The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 147: Dangerous buildings in Taiwan

Episode Date: March 4, 2019

Good afternoon and welcome to another episode of The Luke and Pete Show, and with Pete fresh off the plane from Taiwan, it's an absolute belter! We hear from Mr Donaldson about his exploration of an abandoned building as well as his attempt to leap across an eight metre high ravine while chasing after snapping turtles (obviously), and after that we get stuck into some of the big stories that have been doing the rounds - a man trapped in a snow drift in Oregon, the anniversary of John Candy's death, and much, much more.Elsewhere there's all your emails of course, including a much-needed Def Leppard cruise update, and medication gone very wrong.To get in touch: [e-mail]. We'll see you on Thursday!***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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Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running. Underwhelming thinkers but excellent drinkers Luke and Pete back together again for the Luke and Pete show it's a Monday

I'm jet lagged I'm tired but it's okay everything's going to be okay I'm not even that good a drinker you used to be though mate I enjoy it you used to put it away

like nobody's a business like old Billy O no like drunk Billy O not me not alcoholic drinks not alcoholic drinks how are you Peter it's nice to see you mate You used to put it away like nobody's a business. Like old Billy-o. No. Like drunk Billy-o. Not me. Not alcoholic drinks. Not alcoholic drinks. How are you, Peter?

It's nice to see you, mate. I'm all right. Some candy appeared in the office. Some candy I've never seen before. They're kind of like, they look like chalk. It looks like chalk. It looks like chalk. It tastes like chalk.

It's disgusting. Welcome back from Taiwan, Peter. Very great. Good to have you back. You just sort of strolled in. You downgraded from great there, didn't you? It. Good to have you back. You just sort of strolled in. You downgraded from great there, didn't you? It's good to have you back.

Yeah. And you just strolled in nonchalantly earlier into the office. Hi, guys. I'm back. Hi, guys. It's great to see you again, mate.

How was your trip? Why don't you fill people in on how your trip was, where you went, what you got up to? I went to Taipei. Started out there near the 101 building,

which is like basically their biggest building in the world, in their world anyway. And we'd take the night markets and stuff like that. It's a foodie's paradise, Luke. And you know me, I'm like Anthony Bourdain. I love fetishising food. You do. You're very inconsistent on that.

I was in Hog Heaven, and it really was Hog Heaven because there was a lot of pork in it. Is Taipei a city in Taiwan? Yes. Okay. Because I think the Chinese government called Taiwan Chinese Taipei. Okay.

So you fly into Taipei? Yeah, flew to Taipei, then went down to Taichung, which is probably the third biggest city, which was magnificent. And then we went to a place called the Sun Moon Lake, which I'm not really sure why it's called the Sun Moon Lake, which I'm not really sure why it's called the Sun Moon Lake, but it's certainly the biggest body of water inside a

very tiny island that is Taiwan. And you know what? If I hadn't been, and then down to Kaohsiung, which was magnificent as well. If I hadn't been to Japan before, I would probably say that Taiwan is my favourite place. It's that good.

It really is fantastic. And everything works in a very Japanese style. It's a big, big mix. You haven't got to hear about Brexit. I haven't got to hear about Brexit, no. More dangerous things happening, I guess, over there. Falun Gong members being slaughtered, etc. So no, it was good.

It was really, really fun. Was it a change of pace? What sort of pace of living is there? Well, it depended, really. Kaohsiung is very industrial, but also quite relaxing. The Sun Moon Lake is very... It's a bit of a tourist trap, but it's so awesome. The food's so good.

The people are so nice. Oh, man. I cannot recommend that place enough. What's so good and the people are so nice. Oh, man. I cannot recommend that place enough. What's the currency like? A lot of dogs. What, it's just dogs? It's like a medieval bartering economy. You've got to sell and buy dogs.

The money is... It's the Thai dollar, isn't it? The Thai dollar. Yeah, it's about... I think it's $1,000 to £24. So, you're looking at and everything's quite cheap

so yeah your money goes a long way there except I did that thing where I had one I had several big notes left

that I can definitely change over here and then I wanted to buy some biscuits to take home and I was like I've definitely got almost

this amount of money in my pocket in change. And then they went, no, you've got to buy a separate little tax on the airport. Oh, yeah. I was like, ah, for crying out loud. It's impossible to respect

another country's currency when you're on holiday there. What do you mean? I just find that I'm just chucking money around left, right and centre. Oh, yeah. It means nothing. Oh, it doesn't matter.

Yeah, yeah. I went business class train. I went, you know yeah. I was, I went business class train. I went, you know what, I'm going to go business class train. And I was like, for three people, well,

what's that? Like, and it worked out about 60 quid. And most train journeys are about a tenner. Everything's so cheap. I was an idiot. Yeah. And all you got was a free cup of coffee,

which nobody drank. But a lovely time was had. A lovely time was had with some lovely people. And yeah, it's really easy to get around. And it's like from the top of the island to the bottom of the island,

it's like an hour and a half. Oh, great. It's well easy. People listening who love the show will no doubt have enjoyed the missives you've sent. Scooters. Sporadic missives to the social media guy, Charlie. And he's been disseminating that to the masses

and it looks like you had a bloody good time. A couple of private images sent to me from my folder, and they've been filed away, and you're in various states of undress doing naughty things. Well, that makes it sound like I was doing something naughty. A picture tells a thousand words. I have a friend who is incredibly

repressed. He will not even accept a hug, Luke. That's disappointing, isn't it? So for me to send a picture... Be careful. You know what happened to the CEO of Ted Baker this week? What did he do? You probably missed that story.

What did he do? Talk of enforced hugs at Ted Baker and all sorts. So he had to resign. So be careful. Hugs are a hot potato. Yeah, but he's... Yeah, but John is my hot potato. And, you know, I do a lot of things for him

when he doesn't deserve it. Like take him to Taiwan when he doesn't deserve it and he doesn't accept hugs from me. He's so repressed. Just give a little bit of yourself back, John, and you'll just get so much back. But you shouldn't be using...

I mean, you're taking someone to Taiwan and paying for it. Well, I wasn't paying for it, but I sought it out. He's not like some sort of modern geisha no some sort of travelling companion

I don't have to join I don't have to I don't have to ask him to join me but he he comes and he will not accept a hug

so I send him pictures of my privates actually one of my the last couple of days there was a strong seam of me

photoshopping my winky onto his body. Five minutes in. Like sending, and my sitting chapel was very much, I said, John, what's that on the back of your hand? And I took a picture of him looking at the back of his hand. And so then I replaced said fingers, as he was looking, with five representations of my wanger. And sent that to the group, WhatsApp group. There's not much to do over there, no?

I've got a couple of news stories that you've probably missed because you've been away. You only arrived back this morning. I don't know what's going on. I'm going to tell you. There's two big stories. A man in Oregon, in the northwest of the United States, survived five days snow drifted into a car

by eating packets of taco sauce. So this story is amazing. So there was a big weather front in Portland, which I think just outside Portland one of the main cities in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest and

he got snowed into his car and you know seriously not just like a British two feet and I can't move my car type thing

I think he was completely covered in snow yes how long had he been in his car with his dog if the snow had been I don't know but I think the snow

had come very quickly there I don't know the detail of that snow had come very quickly the detail of that wasn't he fell asleep so I think he was in a quite remote area he tried to get

out of his car and hike to safety the story refers to him as an avid outdoorsman probably not anymore he's stuck in the car with his dog

and he managed to survive by eating taco sauce fiery hot sauce packets like Christopher and Paulie Walnuts in The Soprano

and starting his car engine every so often to warm up and he was rescued five days just eating packets but you know

for a fact any longer than that I guess that dog get any any I guess that dog get any here yeah that dog's getting in they look at each other every so often

like holding each other's gaze one of us is going I've sort of I try not to eat as much pork as I used to because pigs are cute but then I saw

that story of the farmer sort of collapsing in his pig pen and the pigs just went went to town on him yeah that'll happen that'll happen sounds That'll happen.

Sounds like a hamster. Part of me wondered whether this was a PR story for Taco Bell because Taco Bell got quite a lot of mentions in the story I read because he sent a message or he sent a Facebook comment or something like that saying Taco Bell fire source saves lives.

And you wonder whether it's all part... The problem is, Pete, these days as we've discussed many a time on this show, what's real and what isn't? What is real and what isn't? or fire saw saves lives. And you wonder whether it's all part... The problem is, Pete, these days, as we've discussed many a time on this show, what's real and what isn't? What is real and what isn't? I don't doubt it happened, but has he sold that part of the story to get a PR thing,

to get a little bit of a boot? Do you know, what's going on there? We lose the good stories, though, if we just think everything's fake and everything's rubbish. That's the problem, isn't it? There's been loads of pictures of... a picture of, like, and everything's rubbish. That's the problem, isn't it? There's been loads of pictures of a 3D model of Britney Spears

retweeted a million times. It sort of went around a couple of years ago, and now it's come back basically saying that researchers at Harvard University, it's also researchers at Harvard University, that's how all the bullshit comes out. Researchers at Harvard University have discovered how, in ftt or um yeah it might be clear patricksy uh would actually look like in real life nowadays uh and it was just basically a picture of britney spears right uh and it's just like a meme that goes around and everyone's going oh my god it's britney it's britney bitch it's

britney it's britney yes yes because it never Brittany it's Brittany and everyone's going yes yes because it never happened exactly and so the salient point in this snow survival story is absolutely right Pete the one you made which is

if you're driving down a I think he was driving down a road in one of the national parks or something like that how fast is that snow coming down I mean there's snow storms and then there's that maybe

he must have dozed off for like an hour or something in his car inside the road or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the other big story is today is, let me just double check, the 25th anniversary of the death of the great John Candy. I saw a montage that Ryan Reynolds and his company put together

for his son and I believe his daughter. And you forget watching it that, oh God, he was in some iconic roles. And he was also great, by the way. I mean, when I read this this morning, when I was prepping the show, I just chucked a couple of clips on YouTube of Candy and his pomp. And he was brilliant. Like, the charisma of the man in Planes, Trains,

in Uncle Buck, he's absolutely amazing in that. He's also brilliant in Cool Runnings. He's been in some iconic stuff and his charisma just shines through. Brewster's Millions, he's in that as well. He's in everything. He's in everything.

And he just kind of, he's always, again, it is a thing, isn't it? He's got that, he's not just got charisma and he's not just got comedic time.

Blues Brothers. He's got, he's just got something else, hasn't he? He's just got that kind of star quality that a lot of people don't. He has pathos. He has kind of like... Yeah.

He's got a vulnerability. He's got like a vulnerability. Fragility. In Uncle Buck, he's definitely got like a fragility. Like the undertone of his role is basically that he can't commit to that woman

that he clearly loves and they're always falling out and it takes looking after the kids to bring that sentimentality about what's really important. It's a really deep role. Basically, what I'm trying to say is from 1980 till he died in 1994, he was in every comedy

film. He really was. And he was good in every comedy film. I can't remember a stinker. I'm sure there was quite a few, but I can't remember a completely not a stinker from Cans. Yeah, there we go. In tribute, I'm eating candy cigarettes. There we go. John tribute, I'm eating candy cigarettes. There we go. John Candy,

Pete Candy. Does John Candy have much of a, much of a pull in Taiwan? In Taiwan, I didn't see many pictures of him. A lot of K-pop stars. There wasn't many

vending machines, so I couldn't tell you whether Tommy Lee Jones was very big. But, yeah. And he was actually also called,

literally his name was John Candy. He didn't change it because he was fat. He's actually called that. It would be a weird thing. It would be, it would be, yeah, a little bit. Nominated. Anyway, here's a salute. I'm saluting to you, Dale B. Griffith,

shower curtain ring salesman from Planes, Trains and All My Bills, John Candy, rest in peace. Yeah, that was the bit I never understood about the whole, why would you just sell shower rings? That's the point of it, isn't it? Yeah. People say that's a Christmas film, don't they, Pete? No, I don't. You're probably wondering why I'm in a cold,

dark room, repeatedly spilling molasses. You're probably wondering why we're in a cold, dark room, repeatedly chatting to each other, everybody. Molasses, yeah. People are listening. Molasses is one of my, why we're in a cold, dark room repeatedly chatting to each other every week. About molasses, yeah. People are listening. Molasses is one of my... Listen, there's a great band called Oxford Collapse

and one of their best songs is called Molasses. I'd recommend you check it out. There's a band called the Manic Street Preachers and one of their best songs is the molasses against the classes. So there we go. This is the part of the show where we do emails from you, the listener. Yes, mother. We've got quite a backlog because we had to pre-rec some shows

because Pete went away. Don't blame me, blame me. Hello at LukeAndPeteShow.com to get in touch. We are at LukeAndPeteShow on Twitter. I'm going to start with an email, and I've titled this email, Someone Does Not Want Peter To Die. Oh. Which is a good thing.

It sounds bad, but it's a good thing. Why is there only one person? Bearing in mind that I'm probably in that camp as well. This is the only listener that I know of who explicitly states that he doesn't want you to die. Well, that's two then. Two people don't want Pete to die. Oh, I don't want you to die, so that's three.

All right, three. Most of the time. Good. This is from Sandip Singh Mann, who says, Hi, Pook and Leet. I hope you're well. I was listening to a recent episode while driving, and Leet says something along the lines of, Pete, imagine in 20 years' time, and you are,

and Pete cut in with dead. Very amusing, or so I thought. After my initial reaction of laughter, which Pete provides me lots of, I then found myself thinking of Pete's actual demise. Happens to me a lot. As a real podcast addict, and with the Luke and Pete show,

the Football Ramble, and Wrestle Me all occupying a lot of my time, I contemplated how much Pete is really in my life and how he would genuinely leave a big hole were he to die. My thoughts were then distracted

of these morbid, thoughts of a morbid nature by Pete explaining how he'd exploded blisters all over a God-fearing woman on a plane. Love you both and thanks for all you do.

Please don't die, Pete. Sandip Singh, man. We didn't know whether she was God fearing we just knew that she was God loving yeah but that sort of means the same thing

doesn't it people say God fearing as in like it's the same thing it's a weird phrase is the Jewish Lord a vengeful Lord I don't know

the faith to be honest I don't know because I went to Catholic school yeah well the Old Testament is very violent I very much thought

I was going to die in Taichung in Taichung. In Taichung, near the train station. Why don't you say this at the beginning when we're asking about your trip? This is how we fill out the second half of the email. We pretend it's the email section. It's not. We smash out our anecdotes.

Taichung, it's a place in Taiwan, about half an hour away from Taipei. You get that? And right next to the train station is an abandoned nightclub that burned down about 15 years ago, possibly shot. And it's basically this derelict building, like so dangerous. Oh, did you send me a video of this? Yes. And so it's basically a gargantuan 15-storey building.

It's like something out of, you know, like deserted hotels in North Korea that have never been used ever because it's just, you know, I can't remember why. Some people speculate that you were actually president at the Trump-Kim Jong-un summit, which happened at the same time. That's why it didn't work out.

Did you get anywhere near it? That's why it didn't work out, yeah. No, my press pass didn't. So good of Trump to finally go to Vietnam. 45 years too late or whatever bone spurs allowing yeah going into

it's this big building and you're just allowed to go in and it's not being touched so it's just on the street and you just walk in it's on the street is there a gift shop

there are shops that are selling like food so just normal foodie stuff right but then I sort of said well we just go up down this alleyway and we're in

where the nightclub would start effectively and then you climb up the stairs and it's like this kind of tower block and on every floor so obviously

this is you know 15 years of graffiti and people smashing mirrors up and smashing shit up Do you know what happened to it in the first instance?

It just burned down it just burned down and then it was condemned but they didn't really close it off so. Do you know what happened to it in the first instance? It just burned down. It just burned down. And then it was condemned, but they didn't really close it off. Right. So people just, you know,

climb around. I was expecting to see like squatters or homeless people. None of that. I did encounter, me and Martin did encounter

an erotic photo shoot going on at one point. It was quite exciting. Yeah, I think you might have sent me a video of that as well. One of the busters out. Most unexpected.

Most unexpected. And I'm welcome, actually. Well, I think you might have sent me a video of that as well. One of the busters out. Most unexpected. Most unexpected. And I'm welcome, actually. Well, look. It's not, look, it was just a bit weird, all right? You don't expect to see that in a deserted nightclub. And it was just, yeah, it's just weird kind of place. They do a lot of... Talk to people listening through the situation,

read the erotic photo shoot. So you're in this abandoned building. Abandoned building. Climbing stairs, what happens? It's dark, there's smashed glass everywhere. I am genuinely regretting not getting a hepatitis shot before I went. I'm thinking about which ones I got before I went to Zimbabwe

and whether they are still in date effectively because there was a lot of broken glass. I'm thinking needles. I was wearing Tom's shoes. You wear espadrilles everywhere you go. Espadrilles. Is it warm there? They're my holiday shoes.

Very warm, yeah. Okay, right. It was like 26 degrees, really hot. And I'm climbing around, and I was like, and I looked out the window, and I was filming for my mum. I was like, mum, I'm in this abandoned nightclub because I like to scare her.

What do you think your mum thinks when she sees that? What does poor old Christine think? And I sort of stuck my head out the window and I looked to the right and there was just like a gaggle of dirty men with big cameras going, because they clearly paid a model to basically strip,

take a top off basically. And they were just all kind of crowding around taking pictures. But I just imagine, I imagine your mum, your poor mum, being at a cafe with some of her friends. She never goes to cafes

and she doesn't have any friends. That's outrageous. It is outrageous, but it's true and that's one of the things that annoys me about my mother. Well, I'm just saying, let me just, allow me, indulge me in this scenario. I'm imagining she's drinking Mai Tais with her best friends at the Savoy.

Ladies at lunch. Sex in the city. But I just think that some of the other mums will be like... She's such a Miranda, his Christine. Some of the other mums will be like, yeah, my son Tommy, he's a lawyer now,

he's doing really well. And the next one, yeah, my son Billy, he's a doctor now, he's just moved on to paediatrics, he's doing brilliantly, he's going to be a consultant soon. And your poor old mum was there.

Oh, look what my son's doing. Showing a video of you walking around in an abandoned nightclub in Taiwan with a woman behind you with her tits out. Behind me, it was on an adjoining staircase. Yeah. We were only there for a second. It's fine.

It makes it sound more seedy for the fact that it was in an abandoned nightclub. What could be seedy about that? that it was in an abandoned night what could be seedy about that it just turned from very scary and very spooky to very sexy really it was just weird and then we got on the roof and people were filming like youngsters were filming like rap videos and stuff and it was it was banging so listen sandit you got in touch earlier you know pete isn't really respecting your request not to die because he's spent a lot of his time doing quite dangerous

things. How does it rank in terms of because you're a world travel man, we hear a lot about your travels on this show and I certainly am not as well travelled as you but how does that rank on lists of dangerous things that have happened in your travels? Remember you fell down that staircase in Japan? Yeah, when I was on

the island, we also went from an island in Kaohsiung and I jumped from one rock to another basically there was this bit of cement on one side of a rock

kind of crevice ravine and there was a bit of cement on the other side so at some point probably about 10 8 metres

bloody hell and there was this like it was clearly at some point there'd been 10, 8 metres. Bloody hell. And there was this, like, it was clearly at some point there'd been a ladder that went across the two, but it had clearly broken into some horrible disaster by the sounds of it. But it was just close enough to sort of go, yeah, I can make that. Trouble with Tom's is...

Oh, dear. And it, yeah, it wasn't a great landing. It wasn't, no. I was on, I was at the seaside. It was a beautiful day. We were looking at little turtles, snapping turtles, coming in for a little landing. It wasn't. No. I was on the seaside. It was a beautiful day. We were looking at little turtles, snapping turtles, coming in for a little snap, snap. Okay.

And I did a little jump, jump. And I was like, oh, I'm glad I landed that because that would have been dreadful if I hadn't landed it. Was it just the two of you there? Three. Okay. I nailed it. I felt, but as I did it, I thought,

this is just like that film that Luke likes about El Capitan oh what Free Solo which won the Oscar by the way won the Oscar it won the Oscar in the end so and it was on that it was on Nat Geo

last night so it'll probably be repeated so if you haven't seen it yet you can probably watch it for free somewhere Pete I've got two more emails I desperately want to do

but do you want to go no I would recommend you doing it because I've just got off the plane and I'm not and I'm kind of I favourited a couple but for some reason

I favourited one that was about the change to a bus East Midlands Airport kind of bus so I don't know why I did that yeah

apologies to the listeners because they're going to hear a lot of me there's some disruption to stagecoach buses in Bedford apparently I mean what what is that

thanks to the absolute toilet we sent us that. This is from Dr. Robert Tyler. Tyler! Who says, Dear Luke and Pete, I wrote in some months ago about Pete's idea of biting into a kidney transplant.

Thanks for reading it out, especially the discussion about organ donation. You will hopefully have raised awareness, which may help Pete at the Pearly Gates when he has to explain popping a blister onto an unsuspecting lady um it got me thinking about a story i encountered as a doctor involving the treatment of large blisters one of the treatments for large blisters on the feet due to fluid retention is a chemical foot bath in a solution called potassium permanganate very blue this is a bright purple solution yeah that you use

around 10 milliliters of for every liter of water, and the patient sits down with their feet in the bath for around half an hour. It dries the feet and legs out and reduces the size of blisters. So far, so straightforward. We discharged the patient home after a short stay in hospital

with this as one of his medications, with a plan that the district nurse would come out to his house and sort the bath out for him. Unfortunately, in clinic the next day, I had a call from a nurse to inform me he had drunk the solution neat, thinking it was a liquid medication and was currently vomiting profuse purple vomits all over his house.

I didn't need to know the name of the patient as apart from a big knot in the vimto, there's only one chemical that could do this to you. The poor chap was admitted, watched overnight for any signs of breathing or swallowing difficulties and then discharged with some more specific advice about how to apply the nasty purple medication. Thanks for that, Dr. Robert Tyler. P.S. You have a resident pilot for the show.

Pilot Neil, of course. Can I be on the shortlist for resident doctor? Definitely. Okay, so I think Dr. Robert Tyler, you can have the position, because it's vacant at the moment, and people can email in with their particular ailments and everything and you can offer replies and we'll be the conduit for that. RBMD. Yeah.

Hello at LukeandPete.com. Pete is a doctor in several countries, just not in this one, sadly. He won't let me practice. And it is practicing. Yeah, you need practice. I would like to see what would happen if you injected very delicately into a massive tennis ball-sized swelling on the foot

potassium permanganate, because I remember it from science class at school, and I think it might make the blister look a little bit like a mood ring. Yeah, I can see that. I think it would be very pleasing to see it jiggle. What about into a pot belg? Into a pot belg? On the thigh? That's the pot belg. I love that. I think it would be very pleasing to see it jiggle. What about into a pot belch? Into a pot belch? On the thigh?

That's the pot belch. I love that. I only have my pot belches purple. Is that right? Oh, I tried that. Purple belch. What are they called? Is it betel nut or what are they called?

Oh, betel nut. Is it betel nut? B-E-T-E-L, betel nut, yeah. Well, it must be betel then. Why wouldn't they call it betel? You can call it what you want. It's a psychoactive natural growing nut that gives you hallucinations, right?

Not really. They use it a lot in southern sub-Saharan Africa. No, I think there's variations they use them all over the place

but the stuff that the Taiwanese old chaps eat, chew and spit out is basically it's kind of it's this nut

that's I think it's a little bit like smoking a cigarette, but like quite a strong one. And it's wrapped in this specific leaf that's soaked in a specific lime, not lime, the fruit, lime, the something that somebody would, crushed up shells, I think, or something like that.

Yeah, apparently it's the beetle leaf and the areca nut, but it's mistakenly often referred to as the beetle nut. Right, okay. Well, I'll... Yeah, it just makes your head hot a bit. Apparently, you've got a greatly increased risk of developing a range of serious diseases, including cancer of the mouth and esophagus.

Yay! So, good on you. Didn't fall down the hole, did I? You're not taking Sandip's request very seriously today. If anything, you're doing the opposite. Well, I just saw them and I was like, oh, these old blokes are doing it, and they look fine.

They've got no teeth. They're all about 18. I just saw them and I was like oh these old blokes are doing it and they look fine they've got no teeth they're all about 18 they just look about 100 listen if you're out there and you've experienced betel nut or any of the naturally growing

psychoactive drugs that mother nature has kindly sprinkled around this beautiful planet like kava in Fiji which I've drunk before

which is quite interesting, but a little bit underwhelming. Get in touch. Hello at lukeandpeach.com. I want to finish with this email, Pete, and you'll hear why. It's from Stu Jones again. It's an update on the Deaf Leopard Cruise.

Oh, yes. Hysteria on the high seas. It's a great email. Stu says, thank you for reading out my email with regards to the Deaf Leopard Cruise. When telling the tale of the cruise, people usually react with, it must have been awful

and I guess we sort of did that so it was a bit depressing they are shocked by our response which is that we actually had a great time and we loved it and after the very short Def Leppard concert we felt very angry, we had paid shy of £5,000 to see our favourite band perform seven songs on a cruise ship without their lead singer there were a lot of frustrated people on board

and fans stating they would stop supporting Def Leppard but the anger obviously dissipated once the news of jimmy bain's passing was revealed and there was still you know there's still lots of other stuff going on in response in response to pete's query joe elliott was on board that's the lead singer and did an apology before the concert for his lack of voice and for the first time ever had to introduce his own band the day before he had participated in an acoustic set where he sang ziggy stardust as a tribute to david bowie who had passed away around that time as well. Oh, toggle enough.

The cruise really became about the other bands and opened our eyes and ears to some fantastic music that never gets played on mainstream radio, and Def Leppard became a support act, if you like. Some of the US Def Leppard fans also made us chuckle. A few wore Sheffield United shirts, because Joe Elliott is a Sheffield United fan, in a bid to get noticed by the band when they hadn't even been to the UK. Trying to engage them in the conversation of the Blades plight was hilarious.

They were clueless. Many were obsessed with Def Leppard and to be honest, they were really embarrassing. But we were part of a unique experience and I can boast of being only one of a few thousand who saw Def Leppard play without Joe Elliott. Once again, thanks for reading the email out. I played the episode to my wife

and we ended up looking at YouTube clips of the cruise laughing and reminiscing. Bring on the Luke and Pete cruise. You have your first two customers here. That's quite a nice email. A little philosophical way of looking at it. That's one of those little

boat tours, isn't it? That's one of those little boats. Yeah. Me and you at the front. A fishing vessel. Two people. Yeah. Just crabbing.

We'll go crabbing. Get one of those little things in the Hyde Park River. Oh, like a pedalo? A little pedalo. Yeah. The Luke and Pete pedalo cruise. Yeah.

We could have a flotilla of pedalos and just have like separate little pods. Can we also go crabbing? If you want to go crabbing, you can go crabbing, mate. Get some bacon. The most interesting thing... Get some old bacon on the hook. The most interesting thing about that cruise,

which I don't think we mentioned on the show because I found out the information afterwards. The guy who died, who you've got... Jimmy Bain. Jimmy Bain. Yeah. He died of cancer.

Yeah. Which is not something you die of suddenly. No. But he managed to fucking do it. Yeah. Incredible. I think he thought he had pneumonia. Yeah.

Isn't that amazing? Yeah. Yeah. But I think that happens with older... I mean, I don't know how old Jimmy Bain was, but with older people, I'm led to believe, and perhaps this is one for Dr. Robert Tyler, because I'm led to believe that when old people

pass away of natural causes, in quotes, a lot of them do have cancers. Oh, yeah. So it's just one of those things. And also, I was thinking about the Def Leppard song Pour Some Sugar On Me, because I heard it while I was in Taiwan. Pour Some Sugar On Me, the um death leopard song pour some sugar on me yeah because i heard it while i was in taiwan pour some sugar on me they talk constantly about wanting to have some sugar poured on themselves right yeah and then halfway through the song they ask one lump or two yeah so are they pouring

lumps of sugar on each other yeah Yeah. Because that's just weird. A cascading kind of Minecraft torrent of sugar cubes. Of lumps. Of lumps. Sugar lumps. Maybe it's a tribute to Bjork's old band, The Sugar Cube. But it's also quite, it's mixed. A lot of the stuff in there, a lot of the metaphors are mixed.

Yeah. Because it also says, take the bottle, shake it up, break the bubble, break it up. Ah. That sounds druggy. Sugar isn't served in bottles. So what are they talking about? What are they talking about? It's confusing. So, Def Leppard, sort your act out.

Literally. Yeah, I mean, they've got bigger problems than that. I think that's all we've got time for for Monday. This has been episode 147 on Monday the 4th of March. We're back on Thursday. Pete's going to contribute some emails on Thursday. Yeah, I am.

But thank you very much for getting in touch. If you want to do so, we're always happy to hear from you. It's hello at lukeandpete.com. As ever, we're proud to be the head of this strange community of listeners

and hello and Luke and Pete, Luke and Pete showers. And we'll see you again on Thursday. Thank you very much. Cheers, Pete. Oh, lovely. This was a Radio Stakhanov production.