The Luke and Pete Show - Anti-vaxxers, horse meat and Christmas adverts

Episode Date: December 2, 2021

Please, take a moment to be present, it’s Thursday and the Christmas party season has officially started. Luke and Pete are discussing anti-vaxxers, horse meat and Christmas adverts, three things that appear to have nothing in common but are all strangely related. We then read an email and celebrate the mighty deodorant flamethrower. Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Feel free to give us a follow while you're there! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. It is a Thursday and it is the 2nd of December, Luke. The Christmas party season is upon us. Yeah, what's your approach to generally to Christmas parties? Oh, I just stand by the corner of the corner of the room and just try and sort of slink off as soon as I can

to be quite frank. Yeah. I went to an absolutely brilliant Christmas party when we were I'm probably not going to say the

company. Right. But you will be familiar with this. Please don't say the company. Okay. I went to a very

good Christmas party at this company. Okay. I mean people are going to work it out because you were there as well. Right. And went to a very good Christmas party at his company. Okay. I mean, people are going to work it out because you were there as well. Right. And- Jurex.

It was at, yeah, it was at a basement bar under a hotel on Piccadilly. Okay. And I got kicked out for swinging on a chandelier. And it was fucking brilliant. I don't remember this at all. It was absolutely brilliant. Sounds cool.

It was so good. Yeah. You remember. You were there. Why are you not- I think you might have DJ'd it. What year was it? Now you're asking. 2007? God knows. God knows. You were there. Why are you not... I think you might have DJ'd it. What year was it? Now you're asking.

2007? God knows. God knows. It was brilliant. Right, okay. Really good fun. Cool. I like Christmas parties,

but do you know what really kind of dampens my spirit? What? Not a Christmas party, depending on who it is. I mean, sometimes it's like ones you'd rather avoid. Yeah.

Especially in the media industry because there's too many of them. I'll go to them, but I don't want to be going... Do you know when the diary falls and you've got one, two ones you'd rather avoid. Yeah. Especially in the media industry, because there's too many of them. I'll go to them, but I don't want to be going, do you know when the diary falls and you've got one, two, three in a row? Yeah. Killer.

It just gives me such social anxiety, I can't tell you. Why? Because I know I'll be in a bad mood and hungover by the second one. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And you can't drive, no one drives anywhere in London,

so you can't say I'm driving. Right. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, that is difficult, isn't it, I suppose. Yeah. I like getting invites to Christmas parties that I didn't think I'd be invited to. That's always quite exciting.

Is that your euphemistic way of you invite yourself to certain places? Take your big plate with you, Alan. Yeah, December's sort of quite quiet for me. I'm not doing anything tonight. In the industry that we work in, and it's not necessarily the podcast industry, because we fucking graft it,

if you don't want me to say. Yeah. But the service providers, let's say, about now, they'll be going, right, no one's doing any work. No, exactly. No sales, like the agencies and stuff, they just sort of take December off effectively and it's just parties.

They basically think that every piece of work they have to do takes maybe circa three weeks. There's no point starting it until January. And then by the time January comes around, everyone's so demotivated, nothing gets done anymore. I actually think if you really forensically studied it, the only amount of commercial work that actually gets done in this industry happens probably between about March and September.

Yeah, because by September, everyone's kind of fall, autumn, winter wallets are, you know, they spend all of their money, don't they? They spend all of their cash, and it's like, right, well, you don't spend anything in December. There's no point. No, it's all spent by November. Everyone's spaffed all their money in mid-December.

October and November's normally really big. I'm a man who leaves it quite late with his presents. It will not surprise you. What an amazing surprise. But with presents, I would like something new that I've not seen before. So advertise to me 21st of December. Yeah. And give me an extra delivery.

I don't think there's enough targeted at people like that. When we did live shows, remember, you used to be like, a few of us would be like, the ones who planned stuff, like me, would be like, fucking hell, we haven't sold X amount of tickets. And you would always say,

relax man, I don't know what I'm going to do until like two days before the weekend. That is true. It'll be fine. And it always was fine. So people, there are people who,

who work and operate in that way. On the, on the subject of Christmas chat and Christmas parties, I for one, cannot fucking believe we are still living in a world where the soundtrack to Christmas adverts is

a woman doing an acoustic version of a known song on a guitar. Why is that still happening? It's almost become a bit of a pastiche these days, hasn't it? They're still doing it seriously, though. Did Tesco upset everyone? Did Tesco upset everyone?

Did Tesco do a pro-vaccine advert? Because my dad forwarded me the Expedia reviews for Tesco's in London or something. Yeah, so apparently 1,500... I mean, just take a moment. Please, whatever you're doing, if you're commuting or you're running or you're at the gym, just take a moment to be present

I'm going to do Andy from Headspace here right and not judging or trying to change it just noting is it Headspace

which is calm where they've got the Headspace Andy who's amazing he sounds exactly like that just noting it's an Irish bloke who

he sort of talks I used to be a rugby player. People love the Irish accent. And now I whisper on the internet. Yeah. Andy from Headspace is cool. He's like, just think about how you feel right now. Not what you're doing tomorrow.

Not what beans is suitable for the most best breakfast. Not put quite enough Tabasco in your beans. But what the beans taste like now. Don't think about what's in the sewer that's running beneath you. And it's... Ectoplasm. £49.99. No, it's not.

Anyway, think about the people. Just take a moment, do an Andy from Headspace. Imagine all the people. Imagine the 1,500 people that have actually complained through a variety of different methods, one can only assume, about the fact that the Tesco Christmas ad this year shows Santa presenting his COVID vaccine passport at border control. Oh, is that what it is then? Right, OK.

I am loathe, as I said on Monday, what it is then right okay that's right i i am loathe as i said on monday to get into the fucking issue of you know culture war bullshit that permeates every aspect of our society and i hope people think of this show as an antidote to that but i am going to fucking say this when i was a kid and part of the reason that all of us are here now and i hope you don't want me saying pete you've been sickly in the past. Oh. Yeah? Yeah. It's because of fucking vaccines. Yes. Because vaccines are always, listen, I was always led to believe

that vaccines against potentially fucking fatal illnesses were a good idea. Yeah. Now, all of a sudden, it's become a vehicle for stupid people to fucking vent about some so-called government control. Yeah. Right?

People are trying to help you sometimes. You know, it's free. It'll are trying to help you sometimes. You know, it's free. It'll more than likely stop you dying. It's a good idea. I know someone, anti-vaxxer.

I've taken MCAT with them. Off a toilet seat? You'll put that in a toilet. You'll put that shit in your body, plant food, whatever it is.

Fuck me. I know of a anti-vaxxer. He's a fucking moron. Right? And I'm not just saying he's a moron because he's a anti-vaxxer. He's a fucking moron. And I'm not just saying he's a moron because he's an anti-vaxxer, but he is. And he went to a demonstration with a placard saying, what's wrong with using your body's own immune system to fight diseases? Yeah.

Well, are you being fucking serious? Right? So presumably you are of the opinion that the body can just sort itself out. Yeah. Wolverine style. Have you ever been to a fucking hospital? First and foremost. Right?

Do you know what the average life expectancy is in this country and what it used to be? Yeah. Right? It is so beyond moronic that it actually angers me that we are, again, it comes back to what we were said on Monday these people are establishing the rules of the game and we have to play the game

and we have to argue the obvious shit we have to argue the obvious shit we have to argue real building block ABC stuff to imbeciles because they think

they are they think they have the right to take the cooked breakfast reimagining it put it in different ways different ramekins and then sending it back to us have the right to take the cooked breakfast, re-imagining it, putting it in different ways, different ramekins,

and then selling it back to us as the actual truth and the light. And we can't buy it. We're at life's theme park where we can't go outside to buy something else. Terrible company with dubious morals. After having me supplied horse meat to feed my son by this outfit. Oh no, shout out, listen.

Now, I'll not, what makes me laugh is you have admitted there that a supermarket has supplied you horse meat to feed to your son that you're not happy with

and yet you've gone back. I'm actually going to and now their advert has upset you. I'm going to support this person. Right.

Basically, going deep to a 2013 deep cut of the horse meat scandal after everything that's gone on since then. I didn't think Tesco was involved. They were.

2016 beyond, the world's gone mental. I think having the fucking gumption and the clarity of thought to complain about that and go for a deep cut of the 2013 horse meat scandal I think deserves credit. Oh, my dad will do that all the time. He will, in his kind of like, I think Brexit is a good thing, actually. He will go back to sort of the 80s

when he worked in the NHS. He worked in a hospital. NHS recruit was fucked then, son. And he'll start mentioning companies that haven't existed for 25 years. And I'm like, Dad, I have no frame of reference for what you just said.

And to be quite frank, I don't fucking care. What's his take on the horse meat scandal? I think he'll eat anything, my dad. He'll eat chicken out of the bin. He'll eat horse. That's the thing. So the people,

it's kind of interesting because life throws up these weird kind of contrasts. The people who are most likely to complain about the horse meat scandal, weirdly, are probably the ones who will eat anything.

It's all processed meat anyway, isn't it? I mean, the horse meat is probably the best thing about that meal, about that lasagna. I don't know if I agree with that. It's probably the most healthy thing. They should know what they're eating. Yeah. But I think if you are going to complain about this COVID thing,

I don't understand why it's such a big deal. I don't understand what people... It's not a complicated issue. It's an infectious disease. There are people who have flu jabs every year. Yeah. Who will be anti-vaxxers. Measles, mumps, rubella, polio.

The MMR, baby. So anyway, that was Christmas adverts I just think that Tesco look Trustpilot want us to stick to our experience with Tesco as a food outlet well maybe we would if Tesco hadn't gone from being a food outlet to pushing an experimental

jab via Santa, Satan see what I've done there letters to make certain Nazi style and fascist I love the strong I've done there they've mixed up the letters to make certain Nazi style and fascist I love the strong I've done my own research energy there I also like that you know

for some reason these things are now just seen as controversial things when there's absolutely no reason for them to be whatsoever like it's not it's not a fucking it's not

it annoys me they've made out they make things that aren't complicated and that are straightforward and that ostensibly were never an issue for some reason

have now become an issue I don't I it just it just it just beggars belief it just drives me mental as mental as the breathy

acoustic woman singing I mean it might be it's not the fact that it's a woman it could be a man I just don't really understand the acoustic the trend for acoustic covers of songs

that have been going on for like 15 years now is it animated the Tesco advert can't remember I can't remember any of them

it's really forgettable because the John Lewis advert is obviously the one that people because John Lewis was never a shop in my mind until I moved to London

until I sort of went to Oxford Street and you know kind of alright place to walk around. But did you ever buy anything in there? Our department store was Alders back in the day. Alders, yeah.

Phoenix and Newcastle or... What was the big one? Presto? No, that was a supermarket. I don't know. Doesn't matter. It's mad to me that you have such different supermarkets only 300 miles away.

Yeah, I guess so, yeah. But I think they were all kind of like maybe like Finnish or Swedish. It was the start of the Swedish kind of like maybe like Finnish or Swedish. It was the start of the Swedish kind of influence on our cheap supermarket, Preston, Fine Fair and stuff. Yeah, I think going back to the whole thing, there's a real big... Dovecot, that was our one in Hartlepool. Dovecot. And what was it, like a department store like Selfridges?

Big department store in Hartlepool, yeah. They have a big aftershave and perfume thing on the ground floor? Yeah. They always have that, don't they? Yeah, cell rooms. Do you know what is underpinning all this stuff

about anti-vaccine? Is this idea that individual fucking liberty is the most important thing in any society. Right. Which, I understand individual freedoms are important.

I think it's just nice trends. Cheap trends. Some people like the greater good is important as well. Do things for other people. Yeah. What's the worst that can happen? But, you sound like a very old man, but it's just people.

Like, the kids are fine. It's that middle group, isn't it? But it's not the kids, though, because the reticence to take up the vaccine has been worst among kids under the age of 25. They're the ones who are not taking the vaccine. Really? Not any other. No, the take-up's been are not taking the vaccine. Really? Are there any other?

The take-up's been terrible. The take-up has been worse than any other group. Anyway, fuck it. Fuck it! Let's just talk about something else. All right then. Why don't we talk about a roadrunner? As in an actual animal roadrunner.

An actual animal roadrunner. In a story that sounds like it could be from some kind of Hanna-Barbera cartoon do you remember Roadrunner and Wiley Cote? meet me enjoy it or not my dad's favourite is he really?

oh that's cute who's he always pulling for? the rocks the Acme the Acme Corporation because he loves a boot in his mouth my friend he's a big Elon Musk guy

your own dad some people will take a bullet for Elon won't they? for no reason Elon doesn't even know that exists. Whenever Elon Musk says his fucking bollocks, his fucking meme-y, stock-priced, adjusting bollocks, he, like, loads of absolute fucking Musk stans,

like weird men of our age, kind of... Normally into crypto. Normally massively into crypto. of with normally into crypto normally massively into crypto obviously they're into crypto will kind of talk about people like Bernie Sanders anti-billionaire agenda

and stuff like that and it's like what are you getting there's like five billionaires that are you know there are about five billionaires

that get created every year do you think you will be one of those because people genuinely do so that's why they talk like that. I'll be friends with Elon Musk and I'll be a billionaire. It's like, what are you defending there? What are you defending?

It's weird that that's the battle they pick. I'll certainly say that. Very weird. It's beautiful. I love it. Did you say your dad loves Elon? No, he doesn't. I'm just joking.

No, I imagine he finds him quite painful. But your dad loves Roe Run and Wally Cote. It's a great cartoon. If you're too young to remember it go and check it out.

But anyway according to Pete's favourite website Boing Boing Boing Boing is your favourite website right? Yeah website.

Would it be your top three? Top three definitely. You know you have muscle memory if you're sat on websites. Boing Boing

NUSC.com a bit of Reddit nowadays. Reddit's just got a bit of everything. Why are boing boing nufc.com bit of reddit nowadays reddit's just got a bit of everything why are you not using your bookmarks look at that baby

look at that bookmarks all across yeah but if someone I don't want to be caught on a long lens with all my bookmarks laid out

like you know pick a number I'll tell you the bookmark I'm not ashamed of any of it eight number eight two four six eight dictionary.com.

Give me another number. I want 12, please. The Financial Times. Well, I mean, my bookmarks... They're in that back order, by the way. And I'm looking at it now. My bookmarks there when I've accidentally bookmarked something.

So my top bookmark is an interview with the band Sunset Suns, which nobody ever remembers, from the Fortitude magazine from about six years ago, because I've clearly interviewed them at some point. I think you're a mug not using tabbed browsing and bookmarks. You'll use a lot of tabs, don't worry about that.

But Juventus Stadium is another one. That's weird. The Victorian belief that a train ride could cause instant insanity from Atlas Obscura. There's one that just says sex. And I've clicked on that, and it's a picture of a Formula One driver from the 70s or something. And he is quite sexy.

Very handsome. Very handsome. I don't recognise him. I don't really know who he is. Anyway, I promised I'd listen to a roadrunner. All right. So I'm going to tell you a story about a roadrunner that went from Nevada to Maine.

How's your US geography? You know where they are very good Nevada's where Las Vegas is Southwest Maine the very far North Eastern state

so we're talking probably about it's probably about three and a half thousand mile journey I'd say but the reason it did it is because it got stuck in a van

it got stuck in a van it was looking into a van apparently and jumped into the van and the geyser came along and shut the door behind it and then it stayed in the van he was looking into a van apparently and jumped into the van and the geezer came along and shut the door behind it and then it stayed in the van for four days

and then they opened the door and they found the roadrunner in the back of it and so they took it I mean to be fair they took it to a sanctuary and the sanctuary

looked after it but I just think that's funny because one because roadrunners are so weird looking yeah they don't really look like

I mean they're not the size of the ones you see in the cartoon, although we don't really know how big the coyote is, to be honest. They don't beep-beep either, I don't think. They don't beep-beep, no. No, and it's just quite funny. Do you know what it reminds me of? Do you remember the very last scene of Big Trouble in Little China, which I presume is very problematic these days,

where he's a truck driver, isn't he, Kurt Russell? Right. And he's driving away at the end and you think everything's done and then the very final scene the kind of truck goes past the camera

and in the back is like a terrible monster in his truck so it just reminded me of that I thought I'd mention it I thought you might be into it I like it just the fact that

they managed to get it right across but would it does it not do it eat I'm just imagining the back of the truck, what happens, it's completely dark, I can't see what it's doing, strikes a match,

it's the van's full of TNT. And he's like, fuck. But he somehow gets out of it, because he's the roadrunner. Yeah, cool, always does. Meep, meep. Always does. The roadrunners apparently have very special significance

for the indigenous people of Central America. Do you know that? Oh, right. So apparently, do you know, so there's an issue in some, I think. Would it be fair to say they're quite fond of all animals?

Yeah. Yeah. I think so. I think so. Yeah, I think so. In, I think Madagascar, there's an animal called the aye-aye, which evolutionary speaking,

I think does the same job as the woodpecker does in Europe. It's got a little finger. Yeah, it's got a finger. It's got a little finger. And they're amazing. I've seen one before. There's a couple at Bristol Zoo.

Where did you see them? Where was I? I think I might have been in Sumatra. Not Leon C. No, it wasn't Leon C. I think I went to Sumatra. You've been to Sumatra? I went to Sumatra, mate.

Fucking hell. Yeah. I don't think they have them in Sumatra. No, I think it was a zoo. Okay, fine. Anyway, so what was a problem for the aye-aye, clearly a very serious problem, was that there was some kind of belief

from some indigenous people in that part of the world that said if you locked eyes with an aye-aye, clearly a very serious problem, was that there was some kind of belief from some indigenous people in that part of the world that said if you locked eyes with an aye-aye, it was basically like being locked eyes with the devil. Yes. And you had to kill it

or it would kill you. Yeah. So as a result, the numbers dwindled and there's a lot of stuff that's gone on that's hopefully to protect them. Anyway,

the roadrunners, according to indigenous peoples of Central America, are believed to have special magical powers and the noise the roadrunner does make, I mean, maybe they do make the beep beep, I'm not sure exactly what it sounds like, according to indigenous peoples of Central America, are believed to have special magical powers. And the noise the road around does make, I mean, maybe they do make the beep beep.

I'm not sure exactly what it sounds like. But the noise they do make is apparently said to make you very tired if you hear it, which I find fascinating, chiefly because that's exactly the kind of psychosomatic thing that would be self-perpetuating, wouldn't it? Yeah. Because if you convince yourself you're tired, you will get tired. Yes.

Do you know what I mean? It's like a lovely hot chocolate, which presumably with the sugar should really perk you up. But it doesn't. So apparently there's kind of laws against harming the roadrunners, which should be a good thing.

It's certainly fair, isn't it? Yeah, I haven't been to Sumatra. I've been to Kota Kinabalu, which is Malaysia. What's that? Say it again slowly. Kota Kinabalu, which is Malaysia. What's that? Say it again slowly. Kota Kinabalu. Never heard of it.

It's in Sabah. Mr. Lover Man. Sabah. Have you heard of Thomas Neil Cream? No. Is that his name or is that a brand of cream? He's got his name, Thomas Neil Cream. He was the Lamb of Poisoner.

He was a Scottish-Canadian medical doctor who I believe did have one-up on Dr Gillian McKeith and that he was an actual doctor. He was a serial killer who poisoned his victims and was executed after his attempts to frame others for his crimes brought him to the attention of London police. I was reading about this guy today and I'll tell you precisely why I was because people reckon that he was Jack the Ripper. Okay. Right? Yeah. And for several reasons, Jack the Ripper kills a lot of people. This guy killed a lot of people in roughly the same kind of place.

Apparently, he couldn't possibly be Jack the Ripper because at the time that the murders of Jack the Ripper happened, he was in prison in Illinois, which is obviously a million miles away from London. But he died, and people... And there's been a generation, an entire century, where people thought this guy was Jack the Ripper, because a man claimed that his last words on the scaffold were,

I am Jack the... And then the hangman hanged him, effectively. Some people said that... Some people said that... One of Cream's biographers suggested that Cream, on the scaffold, about to be hanged, was so frightened that he lost control of his bodily functions and stammered, I'm ejaculating.

And for many reasons that's why they thought that he was Jack the Ripper. But I just very much like the fact that that was his last words. I am ejaculating. And is that substantiated?

None of this is substantiated. It was the 1890s. But that is amazing. Do you know Gallows humour? And also his name's bloody Thomas Neill Cream. Cream in all of us. Yes, great. I'm ejaculating!

Yeah. Cream by name. You know the phrase Gallows humour? Yes. That comes from someone actually on the Gallows. Doing a gag. Apparently some wag who was going to be hanged. And he was hanged.

Right. This is where it comes from. I know it's I'm I'm this is where it comes from I know it's true but this is certainly where it comes from right he was asked if he had any last words and you know it's like they stand on the

trapdoor yeah and they got a noose around the neck and then trapdoor falls out they said we've got any last words and apparently his last words were are you absolutely sure this is going to

take my weight and that's where it comes from good gag great gag I'll tell you what a great pair of nuts on him to say that there yeah exactly yeah I mean what would your last words be? Yeah, drill the hard drives.

I'm already being hanged. Acid. Tons of acid. Drill the fucking hand drives. Let's have a break. When we come back, we'll do our battery brand since it's a Thursday.

Batteries. I'm going to try and squeeze a couple of emails in as well. It's going to be lots of fun. Stick around. We'll see you just after this. Neil Cream. Neil Cream, sweet beans. It's time for Luke and of fun. Stick around. We'll see you just after this. Needle cream. Needle cream, sweet beans.

It's time for Luke and Pete's show part two on a Thursday, which means batteries. Luke, can you read out some battery brands, what people have come in with you? I'm reading them. You're checking them. Okay, great. Hello to you, Kia.

Kia has been in touch with a pair of Xiaomi Alkaline. You've got the spelling in front of you. I have. But I'll say it for our listeners' benefit, who are all into obscure battery brands. X-I-A-O-M-I Alkaline. Let's have a look.

And he says the following while you're searching that. He says, hope to present evidence of what I believe may be a rich deposit of new battery brands. China.

I've lived in Shanghai for about a year now having moved at the height of the epidemic. No longer. This is a longer email for another time. Clearly my personal plight powers into insignificance

to potential new cell discoveries. This means a few things. Number one, my Chinese proficiency is good enough to ensure I order the right coffee most mornings. Number two, I'm also able to understand when I'm being ripped off for said coffee. Sweet beans? Do you ever eat a bit of dessert and there's sweet beans in it?

They love sweet beans out there. He says other items I can be ripped off for as a result of being an ignorant foreigner or as they call me over here, old outsider or Lu why allow why. And number three, most importantly, I'm having to replace spent batteries in my glorious Chinese electronic products. Here's to a camera across last week. Let's test the theory. And he's gone to submit, he's decided to submit the Xiaomi Alkaline. Ah, I see.

Yeah, they are a new player. Wow, great. So congratulations to Kia. Congratulations to you, Kia. Thank you very much. Dave's been in touch. He says, Jen's looking to replace the battery

from a torch found out while dog walking. This weird cell popped out. I think it's a rechargeable, but it may not be valid. But I figured it was worth a try. Probe Shiny. Oh, hello. We don't take rechargeables, do we?

No, we don't take rechargeables. Unless, can we take AA1s that are rechargeable? As long as they are normal form factor, I think we can do rechargeables. I've decided. Okay, so you've changed your mind on that. I'm moving the red line Are they new?

Probe Shiny I can probably type that in myself Probe Shiny Oh Luke Speedy you've got it New one, two out of two, we're doing really well recently Yeah you're doing well I do And then finally for now Michael Hayhow

J Y P Jadging Jadging is And then finally for now, Michael Hayhow, J-Y-P-J-A-G-I-N-G. Judging is a... It's not even in the email. Yeah, that's a new one. And Kendall, K-E-N-D-A-L. I think we've had Kendals before. I think we have, yeah. That's from Michael Hayhow.

He says, love the show. Never miss an episode from Moran Bar, Queensland, Australia. Yeah, we've had Kendall a few times. Kendall heavy duty. Yeah, just a lot of Kendels, to be honest. What about J-Jing? J-Y-P J-Jing? For some reason, it wasn't in there.

Well, if he's not officially submitted, it doesn't fucking count, does it? You know what? Yeah, we've not had J-Y- No, it is in there. Sorry, Michael. Apologies for that. I thought I didn't have one, but yeah.

J-Y-B J-Ying, or Zhaixing rather, and Kendall. Kendall gets in. No, sorry, Kendall doesn't get in, and Zhaixing does get in. No, doesn't get in. Sorry, ignore me. You've had Zhaixing before. I'm confused now. Neither get in.

Neither get in. Done. So JYP, Zhaixing, we didn't have, but Zhaixing themselves, we have had. Okay, fine. So it's a, yeah. Okay, that's fair enough. Yeah. I've had a spare fair enough that is about as clear as mud two new players this week though keep them coming in hello at luke and pete show dot com um all right let's squeeze one more email in before we go um what about this one here from rob who said no so it's not from rob we're talking

about he talks about robs but he's called Sean right hello to you Sean he says hi lads it's been a while but a while back your show triggered some memories from my younger days with a good pal from school Rob

it would have been sometime in the early 90s late primary school or early secondary school one late summer evening we were dicking about in his garden and we had one of those

ripcord helicopters where you pull the string to launch the helicopter do you remember those yes I do they were a lot of fun you stick them on for those who don't know what they are you stick them on a little port thing where you pull the string to launch the helicopter do you remember those yes I do they were a lot of fun you stick them on for those who don't know

what they are you stick them on a little port thing and you pull out almost like a cord on the back of a talking teddy bear and it flies the helicopter

up in the air fantastic he said we devised a daft game where one of us would launch it and the other would try and knock it

out of the sky using various things we found in the garden I launched the chopper at one point and really gave it some welly and Rob swung a welly, and Rob

swung a broom to try and down my helicopter. Time seemed to stand still as the head flew off the broom and straight towards the large patio doors, which were double glazed. The broom was one of those cheap plastic ones, surely it couldn't, but there was a loud bang as the brush head hit the

bottom corner of the window, and then nothing. Just as we were breathing a sigh of relief, the whole window came down. Almost instantly, Rob's mum and dad appeared in the frame where their window used to be. We apologised profusely, and I tried to take the blame off Rob by shifting it squarely onto their cheap, shoddy broom, which in hindsight probably didn't help our case. I was sent home on my bike, and by the time I got home, my own mum and dad knew the whole story and I got a deserved

double bollocking Rob's dad once also caught me and Rob doing aerosol flamethrowers in his garage so exciting yeah with various tins

of flammable stuff that dads tend to accumulate he burst in on us shouted something about blowing up the whole garage as we were doing next to his petrol lawnmower

clipped us around the ear and sent me home I flew home on my bike and arrived just as the phone was ringing. Not really thinking what I was going to do, I snatched the phone hoping to intercept Rob's dad and prevent him from using my parents

to give me a bollocking by proxy. I'm sure he was secretly impressed that I'd made it home so fast. If he was, he didn't let on. I sheepishly passed the phone to my dad who seemed to go redder in the face the longer he listened. I accepted my bollocking

and we made sure that any future pyromania was a lot more clandestine. Thanks for the show. Much love, Sean. Flying helicopters on little pull strings. Yeah. At the risk of being a bit Josh Willicam about it. And...

Flamethrowers. Flamethrowers near petrol lawnmowers is a great thing. Yes. Lovely. I think with the... Why do dads get angry about that sort of thing? Because that's the sort of thing that kids do, mate. It's the sort of thing that kids get up to.

I kind of feel you have to get angry about that if you're a dad. Yeah, but really in your soul. Because you're still that little boy. My friend... Really in your soul, you're going, I wish I was there to see the flame throw out. I would spray it onto my hand and stuff like that. My hand would be like, oh my God, his hand is on fire.

Part of the... He's a human torture. Human torture. Part of the reason, part of the percentage of the bollocking you're getting from your dad is motivated by the fact that he's now too old to be doing that. Yes, exactly. Yeah, he's a human torch part of the reason part of the percentage of the bollocking you're getting from your dad is motivated by the fact that he's now too old to be doing that

yes exactly yeah he's fuming absolutely fuming he's flaming flaming and my friend Duncan did an exchange to Germany

you know that German student exchange and he set fire to the German host family's house by doing a flame thrower out of a deodorant can into a waste paper bin

so but it was it was rescuable didn't take down the whole house on his house by doing a flamethrower out of a deodorant can into a waste paper bin. So, but it was, it was rescuable. Didn't take down the whole house. I think what happened, yeah, no,

it's fine. Yeah. Eventually, but I think what happened was because the technology was so poor then, I don't think they could get a call through to complain about him.

And by the time they were able to tell people, I don't really know why, but they couldn't anyway. Right. And by the time it got reported, it all kind of died down a bit.

And they couldn't muster the same kind of anger. Yes. Because they'd cooled off. Yeah, nice. But yeah, so listen, I mean, flame-throwing deodorant cans was a thing. Actually, when I think about it, it's miraculous that I got through the whole of school without being burnt to death because every kid had a deodorant can in his bag and every kid had a lighter because they were on smoke then

so a simpler time a more dangerous time a more flammable time anyway let's get out of here Pete you can wrap up you can wrap up alright okay

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