The Luke and Pete Show - An Unexpected Goose and A Model Photoshoot

Episode Date: May 6, 2021

On today’s show, Luke is joined by Jim again and the boys are in for one hell of an emotional roller coaster! Jim shares news on the world’s most shocking model photoshoot to date, before Luke rev...eals the outrageous new regulations in place for town crier championships. Elsewhere, Jim steps up as a battery judge as a NEW PLAYER ENTERS THE GAME, and a listener gets in touch with an incredibly muddy story and arguably our funniest email yet. DON’T MISS OUT!Have you ever had a traumatic rollercoaster experience? This week that's what we want to hear all about - get in touch on our social media at @lukeandpeteshow, or drop us an email at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com. Thanks!If you're enjoying the show, make sure you drop us a review over on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. 5 stars will do. Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 it's thursday and it's the luke and jim show again we had such a great time on monday we decided to do it again today on thursday it is the 6th of may a very well welcome to you jim campbell hello and can you believe it's already like like well into may i mean i feel like people say that every year but this year more than ever but. But old people say it, don't they? I think time speeds up when you get old though, doesn't it? And I think this is why old people need help crossing the road, because everything's moving so fast. You're aware
Starting point is 00:00:34 that you're hurtling through space. Yeah, and I think the general consensus is surely that it's a smaller percentage of your life a year, the older you get. So it feels shorter. Yeah, maybe that's it. If you're on holiday, the bit where more holiday has come before you than is it feels shorter yeah maybe that's it if you're on holiday the bit where more holiday has come before you
Starting point is 00:00:47 than is in front of you that's when it starts to go really quickly isn't it so I guess that's true of life as well yeah it's been so nice to be on holiday
Starting point is 00:00:53 you're probably right on Monday Jim we talked a lot about dog sneezing we did we also talked a bit about a 330 million light year across
Starting point is 00:01:01 void in space and some other bits about your kind of top three trips to A&E. I want to start... It sounds mental when you look at it in retrospect. I want to start today, though, with a story that you've brought to the table about the legendary Fabio,
Starting point is 00:01:18 but I think you're going to need to tell people who Fabio is first because, to me, I know of him. He's a legend. But I want to know... I don't know if everyone else will, so you might want to kind of do that first. So Fabio is first because to me I know of him he's a legend but I want to know I don't know if everyone else will so you might want to kind of do that first so Fabio
Starting point is 00:01:27 is an Italian man who found fame as a model and sort of actor he's not the DJ Fabio as in Fabio and Groove no no he's not that Fabio
Starting point is 00:01:37 and he found fame somehow I don't know how you find fame from this platform as a cover model on romance novels. So that was like his launch pad.
Starting point is 00:01:47 This is what he looks like now. Yes, he looks the same. I mean, he's got long, luscious hair. He looks like no real human outside of a Meals and Boon cover actually looks, except that this one guy actually does look like that. So basically, a cultural reference that people might remember is Stranger Things, right? Yes.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Where she's reading the romance novel and there's a picture and it really looks like the guy, the young boy, what's his name? Bob, not Bobby, whatever he's called. Billy.
Starting point is 00:02:14 Yeah. But Fabio was the guy on the cover of all these romance novels. Yes, exactly that. So he also started doing adverts for I Can't Believe It's Not Butter and things like that and he became,
Starting point is 00:02:26 I think actually he might have been quite an early example of famous for being famous. Yeah. Because he's like a famous model. It's like you do get them. Obviously you get the supermodels, but he wasn't that type of model. He is a bit like David Gandy, yeah. But David Gandy's got a kind of like, you know,
Starting point is 00:02:39 he might be an outsider to play James Bond, like a thousand to one. But like Fabio is just slightly ridiculous. And then this happened. Yeah, so that's the pre-end. I want to show you a picture of Fabio in his prime though. Because I mean, he does look absolutely ridiculous in retrospect.
Starting point is 00:02:56 I mean, that is a ridiculous photo. It's like a Hulk Michael Bolton. Yeah, it's like what happened was the common consensus around what signifies a handsome man had like a weird day off departure in the 80s. And now it just looks like a massive anomaly because if you see a picture like Sean Connery in the 60s, he looks amazing now.
Starting point is 00:03:19 I'm sure you can find the same with the 70s. We talked about David Gandy. He looks great in retrospect and now. Fabio does not look great. I think maybe Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dolph Lundgren and people like that are a symptom of this as well. But I think in the 80s, America had an idea of what a European man was
Starting point is 00:03:38 that was perhaps not quite right. And you always find the exception that proves the rule. And I think Fabio might be that. Yeah, okay. So why are we talking about him today? We're talking about him because he once killed a goose with his face on a roller coaster oh i'll tell you what i could have done the whole boots void i've never would i've never would have cut that answer i've never would have cut that answer. Tell us more.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Why is he on the roller coaster? He'd been invited to the opening of this roller coaster.
Starting point is 00:04:12 He'd been shown up to the opening of this thing called Apollo's Chariot in Virginia.
Starting point is 00:04:21 It was this big PR thing. He was dressed as normal Fabio, just wearing a shirt, obviously top button undone, probably a couple of buttons undone. Did he wash his hair that morning? He will have done, lusciously, with I can't believe it's not butter,
Starting point is 00:04:34 as per his contract, I would think. But he was on this Apollo's chariot's roller coaster with all these women who were dressed as sort of like, kind of like in a kind of Greek kind of goddess-y servant-y
Starting point is 00:04:49 maiden-y kind of yeah togas that's the word I'm looking for so for some reason he's not dressed as that they do this maiden
Starting point is 00:04:56 maiden journey of this roller coaster it's a big big PR thing and it's already quite a weird PR thing and on the first on the first way up the approach of the first loop he smashes his face into a goose goose dies so i feel for the goose yeah i feel
Starting point is 00:05:12 for the goose as well but i mean being headbutted to death like at a speed no human could ever travel at face but the goose must have exploded right yeah yeah which i just look at a picture now he doesn't look very happy about it i mean the goose is in the, right? Yeah. Yeah. Which... I just look at the picture now. He doesn't look very happy about it. I mean, the goose is in the picture, but Fabio looks really embarrassed. Well, he's got blood all over his face. Is that goose blood or his own blood? It's got to be mixed together, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:05:34 Which can't be good for you, right? You don't want goose blood in your face. No, and also, I feel for the goose first and foremost. We must take a moment to say that is awful for the goose. Sad. Don't want to hear about...
Starting point is 00:05:44 Sorry for the goose's family as well. Yeah, absolutely. What's good for say that is awful for the goose. Sad. Don't want to hear about the goose family as well. Yeah, absolutely. What's good for the goose is sometimes good for the gander. But if you're a model and you're taking your income on what you look like,
Starting point is 00:05:55 it's bad enough having your nose smashed to bits. Anyway. What's going to happen? You know what's going to happen to your career? The fact that it's been
Starting point is 00:06:02 done by a goose. You're well within your rights to be upset about that. Yeah, completely. And also, I mean, when you think about, especially because this happened early, that's not a pleasurable experience on a roller coaster. I don't like roller coasters anyway, really.
Starting point is 00:06:15 That's the last thing you want. We don't know if Fabio does or doesn't. He's just turned up for a payday. Maybe he hates them and has gone, oh, well, they're not going to pay me to do it. Do you reckon he's been on one since? Probably not. He's probably got some sort of ptsd yeah i mean it would be it would be genuinely traumatic right
Starting point is 00:06:31 yeah because i fear of dying from a pratfall as we discussed on the last show recently fell into a canal etc etc because you hear about these darman award things right and yeah haha someone died in this really stupid way but they do leave behind a grieving family and the absurdity of it probably adds to the tragedy of it because there's very little sympathy from the outside world it becomes ridiculed
Starting point is 00:06:51 it's worse I mean listen it's the old kind of if you're yeah if it's bad enough your family loses a family member of course
Starting point is 00:07:00 if it's like because you for a bet stuck your fork in a plug socket yeah or you I don't know
Starting point is 00:07:07 you were getting into a particularly rigorous round of masturbation it's embarrassing moral for the family because they've got to talk to other people about it because the first thing
Starting point is 00:07:15 people are going to say when the dust has settled really sorry to hear about your loss you know I mean God what happened I don't want to tell you I'd probably have a cover story
Starting point is 00:07:23 I'd probably have a cover story I'm now just thinking about Fabio telling his dad about this yeah yeah and he would be really because and
Starting point is 00:07:32 the thing about that is is he going to tell I mean the problem is it's a PR event so it's insult to injury the world's press are going to be there yeah it's at Bush Gardens I've just read
Starting point is 00:07:41 which is a big old theme park in the US yeah everyone's going to be luckily it's before the internet I think that read which is a big old theme park in the US everyone's going to be luckily it's before the internet I think that's why this isn't more well known
Starting point is 00:07:48 yeah because I think he would have been an absolute walking meme otherwise yeah it would be a phrase now wouldn't it yeah
Starting point is 00:07:55 I thought it was going to go fine but I ended up headbutting a goose it would be something like that wouldn't it it would be part of the common parlance
Starting point is 00:08:01 wouldn't it Fabio claimed that the goose hit a video camera which broke apart and those parts struck him in the face and that is like...
Starting point is 00:08:08 Why would you say that? That's just not true, is it, Fabio? Why would you say that? And why would you know that? How could you... You get 100 miles an hour. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:08:15 Did you see the footage from the video camera? No, it apparently was smashed apart by a goose. That's a crazy thing to say. What are the chances of that happening? It must be very,
Starting point is 00:08:23 very slim. How long does it take you to get over that? Would you, so you are the person best qualified in this room to talk about what it would be like
Starting point is 00:08:32 because you've had so many pratfalls in the past. Is there any of the pratfalls you've had in the past, for example, falling into a canal that we had on Monday
Starting point is 00:08:39 that you would change for Fabio headbutting a goose? You wouldn't want to be hit in the face by a goose, would you? I like roller coasters, though. Oh, you do?
Starting point is 00:08:47 Okay. So for example, I had a friend, but I won't name her because I don't want to embarrass her, but when we were younger, who was very terrified, really phobic of pigeons, right? Birds generally, but mostly pigeons. Now, I told you about my uncle. He's passed away now,
Starting point is 00:09:03 but he did an amazing comeback to my mum, his sister, my mother, a family function once where she was teasing him, because he used to tease each other all the time, about how he was phobic of rats. Have I told you this story? No. He was phobic of rats, right?
Starting point is 00:09:20 And he would claim that he wasn't phobic of rats, but she'd say he was. And she kept teasing him, so he was. And he kept saying he wasn't. He kept denying it. And then he just snapped. And he went claim that he wasn't phobic of rats, but she'd say he was. And she kept teasing him saying he was, and he kept saying he wasn't, and he kept denying it. And then he just snapped. And he went, I'm not phobic of rats. I'm phobic of a group of rats being led by a king rat at the front.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Like a very specific thing. And we worked at it because he read some novel when he was a kid. And that's basically what happened. Anyway, this girl was phobic specifically of not just birds and not just pigeons. She was phobic of, because there were so many pigeons
Starting point is 00:09:45 in the high street where we grew up, she had really long blonde hair, of one of them getting stuck in her hair and not being able to get out, right? Which is quite a specific thing. So that could also apply to Fabio, who also has long, luscious blonde hair. And that's the only thing I can think of
Starting point is 00:10:00 that would be worse than being hit in the face by a goose so that the goose dies and you're covered in the goose blood is if the goose somehow got tangled in his hair as well and there was a dead goose in his hair
Starting point is 00:10:10 while he's on the rollercoaster and he pulled up at the end with all the cameras with just a dead bird in his hair. Yeah, that'd be pretty bad. But I suppose...
Starting point is 00:10:19 So it could have been worse, Fabio, if you're listening. What do the PR people think when they see it pull in? How are we going to spin this? I don't know if they've even seen his face hit the goose on the way up. We can't know because it's pre-internet.
Starting point is 00:10:32 But when he pulls in, all of these women looking resplendent in their togas. Are they covered in blood as well? It doesn't look like it from the pictures I've seen. Genuinely, they're having a brilliant time on a roller coaster.
Starting point is 00:10:45 He looks oddly calm, but with a face full of goose blood. You can't believe it. It is strange. There's no getting away from it. Jim, what about this story that I read earlier this week where there's a town crier championships,
Starting point is 00:11:02 right, happening in, what part of the world is it? I can't remember now. It doesn't matter. In some small town, I think. And it might be just outside Barnsley. It doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Anyway, there's a town crier competition every year in this particular place, right? And it's the British Town Crier Championships. And you know what a town crier is, right? Yeah. What would be your... Oye, oye. Is it oye they say? And you know what a town crier is, right? Yeah. What would be your... Oye, oye. Is it oye, they say?
Starting point is 00:11:28 And hear ye, hear ye. Hear ye, yeah. So is it like a British tradition that foreign people would be really interested in? Probably is, actually, yeah, because they would ring a bell. I mean, what a town crier is is actually historically very interesting,
Starting point is 00:11:38 and perhaps for that reason, maybe it's not British, because it was how people learned news, wasn't it? Like, if there'd been a change to a bylaw or there was some particularly important bit of news, a man would wander around the town. Man hit in face by goose. Man hit in face by goose.
Starting point is 00:11:52 Model hit in face by goose on roller coaster. Goose dead. Man fine. They'd wander around the town ringing a bell and really clearly enunciating everything that was going on so that people could understand. And obviously this was quite important, wasn't it? Because newspapers originated in a similar way
Starting point is 00:12:08 in that basically there'd be one in the town and the person that could read, probably it was a town crier, would keep everyone informed. What power that is, though. I know, right? So much potential for mischief and fake news. All beer must be free from now on kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:12:26 Dragon says so. Dragon on the way, get out of your house and then you get in there and help yourself. Exactly. But anyway, the Town Crier Championships in Britain this year because of COVID, right, it's going to have to be done in complete silence. Now, this is the kind of story that I put to Pete
Starting point is 00:12:44 and he decides instantly whether he likes it or not. And if he doesn't, on the, this is the kind of story that I put to Pete, and he decides instantly whether he likes it or not. And if he doesn't, on the show this is, he'll start just playing around with his computer and not saying anything. But if he's into it, we'll do like 40 minutes on it, and he'll never stop talking about it. I think this is mad, because what they're going to have to do is
Starting point is 00:12:59 do 140 words written down instead, that's going to be judged over who the best town crier is. And to me, this is absolutely mad. Just don't do it. Just put it off for a year. No one's going to miss out. It's not something that's a real centre point
Starting point is 00:13:16 of everyone's community or everyone's kind of year, is it? No. It's a nice to have, isn't it? I get the impression, though, that if you are a town crier, you think that that is the case. You've probably got quite a high opinion of yourself.
Starting point is 00:13:27 You think, actually, the town does need it. They probably think they've come up with this genius idea to get around this problem. Surely, at this point, this has become a creative writing exercise where the parameters are so set that it's actually not really creative at all. There's no crossover to the skill.
Starting point is 00:13:43 The skill is how loud and how clear you can enunciate. It doesn't make any sense. As long as you spell everything right, then you're fine. Yeah, and you're talking about how people who are town criers are quite, you're suggesting they quite rate themselves, right? I think it's quite a big I am
Starting point is 00:13:59 sort of role to want to fill, isn't it? Especially in a time where it's redundant. I mean, just imagine the sort of bloke a town crier would be. Well, you don't need to, because I'm about to give you a quote from a former champion, which should tell you everything you need to know. People always ask if it's very noisy in our house, but actually it's really very quiet,
Starting point is 00:14:16 because when your voice is an instrument, you don't abuse it. It's amazing, isn't it? It's amazing. Strong, sort of like almost like a bit of a gareth keenan vibe i mean those guys are really into the military despite having no connection to it like and they draw their self-importance from that i've been paintballing where you you i went for like a weekend with my mates like probably a stag thing or something. And you got to the hut and you talked about
Starting point is 00:14:49 what happened, the safety things, that kind of crap. And you got into the back of a Land Rover to go to the site. And in the back of the Land Rover was two guys I'd never met before in their 40s probably, bandanas, sunglasses, the paint on their faces, like the camouflage paint, paint grenades in their belts with bullets round their chest, like it was a proper war zone. A bullet belt?
Starting point is 00:15:14 Yeah, talking about tactics and stuff. You're talking about those type of people, aren't you? Yeah, very much so. What is it about that? I think it's trying to find your place, isn't it? Even if for you to have to be important in a place, you have to essentially contrive this sort of fantasy world where you...
Starting point is 00:15:32 Well, people are going to call me hypocritical because I like playing PUBG on the PlayStation. Have you ever played that? No, I haven't. Player Unknown's Battleground. Okay. It's like a battle royale game where you get dropped into the island
Starting point is 00:15:40 and you've got to survive for as long as you can and you have to pick up guns and stuff on the way. And there's some people who are really seriously into that so like people co-op games are quite hard like that aren't they because you do come across
Starting point is 00:15:49 people that are just really good at it I think luckily it changes it puts you in there depending on your ability level luckily but there are people
Starting point is 00:15:56 who play it professionally like they get paid a hundred thousand dollars a year to win a tournament and stuff that's amazing what a dream no
Starting point is 00:16:02 luckily I think that might be unluckily that might be some way off for me anyway I thought that was an interesting story about the old town
Starting point is 00:16:09 criers I think I would probably be a better town crier than you Jim yeah I think you've got a you've got a
Starting point is 00:16:17 louder voice I'll rate myself I don't know though I've I've a history of performing and I have
Starting point is 00:16:23 flied at the Edinburgh Festival which is very different but it is essentially walking around a town badgering people that aren't interested in you do you shout though fuck no imagine do some people must do that yeah you get people that get their wacky little routines and they get a bit annoying because they sort of you know not unreasonably they they crave a lot of attention. Like someone will do something like, I remember there was a guy who was, his face was painted blue because clearly it was something to do with his show.
Starting point is 00:16:50 But it was like everyone was sort of, would gravitate towards him because it's quite interesting. It's like, all right, this is a good spot, but he's taken it up. So yeah,
Starting point is 00:16:57 the psychology of flyering is a horrific thing. A town crier would be great. Maybe you could hire one instead of flyers. Does the comedy world um look down upon the improv people uh yes and no uh because improv is a really amazing skill if you can get it right so like the the top like two percent of improv is a genuinely astonishingly good when you see it like a ross noble or something ross no was a bit different because he does improv stand-up but so when you like there's a show called showstoppers right which
Starting point is 00:17:24 once got a one-star review from from someone from a student newspaper because they wouldn't accept it was improvised it was like they basically create a musical from scratch and it's it's it's genuine genius as well it's like ostentatious where they create like a jane austen novel from audience um kind of suggestions of the group called the noise next door who do things a bit differently but they they're fantastic as well and you always get people who to me it's just cringe in my head yeah well that's because bad improv is really really cringe and to go from from being bad to being brilliant is obviously really really difficult so with as with any type of performance it's like learning an instrument in public right and within with improv it with improv, it's like being a band in public,
Starting point is 00:18:05 I suppose. And it's a lot. I think bad improv is one of the worst performance styles. Yeah, okay. But when it's really good, you have to sort of take your hat off to those people.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Yeah. So, yeah, in a roundabout way, absolutely. Yeah, I think I can also imagine people looking at it and going, yeah, I could probably do that. I'm doing it and it'd be shit. Yeah, absolutely.
Starting point is 00:18:23 Anyway, let's have a break. We've got to have a break. We're way over time, Jim. You're too interesting. When we come back, we're going to probably do that. I'm doing it and it'd be a shit. Yeah, absolutely. Anyway, let's have a break. We've got to have a break. We're way over time, Jim. You're too interesting. When we come back, we're going to do some emails. I've got an absolute belting story for you that I want to read to you. So everyone listening should stick around for that. We will be back just after this. Welcome back to the Luke and
Starting point is 00:18:37 Jim show in lieu of the Luke and Pete show on this Thursday. Before I get into emails, I've got to do some battery brands and some players who want to enter the game, some listeners who want to submit their new battery brands to see if we've seen them or heard of them before.
Starting point is 00:18:52 Jim, I'm going to give you the judgment on this one. This week, it's a privilege of being in the Pete Donaldson position. He normally at least has a say in the judging when he can be asked. Noah Roth has been in touch. I think he's been in touch
Starting point is 00:19:06 a few times. I think he's literally just actively seeking out batteries for us. He's got some Trustfire batteries. Trustfire. Trustfire.
Starting point is 00:19:13 Have you heard of them? No. I'll give you a picture. It looks a bit like a LucasAid bottle. And also, it looks like it's about to catch fire.
Starting point is 00:19:20 Do you reckon they're a new player? I've never seen them before. Yeah, I've never heard of Trustfire. It sounds like a restaurant called I Am Not A Front as well, doesn't it? It's like Trustfire. There we go.
Starting point is 00:19:32 Trustfire, that is a new player. Congratulations to you, Noah. Gino Conte has sent in Hyundai batteries. Hyundai? That's a brand obviously we've heard before. Yeah, but they make cars, do they not? Yeah. So I guess technically that is a new player because we've never seen Hyundai batteries they make cars do they not yeah so I guess technically
Starting point is 00:19:45 that is a new player because we've never seen Hyundai batteries before why are they doing I suppose you know I hope it's not for their car for money
Starting point is 00:19:52 and JCB as well JCB look branded JCB and Hyundai batteries so it is JCB as in the that make the digger what the
Starting point is 00:20:01 does everyone have batteries I don't know does every company do batteries as well and we just don't know? You want to get some Luke and Pete branded batteries. We do. The day that we discovered
Starting point is 00:20:10 that these weird brands of batteries exist, we've never looked back in our career. It's sustained us for so long. They're both new players as far as I'm concerned. And then finally, Damien Murray's got in touch with a Paco battery. P-A-C-O. Sounds Finnish almost.
Starting point is 00:20:24 Yeah, that's absolutely new to me. All of these are new. A clean sweep then. Four new battery brands, four new players entered the game. Great stuff. So how are you keeping track of this? I asked Pete if he can remember them
Starting point is 00:20:35 and if he can't and I can't, they get in. Pete's basically a computer. It's very rigorous, Jim, as you can imagine. I've got an email here from, I don't think he wants us to use his surname, Dan. Promising his surname, Dan.
Starting point is 00:20:45 Promising. Yeah, exactly. That always gets me going. He's just called Dan, right? Okay. And he wants to tell you this story. He says, sorry if it's too long, but hopefully it gives you a laugh.
Starting point is 00:20:55 It is long, but it's worth it. So I'm going to read it to you, Jim. And if you want to interject anytime, you can. He says, hi guys. When I was in my first year of high school, I was around 12 years old, and me and about 50 other kids went on an end-of-year school trip
Starting point is 00:21:09 to a place called the Crocky Trail. The Crocky Trail. Yeah, this place is a bit of a farmland just outside Chester. Chester. Great obscure island park. We've got to see my brother. Which has been filled with sculptures,
Starting point is 00:21:25 rope swings, tunnels, and all manner of assault course type activity. Sounds pretty cool. Sounds great, yeah. He said, we had a bloody great time and the kids were left to roam the site in groups with relatively little supervision from the three or four teachers that came along.
Starting point is 00:21:37 So that's the scene set. At one point, our small group was crossing a huge swamp, quote unquote swamp, which was effectively a six foot deep mud puddle, probably about 30 feet wide. A few feet above the swamp, there was a huge log slashed felled tree
Starting point is 00:21:53 that we needed to cross. And me being a painfully uncoordinated kid, Jim, at the slightest suggestion of a slippery surface underfoot, I fell,
Starting point is 00:22:01 arse over tit, into the swamp. Oh, God. Man, that mud was thick. Mad, gloopy mud, like the pink stuff in Ghostbusters 2. I just about managed to keep my head above the surface, but my body was completely under. As the shock wore off, I saw the funny side, as did everyone else who was pissing themselves at the disembodied head floating in mud yelling for help. It was fine until I tried to get out.
Starting point is 00:22:26 I could wriggle my legs an inch or so but I could feel something like tree roots under the surface and my foot was under something and the more I moved the more I felt stuck.
Starting point is 00:22:32 That is one of the big childhood fears isn't it? Because I mean as children of the 80s obviously we grew up terrified of quicksand and kids still do
Starting point is 00:22:40 but this is a parallel to that isn't it? It's just a muddy version. Some of the lads got into a shallower part of the swamp and began half-assed
Starting point is 00:22:47 rescuing sorry began a half-assed rescue attempt which somehow turned into throwing mud at each other obviously because they're 12 one lad threw a handful
Starting point is 00:22:54 of mud right in my so this is a kid buried up to his neck in mud he's 12 right screaming for help yeah
Starting point is 00:23:02 he's screaming for help one lad threw a handful of mud right in my face i'll help got himself muddy just to finish up his No, you're not quite money enough. He said, I didn't realise that my eyes were open. Mud on my eyeballs. Mud on my hands and mud everywhere. He can't even wipe his face. He said, I screamed.
Starting point is 00:23:36 It was time for panic. It was time for panic. He's just written that as a sentence. At this point, it's all quite calm. Yeah. He said, I was crying, screaming at the moron who threw mud at me. I'm sorry.
Starting point is 00:23:53 What can you do? You're so powerless at that point. I'm trying to get through this. One kid ran off to find a teacher who alerted the owner who went to go and get a tractor and some rope. Meanwhile, the other lads with me tried to form a human chain
Starting point is 00:24:07 but couldn't get close enough until one cavalier hero stepped up, let's call him Bruce, and decided he could fix all this by coming into the deep part to pull me out. Cue overly dramatic screams of, no, save yourself. Don't come into the quicksand. There's no point two of us being here. But Bruce didn't listen. Oh, Bruce.
Starting point is 00:24:24 As he got closer to me, he found the ground disappear below him and the mud tight on its grip. Just at that time, though, I managed to somehow wriggle a bit more and began to free myself limb from limb. Bruce, the absolute plonker, was now screaming that he was stuck as I slowly made my way to the edge. Oh, Bruce has done him such a solid there. Taking the attention
Starting point is 00:24:45 off him as well. Yeah. Exhausted but elated, said Dan, I caught my breath on the shore of the swamp just as I saw the cavalry arrive as my English teacher
Starting point is 00:24:52 stripped down to his tighty-whitey pants and waded in to reach the now hysterical Bruce. The tractor arrived as well. Moments later, this mostly naked teacher managed to get the rope to Bruce
Starting point is 00:25:05 and the tractor began slowly pulling him out. This is where it gets even weirder. Unfortunately for Bruce, he hadn't tied the cord around his tracksuit bottoms, which managed to slowly
Starting point is 00:25:15 roll down his legs as he was pulled free of the mud, exposing his wanger to the now substantial crowd of peers, teachers, and some general onlookers. I was relatively unscathed and happy
Starting point is 00:25:29 that I had a funny story to share with my mates while Bruce left the school that summer and I never saw him again. Don't try and be a hero, kids. It's not worth it. Take care of yourselves, guys. Dan. That's so bad.
Starting point is 00:25:39 Oh. I can imagine him leaving the school. Imagine you walking along. There's some general onlookers there. Yeah. And just saying, what's happening here? What is this very, very weird peep show going on? And you're being hoisted up and your pants are being pulled down.
Starting point is 00:25:54 Gradually. It's the gradual nature of 12 years old when you are so prone to shame. It's bad. It's really bad. But, you know, Bruce, as we alluded to, has really taken the heat off Dan there because this is now
Starting point is 00:26:09 his funny story. Who knows what happened to Bruce? If you're listening, Bruce, get in touch. It happens. There was a kid that went to our university.
Starting point is 00:26:17 You probably wouldn't have met him. He was really quite aggressive and he was actually, he lived a couple of doors down from me in halls and he was only from Basingstoke doors down from me in halls and he was only
Starting point is 00:26:25 from Basingstoke which wasn't far from where the uni was so he didn't really he could easily have commuted in aka Amazingstoke Amazingstoke yeah
Starting point is 00:26:31 and so he he had this stereo that would go really loud and you know some people they're just really proud of the volume
Starting point is 00:26:38 that their stereo can hit almost like you know when someone's got a car that can reach like 200 miles an hour or whatever
Starting point is 00:26:44 and they'll like show off about it. So he would play his music just really loud every night because he could. And his argument was, it's my room. I can do what I want. Right. And in the end, someone recruited a girl to come and punch him. What?
Starting point is 00:26:59 Just so that, because he wouldn't retaliate. He was quite aggressive otherwise. Who was the girl? I can't remember who it was. Who would be up for the task? I don't know how they recruited this woman, but she was a hero. One of the many reasons that women are better than men
Starting point is 00:27:12 is they don't generally go around punching people. No, but she clearly had enough as well. Maybe you could hear the music from a different hall. But they just knocked on his door, as I remember the story. They knocked on his door. He opened it. She just lamped him.
Starting point is 00:27:26 And that was the end of it. It wasn't the end of it because he left the uni the next day. Never came back. Never came back. Similar thing. Could have been the same person. Very different thing.
Starting point is 00:27:34 Similar outcomes. He just thought, there's no way back for me now. No, exactly. And it happens, doesn't it? I don't remember that happening to anyone at my school, but I bet there are more of these going around.
Starting point is 00:27:43 You wonder what happens to these people. Maybe they all live together. Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's a kind of town where everyone goes. He's been shamed. Like an island somewhere. That's enough for us this week, I think. I don't think we can top that story from Dan. We have been the Luke and Pete show this week, or the Luke and Jim show as it's
Starting point is 00:27:57 been. Metaphorically throwing mud into your helpless face via the form of a podcast. If you've enjoyed the show, leave us a review. You know where to do that. Sorry, you know where to do that, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:28:12 At Luke and Pete Show on Twitter and Instagram and hello at lukeandpete.com on the email. We love to hear from you, particularly if you've got a story anywhere near as good as Dan's. All that's left for me to say now is thank you very much to Jim Campbell for stepping in.
Starting point is 00:28:25 You're very welcome. It's been great to have you here, Jim. Campbell for stepping in you're very welcome it's been great to have you here Jim and I'll see you again very soon if you want to hear more from Jim he's got a YouTube channel called We Like Old Adverts he's also on the Football Ramble pretty regularly
Starting point is 00:28:33 and he's always knocking about and now the world's opening up again you'll be doing lots more stuff as well I suppose Jim I will so we'll look forward to that as well stay away from the canal stay away from A&E
Starting point is 00:28:42 and I'll see you next week and we'll say hello to you next week as well. When Pete's back, tell us about what he's been up to. It's been his birthday. He's been away. I'm sure he's got plenty of stories. So stick around for that next week.
Starting point is 00:28:53 See you again soon. Have a great weekend. And love you lots. this was a staccato production and part of the acos creative network

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