The Luke and Pete Show - An Unexpected Goose and A Model Photoshoot
Episode Date: May 6, 2021On 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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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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
Why is he
on the
roller coaster?
He'd been
invited to
the opening
of this
roller coaster.
He'd been
shown up to
the opening
of this
thing called
Apollo's
Chariot in
Virginia.
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,
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
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
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
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?
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...
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,
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
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.
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
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
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
if it's like
because you
for a bet
stuck your fork
in a plug socket
yeah
or you
I don't know
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
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
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
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
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
yeah because I think
he would have been
an absolute
walking meme otherwise
yeah
it would be a phrase
now wouldn't it
yeah
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
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...
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.
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,
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
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
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?
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,
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?
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.
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
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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?
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
louder voice
I'll rate myself
I don't know though
I've
I've
a history of
performing
and I have
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.
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,
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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.
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
a few times.
I think he's literally
just actively seeking out
batteries for us.
He's got some
Trustfire batteries.
Trustfire.
Trustfire.
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.
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.
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
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
and JCB as well
JCB
look branded JCB
and Hyundai batteries
so it is JCB
as in the
that make the digger
what the
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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
that we needed to cross.
And me being a painfully
uncoordinated kid,
Jim,
at the slightest suggestion
of a slippery surface
underfoot,
I fell,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
been. Metaphorically
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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.
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
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
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.
See you again soon.
Have a great weekend.
And love you lots.
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