The Luke and Pete Show - A Geriatric Man of the Match Award
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It's the Luca Pietro. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Lukie Moore as we hurtle towards another Christmas period.
It's first December today. Holy shit. It is. It is the 1st of December. It's which means basically that me and Mark came to and Russell Meek for the last week.
WrestleMania. We've just gone through. It's WrestleMania. We do 12 special shows for all of the Patreon, the Patriensons.
So I spend most of December just watching wrestling,
which I'm absolutely fine with.
So you don't pre-record it all way in advance then?
That would require way more planning than we have.
No, we do sort of like do it.
I'd sort of say November into December.
I spend a lot of time watching.
I can't tell you what it is.
That's why it's so exciting.
It's like 12 little presents.
It's like an advent calendar for the Pat Pat Patrinsons,
but it doesn't cost you 120 quid.
And there's only 12 rather than 24.
You know what?
Another kind of, you know, weird development in modern life
is that Advent calendars can now have 25 doors on them,
which is not the point of them.
That was never the agreement.
No.
When we had a more than the 24th was the last day
because the next day is Christmas.
And the last thing you need is another little chocolate or whatever it is.
No, exactly, yeah.
It's not special on Christmas Day.
You've got other things to open.
I was kind of, I feel like the Advent can,
Canada should just be a little pitcher.
I think that should be enough.
I don't think it should be a chocolate.
Hitler.
Hitler.
The worst thing I've ever said.
It's like opening your presents at like 5pm on a Christmas day,
which an ex used to do.
It's just awful, awful, awful plan, awful family, awful stuff.
Yeah, I mean, I don't think, I mean, Hitler was famous for trying to nazify the Christmas
holiday, wasn't there?
I don't think I'm trying to do that.
I'm just saying that I feel like it might be a harsh.
a harsh verdict from you on that.
Right, yeah.
I just think, you know,
open the door to number seven
on the 7th of December
and see a respectful shepherd.
A respectful shepherd or a star.
Why does it be co-opted?
The star would be on the 25th,
or 24th, whatever it would be.
I guess so, yeah.
But wouldn't it have to be a cabrie chocolate?
Why does it have to be that?
Well, if it was anything else, yeah, fine.
I think that's probably why these sort of
these beauty advent calendars are so exciting
or, you know, you can probably get like,
I think you'd probably get like cheese ones and,
yeah, I don't like it.
I don't like it.
A meat one.
What, if you open an advent kind of a door and you saw a little Lego hot dog
and every day you got a little bit more of the Lego play set,
you'd like a bit of that, right?
They must do that, right?
They must do that.
They do it with a little bag of Lego things in it, I think.
Right, nice.
Each time and you end up building a thing.
Because obviously you're not really going to build much
with 24 Lego pieces, are you?
No, but I think with 24 Lego pieces.
piece, on the 24th, you should get
the plan. You know what I mean? You collect
all you should get, and you've put it together as best you
can, not knowing what it's
supposed to be. That's why I
don't really understand adult Lego,
unless we've been sponsored this week by them, I think
it's great. That's why I don't understand
adult Lego, because at the end of the day, it's not
particularly creative, it's relaxing, I imagine,
but it's not particularly creative, just following,
just doing, fucking, I put
together a metal
sort of parcel receptacle
for outside my house, so we don't
have people ringing the doorbell all hours of the night.
And that was one of the most difficult flat pack furniture put together's I've had in my life.
Terrible, terrible bit of work.
And yeah, it's just like that, really.
I just feels like you're just assembling someone else's idea of a Boeing 747.
That's exactly what it is.
And I think it's probably part of the infantilisation of adulthood, isn't it?
But we do.
I buy a big Lego set for the fact.
family every Christmas and we all take it. Yeah, we all take it turn to
it's kind of just a nice thing to do it but you're absolutely right that's your
assessment of it's spot on but every time we get the big legacy of my family my dad
who's older now and slowed down quite a lot but also has retained the stubbornness of
all dads and every single time it's his turn to do one of the little bags because we're all
in little bags aren't they he's sitting at the kitchen at the dining table doing it and without
fail, without fail, every time after a while.
Well, this bad's wrong.
It's not wrong.
It is.
It's wrong.
It could be wrong.
What's going on?
I remember last year, I had to look it up online, and I found out that Lego is basically
lauded as having the best quality quality control of any product in the world.
Apparently, only 18 bricks in every million fail the, the, um, the, um, the, um, the
past the what's it called the quality control test
every Lego brick must be size accurate
to 0.002 of a millimeter
and they have like
hundreds of people making sure the
the packs are
you've just put a brick in the wrong place
well I haven't you have
you've put a brick in the wrong place
let's just go back find out where it's gone wrong
and we'll do it again oh it's worth it's fine
I'm glad there's other people in your life like me
you've got to deal with
I can never do a Lego set with you well first of all
You wouldn't sit in the same spot for long enough to do it.
I'd get marmalade on it or something.
It's becoming food.
If we got the Lego Home Alone house, I'd spend...
Where's Kevin? He's up my arse.
Deal with that.
I've put Kevin up my ass.
I spent 60 seconds doing the little tree house in the garden.
Turn back again.
You're in fucking O'Neils in Leicester.
Or some indie bar in Riga.
Having an Asahi.
I think a lovely Asahi.
It's going to be a photo with little Kevin McAllister on your shoulder.
I've won Man of the Match at my own.
11 aside, not really won, I think it was just my turn.
But I got the Man on the Match Award and I,
they give you a little trophy to, you know,
cavort about with and send pictures.
I don't, not get, obviously not getting involved with that sort of silliness.
But I've been away and will be away actually this week as well
because I've got to go up north.
And there, I've told you, I'm going up north.
Thanks, man, let me know.
That's all right.
And so I basically just hijacked and,
you know,
kidnap the
man-of-the-match
trophy.
So they can't
give it out
for the next
two weeks.
So, wait a
minute,
is this the first
time you've got
a man-of-the-match
this season?
Yeah.
And that was the first time
I'll give me the trophy.
They won't give me it
again because I've had it for two weeks.
What have they?
I mean this with the greatest
possible of respect and love.
What was the justification
for giving you a man-in-the-match?
I think they were just
leveling up.
They were just sort of,
I don't know.
Maybe,
maybe I didn't play as bad as I usually do.
Do you feel happy?
You must feel proud.
There's something quite...
Do you feel accepted by the wider group
and their problematic WhatsApp messages?
No, they're all right.
This lot are the over 50s.
They're great.
They're lovely ones.
Okay.
So, okay.
So, the evidence is starting to emerge.
You're 44.
Okay.
I'm not.
According to the FA League, I'm 45.
Okay, but the rest of them are over 50?
No, some of them are between 45.
You can have under, you can have a few 45ers.
So is this the team that you occasionally have to run the line for,
referee and playing goal?
Yeah, and play out, thank you.
They're over 50 and you're not playing.
You're not getting in the team.
Is big, if you're still playing football at 50,
most of them have had some sort of semi-pro career
because they're 50 and they're still playing.
They still want to play.
So they're clearly okay at football.
So you're basically getting a sympathy man of the match award
for running the line for a bunch of pensioners.
Not running that.
I played all the match.
I played 90 minutes of shit hell.
And I didn't realize my asthma thing had stopped working.
So I was completely asthma pumpless as well.
I had none of that mucked course and through my veins.
You're trying to suck on the man in the match award
because you thought it was in a hater.
The only reason I'm in net is because we don't have a fucking keeper.
I need to get big Pav out of retirement.
Ah, yeah.
I mean, Pav's a big unit these things.
days, though. He's a big unit back
then, and he was still, you know, Neville South
old cat-esque, he's the best
he's the best keeper I've ever seen.
Our keeper
that occasionally turns up as a big unit.
He sometimes borrows my knee press.
Some people
are calling him Big Pav, Big John.
You're the Chinese order guy.
Right. Oh, right,
okay, nice, yeah, yeah. But the Bosch.
He's still the best.
Him at 1% of what
I saw him back in the day would still
you're a better goalkeeper than anyone I've ever seen.
Yeah, get him, get him play.
What's the name of the team?
Get him.
Villanova, over 50s.
Vianova over 50s.
Perhaps our age, so he probably would be eligible.
Yeah, he would be, yeah.
Yeah.
And when you're in, and when you're in bins, nobody cares.
Like, I'm sorry, if I was, I am not technically supposed to be playing for them until
April, but when you're as shit as me, no one's going to ever pull on that thread.
Not ever going to go, he's a ringer.
He looks too young.
You're only as good as your last man of the match award, mate.
You're only as good as...
Yeah, and I've kidnapped this one, so they can't have it back.
It's like fish with the Jackson Psychopedia belt.
Yeah, the linear lineal belt.
I keep on threatening...
If I had a bit more free time, I'd make the Jackson Cyclopedia belt.
I'll get it done.
I did order some leather from...
I did it...
I did not order a bit of latex sort of belt from China.
Yeah, get it done.
Get it done.
I think it'll be good because I think what we could do is make sure that the
person who's holding it at the time has to wear it
for the recording. Exactly. Yeah.
I think so. How many people who listen to the show
do you reckon listen to the ramble?
It's got to be in the high 80s, isn't it?
It's the only reason why you put it with us.
I don't reckon it is.
You reckon? I would wonder
what was going through anyone's head.
There's too many rambled episodes. It's just too many rambled
episodes, I think. Oh, what? To satisfy
their need. So I think it was that back
in the day when we only had
like two rambul episodes a week.
Yeah.
I don't know, man. It's just
find us organically now
people who don't like football
I'd love to know
well I definitely have a low opinion on them
well it's only because it mirrors
a low opinion you have it yourself though right
yeah definitely definitely yeah
anyway we're talking about the first December
we talk about Aviccandas
what is the
what you're clearly ramping up
for the festive period
I think the festive period started really early this year
now I tell you why
because we're working media
and nobody does fuck all in December
yeah no two observations
because we do football
Two observations I make is that one obviously,
or one's just bought a statement really.
I'm normally in the US this time of year.
I haven't been this year for various different reasons.
So I've noticed the build up to Christmas in the UK.
Normally I'd be absent.
And it started so early.
I can't believe how early it started.
Yeah.
My theory for that is,
and it's a sad theory,
and I'll be interested in now if you share it,
is that I think that people,
I've started Christmas really, really early this year
because they're desperate for something interesting
and fun and good and wholesome
because their lives are shit
because the country's in an absolute state.
Oh, don't you start?
What do you think?
I don't know.
I mean, I think it's hard to tell really, I suppose.
I didn't realize how important my joy of Christmas is.
My joy Christmas is starting to sort of ramp up
because Littland and I've got other Littland's joining us for Christmas
and I'm really excited to, you know, ruin the turkey.
And so, like, there's just a lot of, like,
it's starting to become important to my daughter.
So I'm like, oh, actually, this is actually,
I see why parents go so wild on Christmas because it's...
Oh, it's much better with kids.
It's amazing, yeah.
It's magical with kids.
Absolutely, no question about that.
But here you go, then, what date,
have a guess, what date you think,
the first Christmas advert in the UK aired this year?
What date?
Oh.
What, they actually...
sort of, well, yeah, but it's got to be a big brand.
It's got to be your John Lewis as rather than, because like, you know,
if fucking some Forex trading company decided to bust one out, it's just to antagonize
in early November.
I'll tell you the brand if you want me into one of the brand.
The brand is, ASDA.
Asda, right.
So they were the first ones to go, were they?
Right, okay.
John Lewis went three days after ASDA.
Yeah.
All right, 10th of November.
November 1st is the answer.
Hmm, that seems too early.
That does seem too early.
I think it does.
I think to me...
I think it's because we don't have a Thanksgiving to worry about, though.
Do you know what I mean?
It's like in America, you have your Thanksgiving
and sort of remember why you hate your extended family
and then you do it all again for Christmas.
Do you know what Thanksgiving is like a strangely non-commercial holiday in the US,
by which I mean, you don't, there's no presents.
Oh, is there not?
No one does presents.
Oh, it's just food and getting together and community.
I like that.
It's been, it's quite frowned upon to do presents.
it's like a faux part
no one does presents
So as soon as Thanksgiving's
finished obviously you got Black Friday
Then everything starts going
going bonkers
But to me
I would be
You know talking to you
You were accusing me of
Who did you call me earlier
Adolf Hitler
Didn't it was Adolf Hitler
Well to the internet
Luke
Would it be an Adolf Hitler
Move to say
There's a ban on Christmas
till December 1st
December 1st
Feels like the time it should start
It's sort of
If you're Richard Little John
and you're writing in the
Daily Mail, sure.
If you're going to make
some mad coin out of writing some
reactionary shit.
Is he on money, do you reckon?
Is he on money?
Little John, he's been there for years.
He's one of their main, you know,
every dad in the UK.
Froth's at the idea of him,
you know, going to town on some blue-haired
walk nonsense.
But I wonder if he's still getting paid, though.
He's still getting old-fashioned newspaper money, is he?
He's probably on a fair amount.
Yeah, Little John.
He's just fire him.
He hates workers.
Right. He's just fucking fire the guy.
He's one of the, he's one of the,
He's one of the duels in the Daily Mail crowd.
All I'm saying is,
all I'm saying is
you're not ready mentally,
you're not prepared for Christmas
on November 1st.
That is not even Christmas adjacent.
It's not.
No.
No, I guess not.
Do you remember the temperature in this country
on November 1st?
It was about fucking 16 degrees.
It was, it was balmy, wasn't it?
And then this cold snap
really took us by surprise, really, yeah.
So I would probably limit it to 1st December
if I was the adult hit leave
accused me a bit.
That's all I'm saying.
Okay, fine.
But I'm not, so I won't.
If you were the Richard Littlejohn of what I also accuse you of,
the things he's gone about recently,
he's very focused on obviously Starma and the BBC.
I don't see his output really right anymore.
Is he on socials, is he?
Oh, well, he just, he doesn't seem to be as,
he doesn't seem to be having as much fun, it seems.
I don't think he's on social.
I've just, I just Google Richard Little John for the first time,
probably about 15 years.
And the first thing that's come back is Richard Littlejohn,
Daily Mail, the Beebe has turned
its back on Middle England. That is playing the
hits. That is playing the absolute
hits from Little John. He's not changed his act
for like, fucking 40 years. No, he really hasn't.
No, no. He's, yeah,
he's, I mean, football clubs
take the knee for BLM.
Just finish that sentence. So he should
choose anything really good. There's an amazing,
there's an absolutely amazing
video on YouTube
of Richard Little John when he was still
invited on things like question time.
Getting tied up in
knots by the
admittedly tedious but nevertheless
very intelligent Will Self right
and they have a big debate
I think it's question time might be some other late night
culture show or something
and Will Self runs rings
around him to such an extent
he gets Richard Little John to claim
that his own Richard Little John's
own novel that's just come out is much more
complicated than Tolstoy
and Will Smith's just sitting there going
more complicated than Tolstoy
as little John has to paint themselves
with such a corner
it's really really good
it's good behaviour all round
I miss Will's self on the telly
maybe I just don't watch your telly
and he's on it loads
Did he be cancelled?
No I think he's alright
I think he's probably one of those blocks
who were
who the left
probably
you know
sort of canonised
and then he says something
that they don't quite like
and then everyone gets upset
and that's that
but I don't
very objectionable
sort of expression on his face
hasn't he?
That's the heroine
Oh, he was, he was into that, wasn't he?
Did it on Tony Blair's playing,
apparently that was his big story, wasn't it?
I'd say, that is, I do like his books.
That is quite good behaviour again.
I'm doing her and on Tony Blair's playing.
I've got an, I'll have to be honest with you.
I've got an admiration for that.
Yeah.
I like well self.
He's good.
He's just got that kind of, um, I don't care.
Very, yeah, very, yeah, very enjoyable.
All right, let's take a break.
All right.
to consider the impact of Will's self
and why we don't see him on TV anymore.
Maybe some people are getting touched.
I mean, to be fair to the listeners,
if we are unaware that he's been counselled in some way,
I have looked at his Wikipedia page.
You're standing there's no controversy tab.
You wouldn't put it in your own Wikipedia, would you?
Who's editing Will Self Wikipedia?
Oh, just people.
Who edits any of this stuff?
Just people.
Who edits any of this stuff?
Good point.
Imagine having to sort of just go through it
like a day of, you know,
daily mail sidebars
and just sort of go right now
yeah, right, Jessica Simpson's
going to have done this
and put that in the Wikipedia.
I think people do, I mean, generally,
Pete, I hate to break it to you,
but people do generally use Wikipedia.
I mean, that is,
it's a very well-used website.
Yeah, but like who's updating
Will, why does anybody care about
Will Self's, you know,
various controversies?
If indeed there are already,
which we don't know
because it's not,
but your logic,
we're not going to go to a break now
because your logic here
seems to be that no one
who's got a Wikipedia page
then by that rationale
can have a controversy tab.
No, I'm just saying that who is filling in the country,
who is filling in, like it doesn't automatically get updated, does it?
And a man, probably stinking of a lot of coffee, is tapping away,
copying, you know, news stories from the Daily Mail or the Sun or the Telegraph or the Guardian.
I could go on listing all newspers by Shant.
And they're going onto the Wikipedia and going, well, that he's updating.
I'll update that.
And then getting your little, you know, that little bit of dope of your hit that you've updated the internet.
For a big, large language model to just munch up.
Real self wrote a collection of columns for the new statesman
about food, which was then assorted into a compendium
called The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker.
That tells you everything you need to know about the man.
Right, let's take a break.
He wrote a book about being a chimp, like I read once.
We're back with a Luke and Peter Shaw.
Luke, should we do some bloody emails?
It's not done some for a while.
Yeah, we've got an email in here, I think.
Let's have a little.
Do you want to do it or do you want me to do it?
I'll do the one from Rodgers.
I'll do the first one off the first cab off the rank.
Hello, gents.
Second I'm email.
I'm after the double A.
Good God, Beligian.
Incredibly failed to make the battery daddy last year.
I've just listened to it on Monday 17th November show
and Luke's story about his Cambridge dinner with Maximus Babs
wants me to make me on an email again.
I like Luke, I'm a total history nerd.
Babra does sound like a legend indeed.
It's actually Maximum Babs, not Maximus Babs.
Maximum Babs, right, okay.
In Gladiated, Maximum Babs, yeah.
All right.
It will, it made me wonder if Luke or any other listeners had actually read the 9-11 Commission Report.
Yeah, that's what Maximum Babs was talking about.
Was talking about, right, yeah.
Years ago, I saw a free Kindle Taster, the first 50 pages on Amazon.
This is amazing.
This is like Alan Partridge.
You should do that with the old Epstein files.
You get your first 50.
I dabbled and ended up buying and devouring the whole thing.
It is an amazing and fascinating read.
I'm sure people imagine, as I previously did,
that the work would be a boring all-government document
and almost impossible to digest.
It is anything but it is superbly written
and reads like a fast-paced thriller.
I would highly, highly recommend it,
especially for people of our generation interest in history
as 9-11 is such a defining moment.
Luke, if you do give it a go,
I would love to know your thoughts.
All the best boys, Rodders.
If I put that PDF of the 9-11 commission report,
buying it off Amazon, getting on my Kindle,
shoved it into chat, GPD, and said,
summarise that, give me the main point,
and it would just say, it don't melt the beams.
It just don't melt them beams.
That's what I said.
I mean, Rodgers has done a pretty good job
of selling that into me, to be honest.
I would be just reading it.
I've never considered reading it
because I apparently incorrectly assumed
it would be dry as fuck.
Yeah. I think with, I think when you read, I guess Wikipedia is a little bit more salacious.
But if you ever sort of go around, like clicking around the 9-11, kind of like the hijackers where they came from, where they started from where they're, I think, I think, the most upsetting thing about 7-7, I think was seeing the journey, seeing the videos of like the lads, the lads, the terrorists, the murders, on the platform at like Luton and stuff, like parking their car up at Luton.
They never see that car again.
That was the 7-7 thing, right, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's that kind of visceral sort of, like, how their day started is almost more interesting than what happened afterwards.
It's just like how they got there, all of the things that had to...
That bit can seem almost, you know, more sinister in a way. Because the normality of it, it's like, you know, the normality of it is what makes it relatable and therefore makes it more terrifying.
It's like, it's the, it's the principle of, you know, what Hannah Errant called the banality of evil, right?
The unpalatable, the unpalatable truth that, you know, Hannah Arant's, like, take away from covering the Nuremberg trials was that these people are just, they are, you know, they're human beings.
They're not, it helps you psychologically to be able to file them in that little box in the corner over there as quote unquote monsters, but they're not.
And it's important to accept they're not.
Now, I guess you could probably argue clearly that the reference point you used there, the example you used are essentially radicalised terrorists with very twisted world views.
But if you look at the Nazi comparison, it's kind of anything but really.
I mean, their worldview is twisted.
It was a more systemic thing, I suppose.
Yeah, well, quite.
And it's essentially, to extrapolate out, the most sinister and troubling thing outside of the horrendous amounts of death and suffering.
of course, is that you look at,
there are countless examples in Nazi Germany
of men who were fucking postmen
until they joined the Nazi party,
rose through the ranks being horrendous war criminals,
inflicted incredible suffering on people
for no reason whatsoever,
and then after the war and after that regime,
fucking five years later,
what are they again?
fucking postmen.
Right?
Yeah, mad.
I actually went to go and see that film Nuremberg last week
that I'll tell you.
Oh, is it good?
It's really good.
And I don't actually know about the conversation about it.
There's a big controversy about it.
I didn't know.
And I subsequently found out about it.
For those who don't know what it is,
it's a movie about essentially,
ostensibly about Herman Goering and the Nuremberg trials,
but it's about some other Nazi war criminals as well.
And it's told from the point of view
of the psychologist, psychiatrist, sorry,
who had to, you know, analyze them and stuff.
And it's basically the true story.
all the character in it are real.
Russell Crowe is absolutely frightening in it.
Fantastic.
Fantastic in it.
Brilliant performance.
Anyway, and the controversy is that in the trial itself,
when they dramatized the trial,
they use the actual Holocaust footage.
Yes.
And people, have you read about that?
Yeah.
And people have said that, you know, it's completely unnecessary
and it's, you know, over the top.
And I actually disagree.
I thought it's the opposite.
I thought I felt it deeply affecting.
and deeply moving
and the impact of people at the time
who would have been witnessing that trial
covering it or even prosecuting
or whatever it is
wouldn't have seen that footage before
and so the impact I had on them
was absolutely seismic
and rightly so
and I think it's absolutely vital
to the narrative that it's included
a brilliant movie
but the point is that like
the guy who Rami Malik plays
the psychiatrist he wrote a book
he actually a very
I forget his name now
but he actually a very
troubling life
post doing that work. He ended up
taking his own life in exactly the same way that
Herman Goering did, which is
strange. And he was
desperately
worried that
this Nazism, this fascism would
visit the United States.
And he spent all this time
warning against it and he was
depressive and it kind of made him an alcoholic and all the rest of it.
It's a terrible story. But one of the
takeaways from it is absolutely that
these people are normal people
before until they're not
right and that for me I could totally
agree that I know what you're referencing with that
looting car park theme because it's in that 7-7
documentary on the eye player
they track them through using the CCTV
and stuff and I'm like you know
picking up a little train ticket
it's like that's weird yeah everything
everything seems just so
it's horrible it's it but now
anyway
Rodgers you set us on that
on that track with your depression
yeah five stars
the 9-11 commission reports.
I will give it a go.
I'll definitely,
if it's available,
I'll give it a go
to have a read.
I should do it out of respect
for Barbara,
actually, who I liked a great deal
and who I enjoyed spending time with,
so I should respect her work
and read it on her account.
I wonder if the,
I wonder if the,
I wonder where that money goes.
Where's that,
like,
back to the commission,
does it go to the victims?
Where does the money
that you,
when you pay to buy a publicly funded document?
Seems weird,
doesn't it?
It's good question.
maybe it's free in America
maybe it's geolocked
I think we can all
be confident and safe
in the knowledge that whatever happens
to that money
will be repurposed
absolutely properly
by the current administration
it will go to that
speaking of that by the way
I've got that Bitcoin man
who's laundering money
for ISIS and that
speaking that he's just been pardoned
speaking of which
there's a brilliant article
at the time recording
that came out in the Atlantic
yesterday online
it will be in the next edition
by a guy called Tom Nichols
who's a brilliant academic
and public intellectual and writer
and he's written an amazing article
in The Atlantic called
The President is losing control of himself
and it's absolutely frightening
and he is the guy well worth reading
so if you are interested in that type of stuff
do give it a bash.
I read it while I was wanting for my son
to drop off to sleep and it depressed me.
It depressed me a great deal.
I mean it frightened me in fact.
It seems that this new sort of development
and obviously we're recording this a few days in advance
so God knows what they'll be on to later
but these Epstein files there
it seems to
Teflon Don seems to be slightly bruised by it
and there's a lot of people sort of saying
oh yeah he's probably going to quit
and he's like a narcissist never quits
that level of narcissism never quits
he's going to be there until he's
he's going to be Billy Bullocks naked
on top of his
on top of the roof of his new ballroom
like Smeet and his own shit
actually everything's fine
It will be like a South Park episode
by the end
This is but much more frightening
This article
It kind of does a lot of comparison
between the mental state of Richard Nixon
in 1974
Who was drinking a lot
And becoming really erratic
And he had a secretary of defence
Who was genuinely very worried
About Nixon's behaviour
A guy called James Schlesinger
Who
Who then
basically left the chain of command
and went outside of the presidential
kind of briefing
and said to the chiefs of staff
any unusual orders from Nixon
you need to tell me straight away
you have to tell me straight away
and the point that Tom Nichols is making
that actually happened
and the point that Tom Nichols is making
there's no one there in Trump's worse than that
and Trump's Secretary of Defense
is, or Secretary of War now as he's called
is Pete Heggsett who is fucking insane
so
strap yourselves in
He likes a drink, though, so maybe he'll be a bit more chilled out of it.
I'm my, good God.
Good God.
Yeah, because Trump's Teetotal famously, isn't he?
Yeah.
I think he should just have a little bit.
Cool his jets a little bit.
Take him up, Neil's in Leicester.
Take him up, Neil's in Leicester.
Just give him a pint of Asahi.
Donnie's Digital Darts.
Get on Donnie's digital.
Donnie and Donnie.
I'll take him for a Don-on-on-don digital darts experience.
and we will just see how we go.
The Donnie and Donnie show.
The Donny and Donny show.
Instead of throwing warheads, Donnie.
Let's throw some darts.
Let's throw some arrows.
On that delicate night, let's get out of here.
All right then.
We'll be back doing our own Look at Pete Shaw commission
in the form of a podcast on Thursday's show.
Get your emails in, get your Christmas messaging in,
whatever you want to get out there.
Birth's Death, Marriages.
We'll read them out.
at hello at looppeachore.com.
That sounds great.
See you then.
Goodbye.
