The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.73: Do you feel the power of the gladiators?

Episode Date: November 25, 2019

What'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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:41 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
Starting point is 00:00:50 that every American show because you know those type of American podcasts are all quite earnest and he says have you got someone
Starting point is 00:00:58 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
Starting point is 00:01:04 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.
Starting point is 00:01:23 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
Starting point is 00:01:37 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.
Starting point is 00:01:52 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,
Starting point is 00:02:05 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
Starting point is 00:02:18 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.
Starting point is 00:02:27 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
Starting point is 00:02:38 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.
Starting point is 00:02:46 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
Starting point is 00:02:52 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
Starting point is 00:02:59 from a film. That's amazing. Like a miniaturised set of you building something like, you know, it looked like something out of,
Starting point is 00:03:05 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
Starting point is 00:03:13 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
Starting point is 00:03:20 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.
Starting point is 00:03:29 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
Starting point is 00:03:45 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
Starting point is 00:03:53 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.
Starting point is 00:04:03 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?
Starting point is 00:04:15 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
Starting point is 00:04:25 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
Starting point is 00:04:32 on Talk Sport and Alan Brazil was talking about Rod Stewart and Rod Stewart rang in live and invited Alan onto his private jet
Starting point is 00:04:40 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
Starting point is 00:04:47 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
Starting point is 00:04:55 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
Starting point is 00:05:04 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.
Starting point is 00:05:14 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
Starting point is 00:05:27 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
Starting point is 00:05:35 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
Starting point is 00:05:42 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,
Starting point is 00:05:56 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
Starting point is 00:06:07 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
Starting point is 00:06:16 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
Starting point is 00:06:23 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.
Starting point is 00:06:42 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.
Starting point is 00:06:59 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.
Starting point is 00:07:14 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?
Starting point is 00:07:27 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?
Starting point is 00:07:36 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
Starting point is 00:07:45 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
Starting point is 00:07:52 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
Starting point is 00:08:02 to another the danger I also really enjoyed or I am really enjoying so far the series of His Dark Materials oh yeah
Starting point is 00:08:10 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
Starting point is 00:08:16 as I said before I don't I don't generally flirt with BBC dramas I had a look at The Night Manager because
Starting point is 00:08:24 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?
Starting point is 00:08:34 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.
Starting point is 00:08:43 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.
Starting point is 00:08:53 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.
Starting point is 00:09:04 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
Starting point is 00:09:10 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,
Starting point is 00:09:21 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
Starting point is 00:09:27 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
Starting point is 00:09:35 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
Starting point is 00:09:42 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.
Starting point is 00:09:52 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
Starting point is 00:10:05 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,
Starting point is 00:10:13 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
Starting point is 00:10:21 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
Starting point is 00:10:30 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.
Starting point is 00:10:39 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.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Could be. Makes you think, doesn't it? See? So yours would be a little hamster, wouldn't it? Yeah, because it's
Starting point is 00:10:53 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
Starting point is 00:11:01 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.
Starting point is 00:11:08 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.
Starting point is 00:11:19 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.
Starting point is 00:11:30 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.
Starting point is 00:11:40 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.
Starting point is 00:11:49 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.
Starting point is 00:12:02 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
Starting point is 00:12:09 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
Starting point is 00:12:15 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
Starting point is 00:12:22 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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Starting point is 00:12:41 chat normally look at this I'm a big terrorist with my cat so even terrorists can have spirit animals cats cats
Starting point is 00:12:51 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
Starting point is 00:12:58 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?
Starting point is 00:13:06 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
Starting point is 00:13:15 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,
Starting point is 00:13:25 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.
Starting point is 00:13:37 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
Starting point is 00:13:55 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.
Starting point is 00:14:10 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
Starting point is 00:14:18 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.
Starting point is 00:14:49 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.
Starting point is 00:15:15 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
Starting point is 00:15:29 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
Starting point is 00:15:38 alright guys just be careful Adam in London it did make people very scared of chicken like needlessly scared of chicken more than you
Starting point is 00:15:44 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.
Starting point is 00:15:53 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?
Starting point is 00:16:00 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.
Starting point is 00:16:20 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.
Starting point is 00:16:37 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
Starting point is 00:16:49 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
Starting point is 00:16:57 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
Starting point is 00:17:09 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...
Starting point is 00:17:17 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,
Starting point is 00:17:28 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?
Starting point is 00:17:43 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
Starting point is 00:17:49 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
Starting point is 00:17:56 oh yeah exactly yeah constantly surveying my surroundings for memedom yeah I wonder how much stuff in my parents house has been there
Starting point is 00:18:03 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.
Starting point is 00:18:11 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.
Starting point is 00:18:24 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
Starting point is 00:18:31 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
Starting point is 00:18:40 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.
Starting point is 00:18:53 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.
Starting point is 00:19:05 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.
Starting point is 00:19:12 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.
Starting point is 00:19:31 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?
Starting point is 00:19:39 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?
Starting point is 00:19:44 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?
Starting point is 00:19:58 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.
Starting point is 00:20:08 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,
Starting point is 00:20:21 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,
Starting point is 00:20:38 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
Starting point is 00:20:48 yeah Tyler has also come in as well he's from Milwaukee or moved to Milwaukee from Virginia in 2012 within a year
Starting point is 00:20:56 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
Starting point is 00:21:03 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.
Starting point is 00:21:19 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.
Starting point is 00:21:35 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
Starting point is 00:21:44 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
Starting point is 00:22:00 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
Starting point is 00:22:10 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
Starting point is 00:22:19 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.
Starting point is 00:22:30 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?
Starting point is 00:22:43 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
Starting point is 00:22:52 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.
Starting point is 00:23:03 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
Starting point is 00:23:12 Stetson made of cheese yeah what have you and like the one thing that Americans have a real fucking boner for
Starting point is 00:23:18 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?
Starting point is 00:23:27 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,
Starting point is 00:23:36 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.
Starting point is 00:23:43 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.
Starting point is 00:23:54 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,
Starting point is 00:24:04 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
Starting point is 00:24:20 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.
Starting point is 00:24:51 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
Starting point is 00:25:05 as calling him a deeply misguided individual in quotes. But he also spawned in 2012, apparently, a super villain. A video appeared online
Starting point is 00:25:16 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
Starting point is 00:25:38 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
Starting point is 00:25:52 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
Starting point is 00:25:59 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,
Starting point is 00:26:12 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.
Starting point is 00:26:23 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.
Starting point is 00:26:35 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
Starting point is 00:26:45 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.
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