The Luke and Pete Show - 3D printing: Owl or nothing

Episode Date: October 14, 2024

Pete has finally joined the ranks of 3D printing enthusiasts, but not without a bizarre encounter with a sketchy seller. While Luke assumes Pete’s got practical plans for car parts, Donny has his heart set on printing one thing: a massive owl. Naturally.Elsewhere, the lads toy with the idea of becoming Deliveroo drivers to fund even weirder projects, and a listener shares his post-Hurricane Helene run-in with a stark-naked neighbour.Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Luke and Pete Show, it is Monday the 14th October, I'm Pete Donaldson and many happy returns to my sister who is 39, maybe 40, maybe 41. If it's 40 you should know. I think it might be 41 you know, 41 and... She'll take 39 all day long. She'll take 31 and two days 41 and two days so many many happy returns everyone. Sorry about this noise, but I just try to sort my chair out Yeah, just try to sort my chair out. I've got no room in this house. I'm just waged in Bouncing on things, you're like a big pinball. Happy Monday everyone. Smashing around a pinball machine. What's new with you Peter? I've got a new hobby that I've not started yet. You trialled it on Thursday, people are excited. Got a new hobby, it's taken up a lot of kitchen

table space I tell you what, that we don't have a lot of room for either. I've joined the leagues of 3D printing enthusiasts. Finally! LC will be delighted. I know, finally! LC, I'm going to be hitting you up for tips. Yeah, I'm currently the proud owner of a 3D printing machine that I am just waiting for some plastic reels to turn up so I can print something out. How much did you pay for it? machine an amount an amount I've got I've got a couple of little things that I need and I could either spend some money buying them or I could spend less money buying a 3d printing machine and printing my own okay I don't believe you so tell me what they are I simply don't believe you just a couple of things around the around the house and around the car that I'll need and a little

kind of project I've got in the future. I just need little bits of plastic that are specific dimensions. And I'm like, why am I pissing about without a 3D printer in 2024? Why am I sort of languishing? Why am I languishing? Why am I letting myself down by not having it? How much do you pay for the 3D printer? You owe it to our listeners to tell them. £100. That's not bad. That's not bad at all.

No. Do you want for a hundred quid? It's just a little starter machine. No, second hand for a marketplace. Oh nice. What's the retail price? About double that. I bought it from, like this guy was proper stinky boy man and it was and the plate was covered in sticky stuff and

I'm hoping it's like something to do with using a 3D printer or he's just not spilled Fanta on it. He was like he had like he had loads of 3D prints for sale so he's clearly enthusiast or a thief a very specific thief. I went to his house and like sometimes people do have in my area of the watery woods, you do occasionally see people who've got like boats in various states of disrepair on their front drive basically. And this guy had... Right, yeah, we talked about it before, right?

Yeah, this isn't a state of disrepair. He's basically just got a massive fuck off boat that he is presumably taking apart. It's just like half the hull of a boat. This is sort of, if I had room, that's what my house would look like. Yeah. With like, it's a Mr. Jetski basically and he's sliced up this, the kind of fiberglass hull of this boat in little bits and it's just, it just looks like a real, a real mess. Anyway, he came out and he was... I bet you were loving it though, weren't you mess. Anyway he came out and he was... I bet you were loving it though, weren't you?

Well he had really, he had like, you know like grey joggers? You know the classic wang pants? He also had like grey hoodie as well. And just everything was covered in stains. And I was like... How old was he? He was probably about 25. Oh, okay.

And he was like, and he was very affable, very pleasant. But he didn't tell me the number of his house. He gave us the postcode like it's a fucking secret or something. And then I get there and I'm like, sorry, what house are you in? And then he just ignores that message. And I'm saying, I'm outside, I've got 10 minutes and I've got to go. And then he ignores that message and says, are you coming or what? On the face of the message. And it's the belligerence I can't stand, Luke. Yeah, but I love this because I'd love to have been there to see how you've dealt with that. So how did you actually complete the transaction?

When he came out the house I was like, oh, Mr. Kulais, this guy is like a... This guy's a heiny man. This guy's a guy who just covers himself in... Did you bang a couple of beers together? Did you blow the foam off some frosty ones or not? Smash some fibreglass off a... Just asked him loads of really technical questions about stuff. Of a schooner, yeah, no. He was saying that he'd bought it off someone else

and it didn't come with the thing that it needed and he fitted it and he got it in its latest... And he was nice enough, but I was a bit like, just give me it and let me get out of here. I reckon you loved him. Be honest, did you love it? It's gonna hang out with him It's gonna 3d did you honestly want it was a party that wants hang out with him I just wanted it. I want to scan both of our hands and 3d print them and just like Connect our hands together forever. Did you ask about the boat? I didn't ask me about the boat I think the that's probably he's probably sick of explaining why there's half a boat on his driveway.

But yeah, curious little chap. So what are you going to do with it? You're going to do some car parts with it, are you? I'm going to do a little bits and bobs here and there. But first, I'm going to print a big owl and see how that one goes. Well you know, people who listen to this don't necessarily know that you famously, for I think a secret Santa, did a 3D print of a bust of Jim Campbell for Christmas? I don't think it was even a secret Santa.

I think I just, you could just, I think my phone, there was an app that you could scan people's faces with. It really looks like him. It's so accurate. It's mad, isn't it? Yeah, it's mad. Maybe you should paint it. How did you get that printed then? Did you just send it off for it? Just send it off it was like 30 quid or something so like that is that that was

that was when I was slightly more flush. There's so many sort of little kind of silly little gags and projects that I look at now and I go I can't afford that anymore. I've got to grow up. It's terrible you know what I mean? Remember when I recorded a load of vinyl records of me saying Merry Christmas and gave them to friends for Christmas? Yeah, I got one. That's the sort of thing that you sort of go, I don't have the resources to do that anymore.

The world is a poorer place because of it. It is. I think it is. I think, look, the next time somebody buys themselves like a Maserati or something, where that money should go is to doing like a slush fund for my little projects, so I can piss about. I should start a little... I've been thinking about doing... Deliveroo for Donut Man. Doing Deliveroo, right?

He's doing it for a few weeks. Doing Deliveroo deliveries until I've got enough to buy Mr. Donut for the garden. Can you just do that? Can you just sign up to deliver and just start doing it? I think so yeah as long as you've got a scooter or a car or something. That seems troubling. What do you mean? You're just delivering some food from one place to another. I don't think you're taking it in and sitting guilt on it do you? The people are eating. I'll have a little bit, there'll be a string of cheese leading from the pizza to me. Yeah, you can put it that way if you want, right? Or I could put it another way. You go and buy some food and then for an hour you entrust it to a total stranger

who's got absolutely no background check done whatsoever and then you choose to eat that food. It's a good point isn't it when you think about it like that? It's the same with an Uber driver, there needs to be checks. It's a good point isn't it when you think about it like that? It's the same with an Uber driver, there needs to be checks. Speaking of Uber drivers, I went to drop off my car about a month ago to get the old coals put in, the suspension taken out and the coals put in. And I got in a taxi with a man, I think I mentioned it on the show where he used to say, I got in the car and he went, Pete, Pete Sampras and they just talked about tennis for about half an hour.

Yeah. A month later I'm going to pick up my car, I get in a taxi from Barking up to sort of Walthamstow Enfield Lockway. It's the same guy and he proceeds to talk for 35 minutes about fuck all, about him learning to drive in Karachi, about him doing this and doing that and I'm like oh man I'm so tired of that before I was asleep. Just Uber. The Uber man, the'm so tired. Before I was asleep. The Uber man, the Uber mensch, my Uber mensch.

You can put on the app whether you want to be talked to or not. Well, Mohammed was not, it didn't matter what I wrote, I think he probably would have. Bearing man, I said, I'm really tired, I'm gonna have to just go to sleep, I think. So excuse me. And then he just proceeded to talk for about half an hour

about him sneaking out during the afternoon when it was very hot in Punjab. And he was very hot in the afternoon, same when we got to sleep for a couple of hours. And he would sneak out and learn to drive to try and best his brother. So I know everything about Mohammed. I know very little about whatever I was going to dream about in my sleep. But we got there and I've got the car back and it's done.

Well, we all know what you're going to dream about. But was it just coincidence you got the same guy? Yeah, massive coincidence. Bear in mind, it's a half an hour journey. So for him to have been in the same place in reverse each time, it just makes no sense really. I picked it up. Weird.

Do you remember when before Uber, sometimes you'd have to get a cab home or whatever and they would just refuse to take you? Yeah, no, they wouldn't go south of the river. They would never go south of the river after like midnight or whatever which seems like, because London is just half and half through a river, really. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, yeah, people are snobby about that. I think that's a bit of an outdated thing that people say now, isn't it? Because the transport links used to be crap and South London used to be really rough and a lot of people back then didn't really consider it proper London. But I just think that's an

affectation now. People just say that because it's a thing that people used to say, right? I was speaking to a guy I know a while back who was like 24, moved to London like two years ago, lives up in North London. he was like, oh yeah, don't go south of London, don't go south of the river. Have you even been south of the river? Yeah, now that seems ridiculous to me. You've lived in London for like 18 months. Don't go south of the river, like, jeez-oh.

You can't go to the, I don't know, go and watch some theatre. I'd love, on the South Bank. On the South Bank. I'd love you though to become a delivery driver for a bit so you can earn a bit of extra money. I'd love to be able to say that to our business partner. Oh yeah, he can't do that meeting, he's delivering. He's delivering, he's delivering. He's saving it for Mr Donut. If delivery were listening, they should sponsor us to do that. I'd be alright at it. I used to have a moped so I'd be fine at it I reckon.

Well I used to as well, I've still got it but it's all broken so, yeah, what are you going to do that. I'd be alright at it. I used to have a moped so I'd be fine at it I reckon. Well I used to as well, I've still got it but it's all broken so yeah what are you gonna do? What are you gonna do? I'll tell you once that I rode my moped across a park near where I lived. I was basically, I might have told you this, I was gonna walk this girl who I was into, I was gonna walk her home, and I had to go back and get my keys or something, but I had my moped, so my idea was gonna walk with her, with my moped, and then just ride, when she'd gone home, got, when I got her home, just rid my moped home to my house. But as I went to go and catch her up,

and I rode my moped across the park and it's quite late at night So there's a lot of dew on the grass. Right. And I rode it along. Skidded. Yeah, and I fell off Got all dirty. But your ride wasn't a write-off though. You're absolutely fine really, truly. No, it's fine I just slid along the grass. Yeah Weebie Yeah, I had basically had grass stains all over my jeans. But probably not for the reasons I wanted them to be honest at the time. You do live and learn. I think our listeners will be absolutely delighted that you've had your moped ruined because it means

you're not going to hurt yourself on it basically. No. Well, I can't really deliver on it, can I? That's a bit upsetting, isn't it? That would have allowed me to sort of nip in and out around the gaff trying to have a little bit. Do you reckon, so you have to, presumably you have to provide your own transport for that? Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, I guess you could probably hire a car. Do you reckon you'd break even if you did a whole shift on a line bike? Do you reckon you'd break even? Oh, what if you weren't? What if you were like, well, I would probably go for the Human Forest, because you're a big line bike. Yes, a line bike you could do 400 minutes for 35 quid.

Right, right. That's like six and a half hours. That's a shift. Yeah, that's a shift. Could you make enough money to to break even doing it like that? Because then you become like a fully self facilitating modern economy nerd. Yeah, with calves like bricks, cause you just, you know, like,

I mean you do have to clothe and feed yourself as well. So you can't just brick even, oh, brick and even, yeah, but you've not, how you pay for your mortgage for crying out loud. There's loads of them, there's like a whole, I do think to myself, like, I don't know the details here, so maybe they're not making as much money as they should, I'm sure that's the case.

And probably they should be looked after better. But I do quite like it when I'm, say, walking back from a couple of beers at the pub, a local pub, and I walk past a little spot where all the Deliveroo and Uber Eats drivers sit on their Moped just hanging out. Yeah, I like that. And a lot of them seem to be South American. I feel like I want to be a part of it. Well, it used to be like people who delivered stuff. It used to be Cycle couriers, didn't it?

Then they'd all have their little sort of union and they'd all sit there having a chat about what it's like to deliver packages for a living, I presume. But now it's all like the Deliveroo guys. It's really exciting. You're right, I just want to hang out with them. Yeah, I think it looks like a great gang. I think if I was like 18, because when I was 16, 17, I was working in shops and stuff, I feel I quite like a bit of that action.

Yeah, yeah. I almost sort of look back and sort of go, why didn't I do like a little job like that for a little while? Because it's kind of like pick up and put down kind of like gig economy before the gig economy, innit? Yeah, exactly. All right, Peter, let's have a break. When we come back, we're going to do some emails. We've got quite a few to get through, so let's look forward to that.

Okay, don't. It's the Luke and Pete Show. And every single afternoon, evening, morning, depending on when you hear or experience, taste this it. We get involved and sometimes read out some emails and if you'd like to get in touch yourself hello at lukepeachow.com is the way to do it. Lukey what's been floating your boat in the email space this week? Well before I get into that I just wanted to let you know before I forget that I started watching Catterick have you seen it? Is that the one with Vick and Bob? It's Vick and Bob in it

yeah no I never bothered to be honest. Jim Campbell's always raving about it and I finally got round to watching the first episode I thought it was actually funny but it's a bit mental. There's a lovely bit where Vic playing I think he's playing like the bouncer out of the Barron Knights nightclub from Bang Bang Ruins of Mortimer sketches. I think he's playing that character where he's kind of walking down the street and he does like some sort of mad flips, like shit but good flips off the barrier near a road. It's really really funny stuff. He plays a really funny American police officer in it as well.

Right, okay, nice, lovely. Anyway, what about this from Bill? Hello to you Bill. He says, I live in Greenville, South Carolina. What do you think that's like Peter? I imagine it's like a less than Jake song. Greenville, rags-a-day! Greenville, rags-a-day! The photos of it look amazing. I've not been there. Where's the closest I would have been?

I'm going to have a look on maps. I reckon the closest I've been is probably... Charleston, probably. Greenville... North Carolina? Oh, South Carolina, okay. What are we looking at here? It's not actually that close to Charleston, but it is closer than Savannah and I've been to Savannah.

I've been to Atlanta and I've been to Nashville. I've been to Atlanta as well. It's right near to Atlanta. Atlanta. All right, cool. Atlanta. It looks great anyway. And Bill says, it's been badly hit by a recent hurricane.

Right, okay. Yeah, we saw that. That was terrible. Hurricane Helene. Yeah, we saw that. That was terrible. Hurricane Helene, yeah, it was terrible. Some wild weather going on at the moment, yeah. It's not the one on the way as well. Time recording, yeah, exactly. Good to know that Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, refused to take a call from the

White House about emergency aid because he said it was politically motivated. Well, good luck getting that funding then, buddy buddy because you'll be in a bit of a bit of a bother I reckon. Loads of people are dead anyway because of this Covid response. So a few people will blow away like the Wicked Witch of the West. Pilsen anyway, we were without power for seven days but fortunately for us our neighbours let us store stuff in their fridge as they have a generator. We'd pop by every day multiple times for milk and cheese and brackets.

You know what goes in the fridge. Yes, we do. Anyway, my wife texted the neighbor to let her know I was popping over and she said, fine. But while I was there getting the aforementioned milk, her husband walked around the corner completely stark bollock naked. Wow.

He quickly hopped back behind the door and I profusely apologised as I'm British even though it was clearly his fault. I've seen him since and he doesn't seem bothered, possibly because he's a short king and a metal artist, but I personally do feel violated. Cheers, Bill. Right. Pete, what do you think about that? Could his clothes have blown away? Could that be the story? Could that be why that's happened?

It is possible, we can't rule that out. He's got no clothes left. All he's got is a generator and a fridge. We should be laughing at that Peter. It's a natural disaster for goodness sake. No, but I mean, I just think South Carolina... You make a joke about it, I laugh and I look bad. South Carolina's could be... I mean, you're heading towards Florida, aren't you? So there's still gonna be trace amounts of Florida in this guy's DNA so he's gonna do something a bit mad isn't he? So he's part Florida man? He's part Florida man you can't deny it, you know you get to Jacksonville and and and you know if

you're the closer you get to Jacksonville you're in trouble one would suggest. Yeah one would suggest. Well thanks for letting us know I mean it doesn't seem like he wants any advice on it he just wants to get it off his chest I suggest. Well thanks for letting us know. I mean it doesn't seem like he wants any advice on it. He just wants to get it out of his chest I suppose. Well, Bill, now it's in our eye. Our minds eye. We're in all kinds of bother thinking about nudie men. I like this email from Jamie as well. Hello to you Jamie. He doesn't leave a certain name but that's fine. It's about pronunciation. It's actually very interesting.

So I'm just going to read it. We're not back to the tacos are we? That's what we were having trouble with a few weeks ago. It's a taco follow up Peter. It's a taco follow up. Good, okay. So wrap it around your noggin. And run it up your ribs. Put some sauce on it. He says, hi guys, it's Jamie here, linguistic student in Spain whose email you read out a few weeks ago. I've just got to the part where another one of your listeners talks about your pronunciation

of taco. This is a really common debate. I remember it coming up when the Great British Bake Off did their Mexican Week and it's always been interesting to me since neither side is really correct. North Americans prefer to use the A sound in father for lots of borrowed words because their alternative is the vowel in cat, which is really very different from Spanish. So for example, taco versus taco.

However, British speakers don't typically have the same vowel sound when they use the cat vowel. So they don't necessarily feel that the father vowel is closer. Americans hear it as wrong because even when they're just listening, people apply their own accent filter to sounds people make and their interpretation is coloured by the sound system they grew up using.

Basically no one's perception of language is ever universal or objective. And in fact, younger speakers in the south of England are increasingly using a cat vowel that is basically the same as the A vowel in Spanish. So if you're from the south of England, the cat vowel may... the cat vowel might be the objectively best choice for this word and others like salsa or jalapeno. All of this is moot, however, since the UK and the US pronunciations of taco sound wrong to all Spanish speakers. And the thing that's most commented on is that the English speakers

always end words with the vowel sound in go, when it should be closer to an English, not US pronunciation with the vowel sound in go, but it should be closer to an English, not US pronunciation of the vowel in hot. Tac-oh, right? Right, okay. You would be so far. Yeah, kind of, yes, yes, I think I am. It's akin to Spanish speakers arguing

whether the correct pronunciation of the word junkie is junkie or jankie, which is a real debate I've actually heard because they can't interpret the U sound in the word cut correctly because they simply don't have it just like we don't have a true Spanish sound so we make do with what sounds closest to us so what he's basically saying is taco or taco it's wrong anyway we just don't have the right a sound because we didn't grow up with that so a sound in our language never I understand right okay he says in

short pronounce however you want because every language changes the pronunciation of loan words when they're borrowed into the language. So trying to police others' use of them is futile. Kind regards, Jamie. I'd love to know what your qualifications are, Jamie. I imagine they're rock solid, but that, for me, was the email of the week.

It's a good one, isn't it? And I think when you, like, I don't know, karaoke and stuff, like Japanese borrowed words and stuff, similar sort of vibes, everything's just a straight syllable sound for them. But where do we stand on the one that I'm criticised for quite a lot? Cheritho. Cheritho, yeah. The Z sound, we'd love to hear Jamie's take on that because some people like to th the Z sound, don't they? I th it, I th with the power of a smited warlord, as you used to say.

You do, the power of a smited warlord indeed. I think I would also like to extrapolate this conversation out because I always remember reading, it was one of those columns, I guess in a newspaper, it was years ago, I can't remember, where it was like two those columns, I guess in a newspaper, it was years ago, I can't remember, where it was like two people arguing the opposite side of an argument. And the question was, should our young people start to learn Mandarin in school? And one guy was saying, yes, because you know, the Chinese economy is massive, and it's really

important and culture is going to be huge. And if you know, blah, blah, all the usual stuff. This other guy, who was a linguistics guy, was saying, don't bother, it's really important and culture is going to be huge and you know blah blah all the usual stuff this other guy who was a linguistics guy was saying don't bother it's fucking impossible and for any westerner who's grown up in the language they've grown up in you are never going to be able to get the slight nuances and vowel changes and stuff like that to make yourself a truly fluent speaker that could actually use it in any kind of meaningful way going forward now i don't know which is right there i have no knowledge of that could actually use it in any kind of meaningful way going forward. Now, I don't know which is right there. I have no knowledge of that subject whatsoever, but it seemed very interesting to me. And when I read it, I was working with a couple of people who are native Mandarin speakers, Chinese people who come to the UK or parents come to the UK.

And they were saying that the very slight inflection of the vowel sound in five or six different ways can mean completely different things. And language is only one part of the culture, isn't it? I suppose, isn't it? And even there's a guy who does, obviously not Chinese, but Japanese. And he said, he is about as deep into it as you could possibly go.

Dogan, his name is. Good name. He's a Canadian bloke, I think, maybe American. And he's lived in Japan for a very, very, very, very long time. And his kind of focus has always been Japanese linguistics in Japan. And he is, you know, he's fully immersed and about as good as he's about as good at it as you can possibly be. Like it is the very best. And even he's like, he's still treated like an outsider. So language is...

Does Chris Broad speak Japanese? He does, yeah. Not as good as his partner, Charlotte, but he speaks a bit, yeah. But he, yeah, it doesn't matter how deep you go, your appearance will still count for 99% and I guess a lot of it is kind of you know isn't it something like loads of like communication is mainly it's non-verbal like it's a lot of like eye and hand and stuff. I always say when I did my masters I was in a cohort with quite a few Chinese students. And they did a masters at a good uni. Yeah.

It was all taught in English. Yeah. And they, yeah. And I was, I was ranked that as one of the most impressive things I've seen because I didn't know if they were writing it in Mandarin and then Google translating it. But I mean, some of the concepts you're talking about is very, very difficult to do that.

So I don't know. It's a very, very difficult thing to do and you know good on them more power to them but I don't think I'll ever be learning Mandarin anytime soon or even Spanish properly unless I have Jamie to help me no exactly no more cheese see you later we're out of here let's get out of here see you on Thursday so look at it's the look of Pete show and we'll be back on Thursday. So look at it's the look of Pete show. And we'll be back on Thursday. Get your parents in for crying out loud. Hello.

Pete show dot com. We've got a hungry battery daddy that will not never ever be sated. Yeah. He just needs to be filled 24 7 plugged. Probably the the best way of saying that. It's like Bursa in that kids TV show. It is what he just will never stop making little little toys and little bits. And he was the original. She was the original 3D printer in many ways, wasn't she? Yeah. kids TV show. It is what he just will never stop making little little toys and little bits and bobs.

She was the original 3D printer in many ways wasn't she? Yeah. Because she could print anything and it would just... Sometimes it was just a dream. Some weeks she'd be making bowling balls, some weeks she'd be making shoes. Bertha, lovely Bertha. Sometimes I think you're a dream. Yeah.

Yeah, we'll be back on Thursday. Look after yourselves alright? See you later. See you later. Ta ta. Bye bye. Yeah, we'll be back on Thursday. Look after yourselves, alright? See you later. Ta-ta. Bye-bye. The Luke and Pete show is a stack production and part of the A-Cast Creator Network.