The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 129: Reflections on a year, sort of
Episode Date: December 31, 2018It'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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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.
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...
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,
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
wish my podcast
were more
populist.
Yeah, I think
so.
But not in a
racist way.
Have you got
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.
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
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
no
I'm trying
I'm just technology basically
yeah
we didn't have the new
MacBook Pro
which is actually
bottlenecked by the
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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?
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
little factory
going guys I
have not got the
first clue what I'm
doing
the James Dyson
timeline is
speak out quite a
lot about how
good Brexit will
be and then
take all your
all your factories
to Philippines
and say how's
nothing to do
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
Right.
One,
any part of your life
you want to sort out in 2019?
Two,
any ambitions?
And three,
any resolutions?
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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
you'd call it
I don't know how
to really
whipping stick
the whipping
it doesn't really
make sense
basically
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
like they would sort of say
oh look what kind of games
girls play
Barbie's
bloody
horse
coma
and it was basically
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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.
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...
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.
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.
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
done well, but
please do tell
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There's no other podcast like this.
It's unique.
No.
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And we'll see you in the future.
We should review films.
Too many spoilers. This was a Radio Stakhanov production.