The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 114: The Curse of the Colonel

Episode Date: November 8, 2018

Why 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:22 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
Starting point is 00:00:31 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
Starting point is 00:00:38 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
Starting point is 00:00:46 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
Starting point is 00:00:55 Fireworks Are they pointless Yes they are They are I'm so pleased I missed The firework night The firework night
Starting point is 00:01:04 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.
Starting point is 00:01:11 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.
Starting point is 00:01:24 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
Starting point is 00:01:30 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
Starting point is 00:01:37 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
Starting point is 00:01:45 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
Starting point is 00:01:51 and then the inner workings will become the outer workings we'll be like a fucking Taurus knot of nonsense yeah fireworks right kaboom
Starting point is 00:02:02 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
Starting point is 00:02:09 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
Starting point is 00:02:16 the only reason it's kept Jean-Michel Jarre PRS fucking money floating in and all that do do do do do
Starting point is 00:02:23 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
Starting point is 00:02:34 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
Starting point is 00:02:41 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.
Starting point is 00:02:47 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,
Starting point is 00:02:55 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.
Starting point is 00:03:05 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
Starting point is 00:03:12 well maybe we shouldn't have fucking wars let's cut this off at the source big boy is it easier to ban fireworks
Starting point is 00:03:17 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.
Starting point is 00:03:27 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.
Starting point is 00:03:41 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.
Starting point is 00:03:52 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.
Starting point is 00:04:06 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.
Starting point is 00:04:20 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.
Starting point is 00:04:35 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
Starting point is 00:04:51 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
Starting point is 00:05:01 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.
Starting point is 00:05:12 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.
Starting point is 00:05:24 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.
Starting point is 00:05:40 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.
Starting point is 00:06:14 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
Starting point is 00:06:30 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.
Starting point is 00:06:42 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,
Starting point is 00:06:57 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.
Starting point is 00:07:26 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.
Starting point is 00:07:43 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,
Starting point is 00:08:03 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.
Starting point is 00:08:33 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
Starting point is 00:08:49 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.
Starting point is 00:09:02 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
Starting point is 00:09:21 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.
Starting point is 00:09:36 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
Starting point is 00:09:51 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
Starting point is 00:09:57 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?
Starting point is 00:10:08 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.
Starting point is 00:10:18 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.
Starting point is 00:10:25 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.
Starting point is 00:10:33 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
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Starting point is 00:11:34 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.
Starting point is 00:11:50 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.
Starting point is 00:12:04 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.
Starting point is 00:12:23 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
Starting point is 00:12:46 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,
Starting point is 00:13:00 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.
Starting point is 00:13:10 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.
Starting point is 00:13:25 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
Starting point is 00:13:45 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
Starting point is 00:13:52 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
Starting point is 00:14:00 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
Starting point is 00:14:10 people give clowns enough respect I think I think it's a really easy and lazy trope to have clowns
Starting point is 00:14:19 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?
Starting point is 00:14:32 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
Starting point is 00:14:42 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
Starting point is 00:15:07 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
Starting point is 00:15:14 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
Starting point is 00:15:24 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
Starting point is 00:15:31 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.
Starting point is 00:15:38 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.
Starting point is 00:15:44 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.
Starting point is 00:15:55 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
Starting point is 00:16:21 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?
Starting point is 00:16:49 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.
Starting point is 00:16:58 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.
Starting point is 00:17:06 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.
Starting point is 00:17:14 Do you want a quick Ben Carter, Luke Moore? Yeah, okay, fine, yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:17:17 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.
Starting point is 00:17:30 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.
Starting point is 00:17:47 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.
Starting point is 00:17:56 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,
Starting point is 00:18:07 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.
Starting point is 00:18:25 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.
Starting point is 00:18:42 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.
Starting point is 00:18:56 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.
Starting point is 00:19:08 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.
Starting point is 00:19:16 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.
Starting point is 00:19:29 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,
Starting point is 00:19:46 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?
Starting point is 00:20:07 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.
Starting point is 00:20:15 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
Starting point is 00:20:28 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
Starting point is 00:20:35 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
Starting point is 00:20:44 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,
Starting point is 00:21:01 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
Starting point is 00:21:18 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
Starting point is 00:21:27 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
Starting point is 00:21:36 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
Starting point is 00:21:44 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.
Starting point is 00:21:51 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,
Starting point is 00:22:02 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...
Starting point is 00:22:15 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.
Starting point is 00:22:31 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
Starting point is 00:22:45 open the door and the US Marshals came on when we landed
Starting point is 00:22:48 I was on a flight to it might have been a ramble trip actually going back
Starting point is 00:22:54 to Luton and we were about to land were you on a different flight to me I didn't
Starting point is 00:22:58 fly to Luton did I we weren't on the same flight were we no I was on a flight by myself
Starting point is 00:23:03 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
Starting point is 00:23:13 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
Starting point is 00:23:20 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.
Starting point is 00:23:35 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.
Starting point is 00:23:48 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
Starting point is 00:24:05 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
Starting point is 00:24:12 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
Starting point is 00:24:18 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
Starting point is 00:24:32 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,
Starting point is 00:24:49 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?
Starting point is 00:25:02 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,
Starting point is 00:25:13 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.
Starting point is 00:25:28 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?
Starting point is 00:25:41 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
Starting point is 00:25:49 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
Starting point is 00:25:58 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?
Starting point is 00:26:05 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.
Starting point is 00:26:23 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.
Starting point is 00:26:34 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.
Starting point is 00:26:45 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
Starting point is 00:26:53 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.
Starting point is 00:27:01 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
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