The Luke and Pete Show - A Heartwarming Phone Booth Story

Episode Date: September 7, 2026

We kick off today’s show with a question of vital importance. What would be the most embarrassing song to be found listening to when you died? Luke and Pete name their picks.Speaking of music, a certain big name actor has just released an album with a highly-respected hip-hop supergroup and Luke’s got some thoughts on the matter. He also tells a lovely tale concerning a nerd and a far-flung phone booth.Finally, we’re talking AI again and there’s a hot take in the offing.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [e-mail] Luke and Pete Show is the sometimes ridiculous, always funny podcast with Luke Moore and Pete Donaldson: two men who have time on their hands and a good idea of how to waste it. Subscribe to get your comedy podcast fix every Monday and Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Luke and Pete Johnson. I am Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Luke Mower. Hello. You're all right? Yeah, not bad. How are you? I'm good. I'm good. I think in the other day, what's the worst song you could be discovered to be listening to at the time you died? I thought about it a lot the other day. Chris Broad talks about it.

He only listens to songs that he actually, you only listen to the songs where he is, he'd be happy to listen to when he died. That's weird. That's a bit too much pressure on you. Yeah, massively. You can't listen to any old talk. But I listen to a lot of like, you know, rubbish.

It would be. Well, I came up with the very worst one I could think of. Well, I kind of narrowed it down to two. So, and the scenario I kind of gave to myself was, you know, some kind of pleading. officer or community officer detailing my last moments to my loved ones, right?

And then he or she says, and finally, we know one thing we can tell you about the, about his death, Mrs. Moore, is that he was listening to X, right? That's the thing I'd be most annoyed about if, yeah, nice. And I got narrowed down to two. And coming

in his second place was Rhythm of the Night by Corona. Right, okay. This is the rhythm. Yeah, yeah. Why is that? I think inappropriate. It's not a great song. It's got to throw away.

And then the one that actually I set it on that would be the worst for me personally, I think would be two princes by the spin doctors. Really? Yeah. But play it to yourself in your head. Play it to yourself in your head. The bit in the middle, as your last breath takes, he's going,

marry him or marry me I'm the one that I don't want to die to that No, are you sure? I don't think it's that bad I don't think it's bad bad What would be the worst then? It would have to be

Maybe some AI music or something Do you know what I mean? Yeah Or like What I got to school for By busted Do you know what I mean Something really really throw away

You specifically, what I go to school for by Busting, wouldn't be that bad. It's on brand. It's not on brand at all. It's a diet version of your brand, but it's brand adjacent. They live outside all that muck. They live outside all that muck. In what way? Well, they were a good, you know, well, they were a confection for one,

which isn't how most bands get put together in the, you know, in the emo Midwest. And they were just, you know, they were. they weren't really into the music that they were actually playing. Look at how Charlie, whatever his name is, has gone on to. He's gone on to do that band where he, what does he do? He's sort of like, doesn't he wear a, is it called President or something? He wears like a mask. Because he keeps on trying to do side projects, but people cannot get the past,

get past the fact that he's in busted. Speaking of mask, have you seen the Tom Hardy rap? Yes, now. Interesting. Is he getting away with that? I feel like people are letting him get away with it. Well, let me give people the rundown because they might not know. So Tom Hardy, obviously the Tom Hardy rapper and, sorry, fucking what we're talking about.

That's he's got to me. Actor and all the rest of it. He's into rap. He is authentically a big hip-hop fan. That's definitely the case. Yeah. And he's decided that he wants to. be, you know, put a record out.

Yeah. And he's, and he's got a, um, he's got a rap name, which is Frankie Pullets are, which I quite like. Yeah. And, um, but he's done, the thing is, it's not like he's just decided I'm going to put a rap record out because that would be, that would obviously just probably be difficult to pull off. But he's done it with Zah Face, which is like a really incredible, like, kind of, I guess,

like a, what would you call it, like a hip-hop super group really? Because obviously, Inspector Dex in there and there's a couple of producers. in there. He's assembled the right to people, I think it's fair to say. Yeah, and they've got a record. They wouldn't necessarily work on Tutt, would they? No, they've got a record with Ghostface Killer, which is fucking brilliant. And they've done the record with MF Doom, right?

Who is the, you know, the one man Mount Rushmore of hip-hop. And so their credentials are amazing. And he's put this record out you know, called Sars Face meets Frankie Pulitzer, which is basically Zah Face with Tom Hardy. And they

put a video out as well. And like, on on the video, he's rapping with like method man and stuff. Yeah. And it sounds decent. Now, he wears a mask and people know it's him obviously because I guess it's just been leaked out there or he's seeded it out there. He's been doing it. He's been doing that for a little while though,

I said. But the only problem I've got with it because he's genuinely pretty good. And the only problem I've got of it is he puts on an American accent. I don't know why he does that. Maybe it's because it's going to sound really jarring otherwise. It's authenticity, isn't it? It's kind of... But it's inauthentic. But it's inauthentic. Yeah, yeah, it's mad,

it's kind of hard. I think with I think Kathy Bates catches a stray quite early in the rap and it's like

why you like you might have to work with her one day well she's I mean she's probably he's made a calculation there because she's getting on a bit now

isn't she? Right okay yeah nice so his chance so he's not going to have to work with her yeah but why is his audience why is who would

how many of his audience wouldn't know who Kathy Bates was maybe he's been deeply affected by maybe the film misery

yes exactly Which is quite chilling, actually. Yeah. But the, but, I mean, it does sound decent. That's the thing. It's actually decent. So I think it's quite a brave thing to do because people would want to be hating on it. But I think objectively it's actually very good.

Yeah, that's, he's clearly been doing it for a long time. He's clearly been a fan of the genre for a long time. And he's an actor, I guess, right? So he's just acting a role as a rapper, I guess it kind of works. Yeah. You sound skeptical. You sound more skeptical than me about it. But that's, I mean, I think he's, it's, it's, it's,

It's a problem for him, though, I suppose, because you know what, us Brits are like with stuff like this. We will not allow, you know, the bloke from ground force, Keitha Soverland. Like, we react to all right this quite coolly, I think. Demi Lewis, a very good and poor example of the whole. Since he did that national anthem at that sporting event. Exactly.

And so you're kind of like, well, you, I just don't think British arts can get away with that. So maybe he thinks, maybe it's affecting an American actor. It's one of the weirder rules about British culture, which is as far as try to sum up as following as follows. If you're shit at everything, you can do whatever you want. If you're really good at one thing, you can only do that one thing. It's kind of a weird thing.

Even if you're quite good at the other thing. Yeah, people won't let you have it. Yeah, people won't let you have it. Like my friend, as you know, my good friend runs a, he's the editor of a songwriting magazine, which is a really great music magazine specifically dedicated to the art of songwriting, right? It does some events around it as well. If you live in the Bristol area, you should definitely check out

Bristol Song Circle, which they do every quarter. And they get genuinely good songwriters in there and stuff. But he gets a lot of face time with obviously songwriters, right? That's part of the job and every issue they have a cover style and all the rest of it. And they've had like big names. We've had like Dolly Parton on there,

you know, God rest of her and all that kind of stuff. And he's, and they, but occasionally the ones they do get put up are like a Kiefer Sutherland or a David Lewis. Yeah. and he said the most frustrating things that they won't answer any questions about their acting career.

Yeah. And to me, I mean, he's not said this, but to me, that just feels like you're having your cake and eating it there. Like,

you're only getting this fucking attention because you'll keep a suffering. Because you're an actor, but you won't talk about your acting, yeah. Yeah, completely agree. Um,

what, um, have you got anything in your locker that you could sort of turn your hand to now at this age? Certainly you're not fucking golfer. I tell you. What? Did you,

didn't you play some with Rory? he produced a Rory quite recently. Yeah, Rory's good though. Yeah. I've played with Rory a few times. He's decent. Right. Right. I'm actually getting a little bit better.

Right. But, yeah, I play, Rory's great. Rory's actually genuinely a very good golfer. And he's left-handed, which means he looks better. Do people shout four when they hit the ball still? They do. Not when they hit the ball. It's if they think the ball's going to hit someone.

Oh. Did you think that people shout four every time they drive it? I thought they'd, yeah, the time they smash it down. Four, because anyone's on the, Absolutely noise pollution, menace. Yeah, just, no. Yeah, but how many, how many holes are there, 18? So, like, there's only 18 people who could possibly be shouting four at any time.

No, because you're playing groups of up to four, don't you? And they play all day. Four, four, four, four. Yeah, okay, fair. All right, fine. So, it's going to be, so basically, even if you only had 100 people playing your course that day, times 18 holes. Yeah, yeah.

You could have 1,800 shouts of 4. might fucking make it more watchable, I think. Well, basically, the reason people shout four is because if they hit a big shot and it goes veers right or left, it might go towards someone else on a different hole. So you've got to shout four. I see, right. To be honest, I was thinking about this the other day. I don't even really know what good it's going to do

because it's a golf ball flying towards you from quite high up in the air, quite a speed. All you can do is if you think you're... People just hunts their shoulders and crouched down a bit. That's all they do. And you don't even know what direction it's coming from usually. So it's not like you can stand behind a tree or anything anyway. No.

I guess just cross your hands over the top of your head, I suppose. That's the best you can kind of... There was a guy... I was chatting to someone in a clubhouse a while back who said... He happened to be in a group of older fellas and it was one of these guys... One of them's first round back for like a year.

Right. Because he got hit in the head with a golf ball. the year before. Oh, wow. And that had to close the course and the ambulance had to come and it's quite serious. Whoa.

What happened? Did he get like, someone slashed the ball and just chinted fucking drilled him in the head. Jesus Christ. That's awful. Awful. It's not good stuff that.

So probably not, I probably couldn't be a golfer. I don't know if I've got any other note, it's called discernible skills really. Well, what about you? You could be, I think you'd be a pretty good visual artist couldn't you if you wanted to?

No, I don't know. Yes, you could. Yeah, I don't think I've, I mean, I have such, I mean, I have such low opinions of my actual, you know, the things I do every day, I suppose, or, you know, I don't really think I can do anything anyway. So maybe that's, maybe that's the example. If you can't do something, you can do everything. Well, I think, you know, I think you've got, I've told you this before, you've got a big confidence problem. If you had big, if you had my

confidence. Big dick energy. If I had big dick energy like, Louie. Well, I'm not saying that. I'm just saying if you, if you had my confidence, you would be really successful because I've got all the confidence and no real ability, which you've got what I need. What I need is the confidence of that boy who was taken out of that pub on the previous show. Thank you, Kant. Thank you, Kant.

The more I think about it, the more it was a proper, um, Harvey Price. Was it a Harvey Price? Yeah, he didn't say it at all like Harvey Price. I've just made it sound like he did. Thank you, Kant. Yeah. But obviously, I forgot to say to you as well at the boxing last week. There was, um, I mean, me and I was with a few of my mates.

none of whom are partakers in the recreational substances but we were just there because we like boxing and it was like a running joke because you're obviously there for like six or seven hours it was a running joke how free the urinals were right yeah of course yeah I just thought that people would just be getting up to it in the actual

I didn't see any of that stuff right I didn't see that but you see that occasionally at the football don't you yeah you do yeah there was a game I want to say it was maybe some kind of playoff final that was on TV and then there was a pitch invasion at the end

right and there was a guy who was caught on camera on live TV snort on a big fat line off an iPad why did he brought an iPad it was like a mini iPad did they make iPad minis at one point I think so yeah right okay I see

that's what it seemed like it would mean I guess it could have been in one of your big funky phones it could have been one of my big funky phones I'd need to talk to the man who I paid 40 pound for a deposit to fix my phone he's not he's not he's not provided a xiamy screen for me yet i need to get back in touch i'm terrible at i am looking after my businesses i paid 300 pounds for um my cat to go to the vet the other day no part of it included the blood test and i've paid them money and they've not even

get they've not given me the results and it's like two weeks hence how shit do you've got to be for fuck sake i mean that how far away does they have to send these this blood this cat blood i know I called him a couple times. No one answers. Yeah, well, so a little fella. I've got a story for you, which I think you'll like. It's quite a heartwarming story. I think it's right up your street.

There's a guy who lives in Cornwall. And there's no way to kind of sugarcoat this. He's a nerd, which is fine. It's fine to be a nerd. Nerds run the world these days. Not for the better, but I mean, it's fine to be a nerd generally. And he's a very, he's a big traditional British phone box enthusiast. So he's up the

Francis Bourgeois and phone boxes. Okay, I see. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So if you can imagine, you know, Francis Borgia. Doesn't he present Top Gear now, by the way? I think he's on Top Gear. I think his favorite car is, I think he's got a really souped up Honda Jazz. Does he do cars? Yes, he does cars, yeah, inexplicably.

And he's got a Fetuchina, a Honda Jazz. He's got a Honda Jazz. A souped up Honda Jazz. Again, it's one of those things, you're a loud one thing. You're the trend guy. I'm disappointed to hear that he likes cars. Right, okay. Well, yeah, we're still just getting, it's all the same narddom, isn't it? It's all the same geekdom.

I feel it's a difference between loving trains and loving cars. I think the type of people are very different. I think it's an innocent and the geekiness to trains. There's a little bit, cars is a bit more sinister. I just always, yeah, you never catch a train geek talking about describing a train as like a lady, do you? But, like, Carmen. Carmen, a bit more sinister. A bit, I think they're a bit tougher.

I think they're a bit more moneyed. I think a bit more money, a bit more resources behind them. What do you reckon? I played golf last week with a couple of mates, and one of them was at the stage of his life now where he's got a car just for himself to drive around country lanes, like probably Alan Partridge stuff.

Nice, love it. The two guys I was with, one of them's got that, and the other one really wants that. So a lot of the conversation was about that. Right, okay. And I was like, come on, lad. Let's talk about my big Volvo for crying out loud.

Yeah, exactly. Talk about the whip, the Swedish whip. Anyway, this guy who loves phone boxes, I'm getting distracted. Yeah, okay, right. He lives in Cornwall, and if you're not listening to this show in the UK, this won't mean much to you, so I'll be a bit more descriptive. He drove from Cornwall to the Isle of Lewis off the coast of Scotland, for those who aren't of the UK persuasion,

that's about 1,700 miles round trip, to make exactly 52 phone calls from that phone box, which meant that offcom had to keep the line connected. Wow, that's awesome. Because 52 calls in a year is one of the offcom criteria that protects a qualifying phone box from being removed. I feel he's going by the letter of the law there and not the spirit of the law.

I think he's... Well, can I allow, can I, can I, would you allow me to make the case on his behalf just very briefly? Yeah, okay. The reason he did it is a, apparently it's an incredibly rare double door K6 designed specifically for the brutal Hebridean weather. Oh.

Is it kind of like, is it kind of like, you know, protected from the elements, sort of of speak? Exactly. Right. And it's believed to be the last still connected example of its kind still in its original location anywhere in the UK. Oh. I actually think that's quite a good thing.

Let me tell you what annoys me about it. people should be able to identify the value of that without that need to happen people should be able to go do you know what actually that's a fucking great thing leave it just leave it

it must cost pennies a year to keep it there it probably I mean yeah you can keep the shell of it but the actual phone like he's not he might like the exterior but his business is surely just the

he wants to he wants to make sure that the phone is still being used as a fawn, you know what I mean? Because most of these things are still around. They're just turned into little village libraries, aren't they? Or what's it called? What's the thing called where you jumpstart someone's heart? Defibrillator.

Yeah, defibrillators and Tom Clancy books, isn't it? It's just that that's old's in there. So you're not generally supportive of this maneuver? I don't mind it, but I was reminded of when we're in Cornwall, I went to like a little sort of guy. It was like a garden centre, but it was like, it just had like massive oversized statues for imbeciles and rich idiots. And it just exclusively sold.

Like it'd be like a massive like Russian warrior on a horse that was like 15,000 pounds. And you would need a truck to spot it around. Well, it was just there was a, it was a skeleton in like a, you have in like a doctor's, probably not a doctor's dear, like a biologist. room, I don't know. You used to see a science class or whatever, yeah.

Yeah, science class. I have a little skeleton. I was like, oh, freaky on that. But didn't have a price and you know, I don't like to talk to anybody. But there was also a, there was also a phone booth and even taken out of its, you know,

presumably nobody had pissed in it for some years. It's still reeked of piss. And piss really does stick around. The piss just, just. I don't it as many people. The pissing in the Hebrideon one, though. No. If anything, that's the, that's the problem.

There's no one going there at all. It's difficult in it That's the issue My beef is just I get the piss taken out of me on the internet And read it and stuff For saying stuff like this

So I'm going to lean into it anyway Right Apparently I say this a lot There's no Understanding in the modern world About what the value of things are Like There's examples of it all the time

I tell you's a great example Of it Admiralty Arch Off of Trafalgar Square Amazing building Architecturally Absolutely splendid It's got incredible

amount of history attached to it used to be where the admiral of the fleet lived and they rather to make it some kind of like museum to naval history of which there is a lot in this country just fucking sell it off to like to like wealthy i think at the time it was russians and now it's fucking Saudis or chinese or whatever you know just sell it off for apartments just convert it to apartments for wealthy fucking foreign people yeah what you can do is you can pay eight million quid for a flat over the mall looking at Trafalgar Square that used to be I don't know where fucking Nelson lived all right I don't know who lived there

but like you know the Admiralty lived there and I just think that's a shame same with BBC Television Centre no look I'll understand that might have been tainted somewhat by the actions of Saville I get that right constant constant sex offenders in there but yeah you're all the others yeah just turn it just to me far too often it feels like wherever we can we just going to turn it into flats, like wherever we can, like anything. But it's kind of like, but I think it's kind of that subset of people who work in the financial

sort of sector where they, if something's not making money or serving a purpose, they, it just has to go. Do you know what I mean? It has to go. It has to be, it has to be something. Do you know what I mean? And it's kind of like, that's not how the, that's, that's not how society works, really. No, I get, I understand that point.

I'm sympathetic to that viewpoint. But I do think that, you know, let me put it another way in a way that you've raging capitalists will understand, right? In the modern world, Britain doesn't mean shit, right? We're not even part of Europe anymore, right? I get that we used to run large parts of the world and, you know, for good and for bad. But now we ain't nothing. We're nothing. And all we, but what we do have is an incredible amount of history, right?

That's all we got. Exactly. So lean into it. So whether it's a remote phone box or Admiralty Arch or BBC Television Centre or some church, whatever, protect it. That's all I'm saying. Protect it. Cherish it. Make it a grade one listed phone box.

Clean the piss off it, please. Stick a defibrillator in there and call it even. But keep it is all I'm saying. Do you not have any sympathy for that viewpoint? No, I do massively. As I said, I like, nice stuff and I like living in a country that isn't completely

taken over by Starbucks and you know KFCs and stuff like that I like that we live in in like even just you know like they sort of borough markers in in London and it's they're like little they're like black

sort of bollards and stuff and they look like basically free grapefruit um the grapefruit juices you know really you get big grapefruit and yeah that's and and you walk past like those stretchers that were used, you know,

those, um, on like housing estates that they've used, the, the fences that used to be wartime, um, stretchers, stretchers and stuff.

And it's just like, it's, it grounds you a little bit, um, in, you know, in a place. Um,

and, but if everything looks the fucking same, if everything's just, um, covered in, like, the filigree of just, of,

of just massive, you know, 15 inch thing. glass panels and brushed aluminium like it'll just look like everywhere else and we're running out of things to sell so this should be the only thing we sell

really. We're going to have to just absolutely turn into a tourist economy because we've got nothing else. The legal professional will be gone in 10 years, you know, with AI and stuff so Admiralty Arch is apparently going to be a Waldorf Astoria Hotel. Right. Cheers. That's what we definitely do need more for a really, really expensive hotel.

Expensive hotels. Central London. Yeah, definitely. I don't think the legal professional will be gone in 10 years, Pete, that's quite a bold claim even for you. No, but like, they said that the AI, all the legal profession is, is interpreting law that is written down,

and AI, that's one, you know, the auto-complete nature of AI, is one of the first things that will... I've got a bit of a take on AI. Can I, can I give you a hot take? Give us you a hot take on the AI, mate. I think it might entirely collapse in its entirety at some point and be a proper white elephant.

So I think, let me clarify that. It will have important, but nevertheless, quite limited application, like things like it will be able to do an amazing, like, without fail, it'll be able to interpret like MRI scans and maybe even some fucking legal work, that kind of stuff. But in terms of the, I think it's being massively overinflated about the contribution it's actually going to make. It's, well, yeah, I mean,

no one's making any money out of it, CEO who's spent big on AI has found that they're not getting any value out of it and that's kind of where it'll be judged. The bubble is closing in and Open AI will be the first to go oracles already on its knees and stuff

so yeah I mean that is true it'll still have a place but it'll just be like the dot-com boom we still have websites and stuff so but how can it be like the dot-com boom when the fact is that obviously the internet was had a very very like useful application. Well, it does, I mean, it does, but it'll just be scaled down, really, I suppose.

I just feel like the people who were infighting at, the people who've got a vest interest in making it important. Of course. And like the, you know, and the main kind of driver in America, you know, the idea of like data centres in your hometown is so toxic now. Exactly. That's part of the reason. That's part of the reason.

And the whole race was supposed to be against the Chinese who just, you know, take what they want anyway. And they can't run their, they're not going to be able to run their models because they've got, I think they've got like 6% water when they need like 80% water. They haven't got any clean water to use. It's a problem with how much resource it takes, right? Yeah, exactly. I mean, they're really, they're really, you know, rare earth metal rich and stuff, but they just don't have the water to run this new AI revolution. So I think everyone's going to be in a spot of bother. Yes, it's a bubble.

Yes, it'll be, you know, popping very, very serious. indeed. And fundamentally, if I go on to chat GPT and use it, or a Claude or whatever, I'm making out like a bandit because they're under selling or under pricing what I should be paying for that service really. How do you mean? Well, as in like, if I'm paying, say, 30 quid a month for AI, what I should be being charged for the amount of compute power that I'm taken out and the amount of money that is being, you know, resourced to compute it,

I should be paying, you know, 300 quid, you know, and so they're trying, I think we spoke about before, where they're going to move to a token base system where every time,

every time you, every time you ask a question, that's a token and you pay, you know, it's pay as you go, basically. But the problem is, AI frequently elucinates and it frequently gets things wrong. So you have to do,

you know, you have to ask something, sometimes they'll get the question right or the answer right the first time. Sometimes it'll take six scores before it'll get to what you're talking about. So there's no guarantee. So who would pay for,

that that's who would pay for an assistant who gets things right every six times you know so yeah yeah i mean i'm tempted to say that um i've got one with you exactly good point yeah i mean you're my you're my chat chippee i'm like who's that guy who does that yeah i know i understand your prompts better than i would yeah i'd massively yeah no one will get no one who get no one i'm trying to ask it yeah yeah if your prompts are like the questions you ask me i'm not surprised it's not getting it right mate how often do you use it every day no No, we don't really have, it's all right for like the odd bit of fact-checking, but you didn't have to check the fact-checked again, haven't you really?

Like, it's just a fancy, I would even sort of go as far as to say that Duck-Nuck-Go is, because Duck-D-D-Go doesn't kind of remove. What is Duck-Ducke. Go is like a Google that doesn't, isn't quite so advert-heavy, and it doesn't track you and all that stuff. Oh, right. Judge you can't, if I'm honest. It's quite useful for, like, finding stuff like the internet used to be. AI's only useful because fucking Google is so shit now.

It's been shittified, and Windows has been shittified, that it takes you so much longer to do really simple tasks. So, yes, there we go. Anyway, let's go, because as soon as we start to the AI, I just get a bit bored. So let's just go. Yeah, good point. All right, we'll be back on Thursday. Give us an email.

Hello at loopinpeachio.com. Yeah, we'll try to remember to reach them out. Yeah, exactly. See ya. The Luke and Pete show is a stack production and part of the Acast creator network.