coming round
No, it's coming back
As if it was me
Do it as if it was me
That's if you were me.
I've shot my pants.
I've shot him.
I love that.
That'll never grow old for me.
Get a pen and paper.
I'm going to give you your first item for the price of shite whilst we're here, all right?
Because we have a finale price of shite item, which I'm excited to show you.
Do you have room for these two gins in your bag?
No.
This bag is full of equipment that I don't want to put liquid anywhere near if that's all right.
Right?
Right.
It's bad enough I've got my flask near my camera.
don't like that at all.
I've got ice in there.
That's nice.
Ice in your Yetty mug.
Yeah.
Nice.
Right, so I've got a few items.
Let me pull the first one out.
Oh, God.
About to do this.
It's the cheap book.
Look at that.
Stick on the back.
Cheerful.
Oh, nice.
That's the notebook.
This one's not the best one.
So,
don't worry about this one being shit.
It was one of those.
I need four items,
so I'll grab this.
Here is your first item on.
Hang on my good.
I've never got the pen yet.
I've done the theme tune. I had to do this right.
It's the walkabout price of shite.
It's the walkabout price of shite.
It's that walkabout price of shite.
Oh, the walkabout price of shite.
Walk about, walk about, walk about.
That's right.
That's right.
And we have four items, three of which I bought in Ryslip High Street, I think it is.
Why is that funny?
Why is that funny?
I just High Slip, High Slip, High Slipe, High Slipe, High Slipe.
That was going to be that funny.
High Street.
High Street.
Rice-lip High Street.
Right.
Did not expect...
Those weird echo rhymes.
They really get me.
High Street.
Race-lip High Street.
Rice-lip High Street.
Rice cake.
I bought a rice cake on Rice-up High Street.
Right.
So...
There were four items.
I've gone mad.
You have.
One of which I got in...
Um...
Kentish Town.
So one was in Kentish Town
and three were from Ryslip High Street.
I'm not even sure
I'm not even sure if Ryslip has a High Street
but it was not too far away
from where the Lido was.
It does.
I mean it's a bit like
rural around there as well
anyway there's like five charity shops
on that road so I went there
because I don't usually get to go.
So this first item is not the best one
I'll be honest with you
and even though it's a little game
we probably won't play it
maybe I'll save it for another future
cheap shots video
but here's your first item Mr. Silverman
I have recorded the prices.
And is there a quid's gambit?
Yes.
One of these items was a quid.
One of these items was a quid.
Yes, actually, well done for reminding me.
I would have forgotten that.
Now, ladies and gentlemen, as you may be aware,
the pointing system on this is,
if you get the price exactly right,
you're going to get two betwings.
That's our points scoring system, a betwiang.
And for guessing the price correctly,
you get two of them.
However, if you're out, 25P higher or lower
of the actual price,
you'll get one between, which I think is a fair trade-off.
Close but no cigar, but a betwiang in the back pocket.
So with that being said, Eli, what is the first item I just gave you?
You have given me a mint on card.
Very mint.
Very new-looking.
Pass the pigs set.
These, if you don't know, everyone, are a novelty dice
where the dice are little figurines of pigs.
Is that right? Is that what you'd say?
And so you roll them, as you would,
conventional dice.
And then you can get
different points depending on
how the two
end their role. So,
for example, the leaning jowler.
15 points. That's the best possible you can have.
I gave her a leaning yowler or whatever it's called.
Leaning jowler. The leaning jowler
is like a pig who's up on its snout, one
ear and one leg.
That's a big boy. A snouter,
that's just on its nose, 10 points.
Double 40 points
Oh you see
They're both if you get
If they're both on their side
Yeah
It's just one point
One point
Making bacon
Back to zero
They're touching
It looks like they're having pig sex
Really?
Making bacon back to zero it says
I thought that'd be a good one
Mix combo
You can have a mix combo
You can have a mixed grill
Yeah
You can have some fucking
Anyway
We used to play this
At boarding school
Did you?
Yeah
Did you?
That wasn't a euphemism
before what you actually got to at Borderswooders.
Oh, me and my best mate, Timmy boy,
we're going to play past the pigs.
Oh, oh, he gave me a leaning yowler.
It's quite fun and unique.
I can't think of any...
Why has it got tough pigs on it?
Because they're pigs, capitalist pigs, aren't they?
Yeah, that's a good point.
They're capitalist pigs.
I've never thought about that before.
Past the pigs?
Past the pigs.
I don't know.
I've never even seen that artwork before,
but wouldn't you say?
They've got bow ties and tuxedos.
and top hats.
Those are the rich guy for Monopoly or whatever, isn't it?
Except he didn't have a Monocle.
Monocle.
Monopoly.
Wait, he doesn't, does he?
Mr. Moneybags or whatever his name is.
Mandela things.
Pass the pigs and it's in a very fetching plastic carrying case.
And I bet that if we look inside that
it will have a little pad, score pad in there, Paul.
And that's a kind of detailing I really like on these games.
Now, I'm getting there.
You be careful fishing out your pigs.
Yeah, got it out.
Nice.
A bit too much box for what you buy, if you ask me,
but it's nicely presented.
How does this open now?
I don't know.
I think it comes with a scorecard and pencils inside.
I like that and I want to see it.
All right, I'm not going to stop you from doing it,
but it is getting dark.
I don't want to spend 25 minutes of you trying to open up past the pigs.
How does it open, though?
Oh, there it is.
He simply has to pull it to one side and it slid open.
Come in, you've got the little plastic covers still on the pigs, man.
Rule book, pre-sharpened, bookies pencils.
And a little score.
Eerie little school pad.
I love this.
And it all fits in.
I love this item.
I honestly thought I'd get this out and you'd be like,
oh, for fuck's sake, Paul, this.
What a load of shit?
I don't know Pastor Pigs.
Yeah, he knows Pasta Pigs from his board and school days.
No?
I've never played it.
That's why I'm thinking maybe we could do it as a cheap shot.
You know what I mean?
We can play past the pigs as a cheap shot.
And then we can play past the pig.
And then we can play dick in mouth, dick in mouth.
Snouter.
I gave Eli a proper snouter.
I gave me a leaning jowler with my snouter.
Oh, I gave him a pig cock up the bum.
Sound really travels when we're out in the middle of nowhere.
Anyway, look, Eli, that is your first item, past the pigs.
This is the one I got.
in Reisle Pie Street.
In a shop, though.
What kind of shop?
A charity shop.
It's going to be either St. Luke's.
Oh, God, what's going to look?
All aboard, I think, was...
250.
He's saying 250.
Oh, can I give you a ceiling?
Would you like a ceiling?
Let me just give me a quick moment of math in my head.
The church in Pluckley over there
is sort of glowing in the looming,
in the glooming, looming.
Isn't it?
You can see why there's like,
haunted why people thought it was haunted around here right i'll tell you this right now before i
forget because i've just done the mental math all together and there's not i'm not going to give
you a rough estimate i'm going to tell you altogether 10 pounds and 50 pence on across these four items
the actual ceiling yeah 10 pounds 50 pence of four items are we playing 25 p either way yeah yeah
this is a nice thing this is a nice thing and this is at least like a 10 and a number
At least, I'm thinking like 11, 12, and it is new.
I mean, it's brand, brand new.
In fact, one of the other items in here today, the final item,
although it's not in its box when I bought it, it was mint in box.
I just left the box at home because it was too big,
but basically it would never been open this thing.
This is 100% mint.
And what is more?
It is a current addition, because it has a mobile phone app,
and it has an advert for, oh my God, pass the pass the page.
There's another game called Past the Pugs, mate.
A doggy version.
This was unique.
They've got a dog version.
And there's another version on the other side.
Those dogs aren't even dressed up.
They're just pug.
They're just pug dogs.
I want capitalist dogs.
I want capitalists.
I want something like the evil.
No, they have to be skinheads or something.
I don't know.
And there's another one on the other side.
If you look as well, look at the other one.
Yeah, that's what I was going to mention because I saw that.
That's giant past the pigs.
So two big inflatable ones.
That's not going to be as fun, is it?
It might be a bit of fun.
Too big inflatable ones.
Well, pigs.
You can play Twister and that.
And you could fuck them.
And you try and fuck a pig as it comes by.
Twist a fuck a pig.
Twist a fuck a pig game.
M.B games for all the family.
Hello.
Join us in Rice Lipp High Street for fuck a pig through the air twister game.
Fuck a twister pig.
I've ruled up my knob, spurty, spurtie.
Hey, stop going, right?
Your knob.
Honestly, it's such a kind of narrow, fucking alley for you to mind for comedy.
I'm so unhappy, though, and I just want to laugh.
When I say normal, whatever, you know what I mean?
All right. Well, listen, how much do you think that was?
I'm 250, did you say?
All right, fine.
Write that down.
I can't believe it was much less than that.
Is what I'm saying, because it's at least a 12 quid in Target in America or whatever.
If it was, I don't even think they've got it.
They might have it in Target.
You like in this content?
Not really.
That's your first item.
Three more to go.
And we'll do that.
We'll do the next one once we get into the woods now.
Put the past the pigs away.
I'm going to do that now.
Right, we're going to get backed up and we're going to walk on and hopefully we'll find our entrance to the woods
because it is getting dark all of a sudden now, isn't it?
God he is and we're going to get stranded out here on these treacherous roads with no pavement after dark.
Got a torch.
Oh, Big Daddy Paul's got his big torch.
He'll get out, swing it around.
That's not going to save me from getting smashed down by a dick in a Ford Cortina.
Is it?
Is it?
Better than getting smashed up by a dickhead called Ford in the back of his courtina with his dick.
Oh my God.
In your mouth.
Snout, snout.
Whatever.
You can do it.
Oh, yeah, when you do it as me.
All right, I'll do it as you.
Snouty knobgob.
Snouty knobgob, wanky woo.
You're right.
It's hard to get the magic down with you, isn't it?
Right, let's get going.
All right, everybody.
Can I say about my pen, though?
Quick.
It's really good.
Thank you.
It's got a grip.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
It's got a grip and a little,
see-through...
Oh, he's thrown it away.
You are mean.
I just want to get this done with.
Why he's off to get his pen.
We're going to set off for a walk.
All right, let's crack on.
Meaning.
Right, so we're now back at the farm shop.
We've wasted literally an hour going up a road
and then back down a road.
So Eli, because of his short stature
and a short leg length,
He is a little bit behind me
So I just thought I'd do a little catch-up
In that our cool trip to pluckley
Scary Screaming Woods
Has so far been mostly walking up one road
And back
Oh, there's sheep in that van
They're off to the slaughter
Or maybe they're going to be made into lovely jumpers
It could be one or the other
Could be jumpers first
And then chops
This big SUV went past me with a family right
I don't know if you saw it, big black SVV
full of ginger kids
and when they drove past
they all stirred at me and pointed
and the single most like haunting image
I've seen in a while
like a bunch of pale ginger kids
pointing at you were gassed as if to say
why mother there was a stranger in the village
I saw some sheep
I saw those sheep
in the back of the thing
yeah I was just saying
so yeah so we're going to call it a day yeah
we're not calling it a day we've gone up the road
and then back.
We've gone to the, we've gone to a quarry in back.
It's boiling hot.
I know.
I know.
And all the towns are just weird.
Smod and Biddleden.
Charing, that's all right.
That's that way, isn't it?
We're not going back that way.
We're going up this way.
And we're going to then take a left at this T-junction and then go round and then find a fucking exit.
Well, I don't know.
When I read the thing on the website about this,
this guy who walked to Daring Woods.
He was like, it's a short walk from the station.
We've been out 90 minutes.
Yeah, that's about 1850s.
No, it was like, it was a blog he posted like six months ago.
He's a dick.
He's not.
He said it was a short walk from the station.
This is the closest station.
I did the maths on this.
It is the closest station.
The other one was like a two and a half hour walk
and they don't have bus routes.
As it stands, this is still a bit of fucking two and a half hour walk.
So I believe we take a left at this junction
I'm not calling you an ambulance
What do you find
Obsession Night for Men Kelvin Klein
Where do you find that? On the road
Do you want to smell it up? No, don't pick it up
There's a truck coming
Why? Why? Make me smell nice
Wait, not one not
I mean fine but you don't know that it's not
I'll smell it
It's very faint, but it's there.
Oh, that's not faint, that's hardcore.
It's perfectly good cologne, Nat.
And it's for men?
It says for...
No, I'm not...
No, I'm just too.
You're really concerned with that?
No, I was just...
Paul's very...
Don't be putting lipstick on, Eli.
I'll put lipstick on, yeah?
Exactly, you dickhead.
I didn't... I just wanted to know.
Oh, yeah.
Because I didn't know if the flavour profile of the scent
of design for women or men,
and I was a bit confused.
As it seemed a little bit either or there.
It's obsession.
Subsession for men.
Yeah, but it's the night one.
It's even more spicy.
No, for Le Mour.
Sexy night time.
Le Mour.
It's like obsession, electric blue.
Right, Egerton.
Two and a half miles.
I think we've got to go that way.
Getting the map out again.
Oh, no pavement around here.
Yes, it is this way.
Fuck's sake.
We go up this Rose Farm Road.
With no pavement again.
pavement there's a very good chance one of us will be hit by a truck I can
safely say I wish I'd learned to drive well I wish I'd got my full license
proper is what I'm saying because then I wouldn't have to walk around bloody
gobble gook land would I it's a lovely cottage there is some lovely it has to
be said although I'm tired and we've only really gotten going and we haven't
really got anywhere I don't think you think this is
end of part one of two episodes yet. It's beautiful. Well, I think we should both put on some
obsession by night and down that Nogroni in those things and just get some magic going, you know.
Get some of the old magic going, you know. Get some of that love, love action, you know.
Get fucking, get out there, get loose, get in the mud. Yeah, yeah? You want to pack some shit with me.
Is that what you're saying? Don't do that. Like Hawkeye, like Hawkeye used to say, let's pack shit.
Hey? No one gets that. All people who watch one.
one channel on YouTube who watched that one particular episode that we both happen to watch
may get the reference.
Yeah, that's good, isn't it?
But until then, out of context...
I speak in universals, in generalities, in timeless truths.
In that case, would you like to come to the depot at the candy factory and help me
get a truck and then pack some fudge?
What about that?
Anything misconstrued there?
Hey?
What about this? How about this? There's a hill over there. You see that hill over there?
Very steep. How about we put some fucking roses down and do some uphill gardening together?
How about that? How about that?
You see that lamp post there? How about I just with my thumbs pull your bum cheeks apart and fuck up the ass?
Christ.
Well, yeah, I got older.
No, but your sort of humour, it's always like that.
It's always been shit, yes. It's like when we did that mini-discuit.
episode with my clips on. Same shit. Different age.
Look at what's all this? There's a treehouse and a buddice head.
It's cool, isn't it? It's lovely. Yeah, this is what happens when rich people get property.
They fill it full of nonsense. A buddice is head.
Pictures on Instagram. Pictures on our website.
For chiefsaw.com.com. UK, there will be a page dedicated to this.
And next week's episode there. I really hope we get two episodes out of this.
Because... Well, if you didn't drag behind...
I'm taking pictures of stuff for us.
For us.
For both of us.
Yeah?
For the episode.
They're going to call the police on us.
Two mad little men running around barking.
Well, where's this fucking wood?
Nowhere.
Here to our left, but we just can't get into it because all the houses are in the way.
We can't do this.
We have to call it off.
See, there's a road there.
We're going to go left again.
We're not calling this off.
It's already a three-hour conversation.
All right.
You know what's going to happen then?
You have to come back to mine tomorrow.
We have to record an episode that we have to pull out of our ass because you're going to America.
So we can either eke this out
or you can come to mine tomorrow
to make another fucking stupid episode.
This is a bit behind the...
What's that show that they always refer to?
What show?
Behind the beef curtains or whatever.
Yeah, behind it when they say...
Pull the curtains back.
No.
See how the sausages made?
No.
Reveal the truth.
There was one show
and they always use it as shorthand
to mean that we're talking shop,
that we're talking shop.
How about we just say we're talking shop?
I like to think Cheap Show is an open, creative book to those who listen.
They want to know the ups and downs of putting out an award-winning comedy podcast.
We're getting two behind the music.
Oh, a wooden cottage.
Old Rose House.
There's roses as well around the entrance.
Do you think you're on the TV show catchphrase?
I like it.
Do you have in your head like an Irishman is going,
say what you see?
Because that's what it sounds like to me.
I regret this episode now.
Say what you see, yeah?
A fucking old fat hack,
can't.
That's strange.
I don't see a mirror anywhere around here.
I said you are.
Oh, God.
This is a bad episode.
This is a bad walk-about episode.
Jesus.
I'm sorry if you listen to this.
Because it might be like if there's any good...
Because it's like, this is part one.
And part one is all set up, in it?
And next week's going to be all the payoff.
where we're in the spooky wood
I don't know if we're going to get there today
I hope so
we've hit some kind of crossroads
down
down do do do do do
do do do do
do do do
Pluckily's still one mile away
Charing is 40
Is it funny charing
because then we started at Charing Cross
and now we're here at Charing
Smarden
The Pether's done
Is this road called the Pinnock?
The Pinnock, yeah.
Oh, there's a sign for something there.
And a big fucking truck.
Kinnic Bridge.
I don't see no bridge.
Right, I'm going to check this map again.
Oh, where are they going?
So basically we go up that way now
and at some point there should be an entrance
to the woods along this road.
Allegedly.
This isn't working out for me, this, is it, really?
I told you, we should have called it off then.
Well, then we have no episodes.
No, we need to just sit somewhere as soon as possible
and do the rest of the episodes.
What, in one plate and then get back on the train?
Yeah, basically.
Without doing any goat stuff,
without doing any environmental investigation.
We're not even going to Pluckley Village,
which is the haunted bit.
I know.
So you didn't think this out?
I did.
I just didn't think this would be so many boundaries.
between the idea and then getting into the wood.
Well, that's what it just becomes about.
A Beckett-esque ramble in futility.
Hey, that's good.
Hey, everyone, if you listen,
this has all been a big Beckett type thing,
and it will continue to be now.
Just for the record, for the next episode and a half.
This is a Beckett-themed podcast.
We're on Pinick Bridge, and you're a Pillock.
Hey, everybody!
Hey, here's a good one.
We're on Pinnick Bridge,
and you're fucking short-ass-cunton.
Oh, Paul.
Come on.
Let's keep trucking.
We'll see you if we find anything.
Right, I think we've finally found an entrance to Daring Wood.
It's on the corner at this junction.
You know what?
That's not the entrance.
Because that isn't a corner.
That's here.
We're there.
That's what I said.
We're not there.
No, I know.
I said that.
Because I said that's the junction.
So what's this entrance saying?
Well, that's the pathway I think.
We're still not at the entrance.
You said.
No, but we're at an entrance.
right? You would agree with me on that that we're on a fucking entrance.
I would agree with you on that, yes.
Stop fighting me every step of this.
Just go loose.
Enjoy it, please.
Oh my God. He actually cracked everybody. That was funny.
Come on, I'm with you. I just, I'm going to take on some fluid and
I need some chocolate. I need some energy after that walk, man, I'm telling you.
Okay?
fine we can go in the tractor go to be a look what that man in the look as if to say rubby
work later and take your inids out with my outwards how about it?
I hate me I'm date this episode but there's another wood over there for sale woodlands
for sale woodlands.co.uk if you want to buy a wood but there was some kind of big sign with a
chainsaw buzzblade or whatever they call it on the fence and it was very off-putting next to a
sign saying danger shooting
we'll shoot you or something.
Should we do prices strike too here?
No.
I'll get into the woods a little bit first before we do that.
So there's like a yellow trail.
Follow the yellow route for a longer walk through Daring's ancient woodland,
passing through areas of Hornbeam and Oak High Forest
and crossing over the King George Star Junction.
Boundaries.
No, boundaries, ditches and banks can be seen doing the public right-of-way route.
There is a white route, but it's like tiny.
It's like a 10 minute route.
But at least we're in here now.
And that's the main thing.
Did you buy chocolate?
Or was that chocolate you brought?
I brought it.
Oh, fine.
Must do you want to just put the whole fucking bar in your mouth?
Like it's nothing.
You really are like an old man now.
I've seen you age over the course of this podcast from like fiery young upstart to old hag.
dead inside man, are you?
No.
Now you got so much chocolate on your teeth,
it looks like someone's shat in your mouth.
You've fucking got a shit grin.
You've got a proper fucking shit mouth grin going on.
Oh, look he like, oh, mommy, what did you see in the woods?
I saw a man with a shit grin.
An old haggard, dead inside, fucking macro tramp.
Mmm.
Oh, that's better.
Oh, yeah, good.
That's nice.
Good, no, I'm glad.
Have some.
I've got me nice coffee.
I might have a bit of coffee.
We're literally right at a gate.
There's a junction with a road sign and there's taxi.
Taxi went past.
But we're in the woods now.
The thing is, I've lost track of how long this episode's gone on.
And I don't know when to put in a, or see you next week.
What's that? Pickle. I'll have a pickle.
You will? Yeah.
Oh mate, you surprise me sometimes.
These are fresh.
Bha-!
You're right, I'm surprised him sometimes.
He's being a real weirdo. Are you going to eat these?
Yeah, I'll have a pickle.
Smell these. These are great.
Yeah, that's a good pickle. I'll have one.
It's firm.
Yeah. That's a good pickle, that.
I also need a bit of energy, if I'm being honest.
Yeah. Yeah.
Mmm.
Pickle in the woods, eh?
How about that?
Me and Eli, pickle in the woods.
I'll just say this.
This week's episode will be split into two parts,
but I don't know when,
so at some point this episode will just end,
and then next week we'll carry on
as if nothing has happened.
But wouldn't it be a good point now
before we actually enter the wood
to end the first episode?
Because I need to do at least one more price
to shite with you?
Yeah, but not right now
because I've got pickle in my mouth.
I can't do pickle and chocolate.
mix. I could do both. Can you? Yeah. I've always been like that.
Have you? Yeah, I think it's to do with my super taste of status. I can distinguish the
flavours so they don't bother. The mixing doesn't bother me. I mean, whatever, but for me it's
like I want even this texture in my mouth and this flavour and I want to keep the
vibes of that going. Or I want the other? I wouldn't they eat them both at literally the same
time? I'm going to clear this. Right. This pickle. God, I enjoyed that pickle.
Yeah, it's good pickle. Isn't that good?
Yeah. A little head.
bit on the top that you threw away there.
That's the sign of a fresh, good pickle, that.
Yeah, but I just don't want to hit the knuckle of the pickle, do I?
Whatever.
Oh, okay, yeah, you throw it away, isn't it?
Anyway, I've got a map, we're sorted.
I've got some facts about this place as well, but you know what?
Let's finally get into the fucking woods, go for a little bit of a walk,
settle down, and then we'll do a price of shite, we'll do some reading of my notes.
I did printouts.
Okay, you'll go home?
And then, no, well, then we'll walk some more,
and then episode, episode, walking back, and then it's two parts.
I don't have to worry while you go away to America.
It's the only reason why I thought I'd make an effort.
Let's do a nice big walkabout episode, which I don't usually break up into many episodes, do I?
Usually put me out in one go.
I feel like you deserve it.
And also, the reason why we're not using the lapel mic now is because I've just realized I brought the ones out and those ones aren't charged.
So we've only got this hand mic now.
Sorry, I'm sorry.
Yeah.
And I've got extra batteries.
So all I'm saying is, yes, it's not the best job I've ever done putting a podcast together.
But you challenge me.
You challenge me.
You're a weird guy.
Yeah, I am a weird guy.
I've always been weird.
No one loves Paul.
None of the cool kids at school liked hanging out with me.
I just hang out with the weirdos, didn't I?
Yeah.
And even they look down on me.
Paul Gannon, the mushroom beneath their feet in the garden of misery that is the whirle fucking shit.
and this I tried to get out. I tried to get out. I had to get out. I couldn't be there. I couldn't
work in B&Q. I couldn't fucking go and work in the shop. No, I worked at Blockbuster in Morton Cross
though. Oh, that's a fucking great show. No, it wasn't. Because the worst people in the world are the
people who go to video shops to rent things horrible.
Well, they don't. Good. So I escaped. And blah, blah, blah. I'm sitting in a fucking
wood with Eli Silverman as he bitches about having to fucking walk for a bit as he
fucking shovels pickle and chocolate down his stupid feted fucking pile.
Good pickle.
Mmm.
Polish.
So now that we're in the wood, can we actually walk into the wood for a bit please?
Yeah, okay.
Just give me a safe.
And then find a nice place to sit down so I can read you some nice notes and then I'll give you a price of shite.
And then we'll have two more items and then we'll walk back here and we'll walk home and get the train.
and part two will also include the train journey home as well.
It's a whole thing, Eli.
You've put me in this spot.
I don't know why you're in this mood.
Because all you've done for the past two hours has complained about having to walk.
It's horrible on the roads around here.
Walking the roads is really nasty for all the traffic and lack of pavement and mud.
It's just treacherous. I'm sorry.
I like it.
You don't like you like it.
I do. I like the danger.
I like not being.
on the hustle-bustle high streets of London
where everyone's in your way.
Let's just find so we can
down one of those fucking gin and tonics.
Yeah, I want a gin and tonic now.
Well, we're going to have...
I think it's time that Paul gets
suponasto drunk.
Supo-nasto?
Super-nasto? I like that.
Suponaster, that could be like a
late 90s house music
act.
Yeah, I am super nasto.
Supernesto techno record.
video the other day about Hoover Techno. Have you heard of that?
No. Is that using hoovers? No, there's a certain sound, woo-woo, that sort of started to dominate.
It's from Ireland, originally, yeah. Called Hoover.
Ooh. Really commercial, sort of... Right, anyway, look, we're going into the woods.
We're going into the Daring Woods. As some people name it, the screaming woods, will we hear any
screaming tonight? Well, Eli, just so you know, I have brought some ghost hunting equipment with us today.
to do some late night in the dark investigation,
even though we won't be here late night
because our train leaves at 8.30.
It will be pitch black by then.
It will be pitch black in about an hour or so, I think.
I'm not trying to be cheeky.
What?
Did you bring batteries for the torch?
No. Do you know why?
It is a charge cell torch,
so I charged it last night with my USB
and it has a little readout on the front
which tells me the percentage.
And as of this morning, it read 100% on the,
torch. All right? I also brought battery banks for my phone. So if push comes to shove,
I can use my phone torch, can I? So all together, Eli, we're covered because we're adults.
Adult men who know how to fucking exist in the world. All right. Let's go in the wood.
This is literally going to be our worst episode of all time. Well good. Good.
Right, we are now at the official beginning of the walk. We're the yellow train.
begins it's called surrender and walk surrendon so surrender yeah he said
surrender which is what someone says after they've beaten someone real bad at
like arm wrestling yeah and then yeah and then they keep getting standing up yeah
yeah yeah but surrender then yeah but I'm gonna move on
follow the yellow roof surrender then don't
calm down calm down follow the yellow roof
for a longer walk through Derring's ancient woodland.
Passing through areas of Hornbeet.
I've read this out already because it's on the printout.
I tell you who's a real hornbeam.
Like, do you want to fucking just calm down?
Like, do you want to actually calm down?
Yes, this wildlife.
Can I read you something that I found interesting?
Yes.
In the late 19th century,
they're referring to Derring Woodwood,
which we finally arrived at.
Yeah.
A systems of rides, a main carriageway with lodgehouses,
that's a typo.
A system of rides, a main carriageway with lodgehouses at either end, and a drainage system was built.
Right.
As was the fashion at the time, many newly found exotic tree and shrub species, such as turkey oak and rhododendrum were planted.
These are now being gradually removed to allow for native species to grow.
Interesting.
This ancient semi-
A lot of that stuff, didn't they, the Victorians?
Yeah, they were like, bring that stuff over here, we'll have it.
And then it was like, I see it's really bad for us.
It's ruining everything.
It's killing frogs.
Ancient semi-natural woodlanders
and nature lovers dream
The site extends across almost
126 hectares
or 310 acres
and forms part of a much
larger complex of woodlands and farmland
blah blah blah blah blah
It faced risk of redevelopment in 97
So the Woodland Trust stepped in basically
There's a place here called Edgerton
And someone has crossed out the D
after the E
Someone's got a fucking problem
Maybe this is one another spelling mistake
They farm this out to some fucking
Y-boys in the city
How do you spell Eddington?
I don't fucking know
Why would wide boys in the city be making this sign?
Advertising company who don't understand stuff.
Fine.
They get sent the...
Sign makers.
Yeah.
Daring Wood has been continuously wooded
since at least the early medieval period
and mentioned a doomsday book.
Oh, that's interesting.
Yeah.
And it's got six entrances.
We couldn't fucking find any of the fuckers.
Because like we were down here, so this is the train station.
So what are these red arrows?
Entrance.
We didn't see an entrance there, did you?
We weren't there.
We can't have been there.
Well, no, because that's the train track, so it must have been.
Perhaps we could leave that way because that would be helpful, wouldn't it?
Might be.
Rather than going all the way around again.
Well, we'll see, because we don't even know where dad is.
Let's go.
They're set off.
All right, we're going to set off.
We've got one, yeah, let's find someone to sit down and do a price of shite.
But right now, we're in the woods.
Finally, it's only taking basically the whole episode to get here.
Will it be worth it?
That's for you to decide.
No.
We just make the fucking thing.
What's that?
White dog poo.
everybody.
It's huge.
It's haunted and there's a great big white dog egg.
It's a great big one.
It looks like a Great Dane or something.
Yeah.
Like Bernie,
Bernie and Snobitz.
In all my days,
I'd never thought I'd see white dog poo again in my lifetime.
It's a big old white dog poo.
It's probably because they feed all the dogs here like.
Or the bone meal.
Or the bone meal or the fucking pig slurry or whatever.
People can't seem to decide.
Is that a person over there?
Yeah.
No, there was that guy in the car who was playing bum, bum, bum,
music and then he got out the car and then he looked at us because he looked like a bit of a wide boy
i don't know why i keep saying wide boy i don't know but maybe he's making a drug deal or something
here and there's gangsters i don't know anyway it's the woods we're in the woods let's get going
did it did it did it did it did it did it did you yeah kissing gate i think it's called
because it's not even that it's just a it's a holding hands gate at best yes that's why i said bring shoes and i did
I brought appropriate shoes.
You brought appropriate shoes?
I'm going to go around.
You go round.
Good luck to him as he tries to get over this gate.
I'm just going to go through it.
Fuck him.
Fuck him.
Actually, that's very muddy.
Are you going around?
Yeah, I'm going to go around.
It's very muddy.
Right, we've sat down in the woods.
We've done a little bit of a walk.
Eli's lost the cheap show book with all our memories in.
Might have fallen out of his bag.
I don't know how he's done that, by the way.
But there you go.
You know what it might be?
It might be by the style.
You know, when you sat down, you got all your stuff out then.
Yeah.
They were the books there.
It is there.
It might be there when we go back.
We're going to have to go back.
We're going to have to go back.
We're going back up there, aren't we?
At some point.
I hope it's up there.
Also, we've got to look for a pink wellie.
Because we bumped into some mummies who had kids with them.
And they said, if you see a pink wellie of a baby, put it in the car park.
A baby's pink wellie.
The pink belly of a baby.
So the second one time.
So we recorded us saying that.
And then we recorded us sitting down and Eli losing his book.
and now I've handed in the next price of shite item the second.
So it is.
Again, why are you doing this again?
Why are you doing this again?
I was thinking, oh, at least he didn't do it when we were recording.
And now you've got, God, you're useless.
Useless man.
What are you looking for?
You're a, this is pushing my patience to the absolute limit.
Oh, ah!
He just fell backwards.
Like a tubby Frank Spencer
Right, tell me what the second item is
Tell us what the item is
Oh, let's get a drink on, fucking hell
What's the item?
Westmark QB
Dasch, yes, ice refru
Is that what it says?
Yeah, it's a ice crusher
Yeah, metal, very nice,
vintage packaging
I mean that's like 60 or something, you know?
Yeah
Oh, it's all mankyy, I'm pretty,
not in my ice in that. No, it's a bit man key, but you put ice in. Two pits, two piece,
but it are hinges, you can hear it. And you just, you crush it in there and then you open it.
Open it into your drink. Oh, you're meant to take the top off, aren't you after that?
I guess so. That's good. That's not sealed. Stupid, what a stupid load of shit.
You know what I mean? Why do I want little fucking pellets of ice? I want a cube. You know what I mean?
Yeah, but maybe some people like pellets of ice in their drink. You've got probably good cubes in this illustration.
and then now I've made it into nasty irregular cuby
I don't mind it's called cube it's a terrible
it's a terrible product
yeah but it's also back in the day before you had like
home like food purifiers and blenders and all these are hand whisks
what's that got to do with it because basically you couldn't
no because back in the day you couldn't chop your ice up could you it was a luxury
to have an ice chipper yeah it's basically a handheld ice chipper
very much like a juicer with two elements like scissor handles.
Yeah.
How much do you think it is?
By the ceiling, the roof was £10 and 50 pence.
You've already said £2.50 for the first item, which was the past the pigs game.
So Eli, what do you think the ice crusher is was?
This could be the quid.
This could be the quid's gambit.
I'm going to say quid provisionally.
we're going to get back to revisit this
so there you go let me get that back then
write it down on your phone
I do it once we stop recording because I'm holding
it aren't I so how about that
your bell end
I've given up on this whole
episode date
and where's my drink
I've got a little bit of this left
what
you got a bit of your raspberry lemonade left
save the little bit of left
hmm
hmm
Yeah, that's nice.
That's that.
Finished off.
Right, what do you want to do?
Do you want to open your fucking fishing cookie or whatever it's cool?
Fishing cookie.
Oh.
I...
You know what, Eli?
I was going to say, let's do another little bit and wrap up, but this is all happening now.
I've decided it's all happening now so we can get to X week.
So we start recording next week.
So we start recording next week.
You need to fucking...
I'm tired now.
I know, but we're in Woods.
This is what I was trying to tell you.
We should have backed out.
We should have backed out.
You should have.
You can back out whenever you want.
We could have still got two...
We'd still get two episodes if we'd just, you know, down by the farm shop,
instead of this slog to exhaustion.
You're exhausted, admit it, you're exhausted.
This is one of the most haunted spooky woods in the UK.
I wanted to come here.
I just did...
Because it's one of the spooky woods.
It's called screaming woods.
The screaming woods.
There will be.
I haven't even seen no big babies wellies.
Now,
I went to Portsmouth and I went to a Chinese restaurant in Portsmouth.
It was called the Nice Tintin.
Yeah?
Right.
Which is a reference to a cheap shot video we made where we looked at all of my lovely tins, everybody.
Lovely.
But there was one missing.
It was a big, it was a cat tin, a tin depicting a cat.
He was called Mr. Crafty Bojangles.
It was Mr. Cruddington smithery.
Anyway, I got a fortune cookie from the Nice Tint Tintin.
and we'll see what this what bearing it has we'll open it now see what bearing it has on
I mean if it said that I'd be shocked but I did I am getting some weird coincidences
because I was looking at all of my tats today and thinking what what other collection could I use
to make a cheap shot video with you know I've done tins playing cards and I thought I've got quite a lot
of skulls right and had that distinct thought and then on the way here
everybody. There was a skull, like a piece of Halloween decoration, I think it was.
I was screaming skull. And I thought, oh. Anyway, also I was thinking, oh, confident.
Someone has, I was thinking I'm fat, but at least I'm confident as I was walking to the station today.
And then I saw some guy, he had like a coat on and it said confident on the coat.
Is that just me, like incorporating that word because I'd seen it in my subconscious peripherally?
peripherally. Who knows? That is the
magic of the mind, isn't it? How the brain
sees the world. Hey?
What? Oh yeah, do you open the cookie?
Yeah, I'll have the other half. Yeah.
Nice.
Thank you.
Right. What is the fortune?
An admirer will soon contact you.
I mean, that happens to most normal people
every day anyway, doesn't it really? In some respect.
You know, your friends, your friends,
Don't admire you, don't they?
And they text you, go get some milk or whatever, you know.
I mean, the odds are good that after some time,
admire a...
Someone who'll turn up in your life.
Or has already been in your life and reached out again, say hello.
It's a terrible, terrible fortune.
And not at all Chinese.
No.
Which I only really discovered recently.
Not at all?
No.
It's just something that the Americans think Chinese people would have done at a meal, right?
Or was it the Chinese people trying to ingratiate?
themselves into the American culture by going,
I think it was an American Chinese or Sino-American, as they say, invention.
How about this?
Let's end this week's episode before we go and join us back here next week by just saying goodbye.
Before we go and join us?
My brain, mate.
Just try to stop talking so fast.
It's not about that.
It's never about that.
What is it about?
It's about trying to find interesting sentences to say.
Well, don't.
Well, I won't then.
I won't say anything clever ever again
I don't I mean
there's a high likelihood of that anyway
Pluckley is in the Guinness Book of Records
as it is reputed to be the most haunted in Britain
it is reputed to have 12 possibly 13 or 14 ghosts
Which is the village not the woods
The Spectre of the Highway Man
In Pinnock
A Phantom Coaching Horses that has been seen in several locations
The Ghost of a Gypsy Woman who drowned in the lake at Pinnock
Oh Pinnock seems to be a bit of a hotspot
Yeah the Mill Hill
the hanging body of a schoolmaster in Dickie Buses Lane
Dickie Bus? Yeah.
Sounds like an 80s TV entertainer.
Come on, everybody, it's Dickie Bus.
A colonel who hanged himself in Parkwood,
a man smothered by a wall of clay, who drowned at the brickworks.
We already heard about the clay guy.
Yeah, the lady of Rose Court,
who is said to have poisoned herself in despair over a love triangle.
The white lady, a young woman apparently buried inside seven coffins
and an oak sarcophagus who haunts St. Nicholas's church.
I have to look up that one
And the Red Lady
A member of the Daring family
Who Worns the Churchyard at St Nicholas's Church
Would you like a gin and tonic?
Maybe we should come back to Buckley
I don't know
Pluckley
Pluckley
Would you like a gin and tonic
I would love a gin and tonic actually
I really would
Should we put half a grony in it
That would go really well
Oh happy mate
Do you know what I mean
Put a nagroney in a gin and tonic
It's all gin
It's all you know I mean
It's all in the same flavour
flavour universe
Isn't it?
Yeah. We're flying in the same flavour vehicle.
Ice.
I thought there'd be more on the streaming woods.
There's nothing on it.
Pluckley walks.
Nestles, countryside, darling buds of May.
There are a number of spots around the village that have a distinct feel to them.
What does that mean?
And several of these haunted places are connected to the Daring family, lords of the manors until the 15th century to the World War of One.
Civil War, blah, blah, blah.
Sadly, house burnt down.
Blah, blah, blah.
Fuck the Dairings.
Never mind.
Stones, directions.
Thanks for joining us, everybody.
We have directions.
Maybe we'll come back to Pluckley for Halloween.
Oh my God.
I can actually go to the village because there's pubs.
Well, that sounds a bit better, yes, but fucking hell.
Fright Corner.
At the end of Pinnock, you arrive at the crossroads.
Oh, Pinnock!
Screaming Woods.
It is an eerie experience to walk these muddy paths along skeletal trees,
especially when it's getting dark.
The journey is even made spooky by the knowledge
that many alone wayfarer who have come this way
have been scared witless by a sudden loud anguish scream.
It comes from deep within the woods
and sends the birds flapping from the trees.
That'll be good.
I don't know if I like this episode.
What do you mean?
I don't know if I've suitably won myself over with this concept.
You haven't, obviously.
But we have to do it and you have to do two episodes.
So that's why I was saying thanks for listening everyone.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, thanks for listening everyone,
because me and Eli are going to get drunk.
So that means when you come back to us in seven days' time,
it's now pissed up cheap show.
We hope so.
I hope so.
Let's get a buzz on.
Right, so this is the anticlimactic first part of an episode.
Everyone does it.
It's not just us.
Aren't we doing a prize of strike before the end of the episode?
Yeah, we've done two.
We're going to do two more next week.
Oh, we did do two.
Yeah, we did two more next week.
So let's just me and you, chill.
It's getting a bit dark and spooky in the woods.
They'll join us next week.
Look, I've got ice.
This is a good picnic apart from the whole.
food thing, which we don't really have.
We didn't bring enough food or any.
Did you hear a scream then?
I did, well, I didn't hear a scream, but I heard like this high-pitched air.
Yeah, so I heard it, yeah.
I don't know if this would have caught at them.
Maybe it's a sheep.
It might have been a sheep.
It had a sheepy sound, didn't it?
Like that.
Like an angry sheep.
Cut to someone on the other side of the woods.
Did you hear that just there?
Someone going, eh, eh.
I can see how sound travels it as well.
It has an eerie way of travelling around here, doesn't it?
actually getting a bit of the willies.
I'm getting a lot of the willies.
And on that note, we'll see you next week.
No, really? Is that really it?
That's really how we're going to end this week's episode.
Cool. Cheer on, man.
But what we're going to get ratted?
Let's just say cheers at least on this.
All right, let's end with the cheers.
We're in the woods.
Hang on, hang on, I'm going to have to put a half a Nogronie in as well.
So how much did you say a quid for the cube icebreaker, right?
Yes, but I want to have a...
Yes, I know, I know.
I know, but I'm going to make a note when I record.
Hopefully we've got to remember to find that book as well on the way back.
Yes.
As well as a baby's pink wellie.
Oh, it's become a...
Hey, shall I get my Gio cacha out
to see if there's anything nearby for a laugh?
Well, that's what we're doing next week.
Oh, next week's episode will be much better
than this week's everyone.
This week's for shit, wasn't it?
Join us next week where hopefully everything's better.
Aw.
Ah.
See ya, say goodbye, Eli.
Goodbye, Eli.
Oh, goodbye, Eli.
I'll see you next week.
Bye-bye.
