The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.70: Zimbabwe, Michigan, Milwaukee, wherever...

Episode Date: November 14, 2019

Luke and Pete are back in the studio together for the first time in a week or so, and after their sojourn to the US and Canada. What have they learnt? Tune in to find out...Pete's lost his laptop, he celebrated being back in the UK by eating in Hard Rock Cafe (obviously), and the boys discover a story about a puppy with a tail on its head. How cute. Elsewhere there's talk from listeners about secret families, there's Dads being weird and there's the great British tradition of clearing out the [e-mail] is the place to send your stories. 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.

I really don't know what I'm doing today. Hold on to your socks because Pete Donaldson and Luke Moore are here with the Luke and Pete show. I'm jumping straight in because I think Pete looks a little bit socially confused. Right. Yeah, I am a little bit to be honest. I'm a little bit,

I'm going to say ragged. I didn't really sleep that well last night. I'm back on top because in the reception at Ramble slash Takano HQ, I picked up a free

Lara bar, the original fruit and nut bar. Two dates, nine almonds, half an apple and then just cinnamon. dates, nine almonds, half an apple, and then just cinnamon. Sandwich cinnamon.

They've not done, they tell you what, they've seen you come in, all you've got to do is leave a free one on the reception and you're talking about it on the show.

Exactly. Oh, no. It doesn't taste very nice. I had one yesterday. Yeah, it's disgusting. It's very dry. What, is that why none of them have been

taken today? Fantastic. How have you been, Luke? You all right? Pretty good. Yeah, pretty good, thanks. Slowly acclimatising back to UK time, or as we call it these days, GMT.

Yeah. Because... Red Mother Time. What's going to happen is, I'm going to get conditioned back to London time, and next Friday I'm flying back to the US again. Oh, yeah, yeah, Thanksgiving, aren't you? It's a tough old life, isn't it?

The classic two dates, nine almonds, half an apple and cinnamon pie. and next Friday I'm flying back to the US again oh yeah yeah Thanksgiving aren't you it's a tough old life isn't it where you can enjoy the classic two dates nine almonds half an apple and cinnamon pie and a partridge in a pear tree oh you must be so excited

slash exhausted look how excited I am I'm really happy to go I love going every year I put on so much weight in a week I don't know how I managed to do it but

I know you managed to do it I can tell you if you want well I don't know how I managed to do it drinking drinking eating food yeah baby I also last night I ate quite healthily throughout the day I managed to do it. I know you managed to do it. I can tell you if you want. Well, I didn't manage to do it. Drinking. Drinking. Eating food. Yeah, baby.

I also, last night, I ate quite healthily throughout the day. Had my dinner in the Hard Rock Cafe because I can't get enough of that American food experience. What, in London you did that? Yep. Went to a comedy show downstairs

in the Hard Rock Cafe. It was pretty good. It had that guy on who is like an African, like a jokey African dictator. And he's been doing that gig for ages. He's been doing that actually years. Character, yeah.

It's really good. I'm sorry, I forget his name because it's like General something or other. Is his name Larabar? Because you remember that. General Larabar. Yeah. Tell you what,

that comedian's listening and he wants you to remember his name. He needs to leave some kind of confection in the office. General Larabar is in the new mandalorian now everyone's getting very upset slash aroused about um but he's been doing that act for years and then somebody on channel four basically just nicked his act and did it right and now it's a big um it's a big show so everyone in the comedic community get very upset about it but he was good once again uh and i had some chicken wings and some fried prawns.

Well, first of all, I mean, you've talked about you can't get enough of that American dining experience. American people listening to this will be tearing their hair out. And I think I should speak on behalf of them by saying that eating in the Hard Rock Cafe is not an American dining experience. Sam, who does an excellent podcast about food for Stakhanov. Set Meals. Might as well name check it. Has he given me a free cereal bar? for Stakhanov. Set Meals. Might as well name check it. Has he given me a free cereal bar?

I don't think so. Set Meals. He said, I said, look, Hard Rock Cafe, the wings are all right. He said, you know what, Pete, I agree. He said, that's all I need. The respect of a 24-year-old man. That's why he doesn't get more listeners. 24-year-old Welsh man.

Sam, who accompanied us on our tour to the US which we got back from on Sunday or Pete got back to it is he alright is his stomach all he's been eating

is pizza well the thing is one thing I didn't exactly the one thing I didn't realise about proper foodies is that so

they want to eat the same thing in variation don't they well they just I just don't want to stop eating like we went to

Chicago for a day, right? For a day. Yeah. And I understand. So my context of that would be we're there for one dinner. I want to make sure it's a good dinner.

Like we were in Toronto for one day. Yeah. Let's get poutine because that's the thing and we had it and it was great. Sam won't think like that.

Yeah. Set meal Sam will be SMS. SMS, yeah, nice. SMS message will say, right, I've got five hours in this town. Yes.

And I'm probably getting four restaurants and then I have four meals. Honestly, before the Chicago show, Tally-a-ho, I would call it, I would just run around the corner, I was just going to get some food, have a little stroll around. I don't know this part of Chicago,

let's have a walk around. So we walked around for a bit and I was with Sam and Marcus and Jim and I was actually just jumping in. It's this little kind of Mexican cafe. You know, all the people look like they're from Mexico or certainly South America. And they were all cooking some fucking soul food from Mexico.

All the classic tacos nonsense, right? Tacarillo, as they call it. I don't know Mexican food at all. And I hope that wasn't obscene. I'm just letting Pete talk. Just letting Pete talk for a bit. And I sat down and I just you know I had a hard chart

I had all all trimmings everything and Sam went I bet you do this sort of thing all the time don't you just walk into a place and eat it

I go yeah because that's how normal people eat they don't fucking spend ages with their internet like looking for the most rated

highly rated thing on Instagram that people really like and blah blah blah just eat your food Sam yeah shut up yeah

and he will eat it but set meals is excellent but he won't shut up he won't shut up and if he does shut up it's bad because you've got to shut up

terrible podcast terrible podcast but he got a lot out of it I think just walking in me going I want food food is in there

we're going in there and he's like going this is a bit of me this I like this yeah Sam exactly just enjoy it so introducing the new host of set meals Pete Dawson food is in there we're going in there and he's like going this is a bit of me this I like this yes Sam just enjoy it so introducing the new host of set meals

Pete Dawson so I think on one end of the scale here every food should be a cube tofu cube on one end of the scale here we've got you Pete in the Hard Rock Cafe

and on the other end we've got Sam and people in the middle are normal people presumably I guess so on MasterChef the professionals which is and I'm going to say it I don't care about your Dave Chang's and people in the middle are normal people presumably I guess so on MasterChef the Professionals

which is and I'm going to say it I don't care about your Dave Chang's I don't care about your chef's tables MasterChef the Professionals

with Marcus Waring and Monica Galletti and I'll tolerate Greg Wallace in small doses is the premiere the finest the number one

that's those wings repeating on you there's a wing food show in the UK right okay Crimea, the finest, the number one, that's those wings repeating on you, food show in the UK. Right, okay. And it's on at the moment. Yeah. And it's about a week and a half in.

It's just so good. I'll put this out to the listeners now, and you can tell me I'm wrong, hello at lukeandpeacher.com, but because we've been away for a week, the chances of us getting through those emails are very, very slim, certainly in the near future. But email me if you want and tell me I'm wrong. The skills test part of MasterChef to Professionals

is the finest feature on the finest show on TV at the moment. It is so good. It is so unalloyed and so... Why is it so good? Because there's no mucking around, mate. There's no... None of these reality shows, sob story, kind of, this is what I'm going to do.

Fucking tea. My grandparent died. So now I'm singing a song for you. Please, Simon Cowell, approve me through your mental face and give me a contract. It's get yourself in there, pal. You got 15 minutes. You got to prepare these razor clams with a tomato and caper sauce in front of two of the five chefs in the world. Yeah.

What you're made of. Right. It's exciting. It reminds me of what football used to be like before all the other stuff that came along with it. If someone gave me a razor clam, I'd probably try and wear it. I don't know what I'd do with it. I'd just be like, I don't even know what those look like in the wild.

Free typing. Thank you very much. Anyway, I love MasterChef the professionals I'm all about that but Pete we should probably reference the fact that last week we went off piste

in a big way so on Monday the show just gone yeah and Thursday a show a week ago we did a show walking around

Manhattan and walking around Brooklyn definitely the future innit feedback's been positive don't eat your book at studio just have a walk around don't studio. Just have a walk around. Don't eat emails.

Just have a walk around. Just have a little stroll. I've had so many emails about my lip balm. Oh, yeah. Which I then left on the... By the way... Did you leave it on the plane? By the way, right.

So, again, another thing. Pete, you left your laptop on the plane. Still haven't got it. I've had three emails from Chicago. Is it all airport? Or maybe just Delta. Yeah, Delta. Or United.

Whoever it fucking was. I've had three emails. And every time I think, oh, they found it! And it all hair, or maybe just Delta? Yeah, Delta, or United, whoever it fucking was. I've had three emails, and every time I think, oh, they found it! And it's like, we are still looking for your item. Fuck off. It's not hard to find, is it? It was in the seat that I gave you. It was in the pocket.

I knew which seat I had. I left the plane. I walked past the point of no return by one yard, and I turned around, and I saw an officious bastard on a fucking falled out wrestler's chair and I said sir

I know I've just walked past you but can I just go and get my laptop I know exactly where it is no you can't sir you've got to go back round and check in

how can I check in sir I don't have a ticket I just walked off one of your fucking planes yeah keep going I don't think anyone wants. I just walked off one of your planes. Yeah. Keep going.

I don't think anyone wants you to stop. I kick-started that laptop. That laptop was from Hong Kong. It had to get past the protest of Hong Kong to get to me. It is my beautiful baby. And it was lost on a plane from fucking Toronto to Chicago. Whose fault is it? My fault!

Actually, it isn't. It's the fact that we had a stupid conceit that we designed ourselves to wear bathrobes so I could bring a bathrobe around with me all the time and then my laptop could not fit in my bag so it had to go in my pocket. Yeah. And yes, it is a small enough laptop. Netbook.

It is tiny. Yeah. Tiny. It's like a laptop just for people with small hands. They Netbook. It is tiny. Yeah. Tiny. It's like a laptop just for people with small hands. They wouldn't even let me in the embassy. In the US with the same netbook. And that face is why. The US.

Yeah. It was just one big long con, wasn't it, Luke? Yeah. They just wanted to take my fucking laptop. They wanted to separate me from my laptop. Like those kids on the fucking border. God. Fucking. Fuck you, America. to separate me from my laptop like those kids on the fucking border fucking fuck you America

well that said I still have a visa so please let me back in well at time of recording yeah Pete it was like a little laptop for people with small hands

how should you talk about the kids probably wasn't it yeah I don't think you should compare the two things no I'm not comparing the two things I'm just it came to my head

and I slightly regret it. No, that's okay. As long as you're repentant, that's the main thing. But I was going to say, you know, because we know each other quite well, so when you lost your laptop,

you know me, I'm like a, and people listening won't be surprised to hear this, that I am like a relentless piss taker, but I'm also someone who like probably gets quite pissed off

if someone takes a piss out of me. I don't really like taking it as much. But i've taken the piss out of you so much over the years right that i can tell when i shouldn't be taking the piss out of you too much right and um because we had done like a couple of live shows we've been traveling for like essentially for six weeks by that point yeah and we got through to baggage reclaim in chicago and you announced that you lost your laptop you probably don't remember this but i did like two jokes at your expense and I saw how pissed off you were

so I just stopped because I thought you were going to get angry about it. I genuinely wasn't that angry about it. It was my own stupid fault. I was just going to say though and if it would be any consolation for you to know

that I actually on the next flight I left my book and my lip balm on the plane. Right, okay. So I had to go and buy a new you kickstarted that lip balm

for 500 quid almost it cost 500 quid that lip balm it was very expensive but the book I left was S.C. Gwyn aka the goat

of American history writing he's got a new one out in hardback called Hymns of the Republic which is amazing about the final year of the US Civil War and it's only out in hardback

and I had to buy it again and it cost me £20. Oh, never mind. So we've all lost something there, haven't we? We have, yeah. Dignity? So yeah, anyway,

I think maybe because the feedback was good in the next few weeks perhaps if we can make it happen, particularly... Why are we doing this in winter? Yeah, true. I was thinking maybe

we could go and do some more stuff out in the field like with secret agents. I'm up for that. I'm up for that. Peter, did you see in the news this week that a 10-week-old abandoned puppy, which had a small secondary tail in the middle of its head. I just saw that this morning.

It was on my favourite Good Doggo's Twitter page. Yeah, good Twitter page. Taking them by an animal rescue centre because it was given up. I mean, why would you give that up? That is the cutest dog ever. I know. And it's got an extra tail

in the middle of its head. I mean, dogs... It's a talking point. Dogs can... Yeah, just put... You've got some spectacles on there. You've put a little pair of shades on there. You could look like a promotional beer dog or something.

I think they've called it Narwhal. Narwhal, why? Oh, because it's got a little... A little tusk, basically, yeah. Oh, and speaking of that... You can dock tails anyway, can't you? Idiots do it. Apparently they don't need to because there's no reason to.

I don't want my dog to have poo on his tail. But I think the general thing is they always want to work with they don't want to be invasive they don't have to do that no but you know that

speaking of narwhals this is quite a tenuous link but I guess it's kind of similar did you see that beluga whale playing fetch with that boat hmm was that that

didn't somebody say that it was that Russian one well that's the thing so that's the that can't deal with life so he's just trying to dick around with humans we just can't have nice things anymore can we every time one of he's just trying to dick around with humans

we just can't have nice things anymore can we every time one of those stories but Limmy's got a good

thread on it every time there's a nice silly little dog video or something he'll post that dog's

actually quite distressed and there's all this horse running through a glade I don't say the word glade

enough lovely enjoyable he's running through a glade and it's like that horse is, that horse is distressed. His mother has clearly been killed,

so that's why he's running in that direction. Yeah. But this beluga whale is playing fetch with a rugby ball with some South African, I think, marine biologists or something like that. Apparently, it's possibly the same whale that was caught with that harness on, which is trained to be a spy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And now can't survive in the wild, so it's frantically asking or help trying to get food because it doesn't know how to feed itself but because it's got a smiley face and it's a whale people are like oh look at it

playing rugby I'd be more annoyed that marine biologists saw fit to bring a rugby ball with them they're on a fucking boat South African mate that's one throw away from being in the sea

and being another piece of pollution. Well, it wasn't a sea, but they had a whale to bring it back to them, didn't they? Good point.

Yeah, they got lucky, clearly. We've taken that rugby ball, what happens if we lose it in the sea? Don't worry, there's beluga whales out

there. I was away with you and I stuck around a little later on in, where did Zimbabwe come from? Actually, I know

exactly where Zimbabwe came from, I'll tell you in a second. I popped up to Michigan and the... No, you went to Milwaukee. Yeah, Milwaukee. Why don't you not know where you've been?

Because I'm fucking tired. You went from... Milwaukee. You've gone through Zimbabwe, Michigan before you got to Milwaukee. I went up from Chicago. Beautiful little Amtrak train. They don't do trains very often in America,

but when they do them, ooh, they do them right. That's lovely. Loads of room. Loads of room loads of room yeah lots of notable derailments as well

when up there well every time you try and book an Amtrak train it's always a bus they always go yeah we'll book that train for you mate

and it definitely is on tracks I mean it can ride on tracks if it finds some tracks there's definitely a sitcom in that where some people

that own a train come in and doesn't actually own any trains they just book another transport and so I popped up for a couple of days and it was really fun everyone was lovely

and and the first thing that people say is what are you doing in Milwaukee people sort of go why are you here

because nobody because of that for some reason our American promoter when he found out you were moving on to Milwaukee rather than flying back to London was I'm going to say incredulous Marcus did an excellent impression of him have left for some reason. Yeah, our American promoter, when he found out you were moving on to Milwaukee rather than flying back to London, was, I'm going to say,

incredulous. Marcus did an excellent impression of him. Yeah. He was like, oh my God. He said, this is Arnold. Milwaukee's great, man.

He said, Milwaukee's good, but it's not like you gotta go. I loved Arnold. He is my favourite man. He is my new crush I think he could be your dad

I think he could be a good sorry I would love a bit of that I would love a bit of that he's a wonderful kind of proper New Yorker kind of showbiz guy

fantastic really Frank Zappa did you go to his office I didn't go to his office his office is like what you would imagine like an office like a really messy

office in the 70s so loads of like all tour posters for like, mainly British acts really because he dealt with Billy Connolly and Eddie Izzard

and stuff like that. I didn't get to go to the office because I'm wheeled out to do all the press. Yeah. Well, just don't be good. I was watching American Gladiators

in an arcade bar briefly. In Milwaukee? In Milwaukee. This is how you spent your leisure time. This is why you didn't make the show on Monday because you were watching

American Gladiators in a bar in Milwaukee. Yeah, because I was having a this is why you didn't make the show on Monday because you were watching American Gladiators in a bar in Milwaukee yeah because I was having a bit of food Hard Rock Cafe was it? it was not the Hard Rock Cafe no because I did two things strolled around

went to they've got like a mini version of the what's those big domes called those kind of like eco domes you've got in Britain

I know what you mean yeah I can't remember their name in my head I've got Caesar's Palace but know what you mean. Yeah, I can't remember the name. In my head, I've got Caesar's Palace, but I don't know why my brain is making weird connections.

But on American Gladiators from back in the 80s, there was this woman who was taking part and her name, no shit, was called, her name was

Zimbabwe Schwarzer. Right. Zimbabwe Schwarzer. That's her actual name? That's her actual name. Right. She goes as Zim Schwarzer and she was actually a policeman,

a policewoman until she, she was head of the police, I think. Was she a contestant on American Radio? She was a contestant. Yeah, she wasn't like a... Did she win it? No, she managed to get, I think, a blaze or bang or something

with the cotton bud. She managed to knock him off. Zim Bob Schwarzer. It's just getting harder and harder to try and interpret the things you're trying to say

yeah she took down zap on the big cotton buds right I don't know what the pugil sticks

are called thank you I knew you knew it I just don't want you to get away with it and then I watched some NFL I have three

comments to make who's your NFL team well it's of course now the Green Bay Packers because that's you know who I saw

and they look and although they seemed quite good people were really talking them down you know when like Arsenal fans go oh Arsenal and Roe

so Liverpool fans go oh we're gonna lose and you're like yeah you're still pretty fucking good though aren't you yeah in relatively speaking

I suppose what are your three observations one guy for the Panthers who they were playing had a completely Yeah, you're still pretty fucking good, though, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah, in relatively speaking, I suppose. Yeah, like Grim Ipacas. What are your three observations? One guy for the Panthers, who they were playing, had a completely reflective visor. That's great. And also a black balaclava, so he genuinely looked like something out of fucking Halo.

He looked so cool. Yeah, that's great. He was completely reflective. How are some people allowed that? Because if you've got the option, why aren't you fucking doing that? He looked like a fucking robot. It was brilliant.

Why do the helmets also have to be the same design? Are you allowed slight modifications to your helmet? I think you might be able to. I mean, I'm not thinking Legion of Doom Spikes. I don't think you can do that. There was a... I'm going to get this horribly wrong, and our American listeners are going to punish me for it, which is fine.

There was a player whose name I cannot remember. He went to Patriots for a bit. I think it's Antonio Brown. And he's now without a team. He's a bit of a problematic character. But I think one of the issues was around the helmet he wanted to wear. And they make refinements in them every year

for safety reasons. Which then meant I think he couldn't wear the one he wanted to wear. And he got annoyed about it. So I think there is some kind of capability to change them slightly

could you put little stickers on like the people from the Hard Rock Cafe they've got flair well you say that in college football

they have merit stickers on their helmets if they do something good they stick it on and one more sticker is

that's rather juvenile in my opinion they are kids mate and I'll fight, I mean, I would kick in any 18-year-old football player,

I've told it. They're great. They're tiny. Tiny little boys, aren't they? Oi, you've just unveiled the plot for episode 200.

The digital pitch markings, you know, like when you have like the quarters and what time it is kind of imprinted in the pitch. Yeah.

Once it started to snow, that shit started wobbling around something chronic. It was really funny. I love that you've discovered NFL. And also, not an NFL-related one, but why does Spalding have the monopoly on basketballs? And why do you never see anything with Spalding on, in any other sense, apart from on a basketball?

Oh, that's kind of a batteries-included kind of observation. Yeah. Yeah, it's a good point. I find a lot of American sports quite dull so I hope we don't get a torrent of emails so if you could

get together find a spokesman send one email let them email in Spalding is almost certainly owned by Mike Ashley no?

it's definitely one of his brands isn't it? it sounds like it should be like a Don A or whatever yeah he absolutely piled in on

I've got another story here but we haven't got time we haven't got time we've got to do we've got ad breaks and stuff I'll do it next week yeah Rod Stewart's model railway

that was one of them was it? yes! lovely we're starting to you know come in sync like women on the periods

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If you are listening to this episode for the first time, there is zero chance that you're still listening now. So we are very much playing to the choir. What have we got here? Oh, we've got something from Ben. And I quite like this. He says, just listen to episode 199.65. The numbers are irrelevant, but thank you for letting us know.

There was talk about parents undertaking the task of clearing out the loft. Now, I said that whenever I go and see my parents, it seems like they try and sneak things they've cleared out from the loft into my bags to take back with me because they don't want it anymore. And it would normally be like

a handful of old VHS videotapes or an old video games console or something like that. And Ben says his dad seems to do this every year, clean up the loft. He said, but when I was 16 in 2001, I ventured up into the loft of my parents' house

to retrieve some old toys. I started having a look through some of the crap my parents kept up there and found evidence that my mum was married before she married my dad. Something my brother and I had no idea about. So maybe the incessant loft clearing parents do that my mum was married before she married my dad. Oh! Something my brother and I had no idea about. Oh! So maybe the incessant loft clearing parents do is to make sure any secrets of their life pre-children

are destroyed and taken to the grave. Anyone else discover secrets of their parents' past? I'm sure our generation will have to do similar, but instead of a loft, it'll be a good old burning of past social media accounts. I've told you before, found out I had a half-brother, found out my dad was married before me mum,

on the census. On the census? How old were you at the time? Fifteen? Yeah. Were you upset? Not really. I do roll with the punches.

Yeah, I've noticed that. I don't really care about family. For fuck's sake. It's their business, not my business. Ben finishes by saying, I hope my dad clears the loft out before he leaves this world

because I don't want to do it myself. That'll be just your luck, Ben. by saying, I hope my dad clears the loft out before he leaves this world because I don't want to do it myself. That'll be just your luck, Ben. What will happen is he'll die just the day before the scheduled clean out. That'll do.

But do you feel like maybe we perhaps should give more airtime to the fact that you've got a secret half-brother? I mean, I don't know if I just want to leave that out there.

If you don't want to talk about it, it's up to you. Well, there's nothing really to say. I found out, I looked on the census,

I said this before on numerous podcasts. Have you? Yeah, I nothing really to say. I found out, I looked on the census, I said this before on numerous podcasts. Have you? Yeah, I think so. And, you know, I just saw on the census that my dad had been, Dad, you fucked something.

Because the census was like a big deal back in the day. You know, it comes every ten years. Yeah, I have to say, Pete, I have to say, I've not really engaged

with the census anywhere near like the level that I thought I'd have to when I was a kid. Yeah, exactly. It never happened. It was a big deal. It's kind of like quick sound. Yeah. Isn't it? A quick sound when you're at school when you that I thought I'd have to when I was a kid. Yeah, exactly. It never happened. It was a big... It's kind of like

quick sound, isn't it? A quick sound when you're at school. You're fucking out. I'm going to have to avoid that every day of my life. I've never seen it

since. Push pops. Yeah. Went out with push pops. The old sensors. But yeah, I just saw them.

So your dad filled it in wrong and you tried to correct him. Yeah, I said, Dad, you dickhead, you fucking filled it in wrong, you villain.

And then I found out, yeah. There you go. All right. There you go. Is this anything related to when your mate was interfered

with by Rod Hall probably not no I'm going to fiddle with him tomorrow good because I don't know how to sit

still hello to Dave on the emails after you identified the rich name of dad's passing on clumsy gifts I was tangentially

reminded of the time I left my family home to start at university after going for the obligatory farewell pint while my dad returned home and I packed the car with essentials needed to move into student halls. At this point, my dad informed me that he wasn't coming to Manchester with my mother and I, but would follow us up in a couple of hours as he had things to do. I did query

the logic behind this at the time, but my mum instructed not to pursue this line of questioning as it was my dad's way of dealing with an emotional goodbye. This didn't ring quite true, but I didn't think anything more of it. Anyway, so my mum and I made the hour-long trip from Southport to Manchester, where I was shown to my accommodation in student halls.

As with more student accommodation, although pleasant enough, it would be best described as having limited space. I got settled in, unpacked the few things I'd brought with me, which pretty much filled the room, and made myself at home. Around an hour later, my dad phoned me to say he'd arrived at the halls and asked if I would meet him in the car park.

It was there that I found that he'd made the decision to borrow a small van from his friend and then load it with every single possession of mine along with anything out of my bedroom, including furniture. My God. As this was moving in there

and there were hundreds of people milling about, I felt it was best to avoid a scene and just go along with it. My God. bedside table mountain bike lamps even childhood toys that he'd brought down from the loft began piling up alongside bags of clothes and bedding much to his annoyance even he had to concede that there was no room for an armchair a double mattress

a chest of drawers or a wardrobe so he begrudgingly took those to the local tip this ended with good god this ended with him shaking my hand

and stating you live here now and I've got plans for your room before driving back home and leaving me to try and work out how I was going to store

all of this gear for the next 12 months he visited me twice while I lived at those halls both times passing me things that were too good to throw away a ripped footstool

and a large TV that overheated and turned itself off after 20 minutes love the show keep up the good work Dave I think that might be the most heartbreaking email

we've ever read out and we've read out some stinkers. Dave! Dave! I'm stunned by this. Do you want to come and live with me, mate? Yeah. I mean, don't bring any of that stuff, but I mean, I just feel Why are dads so weird? Why are dads so... Like your dad refused to go on holiday with you because he wanted to fit a burglar alarm. Yes.

And that's a lie. I know. Isn't it? They just want their own space. Yeah. They made bad decisions early on in their life and they're just trying to claw a bit of control back, but they can't. Yeah. That's really sad. That's bad crack, as my dad would say.

My dad would never do that. My dad would never, ever do that, like that Dave's saying there. No. My dad can't fucking drive, so I got away scot-free on that one. I've never, ever thought my dad's dad can't fucking drive so I got away scot-free on that one I've never

ever thought my dad's anything other than a really very very nice man but he would never do that I mean if I went back there now at almost 40 he would have me back there

yeah for a bit for a bit yeah Chris has emailed in as well with another weird dad story he says

hi guys enjoyed a discussion about dad gifts on the last show. I think it was a while ago, but anyway. When I got married in 2014, my dad gave me a pair of signed

and framed Sugar Ray Leonard boxing trunks because he couldn't afford to give me any money towards the wedding. I didn't expect him to give me any money, let alone a pair of boxing trunks. The frame was massive. It took me six months to sell and I got 200200 for them.

I have no idea if that was their true monetary value, Chris. Chris, I looked them up, and I felt like that item of sporting history should be worth more than £200. I mean, Sugar Ray Lair's one of the greatest boxers of all time. But, according to eBay, £200 looks about right. Those kind of things,

you always think they're worth more than they are. But they've probably signed loads of them over the years yeah exactly also yeah and I say match one but then how can you really tell I always sort of

think match one give them a sniff give them a little sniff sniff hello at lukeandpetecher.com to get in touch I mean that's a

very very good set of emails there bangers weren't they for our return I've got one more Pete for you specifically

because sometimes when I read these emails I think oh Pete will really like that they'll be interested in it it's from Sam

and he says hi guys bit late to the party on this one so apologies if this has already been brought up on the theme of

music video game tie-ins one that sprung to mind for me was Michael Jackson's Moonwalker yes good game

good game each of the levels were essentially Jacko's different music videos and the premise of each level was to save a number of children that were hidden throughout the scene

before progressing. Perhaps somewhat troubling given the later alleged revelations. Anyway, love the show. Keep up the good work, Sam. Have we spoken about the game Moonwalker? I remember he could throw his hat, couldn't he? Mate, I played that in the arcade bar.

When? At the weekend. In Michigan, Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Milwaukee. Did you have to put a quarter in? It was like a little talking system. You put a dollar in. You got loads of quarters.

I played Super Sprint as well. I played loads of games that I really enjoyed. Brilliant. And they also had, you know, like football. The old baby foot. Yeah. And they had like a hockey version of that. And it was really cool.

I got a message from my father-in-law, the great LC. Oh, yeah. I saw him briefly, very briefly. I saw him in his dad as well. He texted me saying, Mom, Jesus. Yeah, he said, Milwaukee, Pete, really?

There's not much in Milwaukee. It's like going to Boston for a show and then going to Newark. There's no reason to go. There is no reason to go. It was good. I went to the little globes. I saw a fucking banyan tree. And they have got these amazing roots, right,

that come from the top of the tree. And they just go down searching for water. So they sort of basically, these like kind of big tendrils come off the top of them. And then they go down and the roots go back into the ground from the top of the tree. And they get thicker and thicker and thicker. So they just look like separate trees, but they're not. They're connected to one big main tree. And the banyan tree was one of the tree and they get thicker and thicker and thicker so they just look like separate trees but they're not they're connected to one big main tree and the banyan

tree was one of the levels in jet set willy i think i think fascinating i sometimes think i'm the only human being on earth who could do a show with you what do you mean because this is this is mad stuff now banyan tree have a look it's fucking brilliant i want people to tell me if they're from Milwaukee or they've visited there what's the things you can only see or do in Milwaukee

and nowhere else yeah I mean the banyan tree was in a like a display that someone set up it wasn't like it wouldn't be able

to survive I imagine because there were cactuses and stuff as well so you know little poison dart frogs I saw a poison dart frog but they

only get poisoned by eating a particular kind of ant which obviously don't have access to in this kind of by your dorm thing that they had set up so you

know just I mean don't touch them either way but they were completely non-poisonous poison dart ones so pussies Pete do you know

poison dart frogs carry their tadpoles on their back and move them from puddle to puddle do they oh that's adorable lovely old job

jump on board take them to the next puddle stick them in there keep an eye on them take them again ooh baby kind of like taking your kid to school

I used the same nappy for my nine children this is a BBC news piece that's come up. I think we're out of time. Yeah. I think we've got to go.

All right. We're 32 minutes in, mate. We're going to have to get out of here. We're 38 years old. We're back on Monday. Who knows what form this show is going to take. Your guess is as good as mine. We'll see what kind of move Pete Donaldson's in.

A very fruity one today. And I make no apology for that. I apologise for the joke, Alan. It's bad taste. I did wrong. I think we both know what side of the coin I'm on. I'm not a fascist.

That's what a fascist would say. This was a Stakhanov production. Right, come on Ben Shapiro, let's get out of here.