The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 117: Return of the eight year old millionaire
Episode Date: November 19, 2018Pete learns of Luke's exploits as a child involving trying to pull a fast one over the Tooth Fairy, and Pete reminds us all of his crush on Samantha Fox as an eight year old. There's also time to prai...se Peter Jackson's truly remarkable They Shall Not Grow Old, and following that we go from the sublime to the ridiculous as a listener tells us all about Lucozade flavoured Calippos. Unreal.To tell us about the time you pretended to be someone else (that'll make sense when you listen), it's 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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Ooh la la.
We're back, baby.
We're two babies who are back. Baby back ribs. There's a famous... We're our, baby. We're two babies who are back.
Baby back ribs.
There's a famous...
We're our nappies.
There's a famous...
No, we're not.
There's a famous rib company who make ribs.
And there was a famous, I think in the 80s,
theme that they had on an advert.
Baby back ribs, baby back ribs.
It's like that.
It's like a kind of
barbershop quartet sort of thing.
It was parodied by
Fat Bastard.
Oh, what?
Fat Bastard.
The character in
Austin Powers.
Oh, it was also in
The Office,
I seem to recall as well.
Was it?
Michael Scott sang it.
I've not seen the US Office.
But basically,
it was this,
you should get it,
it's a very easy watch.
It was basically a thing that was just really, really, really, really popular.
It was like our ambassadors of reception.
That's how popular it was.
It was a cultural touchstone for a lot of people.
Right.
And this week, I think they've managed to find some backstage footage
of these guys putting together the song for these ribs.
I don't know what the actual characters are.
I think they're ribs or something that sing.
Right.
Um,
but like these guys who just have these wonderful voices and they're sort of
putting together how to actually sing the baby back ribs song.
It's,
it's beautiful.
If you're new to the show,
that man talking obsessively about ribs is Mr.
Pete Donaldson.
And I am Mr.
Luke Moore.
I'm the Luke in this situation.
Yeah.
And that is the Pete.
Um,
this show of course runs on, on, on you getting in touch as well. So hello the Luke in this situation, and that is the Pete. This show, of course,
runs on you getting in touch as well.
So hello at lukeandpeteshow.com
if you'd like to email us.
We would very much enjoy
hearing from you.
Pete, did you watch,
this is where I want to start
this time around,
did you watch
They Shall Not Grow Old last week?
I didn't know.
It was the Peter Jackson thing.
My goodness me.
My goodness me.
In your words, goodness me my goodness me in your words
goodness me
World War 1
would sound like
a right pain in the arse
so if you're
if you're not aware
of what it is
you have been living
under a rock
but that's okay
you might be overseas
you might be from the UK
so Peter Jackson
of Lord of the Rings fame
made a movie
to commemorate
100 years
since the end
of the First World War
with a film called they
shall not grow old um where he used um a lot of old cine film a lot of old super is it super that
we super eight film about then cine film i think yeah um he slowed it down colorized it in a
painstaking process and then used lip readers um to ascertain what the people in the scene film were saying, voiced it with voice actors,
and then over the top of that,
laid archive interview audio
from men who fought in the trenches
in a load of different battalions.
I think from the 60s,
I think there was a BBC project
to interview survivors of World War I,
and they used that audio.
And it's an amazing film
I think it's an hour
and a half long
How difficult must the
whole process of
isolating what they're saying
I think it's a must
I mean colourisation
has been around for a long time
but like the actual
sort of lip reading
because obviously
you're bringing together
so many different cultures
so many different people
from different parts
of the country
and the world
how do you sort of
figure out how people
what people are saying?
Because language now
is very different to language
a hundred years ago.
I was speaking to Danny Kelly
who I work with every week
and he was saying
that it was based on,
they got some deaf guys
to do it,
almost like professional
literary type guys to do it.
But it's an amazing movie
and it's incredible
to think of everything
that went on,
and that sounds like a fairly obvious thing to say.
But I would recommend watching it for obvious reasons.
But there's just one moment in it when, because the cine film they use,
and I keep using the phrase cine film.
I hope that's the right phrase, but you guys know what I mean.
Just film, isn't it?
It's just film, basically, yeah.
But the thing is, that type of film is really quick.
It's something to do with the way it's made.
Well, no, it'll be like 7 frames a second
or 15 frames a second.
Instead of like modern television's 24.
So everything looks really fast. It looks almost
quite comic. Which to be honest, Peter Jackson
in the last Hobbit films went
for 50 frames a second.
He's gone face and famine there, hasn't he?
Right, okay.
There's a moment in this film, so it starts off with all the
film and the black and white,
and it looks quite sort of, as you'd expect.
It feels a bit like, you know,
when you used to watch a video in history class or whatever.
But there's a moment of several minutes in,
I can't remember how many minutes in, but a while,
where at one point when they start talking about the start of the war,
so they go from the signing up and all this other stuff and the propaganda
to the war starting, where it slows down and comes into colour.
And it is honestly one of the most breathtaking things
I've ever seen watching a movie.
And that sounds obvious,
but it instantly gives that a relatability
that you never would have seen before
because they all of a sudden look like proper human beings,
young men, all of them, some of them,
down to 15, 16 years of age.
And you get a sense of the humanity of it almost instantly and then from then on no no no no exaggeration to say
you cannot take your eyes off it it is it is astonishingly good it's called they shall not
grow old it's been it's a big build up on facebook and on the bbc and they put it out
uh last sunday it's very very very much worth a. If you can find it on iPlayer and do
so, if you're overseas, find it somewhere, just watch it. It's
brilliant. Did you say
Johan Rebogen, I've just
Googled him, 94 years old,
is on trial.
I shouldn't laugh, but it just makes me giggle a little bit.
He's on trial in a juvenile court.
Right. So like when he's
pictured in photographs
and videos and stuff,
because of the atrocities he was involved in in the war.
He was an ex-Nazi, was he?
He was an ex-Nazi.
Accused ex-Nazi.
He was an enlisted SS officer.
He went on trial on Tuesday in a German juvenile court
because he was under 21 at the time.
Right.
So when it's pictured in film on the news websites and stuff,
they have to obscure his face because at the time he was under 21
and now he's 94 years old and he's on trial.
That's crazy, isn't it?
It's mad, isn't it?
When we were in Berlin, obviously that second world war.
He's not going to look the same, surely.
No, exactly.
Obviously that second world war, not first world war.
But you know when we were over in Berlin,
I think we were over in Berlin about four or five years ago this weekend, ago this weekend you and ip and do you remember the posters being up all over berlin
about saying this is your last chance if you know anything this is the last chance we're going to
get to to prosecute any nazi collaborators and nazi war criminals and um it's quite fascinating
to see that um so it's surprising to see it that's still going on now but you know i've read a really
good book i might mention it on this show called um the nazi hunters by andrew nagorski who also wrote hitlerland he talks a lot
about the process of of how nazi hunters back in the day um found these these high-ranking nazi
officials and sometimes the uh the lower ranking ones as well and there was a guy who was prosecuted
fairly recently and the big um the big debate that came about was because he got like
I think he was about
97 anyway
and he was in poor health
and he was found guilty
of being
I forget the exact terminology
but it's something like
accessory to the
machine of death
or something like that
and he was a guy
I think who might have
been an accountant
at one of the
concentration camps
and he was sentenced
to like 18 months
house arrest
I've got the details
in front of me
but it's something like that
and people were saying why are we still doing this what's what's the point of this um and
the people who the people who prosecuted came out with a really interesting um sort of response
which was it's not about punishing the guy it's about publicly educating everyone on what happened
and taking every opportunity to do that so if people are listening to this and wondering why people of that age would probably let's face it had quite junior roles back in the
day because they'd be too young to do anything else and may not have even been involved in the
direct capacity or whatever it's taken as a as an educational public information type process
to keep the um to keep the sort of um to keep it front and centre so people continue,
they're really keen for people
to continue to learn
the lessons of it basically.
And there should be,
you know,
pictures of bloody poppy,
there was that famous picture
this week,
a guy with a swastika
on his neck with a poppy.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
It's like,
there's never been,
there's never been
a more kind of
stark contrast
between what people say
and what people
actually fucking do.
I mean,
I probably know
the answer to this, but that
guy's presumably just one of the most stupid
adult human beings in the world, right?
I mean, yeah, they do kind of go
in herds, don't they?
Yeah, they do move in herds.
Going back to that Peter Jackson film,
there's a bit of a primer, there's a bit of introduction
to it. Greg Jenner, who's a really
good public historian,
does horrible histories.
He did a brilliant accompanying
Twitter thread about that movie while it was on,
which is well worth a read as well, by the way.
So there we go. That's
both the World Wars, covered in the
first five minutes. Squared away.
Squared away, yeah. Grenade thrown
at the Archduke. It's all over
now. Didn't they shoot him? Gavrilo
Princip, didn't they shoot him?avrilo Princip didn't they shoot him
no he threw a grenade
on the car didn't he
did he
I don't think he had
a pop with a gun no
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
wasn't supposed to
take that route as well
it was slightly detoured
and that's why
it was able to happen
well that's why they say
Trump didn't go to
the Cenotaph
because it was raining
and the chopper
was advised not to fly
but then
if you want to go
you just get a motorcade
don't you
yes
I mean you're president
of the United States
literally how everybody
else got there
yeah
that is remarkable
isn't it
I mean you don't know
hardship chaps
I've had to go out
in the rain
I had to go out
in the rain
get here
yeah you did
chucking it down it was
you were covered in it
when you got here
bloody miserable
Pete I put something
out on Twitter
late last week
in preparation for this show.
Okay.
I just thought I'd chuck it over to the listeners on at Luke and Pete show and said,
tell us what you'd like us to talk about.
Right.
And I've got, I compiled and we got literally 10.
Well, you talk about it, talk about it, talk about it, talk about it.
Sorry.
I compiled, we literally got tens of replies.
I compiled the top five most popular.
Okay.
And I've put them in order.
Well, not in order, sorry.
I've put them corresponding from numbers one to five.
Yeah.
Now, if you pick a number, I'll tell you the subject,
and you can talk about it.
Four.
Four, okay.
Have you ever pretended to be someone else?
Yeah.
Japan, a member of Franz Ferdinand.
Why?
Tell us more.
We were talking about
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
a second ago.
Oh,
wow,
that's amazing.
To think that band
lied dormant
for almost 100 years
before they came to the fore.
Go on.
I don't know.
I think we were talking about
the previous version,
the previous time I went,
well,
Last in the Bar
said that she was a big fan
of British music, the only British band she liked. Last in the Bar, so you she said that she was a big fan of British music
the only British band
that she liked
the last in the bar
so you were trying to impress a girl
no I wasn't trying to impress a girl
my
she was
she was the owner of the bar
oh right
she sort of said
oh what kind of music do you like
I was like
that's nonsense
and um
she said
I like British music
I like Franz Ferdinand
and I was like
that's a weird band
to sort of bring up
behind Oasis or Blur
or something like that
I can imagine them being popular
in Japan
Franz Ferdinand
yeah um and Japan and then
the next time I went
with Gav
a Welshman
who's very
becoming easy
he will happily
just have a laugh
he will happily
he's very
he's very forthright
he's not
he's not a wilting
good laugh
he's not a wallflower
funny chap
probably Google
remind you of myself
not really
he's got a beard like funny chap probably Google remind you of myself not really he's got beard like you
he
I think he was
talking to some lasses
and he
told them
because Franz Ferdinand
because I told him
that Franz Ferdinand
were a thing over in Japan
he told them
that we were all
members of Franz Ferdinand
which is a lie
that you can get away with
in the early 90s
when nobody had
a mobile phone
I'll tell you a bit more about that in a minute go on in the early noughties when nobody had a mobile phone.
I'll tell you a bit more about that in a minute.
Go on, yeah, carry on.
But, you know, they just did a Google and went,
which ones are you?
And we went, two ring members of the band.
And then that's where Gav's chat with the ladies ended.
You could probably pass for one of them.
Your face is a blank canvas.
I look like I'm from north of the border. I don't look very healthy.
No, and you've also got quite a drawn face.
And like I say, it's a running joke around these parts
that your face is like a blank canvas.
So you didn't get away with it either.
No, I didn't.
Well, I was kind of half involved.
I wasn't really sort of getting really involved.
I've got something a lot more embarrassing than that.
You want to hear it?
Go on then.
Pretending to be someone else.
This is, I mean, speaking about the early noughties,
when I used to go out with some of my friends at uni,
I sometimes used to dress as a member of the hives.
Yeah, but then as soon as you start talking.
The hives.
Yeah, the hives.
Remember them?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You look more...
Scandinavian people have got great English.
Fair than yours.
Yeah.
You look like a member of... Oh, who, you look like a member of,
oh,
who do you look like
a member of?
I mean,
it's absolute cringe
to think I used to do that.
And the thing was, Pete,
the worst thing about it was,
back in those days
when I was like early 20s,
I wanted to have
a few drinks with my friends
and try and chat up a girl.
I used to get no success
with that outfit.
I don't even know
why I bothered.
After the first couple of times,
it's not working,
forget about it.
They wear nice clothes,
they don't.
They wear nice suits.
They used to wear white shoes
and white ties
and black trousers and a shirt.
It was horrendous.
It was really bad.
Is there any photographic evidence
of your...
Oh, there will be.
I'll try and find some.
But you know,
when you look at pictures,
I said a while back,
I didn't know that,
I was looking over old photos
from my family
and you look at your mum and dad
in the 70s
and my wife was saying
how stylish my mother looked back in the 70s and my wife was saying how stylish
my mother looked
back in the 70s
very demurely dressed
all matching stuff
it looks good
and then
if I think about
the stuff I used to wear
in my early 20s
pathetic
like
sweat
what was it called
a suit jacket
over the top of a t-shirt
with like sweat bands
and stuff
there's a lot
to be fair though
there's a lot of people fair though there's a lot of
people who dress
like
sort of modern street wear
is quite
a less based
like it's the stuff
we used to wear
when we were about 50
but the 90s is coming back now
isn't it
it's fashionable
but for me
the 90s wasn't too bad
it's that moment
after the strokes came out
where everyone wanted to try
and be like the strokes
but used to get it badly wrong
well that was the point
when I shaved my head
so I went a bit hardcore
so
right okay anyway so that's number four you've got one, two, three or five we'll do a couple now and we'll do some more next week alright Yeah. But used to get it badly wrong. Well, that was the point when I shaved my head, so I went a bit hardcore. Right, okay.
Anyway, so that's number four.
You've got one, two, three, or five.
We'll do a couple now,
and we'll do some more next week.
All right.
One.
Okay, number one is just more simple.
It's flatmate stories.
What's your best story about a flatmate?
Oh.
Have you got one?
I mean, because you compiled this,
you've probably got a story in your hand.
I haven't, but I can think of one.
Have I talked about my flatmate Richie before?
No.
I must have done.
Well, I don't know.
We need more information.
Apologies to those listening if I have.
My friend Richie I used to live with at uni is an absolute force of nature.
And a couple of things he did.
One was the first day back after Christmas break at uni,
I got a DVD player for Christmas.
DVD.
I was delighted about it.
I used to love watching movies.
And so I set it up on the living room floor in the shared house at uni.
First night back, obviously see the friends again, went out, got drunk,
got back, Richie fell over and smashed it.
It's like three bits.
And another thing he did, he said, we got back drunk one night
and he said,
I'm going to make you some dinner.
What do you want to eat?
I said, I don't mind, whatever.
So he goes into the freezer,
finds a load of frozen fish,
you know, breaded fish,
like bird's eye fish,
puts it in the oven
and he doesn't come back for ages.
He's like, all right, okay, fine.
I don't know what he's doing.
Went in there,
found him tucking into one of them
about half hour later.
Oh, he's eating it raw.
And turned the oven on.
And turned the oven on.
So it was all completely raw.
He's crunching his way
through frozen breaded fish.
That's all right,
as long as you don't,
it's the middle point, isn't it?
Yeah, I suppose so.
It's the middle point between frozen and hot.
Yeah, I suppose so, yeah.
It's unhealthy.
So hopefully,
by the time the frozen fish gets to his gut,
the acid will get rid of it.
Yeah, exactly, yeah. That of it. Yeah, exactly.
That's fine.
Yeah, you have to.
I'm sorry, I must admit.
I noticed on Instagram you also posted,
actually you didn't,
your good lady wife posted on Instagram
an adorable little letter you wrote the tooth fairy.
Oh yeah?
When you were a young child.
Why don't you read it out then?
Dear tooth fairy,
I've lost my tooth today.
I've been looking for it at school
which i was where i lost it please can you still give me some money from luke and i actually always
on the take and i've actually got the response from the tooth fairy i'll go ahead dear luke
who the hell do you think you are can you still give me some money indeed if i gave cold hard
cash to everyone who happened to lose their tooth at school how how would I still have the respect of my friends Santa Claus,
the Easter Bunny, and Peter Parker from
Spider-Man? Would a bank just leave cash
in your awful little Hampshire talons
after you'd given them some sob story about
your check falling into a vat of school custards?
Suck my balls, Luke Moore. I'm the tooth fairy,
not a tooth mug, which weirdly enough
is where I keep my teeth I collect until I can
give them to my employers. We're fully filled
out administrative paperwork
because I'm not a fucking liability
like little baby Moa.
Have a harmonious day, cunt.
The tooth fairy.
That's harsh.
That is harsh.
To an eight-year-old,
that is a bit harsh, isn't it?
I mean, call me my Hampshire talons.
Yeah.
That is fucking harsh.
Speaking of keeping teeth in milk...
I had to Google where Hampshire was.
I had to Google where you were from.
If your teeth falls out of your mouth
and it includes the root,
the first thing you should do
is pop it in a mug of a glass of milk.
Yeah.
And take it to the dentist.
And go,
check out,
do you want a drink?
Ah, it sucks to be you.
Oh, it's got tooth in it.
I thought you liked teeth.
Yeah, you're a dentist.
You made your whole life's work.
I was once walking across Golden Square
to come and meet you.
A bit into an unpopped piece of corn in a snacker jack and broke my tooth off.
And I thought, I'll keep it.
I'll put it in some milk.
Took it to the dentist.
It was in the evening.
Took it to the dentist the next day.
He said, what do you want me to do with that?
I said, well, I kept it in milk.
He went, yeah, only if it's got the root attached to it as well.
I thought you meant it was going to be a bit of snacker jack.
I said, what are you going to do about it?
He said, I'm going to put it in the bin.
He put it in the bin.
Put my tooth in the bin. That was it. I've kept this in milk for ages. He said, you can get a going to be a bit of snacker jack. I said what are you going to do about it? He said I'm going to put it in the bin. He put it in the bin. Put my tooth in the
bin.
That was it.
I've kept this in
milk for ages.
You can get a
replacement if you
want but otherwise
no.
There we go.
We'll do some more
of these listener
suggestions next time
around but I think we
should have a little
break and then come
back and do the best
part of the show
which is your emails.
Oh yeah.
I'll give you so much
time to get ready.
Yeah but they're all
in disarray.
It's your fault isn't it it's not my fault
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've got to
go and see her
then tell her this
bugger shit
fuck shit
fucking sphincter
it's always a favourite
that was on
breakfast television
was it
no
I love it if it was
Brian Blesser wouldn't care
oh shit
sphincter Brian Blesser was't care oh shit sphincter
Brian Blesser was on
who do you think you are
and he traced his family
back to Portsmouth
is that right
yeah
what about this
he looks like a man
from Portsmouth
he does a bit
people have different sphincters
it's just a valve isn't it
stop it
what
Paul Stipala's been in touch
Paul's sphincter's been in touch
hello at lukeandpete show
dot com
Pete you'll love this
you're going to absolutely
love this
when I saw this
in the email inbox,
I couldn't believe you hadn't flagged it.
Right.
I was delighted.
He says, hello, gents.
Love the show.
Was it in the last five emails sent?
Might have been.
Not spam.
No, exactly.
Hearing your chat on discontinued food,
it took me back to my uni days
where I found the delectable vanilla ice cream
flavoured Monster Munch.
Oh, yeah.
Did we not read this out last week?
I don't know.
Anyone else who had them, but I couldn't get enough of them,
so my local stopped stocking them.
No, I've never heard of that before.
Maybe I started.
They were on sale as late as 2000 and...
Yeah, 2002, I think.
Did you have any?
Yeah.
They didn't taste like much. They were just quite sweet. Yeah, I can I think. Did you have any? Yeah. They didn't taste like much.
They were just quite sweet.
Yeah, I can't get with that.
But we're so kind of used to our...
I remember Tudor crisps.
I'm a chocolate version for a little while.
Who?
Tudor?
Tudor crisps.
Oh, no, northern.
Very northern.
Seabrook's northern as well, aren't they?
I think so.
But they had...
Yeah, they had sort of like...
It was just like a sweet and sort of savoury kind of flavour to them.
A bit too sweet,
to be honest.
I can't see myself
getting with them at all.
That sounds horrendous.
The picture looks amazing,
but it sounds horrendous.
The same sort of colour
as Flaming Hot.
Maybe that was neurotic.
Every time I would,
every time I would sort of pick up,
like,
I'm very easily swayed
with a gimmick,
but I've got to a certain age
where I sort of go,
I know what that's going to taste like.
It's not going to taste nice.
I'm just eating it
because it's a new thing
that I've never tasted before.
Rubbish.
You love it.
You love a limited dish
like the Japanese.
And that's funny, isn't it?
Because unlike roast beef particularly
and roast chicken flavoured crisps,
every single brand of them
tastes the same
but none of them
taste like chicken or beef.
Roast beef does not taste like beef.
It tastes like horseradish.
A little bit.
I think that's the main flavour
I take away from that. It tastes like um horseradish a little bit i think that's the main flavor i take away from
that it tastes like almost salty beef infused dust it's what it tastes like what more are you
expecting from no really i just think the flavors i just think technology should have moved on to
such an extent when we've had listeners who've come home told us that their dad used to work
in flavorings and used to bring things on stuff yeah i just feel like roast beef crisps should have moved on technologically by now.
It's the same with roast chicken.
I don't think roast beef is a global flavour.
So I don't think we should have to sort of,
I don't think the rest of the world
should have to kowtow to our nonsense.
I'll tell you what the rest of it,
I'll tell you the flavour the rest of the world love.
Tell me if you can tell me what I'm thinking.
What?
Have a guess.
Worcestershire sauce.
No, you idiot.
Everywhere you go in the world,
there's a particular type of crisp
that you don't really get here,
but they are massive everywhere else.
Ooh.
Moisture sauce.
Are you on crack?
Well, I don't know.
You didn't explain it properly.
Let me have a think.
Sweet chilli?
I don't know.
Paprika.
Paprika, yes.
Isn't it?
Everywhere.
You get paprika everywhere.
That's like mainland Europe, though, isn't it?
Yeah.
Spain.
Portugal.
Particularly Spain, yeah.
And Hamon as well.
Hamon.
And I'll just do this one as well quickly
because it's on the same theme from Tom
before you do an email, Pete.
So yes, that is the cue for you to get ready.
Tom says,
following on from Discontinued Things
that no one else remembers in episode 108,
can I present to you,
and I think you're going to love this particularly, Pete,
Lucas-Ade Calipos.
Oh, I don't remember that at all.
Like kind of like energising Calipos.
I remember having these. I'm a big fan of a Calipo. That's the only ice remember that at all. Like kind of like energizing Clippos. I remember having these.
I'm a big fan of a Clippo.
That's the only ice cream I really eat.
He says, I remember having these as a kid in the early 90s,
but literally nobody has ever heard of them.
They were as tasty as they sound
and only seemed to be on sale in one random cafe at my local park.
And also on the subject of Lucas-Ade based innovation,
Lucas-Ade and a foil type pouch tasted so much better than any other format.
I remember Lucas Aiden
the pouch.
Used to get that
after football in the 90s.
Can you not still get them?
Don't think so.
Because Capri Sun now
has not even got the
pokey straw now,
has it?
Oh, has it got like
a plastic top?
Yeah.
Ah, like at wrestling.
Lucas A. Calippo's
talked to me.
Ah, yeah.
Matt Ford,
who does the football show
on Saturdays
on my radio station,
he once told us,
well he wasn't on the story,
he was on Six Music, I think.
And he was trying to get fit, basically,
and so they brought a nutritionist in.
It was on Russell Howard's show, I think.
And they brought a nutritionist in.
So every time I say Matt in the office,
I just think about this bit,
where they brought a nutritionist in to sort of go,
like, what are you having in the morning?
And the first thing he drinks is like,
I just have a big bottle of Lucashead.
And they're going, that is the worst thing you can possibly...
And he's going, no, but you don't understand.
Ah, it's delicious.
And she's going, yeah,
but it's the worst thing you can possibly have.
Right.
Because it's just, you know, it's just full of sugar and calories.
And he's like going, no, but you don't understand.
It's, ah, it's so delicious.
And she, they were on, like, she was on to sort of educate him
on how to eat properly and stuff.
And so I saw him a few weeks ago and I was sort of going,
Matt, you don't understand.
Lucas said, oh, yeah, it's great with a hangover.
He probably can't remember
the feature he did about 10 years ago on the radio
but that's all I can think about when I see him.
That's all I can think about. And what do you have
in the mornings? I don't eat a lot
in the mornings but I try and get a breakfast now
I've grown older. Isn't it normally leftover
Chinese? I would have had that if I
hadn't eaten those leftovers about two hours
after I'd eaten the Chinese. I had a lovely Chinese
last night.
You have a Chinese
every...
Tuk Tuk's moved away
so I had to go to
Cafe TPT
which is a
Deliveroo based
situation.
It's a Donaldson
Sunday night for a dish
isn't it?
You sit at home
on your own
eating Chinese.
I watch a bit of
Tech Morning
if there's a video
available.
What's that?
I watch YouTube.
He's a guy who just
goes through old 70s
sort of video technology,
like videos on records and stuff.
But I've gone back to BigClive.com,
who's a guy who just takes apart really cheap electronics
that dads buy in pound shops.
And he goes, oh, there's so much amperage here.
It's so dangerous.
But he's got a beautiful kind of Scottish lilt.
You sent me a picture of still of one of those the other day.
Oh, it's so dangerous. I don't know. What did I sendlt you sent me a picture of still of one of those the other day oh it's so dangerous
I don't know
what did I send you
it's like a little
microphone pulled to pieces
I think
no that was me
that was actually you
wasn't it
yeah
that was me going
this microphone is fucked
a microphone I put on eBay
by the way
and I actually got an email
from my guy
yesterday going
is there any damage
to the microphone
it's literally in pieces
sort of
I mean none of the pieces are damaged I mean it doesn't fucking work and all that much they're not damaged is there any damage to the microphone? It's literally in pieces. Sort of. Yeah.
I mean,
none of the pieces are damaged.
I mean,
it doesn't fucking work
and all that much.
They're not damaged,
but neither are they joined together.
Explain damaged.
I love that.
So you,
so,
so you spend Sunday nights
on your own in your flat
eating Chinese,
watching 70s videos on YouTube
about technology
or videos about 70s technology on YouTube about technology or videos about
70s technology on YouTube
correct
yeah
is that depressing or not
I'm just
I'm asking the question
did you think your life
would turn out that way
it's a nice little routine
isn't it
yeah
when you were asked about that
when you were 11
what did you want to be
when you were 36
well I think when I was 8
I was discussed on this show
I wrote
you said
what would you say
what would you do
if you were like a millionaire
or when you were growing up
or something
and I wrote
have sex with Sam Fox.
And,
and,
was it,
something,
I had this JR kind of fantasy.
That's the thing.
That's the thing.
These kind of influences
and stuff,
these kids are,
you know,
you talk about violent video games.
I think the more damaging
is those influencers
who are pretending
this kind of really
glamorous life is theirs
you know
going from like
limitless
swimming pools
what do they call them
endless swimming pools
infinity pools
and stuff
in these beautiful
what was your second one
so when you were 8
you were asked
what you'd do
if you were a millionaire
you said you would have
first of all
you'd have sex with Sam Fox
I mean you're 8 at this point
so you're turning
Sam Fox into a pedophile yeah the t-shirt what's the second one
did you give me a download for that okay i just imagine sam fox saying all right and you go yeah
uh she's gonna have sex and her going not really you're eight and you go but i'm a millionaire
yeah so am i yeah so what yeah i'm easily a million you're anticipating that being the
great leveler yeah what was the second thing you said you would do?
I can't remember, to be honest.
You just said it then.
Trying to do a GR.
GR.
I wanted to be JR.
Oh, JR.
You're from Dallas.
Yeah, I'm saying that that kind of thing is watching the glamorous lives of other people.
Yeah.
Like The Only Way is Essex, like everybody else.
There's no what's there.
It's just people sort of doing not very much at all.
So are you saying that it's not damaging for of doing not very much at all so are you saying
it's not damaging
for kids these days
with Instagram stars
and YouTube stars
like Jack Mate
who does a show with us
because back in the day
it was like the Wild West
literally because
you wanted to be
J.R. Ewing
when you were 8
exactly
I wanted to own
oil fields
did you really want
to own oil fields
or did you just
want to have a nice hat
or whatever
well a bit of both
to be honest
if an 8 year old me was given the choice between an oil field and a nice hat probably whatever? Well, a bit of both. Yeah. To be honest, if an eight-year-old me was given the choice
between an oil field and a nice hat,
probably the nice hat I'd take, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
I have no use.
I cannot get the oil out of the ground.
Sorry, guys.
I mean, I appreciate you giving me the oil,
but I'm eight years old.
I've got nowhere refining it.
I don't know how to refine it.
Sorry, Sam Fox is on the phone.
Yeah, you at eight years old.
Sam, give me a second.
I've got something on.
You at eight years old in a Gola tracks a second. I've got something on. You were eight years old
in a Gola tracksuit
with a massive 80s mobile phone going,
I mean, this oil is very crude.
I've spoken to my dad.
I don't even,
he doesn't know where a cracking tower
can be found at this late stage.
I wish it was sea coal, to be honest.
My dad's mate would have
sorted it out for me.
He's just driven it
right into the house.
Straight on the fire, that.
But crude oil,
I can't do anything with.
Was it ever given to you
by the teacher
how you would obtain
the million pounds?
No.
It's our own fault
for writing a spurious
kind of capitalist
fucking, you know,
manifesto
that I've got
to kind of deal with.
If you've got a million pounds,
what are you going to do with it?
What were some of the other...
Well, it's supposed to teach you
a lesson, isn't it?
What's the lesson?
Well, the lesson is you be responsible
for your money
to be fair the same teacher
Mrs Barlow
came in one time
and gave us
a massive
a massive kind of like
speech about how important
the being around the world
Lisa Stansfield song was
I think it's a good tune
but it was like
because she's clearly
gone through a breakup
it was either
Lisa Stansfield with that
or
nothing compares to you by...
Oh, that's more problematic.
But either way, she'd been through a breakup
and she wanted to take it out on a lot of eight-year-olds.
So I love that.
I love that happening.
And then you saying you went out and slept with Sam Fox
and her just going,
she'll just break your heart.
I tell you what, she'll fucking break your heart.
She'll end up gay.
She'll break your bloody heart.
So Mrs. Barlow, what's her character?
Can you remember
what any of the other students
wanted to do with Emily?
Probably something like,
I want to give it to charity
because it was like
in the middle of fucking
Geldof and Emlott,
isn't it?
Yeah.
I remember having a big old row.
I was quite,
as you can probably imagine,
quite a pretentious child.
Yeah.
And I remember Father Albie.
I went to a Church of England school.
Father Albie?
Father Albie came in
and gave us the old bit about go or's not we had to do prayers every morning i went to
go do um i think let's go to st john's church like once a week and we did christingles at christmas
that kind of crap and um father albie used to come in and in my mind it feels like it was every week
it's a junior school so i'd have been similar age in the same way that Cadphile or Father
what's his name
used to investigate
every week
oh Father
what was his name
I can't remember
Father something
not Cadphile
Father
Cadphile was a
monk detective
wasn't he
why
I don't get that
I don't get that
Father something
investigates
it's like in the
Name of the Rose
with Sean Connery
and Christian Slater
and I used to watch that
because there's an amazing
sex scene in it
and I was only about 10
and it was really exciting
but anyway
Father Albie came in
right
and he starts talking
to the class
of 8 year olds
and stuff
and he's saying all this shit
and my parents
put me in Church of England
school because it was
a good school
they weren't religious
yeah they weren't religious
and Father Albie
starts spinning us
all a yarn
about how
you should never lie you should never lie
you should never lie
about shit
because it's bad
and Jesus
all that kind of crap
and then I
because I was a
pretentious
you know
annoying child
I remember
correcting my teacher's
spelling at one point
that's fair do's
no that's fair do's
she misspelt the word
biscuit
and apparently
she still sees my mum
in the local supermarket
maybe she was banging a limp biscuit yeah no it was before then she misspelt the word biscuit and apparently she still sees my mum in the local supermarket maybe she was banging
a limp biscuit
yeah no
it was before then
she
apparently
my mum says
she sometimes still sees her
Mrs Pete
Mrs Pete her name is
but P-E-A-T
P-E-A-T
and she always mentions it
even now
in the supermarket
yeah
with child
yeah hopefully
that'd be great wouldn't it
just casually chucking
a packet of digestive in
oh remember that time?
Anyway.
Still hurts.
So Father Albie's involved.
Still real to me, damn it.
With respect to people who like God, good for you,
but he's spinning all this stuff, right?
I've got no problem with that, but he's spinning this stuff.
He says, it's bad to lie.
Jesus wouldn't lie, all the rest of it.
I said, what about if, you know, your friend says,
oh, I look, how do I look?
And they look terrible.
You wouldn't just say that, right?
Because that would be mean.
It's a very basic school kid way of saying it.
Even then, I remember it flummoxing him.
Well, he was like.
He was like, well, yeah, I mean, you know, you can't be rude.
I said, yeah, but you told us not to lie.
I was like, what's more important, lying or being rude?
Yeah, exactly.
But he didn't have the answer.
Well, I remember having, there was a, I went to Catholic school and I had a similarly impassioned conversation with Father Hogarth, who was the non-drunk father in the school.
Right.
Because there was like nuns and shit flying around our school.
It was like, they used to.
Flying?
Fucking hell.
Flying around like Harry Potter.
Imbibed with the spirit of the Lord, no doubt.
It was Dawn French in a painting.
the spirit of the Lord no doubt
it was Dawn French
in a painting
they had
and I was
we had this big assembly
about you know
entrepreneurs
because entrepreneurs
are quite a big thing
in the age
weren't they
oh yeah
it was Virgin
Branson
he had this big speech
about how
you know
hard work
and so and so
got him to where he was
today
blah blah blah
and I was at lunch
and I was like
father
why do we have
a whole assembly
about Richard fucking Branson
when, you know, blessed are the meek,
and we should be looking after the...
He doesn't do any of those things.
We shouldn't be chasing the money.
Drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
Jesus, you know, flip the tables in the marketplace.
Money lends his temple, that was.
So it was just...
Yeah, what did he say?
He went, that's a very good point, Peter.
He didn't elaborate or help me out on my existential crisis.
That's the reason neither of us are religious.
We've both been let down by religious leaders in our childhood.
I was molested by them.
Oh, what?
That must be time to leave.
What?
We've got to go.
Well, he's got to leave.
Father whoever he was.
He probably has by now.
He was, well, that was Church of England, one of your lot.
Touching my titties.
What are my lot?
Touching them titties.
You have to explain that aren't you
we've said this
on the show before
haven't we
I was a Cub Scout
his father came in
priest
no it's not priest
it's a
vicar or whatever
vicar came in
I sat on his knee
in front of the rest
of the Cub Scout
hut
and he
took my top off
and pointed out
on my
torso where the lungs were and where the
stomach was and where why did you need to take my top off well you can't see any of those things
you're probably so skinny i could see your organs oh let's get out of here in my mind that's that
story and your picture of you next to that chimp of like amalgamated and in my mind you're on the
stage with a chimp talking about the various ages of man.
That was at the same stage
that I did a one-man show
based on the sitcom Bread.
Oh, well, let's talk about that next time.
Let's get out of here.
I would say.
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