The Luke and Pete Show - An uncomfortable collection of twigs

Episode Date: October 12, 2020

Luke and Pete are back with more weird and wonderful conversation! Pete explains how he ended up concealing sixty wrestling figures in a farmer's field after a bizarre car boot shopping spree at the weekend. There are also more tales of work truancy and the pair dream up a Youtube channel for Luke’s dad that would quite simply be the most wholesome thing on the internet.Plus, they discuss how Buster Bloodvessel came to live on a narrowboat. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. It is Monday the 12th of October, approaching winter. As quick as a freight train, one of those weird trains that go under the wrong bridge and it shears the top off everything. They're always exciting. Pete Donaldson and Luke Mill with you for another Monday. How you doing Luke, you alright? Pretty good thanks, yeah. I'm firmly ensconced in the warmth of Chateau Mormont. They're always exciting. Pete Donaldson and Luke Mill with you for another Monday. How are you doing, Luke? You all right? Pretty good, thanks. Yeah, I'm firmly ensconced in the warmth of Chateau Mormont. Nice. I just literally heard the heat kick into action.

Cranking. I've got a jumper on. I'm going to be fine. Everything's good. How was your weekend, mate? Have you packed your anus like a bear for winter? You always say that around this time of year. It's like every year you say that. I like the idea of you packing your anus like a bear for winter? You always say that around this time of year. It's like every year you say that. I like the idea of you packing your anus.

You've refused to answer my question about how your weekend was by asking me if I've packed my anus. And that is not the behaviour of a firmly balanced, well-balanced individual. Yeah, it was good. individual um yeah it was good i went to two separate um what do you call them car boot sales um or for the americans a garage sale outside of a garage what do they call it free market before we get into that but can you just tell me just remind me having said what i've just said and i'm very excited to see it here to see that you've moved to your uh to meet to the live stage you're for her going to car boot sales on your own not

my dad does that yeah um yeah and he's in his 60s um but before we get into that what do bears pack their anuses with do you know uh dirt and twigs and leaves twigs well small twigs and leaves. Twigs? Well, small twigs, I guess. I mean, if you're picking up dirt, there's going to be twigs within, won't it? But it's merely dirt. What do they do it for? To slow their own kind of

digestive system down or something? I think, yeah, I think it's to stop them pooping, pooping where they sleep, so to speak. I think that's the situation. Because I've read before that bears have been observed

to give birth while hibernating. Incredible, isn't it? Because, I mean, when they're hibernating, they're not always asleep, are they? They're just in a kind of... They're in a half-sleep, half-awake, kind of like, I'm-in-me-else kind of situation. They slow their heart rate right down, don't they?

And their vital signs go very, very low. I think maybe, yeah. I'm not entirely sure whether they completely sleep or not. But, I mean, imagine how hungry you'd be after waking up after that. Yeah, you'd be famished, wouldn't you? You'd be straight down Maccy D's for a breakfast. Because I think, have you seen that Werner Herzog documentary movie, Grizzly Man?

Is that the man who gets eaten at the end? Spoilers. Oh, there we go. There we go. To be fair, I think it's a film from about the 90s so it's not not the spoiler the spoiler um the spoiler um limit has been reached yeah so but i think the reason the reason that it ends so badly for him is because i think he starts associating with the bears like earlier and earlier each year and if you do that they're obviously hungrier and hungry because they come out of hibernation in the spring and they need to fatten up i mean they put

on loads of fat and weight before they hibernate which obviously sustains them so when they come out of the um hibernation period they are quite literally ravenous and a mad blonde haired, wildly gesticulating man is probably like a red rag to a bull. And so he was guided against it, but he refused to stop. He refused to stop going earlier and earlier. You're supposed to wait to a certain period of time where they're actually sated and they're a little bit more docile. Their first thought was, did that guy almost get the cheers job behind Woody Harrelson? And then their second thought was did that guy almost get the cheers job

behind Woody Harrelson and then their second thought is lunch because if he had got the cheers job ahead of Woody Harrelson they probably would just ask for his autograph and it would have been fine a couple of selfies and off you go

what's Frasier like what's Frasier Crane like that was really interesting so for people who haven't seen Grizzly Man this Werner Herzog documentary movie about a guy obsessed with bears who leads this educational thing around grizzly bears and stuff, but he's obviously a little bit strange.

And one of the big sliding doors moments of his life was that he was an actor, but he didn't get the job of Woody in Cheers. Woody Harrelson got it. And so that sent him off on this different path. Isn't that fascinating? Yeah, it's incredible. I mean, you could say like, I guess there's a jump off point with everybody's life that you can sort of go, well,

that's where it started to go wrong or to go right. But I mean, if you're in the acting game. Did you think about that when you were at the car boot? I like the car boot. Well, I went to a car boot by myself in a place called Apsley. And I walked over. And honestly, it was about 10 cars maximum. I was like, well, this isn't good enough.

What are you bringing to the party? Finances. 300 quid drawn out the drawn out the ATM love that you had a pocket full of 50s pocket full of dead presidents

yeah celebrated chemists sky high sky high papes yeah exactly I was ready to get involved but yeah

I went the first one that said I did find at the first one something like 60 wrestling figures that I bought. Yes! Pound each. Nice. How many did you buy? There was about 60 of them. Pound each. But you bought all of them?

Yeah, she couldn't believe it. Mate, did you get a discount on bulk? No, but I did recommend the excellent wrestling podcast, Wrestle Me, to the woman. But Pace, this is mate. Into wrestling. If they're a pound each and you're buying 60 of them, I'd be

offering 40 quid max. Yeah, you know what though, Luke? I actually gave her five pounds more because I knew it was going to kick it. Oh my God. You're a car boot, you're an absolute car boot fucking novice. I know. Well, no, I'm not. I've been to loads of them, but I will always, but I will never

haggle. Especially when things are like a quid. What is the fucking point? Do you know what? This is the first episode. My dad is a voracious consumer of my work because he's very proud of me, bless him. And this is the first episode

I'm going to have to fucking get him off to not watch. Get him off. I'm going to have to get him out of there. He can't listen to this. He'll be absolutely incandescent with your car boot sale discipline He's only got some strong opinions on

Shear Donaldson I sort of finished there bought me wrestling figures decided to go to another car boot sale near High Wycombe it was a good 25 minutes got an uber got an uber from one car boot to another um uh and uh yeah and it wasn't open

for another hour so i was like oh i'll go get a coffee but the wrestling figures were too heavy so they hid so i hid them in a farmer's field. It was a really fun Sunday morning. Oh, my. I have to say. This is unbelievable. So, hang on a minute. So, for people who aren't quite as adept at drawing the lines with you as I am, so you've decided to, you've announced probably,

you've loudly pronounced to your lovely girlfriend that you're going to spend the Sunday going to car boot sales on your own. Was she invited or not? She was invited, but she was very much not interested. Because the problem with car boots is you've got to get up at like seven o'clock in the morning to go there. I mean, people set up from seven and the early bird gets the worm, so to speak.

But yeah, I got there. So you've got the train to the first one and then you've got an Uber to another one, but you've got a bag full of 60 wrestling figures, which you've had to hide in the farmer's field and go back and get later. Got the train to the first one, decided I was hungry, so I went to get a pork pie from Tesco's and then walked to the car boot sale. Wasn't good enough, bought some wrestling figures, but wasn't good enough. Went to another one about 25 minutes away uh a eastern european taxi driver was very um upset by

this the the thinness of the country roads i was like you're working in the country like all of the roads are small it's like where they build the roads so small i was like well it's because it's bloody small it's it's a it's just for a tractor isn isn't it? But he was quite wound up there. He had to drive me down these little roads. Anyway, we got there, and I decided to hide my rest of the figures in a farmer's field, hoping that agricultural interest in John Cena, four John Cena figures at that, was very low. I walked into town, got myself a coffee from a little coffee shop

that was dominated, but it was basically like a cycling shop slash coffee shop and it was basically where all of the cyclists used to go um for cups of tea and stuff like that and big slices of homemade cake it looked very quaint anyway uh walked into the second one um to be honest there was more stuff there was probably about 50 or 60 uh car boot selling stuff uh i had to make do with a large photograph of a cat playing chess with a mouse. And then I left soon after there. So that's what you bought? Back on the road. Yeah, I bought a little mouse playing chess with a cat.

But it was very, and I was feeling a bit, I was getting a bit fruity at that point because I'd had very little sleep. And the woman went, there you go, that'll be a pound. It needs to go clean. I went, don't we all love? And then walked off. I don't know what that meant.

No, but you're better at the batonage than you are the haggling by the sounds of it. Oh, yeah, no, I didn't haggle for a single thing. And, yeah, to be honest, the only thing at Carboots in 2020 of interest, unless you really, really like mobile phone covers for phones that don't exist anymore. You do? Well, I do.

Stolen power tools. If you ever get your power tools nicked from your van, go to one of them because they'll be there because there's so many different power tools there and they're all dirty and used. First of all, I'd like to know know i always feel like a huge weight of responsibility on behalf of the listener here to ask the right questions um right where are you going to put the the porch the picture of the cat and the mouse playing chess in the house where you're going to put it yeah i'll probably put it in my office

give it a good clean first i mean it is an awful bit of 70s kitsch but but you just look at that cat and you look at that mouse that cat's probably long dead the mouse even longer um but they were to be honest they'd only just started the chess match so yeah i was i'm interested to see how it was going to pan out to be quite frank could have been a bloodbath and um and then did you feel like you um you you wanted to pass your driving test because you had to get around the countryside? Yeah, that was, yeah. I've got my CBT test for a little scooter.

Oh, that's right. You're getting a motorbike, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah, well, I'll get a little scooter, see how we go. But then I did see a man driving down the street really, really quickly on a scooter. I thought, that's too fast. That's too fast.

That's, you know, like, because not being a driver all of my life and hitting 39 and going, turns out going anything faster than like five miles an hour, which is, is five miles an hour a reasonable top speed for a human running man? No. No. Three miles an hour. No, it's like 12 or something, isn't it?

Is it? Oh, okay. The top sprinters, and I assume that's not what you're talking about, but the top sprinters in miles per hour, I mean, I'm pretty sure Usain Bolt can run like 30 miles an hour almost. Really? Wow. Definitely 25.

Definitely 25. So he could legally speed in certain places yeah 20 is plenty around here mate you'd be in big trouble I think cyclists do occasionally get the old air ticket

but so I think it depends on what type of scooter you're talking about because where I come from a scooter is like a moped but you're not talking

about that no no no I'll get a moped but for a 50 is it 50cc 120cc you need you need like you need a license to be on the road.

When are you getting that then? That's amazing. I'll keep you posted. A couple of weeks' time while I've done it, I'll let you know. Wow, that's a really big development. Are you going to have an open-faced helmet? Surely they're all open-faced. You've got to see out, don't you?

No, you get ones that kind of cover your chin, and then they've got a visor. Then you get the kind of Vespa-type mod scooter kind of open-faced. You've got to see out. No, you get ones that kind of cover your chin and then they've got a visor and you get the kind of Vespa-type mod scooter kind of open-faced ones, which I think you should definitely get. I'm going to get one

of those watermelon ones. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. In developing countries, just a big watermelon on my head. Yeah, use an actual watermelon. That would be amazing. So my dad's frequents car boot sales quite a lot

and at the the moment he's got this you know last time i could told you i i spoke to him and he was um de-rusting an anvil nice yeah yeah so now but now he's moved on to this thing where he's quite into restoring like park benches he's really he's really good at it so what he'll do is he will find a park bench on like gum tree or whatever or just like a bench not necessarily a park bench on like Gumtree or whatever, or just like a bench, not necessarily a park bench, but you know what I mean, like a garden bench. And he'll pick up like a dilapidated one for literally like a fiver and he'll go and get it.

And then what he'll do is he'll go around car boot sales looking for what I guess, what he certainly calls and what I guess are called bench ends, which are like brass. And you affix each end of the wood into the bench ends and you screw them in and you can beautifully like restore the wood and the brass and all that kind of stuff and what you end up with is a really nice like upcycled bench and he's just finished one and he's now working on another one so i mean depending on what part of the country you're in donnie you might actually bump into uh big daddy more at some point send us a pic then i want to see that i will i watch a lot

of people on youtube restoring old um uh like cast iron skillets and stuff i love all that stuff you should start a youtube channel daddy more on youtube yeah he doesn't think about my dad is like he he's kind of a weird curiosity because he does like the internet like most dads do but he's not that into it so like he's not in he's not on facebook or anything like that he kind of likes um i think he likes watching netflix and um he likes sending like emails to his brother that's kind of that's pretty much it he doesn't really do anything else on the internet other than that it's just the box where i send emails to my brother on yeah so he'll be he'll be i think he will be across the idea that he really should be doing his banking online,

for example. Right, okay. And maybe you're kind of dabbing a little bit of that. But generally speaking, he's not like a, he's not one of these dads who joins all these Facebook groups posting about like immigrants.

You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which I'm actually very happy about. I just take up a lot of time. Yeah, so he doesn't, he doesn't even really share memes in WhatsApp groups. Oh, what? I know. No minions memes. No, not really. yeah so he doesn't he doesn't even really share memes in whatsapp groups oh what

I know no minions memes nah not really he does something which is very sweet which we've got a family whatsapp group and every Sunday night

he sends a very long message about what he's been up to and that he hopes we've all had a nice weekend and that he'll look forward to speaking to us

yeah it's really sweet so he does that but he's not he's more just about being in the shed and just doing practical stuff or riding around on his

what are those bikes that have got a battery on them e-bike battery bike e-bike yeah he's got an e-bike and he sometimes texts me

about how fast he's been on his e-bike that's kind of his thing that's all he does really lovely look I think that I think that he should

but he should it's not about him consuming YouTube I think he should be on YouTube restoring these park benches it's incredibly relaxing him consuming YouTube. I think he should be on YouTube restoring these park benches. It's incredibly relaxing watching a craftsman not doing what he does. I know he'd have a viewer in you,

but what I'm trying to say is if my dad doesn't even really know how to watch YouTube, that for me is very much the rung on the ladder to having your own YouTube channel, isn't it? Yeah, it's a bit of a bottleneck, isn't it? Yeah, so if I can't explain what youtube actually

i mean he knows what it is and he just doesn't really get involved that much i could probably get him to to get to do it but i mean i think really he's more about the honor of it not the glory to be honest him and his mate ray who lives down the road they're always doing stuff in the garage like he um he said to me the other day he was um he was in his mate Ray's van and he didn't realise that Ray had put a supercharged turbo thing in the van just for no reason. And so Ray put his foot down and the van just went... It was amazing.

It was honestly a really good story. I've not done it justice there. This is amazing. He and Ray are like the thickest things. They just go around restoring things and driving around buying things off people. Look, this is a TV deal. This is a TV development deal waiting to happen.

Yeah. You and me as well, Pete. Ray and Mo's dad. Yeah, exactly. He could be teaching their feckless offspring how to fucking wire up a kettle plug or something. You can't do it. I would very teaching their feckless offspring how to fucking wire up a kettle plug or something. Yeah, I would very much be feckless in that. Pete, speaking of the old technology,

did you read that thing that came out, I think it might have been a week or so ago, about the electronics companies have started to develop disinfection cabinets now. Have you seen this? To put the UV light kind of things to put your bits and bobs in

like your phone and stuff. Yeah, so basically it looks a bit like a microwave and you put it in the hallway of your house and when you come in, obviously because of the pandemic it uses UV light to kill bacteria and viruses and stuff on things like keys and mobile phones and maybe like if you've got a kid, their toys.

So as you come into the house, you put it in there, you give it a blast, and then you know that it's kind of clean. And electronics companies are anticipating these are going to be like the must-have new, I guess, gadgets, electrical devices. I mean, does that seem reasonable to you? You're a famous friend of technology. What do you think about this? Well, I think on the little staccato thread,

I suggested getting one for the office. So, you know, just call me Donaldson the future Peter. I mean, that would be a weird way of saying it, but Peter the Donaldson future. No, Peter the future Donaldson. Have another go. I said we should get a little... Tell you what, if you introduce yourself to people,

people are going to think, well, he might know about the future, but he seems a bit mental. Yeah, they'll sort of go, he's introducing himself to me three different times and three different ways um you should bluff it out by going in the future we all we all speak like this that's how we all speak words aren't even important words mean nothing um yeah no i think i suggested a little while ago that you can pop pop your pop your bits and pop your mic muffs in there pop your microphones in there kill all the bugs that you certainly have them in um they've had them in

tattoo uh places and and kind of spars for quite a while um to to disinfect quickly and safely all the stuff i don't really know how they do it though would they all uv light you certainly shouldn't scrimp on them that's all i'm saying well i don't know i mean yeah presumably you're right though this will be a thing that's uh more and more popular because people's phones are filthy aren't they apparently so yeah apparently like um mobile phones and uh computer keyboards are the the breeding ground for that kind of stuff so um i've actually got a bit of a problem with my laptop now like the t button and the r button and the e button won't stop sticking right it's a real pain and i've got this um air cleaner thing it looks a bit like an aerosol and it's got a little stick on the end of it to clean it out but it's not fucking working

it's a real pain hard hard on the old uh is it like a macbook air it's like a little thin keyboard yeah i i fell this weekend i actually thought i'd ruined my um macbook in that I fell down the stairs and it hit the wall and also I got chicken grease in the enter key. But it seems alright. I mean how did you fall down the stairs? Chicken grease. You greased the banister.

Just in my socks. Just in my socks. Fell down the stairs. It was rather foolish of me unfortunately. And you were holding the MacBook at the time? I were holding the MacBook at the time? And I was holding the MacBook at the time, took a big wedge out the wall. That's not going to come out. That's not going to buff out.

Have you found the adaption? Oi, oi, oi. So the adaption you've had to make, or the adaptation you've had to make to domestic life... Existing in a... Right, yeah. ..has involved you falling down the stairs and going to two car boot sales already. Yeah, I like it.

Have you got a garage? Got a garage, yeah. Oh, what have you put in there? Just stuff. Bag of cement gone hard? Bag of cement gone hard. Grass cutting machine. Some people call them a mower.

60 wrestling figures. What did Mark Haynes of WrestleMe say about your wrestling figures? He was quite into them, to be honest. I think he was surprised that a boy needed four John Cena's and two Undertaker's. But there's certainly a lot of... There's two Ultimate Warriors. So what I did immediately was to make the Ultimate Warrior

have sex with himself. He was a notable homophobe. So really sticking it to a dead man. Is he dead on, but warrior? Yeah, he was inducted to the Hall of Fame

and then I think died the day after. I know he became quite a mad politician. Yeah, he was a politician, but he was certainly, he was a conservative commentator.

To be honest, the stuff he sort of said, Piers and comparison with what's been said in the last five years, he probably would have had a lovely time. He would have been seen as the middle ground, quite frankly, the things he says.

I mean, you say he was an extreme political commentator. I mean, isn't that most people these days? I guess so, yeah. We've all got opinions, haven't we? Ahead of his time. And we're not afraid to share them. No, and we're going to share some more opinions probably chiefly on the back of people's emails pete after this ad break so should we take a quick one and then come back let's do it join me melissa ready and listen to my brand new podcast between the lines i'll be speaking to the

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And we're back. It's the Luke and Pete show. If you'd like to get in touch with the show, it's hello at lukenpeetshow.com. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Luke Moore. Luke, what's the email bounty brought us this week? Well, it's very, very plentiful as it normally is.

And the first email that grabbed my attention this week is someone who chimed in about the antics they got up to while working at a supermarket uh right okay one thing i forgot to say about that last week is that um there was this guy i used to work with as well at the supermarket um who was a like a genuinely very very good blagger. He would get off. I mean, because at one point, my antics got me into so much trouble that I ended up getting stuck out in the car park kiosk

at the end of the car park, just checking people's receipts every day. And that wasn't too bad because I had like a little radio and it's before the internet really. So there was no kind of mobile phones or internet. So I had a radio. You should listen to Radio 1 all day. Grab a paper from was no kind of mobile phones or internet so i had a radio he said this is the radio one all day and grab a paper from um the newspaper kind of bit on in the supermarket on the way out get my car park your setup for 7 a.m and just sit there till three uh with a little

break for lunch and it was in the summer and it was actually all right but anyway this guy he was a little bit more senior than me and he was like a legendary boozer as well. And one thing I forgot to say last week is that at one point, I'm pretty sure I remember him on a very early on a Sunday morning when he was supposed to be stocking up the supermarket before it opened. He was like sleeping on the bottom shelf of the crisp aisle. So basically he just tucked himself on the shelf. Wedged in.

Yeah, just snoozing away. So look, everyone got up to it back in the day. And I also remember someone else who should remain nameless when they had a hangover being really hot and so used to spend all their time in the freezer in the chiller out the back drinking Sunny Delight. That would have been you, Donny. Again, I would have turned yellow.

I'm surprised I wasn't one of those kids who turned yellow after drinking all of Sunny D. I bet you loved Sunny Delight, didn't you? A bit too late for my taste. I sort of graduated on a cloudy lemonade by the time Sunny D came on. Was Sunny Delight just like a really well-branded and marketed orange juice? Yeah, it was very strong, though.

Very, very sugary way more sugary than anything we'd expected before and probably a bit more tart as well but i'd gravitate i'd gravitate um i think it would fall foul of certain junk food taxes uh certainly but then i i kind of i like the hawaiian um or uh like uh kind of j Jamaican punch you'd get in kind of specialist London shops, like Bigger Juice and stuff like that. Big fan of that back in the day. That was like more sugary than Sunny D. And also Carbonators as well. Great on a hangover.

Fantastic. Bigger Juice. Cannot get enough. Hope it still exists. Yeah, apparently it's called Sunny D now. You can still get it in the US. Although I've not seen it um my most recent visits there but apparently in december 1999 there was a lot of negative publicity because um a four-year-old girl experienced her skin turning orange due to the product's use of

beta carotene for color because she was drinking an estimated one and a half liters of cyan delight a day i mean first of all she's four. Her parents should be helping her out there. But I mean, that's not a great look for a brand, is it? I mean, quite literally, it's a terrible look. Mind you, everyone's doing it these days, aren't they? Anyway, Andrew's been in touch saying, good afternoon, lads. Following on from Luke's story about his work hideaway, it reminded me of when I worked for a supermarket chain.

I won't name names, apart from the fact to say that they used a pocket tap on their ads. I used to run the beers, wine, and spirit section, even though I was only 17. I walked into work at 6 a.m. and the only people in at that time were the bakers. I walked to our stock room and decided that I couldn't be bothered that day. So I left a note in the diary pretending it had been left by one of the night workers saying I ran in sick and so I went home the thing is I clocked in but I never clocked out and the next day when I came in I spoke to the admin lady and said I forgot to clock out so she manually put in that I finished at 6 p.m not only did I get a day off I got paid a 12-hour shift and didn't use my holiday up love the pod as always and look forward to more stories all the best Andrew Andrew that is dishonest and Pete Donaldson will take very very unkindly to that won't you Pete the dream that is the dream doing something

that you're like oh I'm not sure about this and then someone enables you to get away with it more deeply than you ever thought possible I'm big big on that. That's great news. So a couple of things off the back of that. One would be that I might have mentioned this before, but I'm not sure. So I'll just very, very quickly recap it if I have. I know someone who used to work at a supermarket and first thing in the morning used to buy a sausage roll, right? So he would buy a sausage roll for like 50p,

go to the counter buy it pay for it and get the receipt right then he would spend the rest of the day eating sausage rolls and if anyone questioned him he just pulled the receipt out so no i bought it earlier and number two when i worked at an office office i think it was a building i think it was an office it was an office but i think it was a government department based think it was an office, but I think it was a government department based down where I'm from. I'm not going to say it was. We used to have to clock in and clock out.

So you'd come in, you'd swipe your card, and it would say the minute you came in. And then you would do the same when you left, obviously, and it would accrue your minutes. And sometimes if you were over your minutes for like two weeks, you'd get a day off or whatever. But crucially, you used to have to clock out and clock back in again for lunch so if you only took like 20 minutes for lunch you would um you would obviously you work more more minutes basically but we used to obviously want to take like an hour for lunch so

what we used to do is we used to give a load of um of our clocking in cards to one person on a rotational basis who used to once a week have to go back to work early after lunch and swipe everyone back in nice and then we would go back in after so you'd get an extra like 40 minutes work it's dishonest it's probably theft but you know i'm not perfect and nor is anyone so i'm just trying to um i'm just trying to share the the stories that i've experienced i'm not saying it's a good thing i'm just saying it's what happened'm not saying it's a good thing. I'm just saying it's what happened. I'm saying it's a good thing. Lewis Watson says, hi gents. I met Buster Bloodvessel.

Remember when we were talking about him? I sweet the guy with the big fat belly and the big old chunky tongue. He's skinnier now. He is, yeah. I met Buster Bloodvessel in Uxbridge around 10 years ago after Bad Manners played to around 30 people in a rundown pub on Christmas Eve. Buster and the band hung about for ages afterwards

with me and my pals necking several tequilas with the great man singing back to him his own hit. Buster is from around the area and is a great narrowboat enthusiast. He lives on a narrowboat in Hayes and he's often spotted around the area. He had a gastric bypass years back and is now unrecognisable from the man in 80s and the 90s he's a top bloke love the show guys lewis thank you for that a particular email lewis but i like the idea of a blood vessel residing on a narrowboat yeah i liked it um i like it when rock stars uh and people like that have like a quite random alternative interest. Yes. Neil Young is famously into cars and trains in quite a big way.

And for example, David Bowie was quite into the Nazis for a bit. He was, yeah. So it happens to all of them. I think David Gilmour's got his own recording think he's got his own recording studio on a narrow boat. Oh, that's nice. Would it be well insulated? I don't really, maybe it would be actually.

How would it work, do you reckon? Because the pipes wouldn't be connected to anything. Yeah, I guess it's probably an ideal situation. How's he powering it though? Because you're kind of insulated. How's he powering it?

I don't know. With a big battery, a generator, I don't know. With a big battery? A generator? I don't know. Generator's too noisy, surely. Well, I would use a generator to power a UPS power supply. But if he's all analog, actually, if he's all digital, the power supply is probably not going to be hit that hard.

So you can probably get a good few hours of recording time out of it. I don't really know how narrowboat power works. I presume a generator powers a battery, and then a battery charges the rest of your bits and your bobs. Well, I think you could probably plug in when you're more up as well to charge things. So my friend Mitch, who is the most Australian man I've ever met, he lives on a narrowboat that he did up himself.

And I think he's got a lot of solar power, I think. Yeah. But he's got a full Wi solar power i think yeah and um but he's got like a full wi-fi he works freelance and i think he's like a web designer but he just does it all from his narrowboat it's a very idyllic life but i think i'm right in saying that his girlfriend at the time refused to move on to it with him and uh which caused quite which caused quite the schism quite the ruction um the uh they've got like a lot of um i don't see a lot of them down down absolutely where they a lot of them have got satellite um connectivity so they've got little satellite connectors for for wi-fi and stuff like that so they don't have to worry about 4g or stuff like

that just straight from space baby is that expensive or cheaper than yeah it's very expensive but it's a bit more reliable maybe i don I don't know. I'll tell you what I love. Speaking of technology, right, you might know more about this than me. I absolutely love a Comrex. Comrex. Now, what's that? Well, I think it's what they use, like war reporters use when they're out in the field. Oh, right, like a satellite phone.

Yeah, it's wicked. I've used one before when we had to record a couple of radio shows in lockdown. Very, very enjoyable. You genuinely felt like you were a war reporter, but from the safety of your own home. on before when we had to record a couple of radio shows in lockdown very very enjoyable you genuinely felt like you're you're a war reporter but from the safety of your own home and if you're someone who's frightened of that kind of work which i very much am it was kind of a nice little buzz yeah i mean i guess now nowadays um they not to get too technical but instead of the comrex

satellite stuff they have or maybe this is still comrex um they have options where they would have um three or four um different 4g connections so they'll have like one from vodafone one from o2 one from ee and follow off like square away all of the um the the the connections and when one falls down the other one takes over then if the other one falls down the other one takes over it's how they do one falls down, the other one takes over. It's how they do it on the trains. They use different network providers. A metaphor for collaboration that we could all do a lot more of.

Yeah, that might. Why don't we just have one big network, guys? Why don't we just all get together? In the unlikely event that our listeners have got anything to say on that, they should get in touch. Hello at lucanbeatshow.com. I've got to use the comrex. Yeah, perhaps you want to email in and you know lament the passing of isdn in favor of an ipdtl model

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