The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 115: Mushy pea sandwiches and Japanese KitKats

Episode Date: November 12, 2018

Which of our two eponymous heroes has the most tragic life? Pete has a pretty good idea, but is he correct? Having said that, both Luke and Pete spend a portion of this episode eating different flavou...red KitKats Pete found in Japan, so no-one is really winning in the cool stakes anyway.But, there *is* time for Cliff the Distance Runner, the real reason WH Smith try to sell you chocolate, and what happens when you wake up drunk on a flight back from the Faroe Islands...Tell us about your life, we are genuinely interested: 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 I was going to shout something dreadful in. Monster Munch ice cream flavoured crisps. Can I get a bite for that? What a confusing sentence. We ended the last show talking about food long forgotten, but beloved by many. And that was one of them, apparently. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:29 Sounds disgusting. I am Luke from The Luke and Pete Show. That is The Pete from The Luke and Pete Show. And you are very welcome to episode 115 of this, let's face it, joke that went too far. Oh, when I moved my leg, a little pump came out. I hope nobody heard that. Sorry.
Starting point is 00:00:50 You've drawn attention to it now, haven't you? There's no pumping. It was one of them. There's no pumping in the studio. You know that. No pumping in the studio. No pop-ups. What have we been talking about recently
Starting point is 00:00:57 on this show? I've been talking about the weird products, people nearly dying in buses and also... Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders. Colonel Sanders. One thing I did try when I was in Shipping,
Starting point is 00:01:08 and we need to eat some bloody Kit Kats. Yeah, we'll do that in a minute. Coca-Cola, right? Just a normal Coca-Cola. Yeah. Coffee flavour. I'm not having that. Fucking disgusting.
Starting point is 00:01:20 I don't like coffee flavour things anyway. No, absolutely. It tastes like cola going down with an aftertaste of the coffee. Disgusting. No don't like coffee flow with things anyway. No, absolutely. Tastes like cola going down with an aftertaste of the coffee. Disgusting. That's not good. So you have famous... Do you want to grab your little plastic bag, Peter? You have famously been to Japan.
Starting point is 00:01:35 Yeah. That's over the top, that. What? Opening it that loud. What do you mean? You've got headphones on. You know what I mean. And so...
Starting point is 00:01:42 I've sort of hooked the plastic bag I'm speaking to you through a plastic bag if you carry on like that you will pass away that's what they tell you that's why they put remember when plastic bags
Starting point is 00:01:53 didn't have holes in them yeah you got it you got it you got it okay let me let me please just bring the listeners up to speed
Starting point is 00:01:59 so in Japan they famously have a lot of strange Japanese people flavours of Kit Kat. Yeah. Right. Not just your bog standard peanut butter chunky.
Starting point is 00:02:10 They have all sorts going on. No. My wife said, oh, yeah, I've heard about these Kit Kats in Japan. Can you ask Pete to bring back as many as you can? Interesting flavors. Because I want to try them. I said, fine. We'll talk money later.
Starting point is 00:02:20 Yeah, fine. Yeah. I'll give you some yen. And then Pete said, well, why don't I bring some into the studio and we'll try eating some on the Luke and Pete show. And because the
Starting point is 00:02:30 space food thing went down well. Did it? Didn't it? I think it did. People were into it. What, me eating a tube of mince,
Starting point is 00:02:36 basically. It was, I think it was buckwheat, wasn't it? And some sort of like processed meat. It was a bit like corned beef.
Starting point is 00:02:41 It's weird. The more I think about it, the less I enjoy it. I tried Cor Kobe beef as well while I was out there. What grade, mate? In a rest grid, innit?
Starting point is 00:02:50 And in a restaurant where a Yakuza member had been shot recently. Right. That was the taxi driver telling us that. Okay. What was the beef like?
Starting point is 00:02:59 The beef between the two Yakuza members. Yeah. I don't know what it was about. Was it a symbolic thing that he killed in there? Possibly some kind of lawn shark deal
Starting point is 00:03:06 gone wrong, gone awry. That's just how much beef we've got. We've got beef on beef, mate. Yeah. What sort of beef you got? Kobe.
Starting point is 00:03:14 What's the difference between Kobe and Wagyu beef? I don't really know to be honest. It's different. It's all about the marbling, isn't it? Yamagata beef.
Starting point is 00:03:21 So people who are listening who aren't aware of this, that type of beef is known as the most delicious beef in the world. Is that right? Yeah, it's really hard to get outside Japan because it just doesn't travel very well. So describe to people listening how nice it tasted. It's very marbled and I don't want to get too grotesque.
Starting point is 00:03:38 It's very oily. Fat is flavour, right? Yeah, it's delicious. It is delicious, but if you're a meat eater, it's disgusting It is delicious But if you're a meat eater It's disgusting And grotesque If you're not But
Starting point is 00:03:49 It gives you weird Poos Let's move on To the Kit Kats Okay You know those pills That you take To
Starting point is 00:03:57 To lose weight That basically separate Fat strippers Fat strippers And so it just gives you Oily poos That was basically What that fat
Starting point is 00:04:04 That did to me. So I'm looking at two boxes of Japanese Kit Kats here. One's a green box and one is a red box. The green box, I'm just going to read what it says on the box in English.
Starting point is 00:04:16 It says, Kit Kats, the elegant taste of sake wrapped in the gentle sweetness of white chocolate. Enjoy the rich, satisfying flavour of sake. Yeah. A the rich, satisfying flavour of Saki. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:26 A Saki-flavoured Kit Kat. Saki. When you get cracking, I'll open that and I'll read the second box. Well, we'll split one little pack and then Mimi can eat the rest because I don't want to... I don't want to...
Starting point is 00:04:35 Alright, fine. I don't want to mug Mimi off by eating too many of these. This one here is Shinshu Apple-flavoured Kit Kat. Alright. So there's one little packet there. How much Japan is of packaging? Yeah, I bet. It's a real problem, isn't it? They're recycling... Shinshu Apple flavoured Kit Kat. Alright, so there's one little packet there. From a Japanese over packaging.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Yeah, I bet. It's a real problem. Recycling. They put bananas in separate pyjamas. Oh, hang on a minute. What's this? What's this one?
Starting point is 00:04:53 Run Raising Kit Kat. Mate, I went crazy. I bought loads. It's the best part of things. Also, 35 quid. Azuki Sandwich flavoured Kit Kat.
Starting point is 00:05:02 What's an Azuki Sandwich? I don't know. What's it? Look at the box It's got a cheese toastie on the front Oh it's beans Fucking beans Beans everywhere
Starting point is 00:05:09 If you're listening And you didn't even know About this Japanese Kit Kat phenomenon Welcome to the club I didn't either Let's give these a go What have you got first? Let's try the sake flavour
Starting point is 00:05:17 Okay Are you familiar with The delicate taste of sake? I've only really nailed sake At rice wine sake When I've been drunk So not really. Well it's like it's
Starting point is 00:05:26 really nice. It's like it's got a very delicate flavour so good sake is really good. We're waiving the no food in the studio policy for this.
Starting point is 00:05:31 Like we did for the space food. Right okay go you go first. I hate the sound of food eating. You shouldn't eat on Mike it's really bad
Starting point is 00:05:40 etiquette. No it's disgusting. You said you wanted to go to a burger joint. Yeah I'll do yeah we'll do that. We'll do that at some
Starting point is 00:05:44 point. Tastes like sake. I don't really like white chocolate so it's no good said you wanted to go to a burger joint. Yeah, I do. Yeah, we'll do that. We'll do that at some point. It tastes like sake. I don't really like white chocolate so it's no good to me that one. So it smells
Starting point is 00:05:49 it really smells like a childhood sweet. Smell it. Yeah. Okay, I'm going in. There is actually
Starting point is 00:05:57 sake in it. We could get pissed on these. Pissed mate. That's actually quite good. What are you going to go in a
Starting point is 00:06:05 matter of ten it adds I think because Sark is such a light sort of flavour it's got an
Starting point is 00:06:12 almost marzipany flavour to it and a little bit of as Greg Wallace on MasterChef would say a boozy
Starting point is 00:06:17 warmth at the end a boozy warmth as Greg Wallace on MasterChef would say
Starting point is 00:06:21 has he got muscular got a new girlfriend? Can't remember. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, he's got a new girlfriend. These aren't overpackaged, these little beanie ones. So can you just tell me, because I'm not aware at all what these are.
Starting point is 00:06:34 Azuki beans or something. Hokuriku. That's what it says where it's from. There's no English on this. It says on the front. Oh, azuki sandwich. I don't know what's in. On the front, it says on the front. Oh, a Zuki sandwich. I don't know what's in a Zuki sandwich,
Starting point is 00:06:46 but it looks like beans. So I'm going to Google a Zuki sandwich, yeah. I haven't got a clue. A Zuki sandwich is... Sador... Sador...
Starting point is 00:06:57 Sweet red bean toasted sandwich. A delicacy from Nagoya. I mean, I'm reading it, it just says Zuki in Hiragana. A sweet red bean toasted sandwich. Right, okay. They'll put red beans in. I mean, I'm reading it. It just says azuki in hiragana. A sweet red bean toasted sandwich. Right, okay.
Starting point is 00:07:07 They'll put red beans in anything. Yeah, that's what... You've always talked about these red beans, right? Yeah. Every sort of sweet thing you ever sort of go for has always got fucking beans in it. So it's a little small mini KitKat and it's in proper milk chocolate. It's not white chocolate. Thank Christ. Yeah, you go first.
Starting point is 00:07:26 What do you think? I mean, because you... If a Kit Kat was made out of tree, this is what it would taste like. Okay, I'm going in. Fucking disgusting. I'm not getting much flavour from this. Yeah, it's brackish, that's why.
Starting point is 00:07:43 It tastes like dust. It tastes like old dust. There's brackish that's why it tastes like dust it tastes like old dust there's nothing in that which is going to convince me to pay the vastly inflated price for that limited edition flavour yeah it just tastes like
Starting point is 00:07:54 it tastes like a normal Kit Kat that's been in the cupboard too long yeah it does taste like old like that guy who we used to talk about on Look and Picture that eats old rations.
Starting point is 00:08:05 That's probably what everything he eats tastes like. It does taste dusty. It tastes like, Pete, thanks, you've been made promises about stories that weren't kept. What's this one? Let's bash this one quick. This is rum and raisin. Rum and raisin.
Starting point is 00:08:20 Rum and raisin standard. Tastes like rum and raisin ice cream. Nine out of ten. Delicious. I've got one more. Right. Shinshu apple. Right.
Starting point is 00:08:29 It's too many eating for knowing it. Shinshu apple. I'm going in first. Well, that is delicious. Yeah. That's really nice. It tastes like apple. I can't deny it.
Starting point is 00:08:44 I'm going... Number one, shinshu apple. I can't deny it. I'm going number one, Shinshu apple. Number two, Saki. It's a nice apple as well. Yeah. Number two, Saki. Number three,
Starting point is 00:08:54 Rum and Raisin. Number four, Grilled Red Bean Toasted Sandwich. Shall we leave the Grilled Red Bean for the Ramblers? Yeah. They can have that one.
Starting point is 00:09:02 Maybe me can have the rest. I'll take the rest of them, yeah. That was a really good experiment. What a great experiment. Well done, Pete. Well done, guys. What we should do now, Peter, is probably... How do you feel that was compared to the space food, first of all?
Starting point is 00:09:16 It was definitely better than the space food, but it wasn't worth queuing in Don Quixote, which is one of the big shops in Japan. So would Japanese people see those and go, yeah, I fancy a bit of that and they'd eat them. They'd buy them like
Starting point is 00:09:29 you would just buy any sort of snack. Or is it just a gimmicky thing? It is a gimmicky thing, but the Japanese love a limited edition thing. I mean, you'll get ice creams that are only available
Starting point is 00:09:37 in like that town or that prefecture. And like, they're making money hand over fist with these limited edition nonsense. I'm still getting the warmth from the sake in my throat
Starting point is 00:09:45 are you? do you feel that? it's nice shall we go out? yeah you want to go out now? shall we have a drink? and so Pete
Starting point is 00:09:53 with the because obviously in the US they massively love peanut butter flavoured things so you get lots of peanut butter flavoured things that you don't get here but that masks
Starting point is 00:10:01 the terrible chocolate doesn't it? mostly I'd say I'd say that's probably fair yeah I think you can really tell the difference I remember Mimi saying that when she first get here. But that masks the terrible chocolate, doesn't it? Mostly, I'd say so. I'd say that's probably fair, yeah. I think you can really tell the difference. I remember Mimi saying that when she first came here, like the chocolate is so much more flavoursome here. But I'm just trying to get to the bottom of whether
Starting point is 00:10:12 that's a cultural thing, like you say, with the limited edition stuff, or whether they would actually buy that kind of thing. Well, yeah, they would. Yeah, I mean, yeah, they buy that. It's not just for tourists. I think that's the point we need to sort of make. Right, okay, good.
Starting point is 00:10:23 All right, interesting. The space food thing, I wouldn't be keen. I mean, to be honest, the space food, if that, I don't imagine that is what space food is now for astronauts, but if that was what was being offered, I think that would seriously make me think twice about becoming an astronaut. I don't care about the danger. I don't care about sitting on top of a massive rocket.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Yeah. It'll be cool. But gripping the sides. I probably couldn't survive or wouldn't want to survive for weeks. Just squeezing a massive toothpaste tube worth of corned beef into my mouth every few hours. Could you not smear it on a cracker? Are there going to be crackers up there though? Be a space cracker, wouldn't it?
Starting point is 00:10:57 What are you doing at Crumlin and getting in the machine? Let's have an ad break and let's pile through some of these emails because we haven't done anywhere near enough so far. Oh, Kevin. Hey, y'all. It's Farmer Meemaw. And today, I'm going to show you what I've been doing to take care of the pantry moth situation. What I've been doing. I don't like the way she does that.
Starting point is 00:11:15 What I've been doing now. I've got an email here from... Oh, fuck off. Yeah, Orla. Orla. Orla emails. Hi, Orla. Thanks for emailing.
Starting point is 00:11:24 It means golden princess in Irish, according to Orla. Pete's already told you to fuck off, so you've probably achieved. Yeah, fuck off. You've incurred the wrath of Pete already. She says, hi, guys. Greetings from Ireland. Long time listener. First time ranter.
Starting point is 00:11:37 Batteries. One Primark home. One Fusio Max Endurance. Fusio. She's gone from a very vanilla Primark home to whatever the fuck that was. I've never heard of Fusio Max Endurance. Fusio Max. She's gone from a very vanilla Prima Com to whatever the fuck that was. I've never heard of Fusio Max Endurance. Fusio Max Endurance. Phew.
Starting point is 00:11:50 I think listeners might be making them up now. It's like a really famous and well-known runner dies and they name a race after him. Yeah. It does a bit, yeah. It's the Fusio Max Endurance. Yeah, 100 miles. Have you done the Ironman? No, but I've done the Fusio Max Endurance. Yeah, 100 miles. Have you done the Ironman? No, but I've done the Fusio Max Endurance.
Starting point is 00:12:07 The entry fee was a lot cheaper. She says, Pete, you're off the hook. Luke, you're in the firing line. Yes. Firstly, I would like to start off by saying there isn't anything wrong with Dublin Airport and the people of Ireland deserve a public apology from Luke. Well, to be honest,
Starting point is 00:12:23 I don't think there is anything overtly wrong with Dublin Airport it's just really boring and it's really exposed the point is in a way
Starting point is 00:12:32 it's not the good people of Ireland's fault that the airport is so exposed that every single take off and landing it becomes a
Starting point is 00:12:38 traumatic experience similar to Pete's at Luton Airport that you mentioned earlier I can't do anything about that and I understand
Starting point is 00:12:44 nor can the good people of Ireland. 2.30 in the morning, 2.45am, my plane takes off from Haneda Airport in Japan. They have like two hours before another departure takes off, so they're like 4.30, I think it's the next one. So they have a two-hour break? Two-hour break in the night. At quarter past two in the morning,
Starting point is 00:13:02 a genuine pharmacist was on duty to sell me some antihistamines there we go that's what you want and he was wearing a big coat a big long coat
Starting point is 00:13:12 like all pharmacists should that's how good her nerd airport is how good is Dublin airport I don't really recall it yeah that tells you
Starting point is 00:13:20 everything you need to know yeah but she says the main point of this email Luke you mentioned the Good Place, which is a Kristen Bell comedy vehicle on Netflix. I think it's on its third season. Surely you aren't still watching it.
Starting point is 00:13:33 It's taking a turn for the worse. Would you agree? Do you know what? I would agree with that. Right. My wife absolutely loves it. So I watch it with her. They're only about 20 minute episodes.
Starting point is 00:13:43 It's one of those ones where it's quite a comforting, easy watch. I'm not putting it up there in the great pantheon of great comedy shows. She says, as a side note, you recently did an Edward Woodward impression. It was very good. The Equalizer was a great show.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I await your favourable reply. Regards, Orla. I'm not going to give you a reply. Orla's massively gone 360 on this one. No, 180. She's all over the place, isn't she? Well, she's done a 360, then she's done a 180. She's had a go at you about Dublin Airport. And then she's gone back on this one no 180 she's all over the place isn't she well she's done a 360 then she's done a 180
Starting point is 00:14:05 she's had a go at you about Dublin airport and then she's gone back on saying do you like the good try to curry your favour a little bit I'm not having it all
Starting point is 00:14:13 oh speaking of iron sorry thanks for that speaking of Ironman Pete did you see that guy Ross Edgley is his name I just got it here
Starting point is 00:14:20 he has just become an Ironman the first person to swim 1,780 miles around Great Britain. That's a lot, isn't it? Just for any particular reason?
Starting point is 00:14:33 Just charity? For charity, I think, yeah. The great thing is he's really well written. What does it say here? Yeah. He's battled strong tides, currents in cold water,
Starting point is 00:14:44 brave storms, jellyfish, and swimming in autumn. What is that? here. Yeah, he's battled strong tides, currents in cold water, brave storms, jellyfish and swimming in autumn. Why is that the hardest thing? He's got a wetsuit on. Yeah, has he got
Starting point is 00:14:53 a wetsuit? Well, yeah. He looks tough. He's got a beard. Apparently he ate more than 500 bananas while doing it. Oh.
Starting point is 00:14:59 And he swam for 12 hours a day. I bet he accidentally swallowed some poopies at all. Oh yeah, because it's not great. Well, a few friends of mine,
Starting point is 00:15:05 Lee, Tim and Dan, was it just three of them? I think Lee, Tim and Dan. And Phil, four of them. They swam from the Isle of Wight
Starting point is 00:15:13 to Lyon Solent. They swam the Solent. That's pretty good. Yeah. Even the ferry takes 20 minutes. And a couple of them said it, I think it was, as the crow flies,
Starting point is 00:15:23 I think it's about three and a half miles. But I think because of the tides and stuff, they's about three and a half miles but I think because of the tides and stuff they ended up swimming almost five miles why did you bring this up after I mentioned poop
Starting point is 00:15:28 well because one of them said that they couldn't for a few days afterwards they couldn't get a taste of diesel out of their mouth it's a really busy shipping lane my dad was once
Starting point is 00:15:37 at Hartlepool beach and from a cracked sewer pipe he saw a seagull eating entire human shit oh what why was he watching it it must have taken ages why are you watching the whole thing And from a cracked sewer pipe, he saw a seagull eat an entire human shit. Oh, what?
Starting point is 00:15:46 Why was he watching it? It must have taken ages. Why are you watching the whole thing? The moment the seagull's pecking the shit, I'm going, I'm out of there. I'm not watching it. No, he wasn't pecking it. He just went, loom. Oh, what?
Starting point is 00:15:55 In one go? One go. Poo. An entire human poo. That's what he said. I've got no reason to doubt him. Is it Grim Up North? In that sense, it is, yes.
Starting point is 00:16:04 How was Stuart? A lot of seagulls eating shit. Did you stay in touch when you were in Japan? No, every, it is, yes. How is Stuart? A lot of seagulls. Did you stay in touch when you were in Japan? No, every now and again he'll go, well, you're not sending pictures. I'm going, look, Luke's had a go at me. I'm not allowed to show people what I'm up to. Oh, as if you said that. As if you care what I think.
Starting point is 00:16:16 To meet your blackout father. As if you care what I think. Because Luke's sending pictures and I can't show my fake tattoos off. I printed off on my printer. Did you? Yeah. Were you printing them off before you went?
Starting point is 00:16:29 Yeah. That is tragic. Well, how can I print them when I'm away? Can I just say? How can I print them when I'm away? I presume you bought them from a shop or something. What do you mean? You can buy stick-on tattoos, can't you?
Starting point is 00:16:40 No, because if you dress up like an actual person from a video game, it has to be... You either do it or you don't do it. You can't do it No because if you dress up like an actual person from a video game it has to be you either do it or you don't do it you can't do it half-assed so you get the tattoos that the guy has in real life well not in real life
Starting point is 00:16:52 in a video game I will admit that part of me sort of taking the mickey out of you on this stuff is just for fun I don't mean it
Starting point is 00:17:00 Don't phone it it's just for fun Yeah exactly but I wonder how I feel and I need to come to terms with how i feel yeah about you at your age sat in your flat printing out fake tattoos ahead of time for a trip to japan for a fancy dress party well would you not prepare a costume wherever you went
Starting point is 00:17:19 no why why i just think that's a bit it's just a said before, the people who think people should sort of grow up, they're worried about the fact that they're not grown up themselves. That's why they go, oh, grow up, grow up, grow up. Because they're scared that by some relation, they're not growing up. I understand that.
Starting point is 00:17:37 I understand when you criticize other people, it's a way to mask your own insecurities. But I'm not actually criticizing you. I just find it interesting that you would spend an evening in your flat on your own right printing out fake tattoos i find the image of you naked like just pulling a pube out of your i find that image hilarious with your little woolly pubes i find your little woolly pubes that I have seen on occasion. Like an errant pube just pulling it off
Starting point is 00:18:08 or trying to blow it off a toilet seat. I find that humorous. But I don't criticise it for you. I don't criticise you for it. It's just a normal bit of life, isn't it? If that was to happen. It's not a normal bit of life. At least I'm having a bit of fun
Starting point is 00:18:21 waving a fucking baseball bat around. Can you affect me what you're talking about there. Bouncer took it off me. Said I had to keep my jacket on because Yakuza aren't allowed in the fucking place. Do I look like a Yakuza? They're peeling off, mate.
Starting point is 00:18:33 Bouncer took the baseball bat off you because it had a pee on it. No, but what you're describing me there as is someone just cleaning his own toilet. You've got to do that, haven't you? That's part of life. Yeah, but I found that funny. Yeah, and so I was going to a fucking, haven't you? That's part of life. Yeah, but I found that funny. Yeah, and so,
Starting point is 00:18:45 I was going to a fucking Halloween fucking party, so I did the things necessary. I chose a character that I'm quite fond of from a video game. What character was it so people can understand?
Starting point is 00:18:55 Goromajima. What does that mean? He's got several different looks as well. I could have gone on roller skates. So, I think the more accurate thing would say
Starting point is 00:19:04 that you would find it you find it say tragic that i like to go for like a countryside walk and a pint in like a pub by a river or something because you know i like that but but that's all you do so i can do that but i can also dress like a cunt when was the last time you did something that was normal what do you mean what do you define normal your idea of normal my idea of normal is um i just that's wrong i shouldn't have said normal because that doesn't really mean anything no but you sat at home on your flat on your own printing out fake tattoos on your printer is how am i going to get them on my body that's what i don't like that's what i don't understand like can i say when i first saw the picture of you that with those
Starting point is 00:19:41 tattoos on there was about three or four blissful seconds where I thought, you've actually got that tattoo, which would have been amazing. I don't think they look that bad, to be honest. Why don't you do it then? Why don't you do it? Why don't we both do it? Now?
Starting point is 00:19:56 Come on. Come on. Look, that's his normal look. Who is it? It's Garou Majime. He turns up at weird times and surprises the main character. He's just a pain in the arse, basically. What video game is it? Y's Goron Majime. He turns up at weird times and surprises the main character. He's just a pain in the arse, basically. What video game is it?
Starting point is 00:20:07 Yakuza. Okay. And it's, yeah. And so he's got several different looks, but I went for the one that involves a jacket I bought for £40 on Zara. And an eye patch. And an eye patch. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Correct. And a vest. And a vest. I mean, that is a look I can do. I've got a little goatee beard on occasion. It actually looks like you, yeah. I've got a little goatee beard on occasion I've got long I've got long hair what was
Starting point is 00:20:28 what fancy dress party was it just a random Halloween party people just go to Shibuya and they just wander around drinking
Starting point is 00:20:33 it's fun I mean it's actually a problem people were tipping vans over and shit is this where you got run over by an old lady on a moped
Starting point is 00:20:40 no that was at monkey world let's do another email this one is from this one is from... I don't have an email. This one is from... Jeff. He says... I waited so long for a fancy name and Jeff arrived.
Starting point is 00:20:53 Jeff's your common old garden email. He's your sort of the earth type. He's the sort of guy that keeps this show going. He says, Hi chaps, a follow up to your recent running themes discussion from a while back. Are you aware of Cliff Young, the Australian farmer who entirely reinvented extreme distance running it's an email from jeff about a bloke from cliff right a bloke called cliff deal with it yeah in australia there is an annual sydney to melbourne run which covers a distance of 875 kilometers in 1983 a man called cliff young who
Starting point is 00:21:20 fancied himself as a bit of a runner turned up for the event instead of the usual hyperfit athletes who turn up dressed in ultra light clothing and protection against the elements for five days, Cliff turned up in his farming gear and boots. Originally, it was wellies, but he put his boots on instead. The normal race strategy is to run for approximately 18 hours per day and sleep the other six. At this point, I should mention that Cliff was 61 years old. at this point I should mention that Cliff was 61 years old Cliff didn't realise two things
Starting point is 00:21:46 there was a $10,000 for first prize and you are allowed to sleep right Cliff won by 10 hours because he just kept going you can find photos
Starting point is 00:21:55 of him online I was told this story during a management training event with some factual errors but I suppose that wasn't the point though I've forgotten
Starting point is 00:22:00 what the point was what an amazing man apparently he didn't realise that it was like a structured thing. And he just went out and did it. And then, I'm done. Ten hours ahead of everyone else.
Starting point is 00:22:09 I would say that whatever management training course that Jeff went on, sounds a bit miserable. They're basically saying, never sleep. Sleep is for losers. Yeah, maybe. That's what they're saying. The early bird catches the worm. He's dead now.
Starting point is 00:22:23 He died in 2003. He's 81. 61's what they're saying. The early bird catches the worm. He's dead now. He died in 2003, aged 81. At 61 years of age, in 1983, he, yeah. Kicked the arse out of a race. I think it turns out that he was a really, like a naturally really good runner because apparently in 1997, aged 76, he completed 6,520 kilometres of a 16,000 kilometre run.
Starting point is 00:22:43 Fucking hell. But he had to pull out because his only crew member became ill. That's annoying, isn't it? And then apparently in 2000, he achieved a world age record in a six-day race in Victoria, Australia. So the guy obviously had a bit of a talent for it. What a boy. And he was also a lifelong vegetarian.
Starting point is 00:22:58 So make what you will of that. But thanks for that, Geoff. Plant proteins. How long do you think at this current point you could run in terms of distance? I cannot run to save my sausages. No?
Starting point is 00:23:10 That's where I go to the gym and just lift and that makes me sound like a right bro. Do you even lift, bro? I even lift. Yeah. I just lift
Starting point is 00:23:16 and that's not going to elongate my life, is it? If anything, it's probably going to shorten it because I'll probably have an heart attack. Yeah. Knowing the things I get up to.
Starting point is 00:23:24 Do another email, Pete. I thought you said do another push-up. Joshua Jackson. I hope Josh doesn't mind me mentioning his second name, but I just enjoyed the alliteration. Alliteration? Yeah, alliteration. Hi, guys.
Starting point is 00:23:37 A few shows ago, you were talking about the Pharaohs. The Pharaoh Islands. Yes, we were. I was asking why nobody goes. I've been, and I can't recommend it. Enough. Highly enough. There we go uh unfortunately cox was closed when i went so i settled for a smoked lamb and mushy mushy a really pushy pea sandwich really jammed itself down my throat a mushy pea sandwich a mushy pea sandwich instead better than it sounds some random pharaohs knowledge you might like
Starting point is 00:24:01 public transport is really good you can get a bus to most, ferries between most islands and even a helicopter for less than £20. There are a few single lane tunnels on some of the smaller islands. They can be hundreds of metres long, pitch black inside with only a few passing places. All you can see is the light at the end of the tunnel and pray not to see headlights coming towards you. Some scary shit and
Starting point is 00:24:20 I lost both of my wing mirrors. The Faroe Island has got a taste for fish and chips when British servicemen were stationed there during and after World War II. Definitely the best fish and chips I've had outside the UK. The best story, though, is from the flight home. I was the only non-Faroe on an early flight to Edinburgh. We took off not much after 7am. Once in the air, the flight attendant came around
Starting point is 00:24:39 with ham croissants for breakfast and asked if I'd like a drink. Just some orange juice, I replied. The guy next to me asked for a Sambuca white wine. The guy next to me asked for a Sambuca, which is never on a flight. Surely as for a Sambuca white wine and two beers with his croissant reminder. Once again, that it is 7am.
Starting point is 00:24:59 Little did I realize that all my fellow passengers were also on the piss being quite tired from the early start. I drifted off shortly after my breakfast, only to be walking during the descent into Edinburgh by the entire plane singing a folk song accompanied by a man who had stashed an accordion in the overhead locker. I have attached... It's hard grip.
Starting point is 00:25:14 I have attached a recording as evidence. I still don't know whether it was a party, a stag do, or just standard behaviour in the Faroes. Maybe Pilot Neil can tell us. Keep up the good work, Josh. And yeah, he's just appended a little recording that
Starting point is 00:25:30 is just adorably entitled Plane, which I quite like. Plane. Are you going to play it? I'm just... Sounds like a special of Sharp Pals. It's a lot more genial than I was expecting. I was expecting a lot more kind of smashed bottles. Yeah, if someone said to me, I was on a flight, everyone was getting drunk,
Starting point is 00:25:59 and I fell asleep when I woke up, they were all singing, I wouldn't have expected that. I would have expected a lot more almost like football chant type stuff yeah yeah yeah that's alright unsavory stuff I wouldn't mind that
Starting point is 00:26:08 so well done that's Josh Jackson thanks for that is he really going out with her that's Joe Jackson yeah my dad used to be
Starting point is 00:26:17 a roadie for Joe Jackson is that true yeah it is yeah I really like him yeah in a way that I've not really listened to much of his music
Starting point is 00:26:24 but every single song I've heard I'm like that's really good that him I've not really listened to much of his music but every single song I've heard I'm like that's really good that him and his band are from Portsmouth would you like to go to the Faroe Islands with me Pete
Starting point is 00:26:32 just you and me yeah just me and you you and me and a shit load of beers you and me me and you there's lots of stuff for us to do
Starting point is 00:26:39 you and me and a shit load of Kit Kats we're like Cosmo and Dibs in many ways yeah I can't really remember anything about them. Oh, they talk like this. I think.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Problematic, isn't it? A little bit. A little bit problematic. I can't remember. Yeah, maybe. No, they both talk like that. Okay. Oh, Cosmo,
Starting point is 00:26:56 stop flicking tabs at the gas tank. That was the thing my mate used to shout. Do you have an impression of Cosmo and Dibs? Why have you brought that here? But the image of Cosmo
Starting point is 00:27:04 flicking a cigarette at the gas tank makes me laugh you okay did a jet lag hit you just a bit yeah okay do you want to have a little nose
Starting point is 00:27:14 little nose over there a little doze off what about this from Rob Pete he says he says oh Cosmo Pete Rob says why I just got an email I got a question here why is Pete printing out tattoos he says oh Cosmo Pete Rob says why
Starting point is 00:27:25 I just got an email I've got a question here why is Pete printing out tattoos at home on his own no he's not he did not write that no he says
Starting point is 00:27:32 in episode 107 like I said we're still catching up with these emails we've got I think a hundred odd to catch up with because Pete's been away
Starting point is 00:27:39 in episode 107 Pete said it was weird that WH Smith sold chocolate at the counter and offered it to everyone who bought anything from them. Do you remember that? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:47 Says there's an ex-employee, four-year tenure, ages 16 to 20. Nice. Of the aforementioned stationer, come newsagent, come confectionery shop, come DVD shop. Come Kindle purveyor. I felt compelled to write in. Those items were essentially bulk items that they were trying to shift. Us minions on the tills were
Starting point is 00:28:05 incentivized to get rid of as many as possible with the weekly winner getting a crisp wh smith voucher to no doubt spend on more chocolate or a set of
Starting point is 00:28:14 pens or a build your own titanic subscription magazine or a dvd from the bargain bin so next time ask where the person is on the leaderboard before
Starting point is 00:28:22 making your decision whether you're bleary eyed or not oh yes if you're feeling good if you're feeling like they're sort of you
Starting point is 00:28:28 whisper at them where are you on the leaderboard it's a new dawn it's a new day it's a new life where's that from for me
Starting point is 00:28:38 and I'm feeling good where's that come from it's just like you're feeling good oh okay so you can sort of lean in
Starting point is 00:28:45 and ask the person though. You can sort of say, where are you on the leaderboard? Sing that to them. Give me a bit of cheese. I'll help you out with it. A bit of cheese? Give me a bit of cheese
Starting point is 00:28:51 and I'll help you out with your little... Is that the hip hop slang for money? I believe it is, yes. Oh, slide me a dead prez or two. Slide me a couple of Benjamins.
Starting point is 00:29:04 And I'll help... It's all about Benjamins and I'll help it's all about Benjamins I met someone who worked for one of those companies that make those magazines they build you on Titanic thing
Starting point is 00:29:13 because we always sort of thought that they were like scams that you'd like admit well you need to spend like £4,000
Starting point is 00:29:18 to finish it yeah but apparently they do and there's like a little sort of lock up somewhere where they've got like in bulk
Starting point is 00:29:23 every single edition and you'll occasionally get like some sob story letters that oh my dad's dying wish And there's like a little sort of lockup somewhere where they've got like in bulk every single edition. And you'll occasionally get like some sob story letters that, oh, my dad's dying wish to build this, finish this Titanic. He's dead now. And so I just need two of my editions. And they get emails like that all the time. There was a kid at my school called Peter Payne. Who died on the Titanic.
Starting point is 00:29:42 No, he was obsessed with the Titanic, though. And he's one of those people that I have not seen or heard a single thing from right since we left school in like 1997 and I think about him quite a lot because he lived
Starting point is 00:29:50 quite near me and my parents have moved now though so I never he's not on social media or anything and I sort of wonder what became of him really
Starting point is 00:29:56 it's funny that isn't it there was a lad called James I think who he was like this stinky kid at school and a bully once saw that he had links in his bag. And went, links, you've got to stop being smelly because you've got some links.
Starting point is 00:30:11 A bit of a weird angle, that. Yeah, a little bit. And then the last I saw of him, I was about 20 and I was in Hartlepool Public Library in the reference section doing a bit of work. And he came to the receptionist and went, have you got a book about disasters? And then that's the last time I saw him. Did you go over? Have you got a book about disasters? I went, if he's been, no, if he's that mad, disasters, very general, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:30:38 Yeah. Yeah. That's what he's into. What sort of disasters do you reckon he was after? You and me, me and you. Because it's not problematic, it's Cosmo and Dibs. I don't think there was a... I don't think they meant how to...
Starting point is 00:30:51 They were like Liverpudlian. Cosmo. I mean, he sounds nothing like your impression. Cosmo. No, I mean, it was Dibs that... I mean, it was Cosmo that talked differently. Cosmo. Oh, Dibs. You were calling me, Dibs? Cosmo!
Starting point is 00:31:06 Dibs? You were calling me Dibs? Right, none of them sound like my impression. Neither of them sound like my impression. Where have you got that from? Oh, Cosmo and Dibs. You sound like Zippy from Rainbow. I don't talk like this. No.
Starting point is 00:31:20 That's disappointing. That's ruined a huge chunk of my childhood. That's childhood shattered right let's get out of here so Pete can go and repair his destroyed dreams of his childhood I miss rainbow I'm Bungle
Starting point is 00:31:34 and I'm French do you have a French Bungle to send in your impressions of French Bungle hello at lucanpeachshow.com at lucanpeachshow on twitter on instagram Do you have a French bongle? I just brought it on. Yeah, yeah. To send in your impressions of French bongle, hello at lukeandpeteyshow.com, at Luke and Pete's shop, Twitter, on Instagram, and all that other stuff as well.
Starting point is 00:31:52 We'll be back next time around for some more of this. I think I should go... If you're a glut of a punishment, tune in. Pete really needs to get some sleep, I think. I think I should do every shot after a 13-hour flight. I just think it works.

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