The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 151: Bernie vs Bernie

Episode Date: March 18, 2019

A new pilot has entered the game! Pilot Dave brings The Luke and Pete Show squadron up to three pilots, and all we need now is a handful of planes and we're away. Also available on this, your all-new episode: old people, the Japanese language, The Kid Who Would Be King, iron lungs, and teeth.We also hear from a weather chaser, Pete gets stuck into his own teeth, and we exclusively reveal Bernie Sanders' running mate for the 2020 US Presidential Election. Clue: he's from Middlesbrough.To get in touch: [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 out here episode 151 pete donaldson and luke moore for the luke and pete show it's absolutely delicious mother to have you on board it is you. You know how I started my day? By eating a delicious Chinese meal. A succulent Chinese meal. A succulent Chinese meal. Love that. I was having my leftovers. I sent you a picture

of the succulent Chinese meal I was eating last night. Yeah, I thought it was... I'll be honest. As regular listeners of the show will know that Pete has a Sunday night Chinese every night.

It costs you about 50 quid but you take it through the week, right? You re-up it throughout the week. It lasts until Monday morning. That's about it. It is rather strange starting the day on a Monday morning eating leftover Chinese. It's not right. You sent a photo of it last night.

It looked bad. It looked bad. I'm just going to say, I've got no other beef with it. Did you have beef with it? Crispy beef? It was beef with it, yeah. Shredded beef? It looked bad. It looked bad. I'm just going to say, I've got no other beef with it. Did you have beef with it? Crispy beef? It was beef with it, yeah. Shredded beef? It looked bad.

It did look bad. You know when you sort of like tip out the plastic containers into, it used to be foil, but now they're plastic containers onto your plate. Yeah, it wasn't a good look, to be honest. It was all, it was quite congealed. It retained the shape of the vessel it was in. Yeah. Not great. Presumably you the vessel it was in. Yeah. Not great.

Presumably you absolutely housed it down. Well, yeah, I half and halfed it and then I'd half of it this morning. Do you know what? You know we talk about things about rolled ankles and stuff, things I don't like, things I worry about. Yeah. That I'm going to roll my ankle or I'm going to hurt myself. Or like someone breaking their glasses. Or someone breaking their glasses that we talked about

before. Yeah. I've got another thing I remembered today. I've got another thing that I remembered today. I've got a lump on my tooth. It's not a lump, it's a deformed canine tooth. So at the back of my tooth. I know it looks like a dentist surgery, but it's not. This is a recording studio. It's basically

like, and it's only on one side. It's only on one canine. It's just like a deformation of the tooth. But it's notable to the tongue. Right. And I'm and since since ever since i saw an episode of mad men where don draper described his um tooth uh pain as having a hot tooth it's fine i'll just i'll i'll go to the dentist later i've just got a hot tooth so you're just constantly with a cold compress trying to um try to cool it down right um ever since i've been scared that my tooth is going to explode right because it's like it's got a lump and it looks

like you know when like a macbook uh the battery goes wrong and it starts to deform the um the aluminium um kind of case a little bit because the lithium-ion battery is uh is perished and the contents are trying to escape right it gets warped it gets warped that's what my tooth feels like a little bit right and I'm scared that at any point

it's going to go bang are you phobic of the dentist no no I've got no problem at all

just go to the dentist there's no it's not increased in size it's always been that size right so I'm just I'm just always petrified

that my canine tooth is going to explode sending shards of tooth into the back of my throat. I broke mechanically, they call it a mechanical break when it's just an impact break. I mechanically broke my tooth eating a snacker jack.

It had an unpopped kernel of rice. It was corn, they're corn aren't they? Are they corn? Yeah, they might be both, but it was a corn kernel. I just snapped my tooth off. It was when I was walking to do the Ramble ones.

That's annoying. Yeah, and I went to the dentist and he was like, yeah, well, you can have the root pulled out and I'll put a fake one in there, but that's going to be like a grand. I'll just glue this on top. Which is fine.

No, I've got a gap, but it's near the back of my mouth, so it doesn't matter. Yeah. Anyway, that's a great way to start on the show. Another thing I've been looking up quite a lot is the back of my mouth so it doesn't matter anyway that's a great way to start on the show another thing I've been looking up quite a lot

is the last of the polio survivors from the 50s well that'll be back if the anti-vaxxers get their way well that's what I mean

like you know you're sitting there watching a bloke in an iron lung still in the like 19 the most 1950s bit of

medical technical equipment it's not needed anymore because, you know, they've vaccinated the shit out of everyone. And this bloke's in an iron lung. He's got his law degree and stuff, and he has to spend most of his life in this fucking horrendous 1950s tube.

But it's getting to the point where nobody can repair these antique iron lungs anymore because they don't have the parts. It's like all this stuff's from the 50s. They've got all plugs. Everything looks so old. There's nothing they can do to move the patient onto something more modern.

No, so the patients can leave for a few hours at a time, but they have to really concentrate on their breathing. Otherwise, they literally die. But they have to get in their iron lung, and they start leaking these machines and stuff. And you'd think that these machines would have been updated, but because of the vaccination,

there's no need to anymore. No, right, fine. Yeah, I understand. And, you know, that's what we're facing. But it was just fascinating to sort of see this man sort of going, I needed somebody to sort out my eye and lung. And so they just got like a local

kind of mechanic, kind of like engineer to sort of look at lung. And so they just got like a local kind of mechanic, kind of like engineer to sort of look at it and go, right, okay. Oh, that's going to cost you. No, just fix it. So he sort of moved, he found a new one and kind of refurbished it and stuff. And like it was in,

so we had to build all of our parts from scratch and stuff. And you're like, wow, that's quite. Incredible, really. Yeah, an incredible feat of engineering, especially when you're working with that's quite incredible really yeah an incredible feat of engineering especially when you're working with something from the 50s

do you know what I learnt from that but these are the last of the polio survivors and they must be respected and this guy

well even if they're not they're not going to come after you because they're bloody eyeing along and if they get out of the eyeing along

they can't breathe properly but I don't think the fact that because they're of no danger and also they're paralysed

but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be respected. Respect shouldn't come from the idea that you're safe from them, so that's okay. I respect him because he's got a law degree and he was a lawyer for like fucking 30 years. There we go. Incredible. It's not something you or I will ever have on our radar.

No. And what I learnt today is that rabbits don't really like carrots. And if you feed your rabbit just carrots, a la Bugs Bunny, they're likely to starve to death. Why? Because they're not getting enough? No. They need to eat greens. And the idea that they like carrots comes entirely

apparently from Bugs Bunny. And it's the same with ostriches and head in the sand. That just comes from cartoons. Ostriches don't do that. They don't do that. Lemmings off a cliff. That was the Disney guys pushing some lemmings off a cliff. Animal-based myths. comes from cartoons. Ostriches don't do that. They don't do that. Lemmings off a cliff. That was the Disney guys pushing some lemmings off a cliff.

Animal based myths. Terrible. Yeah, but they murdered a lot of animals. What about the video game Lemmings was entirely based on that. That was a classic

by the way. I played the game. Have I not told you that I was obsessed with the video game Lemmings? I was as well. I used to draw them.

I made my own t-shirt from fuzzy felt letters. I think you have told me this year. I love lemmings when I was a kid. I was as well. I used to draw them. I made my own t-shirt from fuzzy felt letters. I think you have told me this, yeah. I love lemmings. So I walked around town. How old were you? Older than I care to admit.

Yeah, but the thing is you are literally wearing a Windows 95 t-shirt right now, so it wouldn't be a huge departure. It's basically, if I describe it,

it's like a Chinese version of Windows with all like like horrible kanji horrible kind of like weird confusing kanji and little boxes and the Windows 95 logo and then

Chandler and Rachel from Friends who could I be any more into that t-shirt who did a very famous well certainly in the internet in the meme world so to speak

did a guide to Windows 95 when it came out. I remember, it was on the CD-ROM, yeah? They got a... I don't think it even was, but I think you had to buy it separately on VHS, but I think they certainly... Imagine doing that! But they must have been given

a ridiculous amount of money to do that. Have you got... No, I mean, imagine going into a shop and saying, I've just got the Windows 95 operating system for my PC. Can I please purchase the VHS version of The Guide featuring, what's his name? Chandler and Rachel from Friends. Incredible.

So, yes. Couldn't be any more 90s. That's what I'm wearing. And the other thing I learned today is that, you'll like this, Pete. Have you heard of John Tyler? Tyler? No.

It's quite a common name, to be fair. He was the 10th president of the United States. Right. And he was born in 1790. Okay. Good for him. Two of his grandsons are still alive. They've got to be a bitch.

So the Tyler family apparently had a thing where they had children very late in life. Right. So John Tyler, the 10th President of the United States, I think he was sworn into office in like the 1840s? Yeah. Right? Maybe, yeah, around the 1840s. His son was born in 1853. Right.

And then his two grandsons were born in 1924 and 1928. Yes. And they're both still alive. That's incredible. At the time of this article. They're very old. So they may have passed away overnight and we haven't got the news yet yet to be discovered. By the maid. How amazing is that?

That is amazing. A guy born in the... This is the thing, right? It's hard for me to have any frame of reference. I mean, we're literally just talking to sort of go, to have any frame of reference. I mean, we're literally just talking about old people. But yes, I mean, that is incredible. Well, if you think that he was the 10th ever president in the United States, and what have they had?

I mean, they're only on their 45th president now, I think. Porter's 45, baby. Yeah, your favourite. Or is he 46? I think he's 45, yeah. As in number 45. But yeah, there we go. I just thought that was quite fascinating.

Yeah. So his son must have had the kids when he was like in his 70s that's incredible isn't it incredible there we go

there was the world's oldest woman guess where she's from Japan Japan this week not Hartlepool and she was given

this big cake and when asked bearing in mind she probably speaks a very different style of Japanese

than anyone else nowadays would that be the case would it well certainly like it's different kind

of case but when the emperor had to record his secession what do you call it when

you just give up well you give up the wall basically he was tasked with recording a recording concession secession is, what do you call it when you just give up? Oh, abdication. Well, you give up the wall, basically. He was tasked with recording a recording. Concession, whatever. Concession, whatever. Doesn't matter.

Which is actually quite an interesting tale. The head of the army didn't want to give up, so they stormed the castle trying to find these vinyl records that they'd recorded his voice onto and smashed up all these records thinking it was the recording.

But the sound engineers had managed to hide the recordings of the Emperor's voice, basically giving up. Oh, he recorded it in advance? No, he recorded it on the day. Oh, and they tried to stop it going out? They tried to stop it going out because they wanted to continue the war in 1945.

And the records found their way to broadcast in the end, even though, again, these broadcast towers were under siege by the Japanese army, led by this rogue squadron guy. And the first time the Japanese people heard the emperor speak, it was like a foreign language because he spoke this, it's like the Queen, this is how I speak. But you can still understand. But you can still understand

what she says. But he spoke in this, in this kind of like such an old school kind of Japanese and very regal kind of Japanese. Most people,

A, couldn't understand what he was saying and B, had never heard the Emperor speak before. So it was like, oh my God, that's what the Emperor

sounds like. And he sounded completely different to what everyone thought. I think he had a slightly higher voice than you... So what happened to the guys

who didn't want to give up? Well, they... Surrender. I think they were either surrendered or shot. Okay, right. Wow, fascinating that, isn't it? When your world goes to shit, I mean, I think we sort of tell ourselves

that it couldn't happen here. But it could happen everywhere. Where are you going with this? I just want to start a coup. I just think, as a, you know, I'm a card-carrying Labour supporter, but I think I should take over

the Labour Party. Do you? Yes. I'd be all for it. I'd love to see you do your press conference in that T-shirt and trousers combo. Any questions? Not about the T-shirt or the clothes.

Not about my clothes. All the hands go down. Thank you. You see that Beto O'Rourke or Beto O'Rourke has been outed. Well, not outed, but... You had two guys there.

I don't think you said it right either time. I think his name is Beto, isn't it? Beto. Okay. I think so. You know who I mean. He has been outed as being a former hacker.

A former hacker? He was part of a hacking conglomerate. Oh, cool. Back in the day when he was young. That guy just gets cooler and cooler. He just took a few months off before he declared. The Republicans

outed him as a former hacker, I think. And because the Republicans are like, a lot of them are so out of touch, everyone's now going, oh, that's quite cool. I've played the game Watchdog. Yeah. The, um,

Ocasio-Cortez tweeted, beautiful. Like, she just awns fucking rubber leggings every time she opens her mouth. Um, like, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted beautiful like she just owns fucking rubber leggings every time she opens her mouth there was like a headline

basically saying Ocasio-Cortez is drowning in every in every demographic apart from ethnic minorities

the young and women it's like so hang on everybody else is just old white men if you ever want to talk about that's three of the major ones

isn't it that is three of the big ones that's everyone apart from old white men she's gone if you ever want to talk about unconscious bias in the media that was the headline

it's like so basically all white men are the are the main people and everyone else is just minorities and there's and we as two old white men ourselves

we are qualified to say that. I don't like her dancing. I don't like her dancing on a roof when she's 18.

I don't, I don't, I've got no truck with it. I've got big trucks with it. I saw the video, but I can't fully remember the moves.

They're not dancing moves. No way. I think they were, I think it was a pastiche of Flash Dance or something. Oh, that's a shame.

Or something. Or maybe it was like, or something. What was I filming in the 80s? 18 Candles. 15 Cands? 18 Candles. 15 Candles? 16 Candles.

I've not seen that. No, I've not seen that. I've seen St. Elmo's Fire, the greatest soundtrack title tune to an 80s film ever. Is it... It's the one that goes... Ooh, yeah! It's the one that goes...

Oh, right, yeah, yeah, yeah. St. Elmo's Fire, all right. Oh, and I also, before we take a little break and go to emails, I also saw the new Joe Cornish movie yesterday. Oh, the... The kid who would be king.

It's for kids, isn't it? You shouldn't be watching that film. Why? It's for children. It wasn't that good. It was for children. It left me quite cold. Yeah.

Apparently the acting, the kids are not very good in it. There's some... You know who he is, don't you? Who's who? He's Andy Serkis' son. Yes, but he's alright, but apparently everyone else is a bit junk. Yeah, I would go along with that.

But it just left me a bit cold, and I felt the same with Attack the Block. I didn't really relate to the characters. It's one of those, you know... Because you're a middle-class white man. Well, fine, but you know the same reason that we would love, and I understand a lot of this is because we watched it as kids, but if you watch it back now, it does stand out. Things like Home Alone, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth,

those kind of kids' movies that are classics. Well, magical. But this is magical as well. Right. But the point is, I don't think, I couldn't find myself warming to the characters. Even the kid who played Merlin, who's supposed to be this quirky, mad kind of,

because it's a retelling of the King Arthur myth, right? So this quirky, mad of it's a retelling of the King Arthur myth right so this quirky mad sort of really interesting modernised version of a young wizard it just left me cold I just couldn't get with it

I didn't care again all of the reviews I've heard I've heard the exact same thing to wit I would say it's a film for kids so

unless we have kids reviewing things on Commodore and Mio, if there's, I'd love to see a little, you know, I've got little Ant and Dex, little baby Ant and Dex. I think they should have little baby Commodore and Mio. That'd be great. That would be very good.

Somebody told me a story about an actor making, I think it was, like I said, he told us a story about an actor who I can't remember made Little Ant and Dec cry. Oh, really? It's not zero shits given. Having no truck with it. Having big trucks with it.

Why do I keep on getting no trucks and big trucks mixed up? No, I have no truck with it is the right way of saying it. I've got no truck with it. Yeah. Saying that I've got

no problem with it. I've got no time for that. Oh, I thought trucks was like, yeah, the problem. You had to have no truck with it. I thought the... like, yeah, I thought that being horrible. No,

when I don't like something, you must have truck with it. Yeah. Or if you don't like something, no one says that anyway. No, I know. Why am I adopting it though?

Yeah, I've got problems. I've got no problem. Just say that. Bringing trucks into it. You can't even drive. I know. Terrible,

isn't it? Right, let's take a break. We'll be back with your emails. See that chap over there? He's got your hair and not my penis! See that chap over there? He's got your hair

and not my penis! A man who doesn't want his penis touched. Fair enough, you know. Show me one of them and I'll show you a liar. The guy had a a track record of doing leggers

from restaurants finally caught up with him does that mean that he should have his penis touched by a police officer no it doesn't maybe they thought

he was smuggling a sausage yeah exactly he nicked off with a sausage exactly right email time hello at lukeandpeachow.com for the emails as you all know by now

I've got a few good ones actually. Here's a good one from Pilot Dave. Hello Pilot Dave. A new pilot has entered the game. Has entered the skies. This is our third pilot. We've almost got a

what's it called? A squadron. We've almost got a squadron. Yes. Dear Luke and Pete, he says, now I'm in an odd situation with regards to catching up

with current and past episodes I started listening to the show around episode 70 and although currently up to date at 150 I started listening to your first show recently and I'm now up to episode 10

if that makes sense so there's a 60 episode gap which I'm looking forward to filling I too am a pilot and have clearly missed who pilot Gav and pilot Neil are

I think one of them is a Gareth Southgate lookalike that's correct and I think he's on the same Gareth Southgate lookalike. That's correct. And I think he's on the same fleet as me, but I haven't met him yet. Wow. So we'll find out.

I think pilot Neil is the Gareth Southgate lookalike. Right. As a side, if you're interested, I train pilots in my airline to fly the B777. Airline pilots have two times four hourly sessions in the simulator every six months, where we test and train a multitude of different situations, one of which I'm disappointed to report is not a 1G barrel roll.

Although this is possible, we know that, Dave, you'll find out about that in probably the 60 episodes you haven't watched yet. And he says, just want to thank Pete for the reply he sent me about the record of the week at Absolute Radio back in 2016, Ancient Rolling Sea by Slow Club. Excellent tune. Wow, I don't think we've played anything by Slow Club

for a long time do you remember that caller or texter you remember all your listeners don't you Peter I remember and cherish every last one of them

until it started bothering me on Facebook with in that little you know that little kind of box in your messages

that are like people that you don't know that you're not connected to and you just open it and you're like whoa my god I haven't opened that are like people that you don't know that you're not connected to and you just open it and you're like whoa my god I haven't opened that in like five years

I wouldn't say you haven't I thought you had an open door policy on your Facebook no I used to and then I was like

it's just untenable there are people turning up to my birthday party that I've never met before did that happen yeah it happened a couple of times

it happened on my 30th quite notably did I get invited to your 30th that's how you got in that a couple of times. It happened on my 30th, quite notably. Did I get invited to your 30th? That's how you got in. That's how I got in. I didn't get invited, did I? You were there. Where was it?

You were there. Marcus was there from the Rambo, I think. Where was it? It was in Kentish Town. It's a pub that's not even there anymore. It was downstairs. And then you'd go into the toilet. And the whole of the toilet was just reflective.

Everything was like a mirrored surface. So people were like putting, thinking it was a toilet door, but it was actually urinals. So they're putting their hands in the water of the urinal coming down, thinking it was the... That's not the night where I ran home

and smacked my head on the tube. No, same venue though. Oh, I do know that, but I do remember. Okay, yeah. So those listening who don't know, I was out with pete once when i wasn't even that drunk and i stumbled on the tube train platform head first

into the train hit my head because i'm quite tall on the roof of the train and split my head at the front so i look basically look like a human money box for about three months i've still got the sky if you look closely like why would you do that speaking of people who are in the race to be president did you see he said Bernie Slaven where did that come from Bernie Sanders

Bernie Slaven running for president love that right there Bernie Sanders cut his head on the shower and then attended a a town hall

about healthcare about three hours later he went and got his head patched up and then attended a town hall about healthcare about three hours later. He went and got his head patched up and then did a round table about the future of the future, this is my Bernie Sanders, the future of health. The future of health. I'd love him to run with

Bernie Slaven, expert of the forward from Glasgow. Bernie, stop, boot some footballs in the crowd. Vote for the two Bern Glasgow. Bernie, stop boots and footballs in the crowd, eh? Vote for the two Bernies. Eh! It's weekend of Bernies up in here. Aye,

vote for the Bernies. I'd love that. Two Bernies, weekend of Bernieses. Bernieses. Yeah. Weekend of the Bernieses. Bernie Slavin and

Bernie Sanders. If Bernie Sanders becomes president, there will be And Colonel Sanders. Because he's quite, yeah, because Bernie Sanders is quite old, if he becomes president, there Sanders because he's quite because Bernie Sanders is quite

old if he becomes president there will I predict there will be a time where people don't see him for

a couple days and it'll be like the weekend at Bernie's thing will come out

oh he's being animated by two like two what are they called slackers yeah

speaking of yeah people pulling them all over people's eyes enjoying the Melania Trump height differential. Sometimes she's six foot.

I mean, after all, she's a fucking model. She's a model and she's looking good. Like, she's almost as tall as Donald Trump and he's a good 6'2". Second tallest president ever. Whoa. We said talk about this before and you said the tallest was...

Who was the tallest? Think of the most famous president. You know who it is. I've literally just forgotten his name. Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln. And you said to me, he wasn't that tall,

he just wore a big hat. Yeah, he just wore a big hat. I don't think people's hats are taken into account when it comes to height. Absolutely. Sorry, a man that tall wearing a big tall hat.

Fuck off. And that's why the tallest people in the world are all chefs. Right, we've got an email from Art. Hello, Art. Good name. I really enjoy the show. Good job.

Thanks, Art. A couple of episodes ago, right after Peter got back from Taipei, I remember you talked about strangers misinterpreting situations and it reminded me of a story when I was about eight years old. I remember you talked about strangers misinterpreting situations, and it reminded me of a story when I was about eight years old. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Big battleground for the presidential candidates. Oh, big battleground, guys.

If you get Ohio, you get the entirety of the world. For that in Ohio. But they were young for you there. And on each Sunday growing up, me, my dad, and my older sister, who was three years older, would go to a local hiking area in a forest to explore. Do you know what? I bloody love to go to a forest area in Ohio with you, me, my dad and my older sister who was three years older would go to a local hiking area in a forest to explore. Do you know what? I'd bloody love to go to a forest area in Ohio with you, Pete, and have a little explore. Have a little explore. I'd get bitten by an exotic caterpillar, I reckon,

and die. I don't think they bite. Do they? I think caterpillars bite. Yeah, caterpillars bite. Do they? Yeah. Hello at LukeandPete.com with Do Caterpillars Bite and the Answer in the subject line. We'll just get loads of emails saying yes they do. Here's an example of one.

I'm telling you now. Well, I was at the Manga Museum in, where was it, Kyoto in Japan and there was a little sign saying do not touch the caterpillars, we bite. The Manga Museum is not a decent place of research for our caterpillars. It wasn't inside, it wasn't like inside the museum.

It was outside near a hedge. And the caterpillars were all cartoons. And big eyes. Yeah. Fucking each other. Yeah, octopuses everywhere. The octopuses. Anyway, they go over a hiking trail in Ohio.

Because of the topography, sometimes the creek was about 50 feet below the trail in a ravine. The trail was never no more than a quarter mile from the creek, though, because it was much more fun to explore by creek than on a boring trail. We would always walk along the creek, which is usually slow-flowing. After about an hour or so of exploring, we would all climb out of the ravine where the creek was, walk back to the trail and go back to the car.

The ravine was at most a 45-degree angle, but was usually less steep. One day, my father and me climbed out of the ravine and we're waiting for my sister to climb up when my sister's head got over the edge of the ravine and was completely safe yeah and she jokingly started yelling for help my father and i were laughing but a stranger happened to be walking by on the trail nearby after hearing her cries he sprinted at full speed towards my sister leaping over fallen tree trunks and other debris on the way when he got to my, he threw himself on the ground and pulled her up.

I love Free Solo. It's a great movie. After he pulled her up, we all sheepishly thanked him for his help. Oh, that's sweet. He was beaming from ear to ear, clearly believing

he had saved my sister. We uncomfortably all walked back to our car as the stranger consoled my sister. To this day, that stranger probably believes he saved someone's life,

but little does he know the truth that it was that we were just terrible people joking about being in danger this day, that stranger probably believes he saved someone's life, but little does he know the truth that it was that we were just terrible people joking about being teenagers. Oh, that's really sweet. That's bad form by Art's family there. Why? I mean, I suppose they did the right thing. It's a gift, isn't it?

It's a gift. Yeah, it's a gift. True. The guy just wanted to help. My mum at Christmas absolutely poo-pooed a defining moment in my life because she just loves doing that. She reckons, once my sister was like halfway up the stairs

and she was like two. She shouldn't have been halfway up the stairs. How much younger is she than you? The gate shouldn't, three years. So you'd have been five. Yeah, so the gate

should not have been open for her to be able to just wander up the stairs. Negligence. Negligence on Christine Donaldson's part. And she was stood at the bottom of the stairs

on the phone, yacking. And my sister was stood at the bottom of the stairs on the phone yakking and my sister was having she shouldn't be at the stairs she was going to fall and my mum went go and get

go and stop your sister from falling down the stairs and I ran up and stopped her from like falling down the stairs and chariots of fire playing in your head

yeah exactly all that stuff Bonnie Tyler's hero all that stuff and my mum like afterwards going

telling my dad going yeah Peter was a hero today. He saved Helen from falling down the stairs. And then I recounted this story at Christmas and she went, none of that happened. Oh.

I was like, I literally heard it from you, man. Well, 40% of childhood memories aren't real. Yeah. So you never know. Do you think it did happen? It did happen. Yeah. It did happen.

What was your technique? Just under one arm? Just, um, just arm just gorilla press slam throughout yeah what about this for an email then someone else has emailed

into hello at lukeandpeacher.com this is from John how I saved a girl from a ravine in Ohio what about this from Richard Cook

do you remember Richard Cook from the western isles of Scotland not really you should Cook Islands. He's one of our best emailers.

He's been in touch again. It's a great start to this email. He always signs off his emails Richard Cook from the Western Isles of Scotland. And he starts his email by saying, Hello, you finally opened up the Luke and Pete show to weather on show 150.

I've been a weather nerd all my life and I will try to keep it short, but I've been to the USA five times chasing tornadoes. Wow. And he says he's seen 13 so far. Guess how he got into this. I bet you can guess.

Was it... Not Alice in Wonderland. What's that one with the... We're not in Kansas anymore. Oh, Wizard of Oz. Wizard of Oz. Apparently the dog Toto was originally a cow on the theatre stage. Oh, really?

I thought you were going to say the dog's still alive. The dog's still got two grandchildren alive. Richard Cook from the Western Isles of Scotland says it all started for me in 1996 with a VHS copy of the film Twister. Of course it did, yes. Bill Paxton. Bill Paxton. God rest him. He's still there, isn't he? No, he's died. He passed away.

Was there a brother Paxton? Was there another Paxton? Possibly. Tony Paxton. Unbreak my heart. Wow. Bill Paxton? Was there another Paxton? Possibly. Tony Paxton. Unbreak my heart. Wow. Bill Paxton's passed away. All right. And Richard says, when the internet grew in the early 2000s, I found other people who also liked weather.

I found a UK-based tour group who head out to the USA every May and chase the storms in the USA's Tornado Alley, and I'm going again this May. Cool. It can be very hit and miss, with some years being less active than others. It's not like the movie Twister in the sense

there's a lot of sitting around waiting for storms to produce and lots of frustration when the weather don't play ball. But when it actually happens and the storm is produced it's one of the

most amazing feelings ever. I've experienced multiple tornadoes in Kansas and a three inch hailstorm, I guess he means pieces of hail like that big, in Colorado and many other

memorable experiences. I think that'd be great, wouldn't it? It would be fun. Yeah, we'd definitely do that in the midweek sort of thing. Have some drinks at the weekend

in the city, and then just drive across there trying to find some twisters. I think if we could find a sponsor to let us go and do that, I think we should do it, Pete. It's you and I on a car, no experts.

Weather boys. That'd be brilliant. Yeah, we'd call ourselves the weather boys. We'd get t-shirts made up. Spoiler, we didn't find any weather cadets it's been windy in the UK recently although not to that level

admittedly people have had their scaffolding blown over people have had their fences blown over yeah a friend of mine Dan he had

one of his windows cracked really because of the wind yeah wow yeah it's dangerous guys danger look out for yourselves

and each other. Chris, unsolicited content this is. Take a look at my stepfather getting absolutely stuck into some tractor action on YouTube. Basically,

he sent us a video of him creeping around the corner and seeing his stepdad who operated heavy machinery for 35 years before retirement. He's a bit of a qualified judge on the matter.

So you think when he retires, he fancies arrest from all that? No. He's into it. But he sat on the set A with his iPhone on his lap just watching tractor video, like digger,

like, you know, pneumatic digger or whatever. Like watching some action. I think at one point he just got how can they check the oil on the flat ground I was like how can they do that

is your dad into it diggers not really my dad's really into planes machinery yeah yeah no I don't know what my dad's into really

old films old boring films my dad's knowledge of planes is amazing my parents live quite near an airfield and they do those like pleasure flights

with like old classic airplanes like Spitfires and all the rest of it and my old man if one plane goes past he'll tell you exactly what it is bang straight away

he's very good at it there was this one I was watching a thing about this plane that was seen on satellite photography in the Arctic this plane

that was like it's one of those old flying fortresses, or a derivative of those anyway, back in the day. So during the Cold War they, or maybe just before, they were doing recon for planes in Russia basically. In the USSR.

Apparently, so one of these crashed, right? So a fortress crashed right the fortress crashed and the men they all survived the men I think and they literally

had to fend for themselves until they could get the rescue so this seaplane landed picked up two of them well they crashed

in the ocean no they crashed on like an iceberg they crashed in the snow and there's a bear in mind like you're not fucking polar bears everywhere

you are not the king of the fucking jungle when it comes to you're not the top of the food chain on there you're not king of the tundra there no

and so they have to sit in this plane for like a month basically waiting to be rescued right and so this I think I get the story right this sea plane comes down to rescue them

and picks up two or three of them. And two of them are still left in the thing anyway. And then they fuck off. That plane crashes and everyone dies. And so then a third plane, I think, picks up a couple of them and then fucks off. Anyway, to...

Why are they sending planes that can't pick up all the planes? Just keep on... Just keep on getting really unlucky with the storms and stuff and just absolutely stacking it. Anyway, the crux of the story is like

these guys landed some I think 20 years later I'm probably getting all the details wrong here but they their plan was to spend a year

fixing this plane up putting new engines on it making it making it sky worthy again just a film with Brad the Keeper and flying it off yeah these scientists

they did it so they fitted all of the um motors and stuff yeah main voyage they start to uh they start to uh they start to go up and immediately uh the plane sets on fire i mean the plane's ancient anyway yeah but they kit it out with all new engines immediately a fuel line explodes and the flames's on fire. Everyone has to run away and they're all crying. And so that was the plane that is basically seen on satellite photography. It's old. Crazy.

That's a mad story, that. That's a mencarta. A rescue of a rescue of a rescue. What a mess. That's a mencarta, that is. What a mess. I'd like to know from Pilot Dave, Pilot Neil or Pilot Gav, or indeed any other pilots listening to the show

two things. One, when a big modern jet when the software fails can it still be flown manually? Right. And we talked about it Thursday we still haven't had an answer on that.

I think you should still have because remember when Jack Barron 24 we've talked about this before Jack Barron 24 is in the belly of a plane and he manages to pull

pull the hydraulics that's not happening that is not happening to make the foils move and the second thing is can a modern trained pilot who's learnt to fly jumbos

obviously they learn to fly smaller planes I understand that but could a pilot a modern pilot just get into a Spitfire and be able to fly it I'd love to know that as well

anyway well they all train on shitty little planes don't they true yeah but I think the Spitfire is quite a sort of it. I'd love to know that as well. Anyway, Pete... Well, they all train on shitty little planes, don't they? True, yeah. But I think the Spitfire is quite a sort of unique thing. The thing that...

I was watching that footage of that bloke in... God, did he start from Seattle? That guy was just a depressed kind of guy who... He just stole a plane and crashed it. It was like that last year sometime.

Yes, I remember that, yeah. And he was chatting to the air traffic control in a rather jovial fashion and he seemed like a kind of stand up bloke he does talk about not being able to get a job

because he's white at one point but we'll skip I remember the incident I don't remember the detail well I remember I was listening to it last night and it was just

a fascinating kind of like they'll probably land on the airfield and go nah they'll probably go out in the aircraft they'll probably not do that they'll probably yeah I'll probably look at it probably life've probably got out of the aircraft they'll probably not do that they'll probably yeah I'll probably look at it probably life for this

aren't I and then he just smashes it into the ground it's crazy isn't it and he's sort of going no we just want you to land and there was just

a succession of pilots trying to get him to land and he's going yeah nah I'm probably just going to I'm probably just going to fly fly around for a bit

and then I'll just call it a night and I was down and he just fucking stacks it on an island what a depressing tale to leave the what a witness stop this

what a fucking witness you are not Michael from Alan Partridge you are not crashing a helicopter into a sea after you've scared a donkey so it falls into a river let's get out of here

we're back on Thursday that was Luke and Pete episode 51 151 sorry for Monday 17th of March Peter it's been an absolute pleasure hello at

lukeandpete.com if you want to get in touch we'd love to hear from you and we'll see you later in the week we'll be back soon baby girls this was a Radio Stakhanov production.