The Luke and Pete Show - Another year in the simulation

Episode Date: December 26, 2022

Will Smith slapping Chris Rock, the roof of the O2 ripping off and erm, Liz Truss… These are just a few of the mental things that have happened this year.Today, Luke has prepared a game to take Pete through the highlights and lowlights of another unprecedented year in the simulation. Strap in!Want to contact the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. I'm the Pete Bits. I'm joined by the Luke Bits. And we are broadcasting, well, coming to you. We were broadcasting earlier in the year. But you can hear our voices right now on the day of Kit Harington, Hugo Lloris' birthday, and Lars Ulrich from Metallica. They're three big hitters, aren't they, Lukey Moore?

Yeah, that's actually a pretty good line-up. And when you say earlier in the year, I think it's important to point out, it's not like June. No. It's like two days before. That would be, yeah. I mean, I don't think anyone, I think all we've got in this show is how current we are. Yeah. We've got nothing else, Luke. It's a great June. I'm enjoying June. We've got in this show is how current we are yeah we've got nothing else luke

it's a great june i'm enjoying june i've got a lovely tan um i'm only imagining what it'll be like on boxing day but no joking aside laszlo rick hugo lorries and kit harrington that is a great lineup of birthdays sometimes you are really struggling when you go with that that list sometimes i'm like who's that but three, straight in my dome piece, know who they are instantly. So I'm very, very happy with that. I think from a previous Luke and Pete show recording or perhaps even a Ramble Patreon episode,

I have it in my head that the 27th, tomorrow if you will, is birthed, it is John Legend. Now, I'm going to Google. I have to check whether my brain is working. When was he born? John Legend, December 28th. I was a day off luke i'm so sorry everyone you are that is a shame people have talked about you slipping and i thought to myself no i'll back him up there but that is evidence right there but it but if but if i do show uh but if i do send john legend

a card i'll only be a day early it's better to be early. It's better to be early than late. Perfect. Better to be early than late. Are you still reeling from our two Christmas special episodes, the Yule Lads? All sorts went on last time. Yeah, I mean, don't ask me to remember any of it, but I remember there were some pretty good stories, some user-generated content, which ticked a lot of Christmas boxes, pulled apart a couple of Christmas presents here and there. Absolutely, and what we thought we'd do, because it's Boxing Day, right, and no one's doing anything. which ticked a lot of Christmas boxes. Definitely. Pulled apart a couple of Christmas presents here and there. Absolutely. And what we thought we'd do, because it's Boxing Day, right, and no one's doing anything.

And even if you're back to work or you're doing a shift or something like that for which you have our unwavering support, but if you are working and you're on your way in or you're just lazing around doing nothing, I thought it would be quite nice today and for the show on Thursday, because these are the last two shows of the year, to perhaps sum up some of the things that have happened this year um that you may not um that you may not remember and the reason for that is because um well there's two reasons one because

you and i are both getting older well everyone's getting older but obviously we're the hosts so we're included in that um and it's quite difficult to differentiate between years as you get older i think just because there's been so many of them and the second and main reason i think pete and hopefully this is something you'll share is that so much fucking stuff happens all the time now that it's actually quite difficult to even keep up with it is that us getting older or do you think the world's just getting more mad um i just think uh i i just think we're i think stories really burn bright for shorter periods of time so a story that might have you know echoed down the ages for it for a week or two now i mean that's you know tuesday at 9 00 a.m that's what you get done really yeah then there's some other horror to watch you know like

i mean because to me it feels like, for example, the most publicly embarrassing and expensive midlife crisis of all time, i.e. Elon Musk taking over Twitter. When do you reckon that happened? Just off the top of your head. I think it probably happened quite late in the year. It feels like November. Start of November. You've undermined my point. Sorry, I know. That's always going to happen.

I can only tell the truth. No, that's fine. You would think that that would take quite a long time to sort of settle in and stuff. But no, I think it is actually later than you think. I think it was the very start of November, yeah. But I mean, it's not even two months ago. I know. Mad, isn't it?

Absolutely mad. And so much has happened. It feels like paradigm shifts happen all the time now. Everything, what comes to be just big, fairly big happen and not be a total paradigm shift for how we live our lives. And so that's the inspiration for it. I think it's a nice time to do a kind of summary of the year, but we're not going to do it in a kind of chronological, usual, traditional way. What I'm going to do is I've got a list of things here that I think are are the most notable things that have happened and i've got a number attached to each of them and i want pete to give me a number and when he gives me a number that'll correspond with an event and then we'll

talk about it so that's how it's going to work i just need my pen and paper here though so i don't repeat um uh yeah and okay pete so give me a number between one and say i've got loads but you could say between one and 15 all right i'll go for 12 that's all right number 12 scrolling number 12 number 12 number 12 is um will smith hitting chris rock at the oscars oh right okay yeah i mean that feels like it was last month but it was probably january or something like that well have a guess as to when you think it happened. I reckon, actually thinking about it, it's probably about May. It was actually the 27th of March, 2022.

Oh, I was excited on that. I mean, it was a very, I think we spoke about it on the show and it was shocking and depressing almost immediately. We went through all of the cycle very, very quickly with that one, didn't we? It's great now. It's known as the Will Smith-Chris rock slapping incident at the 94th academy awards will smith walked on stage and slapped comedian chris rock across the face during rock's presentation for best documentary feature um also known as slapgate and the slap heard around the world and the outcome was that will smith resigned and was issued a 10-year ban from the academy

and yeah basically everyone wrung their hands gave their hot takes and it was i think probably one of the more bizarre things for a couple of reasons one is that i think that it probably showed in quite stark um fashion how bad it is to probably be living your life in the public eye all the time but i think people are starting to come around to that now and i think will smith is someone who's had a lot of pressure and a lot of kind of um a lot of kind of issues around the way he lives his life and that kind of stuff which i don't want to go into in too much detail but also um there were a lot of people out there saying whatever you someone slags off your wife you've got to give him a slap do you know i mean? A couple of quite basic takes as well.

How do you feel about the whole incident now the dust has settled, Peter? I wish that Chris Rock had left the stage and then they didn't have a backup host for the Oscars. That would have been very funny. And everyone turns to Will Smith and says, well done, Will. You've ruined the Oscars. Well, turns to Will Smith and says, well done, Will. Yeah.

You've ruined the Oscars. Well, he was only presenting that award, though. Oh, Chris Rock. He wasn't hosting the whole thing. No, it was hosted by... Who was hosting the whole thing? I think it was Amy Schumer and then a couple of people I don't really know. Regina Hall is the other one listed.

I'm sorry. Why is Amy Schumer hosting the Oscars? It's the Oscars. Amy Schumer's, I mean... She's won four Oscars as an actor, actually. Has she? No. Of course not.

Of course she hasn't. You never know. Sometimes they do a worthy one, don't they, the old comedians? So if you're, say in the summer, this has happened, part of this I think has happened in the past. You are asked to host an event

at the british podcast awards an award so i mean let's say you're you're you're presenting the award for um best sports podcast right right and you're about to do your thing you make a joke about saying maybe the guy from my dad wrote a porno right okay and i'm sorry i say um very much like uh very much like dad wrote a pop no unlike dad wrote a porno these uh awards are actually are happening rather than dad wrote a porno yeah so welcome to the entirely factual best sports best sports podcast section of the british podcast awards and you yeah you make a joke about um the bloke from my dad wrote a porno uh the main guy not the other two and he comes up and heftily slaps you across the chops in front of your podcast brethren,

do you do a Chris Rock where you kind of make a bit of a joke about it? You'd probably say, goodness me, straight away. I'd say, wouldn't you? You'd definitely do that. That's your placeholder to buy you a bit of time. What a podcast show moment, I'd shout. Yeah. What would you actually do?

Would you give him a slap back? Would you have him swing a big haymaker back at him? I mean, to be honest, I walked past him. I don't know why I did it. I walked past him a couple of weeks back at him? I mean, to be honest, I walked past him, I don't know why I did it, I walked past him a couple of weeks ago at some do, and I shook the hands of somebody next to him, and then sort of felt a bit awkward, so went to shake his hand as well,

and so we shook hands, and he doesn't know who I am, but he does have big old paws, and he's quite tall, and quite hefty, so I imagine I'd probably be slapped into the middle next week if he deemed to deemed fit to to slap me in the chops i must admit well you should don't go down never go down what do you mean don't go what do you mean stand your feet

is that your advice is it stand your feet as much as you can you never give up never give up okay i'm sorry i did did you did you speaking of never give up did you see um rocky did you see uh sylvester stallone um picking up some uh picking up some plates no i haven't seen tell me about it so he's um he's he's put a video on his instagram where he's picking up some weight like you know like the the weights on the bar like the plates you put on the end of the bar to do your lifting and stuff right yeah he's got some weights and he's got two something like 40 kilogram weights or something so 240 kilogram weights or whatever and he's got uh two uh in his hands one one in each hand and he's from the floor he's lifting them up going and then he drops them. Completely free drops them. And they're clearly from a company called fakeplates.com.

Like it's the exact same design. It's the exact same. Yeah, I mean, exactly. So the video stops before it hits the ground and goes badonk. But he's just done this kind of fake like uh plate lifting little display um and the thing about like lifting stuff that isn't actually that heavy they move in a slightly different way don't they so you know if you look at why is he doing that why is he doing that at nearly like 80 why don't you like actors acting yeah but why is he doing on his instagram pretending he's lifting

a load of plates when he's just not um so it's it's like when the if you look if you watch the film titanic when the boat goes right ship goes right up into a vertical position and starts sinking right people fall off it and hit things on the way down yeah they're all basically hitting like rubber things oh it's all like once you see it you can't unsee it like it i understand things need to be done and i understand you know yeah it's a big project but james cameron famously spends hundreds of millions on his films so cgi you think you could cgi that yeah why is no one spotting that you know um but but on the uh on the sylvester stallone thing you know he's got that new um this is quite this is a quite a departure but bear with me he's

good we're going to our next event in a minute he's got a show out called tulsa king have you seen it advertised i've not seen tulsa king no so it's like an yeah i haven't well i'll tell you the story um it looks like um he plays some kind of gangster mafia character who goes to a different town and does his thing right and it's like you just imagine sylvester sloan is basically um i don't know some kind of scorsese type you know mafia boss and it's got a bit of a comedy thing to it and it's you know it's got a bit of a sideways glance at mafia life all that kind of stuff right and the advert is exactly as you'd imagine it and um i read a review of it which said it was absolutely fucking brilliant right

said oh the character development's brilliant it's an amazing story are you looking it up now yeah yeah so yeah and and the review was amazing i thought all right well i'll give it a go then i had nothing on the other night um so i thought i'll flick it on just see what it's like i'm looking for a new series to watch got for about five minutes of it thought i can't be bothered with this this looks a bit shit. I'm not going to stick with it. So I turned off. Went back to the review.

Realised the review I'd read was from a Sopranos fan Twitter account. And I was thinking, there's no surprise. You fucking like it, mate. Yeah. But you love the Sopranos. You're a walking one-man Sopranos fan account. But this is a man on the Twitter. He does a poll about the Sopranos every day and has done so i think since twitter if it was invented and it's and it's like twitter it's like polls like do you think furio should have gone with carmella

so it's really it's really inane stuff and he just decided to do a review of a show about the mafia uh that he where he said it was amazing like the same you know, I remember once going to watch the, I'm not sure if I told you this story, but I went to the Prince Charles Cinema. I was invited there by Capital Radio when I was working there. And I went to the Prince Charles Cinema in Leicester Square

to watch the first two episodes of the final series of The Sopranos. Okay, yeah. And it was quite cool. And they did the whole thing out like a New Jersey film theatre. And they were dishing out buttered popcorn and hot dogs. And there was quite cool. And they did the whole thing out like a New Jersey film theater. And they were dishing out buttered popcorn and hot dogs. And there was someone going, hot dogs, get your hot dogs.

Like that, right? Oh, dear. Yeah, but it was fine. I mean, I really liked the surprise. And I wanted to watch the episodes. And we got to watch the first two before they came out. So it was a cool thing. I took my mate along, sat down there.

The guy who sat down next to me was like a cosplaying member of Soprano's De Meo crime family. He literally kept tapping me on the shoulder in the middle of the episode going, there's only two ways out of this game of ours. Into the can or in a box. And I was like,

but he wasn't being paid to be there. He just turned up like that. He was basically living the life. How did he find his way into the cinema? I think it might have been a competition winning element. Right, okay. What, Mafia Weekly? I think on the aforementioned Capital Radio.

I think if you were a big Sopranos fan, you entered this competition, you won. So basically he just talked the whole way through it. Even though he was probably from Hemel Hempsteadead and his wife didn't say a word the whole time brilliant yeah great stuff anyway um give me another number peter so we've had will smith and chris rock i'd completely forgotten about that by the way that's how crazy the 2022 has been give me another one number six please number six okay here we go number six is storm unis ripping the roof off of the o2 oh yeah i remember that when we stopped with storm unis kind of september time i can't bloody remember a red weather warning was issued for storm unis uh on the 17th of february

oh okay no i know and then it struck on the 18th of fe and it actually and this has gone a little bit underreported I think it set a new record in England for wind gust of 122 miles an hour which is actually on the Isle of Wight and it was the most powerful storm to impact the south coast since the great storm of 1987 which I'm sure people of our age all remember

and it ripped the roof off the O2 and that was in February and people have forgotten they've moved on with their lives now people of our age all remember um and it ripped the roof off the o2 and that was in february and people have forgotten they've moved on with their lives now yeah it's and i don't know how you get that back how do you get that back on because i because i was um i was at some do at the o2 uh what do you call it the little bit of the o2 indigo 2 indigo 2 and i took a wrong i had a big tray of beers and i took a wrong turn and someone had left a sort of access door open and i found myself in sort of like a bit of the bowels of the o2 and i could see like the sheet of plastic sort of going over the top so it was

basically the stuff that had been ripped off and it's you'd think it'd be like really really i mean it is thick but not as thick as you need to to to sort of um you know look after yourself on the on the thames where there's no protection wind wise at all it's crazy are you are you calling negligence then i just think you need just during the winter months you should put a a little um a little thermal blanket over the top or something massive silver thing like a big big ufo yeah it was it's it's i'll try to find out what they've done with it now but as you can probably imagine googling roof of the o2 um just basically shows you loads of pictures of the o2 which of course used to be the millennium

dome which i don't think we should forget because yeah i'm a big new labor fan and i'm happy to go on the record of saying that um the Millennium Dome is quite funny it's quite cringe isn't it? I think of the Millennium Dome on Millennium Eve and think of Cherry Blair doing Auld Lang Syne with a really big massive mouth

like really enthusiastically I don't remember that but I remember I mean because I kept calling the Millennium Stadium the Millennium Stadium the old one in Cardiff

yeah you kept calling that the Millennium Dome did you? say again? you kept calling that the Millennium Stadium, the old one in Cardiff. Yeah. You kept calling that the Millennium Dome, did you? Say again? You kept calling that the Millennium Dome? No, I didn't say I called that the Millennium Dome. It's just quite quaint, really. It reminds me of the Millennium Dome, the Millennium Wheel, the Millennium Stadium.

It's very quaint. Reminds me of the Millennium Bug and all those kind of... And a computer chip with little spooky eyes going, er, Millennium Bug, er, like that. People actually thought at one point that planes were going to fall out of the sky. Yeah. Didn't they?

Yeah. Which is mad to think of now. Well, I mean, that's the thing. They sort of, in the same way that like, but people comparing like climate change to the Millennium Bug, it's like, oh, well, you know, the Millennium Bug, it was all a, you know, the millennium bug,

it was all a storm in a teacup. It's like, no, it was a real problem, but then engineers got together and fixed it. So it's completely different to the fucking climate. Well, it's different in a million different ways anyway. But yeah, so the message of the millennium bug is that if you get together and work together scientifically, you can fix a potentially massive problem. Yeah, exactly.

There you go then. No more questions. I was going to say that I mentioned that 122-mile-an-hour wind of Storm Eunice. So do you know that the windiest place in the United States is Mount Washington in New Hampshire? Right, okay. So I don't fully understand why, but outside of tropical cyclones

and hurricanes and actual like individual kind of events like that, it's the windiest place. Definitely in the US, possibly in the world. I'm not sure if it's the world, but it's definitely the US.

It's this real amalgamation of kind of weather fronts and atmospheric conditions, which means it's always really windy. And the record for wind on the top of mountain washington don't forget this isn't a hurricane or a cyclone or anything like that the record just for their windiest day is 231 miles an hour which is double the strength of storm Eunice. Yeah, I mean, how are you sort of building anything to withstand that sort of behaviour? How do you build something that can judge that

without being blown away? See what I mean? It's incredible. Anyway, so Big LC has been to the top of Mount Washington. It's not the highest mountain or anything like that, but it's just very, very windy. I think it's on the Appalachian Trail or at least part of it

alright mate, give me another number alright then, do you want to take a quick break before that? I tell you what, you can have the break to think of a number how about that? I will then, alright hmm, will I go for 15? will I go for 12? will I go for 20? I've already done 12

will I go for... and we've already done 12. I've already done 12. Will I go for... And we're back. It's the Luke and Pete show, and I'm reading out numbers, and Luke's telling me what happened in the year in a slightly confusing, convoluted way. Which is the custom of the Luke and Pete show by now. Oh, yeah, sorry.

Can I have 11, please? All you've got to do is say a number. It's your only contribution to this. Can I have 11, please? 11, yes, you do is say a number. It's your only contribution to this. Can I have 11, please? 11, yes, you can. Let me write that down because you've had 12, 11, and one other that I can't remember. It doesn't matter.

So 11 is... Oh, this is a good one. So 11 is the UK coming second in Eurovision. Okay. And it's slightly annoying, even though we kind of understand the reasons for it. So this happened in May of 2022, the 14th of May, and the UK came second because Ukraine came first. And we understand why Ukraine came first and, you know, fair enough and all that kind of good stuff. why ukraine came first and you know fair enough and all that kind of good stuff but it is kind of a little bit annoying because yeah uk never come anywhere near and they would have won it if it wasn't for that basically yeah i think with um again like you say it's it's it's a good thing

obviously ukraine came first but um britain probably wouldn't have a better chance to do it again and i think the thing about this spaceman song that the guy sang is that he looks a little bit like a guy you know called gareth parker are you familiar with that guy gav parker parker oh gareth parker sorry yeah i do know gareth parker yes i do yeah he looks a bit like him with a big beard. Yeah. But with a massive sort of mouth, like a really big old mouth. Yeah. And he's like, all right, he comes second in Eurovision, and Eurovision is presumably a big thing to a lot of people.

But, like, I keep seeing that guy all over the place doing variations of the song Spaceman. Yeah. You know, for any charity event, he'll sort of change the lyrics to Spaceman. He'll write new lyrics, and he'll sort of change the lyrics to space man he'll write new lyrics and he'll come up with new ones and it's just like we've you've done it go and do something else what do you want to do in an ideal world what would he be doing now podcast i don't know

probably probably just hanging out in cinemas talking to you i don't know like just anything he he so he's a lovely man by all accounts i think the reason he gets everywhere is because people genuinely really like him right really i think he's a really positive uplifting chap who people seem to like you know he's been on tiktok stuff with adele and he's done lots of other bits and pieces i think this is just a case of the fact that people just really like him and so he pops up um doing bits and pieces here and there he's got a lovely singing voice as well beautiful yeah he has brilliant singer um and if you look at the eurovision so do you know you're not somebody who really gets involved with eurovision that much are you not really no so um the way it works is the points and stuff are you have a jury and seriously fuck knows who's on the

jury i mean imagine being the jury You could do that, probably. You've done radio. I was on the Brit panel, I think. You've done the Brits panel for a bit. You could definitely do Eurovision there. Would you see that as a step up from the Brits panel or not? I don't know. I imagine there'd probably be a bit of travel involved.

I'd have to go to Amsterdam or something, hang out with my other judges. I'd quite like that fair enough so you could do it um i think you'd be great at it so there's a jury and there's a tele voting so when people pick up the phone all over europe and vote for their favorite that's counted and then the jury does um a waiting as well i can't remember the exact weight in between them but the combined score is what wins the whole thing and the united kingdom with good old sam rider actually came top of the music expert jury for eurovision this year but only came fifth in the tele voting hence them coming second ukraine came top of the tele voting as you probably imagined by by 200 odd points and came fourth in the jury and won overall by quite

a distance um but uk coming second is a big deal i believe and i think most people believe it wasn't for the ukraine thing they would have won i'm not saying that makes us the real victims of the ukraine invasion because clearly that's not the case so don't write in but it was quite a notable event and i've put it in my list chiefly because i love eurovision and i'll make no apology for that yeah i mean do you like do you like the evening where you actually sit down and watch eurovision do you watch like the previous rounds and stuff like that no i don't watch the semis but you've got to remember um the reason i got into eurovision i quite liked it before because it's kind of fun

and camp and it's actually genuinely like very i think it's a very interesting thing and i'm a bit of a eurofire anyway but obviously my wife being american came to the uk saw it advertised on the tv and was like what is this what the fuck you guys get up to yeah and she had no idea it even existed she's like we've got to watch this and um to her it's just an absolute joy and then and then we later found out there's like some public service channel or cable channel in the US which I think is like

you know a gay friendly gay orientated TV channel which gets the rights and runs Eurovision with a couple of gay guys commentating on it every year in the US as well

but she just never knew it actually happened so if you are listening in the US and you like the idea of Eurovision you can actually find it even though it's never advertised anywhere because I mean you know why would it, even though it's never advertised anywhere, because why would it be, I suppose?

But I love it. I think for me, it's one of the TV events of the year, mate. I'll be honest with you. Yeah. It's not up there with the FA Cup final for me, but it's just... Similarly can. It'll always be there. We're going up to me and Mark from Wrestle.me.

The day before eurovision in liverpool um effie the uh the the wrestler who runs the or helps run a uh lgbtq plus um uh federation wrestling federation that we saw in dallas uh he's doing a show uh his uh big gay brunch he's doing in liverpool the day before eurovision i mean it it sounds like a great fit but then you also sort of go, the hotel's going to be very expensive, aren't they? Yeah, and busy. Yeah, and busy.

Bloody fabulous. Yeah, bloody fabulous. Memoirs at the door, fantastic. Am right. Okay, Peter, let's have another one. Give me another number. Can I get number five, please? Yeah, I don't think you've done five.

No. No, you haven't. Okay, number five is the absolutely staggering heat wave that was recorded around the middle of July, where in Coningsby, England, which was the highest recorded temperature, UK temperatures hit 40.3 degrees Celsius, 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit um and broke all the records for uk temperatures uh what do you remember about that peter were you with me when i had to go to that meeting on that day in town uh yes i was i drove into a forbidden car park and then um it was it was the only time you've ever seen me out in the wild with a water bottle that's right that's how well you know it got serious exactly um i i mean what what i like about this is this little rundown of the year's action i'm giving out numbers um and we've had oh isn't it windy oh isn't it hot yeah oh it's a singing contest yeah i'm i'm really sorry i've turned this this this this this lucas petro into something

rather boring in my opinion no i, I think it's good. I'm loving the event. These are the proper events. Is it? I mean, it's very British, isn't it? Isn't it hot? Isn't it cold? Isn't it windy?

But it was really hot. Oh, nice space, man. It was very hot. And I haven't said cold. I can't remember. I can't remember exactly what I had to kind of worry about. I mean, mainly I was sat in my cabin with the aircon on

full worrying about my dog buckley who's no longer with us so you know at least buckley got to experience 40 degree fucking heat i just remember i remember that meeting room you went to a cast which was the the only cold place i'd been to for about fucking three weeks and and then um i also remember there just being fires everywhere and people that's right when i was driving back to south end it was uh on the horizon it was like fucking blade runner like those towers letting off flames and stuff it was yeah it was pretty crazy wasn't it it looked like um like california and i remember um i also remember around that time jul Julia Hartley Brewer, who I know you're a big fan of,

who I've actually met once, but I didn't really speak to her. She seemed like a dickhead. She was on the radio, one of her radio shows, I think it was, saying about how it was nothing to do with climate change when it was literally,

the country was literally on fire. Like, if there's no telling someone at that point, then what are you going to do? Maybe it's time to stop listening. They usually know it's exactly what it is, but they're just lying for money. Well, you think it's a grift?

Yeah. I mean, I think we're all very clear it's a bloody grift. Which makes it worse, right? Yeah, exactly. All right, Peter, one more before we go then. Squeeze one more in for me. All right, give us number 18. No, it only goes up to 15.

It only goes up to 15. They've only got 15. Unbelievable. All right, number two. Okay, number two is the premiership of Liz Truss. She gets 100... How much does she get every year? Oh, it's like over 100 grand didn't it

it's mad isn't it because she was prime minister just for security I mean good lord so what a fucking I mean just Tank came in you know I was saying on this very show it was going to be a lot of fun because she is idiot she is an idiot

she is idiot she is idiot but like I an idiot. She is idiot. She is idiot. She is idiot. But, like, I think it didn't really get going. We didn't have the sort of time, there was no time to actually have a bit of fun. She just came in, absolutely tanked the economy, and now we've got a Chancellor and a Prime Minister who are just, I mean, you know, squeezing the nurses, isn't it?

Yeah. We fuck the economy, nurses pay for it yeah see ya it's mad to me that they look and i'll come on to this let me just give you the details of this trust's um premiership it won't take long um 6th of september she became prime minister she she's staggeringly she stopped being prime minister just two months ago 25th of october she stopped being prime minister just two months ago. 25th of October, she stopped being Prime Minister. And I would just add, on the money she gets every year for being Prime Minister, I don't think that's anything to do with security.

I think she gets that as well. I think the reason she gets the money is because the UK generally don't think it's a good look for their Prime Ministers to become paupers. It's generally quite a bad look. So they give them this stipend. a good look for their prime ministers to become paupers like it's generally quite a bad look so they give them this stipend but um yeah on the what was i going to say so so she she was in the job she's the shortest serving prime minister so she's in the job for i think 45 days i think

something like that and the thing it really hit home for me was when um she was at the cenotaph alongside all the other prime ministers yes and the camera pan along whoa and it's like she doing that yeah you know they they i mean you know whatever your political affiliation you know they're you know they're states people i guess that they could dress themselves properly and then she just looked like nicola murray from the thick of it and it was like it actually happened it actually happened and then on the on the current uh thing as we move into the new year and we hope for new things it is absolutely staggering to me uh and it shows you just how far through the looking glass we are that the current government whatever you think of them and i happen to think they're fucking cunts but whatever you

think of them they are 26 points down in the polls and they think the best way to get through this is to go into battle with the nurses of the NHS at Christmas it's good the disdain for the UK is astonishing they've truly run out of they've just run out of gas

they're just absolutely empty they just need to call a general they just need to sort of go to call a general they just need a cut they just need to sort of go look we with the best will in the world this isn't even good like we can't continue we're not even governing anymore no it's just it's just navigating one crisis to the next right yeah and they're not even navigating it they're just they're they're driving full steam 60 miles an hour into the next crisis to distract them from the last crisis. Will the next crisis be slightly better or worse?

Could be slightly better. Let's do that one then. It's a cat mausoleum. The two bits of detail on that particular issue. One is that nurses have never gone on strike before in their whole history of the Royal College of Nurses. issue like one is that nurses have never striked have gone on strike before in their whole history of the royal college of nurses secondly every single person in this country has got a story or a connection in some way to an nhs member of staff or indeed has got a direct relation to them or is actually working for the nhs so like it really is like going into battle for nefarious

purposes against every single citizen in the country which is an astonishingly odd strategy when you're already 26 points down the polls right some might argue the tories have been doing that for well the entirety of its history you would argue that they're doing it on their they're doing it in they're doing it uh out in the open it's insane and on that note pete i think that is a lovely summary of the things that have happened this year all the important stuff we should wrap up here we'll be back on Thursday though

for the final show of the year but maybe we'll look a bit ahead to 2023 and chat about some other chutney and wrap up with our final battery submissions of the year as well so Peter it's been great don't forget if you're listening

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