The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 169: A Townshend warning

Episode Date: May 20, 2019

Is Pete Donaldson the Champagne Papi of podcasting? Answers on an email. And if not, what is he?This time around on The Luke and Pete Show, despite proclaiming himself to be the Drake of the podcast game Pete announces he spent almost an entire weekend in Cardiff Wetherspoons a few weeks ago which, however you slice it, has to be seen as rascal behaviour.Speaking of rascal behaviour, we also take the time to run the rule over Pete Townshend, hear about a nice little wager between two of Hollywood's biggest and best known stars, and hear about a giant Scottish man. Don't sleep on it.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts 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.

what's going on it's champagne papi back here once again on the luke and pete show i'm champagne papi i'm joined by champagne luke i'm scrambled eggs papi i'm uh big don energy that's what i am i'm um there's a really funny guy on Instagram called Big Ghost Big Ghost and he calls himself he's got some absolute he's really funny he does

hilarious in depth and actually very very good reviews of mostly hip hop and R&B albums

I find him he calls himself some absolutely brilliant names I wonder if he's still got it up on his Twitter I find it now he calls himself he calls himself some absolutely brilliant names I wonder if he's still got it up on his Twitter I find it now

he calls himself Big Ghost aka Shampoo Bracelets aka Cocaine Biceps he's got so many of them

sounds like that four word app that we used earlier on but Pete you are podcast game Drake

yeah I'm a bit wet and nobody seems to know why people like him but his review his reviews of Drake are absolutely because he basically

hates Drake yeah I don't really understand the mania of Drake because he is a bit wet isn't he he's a bit

oh yeah yeah yeah I don't really understand it he sort of blends rap and R&B and all that and just kind of doesn't really but he says

he says um and his review is big ghost he's one of the best music writers out there he's brilliant I read his stuff all the time and in his review of Drake records he basically spends

like three or four paragraphs just talking about the type of guy Drake is and he's saying stuff like this is the kind of guy who sort of closes his eyes when he brushes his teeth kind of guy

who's got like a his heart's got a ponytail on it because he is so wet, isn't he? I can't remember what character. It was that Texas, not legislator, senator, who was an absolute prick.

He reckoned he never wanked and stuff. Oh, Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz. Somebody better find Ted Cruz. It's the sort of man who drinks, who brushes his teeth and drinks orange juice and goes,

ah! Yeah. It's the worst taste in the mouth ever. But Big Ghost says about the Take Care, the Drake Take Care album cover artwork, he says, they give this guy a motherfucking goblet and a table for one with a candle and a bronze hour

and now he's running rap. Get the fuck out of here, B. Anyways, worth checking out. BigGhostLimited.com it is. Speaking of ghosts, did you see the Spanish right-wing fascist organisation who basically had a problem with gay marriage and gay rights and gay pride?

So they made this logo for gay, like basically representing gay people. And it's this spooky ghost with the rainbow flag basically sort of saying that you know they're a problem and they're horrible and they're ghostly

but it looked fucking adorable Luke it looked so adorable it looked like something out of Super Mario share it share it on the Twitter Big Ghost does a

track for track review of Take Care as well and he says in one of the songs he says I don't even know what to say to this

after hearing this shit I wouldn't be surprised if this guy could pollinate a flower with his fucking breath oh good how's it going it's monday how you doing you okay you well all right yeah keeping keeping out of trouble um i don't really like drake either i don't really get it and i can't believe i like that song about his telephone but other than that because of the dank memes it inspired that's why no I just like

the tune the tune's good but yeah I don't really understand the adulation I like that song he did that went

apple bottom jeans boots with the fur oh we're so old we are so old so yeah how you doing how was your weekend pretty good

fine yeah again stayed out of trouble just didn't do much went out Friday then yeah I'm getting that point where I'm like

oh I can have a couple of weekends at home and it's quite nice because obviously we were in Lisbon and I was in Cardiff I'm going to be in Tokyo soon I just need to sort of

just chill I'm like alright just need to relax one of Europe's capitals certainly is how was Cardiff we didn't talk about that

it was good it's that new book we need to talk about Cardiff we need to talk about Cardiff it was good stayed in the mitts house who's going to be renting out

as an Airbnb soon and her house oh you were testing it yeah I was testing the walls you did a pilot a pilot it was she's got this mad house

she's just filled it with like all the stuff that I buy but never put on my wall. She's basically got on her wall just like all kinds of crazy stuff. Paintings and she's got like graffiti artists to go in like her bathroom

and do this sort of graffiti sort of cartoon character of a toothpaste, a bottle of toothpaste, tube of toothpaste and squeezing his own kind of knob basically and pulling out it sounds very garish pulling out reams of

and it's sort of like squeeze it off you know put it in your mouth or something and it's like squeezing out bits of toothpaste

it is gorge but in the finest possible way and it's well worth Airbnb in the future when she puts it on there it's really good you had a nice time

I had a lovely time who were you there with Cardiff was smashing a friend from the north west Liverpool a guy called Matthew Young who with? Cardiff was smashing. A friend from the North West, Liverpool, a guy called Matthew Young who I went to school with

and also a friend from school called Alex Gonzala. Oh, I know Alex, yeah, of course. You sent me a video of him playing the guitar at your house the other day. Oh yeah.

In what? I was a bit drunk. What a bleak scene. Why was it a bleak scene? Just because it seemed quite sparse. What do you mean? It's my front room.

But I thought you should be playing music, not having someone just plinking a guitar around. Well, he was playing the guitar. I was playing the automaton, which is a Japanese instrument of torture in many ways. It's not really an instrument, is it?

No. It's like a toy, really. It's like a non-Rolf Harris affiliated... What was that piece of machinery he used? The wobble board? No, not the wobble board. Oh, is it a stylophone? Stylophone. It's like board. No, not the wobble board. Is it stylophone? Stylophone.

It's like a stylophone but it's got a little mouth on it. Should you be mentioning Rolf Harris on this show? Why not? He was a very gifted

artist. I think we spoke about him a few weeks ago. He said there's a lot of people who buy Rolf Harris paintings

and they're really gutted now he's a convicted sex offender. He used to have almost a permanent exhibition in, I think, the West Quay Shopping

Centre in South Hampton. So, yeah, come back to bite you, come back to haunt you. How would you rate Cardiff and the

Great British Nights Out? It was really good. I cannot recommend it enough, and I'm sure people who know Cardiff, that's not news to them,

quite frankly. Again, beautiful Wetherspoons, old theatre in the centre Again, beautiful Wetherspoons. Old theatre in the centre of town. Wetherspoons put themselves in such a beautiful building. I accept that

King's sponsor of Brexit, Mr. Wetherspoons, does have some of his pubs situated in nice buildings. But I'm just going to ask the question that a lot of our listeners will be asking. Why are you going

all the way to Cardiff to go to Wetherspoons? What do you mean? Well, it's like, I can't wait to go out for dinner in Turin and then go into a pizza hut. I mean, you can go to Wetherspoons anywhere. Yeah, but booze places are just booze places.

They're just, you know. Is that right? There's no romance. So it doesn't matter where you go. On a Friday night in Cardiff City Centre, try and find somewhere where you can have a fucking, you know, a mojito and a nice chat about politics.

There's just not a place. It's just people just going, I'm going to go mental. It's just, that's just the place it is. Do you always go to Wetherspoons wherever you go to the city? No, I just, it just, I was just excited by the fact that it was in a beautiful theatre. Like the one on Holloway Road, which is very nice.

An old art deco theatre. Beautiful. Or a cinema rather. There's one up in, is there one on Holloway Road, which is very nice, an old art deco theatre. Beautiful. There's one up in is there one up in Marswell Hill, which is like a massive converted church. It might not be a Weatherspoons actually, but it's amazing. I don't know

why they haven't done it in Hartlepool. We've got this old cinema called the Olean. Crazy name, huh? And it's been, it's this beautiful art deco cinema, and I don't know what kind of state of disrepair it's in now, but it is gigantic, and it's like one of therepair it's in now, but it is gigantic. And it's like one of the biggest buildings in Hartlepool. And it's not been open since about 1982.

I can't remember a time when it was ever open in my lifetime. And it's just gone to rot. I'd very much like to walk around that building. If anyone from Hartlepool is listening, then get me in that building. You can get in there. You're a celebrity there. You do what you want. It's an abandoned building.

You and Jeff Stelling. Get up there. Go wherever you want. A genuine question here. Given that you know the... I reckon Jeff Stelling was from a posh house. Do you? I reckon he was from good breeding.

Are you saying that you weren't? There's very few times in my life where I can sort of say I'm legitimately from dirt. But if you look at the houses that I used to live in, I'm from dirt. I haven't asked how your parents are. Are they okay? Alright, yeah.

My mum's got a bad tooth. That's about it. That's all we got. What happened? That's all we got. She thought she was going in to get a crown put back on because it fell off

and the guy just went, I'm getting rid of that tooth and pulled it straight out. Oh. Probably the best situation because you don't want to be hanging around waiting for a dental procedure, do dental procedure it's a bit miserable

it depends on how many other teeth you've got if it's your last one you might not be very happy again she keeps on giving me the guilt trip about not going up to see me niece

you know she's got legs hasn't she she might only be two years old how many times have you been to see her this year

calendar year this calendar year zero saw her at Christmas not enough is it saw her at Christmas that's a massive part of her life How many times have you been to see her this year? Calendar year. This calendar year? Yeah. Zero. Not enough. Saw her at Christmas. Not enough, is it? Saw her at Christmas.

That's a massive part of her life. She's two. That's almost a quarter of her life you haven't seen her for. What can I do? Go up there. I'm busy. Not go to Cardiff. I'm busy. You go to Cardiff on the piss, but you can't go see your own niece.

She doesn't want to go on the piss. Nobody does. What was that noise? A little spring on my microphone arm went. Have you got a special mic? Pete, can I ask you a genuine question? This is not meant to be a political statement for anyone listening. We welcome anyone providing their views aren't genuinely problematic.

That guy, the guy who runs Wetherspoons, he's so vocal about Brexit. Does it make... To the point of his... He puts beer mats in the pub and everything. Isn't it mad, though? Does that not give you pause for thought at any point before you go in there?

No, it's just necessity in that point. I'm not a big Wetherspoons, Rony kind of guy, and I would rather go somewhere else, but we do have on occasion dirty-dar boots in Wetherspoons. The reason I ask is purely because a lot of people

who do public facing businesses will I think sensibly stand back from taking a political stance on anything publicly because they think it's going to egg out

a lot of their customers potentially on such a divisive issue which is literally 52-48. I think weather spoons probably has the

ear of the older man certainly which certainly skews one way, don't they? Do you not think? Do you not think it kind of fits their kind of thing? But also, massively chinning. If you walk into Wetherspoons, most people are from Eastern Europe

who are working there. And you're like, you are chinning yourself off massively here. Very bizarre behavior from any company that, you know, probably doesn't pay a living wage. They are chinning themselves off massively

because... I think he's a maniac that guy. He's got mad staring eyes. I think he might be a proper maniac. I bet he knows

loads of members of Queen. It's just one of those things. His body and his hair and the way he dresses. Who would he be mates with?

Brian May, for sure. I don't know. Brian May's really environmentally conscious, isn't he? Yeah, but has the guy from Wetherspoon really gone one way or the other with that one? I don't know. He's not really made it clear. The old badger cult.

Yeah, exactly. That was a core celebrity for Brian May, wasn't it? Roger Taylor? Friends of Roger Taylor, do you reckon? Well, Petr Cech's friends with Roger Taylor. That's true. I don't think Petr Cech... What's your Venn diagram? Well, Petr Cech's friends with Roger Taylor. That's true. I don't think Petr Cech... What's your Venn diagram?

Well, Petr Cech's... Would Freddie Mercury be Brexit? He's foreign, isn't he? What? Freddie Mercury wouldn't be Brexit, would he?

No. I mean, he'd be a bit rich. He was Greek, wasn't he? Exactly. What musicians do you... What musicians... I reckon most musicians, like from Kurt Cobain...

Roger Daltrey's massively Brexit. Oh, he's massively it. Yeah, yeah. Every man who wants to keep his own tax who wants less tax will be right wing everyone turns right wing

I'm sure I'm not you might as well when they ask them questions about this kind of stuff you might as well just change the question to you got a lot of money

yeah exactly do you want to keep that money do you want the kids to inherit that money they all just turn to like a kind of rock and roll, old, weird trouser-wearing version of Scrooge McDuck. And it happens everywhere.

Look at Morrissey. He's wearing fucking Britain First. He's completely lost it. He's completely lost it. But you talk to any journalist who spoke to him back in the day, he still had those views. But because we have this very tidy kind of idea of what a thoughtful

rock star thinks no I don't think so because I think he was really he's always been hugely animal rights right yeah but he's always been

he's always been a bit a bit weird with his things he's been very very forthright and strange about the things he talks about he's always been animal rights

but he's also always been a cunt so he's been I think that's probably an open secret certainly in the music industry but he's also always been a cunt. So he's been, I think that's probably an open secret certainly in the music industry, but he was seen wearing a For Britain party badge, right?

Which are an extremely right-wing political movement. They're sort of right of Britain first, aren't they? Oh yeah, they're fringe. They are fringy. Fringes of society. Fringe out. But yeah, Roger Daltrey is Brexit. Pete Townshend was stood next But yeah, Roger Daltrey is Brexit. Pete Townshend was stood next to him when Roger Daltrey was talking about Brexit.

So Pete Townshend is, you know, friendly fire. He's been taken down as well. He's got bigger problems. I told you before on the show, when The Who played the Super Bowl quite recently, because he's a registered sex offender, people who lived around the Super Bowl quite recently because he's a registered sex offender. People who lived around the Super Bowl legally had to have a leaflet delivered through the door

saying there is a sex offender. Because every time a sex offender comes with a visa or works in a certain town or resides for a few days in a certain town, leaflets get put through in certain states, get put through the letterbox of people who live around the stadium. Well, in this case, around the stadium, basically saying, there's a man, and the picture they use is,

he's doing a fucking cartwheel. What's it? The windmill. Big fucking windmill. This man is an ex-offender. He's called Pete Townshendend and this is what he looks like for the Superbowl for the fucking

Superbowl he's magnificent he was put on the sex offenders register in 2003 he's just writing a book he's just writing a book

despite no the best ever excuse he used was something this has been reported in the

Telegraph he said he paid for child pornography to prove that British banks were complicit in channeling profits for paedophile rings.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, write that on Twitter before you... One of those weird situations where it's not a laughing matter, but as you've just proved, it is a laughing matter as well. It's hard to sort of know where you stand on that kind of thing.

No, no one wins there. Because that is funny. That is funny. It's funny that... What you've just said about the leaflets is funny yeah yeah I think questioning people's interests

and things it's always just like it's like fascists nowadays they're obsessed with paedophile gangs paedophile rings but only paedophile

rings that are in the Asian community yeah and it's like if you're you care about children probably start with the Catholic church

because that's worldwide. That's way more systematic. That is way more systematic. Unquestionably, the biggest child abuse ring in the history of human beings. Start there.

Maybe they're thinking, this is too big a project. We've got to build up to it. We haven't got the resources. Start on the DIY Asian, like Midlands sort of scene. And then we'll move up to... You can't just be John from Bolton

in a pair of cheap jeans and go and arrest the fucking Pope. You have to build up to it. I can't get near the Pope. That's so transparent. It's so obviously transparent. That's all they talk about, isn't it? This idea of Muslim grooming gangs

completely ignoring the fact that the Catholic Church are guilty of such bad stuff. Or just all the other grooming gangs, to be honest. If you're that bothered about it, talk about the other stuff as well. Email hello at lukeandpeacher.com if you... Want a free Tommy Robinson? Anything to say on that?

I'm loving that milkshake trop. Oh, yeah. Or Yaxley Lennon getting a milkshake in the face every time. Why is there so many monk shakes kicking around on the on the

on the social the one social media site that Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley Lennon is

allowed to be on able to use I forget what it's called he referred to the guy I'm probably going to get this wrong I'm not on that social media,

so I can't find it. But he commented about it, right? He posted a screenshot and then did a little thing about it. And he kept referring to him as Milkshake Man. Milkshake Man. That's quite nice. The Milkshake Man.

He's a sort of superhero. Before we go to the break, because I know you've got the iPad out there, I just wanted to say, did you see that Avengers Endgame has now turned out to be after,

I think after two weekends of release, it's now overtaken Titanic in terms of global ticket sales. It's taken in 1.75 billion pounds, whereas Titanic took

in 1.68 billion68 billion if it's adjusted for inflation I think Titanic still edges it but just I think I mean you can only go on figures

but it was quite nice James Cameron posted a picture of the Titanic being sunk going fuck off going if this fucking ship hadn't sank

could have done a sequel no and the iceberg is the Avengers yeah you've probably seen it and he wrote quite a nice message saying

to Kevin and everybody at Marvel an iceberg sank the real Titanic it took the Avengers to sink mine we all salute your amazing achievement

you've shown that the movie industry is not only alive and well it's bigger than ever and I know that's a traditional thing to pass the baton along but in the I think I think it's been done in the past

in the 80s it did it when they're all sort of pals with each other I think I think it's been done in the past, in the 80s it did it when they're all sort of pals with each other. I think Jaws did one where they did a poster when I think it was Star Wars maybe that overtook Jaws. Anyway, the thing I wanted to bring to the table,

which I found fairly interesting, is that Steven Spielberg said that back in the 1970s, obviously he was friends with George Lucas and he still is. Back in the 1970s, George Lucas was so nervous that Star wars would be a box office dud um that when he visited the set of spielberg's close encounters of the third kind which had been filmed around the same time

he was so convinced that that was going to be a massive hit and not star wars and he thought he dropped a bollocks i can't believe there's two science fiction movies being released at the same time it's gonna be a nightmare. You're Steven Spielberg. I'm fucked. That he there and then offered to swap two and a half percent of Star Wars for two and a half percent of Close Encounters, which Steven Spielberg accepted.

And to date, Steven Spielberg is $40 million up on that deal. That's wonderful. That's Alec Guinness taking taking figure rights rather than money

yes just that is a better so he took points on the merch rather than a fee incredible I mean he's dead now

but I mean he probably made the most of it the story of I was watching the story of Kevin Smith and Superman trying to get

his Superman off the ground and obviously Nicolas Cage was in the frame some great screenshots of that who's the

who's the who's the guy who directed Edward Cezanne's I've literally interviewed him Tim Burton Tim Burton

he was obviously in the frame and stuff and he was on like a deal that if he didn't if it didn't happen he still got all of his money

that he would have had if he directed it what a sweet deal that is what a sweet deal yeah there's a there's a great story I think it was

I think it's Bob Hoskins he was asked to he was cast in quite a big movie he tells a story himself I know he's passed away now but he told a story

in a chat show where he was cast in a big movie I forget which movie it was and then the detail I was going to be sketchy he told a story in a chat show where he was cast in a big movie I forget which movie it was and then the detail I was going to be

sketchy but it's not important and he was preparing for the role and they I think Robert De Niro

became available so the casting director and the director ring up Bob Hoskins and said look I know we've cast you for this role but

it's good to talk yeah but you're tied up in those BT adverts. So do you mind? I said, look, we've, thank you very much for agreeing to do it.

And thanks for reading for the part. I know you've been in the middle of your preparation and shooting doesn't start for a while, but Robert De Niro is available. I'm sorry. Um, to, to, to bring this.

Yeah. We would like to go with him instead. Um, do you, um, do you, um, do you mind stepping aside and you can still have your fee?

And he was like, yeah, fucking great. And he said in the chat show interview, something along those lines, every time he sees Robert De Niro, he's like, oh, appreciate that. You got any more films you fancy doing?

Because I'm happy to do the one-mile if you want. So yeah, I think he got paid a good amount of money for that. There's a lovely video of him going around, I can't remember who he's leading around London, but it's kind of like in the 70s, I think he got paid a good amount of money for that. There's a lovely video of him going around, I can't remember who he's leading around London, but it's kind of like in the 70s, I think, and he's just basically showing the, not really gentrification,

but he's just showing how horrible tower blocks and businesses are sort of coming up in London. He's sort of taking them around South Bank. Look at this. This used to be a school. They knocked it down three years ago and he hasn't built it yet and what they're going to do is

they're going to build this big tower block and it's going to blot out the fucking sun and up and down the town it's got these horrible bloody big buildings and obviously

these horrible bloody buildings are being built now and you start thinking Bob Hoskins really didn't like modern brutalist architecture it's actually quite a good quite a good impression Bob Hoskins

when was this set, this video? 70, I think. Right, yeah. It's basically talking about how ugly the new buildings are. Well, God rest him. God rest him. He's now left this veil of tears, as Danny Kelly would say. Let's take a little break and come back and we'll do some emails.

We've got to hoover up a lot of these emails because they've been coming in in their droves. It's good to hoover. What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal? Julian Assange there. The word succulent, it comes out of nowhere. It's not appropriate for a Chinese.

Succulent is something like a succulent peach or a steak. Yeah. It's juicy, isn't it? Yeah, but if you started, he has to be very specific. He has to say, I'm starting with a duck, a duck entree. Yeah. I'm starting with like a quarter of a duck. That's succulent.

Would you describe your weekly Sunday night order as succulent? No. Glistening. Yeah. A glistening, salty Chinese mule. Well, for your, if you're listening at home, for your identification of the word succulent,

how you would describe succulent as a word, hello at lukeandpeach.com. You can email in about that. You can email in about anything you've heard today or indeed anything that takes your fancy.

Yeah, if you want me, like if you need like a voice actor for a film that Robert De Niro can't do, I am very good at Bob Hoskins. Give us another example. Yeah, this is basically just me trying to get into it.

Find an email and do it as Bob Hoskins they're all long ones so I wouldn't alright shall I do one while you're looking for one yeah go on this is from Fergus

who says dear Leighton Puke keep up the good work I love this show and back in the very early days you mentioned a previous email I'd

sent referencing a YouTube channel which showcased large outdoor marble runs oh nice yeah I like those yeah this email is not marble-related,

but hopefully as enjoyable. Your recent chat about the Cardiff Giant in the USA. That was a while back now, but I think people will remember that. And the display by rampant opportunist P.T. Barnum of a fake version reminded me of a real but moderately apocryphal figure from Scotland and Canada, Angus MacAskill.

Angus MacAskill? Supposedly the largest human ever recorded who did not have gigantism. Oh. At 7 foot 7 inches in the 19th century he was obviously a remarkable figure and

it was claimed he did such stuff as lifting ships, anchors and small boats. Being rewarded for his massiveness by Queen Victoria and even working for the

aforementioned Mr. Barnum. The definition of a gentle giant he was known in his Nova Scotia home as big boy. Give him a Google.

There's one actual photo with him with another normal-sized guy for scale. That's from Fergus in Kirkintilloch, which is a beautiful name for a Scottish town. Wasn't he in... He's got his own Wikipedia, Angus McCaskill. Yeah, he was. Yeah, he was.

The 1981 Guinness Book of Records says he's the tallest non-pathological giant in recorded history at 7 foot 7 and had the largest chest measurement of any non-obese man how many inches

do you reckon his chest was I'll give you some scale mine's 42 right okay 55 80 bloody hell 80 inch chest

I mean that's just impressed that's just like you know when you see like big wrestlers like Big Shaw or the great Carly you sort of go Jesus Christ I think they'd have Jake Hunter as a mother they had certain inch chest. I mean that's just impressed that's just like you know when you see like big wrestlers like Big Shaw or the great Carly you sort of go

Jesus Christ. I think they dove Jake Hunter's mother had certain valves that went wrong in their bodies.

It can sometimes be the pituitary gland can't it which is part of it. Anyway thanks for getting in touch about that. He did indeed

enter P.T. Barnum Circus in 1849 apparently appearing next to General Tom Thumb who everyone

will know about the dwarf, um, who achieved fame through PT Barnum, um, Queen Victoria loved him and, and, and invited him to appear,

uh, and give a demonstration at Windsor castle after which she proclaimed him to be the tallest, stoutest and strongest man to ever enter this palace. And I will fuck him emasculating every other men in the, in the room. Um, and she presented him with two gold rings

in appreciation, and that is where the Lord of the Rings myth comes from. What do you mean? As in... Really? No. No.

Okay. My dad. Yeah. Well, I just imagined her taking a, like a bracelet off her arm and putting it on one of his fingers, his gigantic fingers.

Yeah. I do declare. A necklace, taking her necklace off and putting it around his little... Crown, crown. Pop on right on his finger his gigantic fingers yeah I do declare a necklace taking that necklace off and putting it around his little crown pop on right on his finger

lovely erm Cole his email hello Cole erm below an email do it like Bob Hoskins

hello lads listening to episode 166 and the talk of childhood games reminded me of a funny story from when we were kids first of all

the game knock door run or whatever you call it was called happy chappy in Glasgow happy chappy and the talk of childhood games reminded me of a funny story from when we were kids. First of all, the game Knock, Door, Run or whatever you call it was called Happy Chappy in Glasgow. Happy Chappy? You were Happy Chappy. Amazing.

Kids, have you been playing Happy Chappy? He's telling the words against us. We used to play hide and seek all the time as well,

but we also called it by a funnier and far more offensive name. One day while we were playing, my youngest brother Stephen was getting called home by my mum because it was getting late. He was about six or seven at the time it was

always annoying when you had like a younger sibling who had to go in earlier than you because they were a couple years younger so i do wonder how they figured out the rules on that one my mum told me i had to go in the house but my brother pleaded with her to be allowed to stay out and finish the game what are you playing my mum asked to which he replied without understanding what the words meant we're playing hunt the cunt. Which you'll agree is a charming name for hide and seek.

Scotland, isn't it? Yeah. It's every second word up there. I bet you got grounded for that. My mum stunned, allowed him to carry on before closing the door and falling about laughing.

Again, Scotland. Later, after my mum and dad laughed about it for a while, he explained to him what he said was a naughty word and shouldn't be said again, especially in public. Cheers, Colt. Carl now I love the idea

of a six year old shouting the C word I got grounded for a week once because I sort of fell over when I put my jeans on yeah

and said oh fuck sake and I'd been about probably when I was about 12 right my sister was in the next room she was only seven she tattled did she and so

my mum was walking past, and she was like, right, that's out of order. Your sister could have heard that. You're grounded for a week, which I think is a severe penalty. Yeah, for an F word, yeah. For one F word.

Well, especially because she doesn't mind you saying it, by the sounds of things. She just doesn't want you saying it in front of the sister. Yeah. By the way, we had a few people email in about your game Block. Right, okay, yeah. We had a few of those, yeah.

Yeah, Craig emailed in saying... I couldn't see the wood for the trees for these emails, to be honest. I couldn't sort of figure out what was the most prescient. We've gone from famine to feast. Craig's email said they played the same game, but they called it Rescue. Rescue. And he also said that... Oh, there was another game.

I can't find it. It doesn't matter. But check out by far the most impressive of these invented games comes from a guy called Luke

who emails in saying after the most recent episode in your chat of games we used to play as children I had a flashback to a game we used to play which we very possibly invented

called Knifey Knifey and I have to say when I read that first sentence I thought this is going to go one way. But the setup for this interestingly named game,

says Luke, was to firstly find a large, sturdy tree based on a grassy slope. The next step was to find some of the classic plasticky blue rope and a good seat stick

to tie on the best branch, making sure the seat was around one foot off the ground. Right. Have you read this email? No. Then someone had to go

and nick a butter knife from their house and basically take it in turns of sticking the knife in the ground in the most difficult position for the next person to attempt to retrieve and replace in their allotted four swings. If you're unable to retrieve the knife in your swings or place it in the ground before your swings are up, you're out. Right.

During the six weeks holidays, many of us became absolute pros at this game, demonstrating crazy acrobatic placements and retrievals. I'd love to know if anyone else ever played it i'm originally from leeds and that's where i lived when we play but i now live in basingstoke i tell my friends about this game and they look at me like i'm insane tig knock a door run and kick the van and drop it with the names we use for the other games uh thanks and keep up the um keep up the good stuff that's luke i think it might be kick the candy supposed to, but that's a typo in there. But anyway, knifey. Never heard of it.

Have you heard of it? No. Sounds good, though. We should get some tabards and play, like, in the park near the office, just play a big game of block. Block sticker, block sticker,

one, two, three. Can't hang around. Remind us how it goes again. How do you play it? One person counts to 50 or whatever. Everybody runs. And then that person has to go and find the

other people. When they find the other people they've got to run back to the base. How do you play out in the field? There's nowhere to

hide. There'll be loads of us to hide. How about on a tree? Have some invention. Wear a ghillie suit.

That field over there has got about 10 trees in it. I think I'll know where I'm looking. I'll be on one of them. I'll know where I'm

looking. There's an ice cream van. There's people's houses. People are going to talk about your thought. Yeah, you can't be hanging around

ice cream vans hiding. Why must you ruin... It's Pete Townsend again, isn't it? Why must you ruin... You're going to get leaflets put through the door. Why must you ruin my game of block? Why can't we have nice things?

Listen, if you played... If you played Knifey or any other childhood game, you want to tell us about it, it's hello at lukeandpeatshow.com. We're out of here. That's the end of our show this time around.

Our hustle. Thank you so much if you've got in touch. Thank you for listening. Do leave us a review on iTunes, or as they call it now, Apple Podcasts. Oh, do they? Apparently so, yeah. Look at the memo.

It's Apple Podcasts now, mate. Pete, I'll see you again next time around. Yeah, we'll be back on Thursday. Yeah. this was a radius to kind of production