The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.73: Do you feel the power of the gladiators?
Episode Date: November 25, 2019What's Pete's spirit animal? Another episode to brighten your Monday. Start the week with Rod Stewart's train set (sorry... model railway), Rick Stein's new food show and an explanation of the colour ...of eggs. Also, and we take no pleasure in saying it, but someone's been using nappies as tea towels...Get in touch with your finest at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com ***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.
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How we're like it's the Luke P. Joe with me Pete Donaldson and Mr. Luke Moore. How you doing man?
All right I'm good thanks how are you? I'm all right. What's new? Turn that music down a little bit.
Yeah good now a little bit more paranoid than usual about my asthma.
So thanks fans.
Thanks listeners.
Which in a way, it's good that you've got like thousands of people monitoring your breath.
So you know you're not going to drop down dead.
Well no, because I listen to other podcasts where there's people who have sort of vocal tics.
Some people who speak through their nose.
And I always go go what a terrible
noise that is
Seth Meil-San
always does this thing
I don't know where
he got it from
where he says
that every American
show
because you know
those type of
American podcasts
are all quite earnest
and he says
have you got someone
who
I did tell him
where he heard it
but I can't remember
what he said
he said like
you get an American
interviewer
and he's interviewing someone and they'll tell them a story,
and the interviewer will go, so you literally did that?
And the guy will go, yeah.
Yeah.
Huh.
I'm Ira Glass.
Yeah.
And there's that thing about vocal fry.
Vocal fry.
Yeah, we've done that before
we've done everything before
everything has been done before
everything has been done before
everything is borrowed
what was I going to say
Rod Stewart can we talk a little bit about Rod Stewart
I think it's important to check in with the great man
Rod Stewart has built
a beautiful
train set
I think it would be disrespectful to call a beautiful train set.
I think it would be disrespectful to call it a train set.
What do you call it then?
I think it's a model railway.
A model railway system.
Yeah.
He says he built 90% of it himself,
but he's not very good at the electrics,
so he let someone else do that.
Sensible.
Sensible, but also I think the model railway enthusiast,
the purist, would probably have a problem with that. And they'd probably be going like,
oh, he's probably got the painters in.
It's beautifully done.
What will happen is,
which is what always happens
with kind of nerdy and geeky pursuits,
and I have to start this by saying
I thought that was the nicest,
most heartwarming story possibly of the year
that Rod Stewart has this amazing interest
in this hobby,
and he's dedicated to it,
and he likes to spend his time
doing that kind of stuff. Good on him. Worked very hard. Amazing life in showbiz, this amazing interest in this hobby and he's dedicated to it and he likes to spend his time doing
that kind of stuff.
Good on him.
Worked very hard.
Amazing life in showbiz
but a very talented,
hardworking guy.
Deserves everything
he gets in my opinion.
And what will happen is,
which is what always happens,
a bunch of enthusiasts
in this area,
rather than use this
as the amazing
free PR opportunity
that it is
for their particular pursuit,
turn it to their advantage.
They will get.
They'll complain about it
by being massive gatekeepers
and saying,
oh yeah,
but he's just a Johnny
come lately,
blah, blah, blah.
Because that's what
always happens.
Yeah, I did look at it
and go,
I mean,
I didn't think he had it
in him.
Because it is,
it's like a set
from a film.
That's amazing.
Like a miniaturised
set of you
building something like,
you know,
it looked like something
out of,
what was that animated film, Isle of Dogs. It looked like something like that. amazing like a miniaturised on a set of you building something like you know it looked like something out of what was that animated film
Isle of Dogs
it looked like
something like that
it was funny to me
the most revealing
part of the story
was that he said
that obviously
he's a man of means
multi-millionaire
and all the rest of it
he said when he was
touring
he would take
a personal interest
in the hotel rooms
he was booked into
to make sure
they were big enough
so he could continue
his hobby while he was away
because some of the constructions are so enough so he could continue his hobby while he was away.
Because some of the constructions are so big.
Yeah, he could build it piece by piece.
He'd be taking them with him so he could carry them working in the hotel room.
Jeez, yeah, but that is difficult. But that's just a...
I would think that was an imposition on the people I was
touring with. You know, the...
He's Rod Stewart, Pete. He's literally
Rod Stewart. I know, but like, you just
have someone just kind of suddenly
just wheeling in this big thing
from your house.
It'd been transported
all around the world.
Let's do a role play.
Let's do a role play.
So you can be anyone else
on the tour
and I'll be Rod Stewart.
So you just come to me
with any sort of complaint.
I'm Rod Stewart.
No, I'm Rod Stewart.
You come to me with
any kind of question
or complaint or anything.
Rod, you've left a condom in the sink, mate.
I don't care.
I'm fucking Rod Stewart.
Next question.
Good point, yeah.
Yeah, I'm Rod Stewart, man.
Mate, have you ever kicked a football
into a crowd at Wembley?
Don't think so.
He's got a full-scale football pitch at his house.
Do they ever tell you?
I was on the radio.
I think you might be my favourite drunk.
Who, Rod?
Rod.
Always drunk on telly
mate
doesn't care who sees
and pissed
love it
I was on
I was doing a newspaper show
round up
on the breakfast show
on Talk Sport
and Alan Brazil
was talking about
Rod Stewart
and Rod Stewart rang in
live
and invited Alan
onto his private jet
nice
to fly somewhere
it was to watch a Celtic game
in Europe or something
lovely
yeah that's decent isn't it that's living that is living now you're really living unless Rod his private jet nice to fly somewhere it was to watch a Celtic game in Europe or something lovely yeah
that's decent isn't it
that's living
that is living
now you're really living
unless Rod reveals
that he's going to fly the plane
I'm in
unless he reveals
it's a model plane
that he's built himself
get in
it's the spruce caboose
but amazing hobby
and when I
when I
I know I've had a go at
sort of the gatekeeping aspect
of this
thing here.
I do understand that if you've worked really hard
and you don't have much money
and you're really proud of your shit,
and then someone just parachutes in
with this amazing thing.
Yeah, yeah.
It would be annoying.
Literally scale, I guess, in many ways.
But I like the fact that he didn't go for
that kind of idyllic kind of country kind of scene.
It was just a filthy city that he's made.
I think it was based on New York City, wasn't it? Yeah, Chicago. Oh, Chicago, is it? Either one of the two. But it was just a filthy city that he's made I think it was based on New York City wasn't it
yeah Chicago
oh Chicago was it
one of the two
but it was just like
I like the fact that he
he went for a very urban scene
rather than one of those
idyllic
slightly
slightly you know
trying to recapture
something that was lost
there was nothing
bucolic about it
yeah exactly
speaking of people
living the dream
in their older age
have you seen much
of Rick Stein's new series
I've not no
because I don't watch telly,
and I certainly don't watch any Rick Stein.
He's got a life, hasn't he?
He's got a life, hasn't he?
Listen, break it down to its component parts.
Rick Stein has presumably,
through his production company or whatever,
pitched a show to the BB fucking C.
The BB fucking C.
Right?
And said,
what I'd quite like to do
is drive around
the nicest parts of France
in an actual Porsche
eating and drinking
all the stuff
I want to eat or drink
and they've said
go for it
and that's what he's doing
well he's currently
in Venice
according to his Twitter
oh yeah
because it would have been
I think the French one
would have been recorded
in the summer
it's not live
no
but yeah he's just taking a picture of a flooded Venice bar obviously Venice is in all kinds of trouble I think the French one would have been recorded in the summer. It's not live. No.
But yeah, it's taking a picture of a flooded Venice bar.
See, Venice is in all kinds of trouble.
It's very flooded at the moment. I saw that some Italian parliament last week
blocked and refused to action a climate change piece of legislation
and the next day the parliament was flooded.
Nice.
So that's God with a sense of humour there.
Would you not have any desire to have a Rick Stein type life
in your older age, Pete?
Yeah, but the thing is those programmes are never fun to record, presumably.
He's having a great time.
No, but it would have been...
Well, if he's allowed to just drive on a Porsche,
all right, that's a different situation.
But these travel shows, they always look quite interesting.
You sort of go, oh, imagine getting paid for travelling around.
These travel shows, they always look quite interesting.
You say, oh, imagine getting paid for travelling around.
The shoots will be two weeks hitting five cities all over the globe and you'd just be knackered by the end of it.
Absolutely knackered.
Nah.
It's real work.
Rick's going for dinner wherever he wants on his own schedule,
getting it paid for.
Yeah, but you can't have conversations that you would usually have.
You're just constantly being filmed while you're chowing down
and you've got to talk to the camera.
It's a job.
It's work, man.
Do you want to do it or not?
Yes, I would like to do it.
But I'm just saying that I understand.
But he's always doing it
because he enjoys it.
He doesn't have to do it, does he?
Well, I don't know.
He's wealthy.
Have you seen Padstow?
He owns half of Padstow.
I don't really know who Rick Stein is.
Is he a chef?
I'll talk to you about it later.
He's an old chef guy.
He's an old chef guy, right?
I'll get a picture of him.
You'll recognise him
I'm sure
he's been on TV
for 40 years
how many restaurants
go out of business
every year
it's hard work
hard work to run these things
this is him
yeah yeah
I just googled him
I looked at his tweets
he's in Venice
and he looks like a short man
he might drown
is that from one short man
to another
the danger
I also really enjoyed
or I am really enjoying
so far
the series of
His Dark Materials
oh yeah
based on the
Philip Pullman books
that's back
have you seen any of that
I've not seen any of that
no
you don't watch TV
you don't like it
as I said before
I don't
I don't generally flirt
with BBC
dramas
I had a look at
The Night Manager
because
that's good I like a bit of John le Carré,
but for some reason,
I just have a real blind spot for them.
That was good,
but it wasn't as good as the book.
No.
Well, they tried to make a film out of it,
didn't they?
Of what?
Of His Dark Materials?
Yeah.
They muffed it up, I think.
Are you aware of the premise
of the His Dark Materials series of books?
No.
I know Jim's been reading it.
It looks like a chunker.
Oh, yeah.
The latest one's big.
But what it is,
is there's loads of stuff that goes on,
and I won't bore you with the details here,
but particularly,
you've just literally said you're not interested.
The idea is that everyone has a demon,
which is like their soul
that lives outside their body
and takes an animal form.
Yes, okay, right.
Yeah.
Do you know what would your demon be?
Um, zebra.
A zebra?
Zebra. It can't be a zebra. Why? It's not practical, is it? What do you know what would your demon be? Um, zebra. A zebra? Zebra.
It can't be a zebra.
Why?
It's not practical, is it?
What do you mean?
It's too big.
It follows you around everywhere
and you can't be separated from it.
Oh, for crying out loud.
So everyone's just got small animals?
Or is that the joke sometimes?
It's supposed to be...
It's not a joke.
Right.
It's supposed to be reflective of your personality,
but it's supposed to be like
a smaller kind of version of it
that follows you everywhere
and you can't be separated
from it
I want to find a ferret
a ferret
why a ferret
because if
to me
the ferret is the most
perverted of all the animals
because it goes up
your trousers and stuff
I've never seen
any of these animals
so what is it
like what animals
do people use
hamsters
like what's the most
what's the one that can
fit in my pocket
hamster works
perfect
Lyra is the main
girl in it,
and her demon is a pine martin.
But when you're a kid,
it changes based on your mood.
Is a pine martin a bird?
I've never heard of this animal.
A pine martin is like a little rodent.
Right, okay.
But when you are a kid in this universe,
the animals change form depending on your mood,
and then they settle as you go into adulthood,
and that settles your personality.
That's a nice idea.
One of the guys has got a snake. Yeah, he's a nice idea. So some of them might, one of them, one of the guys
has got a snake.
Yeah,
he's a nasty little fucker.
Yeah,
Lord Asriel's got a,
I think he's got a snow leopard.
Okay.
Do the,
you just said
I'm not allowed big animals
and he's got a bloody snow leopard.
Have you seen a zebra?
Yes.
It's mad.
Then say so.
You knocking about
with a zebra,
bigger than you.
To an army,
taking the football.
You take the football, you wouldn't know. You living in with a zebra bigger than you. To an army. Take them to football. Take them to football
you wouldn't know.
You living in this world.
What time is Pete
coming to the bar?
I'll be here in a minute.
This fucking zebra
comes in
takes a big shit
on the floor.
Mine would be
very polite zebra.
What about the animals?
Do they have
spirit animals
or possibly spirit humans?
Yeah it's like a
set of Russian dolls.
Yeah, maybe the
little devils are us.
Could be.
Makes you think,
doesn't it?
See?
So yours would be a
little hamster,
wouldn't it?
Yeah, because it's
just more portable.
I think you're
missing the point here.
And I'd disguise it
as a mouse, like a
computer mouse.
It would be in a
hard shell and its
little head would
pop out of a
computer mouse.
There'd be a little
hole in the computer
mouse and the head
would pop out and it would just look like I out of a computer mouse. There'd be a little hole in the computer mouse and the head would pop out
and it would just look like I was carrying a computer mouse.
And you can talk to your demon.
You can talk to each other.
Yeah.
And he can give you a different alternative opinion
or something or see something that you can't
and you can work as a team.
Well, I just have a dog because I like dogs.
So I just have a dog.
You can.
It's supposed to be reflective of your personality.
So what you need to do...
All right, dog, I'm a crowd pleaser.
I'm worried what people think about me all the time.
What type of dog?
Chihuahua.
I don't know, Shih Tzu.
Something small.
You're not loyal, though, are you?
What do you mean I'm not loyal?
You're not a loyal person.
What do you mean I'm not loyal?
You like to do your own thing all the time.
That doesn't make you loyal.
It just makes you flighty.
A little wolf?
A little wolf.
Yeah.
No, because they have a wolf pack, don't they?
Yeah, true. Yeah. I like to think of you as a little hamster. Yeah, No, because they have a wolf pack, don't they? Yeah, true.
Yeah.
I like to think of you as a little hamster.
Yeah, a little hamster and a little mouse thing.
I've offered you a hamster and you wanted something else.
No, I quite like a hamster.
This is the worst Dark Materials podcast ever.
What happens to the animals?
Can they die?
Yeah, if they die, you're in big trouble.
Right.
And no one else can touch your demon.
You're in big trouble.
Yeah.
And no one else can touch your demon. It in big trouble yeah and no one else can touch your demon
it's like a faux pas
oh right
so if I went over
and saw a dog
and it might be
the actual spirit
animal of someone
yeah
I'd go over and stroke it
that's a real
oh mate
I think they'd be upset
with you
very upset
don't you touch my demon
yeah
but what if you touch
your demon accidentally
maybe they would
just let you off
fraught with problems
fraught with problems
yeah
anyway it's a good show
it's a good show it's a good
it's a good book
sounds like nonsense
good set of books
in my opinion
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look at this
I'm a big terrorist
with my cat
so even terrorists
can have spirit animals
cats
cats
by the sounds of it
cats
is that another one
from that classic
easy jet documentary series
oh look at me
I'm a big terrorist
with my cat
I'm having a lovely time
I've had four points
of Guinness
and my wife
just left me
I can't name her
what's her name Jane I can't name her.
What's her name?
Jane, I don't know.
Jane, oh, sorry.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah.
All right, email time.
What have we got here?
I've got an email here about American eggs.
This is the debate
that has run and run
and I did not expect it.
I like to think
eggs-pegged it.
I didn't, yeah.
I like to think
it was the sequel to that song
by,
not Annie Lennox.
American Woman.
Who sang American Woman?
American Woman.
I always say Lenny Kravitz.
It was a cover, wasn't it?
Lenny Kravitz.
Yeah, it was Lenny Kravitz.
He covered it.
I think it's a cover, isn't it?
American Woman.
It was originally by, I'll tell you.
Did Lenny Kravitz do a cover of it?
Yeah, it's famously
his song.
Okay. One of his
recent decents, as you might call it.
There's a song called
American Woman by The Guess Who, but I think that's a different song.
Anyway, carry on.
I just think that his next song
would be about American eggs.
It wasn't worth it.
No, it really wasn't.
I don't know why you're concentrating on it.
Jordan from Melbourne's been in touch
about American eggs
because we talked about
why they're different colours
and all the rest of it
and everyone's got their own theory
so I'm just reading the theories
as they come in.
Don't hold it against us.
Jordan says,
eggs in the US are illegal in the uk and vice versa basically the fda regulates that all american sold eggs must be washed and properly sanitized
of contaminants such as dirt and feces and this process destroys the color of the eggs leaving
them white that's literally what i said in the first response to the email completely off the
dorm let me finish right if any part of the email, completely off the dorm. Let me finish.
Right.
If any part of the washing process is off, though, the chance of contamination is extremely high,
especially since the water it's washed in can easily infect the egg with pathogens such as salmonella.
Everywhere but the US instead chooses not to wash eggs,
as eggs have an external coating called the cuticle which protects them.
Washing eggs damages and usually removes this protective layer,
leaving them susceptible to infection.
While not washing eggs requires more care,
it prevents contamination in kitchen environments.
Yeah, I agree with that.
I mean, America has so many salmonella outbreaks and we don't have them quite as much,
apart from that really famous one in the 90s with Edwina Curry
etc
but yeah
I'm not looking forward
to the old chlorinated chicken
we haven't had a food
health scale for a while
have we
we had foot and mouth
for a bit
a bit of BSE
didn't we
a bit of Salmonella
just be careful
alright guys
just be careful
Adam in London
it did make people
very scared of chicken
like needlessly scared
of chicken
more than you
really should
I don't really remember
the salmonella one.
Yeah, people are obsessed
with like, you know,
just don't do this to a chicken.
Like, just cook your food properly.
Adam Kemp.
Hello, Adam.
Hi, guys.
Thank you for reading
my story about a cannibal
that definitely existed
back in episode...
Oh, for God's sake,
how has he got back on the show?
I write this time
with a story
that is perhaps
even more troubling.
I briefly mentioned at the end of the Thursday episode a week ago,
after a woman claimed to have used the same nappy on all nine of her children.
Bloody hell.
This reminded me of my current flatmate telling me that his parents used tea towels instead of nappies for him while he was a baby.
Slightly unusual behaviour, but more economical, I guess.
He then went on to tell me that not only had his parents kept said tea towels,
but they were also the ones he'd brought from home that we currently use in our flat.
What?
Oh, nappy rash.
This is horrendous.
It is disgusting, isn't it?
Having nappies.
You're washing, drying all of your blumming dishes with old nappies.
It's not what you want.
What's the upshot?
Well, he acted as though
it was completely normal
surely this is borderline
deviant behaviour
and I should be looking
for someone else
somewhere else to live
or am I in the wrong here
keep the good work
Adam in London
we are in our
10th year of living together
him and his mate
yeah
he lived with his same mate
for 10 years
yeah it's nice
love that theme June are you very good is that a situation 10 years. Yeah, it's nice.
Love that theme, June.
Are you... Very good.
Is that a situation
you'd like to find yourself in?
Would you live with your mate Al
for 10 years?
Oh, God, no.
God, no.
My mum...
I think parents have this
kind of like really...
They have got loyalty
to towels.
If you go back
to your mum and dad's house,
you will see a towel
that you were probably
swaddled in when you were a kid.
Oh, I literally had a conversation with my mum yesterday,
and she said the cutlery we've got in our house,
they got as a wedding present in 1975.
And look, they were built to last.
And also, why throw away a good thing?
That's 44 years of cutlery.
Mad, isn't it?
My mum still uses the same iron from when I was a kid.
Does it still work?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Beautiful. Because modern irons aren't very heavy, and this one just makes it a little easier because it's quite heavy. my mum still uses the same iron from when I was a kid does it still work yeah beautiful
because modern irons
aren't very heavy
and this one
just makes it a little easier
because it's quite heavy
your mate Alex
would never agree
to live with you
because if he lived with you
it would increase
his chances of his
worst nightmare coming true
and he'd become a meme
oh yeah exactly
yeah
constantly surveying
my surroundings
for memedom
yeah I wonder how much
stuff in my parents house
has been there
since before I was born
the cutlery definitely has
because my mum was literally saying
they're going to get some new stuff
for Christmas.
It's kind of a bit of a shame, really.
Yeah.
Keep it.
Yeah, and we've talked about parents
and their attic and stuff.
And we also, a week or so ago,
talked about those parents
leaving that stuff in the bedside drawer.
And we don't want to get into that again.
Luke Kyle from Basingstoke's been in touch
and emails in with the following.
Hey guys, hope you're well
just a quick one
regarding your gladiator chat
recently
remember we talked about
the gladiators
yeah
that TV show
I think that was part of
our Saturday night TV chat
he says
I used to work in childcare
and when working in a nursery
I used to look after
a little girl called Angel
who happened to be the daughter
of the very lovely Falcon
aka Bernadette
nice
I knew her for the best part of three years
and still occasionally bump into her
in the local Tesco Express.
We normally have a brief catch up
and I do my best not to call her Falcon.
She currently runs fitness classes
here in Basingstoke
at the local sports centre
and I believe she does a lot of charity work too.
Keep up the good work, guys.
Luke Kyle.
Oh, she had that very 80s hair.
I'm going to Google her now.
Shot on top, long at the back.
Full on mullet.
Full on lady mullet.
Wonderful.
Oh, yeah.
I recognise her now.
I remember her.
Yes.
But if anyone else has got any stories about meeting or knowing gladiators.
My friend Tommy got in touch about it and said that he used to see Hunter driving around
Essex in an open top car
trying to attract the ladies.
Yeah.
Behaviour absolutely
commensurate
from what you'd expect.
Damn right.
Look,
if you're going to spend
all that time on that body,
Do you reckon he used to
shout out when he was driving,
can you feel the power
of the gladiators?
Do you have the will
and the skill?
Well,
the song was released,
wasn't it?
It was probably a
Simon Cowell joint,
wasn't it?
Probably was. It was a Simon Cowell joint, wasn't it? It probably was.
It was a Simon Cowell
deep cut.
They did all of the
WrestleMania ones, so.
Do you want to hear
from someone who's
from Milwaukee?
Yes, please.
Because that's where
you spent some time.
It's from Steve, and
he says, I enjoyed
the latest episode,
199.70, so a few episodes, and he says, I enjoyed the latest episode, 199.70,
so a few episodes now.
He says,
as a Scot living in Milwaukee,
Pete's visit after the Ramble Chicago show,
which I attended and enjoyed,
piqued my interest.
I'm not surprised to hear
that his idea of visiting us
was met with derision,
as Chicagoans tend to look down their noses at us
while being happy to
come up here in large numbers for little getaways.
Being the childish shorts,
shorts,
wearing childish shorts,
being the childish sorts that we are,
our only repost is to refer to them as fibs,
fucking Illinois bastards and remind them the bears still suck,
which remains a constant and never changing world.
Can you tell
we have a huge chip
on our shoulders
anyway hopefully
you had a good time
Pete for Steve
yeah
Tyler has also come in
as well
he's from Milwaukee
or moved to Milwaukee
from Virginia
in 2012
within a year
I decided that Milwaukee
would be my home
for the foreseeable future
it still is
but to be fair
I began dating the woman
who's now my wife
major factor
some unique features
of Milwaukee.
Home to Summerfest, the world's largest music festival, which is incredible.
Can that really be the world's largest music festival?
I reckon like state fairs and stuff, they bring in so many people.
You know what I mean?
What's the name of it?
Summerfest.
Certified by the Guinness Book of World Records for the last 20 years, mate, so can't complain.
Harley Davidson was founded in,
and is still
headquartered in Milwaukee.
And found the location
of Miller Brewery,
of course,
who make terrible beer.
Yeah, just looking up
at Summerfest, Pete.
Apparently, yeah,
it's in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
It's the biggest music festival
in the world.
And this year,
they expect an attendance
of 900,000 people.
Incredible. But it goes along 11
days. Yeah. Can I give you a
bit of this? Wisconsin
is known for cheese and Milwaukee serves
cheese in most ways you can imagine, especially in fried curd form.
But number five, the brewery
slash tavern lobby is
so strong here, you can get stopped by
the police for a DUI several
times before losing your driver's licence
bloody hell
for goodness sake
every scene
in every TV show
I was watching
The Office last night
and Michael Scott
and everyone in the scene
were plastered
and they just get in their car
and they just drive away
and no one goes
that's bad behaviour
that's bad behaviour
it's very very different
culturally
to here
for that kind of thing
yeah and I imagine it's. For that kind of thing.
Yeah.
And I imagine it's worse in the kind of more rural areas as well.
Guys, visit Milwaukee.
And if we don't get a Visit Milwaukee sponsorship,
I'll be very, very aggrieved.
That'd be great.
Can't be great. Get in touch with the Milwaukee kind of tourist board.
Yeah, and go, look, we're doing more for you
than your goddamn Green Bay Packers are.
Are you a Green Bay man now?
I'm a Green Bay baseman.
You know they're called cheese heads?
Yeah.
They wear big blocks of cheese on their heads.
Yeah.
Not real ones.
I saw a load of the blocks of cheese at the airport
and I'm still thinking about the
fireman's hat I could have bought
that looked like cheese.
Why didn't you buy that?
That's such a darn some purchase.
It was a Stetson.
I was bringing it back.
It's a bit of a pain in the arse.
I'd have to wear it.
I'd look mentally ill
I would just love
to be coincidentally
walking through
arrivals at Heathrow
and you rock up
on your own
with a cheese hat
Stetson made of cheese
yeah
what
have you
and like the one thing
that Americans
have a real fucking
boner for
is preventing you
importing or exporting
cheese
so have you
got anything to declare
have you got anything to declare?
Have you got any food,
foodstuffs to declare?
Only my genius.
Only my genius.
I also think... What's under that hat?
Heroin.
Yeah, the Vermont's known
for its cheese as well,
but it's not, I mean,
compared to European cheese,
it's not as good.
Nowhere near as good.
What about this from Brad?
He says he's from a place
called Century,
but he doesn't mention
where that is.
I think it's in the US.
He says,
I hope you guys are having a good time in the States.
This is an email from a while back.
He says,
um,
in your episode,
when you walked down seventh Avenue,
you made a quick reference to real life superheroes.
Have you heard of Phoenix Jones of Seattle?
No,
no.
Uh,
it's actually a Wikipedia,
um,
article.
Phoenix Jones is an American real life superhero,
uh, initially wearing a
ski mask to intervene in a public assault.
His real name is Benjamin Fodor.
He developed a full costume
and adopted Phoenix Jones as a pseudonym.
From 2011
to its dissolution in 2014,
Jones was the leader
of the Rain City Superhero Movement,
a Seattle, Washington-based citizen
patrol group
which describes itself as a crime prevention brigade right uh it's a picture of him he's got
a little super suit on and everything um he also did a bit of mixed martial arts stuff um he fought
his older brother in a in a catchweight fight um doesn't say whether he won or not. Looks like he didn't win.
And he's been derided by the police.
He got injured.
Ever since.
What happened was he reported that he was stabbed with a knife while trying to intervene in a drug deal.
Yeah.
And the police keep saying to him,
listen, mate, stop fucking doing this.
Please.
He's been, he's on record,
the police are on record
as calling him
a deeply misguided individual
in quotes.
But he also
spawned in 2012,
apparently,
a super villain.
A video appeared online
from a guy called
Rex Velvet.
Rex Velvet.
Criticising Jones
and his anti-crime efforts.
Oh God. I like it. Yeah yeah these people do really need to have
their father tell them they love them but anyway brad also says also with your hopping about have
you ever fly delta to or from the us my dad may be your co-pilot yes he's been with them almost 30
years um after his time in the u.s air force flying f-16s and instructing pilots on the T-38 he also lugged cargo
around on the C-17
for a while
so do be on lookout
for pilot Keith
there's a 100% chance
he won't recognise you
though because
this is the man
who met Danny Carvajal
and thought it was
Lionel Messi
thanks a lot
Danny's happy with that
Brad from Century
yeah
can he find my laptop
please
oh yes
any news on that
no
every two days I'll get an email from Chicago or airport going Can he find my laptop, please? Oh, yes. Any news on that? No.
Every two days,
I'll get an email from Chicago Airport going,
and it makes it look like they've just found your stuff.
And it goes,
Hi, Pete.
We know that finding your item is almost important to us,
and it is to us, too.
But just find my thing.
I told you exactly where it was.
Exactly where it was.
The seat, the flight.
The seat, the flight. The seat, the flight.
Someone's going through your internet history right now.
Good point, actually.
You should change my passwords, really.
Yeah, you should.
Never mind.
All right.
Well, listen, I think that's about as much time as we have.
Okay, then.
Fine.
This time around.
Okay.
Thanks, everyone who got in touch.
We do love to hear from you, so hello at lukeandpetech.com is the way forward.
I think there's a good chance the next episode we do might be me and the US and Pete in the UK, so we'll see how hear from you. So hello at lukeandpetech.com is the way forward. I think there's a good chance
the next episode we do
might be me in the US
and Pete in the UK.
So we'll see how that works out.
See how that one pans out.
But if anything,
we always over-promise
and under-deliver on this show.
So we'll see what goes on.
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