The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 129: Reflections on a year, sort of

Episode Date: December 31, 2018

It's New Year's Eve! But that won't deter the chaps from discussing the big issues and getting reflective about the year that's just passed. We chat Pete's resolutions for next year (including why he ...doesn't really believe in them, obviously), and lots more.There's also plenty of time to hear from you guys, and to have an email considered for the show, it's hello@lukeandpeteshow.comThanks for all your support in 2018, and we look forward to seeing more of you in 2019! Stay safe and call your mother more, you know how she worries.***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 it's the luke and pete show the luke and the pete are back for a little bit of post christmas pre-new year fun bidding farewell to 2018 no less has it been a stinker? Has it been as bad as 2017? It's been an interesting year, hasn't it? I think my peer group are growing up so we're sort of all in a situation where we're all not enjoying things. It's rubbish, isn't it? Everyone's dying. What we've got to do, everyone's dying.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Listen, we're all dying. But do you know whenever these sort of end of year reflection periods come around, the thing that's most helpful to do is to separate out the personal as in how your personal life's been yeah and the assessment of you know the country and the world at large yeah and personally i'll you know i'm not going to bore people to death with that but in terms of the don't tell me you're a tree surgeon again oh yeah i told you i was cut his leg off yeah he was cut his leg off he wasn't wearing his trousers yeah yeah i know And I might get a...
Starting point is 00:01:06 See, you do listen to some things, I say. I might get a new bar from him in the new year. But anyway, that's a different story. People who remember the... Ooh, someone's there, then. People who remember the kitchen... Can we check the accounts, please? People who remember the kitchen chronicles,
Starting point is 00:01:15 we'll look forward to that with Bates and Fred. The kitchen chronicles. But anyway, in terms of... The worst Narnia ever. In terms of the macro picture, if we like. Right. I think I heard someone say that. This isn't going to get
Starting point is 00:01:25 trouser-based, is it? No, it's not. It's been weird. It's been, it's just, the world just gets more and more, it's hard to explain, but you just look at something breaking and you go,
Starting point is 00:01:34 really? Is that happening now? Elon Musk sending the car around a tunnel for no reason? I mean, what is this? You would go back to kind of like, it was a guy who did like
Starting point is 00:01:44 the first steam engine like things always kind of move Was it Robert Louis Stevenson? Robert Louis Stevenson I had it in my head I was thinking it might have been
Starting point is 00:01:50 the same situation when I lost my mind during a football ramble recently when I was trying to remember the bloke I made Tarmac John Lewden
Starting point is 00:01:56 McAdam Oh yeah Tarmac Adam These things can Tarmac to bite you Yeah it's kind of like What's Pete Darnold's Assessment of the world
Starting point is 00:02:06 The state of the world In 2018 Going into 2019 I think it's Cruisin' for a bruisin' Luke Yeah I think the It's going to come to a head
Starting point is 00:02:14 I think it's going to I think it's going to be I think it's going to be A situation where A big war might break out Which seems so tedious Now you're sounding like Nostradamus
Starting point is 00:02:23 Nationalism and Nationalist populism Just seems to be I think you're sounding like Nostradamus. Nationalism and populism just seems to be, I think we're sleepwalking into some troublesome times. As I always say
Starting point is 00:02:30 when people bring up the idea. Rap videos aren't going to save us. As I always say when people talk about populism, I always say, I
Starting point is 00:02:37 wish my podcast were more populist. Yeah, I think so. But not in a racist way. Have you got
Starting point is 00:02:43 any, are you feeling reflective about 2018? Have you got any... Let's see what the numbers are, Paul. Are you feeling reflective about 2018? Have you got anything in your mind about how it's gone for you and anything you hope for in 2019? Any resolutions, for example? Well, we started a company. We started doing podcasts. Luke and Pete Show joined the Stakhanov Network. That was in 2017.
Starting point is 00:03:01 Yeah, it was the start of the year, wasn't it? We started doing stuff. True, yeah, true. We've added some podcasts to our family, so I think it's been relatively successful. 17 yeah it was the start of the year wasn't it we started doing stuff true yeah true we've added some podcasts to our family so I think it's I think it's been relatively successful
Starting point is 00:03:09 we didn't have this did we have this studio this time last year yeah just about yeah it was just kind of together we didn't have cameras up
Starting point is 00:03:16 no I'm trying I'm just technology basically yeah we didn't have the new MacBook Pro which is actually bottlenecked by the
Starting point is 00:03:22 heat pipe and I hate being bottlenecked by heat pipe, Luke. I'm along with the rest of the listeners. I don't know what you mean. No, some of them will. What do you mean? Just before Christmas, Gatwick was attacked by drones. Yeah. See, these are the things that I worry might scare
Starting point is 00:03:35 you. Yeah, it does, because I don't know about technology as much as you. So, when I heard that story last week or whenever it was about drones over Gatwick, first of all, I started thinking about the LP song, Drones Over Brooklyn. And then secondly, I just thought of that Black Mirror episode. Again, always with the Black Mirror.
Starting point is 00:03:55 That's my only science fiction cultural reference, Touchstone, about that episode, Metal Heads, which is one of the bleakest episodes of television I've ever seen, involving these sort of mechanical drone dogs that kill people. Right. So it does worry me, Pete, I'll be honest. I feel like a bit of a fish out of water. I feel like a grandparent, even though I'm only 38. Well, just imagine the kind of drones are just those kind of enthusiasts
Starting point is 00:04:16 you see on a heath on a Sunday afternoon flying those kind of like, you know, small ratio Boeing 747 747s like that yeah they're not autonomous you still got something to fly but this is the confusing thing about the drones over gatwick as i went down to the cotswolds my friend ian um maybe a summer or two ago and he had a drone he's like yeah go out and bring the drone along so it should be good fun yeah a little got a little gopro on it great look forward to that i mean i know this is going to sound like some terrible josh wididdicombe style stand up routine
Starting point is 00:04:46 but it's not I mean the whole weekend we couldn't get it up literally what do you mean why wouldn't it fly I mean our penis no I mean
Starting point is 00:04:53 he couldn't sink it properly he couldn't fly in a straight line as soon as he sinked it and eventually got to that point the battery pack ran out so they replaced the battery which then means
Starting point is 00:05:02 you've got to re-sink it and then you take the old battery put that battery back on look drones are they seem to me to be that tipping point of technology where i'm now officially old that's that it's done well i guess um the thing is technology can always defeat technology so you could have a situation you could have a back door that gatwick airport or the airports have access to where they can just if a flood if a drone flies near it it it's a public safety issue, they can just kill it. But do you want backdoors built into technology? No, exactly.
Starting point is 00:05:32 Because it could be controlled by nefarious people. If you build a backdoor, you know, they could be used as attack drones. Like WhatsApp refusing to go unencrypted or whatever. Yeah, exactly. There needs to be something that we can all rely on, and I agree. Encryption is, you can't just build backdoors into things because naughty people will find naughty ways
Starting point is 00:05:53 to get into your naughty stuff. People like you, you mean? People like me, basically. I don't understand why... Have you ever done any hacking? No. It surprises me. Have you done some, but you don't want to talk about it?
Starting point is 00:06:02 I found somebody left a HTML page bookmarked on an engineer's page at Absolute Radio, and I sneaked into the website, and I changed the Absolute Radio forward slash sexy. I made like a kind of like a... You know, like a... This is your own workplace? Workplace. AbsoluteRadio.co.uk forward slash,
Starting point is 00:06:22 and it'll be like Pete Donaldson. I changed sexy to redirect to Pete Donaldson. So every time, if you type in AbsoluteRadio.co.uk Forward slash And it'll be like Pete Donaldson I changed sexy To redirect to Pete Donaldson Right So every time If you type in AbsoluteRadio.co.uk Forward slash sexy And I'm fairly certain
Starting point is 00:06:30 It still works I'm gonna try It will redirect To my part of the Microsite So that's about as far As I've got When it comes to hacking
Starting point is 00:06:38 But I don't understand Why drones aren't Sort of geolocked You can't fly them near The actual technology Won't allow you to do it Hang on a second Let me see if this still works i mean this is important stuff yeah it still works that's brilliant it actually works it forwards to forward slash presenters forward slash pete donaldson 11 yeah but i mean i think a lot of hacking is conflated with just
Starting point is 00:06:56 people just being a bit silly and just leaving their details or leaving like their logins out it's never like a it's never it's never hacking though really really? Yeah exactly but it's all the same thing isn't it? If you gain access to something you're not supposed to that's counted as hacking. If Jeremy Corbyn leaves his Twitter page open on a hotel computer do you remember when that happened a few years ago? Yeah someone tweeted on his behalf
Starting point is 00:07:18 baby camera and there's a pie. Yes that rings a bell. Yeah that's technically hacking isn't it? But it's just people being just crap with admin right but I've never left any back doors open no
Starting point is 00:07:28 if you want to hack me just think of a Newcastle footballer you said that before as well just try and get in I've updated though there are members
Starting point is 00:07:34 in the current squad come at me bro you're giving them clues now I am you're giving them clues where the prize is essentially
Starting point is 00:07:41 you becoming destitute if they want to take my identity they are fucking welcome to it. You're fed up of it? Fed up of it. What new one would you assume? Scott Bakula from Quantum Leap.
Starting point is 00:07:54 I thought you'd probably go for some sort of crazed inventor. That's the life you've always wanted to lead. Yeah, but I wouldn't have any of the skills. I'd just have the castle, wouldn't I? Some sort of non-Brexit-y James Dyson. I'd just be a really left-xit James Dyson I just really left wing James Dyson just sat in his
Starting point is 00:08:08 little factory going guys I have not got the first clue what I'm doing the James Dyson timeline is speak out quite a
Starting point is 00:08:15 lot about how good Brexit will be and then take all your all your factories to Philippines and say how's nothing to do
Starting point is 00:08:21 with Brexit it's not even like he's trying to obfuscate it isn't that incredible I enjoyed the George H.W. Bush's friendship with
Starting point is 00:08:30 the Filipino boy yeah I knew you were going to bring this up you said Philippines I can't get involved I feel like it ticks so many of the boxes
Starting point is 00:08:39 Filipino boy that was shorthand for dodginess obviously we're not saying that obviously that's not the case. But some of the quotes from that actual piece really made me giggle.
Starting point is 00:08:49 It was like, I am a 77-year-old man. I love you. You're talking to a 10-year-old Filipino boy, Mr. Bush. He's just an affectionate guy. There's nothing wrong with that. Well, yeah, he's been proved. Hansy. Oh, Pete, for goodness sake.
Starting point is 00:09:02 What? You can't lie about him because he's dead yeah so we're fine legally but I just think that's a bit distasteful alright Iran contra
Starting point is 00:09:10 that's not distasteful it's absolutely fine legitimate criticism he touched all their bums yeah Pete I've got written down here oh god I hope you don't
Starting point is 00:09:19 that thing again writing stuff down I don't normally write anything down because I like to be spontaneous on this show the only thing I write down are the emails. But on this particular show
Starting point is 00:09:26 on New Year's Eve, and it is a part time for reflection, I've written here just a question, two questions, three questions, sorry for you, but they're all part of the same thing.
Starting point is 00:09:34 Right. One, any part of your life you want to sort out in 2019? Two, any ambitions? And three, any resolutions?
Starting point is 00:09:41 The lift's not working in another place I work quite a lot. It's not your life, is it? The chocolate machine is on the sixth floor, so I have to climb six flights of stairs. A little bit out of breath. Penance. That's penance. Well, that's what I mean. So it's unhealthy to get the chocolate drink
Starting point is 00:09:54 because it's on the sixth floor, but I actually feel very unfit when I walk up to the sixth floor, so maybe I can either get fitter to get me chocolate drink, but that's going to make me less fit, isn't it, if I drink chocolate drink every night? If someone said to me... A real Sophie's choice, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:10:10 If someone said to me, there is one adult you know that still drinks chocolate milk. Chocolate milk? Who is it? Tays on Day and me. I'd say it's Tays on Day. Marcus Speller. Oh, yeah, actually, Marcus is a dark horse on that front.
Starting point is 00:10:24 No, I like a hot chocolate yeah actually marcus is a dark horse on that front no i definitely be you i like a hot chocolate yeah i like a nice look mama likes a nice cod piece that does not swim in greece rightly or wrongly i consider people who drink hot chocolate to not be adult enough to drink the the established adult hot drinks coffee though you don't i don't like i don't taste the coffee no explain your tea order I have so actually now you've hit on something right
Starting point is 00:10:48 so I've got a reputation for drinking very milky tea in this office which is fine but initially it makes me wonder if in your private life you're banging to like
Starting point is 00:10:56 I don't know breast milk or something just the abundance of milk just ruins it yeah I mean after that dairy episode last week as well I've had to mind myself again
Starting point is 00:11:04 now originally Pete I used to take my time and brew the tea quite a lot, so it would be really strong two-thirds tea and then quite a lot of milk, so it's strong but milky. Right. But the problem is I'm not going to publicly besmirch them, but you and I both know what goes on in that canteen in this office. I'll publicly besmirch them. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:24 If I say strong but milky to them, what's going to happen? Well, it doesn't matter. I'm going to get a pint of milk, aren't I? It doesn't matter because you won't sleep for three hours. In 35 minutes' time, I'm going to get a pint of warm milk. That's what's going to happen. God, we're so middle class.
Starting point is 00:11:37 So answer the question. Is it any ambitions, any resolutions? Oh, no. I think anybody who has resolutions, who feels the need to start them in January, if you've got a genuine problem with your life, like you're smoking or you've been a prick, just stop doing it whenever.
Starting point is 00:11:53 Just say the words, Pete. Say, Luke, I've given up already. I've given up already. I gave up years ago, Luke, and I am not brave enough to turn this ship around. Exactly. What's the point? You are the Costa Concordia of life's ships. No, I'm one of those trained...
Starting point is 00:12:08 What's his name? Captain Schettino. His name was not Schettino, was it? It was. It was. Raphael Schettino, I think. Because he was on that phone, wasn't he? He was going, you get back on that ship.
Starting point is 00:12:17 You listen to me now. Get his dad on the phone. And he's going... You get back on that ship. I've fallen. I've fallen. It was the worst dereliction of duty since
Starting point is 00:12:26 something you've done how dare you yeah now I'm thinking that Spanish train that went around the corner too fast he was like this train guy
Starting point is 00:12:35 who loved going fast oh yeah I remember that as well there was pictures on his Facebook of pictures of a speedometer going way too fast and going
Starting point is 00:12:42 what I'm filming it for well just a picture of a speedometer going look how fast this train can meow. What, filming it? Well, just a picture of a speedometer going, look how fast this train can go. And then cut to, he's killed a lot of people because he's gone around the corner too quick. Oh dear, that's not ideal, is it? That's not ideal, no. I think as predictable and as dull and as boring as this is,
Starting point is 00:12:55 and in many ways, if you do even consider that this show does work, I think it works because you are out there and interesting and I'm obviously very predictable and boring. Right. And that's the juxtaposition. My resolution would be to try and run more this year than I ran, sorry, next year than I ran this year. Because you've got a bit of a reputation of being a bit of a runner.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Yeah, but I don't deserve it. That's the thing. I think I've only run 250 miles this year. It's rubbish. It's like five miles a week. I think it's like me and me Japanese. I think I've kind of got a reputation of learning Japanese, but I haven't really.
Starting point is 00:13:25 I do it like a couple of months before I go there. But the rest of the year, what's the point? You've got a Japanese language key ring on your keys. That's why as well. Oh, and my little bits and bobs. Yeah, people think, oh, he's interesting. Warui. You're a peacock, Donaldson.
Starting point is 00:13:39 All right, let's go have a little break and come back and do some of your emails. None of them are themed around the end of the year, I'll be honest, but it should still be enjoyable. Not that one. Thinks. Thinks I'm crazy.
Starting point is 00:13:57 Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com to get in touch. We're still working our way through this tranche of emails we've had fairly recently. Pete, do you want to go first or do you want me to go first? You better go first because I have starred the wrong one.
Starting point is 00:14:11 I've got one here for you that I actually identified and brought to the studio out of love for you, basically. It's all it is, okay? It's from Steve and he says, Hi guys, I was listening to Monday's podcast and absolutely love
Starting point is 00:14:25 the talk on old amstrad and spectrum games okay how to be complete bastard etc how to be i had how to be a complete bastard and it was amazing very hard to actually complete you had things like if you opened an umbrella it turns you into an oven you could fill condoms with yogurt burn near enough everything get pissed although the game properly blurred and it was difficult. You could even kill people with a chainsaw, although that ended the game. Do you also remember the school days, Pete, and the back-to-school games? Yeah, they were kind of similar in that they were almost isometric, kind of 2D kind of adventures.
Starting point is 00:15:02 Those games back then were so hard, mainly because the scrolling was so slow, but you would turn up at school and you'd write on the board and throw things at your schoolmates and you'd like flip the toilets and stuff
Starting point is 00:15:13 and do all the naughty things Was it like that bully game that PlayStation brought out? Yeah, it was basically a lo-fi version of that, but you could name, the nice thing about school days, either one or two,
Starting point is 00:15:22 you could name all of the teachers in the game. So if you, obviously nice thing about school days, either one or two, you could name all of the teachers in the game. So if you, obviously, you're of school age, you could name all of the teachers in the game as your school teachers. Wow. That's dream stuff at that age. Incredibly immersive.
Starting point is 00:15:36 So you had the bully, you could name him what you wanted. The sweetheart, you could name her what you wanted. So you would kind of put a little bit yourself in the game for the brief 10 minutes you were actually playing before you got killed yeah i've um i've named my two horses in breath of the wild after my two cats ah there's why have you got two why do you need two horses there's um people why do you need an answer to that there was a big trope about casual gamers a couple years ago i'm definitely one of them no no no but like it was a couple of like people slagging off basically gamers uh and geeks in general incels um will um virgins uh will will invariably um just they will take any opportunity
Starting point is 00:16:18 they will see a chink in the armor they will see an seeing opportunity not to make the world a better place but to make the gaming world or world in general for women worse and the big kind of like whipping stick I suppose
Starting point is 00:16:34 you'd call it I don't know how to really whipping stick the whipping it doesn't really make sense basically
Starting point is 00:16:39 it was a game called Barbie's fucking horse adventures or whatever so this was a lightning rod basically for all of them yeah so it was
Starting point is 00:16:45 like they would sort of say oh look what kind of games girls play Barbie's bloody horse coma and it was basically
Starting point is 00:16:53 you could customise your horses and comb its hair and make it more colourful and stuff like that and then Red Dead Redemption 2 has come out that's all you do in that game
Starting point is 00:17:00 it's just plait your fucking horse's hair and look at its balls look at its balls get bigger and colder, bigger and smaller as the heat and the cold get to them. But yeah, it's just kind of gone full circle. I think it's really sad that, and people must be unhappy if that's how they were having it.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Gatekeeping, fucking gatekeepers. Just let people enjoy what they want. Exactly, I completely agree. And can I just finish off with what Steve... And that's why I'm joining a K-pop group. Yeah. I think a lot of regular listeners of this show
Starting point is 00:17:26 will be surprised it has taken so long Steve also says he was a big fan of the Dizzy games I was as well and he said he found on eBay recently
Starting point is 00:17:33 a disc that was full of old Spectrum games that could be played on a PC I'm not sure if you're aware of that phenomenon
Starting point is 00:17:38 you can play these games on your browser now oh yeah exactly like an emulator or whatever but that's from Steve so thank you
Starting point is 00:17:44 very much Steve of course emailed into hello at lukeandpulator or whatever. But that's from Steve. So thank you very much. Steve, of course, emailed into hello at Luke and Peter.com and that's how we got his missive. Fantasy World Dizzy
Starting point is 00:17:50 on the Amstrad CPC was my favourite one. I think I had Magic Land Dizzy. Was that one? A little later. A little later than that.
Starting point is 00:17:56 Fantasy World was Treasure Island Dizzy was the second one and Dizzy was a kind of proof of concept, I suppose. A blueprint for what might come.
Starting point is 00:18:04 I met the Oliver Twins, because back then you obviously had games that were created by two or three people, and the Oliver Twins were two not-un-egg-like men. Oh, really? I met them in later life when everybody just saw mobile gaming
Starting point is 00:18:18 as a real kind of chance to make a bit of money off some old IP. And so the Oliver Twins re-released Dizzy for the iPhone. Did they make any money? No, nobody bought it. Nobody bought it. Shame. So when you talk about casual gamers, are you basically... I mean, I would be a laughingstock in the gaming community. Well, yeah, but I think
Starting point is 00:18:35 playing Zelda Breath of the Wild... No, casual gamers would be COD, Call of Duty and FIFA. They're casual gamers. They're like Fortnite. The people who play them. Footballers. Any game that a footballer plays, that's a casual gamer. duty and fifa they're casual gamers they're like fortnight the people who play the footballers any game that footballer plays right is that's a casual gamer okay just oh you make oh why don't you like a japanese rpg from 1985 right okay so the purists basically purists the purists who also the core gamers that make their own art worse yeah by their by their peccadillo's and the the
Starting point is 00:19:00 way they think things should go hateful purists hate. Hateful purists. The new album from Pete Dawson. What's next, Donny? Email from Sean O'Brien. Hello, Sean O'Brien. Your recent chat about Tencent Beer Night made me think you'd be interested to hear about another baseball promotion that went horrendously awry. Disco Demolition Night. Oh, I think I know about this.
Starting point is 00:19:23 Is this Disco, Disco, Disco, Suck, Suck, Suck? Possibly. They were all shouting that out. Oh, maybe. Well, it's the most infamous baseball promotion in the sports history. It sounds amazing. On July the 12th, 1979,
Starting point is 00:19:38 the Chicago White Sox had a double header, just for clarity's sake. This is when two games played on the same day because sometimes it was just one three-hour game where nothing happens, just isn't enough. It is boring, baseball, isn't it? Scheduled against the Detroit Tigers. As a promotion to catch on to the rising backlash to disco music,
Starting point is 00:19:54 which is weird. Was that a thing? I think this is what I meant. Yeah, this is it. Well, the White Sox offered reduced ticket prices to anyone who came to the game with a disco record, all of which would be collected and blown up between the two games. The White Sox were hoping that the promotion
Starting point is 00:20:10 would have then attendance of about 20,000 fans. Instead, the stadium sold out, and estimates suggested that about 50,000 people were there, with another 20,000 outside the stadium who couldn't get in. A huge crowd outside the stadium caused security to be diverted from the field. With this lack of security, fans began throwing uncollected records, firecrackers, empty liquor bottles and lighters onto the field. The game was stopped several times because of the rain of foreign objects. Eventually, the first game ended and it was time for the main event.
Starting point is 00:20:35 Once the explosion finally occurred, the demolition tore a large hole in the field and led to absolute chaos, with 7,000 fans storming the field causing the players to barricade themselves in the team clubhouse while the fans climbed the foul poles set records on fire which is hard to do surely they just melt
Starting point is 00:20:51 and also ripping up grass what is that oh people on the field right okay I can't believe it made such a big hole in the ground though the bases were stolen
Starting point is 00:20:59 and the batting cage was destroyed riot police were called to restore order and 39 people were arrested the second game was never actually played.
Starting point is 00:21:06 You can imagine, looking back on that, it's hard to get on board with why they thought that was ever a good idea. Disco is all about cocaine in the 80s. True.
Starting point is 00:21:15 But these are people who hate disco, presumably. Well, because they've done all their cocaine, they've got no need for the disco records. Right. They're out of their tree,
Starting point is 00:21:22 they're like going, oh, sod this. That's your theory, is it? I want something with a bit more BPM that's your theory is it imagine loads of like really sharp records
Starting point is 00:21:29 raining down yeah it's a bit like a scene in Shaun of the Dead where they're throwing their records at the zombie it's funny poor um
Starting point is 00:21:36 and Nile Rodgers is on the field going hey stop what about this piece disco is still alive is that how he speaks yeah Nile Rodgers he talks like this.
Starting point is 00:21:45 How's it going? Yeah. What about this, Pete, from... Hey, I'm Nile Rodgers. That's literally how he talks. That's not me doing a generic black dude voice. That is literally how Nile Rodgers talks. What about this email here from Nile Rodgers?
Starting point is 00:21:59 He says... No, this is an email from Joe. I like this one. This is along the theme of finding some money. He says, your discussion in episode one, two, one about found money
Starting point is 00:22:08 took me back to an occurrence that happened during my school years. I went to a good school. Oh, putting that out there. But it was located in a slightly ropey area of Bristol.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Oh, well, how can it be a good school? Exactly. One day, waiting for the late bus home, I looked down in the gutter and spotted what turned out to be
Starting point is 00:22:24 a dead man. a little roll of bills totalling £55. That's a lot of money. You stick my bills, you pay my telephone bills. In hindsight, given the location, it was absolutely
Starting point is 00:22:34 a drug dealer's money. But that didn't occur to 13-year-old me. As with Luke, I handed it back in. I'm sorry, I handed it in and got it back
Starting point is 00:22:42 after six weeks. That day after I got it, six weeks? I think mine was six months. Anyway, the day after I got it back. Six weeks? I think mine was six months. Anyway, the day after I got it back. I can't believe you went back for that. Pete, this is where it gets great. That day after I got it back was one of the finest school days of my life.
Starting point is 00:22:55 55 quid in a school where £2.20 to pay a sixth form or to go and buy you chips from the local chippy was absolute high roller business. Also, my mum was well proud of me for handing it in though less impressed when she got a call from a panicked 13 year old me on a bus asking for her to come escort me home from the bus stop to protect my newfound riches i think she might have had a point where she told me just to walk home trying not to look muggable i love that mum advice i remember i i remember sort of going to English Martyrs School and the evil school were high tonsil. And people were kind of always, I was always scared that the tunnies would get me. I was constantly on my paper.
Starting point is 00:23:34 I'm worried that some lads would get me from the other school. Really? Just seems like such a weird thing to be worried about. If it happens, it happens. It's fairly unknown though, isn't it? Yeah. But if I was like if i was um a parent these days i would do my very best to make sure that my child wasn't scared of the opposing school
Starting point is 00:23:51 because there's just really no need people don't start fights for no reason no i i had a paper round in a really rough part of gospel where i'm from and those people who know gospel will know that it's got some some rough areas And it involved delivering, obviously on my bike, delivering newspapers to the top of like a 12-story tower block with the lifting work. So I used to have to park my bike in the bottom and take my seat off my bike because it was a quick-release seat, carry it with me up to the top and back.
Starting point is 00:24:24 And no word of a lie the one time i didn't take my seat off it got nicked so you had to sit with the pole up your bum so i just did the rest of my paper round with no seat on my bike and i think possibly for a day or two after but the worst thing about it seats are valuable to be honest that part of town people just nicked stuff for the sake of it and I think there's not really much to do. And anyway, the funny thing was, it's not funny because I probably looked absolutely ridiculous. When I came down the day that the fateful day that the bike seat was stolen, there was two quite hard kids from the year above loitering around.
Starting point is 00:25:00 And I blatantly knew one of them had stolen it. And I was caught between this idea that I was probably going to get beaten up if I said anything but at the same time I was really fucking pissed off so I went up there and said sorry have you seen this is the thing I know they've nicked it they know they've nicked it
Starting point is 00:25:16 and I completely bottled it I just went sorry did you see anyone I was like alright lads alright geezers I might be in the year below but I'm very mature for my age I didn't say that but I went up there I just went, sorry, did you see anyone? I was like, all right, lads. All right, geezers. All right, lads. Yeah, I might be in the year below, but I'm very mature for my age. I didn't say that,
Starting point is 00:25:28 but I went up there and I said, you seen anyone knocking about here with a bike seat, chaps? And they were like, no, mate. Smoking like a cigarette. I was like,
Starting point is 00:25:38 all right, okay, well, you know, keep an eye out for me, won't you? So I basically mugged myself off. I don't understand what they were getting out of that bike seat.
Starting point is 00:25:45 They're getting nothing out of it, Pete. It's so weird. Stealing it for the sake of it, hoping at some point to get a fight with me, which they blatantly win. Right. And that's pretty much it. I just think...
Starting point is 00:25:56 The worst thing about it, just to finish, is that like, I don't know how much a bike seat was, but it was probably about two weeks paper round wages. Yeah. So I was essentially working for free.
Starting point is 00:26:04 I think my parents might have got me a new one. I just think that with, yeah, I don't know why they stayed, but also I always just would bet on the fact that they'd already had a fight that day. Fights take out of you. Yeah, they didn't look that tired. That's the problem. Here we go. I'm glad to be with you on the red carpet for the British 2014.
Starting point is 00:26:21 Thank you very much. How are you feeling right now, Giz? Cool, love your coat. I love your coat. It's quite similar. Is this you interviewing Nile Rodgers? Yeah, that's how feeling right now guys love your coat i love your coat it's quite it's quite similar since you interviewed nile rogers yeah that's how he talks i love your coat play him again the true sense of guitar music back yeah are you proud about that i am so happy when he gets more excited he sounds like i think you've done a parody of his voice though i think you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself absolutely ashamed in my mind that's
Starting point is 00:26:43 what he sounded like email in to rate Pete's Nile Rodgers impression out of 10 and perhaps call him out on how hateful he is it's not hateful
Starting point is 00:26:52 he had a tux like this doing impressions of people that's how he tux it it happened that he didn't have a soft throat that day
Starting point is 00:26:59 that sounds like an unidentified flying member of the member of the cast yeah alright Pete that's probably about that for for music look thanks for all your support in 2018 an unidentified member of the Simpsons cast. Alright Pete,
Starting point is 00:27:06 that's probably about that for the music. Thanks for all your support in 2018. I've got to do this bit before we go.
Starting point is 00:27:11 Oh, fuck them. Thanks very much for your support. You can't double it next year, we don't want to know. 2018, you've
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