The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 115: Mushy pea sandwiches and Japanese KitKats
Episode Date: November 12, 2018Which 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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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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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...
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
It gives you weird
Poos
Let's move on
To the Kit Kats
Okay
You know those pills
That you take
To
To lose weight
That basically separate
Fat strippers
Fat strippers
And so it just gives you
Oily poos
That was basically
What that fat
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
it really smells
like a childhood
sweet.
Smell it.
Yeah.
Okay, I'm going
in.
There is actually
sake in it.
We could get
pissed on these.
Pissed mate.
That's actually
quite good.
What are you going
to go in a
matter of ten
it adds
I think
because Sark
is such a
light
sort of flavour
it's got an
almost marzipany
flavour to it
and a little bit
of as Greg
Wallace on
MasterChef
would say
a boozy
warmth
at the end
a boozy
warmth
as Greg
Wallace on
MasterChef
would say
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.
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,
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...
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
traumatic experience
similar to Pete's
at Luton Airport
that you mentioned
earlier
I can't do anything
about that
and I understand
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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,
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
a wetsuit?
Well, yeah.
He looks tough.
He's got a beard.
Apparently he ate
more than 500 bananas
while doing it.
Oh.
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,
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
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,
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
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
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?
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?
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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?
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
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
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?
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?
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.
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
what fancy dress party
was it
just a random
Halloween party
people just go to
Shibuya
and they just
wander around drinking
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
because we always
sort of thought
that they were like
scams
that you'd like
admit
well you need to spend
like £4,000
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
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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...
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!
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.
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
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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.