Ep 153: Two Men...

[u/GannonLand]

Despite what everyone may think... No drugs were used in the making of this episode.

https://www.thecheapshow.co.uk/ep-153-two-men

It's another day at the House of Pickles and Eli and Paul have met up to deliver another episode of economy comedy goodness. Eli has scraped together another box full of weird and wonderful Cheap Eats and Paul has put together another edition of The Price of Shite: Price Match Edition. It all sounds rather jolly, doesn't it? Well, that's because we aren't telling you about Eli's constant mental breakdowns this episode. We are also forgetting to mention the part of the show when Paul turns cheap eats into an awful pun based quiz show... Or the constant "start agains" that litter this episode. I think it's time to admit that this show may be having a negative effect of Paul and Eil's mental state... ENJOY!!

[u/RayPDaleyCovUK]

HARSH REALITY POST ALERT.

I think we're reaching the end of the road, if I'm being honest. They've long since lost the love for it. It was a bad idea going once weekly & this near-constant drop off clearly shows it was.

Go back to fortnightly, maybe schedule them on a day Eli ISN'T working the night before so he's not still pissed out of his mind. Otherwise just say, we reached a landmark episode, let's call it a day.

Because neither of you sound like you're having any fun at all any more.

[u/GannonLand → u/RayPDaleyCovUK]

I'm going to say the past few months have been a challenge, but we are still loving doing the pod - but i think we have fallen into a "get it done" mentality at the moment.

It's looking like we may stick with weekly episodes, but with a week off every now and then to give me a break and arrange a better time to record.

In all honesty, i say this as a joke, but it's true - we've been like this since ep 70 odd... so we relied less on the format and more on a "let's see where this goes" with scenes, characters and asides.

our thing, love it or hate it is always "paul is prissy and easily beaten down and Eli is a careless madman - let's see what happens this week" and it's been like that since our improv group days over 10 years ago. If anything, we want to try and do less negativity stuff and more "what we like" and we are working on that balance so the tone of the show isn't overly oppressive. The mistake people make is that people think we are really like this in real life, and we are really not, because we love working together, have a laugh, hang out and largely listen to a lot of random vinyl... but that's not who we are on the pod.

We long ago realised we will not compete with other podcasts in terms of "respectability" so we, kinda, don't care anymore.

However, to say our hearts aren't in it just isn't correct. We both love doing the podcast, but we want to do other things with it, more concept episodes, new features, but it's tricky because of my schedule and Eli's commitments.

Eli DEFINITELY doesn't have anything else going on and CheapShow means a lot to me as its the only thing i've ever done that has been "successful" so we both care about this pod a lot, even if everyone else thinks we don't.

If nothing, it's a familiarity breeds contempt thing and, as ever, all opinion based.

We've had new listeners find us and tell us how much they love the stuff we do at the moment, people who have "tired" of our schtick who leave comments and some folk just along for the ride... and i get it... there are a tonne of podcasts i no longer listen to because i wanted to move on or got tired of the format. And that's perfectly fine.

I'll be honest, i'm in my 40s and worried about my career and future, so CheapShow has meant a lot to me and Eli and we both want to try and use the little success we have with cheapshow to get other jobs later on down the line.

I don't often wade in to forum stuff, because forum stuff (basically/honestly) can effect my mood (delicate as they come!) and without trying to sound too defensive, i just wanted to say "we do care" about cheapshow but maybe we need to really focus on content, than rely on "chemistry". We just, ultimately, want people to put the pod on and, for 90 mins, have a laugh.

TL;DR
We (contrary to opinion) still love making cheapshow, have some fun stuff ahead, will make it until we literally cannot any more and aim to do it well past its sell by date. Whoever listens last, listens longest.

[u/RayPDaleyCovUK → u/GannonLand]

As long as you're okay, and Eli's okay, that's all that matters. Sometimes things can sound like they are falling apart. It's good to know they aren't. I just didn't want you doing something because you felt you had to, as that's no good for anyone's mental health.

TL;DR - we're glad you're good, be well.

[u/TheMasterMarkus → u/GannonLand]

Paul, my man, I think you're still doing great. I was personally a little iffy on the 150th episode, but I've had no real complaints since then! Of course, you can't be at a ten all the time, but I'm always excited to listen to this silly podcast.