The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 150: A little propeller

Episode Date: March 14, 2019

Hello everyone, and welcome to the 150th instalment of this, The Luke and Pete Show (formerly known as Luke and Pete's Summer)! We're bloody grateful to have you along. This time around there's Prince's shoes, Daniel Radcliffe, the beauty of/problems with cassette tapes, one of the most interesting phobias we've ever heard, and lots, lots more.Lots more like Pilot Gav getting back in touch, Eddie Stobart's policy of naming their vehicles, and how storms are named. All this and more, brought to you by Storm Luke and Storm Pete. Don't miss it. Have a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday!Hit us up: [e-mail]***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.

We're not using protection. We're the Luke and Pete Show. We've removed our pop shields, guys. So we're going to do things a little bit further away from the microphone, but we are unsheathed. We've got our muffs, but we haven't got our pop shields. No one cares about this. So the plosives, the P's, the T's may be a little bit strong this week.

What a way to bring in Laps episode 150. I know, right? That sort of chat, Donaldson. Yeah. That's what people come to you for. I was reading this week that apparently at the height of his fame, Prince was ordering something like 50 to 60 pairs of shoes per week. Like that?

By specification. Love that. They had custom zippers. He was very into the nuts and bolts of how his shoes were made. And if they knew that he was going to do the splits in his shoes, they would be reinforced with steel bolts. in his shoes, they would be reinforced with steel bolts. See, this is exactly the kind of behaviour that needs to be exhibited by pop slash rock stars. Yes.

We do not, in this age of... The white singer-songwriter. Oversharing. No, where are you going with that? I was just saying that I want a sex god who spends a lot on shoes. I don't want young white singer-songwriters going, I'm going to go in economy class because I'm keeping it real. You make your points.

I'm just a normal bloke. I'll make mine. All right. In this world of oversharing. Yes. Where you, I mean, look, if David Bowie came through now, that's exactly what we'd be hearing, what you just described there.

We'd also probably be seeing him buying a pint of milk from the shop. We don't need that. Prince was otherworldly. And that's exactly what, I mean, of course, he relinquished all that sexy stuff later on, but he was completely otherworldly. And if someone says to me, have you heard this story about Prince? That's the kind of story I want.

Perfect. That's why it shocks you, I think, when, I think Beyonce is a bit like that. I think it shocks you when you sort of see, she's the only one, I think, I think Beyonce is a little bit like that I think it shocks you when you sort of see she's the only one I think in the world and I think only her

who doesn't like overshare she's just her she gives what she wants to give she's got a very manicured

and pedicured presumably public persona and so when you see shots of her sister beating the shit out of her husband in a lift

you're like holy shit. Yes. This is incredible. Yeah. So it's, and I think there's very few pop stars and rock stars who actually still do that. Sure. Who actually still have another worldly kind of persona.

And I understand why, for example, one of the biggest pop stars in the world, Ed Sheeran, he is, I know, I get why he's popular. Yeah. And I get why people find it endearing. Oh, you know, he's just a normal guy. Look at the way he dresses. I do understand that. But for me, I want them to be mad.

That's part of the job, right? That's mad. Bill Hicks did it, didn't he? Bill Hicks, you know, obviously he died a long time ago, but I think he used the example of New Kids on the Block. He said, oh, you know,

they're so clean cut. They're great for the kids. They're great role models. And Bill Hicks was like, are you mad? Rock stars should be being sick in doorways. That's their job, right? That's the whole point of it. You don't want them to be clean cut and every man types

because it gives people the illusion that anyone can do it and anyone can't do it. Anyone can do a podcast. Anybody does do a podcast. Not anyone can be a rock star star there's a role to perform there you know I remember sort of like hearing about

Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe and he was sort of saying obviously he's his full name Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter Daniel Radcliffe used to listen to me on

X-Men Breakfast Show thank you very much never seen any of his films he would he was sort of saying how he thought that he would obviously he was sort of saying how he thought that he would, obviously he can't go anywhere

and that is a cage in itself and you understand why these people... Stop wearing the glasses, Daniel. Stop wearing the glasses and drawing the little scar in. Is it a scar? I think it might be a scar.

Yeah, it's a scar. Yeah, of course it is. Lightning bolt scar on his forehead. I've never seen any of his films. But I have, so ask me. Or read any of his books. Ask me again. Is it a scar?

Harry Potter written by Daniel Radcliffe. Is it a scar? Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter. Is it a scar? Harry Potter written by Daniel Radcliffe. Is it a scar? Daniel Radcliffe's Harry Potter. Is it a scar? He's got a lightning bolt scar on his forehead. Okay. And when he was good, he was very, very good.

And when he was bad, he was horrid. Dreadful, right. Dreadful. I can't remember the rest of that rhyme. I really like him and he's very real, but also he's quite protective as well.

He'll only let you know what you need to know effectively. But he was talking about when he would go out with his friends and stuff. Got his old chap out on stage, didn't he? I mean,

that makes it sound like he's gone mad and he's just flung his wanger out. He hadn't. He was in a film called, he was in a stage play and I'm remembering Equus.

It was Equus. Was it Equus? It was Equus, yeah. Ah, lovely. And he had to for business reasons. Sorry, I was just putting this tax deductible because I'm not choosing to do this.

And I just like he's got a very ordered mind in interviews and stuff. Have you interviewed him? Yeah, that's how I knew that he listened to it. So you pretended you've seen his films? Yeah. So, I mean, technically I had to watch a Sky, I had to watch a Sky one thing,

that thing he did with Don Draper, whatever his bloody name is. Right, John Hamm. John Hamm. The deliciously named... John Hamm. John Hamm. Another character who's very real as well.

Dave Cheese. But also very protective about his... Dave Berry. Another... Food-related Dave. Yeah. No, he's a food-related... Person.

Person in the public sphere. I mean, there'll be a lot of them, won't there? Yeah. Dr Legg from EastEnders. A leg isn't a food item, is it? It's always a food item. What's that?

It's a leg. You get a bit of meat at the dinner table. In the words of Lieutenant Frank Drebin, I can't remember what he says about a leg. Carry on.

The kind of legs you'd want to suck on for a few hours or something weird. Is that Leslie Nielsen? Yeah. Very strange. Who are you

and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. I'm a locksmith. Gags. Yeah. Yeah, I just like Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. Well, I'm a locksmith. Gags. Yeah. Yeah, I just like Daniel Radcliffe. I can't remember where we've gone with that, to be honest. Well, that's fine.

I'm padding it out because the broadband's gone down again. This is all about your opinions, mate. This site can't be reached. This is all about your opinions, mate. I wanted to bring to the table today... We have food, but we have anointing policy in the studio. You're drinking a diet Pepsi

which I think I don't think is canon but anyway well you shouldn't be in it should it why

because it's not allowed only water we drink tea in here only water and tea and coffee and coffee

anyway that doesn't matter listeners aren't interested in that we've already had the pop shield chat but I wanted to

bring to the table something that I feel we've got a lot of UK listeners and we're very grateful for that but we've also got a lot of UK listeners and we're very grateful for that. But we've also got a lot of world listeners. Okay.

And if one of the things... World listeners. World listeners. In HMV, this would have been the world listener. Yeah. The world section. World music. WOMAD.

And remember WOMAD? Smith Blackman Barzal. I remember being at Glastonbury Festival once. And this is a digression, but forgive me. I was sat around Glastonbury Festival. And look, cars on the table. I was about 24. So I was probably around Glastonbury Festival and look cards on the table I was about 24

so I was probably being pretentious myself but I was sat around the grass before it started to piss it down with rain that's another story that would be a digression

within a digression Peter we haven't got time for that sat on the grass and there's this group quite near us of you know

the pretentious Glastonbury types I've been coming here since the very first one and it's all commercial now so we're talking hippies with poi yeah all that kind of stuff yeah that kind of stuff and uh stonehenge botherers yeah that kind of thing but not not in a sort of i am interested in history and you know i like um you know bronze age sculptures just like stonehenge summer solstice all that crap weed i don't want toed. I don't want to pay tax. I don't want to pay tax.

Or have a job. I want my hemp to be brightly coloured. Yes. Using all of the chemicals. So picture this. I'm sat here with a couple of friends or whatever. And this group is sat next to us. And I've got my back to them. Wearing a hat made out of a gourd.

Yeah. The shell of a gourd. No, everything's made out of hemp, isn't it? Like your trousers. I wear no hemp trousers. I'm sat with my back to this group. Right. And there made out of hemp, isn't it? Like your trousers. I wear no hemp trousers. I was sat with my back to this group. Right. And there's one of them

just obviously gets bored and tries to... And you know those type of people can be quite sort of like, oh, let's be friends kind of thing. And one of them taps me on the shoulder and I turn around and he just points at a load of flags. Right.

And says, see those flags? And I say, yeah. He says, I got them from WOMAD. And I'm like, all right. What, the idea of having flags? Yes, we just come... No, the actual flags. Oh, right.

We've just come from WOMAD, and those flags were at WOMAD. Bear in mind, I'd never spoken to this guy before. And that's what I always think of when I think of WOMAD, which, of course, is the World Music Festival. But anyway. Oh, is it, right?

Anyway, yeah, anyway. I reckon they're off to... Where do you reckon, on their flaggy journey, do you reckon they're off to where do you reckon on their flaggy journey do you reckon they're off to after then I reckon not best of all best of all didn't exist then mate

I don't think maybe it did there'd be a latitude now in the first ever Glastonbury festival I went to in 1998 we got

we got completely washed out of our tent so I spent about a day wandering around and after that I was like I'm just going to go home. I lost all my friends.

I had no mobile phone or anything. And the only way, because you know, you've been to Glastonbury, right? It's right out there. And even to get to Castle Kerry Station is a mission. Yeah. And I had no idea how to walk it. It's a shithole.

Yeah, I had no idea how to walk it. Tarmac it. I've said it before, tarmac it. Yeah, you have. I had no idea how to walk it. I had no map and no mobile phone. And I needed to get to Castle Kerry Station, because all I had was a paper return ticket back to london paddington i think right and um the i was dressed

in a pair of football socks some tracksuit bottoms and like an old t-shirt because the only thing i had left everything else on the pole swamp yeah and so i um i flagged down so there's loads of people waiting in this lay-by and I basically managed to jump on the back of this flatbed truck which said it would drop a load of people

back to Castle Kerry Station okay and when I got on the flatbed truck I looked around and they were all all travellers all travelling folk

yes and I think looking back on it was that a tipping point for you they thought I was as well yeah because that's what I was dressed like yeah

and anyway one of them says to me can you fight where you from and I said I'm from Portsmouth he went oh right we're going down Portsmouth we're going down in a few days do you want us to drive you to Portsmouth instead

I was thinking in a few days in a few days I've got no tent see look this is exactly why this is exactly why your life that was a fork in the road, wasn't it, for you? Yeah, I could still be travelling now.

You could have had an experience there, but I think sometimes that's how people get murdered. I was 17. Yeah, exactly. You never would have met me if I'd done that. No, exactly. You wouldn't know what a podcast was. No, exactly. Anyway, in the deep, distant, dim past, I was going to say,

we've got worldwide listeners and they expect from two Brits, what do they expect? They expect cups of tea, respect of the God and the Queen, weather. Yes. Weather. You were going, weather.

I was mouthing weather. You were mouthing weather, but it just looked like you were trying to turn me on. Well, did it work? I don't know. I was just trying if you said go to a mirror

whoever's listening now and just silently mouth weather weather don't do it don't do it if you're on the train it's busy

look at the person directly opposite you if you're on the overground train and just go weather so I wanted to bring a quick bit of

a quick bit of weather chat to the table because I think that's what people expect of British people weather stop that now.

And we've also had a storm, haven't we? Storm Gareth. Storm Gareth. We are getting pictures taken for a bit of a ramble thing and it's the windiest day of the bloody year,

which is annoying. And do you know how storms are named and why they're named? Every time there's a new storm somebody says this, but I can't remember it. Oh, do you think our listeners will already know? I don't know. why they're named? Every time there's a new storm somebody says this but I can't remember it. Oh, do you think our listeners

will already know? I don't know. How are they named? Someone who wronged a meteorologist. Well, I read this story I found in Wired. They're dished out

alphabetically and they switch between male and female names during each storm season which starts towards the end of each year. Right. It's been happening

since 2014. The Met Office in England and Ireland's Met Iran, I think that's pronounced, both do it because of course a lot of the storms originate off the coast of

Ireland. At the end of every storm season the storm names are reset even if the latter letters of the alphabet haven't been reached.

The 2018-2019 storm season started in September and the most recent to hit is Gareth. But this is quite interesting. Why does the Met Office name storms that batter the UK? Well, there's a simple reason behind it.

The names are issued to humanise weather events and make them more understandable to members of the public. So giving a storm a name means people can easily look it up and how it will impact them. It also enables communication. It's like a QR code for storms. Basically, yeah. Gareth's on the door. How long is this going to last?

Is that Gareth? I'm going to put my chucks in the hoose. Yeah, I tell you what, there was a storm, Gareth, last summer, wasn't there? There was a? With the England football team. Did you see the Eddie Stobart story? No, I'll be interested in that. There was this young boy who was obsessed with trucks and I

think he might be either very, very unwell or his mum just thought it would be a really good idea to get in touch with Eddie Stobart. Basically, this kid

is about as obsessed with Eddie Stobart, specifically Eddie Stobart as a company, their trucks as you can possibly make this. As you are with

cables. As I am with cables, HMI cables and Amazon he basically loves Eddie Stobart so much and the mum got in touch

with Eddie Stobart and said look can you just name one of your trucks because all the trucks have names can you name one of your trucks after my child

he would fucking explode he loves Eddie Stobart it's a beautiful story are they not all named after women's names well

they are so Eddie Stobart is's a beautiful story are they not all named after women's names well they are so Eddie Stobart is unwilling to bend the rules except I believe one of the trucks is named after

Lee Rigby who was murdered by those guys right so where does the line where does the line end there so murdered by a terrorist

yes terminally ill child no yeah that seems to be the line for Eddie Stobart wash your cut off. Yeah, wash your cut off, exactly.

So Eddie Storbar. I think you'll find Eddie is a man's name. I think... Edward. Edie, Edie Storbar. Yeah. I think in 2019 it is refreshing to see a... A haulage company.

A haulage company, or just a company at large just doing, just being willing to be dicks about a really easy PR goal. Yeah. Like literally Ronnie Rosenthaling a fucking open goal right into the sky. To me,

him breaking with tradition there to do that is probably a full page five on the sun. Yeah. Well, the country's most widely circled newspaper. Not interested. Not doing it.

Also, by the way, I think the Sun would endorse the one breaking of the River Rigby, but also I think they would also be very into... No, the trucks have to be women. What next? A male Doctor Who truck.

What's that about? Listen, what gender is the TARDIS? That's what I want to know. Guess which Doctor Who I saw on the street yesterday. Not called Doctor Who, just called The Doctor. Really? Is that what we're doing? It's important to people who listen to this show

who like Doctor Who to be respectful. You've been hanging out with your wife for too long. Is that possible? I thought that was part of it. Are you sleeping with her? Is it on several bedrooms now? No, Peter. It's been a while.

And hello to Larry, my father-in-law. Who listens religiously. And could crush me with one hand. Yeah. Well, he has done. He has done. Literally. Which doctor did you see?

Did you see Sylvester McCoy? Incorrect. Christopher Eccleston? Incorrect. You've got one more. David Tennant? Incorrect. Jodie Whittaker?

Incorrect. William Hartnell? Incorrect. John Pertwee? Incorrect. Come on, which one? It was the one who was in the thick of it. Oh, for God's sake.

Peter Capaldi. Peter Capaldi. You didn't even know his name. I only know him through the singer-songwriter, Lewis Capaldi. Is that his son? No, it's a distant relative, but he was in his music video because of,

I don't know. I think he did it for free. I saw one of, this is quite niche, I saw one of the instructors from SAS Who Dares Wins at Bank Station yesterday. That's an ad break, isn't it? Hey, y'all, it's Farmer Meemaw, and today I'm going to show you what I've been doing

to take care of the pantry moth situation. One of the most interesting accents I've ever heard. It's got a bit of Dolly Parton about it. So if you go around to sort of Alabama kind of way, someone once described the accent in Alabama, which I love. It's a great way of describing it. They speak a sentence like cards being turned over in a poker game because they speak very slowly and very deliberately

and with a real sort of twang. And it does sound like that accent is more of a to me it sounds more like a Dolly Parton type accent. It sounds like she's

been chewing on the pantry moths. Where's Dolly Parton from? I can't remember. Dolly World of course. Yeah that's where

she was born. Did you see someone tweeted the opening hours of Dolly World and it was She's from Tennessee Tennessee that's

what it sounds like yeah. Again a massive missed opportunity the opening hours for Dolly World is 10 till it? She's from Tennessee. Tennessee, that's what it sounds like. Again, a massive missed opportunity. The opening hours for Dolly World is 10 till 6. Ah, so annoying. 10 till 6. They've done that on purpose. 10 till 6.

They've done that on purpose. Come on. They have done that on purpose. Disgusting. This is the section of the show. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show, of course. This is the section of the show where we talk emails normally, your stories, the people who have emailed in to hello at lukeandpeteshow.com.

If you want to remain anonymous forget it we will out you no we won't no we won't you're welcome to be anonymous

I went to go see Hamilton on Tuesday oh it was brilliant and I was going to talk about it in the first half but we talked about Eddie

Stobart instead so maybe I'll do it if people want to know what I thought about it they can tell me there'll be an Eddie Stobart

musical eventually but it was very good have you seen it no very good you'd like it I mean that's a pretty basic bitch opinion. Very good. You'd like it? I mean, that's a pretty basic bitch opinion, isn't it?

What, that you would like it? No. Hamilton is good. What do you want me to say? Is there a single person on the planet who came out of Hamilton and went,

no, maybe Mike Pence because the entire cast roasted him. Yeah. I quite like that. As I always say, Pete. Have some respect. You and I,

we're broadcasters, right? So as long as we're involved. As long as I'm part of the show. As long as people are Pete. Have some respect. You and I, we're broadcasters, right? So as long as we're involved. As long as I'm part of the show. As long as people are looking at us. I just like the quote that somebody came out with. We're going, he's a man who believes in gay conversion therapy. Loves a musical. We know how this ends, Mike Pence.

We know how this fucking ends. You don't go for long without seeing a story on the internet of man who previously ran gay conversion therapy camps comes out as gay. Happens all the time. Happens all the time. Yeah, so this is the email section. Pete, presumably you've done no emails again.

I've got emails. Oh, good. They're up now. Pilot Gav's back. You go first. Oh, good. I like that email. You do it.

Feels like a long time since I rolled in about the flying kidney. Do you want to give people a bit of an update? Mind you, we get... He's a pilot. We get criticism for repeating ourselves too much. Don't worry about it. He's a pilot.

Pilot Gav is canon. Go back and listen. We've got a Cessna and he flies us around the world so we can investigate things like Prince's shoes and Eddie Storbart's trucks. It's a Cessna, so regular fueling stuff off. Yeah. Yeah.

I think you can get pretty long range Cessnas now, can't you? As long as it isn't a 737 MAX 8. Mate, did you say they released like a software update this week? Do no one want to hear that. That was in their PR thing. We've released a software update. Sorry. Like, software updates are for Gears of War 3.

Yes. Software updates are for Red Dead Redemption 2. Yeah. They ain't for the old airplanes. You sound like Donald Trump who said that. Donald Trump is the same thing. Puerto Rico. Well, they made a very late decision to ground them, didn't they?

I don't know. The old Americans, we went second, I think, yeah. Australia was second. EU airspace, I think, was third, maybe. Doesn't matter. Carry on. Apparently, pilots have been complaining about the poor manual for a long time. Maybe Pilot Gav's got an opinion on it. Regarding the kidney chat that followed my email,

I think it may have been transported in dry ice. Would that have changed the texture of it if you were going to eat it? Probably a bit of frozen it, presumably. Pete's idea of mid-flight nibble sounds appealing right enough, but are we talking kidney tartare or sorbet? A kidney sorbet? Like a Heston Broom and Tiles sort of kidney sorbet no thanks

that is disgusting the airline would be interested to hear from one of your listeners about dry ice it is very mysterious to me the airline I work for permits a passenger

to bring no more than 2.5 kilograms of it of dry ice yeah I'm keen to know how it's manufactured and stored and packaged we used to get sent every now and again,

ice lollies when it was hot outside. And they'd always be transported in these big polystyrene boxes. And you'd get chunks of dry ice. And I spent a full radio show. I had this big chunk of dry ice that was still in the kitchen. I thought it was expensive, dry ice. No, I just said it to you. Well, I thought it was expensive dry ice. No, it's just... Well, yeah.

It's like ice, but it's dry. But it's real cold. So I just spent loads of time just kind of touching it and, like, throwing it in water and stuff and make it... I made my milkshake bubble. Isn't this a scene from Dumb and Dumber? Yeah, that's quite a bit. Got my tongue stuck to it.

Yeah. Yeah, it was fascinating. Fascinating kind of very... It's weird to see something look so unheard but be so volatile at the same time. When I was working, I forget which record label it was, when I was working at a record label,

people used to send their demos in and they would send, this is obviously before the internet, they would send their demos in. In notable ways. They wanted to be noticed. And one of them sent them in in a big envelope,

a pallet envelope, full of ice. Yes. Which obviously, basically on the side just started to melt. And so it got attention to it. And that band,

and that band was... It's got me cold play. I'll snow patrol. Yeah. That band was actually you too. I don't know who they were. Spend more time writing your songs. Less time on gimmicks.

We used to get, you get a lot of cassettes nowadays, I've noticed. It's fashionable again, isn't it? But there's absolutely no reason for that, you see. That annoys me because that is just a fashion thing

because with vinyl, it's a much more distinctive quality of sound and I can absolutely understand why people want to listen to something as it was originally intended. Cassettes, I mean, it's an inferior sound quality anyway. Cassettes, I mean, it's an inferior

sound quality anyway. Cassettes, if used properly, approach the quality of CDs. Right. We were always used to shitty C90s, budget performance, budget kind of like tapes have been used over and over again.

And so, if you actually look at the data, and more Leonard ears than mine would cast an ear over it, so to speak. But yeah, they were actually quite good. But we always used to choose the worst kinds of tapes. It's all about the metal used. I know three people who work in music professionally that listen to this show.

I'm going to put it out to them. Analogue. My mate Dan, who works for a top-end hi-fi. I'm going to put it out to them. Analogue. My mate Dan, who works for a top-end hi-fi company, tell us what you think about cassette quality. My mate Ed, who is lead singer and songwriter in Stats and also guitarist for Dua Lipa,

he listens to this show. Tell us what you think, Ed. And Blair... One, let us know if cassette's good, where we can use them again. Two, let us know if records are better or not. And three, if you're under him, you are getting over him.

I think I'm having a breakdown. What is this? Dua Lipa. Oh, sorry. I don't know any of their songs. Actually, I only know four because there's two guys called Blair. Blair Dunlop, folk singer, songwriter.

He'll know all about that. What do you think of Cassette Corte? And Blair Moa, who wrote the theme tune and performed the theme tune for On The Consonant, who is a composer, and who, bringing it right back round again, composed a lot of the music for the most recent series of Doctor Who, Mic Drop.

No. No Mic Drop, because... Pen Drop, that was a pen. If you're into analogue recording, what are you recording it on? You're recording it on magnetic tape, mate. Yeah, true. So it might have a bit more bandwidth,

it might be big and thick but tape cassette technology by the end was getting pretty good noise reduction all that Dolby good shit I believe you sticking a pen in the little things

to rewind it I've been watching Techmo erm yeah I thought I'd send a quickish one we're still into PilotGav's email I thought I'd send a quickish one

in about your rather shy resident doctor the one in fact that revealed himself in doctor, the one, in fact, that revealed himself in reply to my kidney story. Believe it or not, we were actually good friends at university.

What university was that? One's a doctor, one's a pilot. It wasn't De Montfort and it wasn't Farnborough College of Technology, I'll tell you that. If he doesn't wish

for his true identity to be revealed, you'll be glad to know that we called him Nacho Man at uni due to his rather bizarrely shaped head. Picture an upside down

tortilla chip on a neck with all the usual features sort of where they should be. I think, I think Pilot Gav should be above taking the piss off people's heads.

Tittle tattle. Yeah. Yeah. Check out your nose corn. Sniper's delight. Sniper's delight. There was even a song sung to the same tune

as Nacho Monreal's tune from the Arsenal fans. Nacho, Nacho Man. I want to be a Nacho Man. Nice. Like from the Simpsons. That's also, isn't that village people?

But isn't it great that after all these years the Luke and Pete show brings people back together. Brings people back together. Lost friends. I've got a question for Pilot Gav and our other resident pilot,

Pilot Neil. Can I get on the Friends and Family beer? Yeah, well yes. Because it turns out flights are expensive. But can, talking about software updates, if a plane's software just packs in,

can those planes that are so advanced and so technologically complicated, can they just be flown manually like an old plane? Yeah, I think so. I think everything's kind of, all of it's hydraulics. Because you get that little, if your engines hydraulics because you get that little, if your engines are fucked, you get

that little propeller that comes out, just pops out of the side and gives you a bit of auxiliary power for the flaps. Really? Yeah, there's a

tiny little, it's tiny, it's probably about as big as a dinner plate, it pops out the side. What, a massive jumbo? Yeah, it's like a

manual kind of, because otherwise all of your instruments are dead and you're fucked and you can't move anything and you can't control a plane. So you have this little...

It comes out and it's like... What do you call it? Like a generator. I've never heard of this before. And it uses the wind power to generate a little bit of power, a little bit of auxiliary power

to power the USB device so I can watch a bit of Netflix as I die. Yes! Oh, it's right in the middle of Stranger Things there. Fairly certain that's the case alright well that's interesting

I didn't know that strangely that sounds right I've got another email here I've thought about this I was reading about around about the time the loss of the Leicester City

chairman and the helicopter there is a technique that helicopter pilots can use that little propeller you know that's that's a helicopter

that's a helicopter the helicopter there is a way of because angling the blades helicopter pilots can use. That little propeller, you know that's a helicopter. That's a helicopter. The helicopter is a way of, because angling the blades, that uses the upward force of the air and the downward force of the blades to actually kind of create a spinning motion and therefore slow your descent. So there is a technique that the helicopter can use.

Obviously, if it's going to shit, it's going to shit. But there is a way of using it to soften your landing. To mitigate that. To mitigate that a little bit just by angling the blades so that the air going up

makes the helicopter weirdly spin. Right. Or rather the blades. You don't want the helicopter to spin. You know a lot about propellers, don't you? Mate, I watch so many shitty YouTube videos

about people who probably don't know their onions. No. But they wear pilot uniforms, so I trust them. Well, a lie gets around the world

before the truth can get its trousers on, as they say. Johnny's emailed in to hello at lukeandpeacher.com. We've probably got time for one email

more, and this is quite a long one. I thought you'd be interested in this, Pete, because you've got a phobia of ankle rolls. Yeah.

And that's obviously quite distinctive, and Johnny claims to have a very distinctive irrational fear. Right. He says, dear Luke and Pete, I've been listening to your recent podcasts that have mentioned the curing of irrational phobias, and I wanted to get in touch with an unusual one of mine

that hasn't necessarily been cured, but has certainly become more manageable over the years. The problem I have found with my phobia is it can surface in quite unremarkable circumstances and my reaction then requires an explanation which is usually met with a bit of laughter

and a pretty patronising aww. My phobia is witnessing someone breaking their glasses. Reading glasses that is, not a dropped pint of course. And this can be anything

from a lens falling out, a crack, an arm breaking off or anything that means for whatever reason they can't be used as well as falling out, a crack, an arm breaking off or anything that means for whatever reason they can't be used as well as they were before. Yeah, I think anything that people use. A dropped phone gets me.

Anything upwards of a dropped ice cream I get upset about. But phobic? It feels irrational to you that you're phobic? Yeah, but it encapsulates everything. It's a little bit like, that's a real show because that person can't, you've taken away their sight

and are technically disabled and that's quite expensive and annoying to have to fix. Well, Johnny goes on to say, I've also found that the worse their eyesight is, the bigger their reliance they have on their glasses, the worse reaction I have. I have often freaked out a bit

if someone leaves their spectacles a bit too close to the edge of a table or anywhere they can be sat on, which is then followed by the aforementioned awkward explanation. Having had a number of years to think about it, I remember a few specific events that happened as a small boy that would probably have shaped this. Basically, any and all films or TV programs

that feature a character's glasses being knocked off or smashed and the devastating line, I can't see without my glasses. Specifically scenes in Jurassic Park, Scooby-Doo, and later The Mummy. If I see any of those again, I have to look away or leave the room in advance and can't bring myself to watch. At a similar time to Jurassic Park being released, I remember playing football in the local park,

and there was always a boy who was a bit timid and had a reputation of being a bit of a geek, but when you got to the shallow end of picking teams, he was actually secretly quite a decent player. One day when taking a mite to Premier League, full on in the face, his glasses were a right off. Smashed lenses and a screw lost among the grass. I'm cringing writing it.

I've not seen it repeated as bad since, but it's literally my worst nightmare. Yeah. I spent a lot of time at school with tape, Jack Duckworth style, over my glasses. You do, yeah. Because I just smashed my glasses to bits. Now, Johnny finishes by saying

it's got more manageable over the years and in my 20s I was prescribed glasses myself I realised the phobia only applied to others glasses and not my own

and therefore each time I'm not overly careful with my own although being a new dad with our first born boy just turning 6 months I'm already nervous about his first trip

to the opticians I'm wondering if I'm alone with this phobia as I've never met anyone who's heard of it let alone shares it well listen Pete Donaldson does thanks Chaps keep up the good work Johnny a scuffed new shoe the opticians. I'm wondering if I'm alone with this phobia as I've never met anyone who's heard of it, let alone shares it. Well, listen, Pete Donaldson does.

Thanks, Chaps. Keep up the good work, Johnny. A scuffed new shoe. If someone buys a new pair of shoes and they just instantly get dirtied,

that's a shame. Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty phobic to that kind of behaviour. My worst is the dentist, probably. Again, basic, man.

You need to get more fetishes. You need to get a bit more spicy. You need to get a bit more you need to get more interesting you need to get a bit more spicy I have a thing get the internet

I love thinking about it I should set up the internet on my computer alright that's enough for this time I think that's enough from you thank you yeah that was Thursday

the 14th of March it's been a pleasure talking to you that's a bit loud isn't it hello at lukeandpeach.com to get in touch and we would love to hear from you again.

We'll see you on Monday. Have a fantastic weekend. Pete Donaldson, say goodbye. I'm phobic of unprofessionalism. Tell us if you've seen Eddie Stobart with a man's name. And we'll see you on Monday. Thanks. This was a Radio Stakhanov production.