The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 114: The Curse of the Colonel
Episode Date: November 8, 2018Why are baseball team curses so prevalent? Luke and Pete wonder that as they learn all about The Curse of the Colonel, a superstition that combines baseball team Hanshin Tigers, KFC, and the bottom of... a river.During this episode we also learn of a frankly bizarre marketing ploy by the good people at Ribena, hear all about clown phobias, and welcome a long overdue return for Mencarta centred around a man that had no fewer than seven near-death experiences.To tell us all about your phobias, curses and dices with death: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com***Please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes 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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Can't be arsed to wait for it to get going, to be honest.
I'm Pete. I'm joined by Luke Moore.
Zim Zimmer, who got the keys to my bimmer?
Or, excuse me, do you have the keys to my BMW?
The valet. Have you ever used a valet? I don't like it.
No, I haven't.
I mean, I've never used a valet because I can't drive.
No, you don't need to.
Yeah, I don't think pushbike valets exist, to be honest.
You've got no reason to have one have you
oh I tell you what
cycling's hard
on the old bum bum
isn't it
you still
I don't do
I don't do a lot of cycling
but the bum bum
hurty hurts
I've written some notes
for this
for this show
oh fuck you
I know
yeah
and I've just got one
I've just realised
I've got one here
under a book
that's outrageous
Peter don't say that again that's beyond the pale okay And I've just got one I've just realised I've got one here That's outrageous Peter
Don't say that again
That's beyond the pale
Okay
As we get older
That gets less and less funny
One of these notes
I've got here
Is just
I've just written
Fireworks
Are they pointless
Yes they are
They are
I'm so pleased
I missed
The firework night
The firework night
Is it tonight No wait Have I missed it Nowork night. The firework night.
Is it tonight?
No, wait.
Have I missed it?
No, you haven't missed it.
Yeah, it's last week.
No, it's today.
Earlier this week.
5th of November.
This is a Thursday show, you fucking idiot.
Oh, yeah.
Sorry, it's early.
I forgot the conceit.
Well, people know we record early.
Yeah, but you don't have to make it front and centre of the entire operation, do you?
Well, now I'm annoyed.
I haven't missed it.
I can't believe we're know like when we chucking
bangers all down my street
back in Victorian times
and that's a weird thing
for Alcotton Street
back in Victorian times
where they had like
working servants and stuff
yeah everyone knew
they had servants
and didn't put them
out front and centre
and go oh
I'm working really hard here
and I'm not getting
any fucking money
and I live in a shithole
it doesn't happen
right
to hide it
because we're British
hide it from plain view
right
let's all move on
with our lives
and pretend
that everything's fine
no
because I'll fuck it
I'll press the wrong button
in a bit
and then the inner workings
will become the outer workings
we'll be like a fucking
Taurus knot of nonsense
yeah
fireworks
right
kaboom
give me one good thing
about fireworks
er
er keeps the Chinese economy afloat does it though I don't know right kaboom give me one good thing about fireworks er er
keeps the Chinese economy
afloat
does it though
I don't know
probably doesn't is it
probably doesn't is it
I imagine
illegal Mexican fireworks
quite fun
but I think
they've just got safer
haven't they
the only reason
it's kept Jean-Michel Jarre
PRS fucking money
floating in
and all that
do
do do do
do
oxygen do do do do do do oxygen
do do do do
do
do do do do
do
do do do do
that's the fun bit
isn't it
yeah
that's the best bit
I just want to put it
out there and say
I just want to put it
out there and say
that fireworks right
yeah
once you've seen
a few of them
you've seen them all
seen them all
right
you have to have they're expensive right and they're a fucking waste of money yeah three they're horrendous fireworks, right? Yeah. Once you've seen a few of them, you've seen them all. Seen them all. Right?
You have to have,
they're expensive, right? And they're a fucking waste of money.
Yeah.
Three, they're horrendous
for any sort of animal
who thinks they're terrifying.
Yeah.
The amount of rigmarole
I have to go through.
My friend,
with my two cats,
my friend's had to take his dog
away for the weekend,
this weekend just gone,
because the dog goes so crazy
about fireworks,
I just cannot deal with it anymore.
I don't like that.
And even worse than that
they're awful
for people
with post traumatic
stress disorder
veterans of wars
and people who've
been in the military
well maybe we
shouldn't have
fucking wars
let's cut this off
at the source
big boy
is it easier
to ban fireworks
though
do both
I'm happy with both
are mortars
like fireworks
yes
ban everything
we could send the pets to war so they get used to it.
Exactly.
Well, they tried that, didn't they?
Then Hitler decided to have some dogs.
Yeah.
Didn't he like dogs as well?
There was talk of putting spikes on the back of dogs to run them under the horses.
And then I think in the Second World War, didn't they have bomb dogs to blow up tanks?
Yeah.
Anyway.
I think that was actually featured on the Luke and Pete show.
Episode 7. Yeah. Anyway. I think that was actually featured on the Luke and Pete show, episode seven.
Yeah, way back in the day.
Back when we were upsetting old men
on YouTube channels.
You are still doing that.
Yeah.
I just wanted to mention it.
And also recently,
we have to come onto this actually
because we promised it on Monday.
I went to go and see the mousetrap,
which is really good.
Anyway.
The horse did it.
You're giving it away now.
Tell us about this story you promised us on Monday,
which was about, you said, the mystery of the kernel
or something like that.
What was it?
Strap yourself in.
I'm not very good at telling stories.
Anyone who's listened to any of these shows will know.
So luckily, someone's written a Wikipedia about it.
What do you give yourself out of 10 for storytelling?
Oh, two.
I start in the middle and end outside.
It's like a hedge maze of words and nouns.
Oh, Jesus, I'm a mess.
I don't know why anybody listens to me.
The Curse of the Colonel.
That was a poor start.
It's a bit of an urban legend,
but it certainly happened part of it anyway
the Kansai based
Hanshin Tigers
baseball team
did you find this out
when you went to Japan
yes
a man told me all about it
and it's fascinating
the curse is said
to be placed on the team
because of the colonel's anger
over the treatment
of one of his storefront statues
now in Japan
outside every KFC
look more
there is
a almost life-sized representation,
statue, if you will, of the colonel.
It's a little bit upsetting.
It's a bit weird.
His glasses look too real, and his face looks too fake.
It's a little bit weird.
It's just like part of the furniture.
It's just part of the furniture.
KFC's a massive thing.
It's what they eat on Christmas Day.
It's just part of their society.
The Japanese eat KFC on Christmas Day.
Yeah, standard.
Well, most of them eat KFC. It's a big deal. It's a part of their society. The Japanese eat KFC on Christmas Day. Yeah, standard. Well,
most of them eat KFC. It's a big deal.
And basically, back in the day,
the
Dotton Boddy River dominates Osaka.
It's like the middle of the
entertainment district. It's where everybody goes to party.
It's just huge. It's where everything happens.
And lights, and it's all
like the Piccadilly Circus. every year when the hanshin uh tigers um won the the baseball um
everyone would sort of line up up and down the uh the river and basically um they just celebrate
the fact that the hanshin tigers who went on like a massive uh winning run throughout the 80s and 90s.
They celebrated the win every time they did something amazing.
Right.
And part of it was, and I think this is right.
I'm not going to go to the Wikipedia.
I'll go into memory mode.
So let's see how this one goes.
Good.
Okay.
They would shout out the names of everybody on the roster.
And so they'd shout out the first player and the second player and the third player.
And each time, one person would jump in the river that looked like that person
who was on the baseball team.
The problem is, at one point,
it got to an American guy
who was out there playing baseball.
Because obviously, you know,
if you're not good enough for the American league,
you go to Japan.
Yeah.
Because it's the second biggest.
Sure.
Or third biggest.
And there wasn't an American lining the river.
So there was no one who looked like an American dude
to jump into the river.
I can see where this is going.
So a gang, a gaggle if you will,
grabbed a storefront KFC Colonel Sanders
and threw him in the river.
And they never found it.
And the Tigers went on to lose every big kind of main kind of win.
They went to finals and stuff and they lost.
And they just had a terrible run of luck for years and years and years.
Divers went out looking for this Colonel because they said this curse
was basically giving the Hanshin Tigers such bad luck.
And I think a kid died diving down trying to find this Colonel Sanders.
They found it eventually.
Right.
It looks like this when they pulled him out.
Okay, it looks a bit worse for wear.
Still got his shirt and tie on though.
Still got his shirt and tie on.
Still got his shirt and tie on though.
Still got his shirt and tie on.
And basically they dragged it out and they were going to actually sort of give it back
to the KFC that was there,
but it actually moved premises.
I mean, nobody wants to see that outside.
Like if you've got a really good rating
for your hygiene standards in your KFC,
you don't want basically a busted up,
dragged out of the river,
you know, aged Colonel Sanders. so since they recovered the statue has the curse been broken no right because he's missing his hand
and his original spectacles ah so they need to find the hand and they need to find the spectacles
obviously they're in big trouble uh but I just like the fact that everybody believes
that the reason why the Hanshin Tigers are a bit shit now,
it's like the Boston Red Sox and their curse.
Yeah, I was going to say that.
I don't know what it is.
I know sports people come very superstitious anyway,
but I don't know what it is about baseball.
But there's about six different superstitions around baseball.
The curse of the Bambino around the Boston Red Sox
is obviously the famous one.
But I looked it up a second ago
when you were talking about this.
Curse of the Billy Goat
around the Chicago Cubs.
Curse of the Black Sox
around the Chicago White Sox.
Curse of Rocky Colavito,
a superstition around the Cleveland Indians.
And curse of Coogan's Bluff,
a superstition surrounding
the San Francisco Giants.
So...
Eusebio's lot, wasn't there?
Didn't somebody say you're never going to win in Europe again?
Oh, that was the curse of Bela Gutmann.
That's it.
Yeah, Portuguese.
I think it was around Benfica.
But I wonder though, the psychology of this is actually quite interesting
because of course you wouldn't put any scientific basis
for any of these sorts of things.
But as soon as the players, the people involved,
know about it, you wonder if it affects them
even in a subconscious kind of way or a psychological way,
which means they unwittingly contribute to it, you know?
Yeah.
Weird.
But they've installed a bridge
so that it makes it harder to jump in the river.
Right.
Just on the off chance that the Hanshin Tigers win again,
which they haven't to this very day
spooky little KFC man
did you
I mean
presumably you didn't
make an attempt
to become a hero
of that town
and go and find the hand
that'd be brilliant
just dived in
put your own glasses on
mother your own glasses up
they're not that dissimilar
that's the most creepy thing
about the KFC
yeah colonels
and indeed your dresser
what sort of style have you got I'd say it's Colonel Sanders chic really yeah It's dissimilar. That's the most creepy thing about the KFC, yeah, colonels. And indeed your dressing.
What sort of style have you got?
I'd say it's Colonel Sanders chic, really.
Yeah.
Colonel Sanders circa 1980s chic.
I have got a white suit.
I haven't got one of those little ties there.
I haven't got one of his fancy ties. A Kentucky necktie.
Kentucky necktie.
My friend Tommy wore one of those to my wedding.
He looked bloody brilliant.
Did he?
Yeah, he looked great.
Did he really?
Yeah, he did, yeah.
How do you accept his affectations?
You don't accept mine?
No, because I think he's a genuine.
Yeah, I think he genuinely is How would you accept his affectations? You don't accept mine? No, because I think he's a genuine.
Yeah, I think he genuinely is.
How's that even genuine?
What, he genuinely is an American?
No, he just thought
it looked good on him.
He wanted to wear it.
He wore it.
He didn't show off
about it on social media.
Same with the tattoo.
You said this on the Ramble.
You said,
you know more about my life
as far as social media.
The only time I ever
post anything on Instagram
is when I'm on holiday.
And even then, only on Instagram stories. Mission mission accomplished just checking you were listening to the ramble
while you're away right there's a little break come back let's have a little break
come back with some emails from you guys listening at home or wherever you are really piss
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She's going to report me for saying
bugger, you know. Oh, just wait till I see
your mother. You're in real trouble. Oh, I say
what if you're going to go and see her? Then tell her this
bugger-shaped fuck-shaped fucking sphincter.
The best bit's the end. Never gets boring, fuck shape, fucking sphincter. The best bit's the end.
Never gets boring, does it?
Fucking sphincter.
I would like to start with this email, Peter.
I think you'll enjoy it.
And I understand it because you're a little bit behind still
because you've not been long back from Japan,
so I'm trying to help you out here.
I'm very jet lagged.
This is from a guy called Greg who says,
Morning, gents.
I just wanted to bring to your attention
the killer clowns of Glasgow and Lanarkshire
in the early 90s.
And I want to find out if it was true
or just a localised urban legend.
Do you know about this?
I've heard that every seven years or something,
clowns will just turn up and be spotted being horrible.
Well, according to Greg, he says,
anyone in their 30s like me that was schooled in the west of Scotland will remember this Clowns will just turn up and be spotted being horrible. Well, according to Greg, he says,
anyone in their 30s like me that was schooled in the west of Scotland will remember this and can possibly back me up
as there is next to nothing besides a smattering of Facebook or blog posts on the matter.
Apparently an abduction took place, but again, I have no evidence.
Rumours swirled from town to town about two men dressed as clowns
driving around in a blue transit van who would offer kids sweets
and then either abduct them
or supply them with sweets
that were filled with glass or petrol.
How?
Well, steady.
I don't know how they do that.
I mean, it would have to be...
Imagine a whole suda
and you suck it with the liquid centre,
but the liquid centre is actually petrol.
Yeah, but how much is that going to...
You're not getting that much petrol in it.
It would have to be a large whole suda to give you enough petrol. You need a lot of manufacturing technique for that as petrol. Yeah, but how much is that going to... You're not getting that much petrol in there. It'd have to be a large whole soup
to give you enough petrol.
You need a lot of manufacturing technique for that as well.
Yeah, exactly.
Too much trouble.
Yeah, I don't think...
I think we can rule out petrol.
You could soak a marshmallow in petrol.
But apparently, Pete,
this reached fever pitch...
And put them on sticks and do some poi.
Don't warm them on the fire.
That went up like a fucker.
Apparently it reached fever pitch to the extent that the school assemblies in the area were
held to warn kids to stay clear and be vigilant.
The thing is, everyone drove a blue transit van around Lancashire in the 80s and 90s,
so it was difficult.
Did this happen anywhere else in the UK?
Does it have any credibility or was it too coincident?
Sorry, was it too coincidentally around the time of Tim Curry's Pennywise
in It
massively
this guy's blog post
has a bit more detail
I've read it
and it's got a bit on there
but I'd like to know
if other people
were aware of this
and Pete whether you
obviously you grew up
in Hartlepool
not that near there
I've never dressed as a clown
which is the only
fucking thing you haven't
clown
was it a clown incident
or a coincidence
could be yeah
could be either of those things
what do you think about that
Donny
I think
I don't think
people give
clowns enough respect
I think
I think it's a really
easy
and lazy trope
to have
clowns
as scary
creepy
things
I think
the art of clowning
is a long and historical art form
that should be respected a little more.
What are you talking about?
I just think people don't give respect.
I just think it's a horror movie trope
that's just lazy.
But no one...
I'm scared of clowns.
Fucking grow up then.
I once saw a TV show.
It was one of these sort of
trashy reality shows I suppose
about people with phobias
and i remember watching it years and years ago and it really gave me a good insight into the
difference between something you're not that keen on or you're a bit scared of and an actual phobia
and there's a woman on there who was phobic of clowns and and it's easy just to sort of start
watching the show and realize the premise and go oh yeah well i mean you know she's scared of clowns
so what you know get over it whatever um but they this guy was the whole point realised the premise and go oh yeah well I mean she's scared of clowns so what get over it or whatever
but this guy was
the whole point of the programme
was this guy was trying
to help her get over
her phobia
and I'll try and dig up
the clip and share it
on the Twitter
or whatever
but
part of the process
was he sat her
in this room
with loads of other people
like normal people
not that she's abnormal
but people not dressed
as clowns.
Yeah.
Normally dressed people.
Please come in this room.
Is there going to be anybody
dressed like a clown?
Yeah.
No, but the point was
she was supposed to be
in a relaxed environment
surrounded by people
so she felt safe
because of course
they want to isolate her
with a clown
because she's phobic of clowns.
Yeah.
So anyway,
they did that
and she sat there
drinking a glass of water
or whatever,
just chatting away.
I think that's too creepy.
Well, this is the thing.
That's more creepy.
So you know a clown's going to appear at some point.
Yeah, but the guy was saying,
at one point I'm going to introduce a clown, right?
And of course he did.
And it was the most innocuously dressed clown
you could ever think of.
It was like a business suit.
But mate, honestly, it's not funny at all
to see a human being in that level of distress.
She was in absolute pieces,
like hyperventilating
shaking trying literally trying to climb up the walls right because she was so phobic and he was
saying this is the worst case i've ever seen and honestly and the clown just screamed i'm gonna
fuck you up next time you say a throwaway yeah he brought he brings out a carving knife
but next time you throw away a comment about how you're scared of clowns
whatever think of that woman because she was it was a deeply held rooted psychological issue but
and that's what a phobia is compared to a fear but you've seen people also who are genuinely
phobic of shit like eggs yeah it's like you and planning it's yeah get into places on time
wearing correct clothing did you you just mention eggs?
Eggs.
I've seen people who are scared of eggs and stuff.
Where's that come from?
They are.
So scared of eggs.
Who?
Eggphobics.
There's lots of people who are scared of everything.
Well, have that reaction
that I've just described over the counter.
Genuine screams.
So they walk in,
there's an egg on the side
and that's it.
There's a lot, yeah.
What do they think's going to happen?
Exactly.
Anything would jump out,
to be honest.
Aliens.
Would it count if it was
a kinder egg?
Is it anything egg-shaped?
It's another crazy crock
or fucking eight
and those bastards.
Yeah.
Do you want a quick
Ben Carter,
Luke Moore?
Yeah,
okay,
fine,
yeah,
okay.
We've not done one
for bloody yonks.
Sure.
Let there be justice
for all.
Let there be peace for all. Let there be peace for all.
And one small step for man.
You don't understand.
Willie was a salesman.
He was a clown!
Say simply, very simply, with hope.
Good morning.
Ah, you were waiting for a little noise, weren't you?
No.
No.
To just deliver what you promised. Deliver what you No. I just promised, deliver what you promised.
Deliver what you promised.
Yeah.
You gotta finish what you started.
What is that?
I used to sing that one as a child.
It must be a song.
Anyway, Dr. Andy.
Hello, Dr. Andy.
Giving it the big one, being a doctor and that.
Hello, gents.
Apparently it's Gladys Nike and the Pips.
Oh, is it?
Yeah, there you go.
You gotta finish what you started.
Hello, gents.
Thanks for all your wonderful content over the years,
making the daily commute very enjoyable.
He's a doctor.
He needs to have more lofty ambitions about how he spends his time.
As a thank you, I'd like to share a possible entry
to the lesser spotted Men Carter.
What did you stop doing, Men Carter?
Lizardness.
Okay.
I've brought you an art.
I could have put Curse of the Carnal as a Mankata.
Lazertown.
Lazertown.
Population Pete.
The man in question is one Frank Selak,
someone I'm sure you've never heard of,
yet he's renowned as either the luckiest or unluckiest man alive.
I can't quite recall why he was brought to my attention,
but it has laid dormant in my brain for many years now.
He's reported to have had up to seven near-death experiences
in his eventful life.
Huh.
Wow.
Starting in 1962.
This is like the guy who got hit by lightning seven times.
Remember him?
Eventually committed suicide.
They do that in...
He was like a park ranger.
In the recent from Mission Impossible film.
Right. Which you haven't Mission Apostle film. Right.
Which you haven't seen the end of.
No, I still don't know.
Could you volunteer
to stay on the plane
do you think
to finish the movie?
I mean,
it just kept going
so I could have just went,
oh, just to look for my passport.
I can't find my passport.
Oh, it's just falling
in the chair.
Well, have your headphones in.
Don't worry about it.
Don't worry about it.
Basically,
it started in 1962, aged 53.
So he'd only got to that ripe old age of 53. He's probably thinking to himself, I'm setting the ways these days.
None of this stuff happens to me.
I'm 52.
How old is he?
53.
Salek was riding a train through his homeland of Croatia, very general,
when the train derailed into a freezing river.
During this unfortunate tragedy, 17 people perished,
but Salek escaped with only a broken arm and hypothermia.
The next year, during his first plane ride to visit a Puli mother,
his Puli mother must have heard the reports that it's a surface form of travel,
he was blown out of a malfunctioning door whilst in mid-descent.
Luckily, he landed on a...
What? On a plane?
He landed on a haystack, sparing his life.
What?
On a haystack.
I heard you.
I just can't believe it.
I just can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
Goodness me.
19 people were killed in the crash.
I've not Googled this book.
I'm talking absolute dog shit, Doctor.
Further misfortune befell him three years later
when perhaps thinking the bus would be safer, it wasn't.
This particular trip took a turn for the worse
when the transport
skidded off the road
into a river
four passengers
sadly drowned
but Salek
escaped with only
cuts and bruises
at this point
he's been on two pieces
of transport
and ended up in a river
he's got to responsibly
tell people
when he gets on
after this
dressed like a clown
everyone would leave
when he finally
abandoned the perils
of public transport
and took to driving himself,
which kept him safe up to the year of 1970,
his car caught fire as he was driving
and he managed to get to safety just before the vehicle exploded.
Three years later, he again faced jeopardy at the wheel
when a malfunctioning fuel pump leaked and caught fire,
causing flames to shoot from the air vents,
burning his air off.
That wasn't enough.
Thinking he was safe from public transport in 1995,
he was hit by a bus in Zagreb,
escaping with minor injuries.
Finally, a year later,
whilst driving up the side of a mountain,
he was forced to take evasive action
when a UN truck coming the other way
forced him to swerve into the guardrail
and off the mountain.
Fortunately, I think,
he wasn't wearing a seatbelt
I mean why would you
basically
you can't die
is this the plot
to the Bruce Willis
film Unbreakable
he was ejected
from the car
when the door flew open
thankfully he managed
to grab onto a tree
it's like a cartoon
and enjoy a front row seat
to his car's plummet
90 metres down
at the bottom of a gorge
to add to his
extravagant life
a massive anvil
fell on his head.
Get this, he's been married five times
and won the lottery in 2003.
Bullshit, Dr. Andy.
That didn't happen.
I'm not having this.
You've gone too far there.
Fuck off.
You're like that major who won a million pounds
by cheating on...
Not having this.
Who wants to be a millionaire.
You've gone too close to the sun.
I don't know how many of these tall tales are true.
Indeed, there is a vast amount of scepticism
discerning many of his stories,
not least his perilous plane journey.
But what I do know is that I will not be getting into any vehicle
within a one-mile radius of Fran Salek.
Dr. Icarus.
Salek.
You've flown way too close to the sun with that nonsense.
Yeah, messing about.
I'm a doctor and I've worked in...
Oh, sugar.
Yeah, that's fine.
I'm a doctor and I've worked in various specialities,
mostly in A&E over the past few years,
which leaves you with some odd stories
to accompany your lack of sleep or social life.
So there we go. If you don't read out my
last name, I will share some of those stories.
So looking forward to that.
Okay, good. So he's going to do that in the future.
Thank you, Dr. Andy. You da best.
What do you make of that, Pete?
What's the closest you've come to a sort of transport-related
death? I told you when I was on a plane once,
a woman
tried to open the door. Yeah, and the US Marshals came on when we landed when I was on a plane once a woman tried to
open the
door
and the
US
Marshals
came on
when we
landed
I was
on a
flight to
it might
have been a
ramble trip
actually
going back
to Luton
and we
were about
to land
were you on
a different
flight to me
I didn't
fly to Luton
did I
we weren't
on the same
flight were we
no I was
on a flight
by myself
I had to
go early
because I had to go to work
and it was coming down
and the pilot
had to go from
like 10% engine
to 100% engine
because he was about
to land on a runway
is that a technical term
that had a plane on it
and he came over
and he went
I'm now going from
10% engine
to 100% engine
thrusters go
I bought the landing, basically.
Left my arse on the floor.
How scared were you?
Well, fucking, I was texting people.
That's all I'm saying.
You didn't text me.
I was saying,
could you get someone else to do the show on Monday?
Might be dead soon.
That was horrible.
I can't remember, to be honest.
I've not had many.
I'm usually driven rather than driving myself.
That's true.
The day I get behind a wheel myself.
And the car you get driven around, that's bulletproof, isn't it?
I'm going to roll so many people into a river.
If you have had a near-death experience or anything else of interest in that area,
it's hello at lukeandpeatshow.com.
Don't say like hepatitis or anything.
No, don't say that.
I've got an email
I'd like to finish off
with Pete
if it's all the same to you
it's from Mike
and I think you'll
really enjoy it
he's included some pictures
so he's not making this up
he says
following on from your
stories about foods
you remember from your
childhood
I don't know what episode
that was
it could have been any of them
does anyone remember
mummy's milk
mummy's white milk
he says
I have a weird one from my time at secondary
school so we had a tuck shop
vending machines and lunch hall which
offered your standard treats and snacks to keep you
going throughout the day there was a brief period
however when all of the above started
serving Ribena in cartons
that were either hot with
R on the carton
or cold with O on the
carton Ribena released a ooh on the carton.
Ribena released a limited edition hot and cold version of their drink,
but they were not heated up or cooled down
before consumption.
They were straight out of the carton
and left the desired effect in your mouth.
Like a spicy Ribena?
Chemically.
Because people have hot Ribena,
or hot Vimto, don't they?
Yeah, but it's not that.
It's a thing.
It's not that.
He says, since leaving school,
I have many friends that didn't attend my school.
Whenever I reference these drinks,
people think I'm mad and I've made the whole thing up.
I do not remember seeing them anywhere but in my school,
but I've attached an image from Google
and I've found references on there.
I'm hoping between the two of you and the listeners,
we can find someone else to back up my story
and confirm whether we were the only kids in the UK
that had these drinks.
There was an arg and an oo,
and there was a TV advert, in fact.
A menthol-enhanced Ribena oo
and a spicy ginger-peppered Ribena arg.
That must be the 90s
where people had those mad ideas about stuff.
Cocaine.
Can you remember?
Pimple was on cocaine.
Can you remember those?
No, God no.
Because I don't remember sort of...
I remember making hot Vimto. I can't remember those no god no because I don't remember sort of I remember making
hot vimto
I can't remember
ever making hot ribena
and to be honest
if you're putting
a foil lined
plastic container
of ribena
in a microwave
to heat it up
you're in a world
of trouble baby
you don't want to do that
are you
some people might
what a tetrapack
yeah a tetrapack
a foil lined
come on
the guy who owns
what the fuck is you fucking about?
The Tetra Pak family are one of the wealthiest families in the world, aren't they?
Well, they should be, mate.
They've made some great packages.
They've nailed that down.
Massively nailed that down.
So you don't remember any of that stuff?
What sort of food do you remember having from when you were at school?
The people who run Tetra Pak are worth 11.5 billion.
That's a lot, isn't it?
Yeah, a lot of money.
Do you remember anything sort of similar to that?
We had this thing called Vitamax.
Do you remember that?
Did you have that?
That sounds like a supplement that...
Yeah, it was like a slush puppy.
Right.
But it was like marketing it.
Thinking about it now...
Health slush.
It was like bright colours, so it can't have been healthy.
Right.
But I think it marketed itself to have vitamins and stuff in it as
well.
Did you have that?
No I've spoken at
length about the
Nemesis drink that
was both licorice
flavoured and a
black currant
flavoured and it
was limited edition
because it was the
Alton Towers
Nemesis ride tie in.
Yeah you have
mentioned that.
I don't remember
that at all.
There's genuinely
not a week that
goes by that I
don't think about
it.
I've never been to
Alton Towers.
See you later. We'll be back next week
not that
you've done your own
good work there
Pete Dawson
you want to get in touch
with the show
hello
at lookingpeetshow.com
and for crying out loud
give us a review on iTunes
for some fucking reason
it's important
and it helps us out
immensely
do you want us to have to go and get proper jobs?
Don't answer that.
Just leave a review for fuck's sake.
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