The Luke and Pete Show - Bagel Heads

Episode Date: August 6, 2020

On today’s show, we have a chat about Jonathan Swan’s Donald Trump interview and ask what’s happened to all the planes since the coronavirus outbreak!We also reminisce about the 90s TV show MovieWatch and hear a clip from a man who has decided that every Star Wars film has the wrong title.AND we tuck into a load of emails from you lot, featuring one about things that only ever happen in movies and another on the Japanese ‘Bagel Head’ phenomenon!Get in touch at [e-mail]!***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello, it's the Luke and Pete Show. It's a Thursday, whatever time you're listening to. It could be a Friday, it could be a Saturday. It's not up to me how you live your life. I'm Pete Donaldson, I'm joined by Luke Miller. Hello, Luke Miller. Hello, it's important that we don't get bogged down so early with the days of the week. I know! It's nice to give people an insight into the day the show is released. After that, let them do their own thing. I was pushing one of my many mosquito bites to try and sort of maintain some kind of focus because I'm a little bit sleepy.

I love it when you discover things. What do you mean? Like, you know, most people know about the existence of mosquito bites. We did about 15 minutes of it on Monday. Yeah. Because you first, you got bitten by a mosquito for the first time ever. And now you're still talking about it. One, two.

They'll go soon three you got any calamine lotion what lotion I think it's called calamine lotion you rub it on it I thought it was chamomile

like the tea no that's different that's different yeah what have I been drinking how are you how are you apart from the obvious I'm good

just dealing with life dealing with life liberty and fruit of the loom. Has life been easier for you since lockdown? Because the world's changed, hasn't it? The world has completely changed now. We don't know when or even if it's going to go completely back to normal.

How are you adjusting to the new reality, Peter? I am doing a lot more whiskey drinking by myself. I am doing a lot more looking out the window. I am doing a lot more looking out the window. I'm doing a lot. I'm just doing a lot of stuff. Just doing a lot of stuff. Did you see the great interview with Donald Trumblard?

Yeah, I watched it earlier. Where he's talking about the ratio to... Oh, we're going from... You're doing population. He's going, well, that's not fair. I don't think the President of the United States should have his own really colourful charts that confuses the interviewer. Because that interviewer, Jordan Swan, he's obviously really good. Yeah.

His face looking at it going, where did you even get this? Yeah, yeah. Have you coloured this in yourself? Yeah, yeah. Do you have a printer cord? I know you've got the nuclear cords. Is that an official disney frozen coloring book but but one thing that's interesting pete and because you and i have a

very very small amount of experience in this area on a very low low level being the president it's relatable yeah you're kind of president your own realm aren't you so it feels like you are yeah um but when you interview someone who's really famous or really well known and when i don't mean this to trivialize what you do and i suppose by extension what i do we're normally interviewing people who a aren't that famous and b it's about a trivial issue so in your case maybe about a movie or whatever yeah my case is about a football player or something he's interviewing the most famous man in the world probably yeah the most powerful man in the world who is. The most powerful man in the world, who is also an infant.

His bollocks, Jonathan Swan, I think his name is, his nuts must be massive. It's not just that he can do it, it's that he's doing it on film and he looks fine. He's not nervous, he's relaxed, he's got his legs crossed,

he's doing his thing. I just find that having a tiny bit of insight into what it's like to interview people who are well-known or who are talented, it can be really nerve-wracking. I think just the ceremony. He's just born to do it. Knowing for a fact that that interview is going to be seen, by the way, because he will flip out and do something mad.

So I guess the focus isn't on him, is it? Well, no, it is because he's been held to account and obviously we're heading towards, hopefully, the end of a Trump presidency maybe he'll just flip and don't say end game that sounds bad

put Pence in and make him because you know let's talk of him changing Pence you know really? yeah the smart move would be

to say sorry and leave toss yourself off put Pence in and then Pence can can give you all of the freedom. The smart thing to do is to say earnestly and honestly, sorry about everything I've done.

I'm now going to retire from public view and you'll never see me again. He becomes a citizen again. He is liable for a lot of crimes. Peter, Peter, on the... There'll be a lot of pardoning going on for Pence if he gets in for the second term. That's all it is now, just pardons.

Pardons, yeah. But do you know, is it fair to say, do you think, that it's actually, it's probably much easier to interview and nail, if you're going for that kind of thing, a semi-competent person, when compared to someone like Trump, who's just so out there, it's like nailing water to the wall,

because you just don't know what's going to happen next. He's completely shameless. Gets away with everything, lies, gaslights to the point of... I mean, gaslight gives it too much ceremony, doesn't it? It's just talking nonsense. Oh, it's a thing. No, it's not a thing. And this is the interview for Axios on HBO we're talking about here,

which has been released in chunks, right? But it's not been fully released yet, as far as I've seen. I wonder why because if we under if we accept that he's completely torn up the rule book trump so for example i don't know if many people expect him to do these traditional debates with joe biden because i think he'll get spiked if if the if the bets are off completely why is he even doing this why is he doing the one with with axios, yeah, I think his play is that because of coronavirus, obviously his main, the Democrats, the Democrat challenger effectively can't do as many events,

can't do as many speeches. So he thinks I've got the nation by the balls when it comes to eyes and ears. So I'm going to do it. The problem is his Democratic challenger also is a bit of a bumbling idiot. So that kind of serves him quite well that he hasn't had to do a lot of speeches. Exactly, exactly.

But Trump obviously fancies himself as someone who can turn this all around. He can't be tamed. He can't be tamed. No. He can't be tamed. The problem with Biden is he probably, Biden knows his limitations and he's probably got a good be tamed. No. He can't be tamed. The problem with Biden is he probably, Biden knows his limitations.

He's probably got a good team around him. Yes. Trump is unaware. No, I hear what you're saying, but I'm doing it anyway. Yeah. He's slurring a lot at the moment. There are rumours that he's not very well.

Will you please let me write the names down phonetically for you? Give me more European strength Sudafed. We've all had it cut here. You haven't written this name down. That's just Smith. You should be able to say that one.

Speaking of coronavirus, I saw an interesting story that I thought might pique your interest, Peter, is that, I don't know if you've seen this, but due to a huge

decline and collapse really in demand for commercial flights, airlines have had to do something with their planes, right? Right. Because they don't know how long the downturn is going to go on for

and how long they need to keep these planes for and because it's very expensive to keep them traditionally and there's not that much space because they need to be an easily grabbable distance from airports and that kind of stuff. Guess what? They've started storing them all. Ooh.

They've started storing them all. They've started storing them all. You're never going to guess. It's like the NBA, Disneyland. Yeah. They're all in Disneyland. No, they're all being

stored in different deserts around the world because it's dry, it's not humid, so they're not going to be dilapidated as quickly and so there are now facilities opening up

in places like the Mojave Desert, in other deserts around the world, because they can be stored cheaply, long-term, cheaply relatively speaking. I think it's apparently, according to the article, it's around $5,000 a month per aircraft. Nice.

But that is still a lot cheaper than it would be. So they land them presumably in an airfield and they just drive them over to their little parking spot. in an airfield and they just drive them over to their little parking spot. Little parking spot. Do they have one of those cool kind of like semi-reflective

silver foil... Over the windscreen. Yeah, well, because obviously it gets incredibly hot in the desert. I don't need to tell you that, desert boy. It's confusing. But do they put like a posh card? They put like a covering?

I don't know. But mind you, planes do spend a lot of the time a little bit closer to the sun than we are. So I imagine they're probably all right. But apparently 14,000 aircraft, which is equivalent roughly to two thirds of the global fleet, have been grounded around the world. Could they not, bearing in mind that one of the things that I heard,

you know like when they isolate people on COVID wards and they circulate the air in a certain way to get rid of all the impurities, so the nurses and doctors... Is it like the Michael Jackson oxygen chamber? It's like the Michael Jackson oxygen chamber, which is very, very clean air. Apparently the common Boeing 747, for example, has a system that is up there with that level of cleanliness. So could they not have parties in there,

big old parties where no one is getting in at all? Not everything points towards how you could get to your next party. Have a party. But the fascinating thing about it, and I think this has gone underplayed actually, is the world has obviously changed since this has all happened. We don't know, as I said earlier, how it's going to come back to normal

if it is at all but after 9-11 only 13% of commercial jet fleets relatively speaking were grounded but because of

COVID it's 66% so it's a massive difference I guess a lot of passenger planes have been converted into cargo. Bits and bobs.

No doubt pilot Neil and all the other pilots who listen inexplicably to our nonsense. They've got nothing on. They're probably doing nothing. I imagine they're probably talking to their union representatives. We hope so. Apparently, Delta Airlines have parked their fleet at a boneyard, as they call it in Arizona.

American Airlines are a former military base turned storage facility in New Mexico. The point being, they're all at places which have got very dry air to stop the corrosion, I think. And they're away from the sea, obviously, to stop the corrosion of the planes. Because I guess what's going to happen is if we do return back to normal, there is going to be a huge amount of work to be done to make sure they're airworthy again, right? They have to do a lot of checks, don't they? Apart from EasyJet.

That is libelous! We've distanced ourselves from that and our brand new EasyJet. Do you know why? Because I got stuck in Krakow

for 25 hours once because of EasyJet. Come on, I mean, look, that's just to do with planes just arriving late,

isn't it? It's just because the planes are constantly in the air. I mean, there's late and there's that. I mean, look, that's just to do with planes just arriving late, innit? It's just because the planes are constantly in the air. I mean, there's late and there's that. I mean, if you were late for a record by half an hour, fine. If you were late for 20,

by 25 hours... Not fine. You'd have a right go at me. No, but I would have more of a go at you if it was 25 hours. Well, if I hadn't explained... I mean, 25...

No, I don't think you would. I think you'd have more go at me if I had half an hour because I'd go, get someone else in. Let's do it over Zoom. Unless what happened was, exactly what happened with this easy jet flight

is that you were hit by lightning on your way here. Exactly. The 25 hours is actually a very good turnaround for a human being to be hit by lightning. Yeah. I mean, Ryanair have said today that the Welsh government would have to shut Cardiff Airport if it wanted to stop its international flights

at the start of July. Are they just threatening to land them? What? I think Venezuela or some head of state at the height of COVID were actually just blocking the runways with bits of cargo machinery and stuff. Sounds like a movie. Yeah, planes were coming into land and they were going, you ain't landing there, son.

Get back up there. You've got gotta go to Mexico or somewhere or Cardiff yeah talk like that do you know speaking of something completely

different actually you know I mentioned on Monday that my wife and I watched Aliens the second yes the second in the franchise

is that the one where Ripley does the basketball shot no it isn't mate no Alien 3 is that no it isn't mate no Alien 3 is that no

it isn't Alien 3 either Alien vs Predator whoever wins here we lose yeah that's a great tagline by the way I don't know I think that might be

Alien Resurrection shit but because she is re resurrected yeah and anyway

I don't think people I don't think the purists and then they can get in touch hello at lukeandpeach.com I don't think the purists, and they can get in touch, hello at lukeandpeach.com, I don't think the purists recognize resurrection as part of the pantheon. Because it was released as a quadrilogy, wasn't it? Alien, Aliens, Alien 3, and Alien Resurrection. But I think the first three are the only ones that are noticed,

sort of kind of respected. However, we watched Alien 3 last night because my wife loved Aliens and she said, I've seen the first one, I've seen the second one, I really want to see the third one. And no matter what I did to try and put her off, she wouldn't be deterred.

So we watched it last night and it is shit. I'll be honest here. I think it came out in about 1992. I watched it when I was about 14 with my friend Dave Watson, one of my best friends at the time. D-dubs. D-dub, yeah. He and I were obsessed with Aliens

and we watched it. And I remember us really liking it and it got panned critically and a load of stuff came out that Sigourney Weaver, who was a really powerful person in Hollywood, was a producer of the film. David Fincher, it was his first movie that he directed. He didn't really have any power, so the whole film was just a mess. And the

CGI, I mean, Pete, you should just watch it for that, because it is horrific. Crap. Gross. It's horrific. Inherent. It reminded me of some of the stuff you would knock out in a couple of hours for our live stuff. On Blender. Yeah. It's that bad. How dare you? It's that bad. But the thing that makes it

bad is that the puppeteering is obviously amazing amazing because the alien itself is iconic right it looks really frightening even now so they do all these prosthetics and these puppeteering for the close-up shots yeah so his head will come around the corner and it's terrifying yeah then it'll cut to a long shot and it looks like a windows 95 screen saver it's bad anyway the other thing about it is that I was hoping it would stand up and that I wouldn't mind it and it aged quite well. It is so

bleak. It's unbelievable. There is not a single witty line or joke in the entire thing and it's almost two hours long. They've gone for serious. They've gone for a serious space thriller rather than... Those things need a little bit of levity, don't they?

You need a little bit of levity, don't they? You need the little bit, little bit, little bit of dinner before the thing comes out the belly. Yeah. That's from the first one.

Everyone's having dinner, everyone's having a nice time. Yeah. And then, oh, someone's come out the belly. Yeah. Basically,

the film is about a woman who's got an alien living inside her and has to kill another alien before the other alien comes out of her own chest on a prison planet that's been abandoned full of inside her and has to kill another alien before the other alien comes out of her own chest on a prison planet that's been abandoned full of murderers and rapists.

Oh, by the way, the bit I missed out... Abandoned by the prisoners and rapists. No, it's full of them. Full of them, right. They're there. They're there. The first... Australia.

Alien 3... Alien 3 also starts, the best bit is, I missed out the best bit, the two most lovable characters in the last movie, they die in the first scene. Nice, get out of the way.

The only time you see them is when they're cremated, quite literally. Good. So yeah, apparently it's been reassessed as this kind of depressive realism cinema.

Yeah. You're not buying it. Why would you want to watch it? Why would you want to watch it? No one's ever thought I'm going to put Alien 3 on. What was your wife's opinion of it? Also a little bit depressed about the whole situation. She said, diplomatically, because she's a much nicer person than me,

she said... At least they got it finished. The plot was not good and I didn't like the script. Fair enough. That's like the sort of review you'd see on Movie Watch in the 90s. I'm a Movie Watch

and I give it a five. Yeah, she, oh, I do remember Movie Watch. Was Alex, your friend Alex on that? No, it was, it was, angry man,

big breakfast, London. Johnny Vaughan. Johnny Vaughan. Yeah, why do I have to, it's like having an Alzheimer's patient in the studio. It is, yeah.

You can only say the words around the name. Yeah, and that's how I do it. I sort of like go Alzheimer's patient in the studio. It is, yeah. You can only say the words around the name. Yeah, and that's how I do it. I sort of start in the outside of the hedge maze. What's in the middle? What? What's in the middle? Your self-respect.

Have you heard this little thing that somebody put together about every Star Wars film having the wrong title? Oh, no, I haven't. It is beautifully done. And you are a bit of a Star Wars man. You know your Star Wars. I'm married to one title. Oh, no, I haven't. It is beautifully done. And you are a bit of a Star Wars man. You know your Star Wars. I'm not really. I'm married to one.

Right, okay. So maybe a good lady by foot might enjoy this. Basically, he's pointing out that... How many films are there? Nine films? Yeah. In the entirety. He's basically pointing out,

it's only a minute long, that every Star Wars film has the wrong title due to the plot referring to a different title in the series if that makes any sense okay i'm gonna put it starts at the at the very first title and ends at number nine this is why every star wars film has the wrong title what happens in episode one we meet anakin skywalker the rise of skywalker years later we find out that palpatine leader of the clones. Not a new hook. In Episode 5, Yoda teaches Luke how to use the Force. The Force awakens. In Episode 6, both Yoda and Anakin die, which makes Luke the last Jedi. After the Empire is destroyed, a new Empire comes.

The Empire strikes back. Come on, guys. In Episode 8, Luke trains Rey and then sacrifices himself to give the Resistance a new hope. Finally, in Episode 9, Palpatine returns from the dead, making him the Phantom Menace. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. Lucasfilm, hire me, please. That is a great TikTok.

That is a great little dance, some kind of musical bed underneath. Yeah. I don't like it when people say at the end, thank you for coming to my TED Talk. What, do you reckon it's a bit hack? Yeah. That's a very good piece of work, that.

He's ruined it, yeah. He's had a good think about it, though he's ruined it yeah he's had a good think about it though hasn't he he's been a little bit playful but yeah I like it

Lucasfilm please hire me I don't think they're going to hire you on that basis well I mean the job's

A the job's already done B I don't think they are going to be able to change all the merchandising to reflect

the changes also what scenario exists what scenario exists? What scenario exists? Where the head of Lucasfilm, let's say George Lucas, I don't know what his name is. Let's rename all of them. Calls this guy up and says,

so it looks to me that your skills are that you've got quite an annoying voice and you're very wise after the event. Yeah. What job would you like? Yeah. That doesn't happen. Well, to be fair, most new films are remasters. Most new video games are remasters.

So this is perfect there's a remaster of Alien 3 by the way oh what 30 minutes longer no thanks what happened is it just more

I'm trying to think what happens in Alien 3 is that the one where they've got the yellow exoskeleton no that's Aliens well you're confusing me

with your Aliens and your Aliens 3 there's no film called Aliens 3 for goodness sake go to a break. What's mucking me? I've told you, I've been nuts. It's not Mork and Mindy either.

It's a completely different thing. We're going to have a break. And when we come back, we're going to do some emails from those of you who've emailed hello at lukeandpeatshow.com. See you in a minute. Nanu Nanu!

It's the return of the original Mork and Mindy, Luke and Pete. Who's the alieno! It's the return of the original Mark and Mindy, Luke and Pete. Who's the alien? And who's the attractive lady? Was he really an alien? Or was that just a lie? I think he was, yeah. He wore some funny...

He just wore kind of like kids' clothes, didn't he? Yeah, I think so. He would not be judged... That character would not be judged favourably these days. Dressed as a child. What do you make of Robin Williams? Very much dead. Yeah, he is dead.

He's dead. Called his daughter Zelda. Did he? Yeah. Legend of a character and like a performer. That's good. Oh, did you see this week? His range was unreal.

Oh, yeah, no. Yeah, he's got a lot. He had a lot of strings to his bow and the world is worse off for his loss. Did you see that somebody, a quite well-known writer, he wrote The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, releases a new book, and he's, at one point, with a character, this modern character, I think, in a modern world setting,

he has to dye some clothes. Right. And has to dye them red. And he basically has the recipe of how he would dye the clothes and I said dye them red and he basically has the recipe of how he would dye the clothes red this character

and he mentions three or four ingredients from the new Zelda game that you and I have both played what? he lists like

Hyrule Mushroom and a so on so on why? because he googled and he didn't notice that what he was googling to dye something red

was from a Zelda wiki. Made it into his novel? Made it into his novel. And he's owning it. Wow. Like, everyone's laughing at him. What's his name? Is it John Boyne?

I think it might be, yeah. I haven't explored it yet. That is astonishing. Yeah. Because there'll be script editors, proofreaders, researchers, everything. And none of them, look,

and everyone have got their heads stuck in a book. None of them are playing Zelda. I just didn't know that Zelda was real. Look, it is. It's become real. It's been put in a book. That's amazing. Yeah, it's good, isn't it?

2020 just finds more and more creative ways to be weird. I mean, that's the best, better way to be weird, isn't it? Rather than everyone dying. Yeah, no harm done, is it? I'm reading a book at the moment

called Labyrinth of Ice. Cool, that sounds like, was that from the Dragonlance Chronicles from the 90s? No, it's a non-fiction book

about the Greeley Polar Expedition. Oh. But I'm not going to go too much into it because I haven't finished it yet. Maybe I'll tell people

what it's like when I've finished it, but so far into it because I haven't finished it yet maybe I'll tell people what it's like when I've finished it but so far it's absolutely very very good hello at lukeandpetech.com is the email address to get in touch we love to hear from you as we always say and I'm going to open this episode Pete if you don't mind

there's an email from Brendan who actually signed off his email your pal Frenden oh nice I like that that's a lovely little playful play on names. Yeah. He says, I can't believe I haven't heard that before because I've met a few Brendons over the years.

Yeah. He's talking about the idea that we said only exists in kind of 80s and 90s American movies where homeless people warm their hands on barrels. Do you remember that? Yes, I do remember. He says, hello, Luke and Pete. I didn't believe either that anyone outside of movies

would stand by just warming their hands by a sweet, sweet barrel fire. You have to have fingerless gloves. Gloves, 100%. And so I found myself at a winter festival in Detroit doing exactly that. Picture Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, but it was minus 20.

Let me be absolutely clear. We would be setting fire to barrels or anything to stay warm if you were there warming my hands by the barrel felt very cool I think because it was so movie like I did it for even longer it was also the first time I'd had s'mores do you know what a s'more is? is it a graham cracker

with a squidgy little squid inside chocolate and marshmallow making me reminisce about it it was the first time he'd had s'mores as he grew up in the 80s, 90s and a strict diet of 100% American TV.

I can say that they are as delicious and unhealthy as they sound. Like you said, though, Luke, it doesn't happen in the UK or my most native Australia or most of my native Australia. I believe most of the stuff

that happens in the movies happens in the USA. It's a strange and wonderful land where everyone could be confident, a confident news presenter at the drop of a hat. Look, that's a bit of an odd last sentence, but he's absolutely right.

It is a place, the US, where everyone's brilliant on camera. You find news reports that go viral of people going into the backwaters of the middle of nowhere in the US and interviewing someone, and they are camera ready. It's mad how much they understand Americans who I've got a great affection for. It's an amazing country. A language they didn camera ready. It's mad how much they understand Americans

who I've got a great affection for. It's an amazing country. A language they didn't invent. Yeah, they're just brilliant at performing. Everything is an extension of the entertainment industry. Anyway, Brendan says, keep up the good work, your old pal, Frendon. Everything's an extension.

It is. Did you say that to your wife? You're an extension of the entertainment industry. I think that they understand that to be successful in something, you've got the entertainment industry. I think that they understand that to be successful in something, you've got to sell yourself. The way that manifests itself,

whether it be politics or sport or movies or whatever, they just, everything is entertainment. Yeah. Everything, well,

everything has to, you have to express yourself. I love it. I love listening to American people talk. American people talk. Do you love listening to me talk?

No, because you're not American. You never will be, mate. I don't care how many times you visit. Yeah. It's like you in Japan. No, they'll never accept me. No.

Mainly because of the crimes I've committed over there. James Young! Yo, James. I hope I don't have to reject your name later. Hi, guys! The other week I was asked

by my boss if I wanted to speak to Rio Ferdinand before and after the Manchester City versus Crystal Palace game on BT Sport as their fan of the wall thing they have. Oh yeah. They probably should have sat in the

in the ramble but sod it let's do it here. Anyway three hours before we go to air I get a phone call from a Navas producer who has to tell me that those plans are being scrapped because someone had held up the sign the night before during the Newcastle game that said Robbie Savage is a wanker so they weren't doing any more live content. I saw that, yeah.

Just a message out there to people who think they are being funny. Have a think about your actions because I know two people who got a huge bollocking for it and it ruined a really good opportunity for me. It got me wondering what stupid, freaky things have stopped you from doing quite big things in your life. Enjoy the show. James. So, James, I can answer your question directly,

straight away, straight off the dome piece by saying that when I was at school, a load of naughty kids, I wasn't included, from the basketball team, for some reason they were kind of naughty kids, the basketball team at my school, had smashed up a visiting school's minibus,

slashed the tires, smashed all the windows. Okay. As a result, we weren't allowed to do any sport for the final two years of my school year. That seems excessive. No one was. I think it was impressed upon our school by the local educational authorities.

Oh, what, the normal resources? Oh, right, okay. That we weren't allowed to participate. Would that be allowed nowadays? Don't know. Because that's just stopping kids. That's just making people fat, fat, aren't they we weren't allowed to participate. Would that be allowed nowadays? Don't know. Because that's just stopping kids. That's just making people fat, fat, aren't they? No, you still do PE,

but you couldn't play against other schools. Oh, that's fair, yeah. What do you think about that? I agree. That's so mean, I think. Don't slash tie it. Well, if it wasn't that, I think that year should be punished as they go up.

But like, I think... No, I was in the same year. Yeah, so... That's exactly what happened. Did the whole school, though? I, I was in the same year. Yeah, so... That's exactly what happened. Did the whole school though? I think it was just for a year. Right, okay. I was demonstrably not involved.

Look, it's your year. It's all team, it's all team Luke Moor. I ain't going to say anything to that. Like, they were hard. They had knives. So,

I feel James's pain. Sometimes things can happen and you end up being the victim of a bit of the old friendly fire. Yeah. It's disappointing. My, yeah, a bit of the old friendly fire. Yeah. It's disappointing. My, yeah, my, my,

I'm just being a friendly fire. Well, not really. My mate is in Iraq at the moment and he is very disappointed with these lodgings. Oh, really? He's very disappointed that his Baghdad base,

he's basically in a shipping container. I was like, what do you expect? Get himself to your flat. What do you mean? Probably be bigger than your place, wouldn't it? Yeah, probably. Oh, yeah, it's got air conditioning.

It's a shipping container with some air conditioning and a bed, a couple of beds. One thing, going back to the Americans again, one thing they don't fully appreciate unless they visit regularly is that we don't have really air conditioning facility here. So unless you're in a public building, if you can look if you're american you look at british weather you go oh what so 32 or whatever they would say like 890 it's not that bad we get it worse here but they

have air conditioning everywhere in the us apparently there's a call for a lot of european cities to have i think france is doing it um have you know like the front of a shop um to keep the uh obviously the run of the air conditioning constantly uh but if you've, like the front of a shop to keep the, obviously they're running the air conditioning constantly, but if you've got like an open shop. Like a curtain of air. Yeah, well, they try the curtain of air, but apparently it doesn't really affect that much. So there is a call for a lot of EU states, member states,

to have a rule that you have to have the doors closed, or rather, you know, you have to have automatic doors. Oh, for energy efficiency. For energy efficiency. Yeah. But the British have just never thought of approaching that. I think it's a good idea though. I do too. It makes perfect sense. The thing, talking

about energy efficiency and with a slightly different angle in terms of health, the thing that really pisses me off is when people leave their engines idling. How's that? So you just leave the engine turning over while you're sat there waiting. Right.

And the worst example of it, it's actually illegal in some states in the US, but it's legal here. Right. But the reason it's so bad is because the most prevalent example of it, so you know, I don't know if you know now,

but there's a lot of modern cars, when you stop at a traffic light or in traffic, your car will just cut out. Then when you take your foot off the brake, it comes in again. Right. And that's designed to save fuel, but also be better for the environment.

Yeah. But what happens a lot is that thoughtless parents outside schools waiting to pick their kids up just sit there with the engine running. Is that to keep the radio on? No, you can do that anyway. Right. Yeah, you can do that anyway for an amount of time.

So what does the engine do? So the engine's just doing it, but ignoring the wheels. Yeah, it's not in gear. The wheels aren't in gear, right? It's not in gear. So it may as well be running some wheels, but it's not. But the health outcomes for kids who go to school in bad air quality areas is so bad.

This is terrible. So you see signs outside schools where i live now saying don't leave your engine idling don't leave island because there's no legislation to stop it's not illegal i don't think people don't use the word people only use the word idling when it comes because that i do you to me my brain's always ticking over yeah you know you're not doing nothing um but you know i mean it's a really really bad thing to do for the environment but also for fuel efficiency but chiefly for the health of your children. Just stop doing it.

Stop doing it, guys. I rarely say something about what's good for kids because I haven't got kids myself. I don't want to preach on how people should parent but you should not be doing that. Don't go on air, Pete. No, you're a very...

Kids love you because you look like a cartoon character. I don't look like a cartoon character. You do a bit. Yeah, I do. I cannot disavow you

of that notion. There's an email from Lisa. Hi, Lisa. My podcasting experience took a hilarious, yet at times delightfully strange turn when my husband told me to listen to your show. Never look back. Always recommend to anyone that listened to me. Anyway, what are your thoughts on the Japanese bagel head trend?

Give it a Google. Are you familiar with these guys? I'm not. I'm having a look now real quick. Type it in. Japanese bagel head. Type Japanese bagel head trend give it a Google are you familiar with these guys I'm not I'm having a look now real quick type it in Japanese bagel head type Japanese bagel head

it's also I think Canadians like doing it as well okay hmm very strange very interesting

oh no come on it's putting an implant on your own head yeah I think it's more kind of

is it saline I don't know can you take it out I think it's more kind of, is it saline? I don't know. Can you take it out? I think it's a temporary sensation. Apparently the bagel head procedure was first done in Canada by Jerome Abramovich in 1999. It was brought to

Japan in 2007 by Kropi Maeda. Why would you do it? What's the point of it, Pete? It's fun. You just put saline in your forehead. Is it fun? Say again? Is it fun, though?

Well, I don't know. You just give a little bagel head, and then your body absorbs all the saline. It probably helps with a hangover, if it absorbs all that saline real quick. Wouldn't it dehydrate you if you did too much of it? Well, no, no. You put yourself some saline drips, don't you,

to get the salts up? I think it might. I get really confused about salts salts because remember in the 80s when the Ethiopians were obviously dying of starvation and also all of the waterborne diseases. So kids were sadly losing their lives because of the effects of constant diarrhea. Right, yeah. So salt solutions were very, very important.

So I always get confused because we're told that salt's bad in every incarnation, but it's not. And I'm sure some doc would probably rock along at some point who shouldn't really be listening to the show because we're full of nonsense. Hello at linkpeachshow.com. If you are a doctor or a pilot, I would like to get into that. Shall I give you my best guess?

My best guess is that you probably need a level of sodium in your body, and if you're short of it, you need to be pumped with it, and if you've got too much of it, you need to be diluted of it. Desalinated? Yeah.

How would you do that? I guess you just drink plenty of clean water if you need it, and if the doctor decides you need to up it, your salts and stuff, he'd put you on a saline drip how salty are you right now? you're pretty salty

most of the time you're going to find out in a minute listen let's wrap this show up and then we'll go and find out just how salty I am let's have a wrestle hello at lukeandpeacher.com

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