EP 112 - January 1960 - Banjos For Babies, Dog-Ear Ariels & Stupidity Rising!
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What do the hosts talk about at the start of the episode?
Good grief, you have joined us for episode 112 of Talking Nuts and Peanuts podcast where myself, the chief, and my co-host Parky chronicle one month's worth of Charles Schultz's magnum opus that is the newspaper strip Peanuts every week of the year, except when we have a week off. I think we just had a week off. and I was also late getting episode 111 up, so I think that went up like 10 days after we'd actually recorded it, which is slack on my part, but let's aim to be more efficient. Parky, behind the curtains, only got up 20 minutes ago, so golf clap for Parky for getting ready in 20 minutes. Well done. How are you, sir?
Yeah, good, good. Hit by a train, I think. I had a full night's sleep, unadulterated by any alcohol or anything. It was just, yeah, I'd say almost clean through, but that never happens to me. There was one wee around, I think, 1.30 in the morning, but that was it. And then, yeah, straight through to like 7.30, 7.45 is insane. Yes, very good. What have you been up to this week? Not as much as you, Chief. I've remained in the UK. I've not really done much. I met up with a friend of the show, Fraser Hart, last week. We went to Bristol Town, where we went to see a popular beat combo called The Cancer Bats, which is just like a... they do like covers of black sabbath songs uh under alter ego bat sabbath very very good very good um it's the first time in many years i had woke up the next day and i had some pains in my neck from head banging wow yeah it's good it was good um and uh yeah that was it was the night before i met up with some other friends in bath which is quite close to bristol other side of the country to where i live so i thought let's
get two birds stoned at once and go and see, yeah, do two kind of events, I guess, in the West Country. Ended up in a nightclub on the Friday night where we were probably one of about, sorry, there was five of us. Yes. Six of us. And I would say in the whole nightclub, there were seven people above the age of 19.
Wow.
Okay. And you were six of those seven.
And I think there was someone who was about like 23 in our mid to late 40s in this nightclub. And we were there on the dance floor until 2.30 in the morning drinking VK Blues, which for any Americans listening... I don't know what the equivalent is. It's like a wine cooler, but with about six times the amount of sugar and artificial flavours. They're delicious. And blue. The next night we were drinking Lemon Hooch.
I guess the modern equivalent would be the Buzzball.
I've seen the Buzzball. I've never had a Buzzball.
Have you had a Buzzball, Chief? I have, yes. It's owned by the company I work for.
Is it?
Yes, yeah.
Buffalo Trace.
Well, we're owned by a company called Sazerac, which is a massive drinks company, and one of their products is the Buzzball, which is... Drunk, so the most buzz balls drunk in the world are in the USA, but the most buzz balls drunk per capita is in the UK.
Of course it is. Yeah. What's the liquor or the kind of the alcohol in there?
Different types. So I think it's mainly vodka. Okay. But you can get, or maybe it's the only vodka, I'm not sure, but they do like a chocolate coffee one, I think. They do a margarita-based one. They do some red one, maybe a peachy orange one. There was a limited edition World Cup soccer one. Yeah. yeah so i did try one and i did not want to like it but it was okay it was drinkable unfortunately how would you compare it to like a nice hoppy ipa well no it's not as good obviously okay yeah obviously but it's like 13.5 so it's strong whoa yeah have you ever had the magnum chief
A bottle of Magnum. Yeah. It's a Jamaican tonic wine.
No, no. The only two Magnums I know are the ice cream and, you know, the introduction of the pear cider into the UK from Magnum.
Yeah, Perry. Which doesn't seem to be around anymore. No, the cider craze, unless you live in the West Country or here in Kent, is past, isn't it? Like, oh, let's put ice in the drink and let's see if that takes off. And it did for about two years. but yeah since then no so jamaican tonic wine it's like so it's like buckfast which is what they drink in scotland scotland yeah just all these stereotypes coming out here jamaican tonic wine it's i think it's around 13 and a half 14 they come in like bottles that are around 200 milliliters they cost around so in the local in our local dreamland festival park they if there's a gig going on you'd probably pay between 10 and 13 pounds i can't remember what oh what it is 200 mils
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What do the hosts talk about at the start of the episode?
0:11–6:37
2
How does Chief describe his recent trip to Sweden and what did he enjoy most?
6:37–12:04
3
What Swedish snack are the hosts reviewing and how do they rate it?
12:04–16:22
4
How do the hosts introduce the January 1960 Peanuts strips and the historical context?
16:22–24:15
5
What is the “Free banjo for babies” strip about and what do the hosts think of it?
24:15–30:22
6
How does Lucy’s heart‑drawing strip explore love vs. hate and what is Linus’s reaction?
30:22–36:28
7
What happens in the Snoopy‑and‑snowman Sunday strip and why do the hosts find it memorable?
36:28–41:55
8
What listener questions are answered in the correspondence segment and what are the hosts’ final thoughts?
41:55–49:47
Speakers
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