The Luke and Pete Show - #BritishCore

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

Pete’s struggling to get on board with the latest #BritishCore trend, while Luke is entertained by the American fascination with the mundanity of British culture. This gets Luke pondering what it would be like if Donny were president - he’s convinced it would lead to a lifetime reign!Plus, a visit from Pete’s mum gets the lads questioning what really constitutes a welsh cake.Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Little cold open, I've seen that on HBO Oh my goodness, how you doing Lukey Mo, you alright? Not too bad Still in Pete pinch, yeah? How about you? I'm all right, I'm fine, yeah. You dressed very smart today, Peter. Like you're a polo shirt.

No, yeah, I'm just wearing some dad clothes. My mom's down from that there Hartlepool, so I'm wearing all of the clothes that she's bought me over the last three years, pretending that I have it in general rotation. It's massive news that your mom's come down to that there Essex. Absolutely huge news. She's not been since pre-COVID times. She's not been on a

train since COVID times. She enjoying herself? Yeah I think so. She's had some Welsh cakes. You've got to prepare for a Welsh woman. You've got to prepare some Welsh cakes. What's like the defining characteristic of a Welsh cake? Has it got currents in it and stuff? To me, and I am, and listen, don't email in because I am no way an authority and I'm happy to accept that, the only experience I've got of Welsh cakes is that I love eating them and that I would just call them basically a sugared, flattened scone. A sugared, flattened scone. So could you put like cream and jam and stuff on it, yeah? I think if you've made the purchase, I think it's up to you what you do with it when you

get home and your safety of your own home, mate. Could you throw it onto a neighbour's roof? Feels to me quite, if you get other people involved and they're not consenting, it feels to me quite illiberal. But I think if we're going to, as a nation, let's be fair, as a nation, if we're going to start to get interested in what people do with their Welsh cakes behind closed doors, I think it's a road to ruin. I think it's a racket of ruin. It's a good point actually. Could I furtively eat a Welsh cake on the border of a massive golf course in Florida?

Could I do that? I'll see where you're going with this. I'm just trying to sort of tap into the news of the day, that's all. Trying to sashay all into it. Yeah, but it won't be news of the day by the time this show comes out, because there'll probably be another attempt between them. Don't laugh at it, it's not funny. I'm not laughing at it, I'm just laughing at the very idea that a man who is very fallible

to bullets it seems, should constantly go... Well no, he's infallible isn't he? Infallible? Well, oh yeah I guess so. But, well why is a Secret Service getting involved then? If he's absolutely bulletproof. That's the question. Yeah, I'm just saying that events have transpired to ensure that he's not been harmed. No, it's a good point actually. It's a good point actually.

A little flick on the ear. A little flick on the ear. I would say that if I was, right, sitting president or ex-president, and everyone fucking hated me, I probably wouldn't spend most of my time on a golf course. Because the thing about golf courses is, they're quite flat, open, really hard to... This is our golf course to be fair though, isn't it? Yeah, but really hard. Yeah, but it's quite predictable that he'd be there, because that's all he fucking did as president, that's all he fucking does now, and then suddenly everyone's got their arms up, their hands in the air going, oh my god, some lunatic who shouldn't have had a fucking gun anywhere,

has figured out that Donald Trump may very well find his way onto a golf course on a Sunday afternoon. I think if you were the president, as you've just started that sentence by saying, there's no chance at all you'd ever be the ex-president. I think you'd be so popular that you'd be there forever. I'd have a lifetime route.

They'd be like, you know what? I don't even wanna, I'm so fatigued by the things that you've done Peter I'm as as a vote as the voting public we are sat up in bed having a cigarette and They're sort of going you know what I don't want to find another lover Presidentially, I want Pete Donaldson to be lifetime president and and further I I think this dynastic kind of I will, I will just work really hard and set out the next 40 years for what happens when I shuffle off this mortal coil and you guys just gotta follow it blindly.

You're going 40 are you? Say, what do you mean? Well the next 40 years after I die. I think cracking up for 41 years is a bit much for me to- Can I let you know why I'm saying what I'm saying? Why you say what you say? I was told or linked to an article came out a week or two ago about a new trend called British core. Right.

Yes, yes, yes, yes. It's about how much young Americans love the mundanity of an everyday British life. It's kind of a bit like- Got test goes for a meal deals to fight that. Yeah. It's kind of a bit like cultural appropriation for someone less fortunate than you. So we should be offended. But it's things like,

like it started apparently, or it was accentuated further by, there's an American DJ called The Dare. I don't actually know his work. I know nothing about him. I probably sound old even saying his name, the way I said it. But he did a clip of himself at Paddington

station and he ran the train spot on opening monologue under it. And then it ended with a born slippy, you know, the classic nineties thing. And apparently it really hit home with people in the U S and now they kind of get obsessed with things like the only way is Essex and, and like you say Tesco meal deals and Gregg's and all that kind of stuff and We I don't think we I mean we used because because here's the thing. This is why this is very interesting to me because Historically and traditionally, I think it's fair to say Britain has been in the vanguard of culture So, you know the great, you know, the British invasion in the sixties of artists to the US, you know,

taking this kind of blues influence, rocking around pop music and taking it back to the US and they loving it. There's loads of British bands that are really famous there. British cinema has obviously done very well. And of course, you know, British music has constantly done well. It feels a bit like now they're taking the piss out of us. It feels a bit like, do you know what I mean?

Well, I mean, I would say that the way that rock bands of the 1670s co-opted black blues music and stuff, they are trying to find, Americans are trying, now they've kind of grown tired of our affectations and impressions of what black music is. But they've always got a down to them, like James Bond. What I'm trying to say is there's a cultural kind of relationship there. I just think they're trying to mine more quite lame stuff. You know what I mean? There's not enough kind of like, we don't have enough left really.

All of our kind of history is built on subjugating other parts of the world. And we don't... What do we have? All of our stuff is stolen from somewhere else. and we don't, what do we have? All of our stuff is stolen from somewhere else so we don't really have anything. You're so painfully like self-flagellating Pete, where's your pride? Where's your British pride? For what we have. But what we do have is a shit, what we do have is Tesco Meal deals which is a shit impression of what Walmart did. Do you know what I mean? Like they need our delicious white meat,

kind of like unflavored crap that stirs other cultures and kind of like inserts literally nothing into it, puts it in a very tidy logo and then sells it to the people. I just think it's wonderful, I'm banging into it. And it's the only way I'm going to make any money in this world. What's the parts of British core that you like the most? I like it when a postman drops a rubber band and it falls in on itself and it looks like a willy.

Yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Is that a British core? I think so, yeah. Oh yeah, I know exactly what you mean. Is that a British core? I think so, yeah. It seems universal to me. Everyone's got a willy. Everyone's got a willy and it has the same... You have, I've seen it. You do have a lot of videos of that and you keep showing it to people, it's upsetting. No, hang on a minute. No, no, no, I'm stopping you there. There's a lot to unpack there and we're going to unpack it.

Unpack it. So everyone listening, strap yourselves in because we're going to unpack it. So unpack it. Unpack my willy. We're going to unpack this. OK, right. Back before it became a problem and we are in polite accepting consensual company. Mail. Yeah, always mail company.

Thank you. We look us. You were you were quite fond of. Right. Yes. You know, releasing the boys from their barracks now right yeah sometimes it would be in a situation where we were trying to film a spot or a bit for a ramble episode and it was and you were do you know and I listen don't get me wrong I'm not I'm not criticizing you

for it I bloody enjoyed it at the time and I still think it's funny and you got and if I had better camera roll management I would have a few pictures of you, but I don't know where I could find them. Sure, no, fine. Which in a way is even more threatening. I've got them Luke, I just don't know what I've done with them. I've not taken care of them. It's like Peewee Herman's collection of pornography.

I've just got too much of it. It feels a bit like you've got the nuclear football and you should not be having it because you've got handcuffed to yourself. Anyway, and they exist and they're funny and they're still funny now and it's the universality football. You should not have it because you've got handcuffed to yourself anyway. And they exist and they're funny and they're still funny now. It's the universality of your comedy, which I think is a compliment to you. However, full stop next sentence. I have never, and I do mean never shared that with anyone that I didn't think had already seen it or that you'd be happy to share them, share it with you. I absolutely did not for the record and

I'm happy to put this on the record. I did not, it was not me who shared that footage with the parole ball that time. It must have been someone else. I would say that you've got this kind of like, you've got this kind of, you've got that content and we are going to be going, you know, we were recording this before the football Ramble live show, get your tickets. We can't, because this is coming after the live show. But, we've got, unlucky. That is amazing marketing Pete, well done mate. Unlucky mate, go back in time and buy some tickets. But yeah, we're heading to a show

and there's going to be like thousands of Football Ramble listeners. Now, we're making it very clear that you have got on your phone pictures of me in compromising, well not compromising situations, and videos of me jumping out of curtains completely Billy Bollocks right? Now that is on your phone if someone gets hold of it and gets hold of your iPhone passcode pins you down and if a lady maybe like a kind of like a honey trap, romances you and... I'm not susceptible to that. I'm not susceptible to that. Over my dead body Peter, that will happen.

Okay, alright. Which I think a lot of people would agree would be the ideal scenario. I think it's the image equivalent of an illegal bump stock. You shouldn't have it and you shouldn't have it. I think I want to give extra content. It's a weapon of mass destruction. It is, but the context, for example, I'll give you an example.

You talked about the one where you jumped beyond the curtain, and that was like 10 plus years ago. Right. Yeah, fine. Not that long ago, you and I were recording on our own in the studio. Right. And I went out to go to the toilet.

Right. And I came back, and you'd taken all your clothes off. There's five cameras in that studio, four microphones, and I wasn't expecting that. Now I'm fine with it, I'm totally cool with it, I thought it was funny. I don't remember doing that. Is that my fault?

I thought that I left that behind pre-studio. Well it's no worries, I'll just share the photos around so I can prove it. Because I would never do that without your consent, but if you are genuinely confused about what's happened, I'm happy to help you out. So I'm just saying part of this at least is on you. Right, okay. That's fair.

Look, you didn't disrobe me, I disrobed myself. I would never ever do that. Right, okay. I just don't want to be... I just... I just don't want to be at a court... Yeah, I don't want to be people shouting stuff at me, like you Edwards. Don't compare yourself to Hugh Edwards. That was a horrific crime and you've never done anything like that. Nothing like it. To my knowledge.

God, don't. No, don't qualify that. No, I don't... Look... I don't know, you've not done stuff like that. There you go, see, now you're learning that There you go, see now you're learning Now you're learning Now you're learning mate By the way, speaking of, so do you remember Changing the subject slightly but still

In the realms of what's acceptable And unacceptable content So, do you remember a while back Peter, you may not remember this But I, 4 or 5 years ago maybe I became quite interested in a guy called John Titor John Titor John Titor now, what does he do? I don't remember call this guy was a guy who appeared on a load of Internet forums at the turn of the century 2000 2001

And he claims to be a military backed time traveler from 2036. Right. Okay. Yeah. He started to say all this stuff about, um, essentially he, obviously he wasn't a time traveler because yeah, we know that. But at the time people are a bit more naive. He had loaded knowledge about different computer systems that were quite bleeding edge and I already knew about he said he had traveled back to this timeline to get something that he needed that had gone defunct over time. He predicted a load of civil war here, there, and everywhere. He said he was at a really good,

fully rounded understanding of the idea of the many worlds interpretation of quantum theory and stuff like, whatever it's stuff like. And so people are, oh, well, this is actually quite interesting. He said there will be a civil war around presidential elections.

But I think he said it will be in, I think he said it would be like in 20, 2005 or something. There was obviously all the stuff he predicted, like he predicted World War III in 2015, blah, blah, blah. And he went into all this detail. Anyway, it was quite interesting. No one is suggesting that it was,

you know, he was actually a time traveler, but that was interesting to me at the time. Now a guy has popped up on TikTok. I think it's TikTok. It might, yeah, I think it is TikTok claiming to be living in 2027 and posting all these images and these videos and everything of what he claims to be a post

mass extinction level event world. And he's getting tick tock in a right old frenzy about it. Sad. He's in the world parallel to everyone else. He flips between the, with the years 2021, 2027, he posts these videos, which I guess he's digitally manipulated, but it's becoming a bit of a conversation. Have you seen anything about that? He's called, I think he's just called Javier, like he's got a Spanish name, Javier, and one of the videos he's posted is,

I think of Barcelona, completely deserted. Some people are saying it's a COVID era video that he's then digitally manipulated, but the reason I brought it up is just because it's a COVID era video that he's then digitally manipulated. But the reason I brought it up is just because it's quite interesting, but also because, you know, people live so much their lives online these days and there's so much manipulation possible, reality is getting kind of frayed, isn't it? I mean, I think, I think if you're kind of like rolling around saying that you are the a time traveling maniac I think people could I think there's probably an argument to be

said that that I think you have to have you have to have more truth I suppose you have to have more evidence that this is actually taking place surely no? Yeah I mean obviously it's not happening is it I'm just saying that he's, you and I, I mean, you particularly, but you are very clever. So you're better fucking, you're better cut through that pretty easily. I'm just saying like this, if you think about AI, you think about CGI, you think about all this different

possibility of manipulation, the fact that you can live almost exclusively online now, it just seems like it might be quite ripe, fertile ground for confusing a lot of people about what's possible and what isn't Yeah, but I mean I well I think that's isn't that the most is not the way that most people get extract money out of venture capitalists just promising a lot people are all people promising a lot Did you hear the I know you heard it there's an interview on You know the rest is Politics leading thread, which is interviews.

Do you aware of that show? Yes. The most recent one was with Nate Silver. Right. Who's quite, he's basically written a book. Do you know who Nate Silver is? I know the name, but I don't know the... So Nate Silver is a guy who started out,

I think, betting and predicting with data on baseball they move across, I think he's quite a successful poker player as well, and he moved across and started doing predictions for elections and he had a website called the 538.com. Right okay yeah yeah yeah yeah. It's been brought out by ABC News now but he used to do big poll of polls, data-led projections and he got a lot of stick actually I think for the 2020 election which he got quite wrong but anyway he he's quite well known in these polling circles and he exists in this high level data kind of world. Because I noticed that YouGov has started doing like, started doing stuff abroad as

well. Like they've started doing, getting involved in the presidential stuff. Yeah, they've been doing that for a while though, haven't they? Yeah, but I thought YouGov were our government weirdly, but clearly not. It is clearly a private entity. For some reason I just just thought that you GovPols were government. No, they're owned by Nadim Sahawi. Yeah, I completely missed that. It's a private company for sure.

Anyway, so Nate Silver was saying, bringing it around to what you were just talking about, Nate Silver has just written a book about, I can't remember what it's about, but anyway, a lot of it he spent a load of time with Sam Bankman Fried. You know who he is, right? Yes. Yeah, and he is, right? Yes. Yeah, and he sounds like an absolute maniac.

And there was this idea that, so for those listening who he is, he started a crypto exchange and then essentially- Didn't go very well in the end. Well, I think as far as I know, a friend of mine is actually does work in FinTech and understands this stuff properly. And he explained it to me over a beer about three weeks ago. I'll be honest with you, I didn't properly understand it, but he was CEO of FTX,

wasn't he? Which is like this big foreign, sorry, this big cryptocurrency exchange and it became a hedge fund. And what Nate Silver was saying was that now he's been convicted and sent to 25 years in jail for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and securities fraud and money laundering and all this kind of stuff. And what Nate Silver was saying is like a really interesting reflection of modern society, that the reason he was able to get away

with what he got away with, which is basically just gambling with people's money, almost like a glorified Ponzi scheme, to the tune of like billions. And he had set out to become the first individual trillionaire. That was like his big ambition. Right. So he's just basically using loads of people's money to do that. He had to hand over I think 11 billion dollars when he got sent down. But Nate Silver was saying like people like powerful, political, famous people are all obsessed with people like him who make ostensibly

so much money that they just don't question it. And then the whole thing snowballs. He gets photographed next to Tom Brady and whoever it was, Bill Clinton, and everyone just automatically assumes he's a legit because no one understands it anyway. And the whole thing spirals on. And I think that's the thing. It's that lack of understanding, isn't it? Is that kind of like, I'm being told that AI is the answer, I'm being told that crypto is the answer, I'm being told that this is the answer and it's going to make everyone very, very rich indeed. This guy seems to be talking the talk, so let's hang out with him a bit and give him

a load of money. And that's how you kind of... It's just a lot of bullshit, isn't it? Totally. And I think we're getting to the point now, obviously, where we're just, people are inventing things and concepts that no one really understands. And I think it's, it's, it's been prevalent in modern life for a lot longer than

you think, because, you know, I mean, you may know this, but I don't really know this. Like if you, when I, when I, you know, have, you know, full fibre broadband installed and I speak to the installation guy, because I'm a boring cunt and he listens And he wants to talk to someone because he's doing stuff all day and most people don't talk to him He'll explain to me how... Does he or is he a captive audience? He can't get out of the living room. Yes, he there, get better. And he has to stay there. So I will talk at him until he answers my questions

But he will explain that you know, oh well Fiber Broadband uses this instead of copper and you know, it needs a bit of power and it can transfer information blah blah. But I can tell you really how the information goes wirelessly from my router to my computer and makes it quicker. And that's part of everyday life. That's almost a basic, it's a utility now. It's a necessary part of everyday life and no one really fucking understands it. It does. There's radio waves in it. It's just radio waves. But you probably do understand this. That's probably where the argument falls down. It's all the same thing. It's all the same spectrum that have been using for decades

and they're just using another little part of it, I suppose. I told you when Covid happened and I had to do my radio show from home, a guy came to my house, masked up, who I'd never seen before, I was told by the radio station he was coming, and he somehow like engineered my internet to just be the fastest internet ever, and I could do live national radio shows from my laptop in my spare room. That exists! So did they just install a little ISDN line? Presumably back then that you wouldn't trust,

you wouldn't trust the old broadband, would you? It's not called ISDN now, I don't think. Here's someone there now. It's called IPDTL now, I think. All right, so it's just over internet then. Interesting. Yeah, and it was, and the thing was, the annoying thing about it was,

that you could only use it for this particular piece of software to broadcast with. I was hoping it would stay. Because obviously I want power. For all of the internet. Yeah, but I mean, presumably, but presumably it just, it just prioritized, you know, the, the latency, I suppose, over call quality of... But how does it bypass the fact that maybe people on the exchange around my neighborhood are using the internet at the key times and stuff? How does it kind of get past that idea? I don't know, I mean it probably just sort of shuts down all... it's probably a

very no-frills kind of broadcast system that just... I mean you've got to remember, like we're using a recording system now, but we're doing it through Chrome and we're doing it and there's like, you know, massive like memory sort of overheads that Chrome has to deal with. Just displaying this image on the screen means that it's you know that I'm transmitting some video to you, you're transmitting some video to you, to me and it's just that that's the thing that kind of slows everything down. Broadcasting like a decent you know an FM quality bit of audio from our microphones. I mean, you could do it on a bloody, you could do it on a copper wire now. And the compression is so good that you can

do that. But I would say that it's all the other stuff that comes along with serving, you know, memory hungry and broadband hungry kind of applications. Like if you've got something that purely...'m bro I am broadband hungry I was just telling my mom about not only did my house get egged this week I was the man of your standing in the community I know what's happened first much probably because I've chained up my scooter and they couldn't take over another joyride they're probably furious furious. This is all scooter related. I don't think so. I think you need to get a bit Liam Neeson here mate. You need to start taking this out. Do you want me to come over? Because this is getting out of hand. Yeah, it's getting out of hand isn't it? Do you want me to get my Irish neighbour to come along?

She takes people down all the time. Little Rugs. Yeah well the thing is I lent a ladder to one of Sarah's friends and I can't get high enough. So the splat with the eggshell is still on the wall. What's your feeling around the motivation for it? Maybe I'm just a low-cupper-eye, I don't know. Do you honestly have any understanding of why they've done it? I think just that they do egg houses quite a lot. That's nothing to do, is it? I mean, it's quite exciting, isn't it?

It's basically you pushing a dog bin over, isn't it? A dog poo bin. It's just fun to do, isn't it? Yeah. Can you not do something in return though? Surely you can just sit upstairs with a bucket of cold water and get rid of the chuck it on them. I mean, I presume they're throwing it from the street rather than right below. That would be what if you got caught in my gate? I think they'd probably do it from the street or maybe from a bike.

Could you potentially, because it's probably kids, right? So say there's four of them. Yeah. Or a lover. Yeah, could be a could be a spurned lover, but could be doubtful. Could you could you perhaps like kill three of them? Yeah. And then just say to the fourth one, go home and tell everyone what you've seen here today. Yeah, I could say I could text them a picture me and my big sword You know you bet you better what what you see that?

What the chief company that manufactures those zombie knives slash swords? Has voluntarily handed over all 35,000 items their stock and liquidated the company I believe that he made ten quid a knife off it though. Yeah he did, the government paid him to do it. Which you would probably assume is probably making a quid on each one. Everyone wins. Everyone wins! Because the thing is, he probably thought I'm going to make so much money out of the

zombie knives and then he realised that once you've got a zombie knife, it's your zombie knife for life, innit? Really? You can't be, I don't think you can be knocking about with them. I don't think you should be. Can't be knocking about. What is, why, what makes us, we'll take a break in a second, but what makes us, we're going to be doing a set of batteries this week, we're going to be doing zombie knives.

You've got zombie knives that you find. We're not. Zombie knife brands. Bless you mate. Oh God. Bless you. Yes, sorry everyone. Yeah, zombie knives.

I just think that the... Like what saw... Is it the serrated edge? Is it the length? Is it the... Yeah, all of those things I think. Right. It's just everything together all at once.

Right. What's your point? What's your question? I'm just saying that like what makes a zombie knife a zombie... It's one of those things that in the same way that the Daily Mail invented hippie crack. I just feel like it's one of those kind of terms that was probably a different I mean, it's not I don't think that comparison bears that much scrutiny because right. That's essentially a Daily Mail invented name for an invented thing that's, you know, obviously has dangers It isn't as dangerous as they're making out it is and where's it like quote-unquote zombie knives are basically solely

Manufactured under some weird loophole around saying they're fishing knives or something but a really only Designed and sold to fucking kill maim someone. I just think it's it's it's it's Was making them Pete operated in the real kind of gray area around the legality of it which has now been closed I believe crocodile Dundee that we had crocodile Dunn who were kids and that's why we bought it. But he had a bowie knife which is nowhere near the same size well what our bowie knives are hunting are all hunting knives because there's a lot of very keen young knife enthusiast, I imagine, absolutely furious about this. I mean, do you know any knife enthusiasts? Well, I've got sword.

I've got sword. Anyway, let's take a short ad break and we'll be back with our favourite zombie knives, alright? Bye! It's the Zombie Knife Festival, look at Pete Shaw on this, are we on a Monday? We're on a Monday, aren't we? We're alright. We're good. We're not doing batteries wards on it. I think you're being very insensitive about this zombie thing. People are getting killed, Peter. It's not great.

What do you want me to fucking do? I'm not fucking doing it. I'm getting mouse-egged. I'm the victim here. I'm not fucking stabbing anyone. I've got a massive sword and I've near had cause to use it. Alright? Our listeners would like to know more about this egging, I'm telling you. Right. I don't know, I have very little information. But I hope very much that I'm going to be featured in whatever local newspaper we've got around here just looking a bit sad in front of like pointing at an egg on my wall going, mmmm.

Would you say you're pretty supportive of the local media? South End's most egged man. Oh, whatever the local newspaper is around here. You're supposed to work in the media industry. You're supposed to care about this stuff. It's all just adverts for fucking UBZ windows and for gutter, isn't it? There's nothing in there. People just use Facebook and Nextdoor now, don't they?

As a local man about town, I might ask for my own column. I'll just talk, like, used veiled threats to the Eggers. You should. I'm not bothered about it. I just wish it would cease. And also, price of eggs these days. I mean, people are rolling in on it. Price of eggs, guys.

Middle class. Very middle class. Turn your house into a massive omelette. Well, I did notice that it was a very York heavy egg. And those are the best eggs. You'd think it was a Burford Brown, could be an Orkney Burford Brown. These people are rolling in the money. Might be a Beauford Brown or a Burford Brown, yeah.

Yeah, true. Anyway, alright, let's squeeze a couple of emails in before we go. Alright then. We've got to pick up a few bits of leftover admin from the last couple of shows we recorded. Our friend Ian's been in touch again, remember Ian with an I? Yes, I do actually, yes. Was he from Wales? No. Well, this email's about to clear it up. He says, hi everyone. Not to go all baby reindeer on you Luke, but Ian with an I is a Scottish spelling with a Celtic roots. So you weren't a million miles off saying it was Welsh, but you still made me say fuck Luke, out loud on the train when you accused me of being Welsh. Ian Russell of brackets of almost shared birthday fame.

Remember when we got everyone to send their emails, their birthdays in and we found the two email birthday twins in like 10 minutes. Yes, that's right. That was fun. Nearly one of those. It was nearly one. Another follow up here from Tom, he says, good afternoon Luke and Pete. Once again, the tale of the bread on the toilet seat made it onto the podcast last week. So Tom was the original emailer about that story back in 2018. He said, I'm glad that a story that was told to me in strictest confidence nearly seven years ago is still getting a regular airing on one of the nation's most beloved podcasts. I asked my pal to furnish me with some more of his undercover police stories to which

he responded by saying, no, because you're only going to tell that fucking podcast again. Come on, loose lips, sink ships, come on. And then finally for now, an email here from Ben talking about bread bins. We had a little conversation about bread bins a couple of weeks ago, Peter. I said that the two problems of bread bin is one, not a huge amount of space for bread bins. Hides the bread. Two, it hides the bread out of sight, out of mine. Before the night your bread goes stale, you've not had a sandwich for two weeks.

Ben says, if you need a space to keep fresh bread but don't have the counter space for a bread bin, or I'm not from the 70s, boy, do I have a solution for you. Shortly after moving to the US, I learned from my American mother-in-law that there is a perfectly sized and convenient receptacle already at your disposal. It's the microwave. Where you use the microwave you just place the bread on the counter for a few minutes and if you're concerned about

the microwave's airtight environment increasing humidity and prematurely softening the crust there's no need to worry because the bread is absolutely shit in America anyway. Ben from Washington DC. I like that. I like that. I mean you don't always use, where's your policies on air fryers? Would they have the similar rice cookers? Are they big enough? You could fit a little, one of those little mini malt loafs. You could fit some souring in there I reckon.

Or maybe a rice cooker. You could probably, or a slow cooker or a rice cooker. So I think the airtight thing is a bit of a red herring because A, you don't want too much air and moisture getting to your bread. And because you end up tying it off with a little sink, little tie off anyway, because you want it to stay fresh. I think it's good to put it in the microwave. I think it works quite well.

Yeah. We would always keep our, back when we were sterilizing bottles for our son, we'd always keep bottles in the microwave, but we don't do that anymore. So I could probably just put the bread in there. I might start doing that, save myself a bit of counter space, and see how we go.

I would also say, perhaps slightly more controversially, Peter, you'll have a take on this. Medicine cabinet. I knew a lot, no. I knew a lot of people who used to keep their bread in the fridge. Yeah, I'll flirt with that.

It just gets a bit damp, doesn't it? Gets a bit mild. It's fine for toast, because you're toasting it anyway. Are you really happy for a really cold bread sandwich? I don't know if you are. Imagine a bread sandwich, eugh, gross. No, a cold bread sandwich. You know what I mean. By the way, I've got another quick story, a quick update before we go.

Which contains a massive amount of Pete Donaldson energy. And I'll be very surprised if you've never partaken in this. When we were a lot younger, a good friend of mine for a snack used to treat himself to a bread ball. So like a, well, you would just sort of form. Take a slice of bread. Just form a tight, just form a tight ball of miserable damp bread squished together. I mean, yeah, I remember doing it. I did remember doing that when I was a kid,

but looking back, you do just sort of go, that is, so you're not interested in a bread bowl? I think nowadays if you sort of did the same thing but then you put it in an air fryer and made like a tight sort of cooked bread ball with like crispy on the outside, maybe slice it in half, put a bit of cheese in it. I mean, you know, that's approaching something that I would consider I think. Try it. They would sell that. They would sell three of those at a trendy Italian restaurant in town for like 12 quid. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah. A big bread ball.

Barry's Bread Balls. Beautiful. Barry's Bread Balls. If we don't do it, someone else will. All right, Pete, let's get out of here. We'll come back and speak to our friends again on Thursday, won't we? Yes, we will. Let's get out of here. Ta-da! We'll be back on Thursday with Batteries. Mmm. The Luke and Pete show is a stack production and part of the A-Cast creator network.