The Luke and Pete Show - Eating mushrooms in a public park

Episode Date: June 15, 2020

Today’s episode features 80s indie music, Michael Fish and Phillip Schofield. But not all at the same time.Also on the show, Pete’s been having pints in the street (not near any statues, promise) and one listener has an amazing story about a bird’s nest.Plus Luke introduces us to Pheasant Island and questions why weather forecasts have been more unpredictable than ever since the coronavirus outbreak.Get in touch at [e-mail]!***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast provider. 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.

Welcome everyone to the Luke and Pete show episode Monday and we are back. I hope you had a lovely weekend. My name is Mick Donaldson. I'm joined by a man by the name of Luke Miller. Hello Luke. Hello everyone and welcome to episode 44 billion of the Luke and Pete show. Very, very nice to be here. I'm very happy to be alongside you Pete,, my old sparring partner, and broadcasting to the literally tens of people that enjoy this show. Exactly. Whenever I see the listenership for the show, I'm always surprised at how many people are listening and then feel very guilty at what I do on it. But that's the same. But it lasts for five minutes, that feeling. But it lasts for five minutes, that feeling. You've got a very pessimistic outlook on life, though, Pete, as regular listeners will know.

Whereas I'm a little bit more deluded. I like to think I'm really important, whereas you think that you are. Your opinion of yourself is, frankly, absolutely horrifying. No, I think with podcasts, I go, oh, that's disappointing that everyone heard that. But then I give myself a little reality check and I sort of go, Pete, you're on like seven podcasts a week. Don't give yourself, don't worry about it.

But if you do that on every show, none of the shows are going to be good. You're the only human being in the world who has more broadcasted thoughts and opinions than doesn't. Than actually, that's a worry. That is a worry.

We should do Luke and Pete sleeps. We should just basically mic ourselves up when we're sleeping there you go eight hours of content straight everywhere easy but what have you been up to

anyway what's new what has been new you had a pint didn't you didn't you have a pint I had a pint in the street I had a beautiful

that's not new amber amber yellow lager from a plastic container. Tisky? It wasn't tisky. I think it was some kind of Camden Hells kind of job. The restaurants around Berwick Street Market have started selling

a wide range of IPAs and one lager. So I was just slamming them. I had about six of them. It was very very very pleasant on a very pleasant day it started to rain at one point but that did not dampen our spirits um the weather was crazy on saturday it's a mad storm the storm was so severe down here that it cut out our sky tv really i'm like half an hour have you ever used um that accu weather thing where like um these kind of weather apps nowadays it's like it's so kind of

crazy because it's like um uh you're in a situation where where it can be raining in the next three minutes and the rain may last for 18 minutes and it tells you that exact it tells you that it's going to rain for the next 18 minutes and it seems to be very very accurate like granularly accurate yeah so i've got an app called Dark Sky, which does the same thing. It basically tells you the percentage chance and exactly when it's going to start, and it is pretty accurate. But I also heard the other day, and I don't know if this is true, and you're more techie than me, so maybe you can tell me.

I heard the other day that weather reporting since the pandemic has been a lot more inaccurate because there's a lot less data. Oh, because people aren't manning stations and yeah there's no stations right yeah there's not as many planes in the air all that kind of stuff so um the data data points are kind of kind of less than they fewer than they were and so the weather has been on average apparently more inaccurate but then listen what else is new right guys hey it's probably because a bank holiday right didn't get that earthquake was it an earthquake that it was a bank holiday, right? Didn't get that earthquake. Was it an earthquake? Was it Michael Fish? I can't remember.

Or John Ketley? It was a hurricane. How's he going to predict an earthquake? He's a fucking weatherman. Where's that come from? That's in his remit, isn't it? I don't think earthquakes is under his remit. I don't think so.

I think it should be. I'd be pushing back on that if I was him. Well, where's our earthquake guy? We're always blindsided by them. Where's our earthquake guy? Meeting on Monday with Michael Fish. All right, so we just want to talk about kind of enhanced responsibilities. Yeah, no worries.

Yeah, what do you want me to do? So we've got here, we've got storms. Yeah, that's fine. Hurricane, yeah, yeah. Earthquakes. Hang on, what? You're doing earthquakes? I don't know how to do that.

I've never learned earthquakes. Is there a course I can go on? Not really. No one knows. Thanks very much. It doesn't that. I've never learned earthquakes. Is there a course I can go on? Not really. No one knows. Thanks very much. It doesn't happen. No, I guess not. It was a hurricane.

It was brilliant as well, Pete, because the delivery from Michael Fish was amazing. Unequivocal, wasn't it? Yeah, and I don't think it's necessarily Michael Fish's sole responsibility to know exactly. He's obviously giving the best picture he can. He's already chinned off Earthquake, so I don't trust him.

He's not going to get along with that. It was brilliant, though, because he's obviously taken a meditorial decision to say, right, someone's emailed it, someone's written a letter in or phoned in or whatever because it was back in the 80s. Someone's phoned in asking about a hurricane. So tell you what we'll do.

We'll use it on air. We'll do it in the bulletin tonight. All right, great. And the way he's done it, I think he has regrets about. It's akin to you going to a doctor and saying, I've been Googling my symptoms and I've definitely got brain

cancer. And he goes, get out. But rather than Michael Fish saying, oh, there's been a few uh reports about um potential hurricane on the way um it's okay yeah thanks very much for your concern we're fairly confident it's going to be okay do remain vigilant you know but i'm pretty sure that we're going to be right he doesn't he just goes so and so has rung in asking if there's a hurricane on the way don't worry there isn't but that that's backfired that is made him look like a right prat that's um chemical is it chemical ali who's the bloke who

was uh who was telling everyone um comical ali yeah because he was he was his job was um chemical weapons but he came as chemical ali because as the uh as the US forces were taking control of Baghdad, he was shown on television going, we are fine, the Americans are not taking over. And there's life explosions in the background. Exactly. That was my Zoom background last week on the Stakhanov call, which I enjoyed immensely.

Disrespectful to a proud nation. What, Iraq? Yeah. Disrespectful to the people of Iraq Pete was there anyone from Iraq on the call he said I don't know

I don't know where everyone was from if not he'd probably be fine but I mean just saying do be careful but what else do you remember

about Michael Fish Nastash the song about John Ketley as a weatherman a weatherman a weatherman John Ketley

as a weatherman and so is Michael Fish that's about it a tribe of toffs what Fish. That's about it. A tribe of toffs. What's it, is that what it was? The artist, yeah.

Is that one of those kind of like super groups that had like members, members of like the EMF in it and stuff? I think they were, I think, the Doctor Who theme. No,

that's the KLF, I think, you know, but a tribe of toffs were like a legitimate 80s indie band. Right, okay. From the north, from your neck of the woods, I think, kind of around the northeast 80s indie band. Right, okay. From your neck of the woods, I think, kind of around the northeast.

Yeah, I believe so, yeah. Yeah, I think what happened was they kind of toiled around for a bit as an indie band. Then they had this song, John Ketley's A Weatherman, which is, I mean, if you listen back to it, it's kind of like a, you know, it's a fairly competent indie song. But I think it made them a bit of a laughingstock. It was a bit ironic really,

because they got presumably the fame that they were after. But they just didn't get taken seriously after that. So I think they just called it a day. Carter USM did Where's Me Jumper. Was that? No, that's the Mack Lads, isn't it? The Mack Lads? I don't remember them.

Jesus. Well, exactly. Again, another band who I thought Carter USM had done that song and had survived it, but clearly not. Oh, no, sorry. Wesby Jumper is the Sultans of Ping, isn't it? Sultans of Ping, sorry. Yeah, they had a bit of a career, didn't they?

They were taken pretty seriously. It's one of the best opening lines to the song. My brother knows Karl Marx. He met him eating mushrooms in the public park. It's a great line. And Carter USM, to round up this impromptu testing of my late 80s uh indie knowledge it did the only living boy in new cross which is their big song which is excellent in my opinion and then they also assaulted philip scofield it did yeah he deserves

it sometimes the things he gets big phil yeah he's always been he's always been a bit like kind of uh he gets big fit yeah he's always been he's always been a bit like kind of uh uh farthright on stuff bit smug bit farthright and stuff but then recently uh you sort of follow him on uh like um on like instagram stories or whatever and he is hilarious because he's like there's just i think i told i spoke about before on this on the show um there's there's there was like a instagram story where he was in his loft and there was a mystery beeping happening in his house. Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. Not Caroline, man. He wasn't in the loft.

Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. And he couldn't figure out what it was. He thought it was a bird. And all of his stories are just him drinking loads of gin and being pissed. It's brilliant. So I really warmed to it. I didn't really like it.

I didn't really like the Schofield that hung out with Gordon the Gopher. In between that and becoming becoming a bit of a national treasure because people always say that he's quite... He defends his fiefdom. He doesn't like anybody coming in as guest presenters and stuff and he rules with an iron fist

as any television presenter is. I thought people liked him because he was always cracking up with Holly Willoughby on the telly. I thought that was like his thing. Yeah, they're very good together, but apparently he has a very – he gives other presenters that work with him rather short shrift because he thinks – because he's threatened by – Oh, takes one to know one.

I know, right? But, yeah, he was just in his loft, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, and he's like, what the hell is that noise? And he just found this mystery box that was beeping in his loft. Oh,, beep, beep, beep, beep. And he's like, what the hell is that noise? And he just found this mystery box that was beeping in his loft. This is right up Donaldson Street, this. I know. It could have been like an old burglar alarm or an old smoke alarm. Either way, he solved the problem by hitting it with a hammer.

He was connected to the mains. Mate, when you... Was it really? Yeah, I think so. When you've got the profile of a Schofield, you can't take chances on a mystery package, Donny. You and I'll be fine. We're not a target.

Would you not just open it? Well, I'd probably ascertain what it was and what it was connected to and whether I'd get electrocuted before I hit it with a claw hammer. Yeah, I'd probably... Was Philip Schofield in NAMM? He didn't, but that's his thing.

He's just like, you know. Maybe he thought it was a booby trap. Maybe he didn't even exist. Yeah, maybe he thought it was like a listening device or something. He didn't, but that's his thing. He's just like, you know. Maybe he thought it was a booby trap. Maybe he didn't even exist. Yeah, maybe he thought it was like a listening device or something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And Phillips Goffield came out fairly recently, didn't he, as well? That was a big thing. Yeah, I mean, again, I think that's, again, you know,

if he listened a bit further for listening devices, I think he probably wouldn't have been forced out because it seemed very much not to be his decision. Oh, really? Which, once again, is problematic when it comes to the nation's press. We keep on being told that we have a very different press to the press we had 20, 30 years ago,

but they have never changed. They've never shown that they've had any interest in changing. Look at the cover of The Sun and the JK Rowling domestic abuse thing on Monday or whatever it was. Good Lord. Yeah. Rubbish. You were the one who was apparently in central London this weekend

necking pints, so you're probably part of the problem. There were some, I didn't see many of them, but the right police at one point piled into my road and set up a cordon near the bagel shop. And I was going, what if I need a bagel?

What's cordon doing there? What's cordon doing there? Set up a cordon? Yeah. A little chat show. Set up a cordon. The thing is set up a cordon, but like they set it up

like past a couple of... I mean, I presume they were in Chinatown or whatever, like a couple of residents of Chinatown. And they were just like, the Chin just like, the guys who live there, or they may even have been tourists, they were just like, I need to get back.

I need to get through the cordon. So the police just let them through. It's like, what's a cordon? You know what I mean? That's the opposite of what this is for. They just went, can we get through? And just kind of squeezed through them. And I was like, this is rubbish.

What you're saying now is that the police have been under such scrutiny worldwide since what's happened in the last few weeks that they've now gone the other way. And they just let you do what you want. There's no standing. Do what you want. Do whatever. Go where you want.

That's not what you want. So apparently a bunch of these rather unsavory chaps got off the train in the end at the weekend as well, Pete. My Facebook local group was all aflutter with a load of beery, presumably fat white men getting off the train and sort of tearing up and down the road. I don't know why they were doing it where I live because we're about five miles south of central London.

But apparently reliable sources informed me that that did happen as well. Have they been kicked off the train, do you reckon? Yeah, it's possible, I think, yeah. But the thing is, I don't really know how that was possible, because there was quite a lot of them. There aren't any guards on those trains anyway. Yeah. Who knows?

Maybe they need a wee. That geezer who's just been sent down for two weeks for urinating next to the memorial of the police officer that helped to stop a terrorist attack. I mean, he's had a day. What a day he's had. I mean, obviously what he did was absolutely... He did not pee on the... Oh, yeah, it was next to it.

He peed next to it, according to Julia Hartley, Brewer. Which is obviously an internationally accepted form of deference. But the thing is, he's gone up to London and on his own admission to, in quotes, defend some statues, but he didn't know which ones, got so pissed because he drank 16 beers, didn't know where he was, ended up urinating next to a memorial of a heroic police officer

and been sent to jail for a fortnight. Can I please just say I am not the only one who would love to have heard the phone call to his wife. Or the phone call he received from his employer, for example. I'm not sure he had an employer to be perfect. That's what I thought. Looking at the lads, they all had these weird black caps on. Is that like a kind of dog whistly kind of white supremacy thing?

It's probably for disguise, isn't it? No, like everybody, there was a shot of like two men arguing over the tedious All Lives Matter versus Black Lives Matter versus what one of them was positing, White Lives Matter. No, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, where do all these black caps, why has everyone got black caps? I mean, they're protecting their baldy heads from the sun, but I mean, you know.

Oi, oi, oi. Yeah, I don't really also like the fact that they've kind of styled themselves the Football Lads Alliance. It's like, I like football. Leave me out of this. It's ridiculous. I don't, this is not, football is not a link to this. It shouldn't be anyway.

Like they create it as a link and it has got historic links and I understand the problems around it. But it annoys me, Pete, what I'm trying to say is, it annoys me that they can just form a group, which is basically a racist group, put the word football in their title, and then that just gets repeated over and over again. It annoys me because there's plenty of people out there, myself and you included, who like football who aren't like that.

It's just annoying. Yeah, but I mean, a long time ago, I stopped caring what people think of football. You know what I mean? It's just like, I think football is virtuous enough in some parts of its output to survive some just fucking pissed up, stellar, swelling fucking dickheads. Yeah, I agree. Football's back this week though, Peter.

Not that they're not incredibly dangerous. Yeah, exactly. We can start our own football alliance. fucking dickheads yeah I agree football's back this week though Peter not that they're not incredibly dangerous I know yeah exactly we can start our own football alliance lads who literally like football I mean to be honest

you wouldn't have got that turnout if the Euros were on because a lot of them would be out supporting them in Europe wouldn't they they'd have had their

passports taken let's make that very clear they'd have had their passports taken I remember once you know what could I give you a vague memory of someone like a friend of a friend of mine who it must have been in the late 80s you know what could I give you a vague memory of someone like a friend of a friend

of mine who it must have been in the late 80s it must have been the late 90s it must have been for world cup 98 I remember I worked somewhere and a guy came in who was like tangentially a friend of one of the people that worked there but he was a dickhead and he was planning uh how to get to france for world cup 98 um given that he was he's the subject of some kind of travel ban because he obviously right and um he had gone to he had gone to great trouble to buy like a load of fishing equipment right and to hire a van and so basically on like the day before england were playing in france 98 was saying that um that um oh no what i'm going do is I'm going to put a lot of fishing equipment in the back of a van so I'm going to France for a fishing trip.

And even then, at the age of 17, I remember thinking, that's not the perfect crime, is it? You are a known football hooligan. There's a game happening in the largest football tournament in the world tomorrow in this place and you are suddenly gonna you think you're gonna get past the police just by buying a fishing rod that's not gonna happen i don't think it did happen but anyway on another news peter i i want to i want to uh cover something a little bit more positive a little more interesting because something came to my attention uh late last week which i thought i cannot believe I didn't know about this.

And Peter, I don't think you do either, so I'm going to try and run it past you now. Are you aware of the place Pheasant Island? No. Is it one of those kind of islands? Is it one of these islands around Japan that has different animals on it? No. Sometimes there'll be cats, sometimes there'll be rabbits. No, no, it isn't.

I mean, it'd be odd to call it a pheasant island, wouldn't it, if that was the case? Yeah, but I mean, I presumed it would have pheasants on it. I'm presuming it's an island entirely inhabited by pheasants. It's not, I don't think.

I don't think there are any pheasants involved, weirdly. Well, what? Yeah, I don't really know. If you're going to ask me how it's got its name, I don't know. But If you're going to ask me how it's got its name, I don't know. But it's an island, right, established by the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659

on a river called the Bidasoa River between France and Spain. And the administration of the island alternates between both spain and france so for alternate alternating periods of six months it's officially under the governance of the naval commander of san sebastian spain uh that's between the 1st of february and the 31st of july and then between the 1st of august and 31st of january it's um under the governance of bayonne France. Isn't that cool? It is, but I mean, it just sounds expensive for both parties to ramp up and ramp down a six-month posting for certain amounts of people. I mean, it's a bizarre, interesting story,

but I just think that the idea of sovereignty is so stupid in 2020 that people are still having to do that. Would you be... All right, swampy. Bloody hell. Would you... Get that bit of... Get that bit...

I wish I did put that bit of turf on Churchill's head. Get that bit of turf on his head. Would you be even less interested to know that this island is entirely uninhabited and access to it is forbidden? So it's essentially not even really anything other than there's a piece of mud

in the middle of a river. It's 0.00263 square miles big. Possibly why it's escaped our attention all these years. But I just thought it was quite an interesting little peccadillo. It's like that kind of ongoing proxy war between Canada and Denmark or whatever, where they keep the flag in that... It's a bottle of whiskey. Yeah, something like that.

I just thought it was quite interesting. I don't know why it's called Fresno Island. Can I have a bit of your garden? Can I just have a square yard of your garden? Yeah, for six months you can have a square yard. I'm not allowed in it. I'm not allowed in it. By the way, Peter, speaking of my garden,

and this will make you sick, just as I kind of delicately try and take the lid off my Nalgene before you tell me off. The cherry tree in my garden has started, has started, what's the word? Swearing. Yielding, yeah, yielding cherries. I've had like 30 cherries off it.

Whoa, that's cool. I would not trust, I would not trust... I would not trust... You ate every last one. Didn't give you a good lady wife one. No, we shared them among our family, Peter, because we're nice. Hang on.

So how many people... So you got one cherry each family member? Well, we went to my parents for a socially distant barbecue last weekend and we took them down. Oh, I see. Yeah, I see. Yeah. I see. They tasted like shit after I sanitized them

with a disinfectant. How good is that, though? That's great news. Yeah. Cherries and blackberries is one of the few things that I'd sort of see in mate's garden and chomp on. How many other friends have you got that have got cherries in their garden?

I'm fucking disappointed about that. When I was a kid, in the rural highlands of the centre of Hartlepool. Wasn't there a documentary relatively recently where a bloke was out on the parks of Hartlepool hunting his own food? Yeah, and then his missus managed to skin the animal. It was like something out of Red Dead Redemption. It was brilliant. Just skinned the rabbit like that. It was brilliant. Just skin the rabbit like that.

It was amazing. Was it brilliant or was it a little bit kind of... Oh, it's depressing in 2020 that anyone has to do that. But yeah, it's not a money part of the world, unfortunately. No. Listen, nor is where I'm from. But what can you do? I'm sure it's happening down there as well.

What can you do? What can you do? Shall we have a little break and then come back and do some emails? We've got a few good ones this week. Let's have a little break then. Go on then. And we're back to the Luke and Pete show. And it's time for your emails.

If you want to get to the show, it's really easy. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. That's hello at L-U-K-E-A-N-D-P-E-T-E-S-H-O-W. Is that right? Yeah, well done, mate. I don't know why you spelled it. It's pretty easy. Yeah.

I feel like if people have got to the point where they're listening to this, they've typed in those words at some point already. Oh, they've certainly found that email address when it comes to sending us fucking spam you. Yeah. Before we get into the emails, I've got a quick tweet tweet here um from someone whose name

is anonymous uh i'm going to try and find it do you want to feel for like 10 seconds while i find who it is pete yeah okay no worries um thank you very much gary walsh gary was no it wasn't gary walsh that's someone else he was talking about fry up some pumpkin chocolate bread just saying thanks not gary walsh. Gary Walsh. No, it wasn't Gary Walsh. That's someone else. He was talking about fry-ups and pumpkin chocolate bread, just saying thanks. Not Gary Walsh. Although, hello to you, Gary. Dan. Dan Hales.

Dan. Dan Hales. Yeah, Dan Danadangol has tweeted saying, my Bluetooth headphone connection dropped out at 17.23 of the most recent show in the gym, right at the point where Pete Donaldson said, I bet his penis is a right mess. Needless to say, I stopped my workout.

Don't stop your workout there. Needles. Needles to say. Literally, that's what the story was about. If that happens to you in a gym and there's a lot of people there and everyone hears it, stare down every single person in your vicinity. And then they will know that you are not to be messed with it's a power play

that's what I'm listening to when I'm getting jacked what's your gym soundtrack of choice then Pete if I'm doing anything cardio which I rarely do and to be honest I've not been inside a gym for a good four months if not longer

I am at Cardio Punk Rock from the Fat Records slash to be honest i've not been inside a gym for a good four months uh if not longer i am a cardio punk rock uh from uh the fat records slash um kung fu records uh stable and if i'm just doing lifting up the weights i can listen to a podcast because it's only like one two three four five six seven eight and then i'm finished and then i can listen to um you know whatever nonsense is uh in my podcast hall now i'm not someone who i hope you agree with this pete certainly in recent years i'm not someone who tends to judge other people for their music taste am i going to get away with that right yes uh yes that's fair you are you're you're uh you're quite a broad church when it comes to music it's fair yeah so i mean so i'm saying this under under kind of caution and i don't want you to take offense but every time i look on

spotify and i see in the right hand column what my friends are listening to and you are listening yet again to alien ant farm it upsets me you looked at that i that's a bad that's a bad example because uh you're literally talking about what I was listening to yesterday. And the thing I listened to yesterday was a bit of, I think the last, what was I listening to? How do I find out what my last, basically it was the last track that I played on a punk style playlist that seemed to end with that.

I actually was playing, somebody actually suggested. Hey kids, would you like to hang out with me and listen to a punk style playlist? Somebody actually got in touch on the Luka Pete show, Himmel, about the film that we both watched. What's that? What was it?

Annihilation. Oh yeah. Lawrence Teixeira. Lawrence Teixeira got in touch. He said the music was composed by the duo of Jeff Barrow of Potter's Head fame and Ben Salisbury. They also scored the excellent Ex Machina

and the show Devs, both created obviously and directed by Alex Garland. However, the music in The Cave that I really, really enjoyed was the only non-original piece in the movie. It's a track called The Mark Interlude by the excellent Modrat, a polo tour of the German artist Maud Selector and Modrat, reminiscent of a more electronic techno radiohead at times. Their third and second albums in particular are fantastic,

and they have some interesting videos. I went on Spotify, and I was listening to that a little bit over the weekend. So very enjoyable, very short. I wanted the refrain to be repeated for about an hour because I very much enjoyed it. So I haven't watched that devs show though everyone keeps recommending it

to me now after we talked about Alex Garland it looks really interesting it's about like a science fiction thing isn't it it's about quantum computing or something but it's also play it's also got the guy ron swanson in it from uh oh is it right yeah yeah yeah oh good but i i that that kind of um that kind of music that he's talking about there my friend's a electronic music

producer and he's very very successful as well but it's not really my kind of thing i don't put that kind of stuff on very often like yeah Yeah, you have to be in the movie. I think in films, it's beautiful, but I think just listening to it yourself. It's the sort of thing that I could work to. I can't work with music playing at all in the slightest. I'll stick

on a bit of shitty Japanese... Not even like instrumental music? No, well, that's what I'm saying. I'll occasionally put some like, you know, synth wave or some kind of like, you know, what's that stuff where they just slow down old disco songs?

Do you sometimes put on a enjoyable cover version of Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson? Just to chill me out, yeah. I'm trying to find, it's not, it's not. They basically just take slow, they just basically, a vapor wave? I'm trying to find it. It's not... They basically just take slow... They just basically... A vaporwave, that's what they call it. Yeah, I'll stick on some vaporwave

because that's very easy to listen to. But all vaporwave is, I think I've said it before, they'll just take a bit of... A bit of like a kind of elevator music from an old tape that was supplied to like a Walmart just to, you know,

kind of shopping music. Yeah, I've heard about it. Inoffensive shopping music. And they just slow it down. And they don't do anything to it. They just slow it down and create this kind of blissed out, kind of stony, stonery kind of dancing, kind of chilled out music.

And it's, yeah, it's very enjoyable and very easy to work to. But, you know, nothing, it's not going to get you up and very easy to work to but you know nothing it's not gonna get you up up to you know any kind of level of excitement i was listening to um ludovico inaudi yesterday while working who the hell is that he's like a i think he's a he's a quite modern i think italian composer and he's got a um his latest release is like called seven days walking it's like a six hour kind of epic which which I guess is about seven days of walking he did once. But it goes through all the different seasons and stuff.

It's quite interesting. It's not something you would put on unless you wanted a bit of background or you're doing some work, but I can't enjoy it. Has he sold over five million units worldwide, like Alien Open Farm? I don't think so. Probably not. I wouldn't have thought, no. I'd like to hear him do a –

you know when Metallica and Lou Reed got together in that record and it was fucking awful? I'd like to see Lou Reed go on Nowdy, get together with Alien Out Farm. That'd be fucking good. Are Alien Out Farm still around? I think all bands are around now. Well, I didn't even like the cover.

That came on. Their song for me was Movies. That's a good song. Oh, yeah, that's quite good. Yeah, I like that song. It's got a bit of an emotional weight to it yeah yeah it's it's it when when you're dancing stamping about to that it's lovely i might listen to that after this um right rick mccabe um as regular listeners will know that i do a little um headline above each email so i know so i can remember what it's about and this one is a man inadvertently helps create birds home and then inadvertently destroys it uh he says thanks very

much for the regular output during lockdown you are appreciated more than you will know it's nice isn't it we're getting a lot of these messages where people have been sort of obviously in lockdown and they've been able to um consume of our awful, awful volumage over the past few weeks. And it really is appreciated that people are genuinely saying nice things. Like, people are going as far as some of the Stikhan podcasts. I've really got them through some really hard times during lockdown. So it is appreciated.

Do you know how I interpret that? I interpret it like they're listening to us thinking, well, at least we're not as bad as those two fucking losers I've got a proper job and a family anyway, Rick says he lives in Bickerstaff in Lancashire, which I googled earlier and it's like a beautiful little village

and he said a few weeks ago I had a lockdown haircut in the back garden, my wife cut off all my hair with the clippers, a nice number one all over yesterday I was trimming the hedges in the garden while listening to football ramble daily he says and i saw that i had sadly dislodged a bird's nest which now lay on the floor empty on closer inspection i saw that the birds had used the hair from my head in its construction as my hair is red it's quite easy to spot it was nice to think i'd

helped a local wildlife to keep warm before quickly remembering that i'd accidentally destroyed their home uh picture attached i thought it might be of some interest and he has attached a picture and it's wicked you can actually see a bird's nest made of by a bird of his hair and i can't work out if it's a bit weird and a bit kind of gothic or actually very very life affirming and i think it might be a bit of both. Oh, yeah, you can kind of see the hair in there. That's hilarious. This email only came in like three hours ago.

I mean, it's still beautifully formed. Yeah, well done, that man. I've got a Google app set up for the words bird's nest. That's what I've got there. It does sort of seem like he's been upset that he's had his hair stolen and so he's taken retribution out of the birds yeah we'll be stealing his hair where would you find his hair as he was um as he was doing it and destroying the bird's nest he was over her just screaming

this hair has value it has a monetary value and i'm not asking you for your fucking feathers am i give it back. Yeah, take some of the feathers. There are a lot of feathers in the nest so feather your own head nest with some feathers. Listen Pete, he's feathering his own nest and no mistake. Yeah, beautiful. That's lovely that. I think we're out of time by the way.

I think we are, Jesus Christ. Time's against us guys but we'll be back on Thursday. Do you want to play us out Luke? Yeah, I'll play you out. Do you want to do a little kind of ear trumpet? What do you want? Thank you very much for listening. Just tell us about the show. Okay, well, that was the Luke and Pete show for Monday.

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