The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.75: Black Eye Friday
Episode Date: December 2, 2019Luke's still in Vermont, but don't let that put you off. Today's episode comes in the form of an impromptu movie special, including thoughts on such titles as Big Trouble in Little China, Predator, La...st Christmas and plenty more. We also take the time to reminisce about Flavor of Love, the hugely memorable reality show featuring Flava Flav, wonder what the month of December will have in store for us all, and learn about the great northern tradition of Black Eye Friday. Stay safe, drinkers.To get involved in this entirely foul jamboree, it's: 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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Hello and welcome to another episode of the Luke and Pete show. It's episode 4212. I'm
Luke Moore and that man there is Pete Donaldson. And how are you, Luke Moore?
Still in the Vermont, enjoying the pies and the milk.
You don't know anything about Vermont, do you?
No, I don't.
It's the Green Mountain State, Peter.
It's like every prefecture in Japan has got a different kind of ramen.
Everyone's got something going on.
Yeah, all right.
You didn't invent them.
You just get to enjoy them.
The Green Mountain State, mate.
What can I say?
I'm still doing well, thanks.
Did you have a nice weekend?
Sounds like a Sonic the Hedgehog level.
Yeah, no, good.
Yeah, all good.
Been a solid weekend of just relaxing the hell out
because I'd had a busy week
and now I get to just chill out.
You know what the most perfect thing would be?
Is just have a nice quiet December,
ease myself into Christmas.
But you know, for a fact,
us media types out and about,
we ain't going to get a moment's rest, are we?
Your popularity is such that you will be invited to every debutante's ball in town.
So there's no chance of you having a quiet time.
Presumably now you've ramped up your association with rappers
and now you're actually living with RZA and Snoop Doggy Dog.
Snoop Doggy Dog, stop.
Yeah, no, we're all in a big house, all in a big Airbnb,
flouting the no undeclared guests rule,
but we don't care because we're punk rock slash rap.
And you are going to be the subject of the new Flavour of Love series
with Flavour Flav, right?
Yeah, I'm going to polish his clock.
Yeah, he was quite rude to women, innit?
I can't remember.
Yeah, I think it was quite problematic.
And the thing that stands out for me is one of the women
who he was living with in the show took a shit in the house on the floor.
Yeah, okay, nice.
That's one of the things I remember.
Keep them remembering you.
Keep them laughing.
I've not taken a shit on the floor in this house yet, though.
You'll be pleased to know.
But Thanksgiving was great.
My wife's sister was married as well.
We had a little wedding up here, which is fantastic.
So it's been a lovely time all round, really.
Squeaking everything in there.
Very enjoyable.
I know. What we'll do is we'll have to record another one from
up here for Thursday, because I'll be travelling in
transit on Thursday, so we're going to have to pre-record
that one. Cool beans. Planes, trains and
automobiles, baby.
Exactly. It's a bit like that. Planes, trains
and automobiles is the best ever
Thanksgiving-themed movie.
But I can't think of another Thanksgiving-themed movie at all.
Well, I guess it's one of those...
Do you?
It's one of those kind of Reddit or...
It's kind of those Reddit lists that never make our shows
because we have very little concept of it.
Thanksgiving films.
I can't...
I'm trying to think what we'd...
No, it's always Christmas, isn't it?
People have got to get back for free birds.
Yeah, apparently...
Well, I've just Googled it now.
You've Got Mail is apparently set at Thanksgiving.
Adam's Family Values.
National Lampoon's Holiday Reunion,
which is not one of the National Lampoons when I've seen,
although it has got Brian Cranston in it,
so that might be worth a watch.
Paul Blackmore Cop.
I haven't seen that either.
No, you should have.
Oh, by the way, speaking of that,
I watched on the flight over here, and I don't know if this is you should oh by the way speaking of that I watched
on the flight over here
I don't know if this is
going to fall on deaf ears
but I'll run it past you anyway
so I flew over
on British Airways
and they've got a new
entertainment system
on board now
so they've got loads
more movies
than you'd expect
because normally
you get like
I don't know
like 20 or whatever
this has got
absolutely loads
and for some reason
I ended up re-watching for the first time in about know like 20 or whatever yeah this has got absolutely loads and um for some reason uh i
ended up re-watching for the first time in about i'm gonna say 25 years i ended up re-watching a
big trouble in little china oh where his foot goes all big have you seen it i have seen it i was a
big fan of it and mainly because there was a very underwhelming, big link to Luke and Pete, a really bad tie-in video game on the Spectrum.
So he used to play that quite a lot.
Okay, so the fact that you just said,
well, his foot goes all big.
I mean, I watched it the other day
and I literally don't know what you mean.
His foot goes all big.
I can't remember how it happens.
Maybe somebody attaches a bike pump or something,
but his foot goes really big for some reason.
Big foot. No, his head goes really big. Now his foot wasn really big for some reason. Big foot.
No, his head goes really big.
No, his foot, wasn't it?
And the bad guys blows up.
I thought it was his foot.
No, it's his head.
It was John Carpenter, wasn't it?
Oh, right, okay.
Oh, well, maybe it's him.
It's John Carpenter.
Anyway, can I just say,
I had absolutely no concept
of how absolutely bizarre it is as a film.
Oh, it's wonderful, isn't it?
It's mad.
It's absolutely mad.
It's directed... I mean, it's John Carpenter.
He's made some amazing movies, as we all know.
But it is the mind of a maniac has directed this film.
You can buy the exploding head on eBay.
It's for sale.
iCollector.com.
How much?
Six and a half grand
you know what
that's not
that's not bad
that's not bad
for a collector's item
we all remember
apart from me
when I thought it was a foot
but
yeah
but it's John Carpenter
and like
it's like
I think we're sort of
taken in by the fact
that Kurt Russell is in it
as like an all action
you know
an all action man
kind of guy
but in reality
it's actually a bit in reality it's actually
a bit
in reality
it's just a bit mad
I think we're expecting
a scene in New York
Kurt Russell is very
watchable isn't he
he's like a proper
film star
Kurt Russell
he's just really
really watchable isn't he
Kim Cattrall is just
bizarrely bad isn't it
and it's also really
reductive as well
it's a real kind of
anachronistic kind of female lead role
where all she cares about is just trying to get Kurt Russell.
It's bad.
And I was reading around it after I watched it
because it's just so weird.
I mean, part of the reason it's so sort of compelling
is because you just don't know where it's going to go next
if you can't really remember it.
And obviously it relies on some very problematic
kind of chinese stereotypes
as well yeah um but i was reading around it apparently the guy who wrote it originally
wrote it as a western set in the late 19th century nice and and the studio said no no you've got to
modernize this it's not going to work so he ended up re reworking it to be set in chinatown san
francisco in the 1980s instead of the 1880s but apparently John Carpenter um
had a long-held passion to make a martial arts movie and that's why he signed on to make it
right and then off the back of it he said yeah I ain't doing any more Hollywood films
because this has turned into an absolute mess and obviously it was a commercial
kind of flop at the time but it was one of those, and I don't know if you know what I mean when I say this,
but you don't really get many movies like this
where you know it's bad,
and objectively you can see that this is preposterous,
but at the same time, it's still really watchable.
The special effects are dreadful, the acting's bad,
but it's still really, really watchable.
Yeah, and you can't sort of look away.
But then also, I can never start those films,
but if it's on and someone happens to be watching it,
I'm very much of the opinion that that's a lot easier to do.
I can't sort of sit down knowing I'm going to sit down for two hours
and watch a terrible, bloody film,
knowing full well it's going to be terrible.
Actually, speaking of bad films,
I went to the cinema to see Last Christmas.
Oh, with Emilia Clarke?
With Emilia Clarke.
Well, she was in the film.
She didn't come with me.
But she...
Yeah, it's an interesting piece of strange cinema.
It's just all over the place, really.
Yeah, the director is a guy who's done a load of good comedy.
Isn't it the guy who made Bridesmaids?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Paul Feig?
Yeah.
Is it a bad movie then, is it?
It is a bad movie, but I think, you know, I'm very right on.
I'm very sort of pro doing the right thing as much as I can,
even though that makes me,
yeah, it's tedious and it makes me sound incredibly wet.
And people have got me on Twitter a lot this year
for some reason.
Yeah, but I get told off for being a gammon
and being a centrist dad.
Right.
Just because I'm not as mental as you are.
So we've all got a cross to bear, mate.
I just know I look better in 60 years' time,
if not physically.
But I watch them and there's two
fairly prominent
Asian actors in it
Malaysian
in this case
but they've rebranded
one as Chinese
which is weird
and
and
I was like
the
the story
was very schmaltzy
and quite basic
at times
and and it was about ghosts and stuff like that.
Sorry, that's probably a bit of a spoiler,
but it's about the supernatural and stuff and Christmas
and it was very sugary and saccharine
and with two very prominent, presumably Chinese characters.
And I was like, this has got to be just a massive pull for Chinese cash.
And I looked on the Wikipedia,
and one of the big exec producing companies in the film is Chinese.
So it doesn't matter.
We're all sort of losing our minds that this film is an absolute piece of shit
and everyone hates it.
But in reality, it'll go down very well uh elsewhere it'll go down very
well in china so it's made almost exclusively for a chinese audience pretty much and i reckon
they probably filmed a few more um a few more um scenes with the with the um purported to be
a chinese character so that's that's fascinating so i think we'll see a lot i don't know if people
know that you mean you say that but i don't know if people know that that's what goes on in like
those big blockbuster movies.
They recut them for Chinese audiences
with Chinese characters in them
and do a separate release.
Well, and the Chinese characters
always have to be intelligent.
They always have to bring something more
to the piece than the Western actors.
And it's kind of what happens in this one
to a certain extent.
The main lead was from that,
is it Filthy Rich Asians or something?
What was that film that came out a while ago?
Yeah.
And he's excellent and just unbelievably good looking.
And there's another character who plays Emilia Clarke's boss.
And I was like, this is interesting.
And I think we're going to see a lot more of that as we go.
And, you know, at the end of the day,
you get more interesting, more diverse voices. Pete voices to be absolutely clear like so what you're
saying is then so if they go make a transformers movie so michael bay goes to make a transformers
movie yeah he makes the movie and then they shoot a load of scenes with chinese actors in which they
then re-edit later to put in there so it's a complete almost a completely different film
yeah with the same branding effectively for a Chinese audience
yeah
with extra little
added scenes
that's crazy
where the Chinese characters
are more intelligent
than the Western characters
and that's a stipulation
from the actual
the communist government
as well
so yeah
I think we're going to see
a bit more of that
in the future
can I just say
going back to
Big Trouble in Little China
if I was the guy
who put the money up
for this movie
which apparently
was 25 million dollars
and I saw
what some of the
special effects are like
I'd be saying
right what have you
spent the money on there
because you've not
spent it on that
fucking weird
Cuddles the Monkey
type fucking bad
monster
and you've not
spent it on that
exploding hair
because that looks like
it took about 5 minutes
so what have you
spent the money on
cocaine it's going to be cocaine So what have you spent the money on?
Cocaine.
It's going to be cocaine, isn't it?
I believe the answer may be cocaine.
Yeah.
But I'd like to know.
It's absolutely baffling, mate.
It's baffling.
And then what I had to do then is to try and cleanse my palate
is I immediately then put on Predator.
Nice.
Okay.
So you got through Big Trouble in Little China and Predator
on a transatlantic voyage.
Do you know what I thought?
And I thought to myself, right, so as people probably,
or some people may know,
because we've made a bit of a song and dance about it,
you can listen to Football Ramble episodes on the plane,
on British Airways flights, right?
And I thought to myself earlier,
but I knew I was going to talk to you about this,
I thought, what's the worst look possible
if someone got onto a plane
and recognised me as the guy from the Football Ramble?
Well, the worst look possible would be me listening
to the Football Ramble, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
But if I go away now and ask myself,
am I happy that someone's walked past my screen on the plane
and seen that I'm first of all watching Big Trouble in Little China
and then Predator
while eating like
drinking a beer and eating snacks
what are they going to think of me?
There's definitely more of my brand
I would say, definitely more of my brand that
Yeah I mean I suppose
in a way I'd be quite proud if someone said oh yeah I saw
Luke from the Football Ramblin' on the plane and he was watching
Predator, I'm quite happy with that
but I tell you what the was watching Predator. I'm quite happy with that. But I'll tell you what,
the thing about Predator is,
like,
if,
I said this about
Kurt Russell in
Big Trouble in Little China,
and I know we've got
a bit 80s movies here,
I didn't plan to do this,
but whatever.
With Predator, mate,
if you get five minutes,
go back and,
I don't know,
just watch the trailer
of Predator or something.
Again,
preposterous movie,
but brilliantly watchable.
So well done.
Like,
Arnold Schwarzenegger
looks so good in it.
Like, he just looks amazing.
He's primal back then, wasn't he?
Oh, mate, it's like he's quarried out of marble.
Yeah.
And, okay, like, it's never really explained
why, like, a top CIA operative can't actually speak English properly
and why he's so obviously Austrian.
But that's kind of glossed over.
But he just looks amazing.
Do you reckon he was like
in between takes
he just had like
some dumbbells
and he was just, you know,
working them
to look absolute primo.
Yeah, I think dumbbells
is one word for it.
I think there was certainly
something going on.
Put it that way.
But you can't,
I don't want to besmirch
the good man's reputation.
But it's a great movie
it is a great movie
and it's one of those ones
where it's simultaneously
dated
but hasn't dated
you know
because it looks
mental
but at the same time
it's still so good to watch
no wonder that's just
because I watched it
when I was like
an impressionable kid
yeah
can I shock you again
after my
after my admission
that I'd never seen
The Matrix
I don't think I've seen that film either, to be honest.
What, Predator?
Terrible, isn't it?
It's classic, mate.
You've got to go and watch it.
It's classic.
It's just so good.
I'm wasting my time with video games, I tell you, honestly.
I'll tell you why you would like it, Pete,
because one of the main people in it is big Jesse Ventura.
Oh, cool.
I like Jesse.
Yeah, he plays another special ops guy. Oh, yeah, I like Jesse. Yeah, he plays another special ops guy.
Oh, yeah, that's because
halfway through all the Wrestlemania in the 80s
he just spent all of his time going,
well, I'm from Hollywood,
and he just kept on talking about the fact that
Hollywood is my town, etc., etc.
There's such a great tradition of wrestling stars
going across to be in movies.
It's brilliant.
It's like an SNL character called MacGyver or MacGuffin?
MacGruber.
MacGruber.
And there was a film made of it,
and there's about five WWE stars in it,
and they all die within the first five minutes.
It's very funny.
Big Shaw's in there.
Everyone.
Yeah.
Essentially, you're in the entertainment industry
aren't you really
I mean if you're a kid
you think that it's all real
but ultimately
it's just in the entertainment industry
so the crossover skills
are very very
very very easy
to see how it works
both ways
well they say that
apparently
what's his name
CM Punk
I've seen the trailer
for his new film
and he looks like
a pretty capable actor
to me
I mean I'm not expert
but wow
the Rock's done well
I mean the Rock's
obviously
the Rock is not a good actor
but he's obviously
a brilliant film star
there's definitely
two types of
actor
there's like the proper actor
with the acting chops
because I was sat
opposite
I was sat opposite
Simon Callow
on the train
the other day
did I tell you that?
no
it was absolutely you simon callow on the train the other day did i tell you that no it's absolutely um you know simon callow yeah yeah so i was opposite him on the train he's got
on the train he sat on across the table from me and he's clearly in some kind of christmas review
type theater production near where i live or something because he had the program and the um
the script out and he was going through it on the train and he was kind of mouthing the words and it was quite weird to watch
yeah to see an actor you know the actors have got absolutely they've got that
go on yeah just like the an actor um pying words into their brain so that later on they're
going to regurgitate it in a spectacular and incredible fashion. And you're seeing the genesis of some of his...
Well, they're also not self-conscious, are they?
No.
They're not self-conscious, so they don't care.
So that's why it was just weird,
because he wasn't embarrassed or anything,
he was just doing it.
And then at the end, he pulled out a little Freedom Pass,
which I thought was really cute.
Oh, that's adorable.
Look after the pennies.
Like a little pension Israel card.
Yeah.
Anyway, listen, let's get away from this um acting and movie i'm gonna
say master class and uh have a little break and then when we come back we'll do some more of our
lovely listeners uh very entertaining emails all right welcome back to the luke and pete show it
is email time hello at lukeandpete show.com to get in touch um peter why don't you start this week
uh with an email i'm gonna start with a quick one from Sean Hardy.
Hello, Sean.
Hi, guys.
Sean from Whitley Bay again.
Just listening to the latest episode.
Just a quick note to say a pine martin is a musterlid, not a rodent.
It's the same family as ferrets, weasels, and badgers, etc.
Cheers.
I've never heard of a musterlid before.
No.
I'm enjoying it, though.
So it must include, did he say it includes otters in there?
No, just ferrets, weasels and badgers.
It must include otters then, it must do.
Shall I type in otter again?
That's what we're...
Pete, isn't there a gay subculture called otters?
Yeah, I forget, I can't keep up.
I mean, I live on the street to try and pick up the news,
but I just, you know,
pick up the latest trends,
but I just can't really,
can't really figure it out.
Yeah.
I think,
I think an otter,
apparently an otter is a man
who is hairy but thin.
So, hang on,
so you go,
you automatically go from bear,
a big fat hairy man,
to a thin otter.
How does that work?
Because otter would suggest that you're just wet all the time,
wouldn't it?
Sleek.
Very sleek.
Otters are mammals in the subfamily Lutrinae.
So apparently there are lots of different types.
This is a real education for me.
So I found this website which tells you all the different ones.
So an otter is thin or athletic but very hairy, can be of any age.
And so this is great, this website.
It's got type, build, hair, age, example celebrity.
Oh, nice.
And then notes.
Who's the example celebrity for otter then?
Scott Kahn.
Who the hell is Scott Kahn?
I don't know, I'll just have a look. then? Scott Kahn. Who the hell is Scott Kahn? Scott Kahn.
I don't know, I'll just have a look.
Oh, he's one of
the main guys in Hawaii Five-0.
Right, okay.
So here's another one. So for example,
a cub, right? Yeah, that's like
a baby bear, isn't it?
Like a young... Yeah, young or younger looking
hairy bear. Right.
And you get a sugar cub and a muscle cub.
Right.
As a subtype.
And the example celebrity there is Jack Black.
Sugar cub.
Well, he's surely old enough now to...
He started doing video game streaming quite a lot, weirdly.
It's a nice little project for a man to get into later in life.
Let's hope for a...
Do you want another one?
Yeah, go on.
What about
a bull?
A bull is super built,
can be hairy,
can be of any age,
but I guess it's just a real big
muscle of the guy. And the example celebrity
there is Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
Okay, I'd have that. Yeah, fair dues.
What is that again a bear
no wait
hang on
a bull
a bull
right okay
yeah
shiny head
and I'll finish off
with this one
a twink
can you guess
what a twink is
a twink's just a young
young good looking
kind of guys that you
you usually manage
to find on a night out
with the ramble
what does that mean
what does that mean you What does that mean?
You always chat up younger men.
It's weird.
I like it.
Is it you jealous because you used to be that younger man?
I used to be that younger man.
Ah, you don't.
You always seem to find some very angelic-looking,
an angelic-yucking cherubic kind of boy, isn't it?
Yeah, well, the example here is
for a twink
is Justin Bieber
fair dues
fair dues
he's changed his shoes
anyway what are we
talking about
I can't remember
we're talking about
musterliz
so yeah
that's that chat
that um
what's the name
of the email
Dean
yeah
the email
that's come from
is from when we
were talking about
um
his dark materials
and what type of
animal your demon
would be
oh that's right yes we said I think i said rodent and what about this from jake who
says um luke um i was eternally yelling yes yes he fucking gets it he's saying what needed to be
said the other day when i listened to your show and you were talking about master chef the
professionals it's the best and the drama drama and tension makes for the most compelling television on air at the moment.
One question for Luke, though.
Are you a Marcus Waring or a Michel Roux man?
Love the show. Cheers, Jake.
I would have to say I'm more of a Michel Roux man,
but I do like Marcus as well,
and my wife absolutely loves Marcus Waring.
Right, OK. Marcus Waring.
Now, is that the one who says,
Buttery Biscuit Bays?
I like the bass, bass, bass, bass.
I like the Buttery Biscuit Bays. That's Greg base, base, base, base. I like the buttery biscuit base.
That's Greg Wallace,
Peter.
Right, sorry.
Marcus Waring.
Think of the opposite
person to Greg Wallace
and you've got
Marcus Waring.
Marcus Waring,
an English celebrity
chef who is currently
the chef at the
one Michelin-starred
restaurant,
Marcus.
Marcus?
Where's Marcus?
Where's Marcus?
And you know something,
I will stick my neck out here
and say
would you say we're living
in a golden age of TV
at the moment
yeah I don't get to see
enough of it quite frankly
but we probably are
aren't we
yeah
I would say
I would say
the skills test
on MasterChef
the professionals
is
the most compelling
part
of any
kind of factual TV show
this century.
Right, what exactly is the skewer test?
Is it just like when you...
No, skills test.
The what?
The skills test, not the skewer test.
Oh, the skills test, these are the skewers.
I thought it was like you had to put the skewer into the chicken
and see if the blood comes out.
No, what happens is the blood comes out.
No, what happens is the chef comes in,
and he's like a professional chef,
and the first thing he has to do,
so he doesn't know what's going to be ahead of time,
so it's like a blind thing.
He comes in, and either Marcus or Monica,
who's one of the other presenters,
give them a test thing to do in like a time frame.
Right, okay, yeah. give them a test thing to do in like a time frame right okay yeah so so it'll be like right um there's a monkfish there i want you to fillet that cook it and serve it with a certain sauce
and a green salad and you've got 15 minutes off you go right okay i see and they're all watching
them and they ask them questions about stuff while they're doing it and of course for these chefs
doing it in front of Marcus Waring,
who's one of the finest chefs in the country, it's like a massive deal.
So you really get to see the fibre and the bravery and the chops of the people who've entered the competition.
It's really good.
It's really good. You should watch it. It's really, really good.
It's really good.
You should watch it.
It's really, really good.
I like... Oh, did you read that G-Raw...
You know the G-Raw,
James Asushi film you quite like?
The documentary about that...
Yeah, it's brilliant.
Asushi chef.
He's lost his Michelin stars
because he has...
What?
Yeah, because he no longer
accepts public reservations.
To get a table,
you need to be a regular,
have special connections,
or go through a top hotel.
And because it could only take
10 guests at a time,
they basically went sod off.
Which I think is a win
for the common man.
A win for a person
who just wants a bit of soosh.
On the other hand,
Jiro Ono,
who's the guy who it's about,
because he had three stars,
even though it was just a place
in like a
subway station
he's 94
he's 94 years old
he'll not get it back
that's crazy
he had three stars
Pete I think
yeah
he doesn't even
know a website
unbelievable
his gins are mates
apparently it's not
affected his
it's not
it's not affected
his business
have you eaten there
have you eaten there
I thought I had
I was giving it the big lick
saying I had eaten there
but I hadn't
I think I just had a bit of sushi
in a
in a
subway
yeah did you think
it just
it just applies to any
subway station sushi
I think I'd eaten
in his son's
branch I think
which does have two stars
so I mean it's you know it's still decent was it good yeah it was excellent but I mean I'd eaten in his son's branch, I think, which does have two stars.
So, I mean, it's still decent.
Was it good?
Yeah, it was excellent.
But, I mean, I had a good one. Yeah, because you know that...
Sakana Tei in Mayfair.
That's a good one.
Sakana Tei, which is fish top or fish something.
Fish shopper.
Well, apparently, I mean,
I'm just reading the Vice article about Giro now,
and apparently it's so hard to get a table there now
vice recommends you find a japanese speaker to make the phone reservation on your behalf yeah
because otherwise you ain't gonna get in this piece it's it's 360 dollars a head that's not
that's really not expensive for like good like excellent sushi is it like really yeah we're out
of touch with our listeners we keep talking like this p, Pete. I spent over 100 quid on some sushi last week.
I think it was over 100 quid.
I blacked out after the third sake.
I'm a wild man.
Did you get so pissed on wine before you went in there
you couldn't remember anyone?
Bloody love sake.
It's delicious.
Lovely warm sake on a cold day.
Fantastic.
Great company, great food, lovely old job.
Let's squeeze one more email in before we
go this is from liam this is one for you pete so i'll read it to you as in the form of a question
um it says all right there's no messing about from me i'm getting straight to the point
one of your rival football podcasts are doing a live show in leeds on the 20th of december
and the presenter seemed stunned and nonplussed when someone emailed in to wish them good luck for doing a live show on an evening on Mad Friday, or what's known as Mad Friday in Leeds.
Here in Middlesbrough, the last Friday before Christmas is actually known as Black Eye Friday.
And before I heard this section of this particular podcast, I'd never even considered this isn't actually a nationally accepted term.
So Pete,
with you being from
the neck of the woods,
are you familiar
with Black Eye Friday?
And Luke,
have you ever heard
this term before?
Well, Black Eye Friday
is just,
it's usually,
it's Black Eye Friday,
yeah,
the Friday before Christmas,
but also,
back on holidays.
does people fight all the time?
Because he's just getting pissed
and having a fight.
But the way it's said
is like,
oh,
because it's so close
to Christmas,
we're just much more likely
to want to fight each other.
Yeah, it's a stressful time.
It's a stressful time of the year.
Yeah.
I've never heard of it.
We used to get a thing down in Portsmouth
called Millionaire's Weekend.
Have you heard of that?
No.
Do you all eat shortbread and just hang out?
Yeah.
Everyone just eats shortbread
and out those little Marks and Spencers tubs.
Yeah, I love those.
Oh, I love those.
They're brilliant.
Fantastic. Yeah, they're good. No, I love those. They're brilliant. Fantastic.
Yeah, they're good.
No, no, the reason it's called that is because it's normally the first weekend after payday
where everyone goes out and spends all their money.
Right, okay.
So it's really busy in all the bars.
I understand.
That makes sense.
Did you get involved in any of these?
Black Friday?
We don't have that down in Portsmouth.
Did you get involved in Cyber Monday?
Because obviously you would have touched down
pretty much around that same time, wouldn't you?
Or Black Friday even?
Black Friday is a big one,
yeah.
Of course,
because the good thing
about being up in Vermont
where no one really lives
is that they still get
into the spirit of it
but the shops aren't busy.
Right.
So you can pick up
a few bargains, mate.
You smash in,
start wrestling
a massive Samsung
off somebody,
beating the shit out
of an old lady.
Yeah.
All that careful. Yeah. All that care.
Yeah.
I might bring you back a present if you're lucky,
if you behave yourself.
If I behave myself, if I'm very good.
Lovely old job.
You're a good boy.
Yeah, my time.
All right, let's get out of here, Peter.
All right, darling.
Well, we'll speak to each other very soon,
and we'll speak to the listeners,
almost more importantly, very soon too,
on the next Luke and Peter.
And we'll speak to them on Thursday. Thanks very, very soon too on the next Luke and Pete Show.
We'll speak to them on Thursday.
Thanks very much for listening.
Hello at lukeandpete.com to get in touch.
Don't forget, we still want your Christmas party stories.
Don't make them up.
Don't do the ones you find off snopes.com.
Do proper ones that have actually happened to you.
I'll go as far as to say, Pete, I don't know if you agree about this,
I'd rather they be a little bit more boring as long as they're true.
Yeah, hugely hugely and we'll
and we'll spin
we'll spin that wheat
into gold
don't worry about that
listeners
and we'll
we'll speak to you
again soon
but do leave us a review
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let us know that you
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have a great week
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