The Luke and Pete Show - American air base pirate

Episode Date: July 10, 2023

Pete’s got back into gaming. Sounds exciting, right? What it really involves is simulating a flight from Luton to Southend. Obviously…We then have a submission in our hunt to find a band with five 10/10 albums in a row and we hear about a dad that started a side hustle pirating American movies while working at a US air base. Excellent dad behaviour.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

it's the luca feature i'm pete donaldson it's monday the 10th of july looky more how have you been how's it all been going what have you been up to save water save drink beer safe water drink beer yes I'm alright thanks how are you it's another week isn't it I'm alright yeah another turn around

the I was about to say another turn around the sun but that's a year not even another turn around the moon because that goes

around the earth and that's a month yeah fine back in breakdown back in the year 138

CXXXV uh hadrian of rome he dies of heart failure um to the day mad that they know how he died that's like you would assume that people sort of they're just guessing back then you just assume they're just like well i mean who knows who knows because like sometimes back in the day, they would think that people died because they killed a goat on a Sunday or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then the harvest fell and then they died.

Yeah. So it's amazing there can be that much detail. But Peter, unless you want to incur the wrath of producer Rory, you've got to do that read at the top of the show, mate. Oh, right, do I? Okay. Rory couldn't have been clearer about that. Before, yeah,

but I had to do a little bit of, you can't just start the show with a bit of admin. You've got to start the show and introduce people and find out what you're up to. Well, the Nereid shouldn't say before we get started.

Before we get started. How before we get started can you be? Before we get started, let's do it in the last show then we just recorded. I would say before you've read out the death cause of death of an ancient roman well write that in the read then says the top of episode before you talk about adrian the dead roman all right that's all i need adrian not adrian

adrian i was adrian before we get started we've got some exciting news and it's not about dead leaders it might be it might be. It might be. We don't know. We've launched a YouTube channel. And you can find us right there, right now, by searching at the Luca Pete Show on YouTube. There's already a load of views on there for you to watch. A load of videos, rather, for you to watch.

But also, after today's episode, we'll be recording an exclusive bonus mini episode that will only be available to watch on YouTube. Released this Wednesday, the 12th of July. I've not done my hair. I'm a little bit upset. But it's the only place you're going to be able to see this content. I think your hair looks good.

On the YouTube page. So get yourself to at the Luke and Pete show on YouTube. Now hit the subscribe button so you won't miss any of our stuff. And make sure you watch the bonus episode that will be released on YouTube this Wednesday. More bonus episodes on the YouTube. Check it out. See what our bedrooms look like. See what our kitchens look like. See what the apology cabin looks like. I'm in the dining room. I'm in the dining room. It's only due to the improvement in recording technology and editing technology. It means I can record in the dining

room now because my son, who by the way does not respect me, is now in the room I used to work in. Yes, lovely stuff. So that's good news, right? It's a YouTube channel. All the kids are doing it, mate. Isn't that the PS5 room? It is. That's now – the PS5 is now in the living room.

Right, okay. So I play – if I do play PUBG, I play in the evenings when the baby's asleep on the big telly. Yes. Okay, nice. But longer term, I will bring the PS5 back out here into the dining room because I've got it all set up here. It's just that the boy needs to be looked after for a certain amount of time before he gets big enough to sleep on his own. Yeah. But yeah, so I'm recording in the dining room.

You can see that on the youtube channel if you want to um if you if not um i'm not really supposed to cater for you but i could just describe the room to you but it might be a bit dull um peter how was your weekend it's good man i um have played a video game for the first time in about what feels like about a year i'm on uh a video game podcast vgc a video game podcast and the um lads and lasses what are on that show they live video games 24 7 like that is their bread and butter that's all they think jordan and the gang jordan and the gang who you heard on this show a few weeks ago they are very much computer game guys they play video games all the time and they know everything about them i I wish I had that job.

Well, I don't think it is a good job. And I, you know, there was a certain amount of reluctance for me starting a video game podcast

because it's the last interest I have that's getting mined in many ways. You know what I mean? Like football, doing the football ramble to a certain extent

has ruined our football teams for us a little bit, Luke. Would that be fair to say? I don't know. My football team has done a good job of ruining themselves. To be fair, that is very much all on them. To the point where now I just don't bother. If they're not going to bother, why should I bother?

I've made it my mission to somehow conspire to make sure my son does not support Portsmouth. There's certain teams I don't want him to support, which I'm going to gently nudge him to out away from. Other than that, he can choose his own. I'm not going to wish it on him. No.

I can't. Anyway, carry on. If he chose Portsmouth, you know he'd just be trying to please you. Nobody likes a kiss ass. Based on how it's going so far, I don't think he's going to be minded to do that. No, I don't think so either, to be honest.

But who knows? Who knows? But yeah, so i'm doing the show and and all these people just know loads about video games like loads and loads and they spend and when a new game comes out for their for their work they have to sit down and not only review it they have to sort of go through a game and defeat it and then make loads of video guides on how to do different stuff. Like that's their bit of... Exactly, exactly. I think to be that

methodical and be that organised and that kind of like across everything it is not only writing, it's video producing, it's editing, it's presenting. There's so much stuff in it. Anyway, I don't know, compared to them, I don't know fuck a lot about video games. I thought I did. I read a lot about video games but I thought I did. I read a lot about video games, but I never play them.

And so I made the conscious effort the weekend to actually sit down and play a video game, which is good. It was a game. Which one was it? It was a game called Humanity, which is a little bit like the 80s video game Lemmings. Do you remember that? Yeah, I loved it. I used that yeah i loved it all the time it's a game called humanity where you play a dog that runs around and helps a load of people get from one place to another they start they fall out of a trap box trap door much like lemmings and you gotta get in the end of the level matt that's a lemmings ripoff trap doors and all sorts man there

were so many lemmings rip-offs in the 90s. Everybody wanted to make Lemmings again and again and again. It was an IP Wild West then, wasn't it? It was. You could get away with all kinds of shit. But it's very much, it kind of ticks a lot of Lemmings-based boxes and it's very enjoyable and very space-age.

And there's the actual kind of number of people on screen at any one time. It's not just like a hundred. There's like thousands of people running around at any one time. It's not just like a hundred. There's like thousands of people running around at the same time. And I played that over the weekend and I had a bloody good time. And I'm looking at my Steam achievements. I played for one hour and it has revolutionized my weekend. It genuinely made me go...

Good for your mental health. I think it is. I should play it because God knows I'm not going for a run. That was January's idea. This is very much a July idea. But we worked out because God knows I'm not going for a run. That was January's idea. This is very much a July idea. But we worked out in January that when you were going for runs,

you were running as fast as you could for as long as you could and then just stopping. Yeah, I mean, it's not, you can't really get away with running full force

at people at seven o'clock in the morning. I'm just, I've got a little, what do you call them? Those little running machines, but you're not really running. You're sort of walking sort of thing. You know those things? It's not a treadmill. You've got a little, what do you call them, those little running machines, but you're not really running, you're sort of walking sort of thing.

You know those things? It's not a treadmill. You've got little bars and you pull them back and forth. It's like a kind of cross trainer. Oh, elliptical. Elliptical, yeah. Oh, right. I've had one of them for years.

I like the elliptical. Well, it's easier on the old knees, I think. Yeah, it's like zero impact, isn't it? I just can't be fucked, Luke. I just, I think I'm just going to accept my fighting weight

as being 11 and a half. It's just, it's just not, it's not great. I need to get back into doing some exercise. The only thing I've done is walked since the baby

has been born, really. But, so anyway, so going back to this video game thing, are you going to try and play an hour

of video games every weekend then? I think so. I think it would improve my outlook. I think there's enough i i did try and um on microsoft flight simulator um fly from luton to south end um um for for 10 minutes as well but uh you must be the only player of that game to ever make that route yeah do you reckon do you reckon the stats are again no one has ever done this combination of routes.

Making flights seem like even more boring by just moving aircraft from one airport to another. Like empty flights. Yeah, just taxiing them. How long is the flight time? It wasn't long.

It only seemed to take 10 minutes in game time. Did you successfully do it? No, no. I just crashed in Kent. That was terrible. So, for example then, I don't no, I crashed in Kent. That was terrible. So if, for example, then, I don't know much about this kind of thing.

If you, so if you went onto a flight simulator, I presume they're really good these days, right? It's a good standard. They use Google Earth data, so everything's super, super accurate. Everything looks like it's supposed to look like, and it's so accurate. No, but the actual simulator itself,

the plane cockpit and stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. So if you chose to do London to Sydney... Yeah. We're going to Sydney. Yeah, you'd stop at, say, you stopped at Singapore or whatever. Then London to Singapore,

which is, whatever, 13 hours. Would you actually have to flight simulate in there for 13 hours? Yeah, I think you can speed it up if you want to, but it would be quite funny to kind of like, have, like stick it on autopilot, go to bed,

wake up the next day and then land it. That would be quite funny, wouldn't it? The only difference between that and an actual plane would be you didn't have a co-pilot with you just to double check.

Yeah, exactly. I mean, yeah, you just stick it on autopilot. I mean, I don't know whether there's like, presumably it's not, yeah, you just stick it on autopilot. I mean, I don't know whether there's like, presumably it's not like, if you are using Boeing planes, they probably don't want to put into the simulator

adverse conditions like, you know, a lightning strike or, you know, hijacking or something like that. There's no security reasons why you shouldn't be detailing everything that's in the cockpit either. I think it's an open book now. You can watch some of these, you know, theacking or something. They're not security reasons why you shouldn't be detailing everything that's in the cockpit either. I think it's an open book now. You can watch some of these,

you know, the mentor pilot guy. He explains everything. And to be honest, I think it puts more people off because it's really bloody complicated. It's too many things.

I just don't, I just don't, so to me, I understand the approaches to airports are different. And I understand that part of it. But I don't know why you'd want to be cruising at a simulated altitude of 35,000 feet doing absolutely fuck all for six hours.

Well, I don't know. Is it a therapeutic kind of mental health thing, do you reckon? Maybe. I mean, Flight Simulator is one of the first kind of video games. I remember my mate's dad used to have one on the Spectrum. He used to sit there for hours playing. It was amazing. And, yeah, I mean, people must get it.

And also people who are training to be pilots. I mean, it's got to the point where, you know, the cockpit looks like a 747 cockpit and the buttons do exactly the same thing. It's quite a niche audience, people who are training to be pilots. True, true. But, I mean, I think the idea of it, I think learning to fly is probably more popular.

Have a bit of a go at 8 Ball Pool on your phone. Have a bit of a go on that, yeah, true. But I mean, I think the idea of, I think Learning to Fly is probably more popular. Have a bit of a go at 8 Ball Pool on your phone. Have a bit of a go on that, yeah, exactly. That's what I play. There's a new game called, I think it's Up Only or Always Up or something. And it's basically this game where they've just put every 3D model in every 3D library

and they've just put it in the sky, if that makes any sense. Right. And it's a piece of shit, and all you do is climb, climb, climb, jump on all of these objects until you get to the sky. I think it's called Always Up or something. Right. And this stuff is so unbelievably popular, and all of the assets, all of the little models that you stand on

have clearly been ripped out of stuff, been taken out of video game libraries and stuff. Yeah, only up it's called. And it's basically just where a character just climbs, climbs, climbs, as high as possible in the sky. And I think it got pulled off Steam because there was a load of 3D assets that shouldn't have been used because you're being used illegally.

So it is pretty egalitarian now, people developing their own video games and stuff. I mean, yeah. This is some pretty weak sauce, but it's very popular. So I watched this guy called Dr Disrespect playing at other games. As if that isn't your alter ego.

I wish it fucking was. He's very well off. But he was a g streamer back in there and he um i think did he cheat on his wife and i think that was that was a big that was a big frore a little while ago and he's just kind of like he he has a mustache and he wears a fake wig um and sunglasses and he plays games all day i think i know who you mean you will know who he is. You will know who he is. And he plays only up. And people were just giving him, like, so much cash. This guy's like a multi-multi-millionaire now

because he's one of the most popular streamers in the world. And, you know, he'll probably get a load of money to go to that kick TV thing, that kick thing that is in opposition to or in competition with Twitch, that's buoyed by a gambling firm. He saw well off. And people, just to drop a message into his chat,

were like giving him $100 here, $10 here and stuff. And all you get out of him is like, oh, thanks for the $100. You get nothing out of him. I never understand why people do that. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I guess it's a bit like a tip do that yeah i don't know i mean i guess that you just yeah it's just a bit like a tip jar but you don't you don't need a hundred pound tip jar um but this guy uh but this guy's climbing to the top of this thing and it's never ending

this game it just you know these these assets just float around you and the and the uh yeah and and and up and about uh you just climb, climb, climb, climb. And when you fall, because the most popular streamers are quite aggressive men, they get really angry when they fall down in this game. And it's the perfect video game for streaming because men get angry, anger is money, and you become incredibly popular doing it. So what we... and i'm just sort of thinking well i mean what stopped me i mean exactly i mean time i suppose and and also um i don't think i've got enough in the tank i don't think my antacids would handle it to be honest

i get i get very bored even with my own anger after a while i do you know what i do find that i do find pub g like a really interesting thing to watch as well like i think it's i was thinking about this the other day and i love um watching snooker right which i'm and bear with me because this is a weird comparison yeah but snooker is like it's it's everything's familiar but no frame is the same if you you know what I mean, it's always on the same, there's no change realistically in the stadium, or the competition does change, but every frame's familiar, but it's different.

I suppose you could say that about any kind of sport with parameters, but it's an individual sport where things are the same, but each individual edition of it is different. And PUBG's kind of the same. If I watch PUBG, I like watching how it unfolds, how it them i can't i don't watch it i don't enjoy it

quite as much as i do playing it but i do quite like watching it i couldn't honestly say that i really enjoy watching other people play video games generally yeah but when i watched the um the the world championships uh pub g thing a while back it was fucking cool because the way they cover it actually is also really good like was fucking cool. Because the way they cover it, actually, is also really good. Compared with a lot of the way traditional sports are covered on telly. They massively enhance the broadcast.

So, for example, for obvious reasons, if you're playing, you can't see what everyone else sees. They're really good at fast-paced, cutting between different teams, showing different graphics. It's really good. They're really good at fast-paced, cutting between different teams, showing different graphics. It's really good.

It's really well worth watching. So I do kind of understand why people like it. I think PUBG in particular, there's a lot of downtime, isn't there? Because you're just kind of like hiding. Just hide and seek, isn't it, really? But the thing about a lot of the top players, they seem to be super aggressive.

So they will get their shit together and they'll go for it yeah yeah so that's the thing and i've played and i've played before when you're on the end of that and i once got put in a team who were like that and it was honestly i didn't do anything and i won it was like it was like being a part of the sas for a day without being knackered yeah but the thing is the sad thing is i never really play as much as i used to because um I don't really have anyone to be in a team with

I've only got a couple of pals and they can't always play so can you just drop yourself into a random team start a clan

yeah you can but it's not as fun because you don't know them first clan Luke and also you never know whether you're going to get

English speaking people either so I could do that clan thing maybe I'm L Amigo Bandito on there if anyone wants

to add me anyway Pete let's have a quick break. When we come back we should do some emails because we've got loads of them here and we should get through a couple at least. Try and do a bit towards catching up. Lovely stuff.

It's the Luke and Pete show. If you've not checked us out on YouTube by the way, as I mentioned at the start of this show check us out at the Luke and Pete show on YouTube. There's plenty of stuff on there and coming up on wednesday we've got some exclusive content just for you yeah it's probably worth um saying if there's anything you want us to cover anything you want us to do either on this show or on the youtube drop us a line at the luke and pete show um hello sorry let me do that again hello Hello at the Luke and Pete show. No.

Yes. This is why I always do the email address. Yes. Hello. Right, stop it. Falling apart. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email. We are at Luke and Pete Show on Instagram and Twitter and at the Luke and Pete Show on TikTok and YouTube.

I'm sure you'll find us if you type it in. But yeah, let us know what you want us to talk about, what you want us to do., what you want us to do. We're up for whatever, really. I mean, to be honest now, I'm happy to get out of the house. That was never the case before. So any suggestions you've got, send them in, either for the YouTube channel or for the show,

and we will happily judge each of your suggestions on their own merits. Is that fair, Pete? That's fair. Maybe we could just watch something on YouTube for a bit. A little five-minute treat for the lads and lasses. That would be split.

If I could do that and somehow pass off as work, I would be happy to do so. Go on, Pete. Do an email. I'll do an email. All right, then. I'm going to go for David.

American Air Base Pirates is the subject line. Not really sure what the email's about, to be quite frank. Dearest Luke and Pete, I was originally emailing you about something else else but my ears pricked up mid-message when you mentioned

American airbases. As a young'un my dad was stationed on a local American airbase in the UK as part of the British police presence required there. He spent pretty much his entire career with the police in this job and occasionally would bring me onto the bases a day out. I can confirm you're understanding that these places are like stepping foot into the USA

and as a baseball or hockey mad kid in the 90s they could only be described as absolutely fucking wonderful um the one i used to go to had a baskin robbins a proper pizza joint full sports facilities with teams a bowling alley and a movie theater they paid in dollars and had american cars it was honestly like you'd step through a portal to the USA, which blew my little America sports-crazed mind at the time. My dad would take breaks from fighting all the crime he could expect to exist in a facility inhabited solely by federally vetted military personnel by bringing home videos from the rental store

at a time when film releases would be available in the UK, in the US, rather, a while before they made their way over here. He'd further relax his role of a civilian by pirating them with a camcorder strictly for his family use. In return for swift access to Space Jam we had to swear to never tell

us all of the existence of these tapes because obviously he's going to be doing a little side crime there. Being barely 10 and with the weekly primary school tombola of popularity to navigate, Daniel's got a cast on his arm, the new kid has a pet snake, Kevin's giving all his pogs away, etc.

This is obviously never going to happen. One day, very shortly after a friend let the cat out of the bag by asking to come round and watch one of the videos, whilst in the big man's presence, this led to my panicked dad frantically erasing his small collection of pre-release VHSes like a falling regime blitzing documents before the government headquarters are stormed. I guess he was in over his head. He also managed to get general stuff shipped for free from the USA,

which I can only assume he wasn't meant to be doing either, the maverick. Thanks for keeping me entertained on some pretty long, dull workdays lately. All the best, Dave, an Englishman in Vancouver. That's a brilliant email. It's good stuff. Fantastic. Back in the 80s and 90s, everyone was doing the crime. Of course they were.

And also the kind of crimes that you'd have, if you're filming something with a camcorder, that's just theatre, isn't it? It's just theatre. Yeah, I'm sure they'll see it that way. It's just theatre. It's fine. It is really amazing.

Those bases are amazing. My wife's best friend friend or not best friend good friend from from um uni is married to an she's australian and lives in the uk but they're married to an american and he's an air force pilot right he was based in the uk for ages and on the base i mean we would just say to them can you get us this can you get us that and they would just be able to get them like like candy bars and cereal and all the rest of it. They're all just available. It's like, it is really, as Dave says, it's really just like having an American portal

in the UK, basically, which is crazy. It's good stuff. What about this from Sam, who says, hello, Luke and Pete. Currently in the process of re-listening to all the Luke and Pete shows I started this around 18 months ago and I'm currently listening to Damn Butterfly

Effect from 17th of October 2022 Luke comments that he enjoys wearing a jacket zipped up while wearing shorts and wonders if he is alone in this I can confirm you are not alone I also enjoy the sensation of wearing shorts and a jacket zipped up to my chin I was coincidentally doing this while listening to the pod on my rainy dog walk on what was actually a not alone i also enjoy the sensation of wearing shorts and a jacket zipped up to my chin i was

coincidentally doing this while listening to the pod on my rainy day a dog walk uh on what was actually a warm day i can't explain the sensation of why it is comforting but you are not alone you also talk about how much you dislike josh widdicombe something i can also get behind and he goes on to a load of stuff about josh widdicombe which i probably won't read because it's a bit unkind and keep up the good work with all the pods in the stack stable they've seen me through some tough times and they're always a comfort

to hear what I consider to be familiar voices many thanks Sam from a rainy crew kern in I don't know where that is actually get a google yeah I will

why don't you get a google when I look at the photo he's taken of his excellent looking jacket being done up with shorts on. My friend Phil and I used to talk about this all the time walking back from football, football training.

Because we've still got shorts on from football, but it's a bit of a cold day. Get your jacket on, zip it up. It feels nice. I don't know why it feels nice. It does. I've got a J-League bright orange windbreaker which I wear with shorts sometimes. Crew Kern

is in Somerset. I was going to say Cornwall. I knew it was down that part of the world. I'm actually quite good inexplicably at naming the counties that towns are in. And I was going to say Cornwall, but I would have been wrong then. Alright, big talk. Where's Langport?

Langport. How do you spell it? Is it Landport or Langport? Lang, like Jeremy Liang. I'm going to say that's because you're so lazy. I'm going to say that's also insomniac. I thought I'd moved quite far away, but clearly not. Where is a lot of these Kirkby and Ashfield, which really gives it away.

I can't do villages it has to be like a sizeable town where's Sleaford Sleaford that's in Northamptonshire Lincolnshire not far away though

not far away well done I'm very proud of you give me one more just give me one more for my own ego Corby that's in Northamptonshire

for sure no oh it is it is in Northamptonshire I thought it was in Derbyshire because Derbyshire is like weirdly large. I'm like a really shit version

of that guy who can locate, geolocate a street all over the world. Yeah. Which I think there's something off about that, but that's for another day, I think.

Look, before we go, let's just, I don't want to get into a tedious discussion about this because it is tedious. As to be fair, the emailer himself admits, but Nick's

been in touch talking about consecutive 10 out of 10 albums. I said no artist has done five. It's clearly subjective. As Nick himself says, it's pointless, but it's nice to be included in the debate. He says that he thinks he may be a pillock these days, but Kanye West

has the college dropout, late registration, graduation, 808s and Heartbreak and my beautiful dark twisted fantasy as his suggestion for five 10 out of 10 albums in a row for me I'm not having 808s and heartbreak and I'm probably not calling I'm definitely calling dark twisted fantasy 10 out of 10 I'm definitely calling the first two 10 out of 10 I can't really remember graduation that well, and I'm not having 808s and heartbreaks. So my opinion is that that's a no from me, but I understand that Nick may disagree because it's all about being in the

ear of the beholder. So there we go. I think that's about it, Peter. Yeah. Your little read again about the YouTube channel. I was mainly upset with somebody who suggested Radiohead have done, I think think, three

good albums in a row starting with OK Computer. Are you off your head, mate? That's what I don't like to hear. That's what I don't like to hear. The problem you've got with Radiohead is you can't give Pablo Honey 10 out of 10. So if you start from The Bends, you're still going to have to include How to the Thief, which

isn't a 10 out of 10. So I can have The Bends, OK Computer, Kid A and Amnesiac. I think they're all absolutely brilliant. But you can't, I don't think you can have How To The Thief. But do you not think that Pablo Honey, you judge them by their later output? But Standing On It's Own, it's quite a good rock album.

Yeah, but quite a good rock album isn't 10 out of 10, is it? Good enough. That's by Dodgy. That's by Dodgy, that. Good enough. Oh, lardy. That's by Dodgy, that. Good enough. Oh, Lordy. Yes, check out our YouTube pitch

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