Sunil Patel: Scotch Prize Balls, Working with Fred/Dom West and Victorian Crime with Dr Angela Buckley

The Harry Hill Show

Host Harry Hill welcomes comedian Sunil Patel and crime historian Dr. Angela Buckley for a surreal variety of topics. The episode moves from

Key takeaways

• Regency Innovations produces 'Scotch Prize Balls' which contain small toys for children.
• Sunil Patel is producing a radio show exploring the concept of living forever through cryonics.

Main topics

• Scotch Prize Balls
• Cryonics and immortality

Notable quotes

I'm going to say scam.

Conclusion

A unique blend of absurdist comedy and educational historical deep-div

Transcript preview

Speaker 4 (0:00) Last time on The Harry Hill Show. Hello there. I'm Harry Hill and this is my show. It's The Harry Hill Show. Speaker 5 (0:17) Three Speaker 4 (0:17) four five six seven eight nine ten Sure, I had 12 1 2 3 4 5 9 10 Oh hello, just counting the sausages. Um Which actually made me think about reclaimed meat as you know, some of you I'm actually the president of the Mechanically Reclaimed Meat Society Association or MRSA for short and as president I'm keen to promote the use of mechanically reclaimed meat particularly amongst children and so what I've been doing is I've been working with the guys at Regency Innovations with something I'd like to show you actually I call them Scotch Prize Balls and basically what they are they're like Scotch eggs very much like scotch eggs except inside. It's not an egg. It's a prize for a child So just I mean I just pick one up at random Speaker 4 (1:26) There's that one there. Okay, and if we open that up a child would bite into that. Look there's a robin. A toy robin. It's a nice thing because as you know these mechanically reclaimed meat contains all the building blocks of life. What's this one? What's in this one? Speaker 4 (1:48) They're quite I mean we're working on the details of this they do Tend to fall apart a bit, but the guys at Regents Innovations sure mill is little pack of cards kids love to play cards these days don't they and Keep going what you have another look what what we got Speaker 5 (2:06) that's milk this. What's Speaker 4 (2:10) in this one? Oh look that's Speaker 4 (2:13) Oh, that's actually two Gaviscon tablets. That was for me. Naughty. That was a special customised one that I asked him, asked the guy at Regency to do for me. The guest is here, Daddy. What's that? What's that, Gary? I was just saying, the guest is here. Oh, well, in that case, we'd better welcome our guest. Sunil Patel. It's Sunil Patel. Hi Sunil. Hello Harry. Oh no. I'm so sorry. Oh hello. Speaker 3 (2:52) Yeah. Speaker 4 (2:53) You know Licky the Speaker 2 (2:54) Harry Hill Show mascot? He Speaker 4 (2:57) used to work at Ascot apparently. Okay, okay. It's kind of, it's getting a little bit predictable. Speaker 5 (3:08) I just turned. Speaker 3 (3:13) Let's go. I Speaker 4 (3:54) don't know what's happened to Licky. He's gone to his head. All this attention. Hi, Sunil. Sorry about that. No, it's all right. Do you want a scotch Speaker 5 (4:02) prize ball? Very rude of me. Do you want a scotch prize Speaker 4 (4:05) ball? Speaker 5 (4:06) I mean, I don't want it. I don't want to eat it right now. No, but Speaker 4 (4:08) you're curious about... Take it for later or...? Speaker 5 (4:11) I had one last night. I had a scotch egg last night. Yeah. Speaker 4 (4:15) Open it. Okay. Speaker 4 (4:18) Just open it. Speaker 5 (4:20) Don't fight it. Yeah, no, gotcha. Speaker 4 (4:22) You eat a lot of reclaimed, mechanically reclaimed meat? Do I eat a lot of it? No, not really. Oh! What's in there? Thread. It's a cotton reel. Cotton reel. That's more for an older person probably. Oh, is it? Yeah. I mean, it's Speaker 5 (4:36) a Speaker 4 (4:36) stereotype. I was about... For... I just... Get rid of Speaker 5 (4:40) that. Speaker 4 (4:41) For... Thank you. Do Speaker 3 (4:42) you Speaker 4 (4:42) want a debtor or floor light? Yeah, thanks. That's all we've got. That's all we've got in the building. You can see the overheads. Now, Sunil, have we met before? Speaker 5 (4:53) I don't think we've actually met before, but we've been at the same gig Speaker 4 (4:57) together. Yes, Speaker 5 (4:58) I Speaker 4 (4:58) think I've seen you. Yeah, Speaker 5 (4:59) pottering about. Speaker 4 (5:00) Across a crowded room, so to speak. What are you up to? Speaker 5 (5:05) At the moment, well, I'm making a radio show at the moment about trying to live forever. So we're working on that. Just throw them off. Yeah. Speaker 4 (5:16) Yeah. Speaker 5 (5:16) About Speaker 4 (5:17) trying to live forever. Speaker 5 (5:18) Well, we're trying to meet people that are trying to live for or who can help me live forever. Right. We've only really met two people so far. And one is one is a man who freezes bodies. Oh, yeah. I've heard about the cryonics people. Yeah. And he showed us exactly what happens when he gets hold of a body. Oh, you saw it. Well, he used a big dummy. Right to show us. So yeah, here's radio you Speaker 4 (5:42) get away with that. Yeah Yeah Speaker 5 (5:44) Well, he well basically he only does three a year so he can't give us a shout and say someone's died Right come and follow me around. So and obviously Speaker 4 (5:53) that would be Speaker 5 (5:53) that'd be quite bad. Speaker 4 (5:54) Yeah, but Speaker 5 (5:55) he's um It's what he does is he Speaker 4 (5:57) well, it depends what you've paid for. I have paid for full-body freezing. Why have you? Speaker 4 (6:04) I don't want to live forever. Do you not? I mean, okay. I'm Speaker 5 (6:07) welcoming the long sleep. Yeah. Whereas it's 130 grand for the full body. Oh, is it? And 80 for the head. Speaker 4 (6:14) Yeah, but if you think about if that's for forever. Speaker 5 (6:18) Yeah. Speaker 4 (6:18) That's cheap. Speaker 5 (6:20) Yeah, it's not too bad. Unit, you know, per unit of time. Yeah, I mean, you can't even, yeah, you don't even know how long that's going Speaker 4 (6:27) to be. Speaker 5 (6:27) I mean, how much Speaker 4 (6:28) have we spent, well, in the last week? Speaker 5 (6:33) You know, over your lifetime. It'd be Speaker 4 (6:34) interesting to know how much we spend over a lifetime. Who makes Speaker 5 (6:37) this? This stuff? Yeah. Well, Speaker 4 (6:41) really? Speaker 5 (6:46) It's Speaker 4 (6:46) a guy called Harry. Is it? Harry Banks, yeah. He used to do all my sets. It's really nice. Yeah, he's great. He's absolutely brilliant. This is a Speaker 5 (6:53) real set. This is great. Yeah, Speaker 4 (6:55) and that sofa is new from the first bunch we did because I had to hire that other sofa. It was nicer looking, but it was £800 a week. Anyway, why we Yeah, okay, I'll get on with it So and then what do they do inject it with Speaker 5 (7:14) antifreeze? Really? Yeah, just to stop it free to us to stop it Decomposing and then they stick it in a wooden box. So that's just gonna kill all the It's just gonna kill all the cells surely No, cuz free freezing with water creates ice crystals which expand but he uses something which doesn't create ice crystals. Mm-hmm And then he puts it in a box full of dry ice, sends it to Germany, and they put it in a big thermos flask. And then they just drop it in there until it's ready to thaw Speaker 4 (7:45) out. Right. Yeah. I mean, that's, I mean, it's a brilliant way. If you can get people to pay that money, it's a brilliant, I'm going to say scam. Because he's not going to be there. He's not going to be there. He's going to be in the thermos flask. Speaker 5 (8:01) No, he's done it himself. He's going to do it himself. He's paid for it. Right. Well, he says he's Speaker 4 (8:05) paid Speaker 5 (8:05) himself. Speaker 4 (8:06) He Speaker 5 (8:06) says his life insurance is going to pay for it. Right. That's Speaker 4 (8:10) how he does it. And I think if you're rich, you probably take a punt on that. Yeah. You're not tempted. Speaker 5 (8:15) No, I don't really. I don't really know. You don't know what's going to happen down the line. Speaker 4 (8:22) No. And you're going to wake up. Speaker 5 (8:23) Yeah. I Speaker 4 (8:24) mean, it's like people coming out of prison, you know, been in for sort of not quite the same, but, you know. I don't know you murdered someone in the 70s. I'm not saying this is someone I know and you go into prison and you're sort of wearing flares and so you've got long hair and sort of sideburns and you come out and everyone's like. Get with it. Yeah, the deal. It's all bomber jackets and trainers now. You got to learn how to That's just the tip of the iceberg as far as the problems go and Speaker 5 (8:56) everything's on apps as well So you got to learn that yeah, I don't know how they cope with it. No someone I don't know who's teaching them No, if anyone but is Speaker 4 (9:04) it I think that's what a halfway house is. Oh, is it right? Is that what it is? Yeah halfway house. Speaker 5 (9:10) Yeah Well, that's where they teach people how to there Speaker 4 (9:13) is where we were taught how to Speaker 4 (9:16) Pretty similar into the community. Do they have a halfway house for these frozen guys? You'd Speaker 5 (9:21) hope so, wouldn't you? But it Speaker 4 (9:23) is all just guys as well, isn't it? Rich guys. Speaker 5 (9:25) It's mainly, at the moment, middle-aged men paying for their dead mothers to be frozen. Speaker 4 (9:30) Oh. Yeah. See, if I was going to spend that money, I'd spend it on cloning. Cloning yourself? No, my mum. Speaker 5 (9:40) As she is now or as a baby? Speaker 4 (9:43) I would clone her as a... Speaker 4 (9:46) So she was a baby you can't clone people from yeah, Speaker 5 (9:50) cuz you gotta grow them from scratch I don't think you can clone them as a can you know you can't Speaker 4 (9:55) I don't think so. Not yet. Anyway That's Speaker 5 (9:58) the Speaker 4 (9:58) thing. I'm gonna clone her as Speaker 5 (9:59) a Speaker 4 (9:59) baby. I'm going to Do to her what she did to me and make her turn her into someone that does all this stuff How do you feel about AI Speaker 4 (10:12) Yeah, I think it's all right. Yeah. Yeah. Not worried about all the water that it uses to hose the Speaker 5 (10:17) hard drives? No, because that doesn't just go straight into the ground, does it? They sort of probably... Vaporate out. Comes back down as rain. What's the problem? That's it. Circle of life. Speaker 4 (10:27) Exactly. It's the circle of life. It's in the song. It's in the song. Well, we've got an AI bot, Sarah, who's going to tell us a little bit about you. Come on out, Sarah. Yeah, that's Speaker 5 (10:37) how Speaker 4 (10:37) I thought about it. They're not stealing the water. That's it. It's always there. Speaker 4 (10:45) Here she is. Now, Sarah, it's actually Aira, the AI bot, because we've lost the S off there. Note to self, get down, Ryman. So, um... Sarah, say hello to our friend Sunil. Speaker 2 (11:02) Hey, big guy. Nice to meet you. Loving the nationwide adverts. Who's that guy you do them with? Fred West. Right. Seemed like weird casting at first, but kind of warming to him. Shake my fork. You are in those. A lot of people will... Speaker 4 (11:19) That's nice. Nice moment. A lot of people... Speaker 4 (11:23) We'll recognize you from the Speaker 5 (11:25) Fred West adverts. Yes, the Fred West adverts, yeah. Speaker 4 (11:28) It's the meat that Fred West rejects that makes Fred West salmon the best. Now, what are those adverts? The Nationwide. Speaker 5 (11:35) Nationwide, that's it, yes. Yeah, they're fun. People just shout. They don't really know who I am. They just see my face and shout at me in the street. Do they think you work in a bank? Well, they don't really know where they know me from, but they just shout Nat West at me. Speaker 4 (11:53) Is it nationwide on Speaker 5 (11:54) nationwide but they shout Speaker 4 (11:55) NatWest because I think it's an odd thing is am I right in thinking that that? Advert it slags off Nat West. I think it slags off all banks Yes, Speaker 5 (12:05) dangerous route Speaker 4 (12:06) to go down that Speaker 5 (12:07) words because I think it's because they're very proud that they're not a bank. Oh, I see the rebellion Yeah, yeah, that's the gist of it. Yeah. Yeah, because Speaker 4 (12:15) I always I Oddly come away from that advert thinking I must open in that West account This is Speaker 5 (12:23) one of the things I can't bring up on set no, of course. Yeah. No. Well, it's great Speaker 4 (12:26) I mean, it's a great gig that because it's nice. It's a fun gig nice money. Speaker 5 (12:31) Yeah, it's good fun. It's that guy who plays Dominic Dominic Fred Yeah, is Speaker 4 (12:37) it Dominic? Where is say this? They're not related. Speaker 5 (12:40) I haven't asked Speaker 4 (12:42) Well, can Speaker 5 (12:43) you ask him from me? Speaker 4 (12:46) I know he played Fred West in Speaker 5 (12:48) me so that did he Speaker 4 (12:49) I Speaker 5 (12:50) don't know that. No, he didn't did he? Yeah, Speaker 4 (12:52) he prayed he played Fred West. That's why Sarah mentioned it. Yeah in a doc you know docudrama Here Speaker 5 (13:01) goes Speaker 2 (13:07) Sunil Dinesh Patel is an English stand-up comedian. Of course. Speaker 4 (13:11) Actor Speaker 2 (13:11) and podcaster. Yes. Early life. Patel grew up in Bath. His father worked at a pub. Patel first became interested in stand-up comedy when he bought Lee Evans Live on VHS. After working odd jobs throughout his 20s, at 29, he lived in a flat share with Irish comedian Rob Broderick, who encouraged him to give stand-up a try. Speaker 5 (13:32) Is that all correct? It... Did they say my dad worked in a pub? Yeah. I think that's Ramesh's dad. Okay. Speaker 4 (13:46) Okay. Okay. Speaker 3 (13:52) Yeah, Speaker 4 (13:52) hi. You've got him mixed up with Ramesh. No. He's still here. He's still here. Even Speaker 5 (14:00) Ramesh's, one of Ramesh's kids mixed me up with him once. Oh, Speaker 4 (14:03) okay. Speaker 5 (14:04) So Speaker 4 (14:04) where did your dad work then? Not that it's important. Speaker 5 (14:08) He was an engineer. Okay, Speaker 4 (14:10) yeah, Speaker 5 (14:10) that's what I Speaker 4 (14:11) thought. I Speaker 5 (14:12) think Speaker 3 (14:12) if you're living Speaker 4 (14:13) in Bath, kind of fancy place, you're not going to be able to afford those prices just working in a pub, no offence. I worked in a pub. So did I. Yeah, I think we all did. The producer was