The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.75: Black Eye Friday

Episode Date: December 2, 2019

Luke'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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Starting point is 00:00:00 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.
Starting point is 00:00:43 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.
Starting point is 00:00:54 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.
Starting point is 00:01:10 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.
Starting point is 00:01:36 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.
Starting point is 00:01:58 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.
Starting point is 00:02:16 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
Starting point is 00:02:29 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.
Starting point is 00:02:47 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...
Starting point is 00:02:59 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,
Starting point is 00:03:16 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
Starting point is 00:03:27 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
Starting point is 00:03:35 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
Starting point is 00:03:41 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,
Starting point is 00:04:11 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.
Starting point is 00:04:25 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.
Starting point is 00:04:34 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.
Starting point is 00:04:50 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
Starting point is 00:05:06 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
Starting point is 00:05:13 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
Starting point is 00:05:20 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
Starting point is 00:05:27 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
Starting point is 00:05:36 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.
Starting point is 00:05:50 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
Starting point is 00:06:05 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,
Starting point is 00:06:45 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,
Starting point is 00:07:10 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?
Starting point is 00:07:32 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?
Starting point is 00:07:50 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.
Starting point is 00:08:07 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,
Starting point is 00:08:21 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
Starting point is 00:08:34 which is weird and and I was like the the story was very schmaltzy and quite basic
Starting point is 00:08:43 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,
Starting point is 00:09:11 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
Starting point is 00:09:40 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
Starting point is 00:09:53 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.
Starting point is 00:10:13 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
Starting point is 00:10:42 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
Starting point is 00:10:51 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
Starting point is 00:10:59 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
Starting point is 00:11:06 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
Starting point is 00:11:14 fucking weird Cuddles the Monkey type fucking bad monster and you've not spent it on that exploding hair because that looks like
Starting point is 00:11:22 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.
Starting point is 00:11:31 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
Starting point is 00:11:46 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,
Starting point is 00:12:05 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,
Starting point is 00:12:19 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
Starting point is 00:12:35 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,
Starting point is 00:12:47 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,
Starting point is 00:12:55 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.
Starting point is 00:13:02 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.
Starting point is 00:13:15 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
Starting point is 00:13:29 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.
Starting point is 00:13:40 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
Starting point is 00:13:49 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
Starting point is 00:13:57 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
Starting point is 00:14:04 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.
Starting point is 00:14:13 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
Starting point is 00:14:30 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?
Starting point is 00:14:50 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.
Starting point is 00:15:02 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
Starting point is 00:15:12 are very very very very easy to see how it works both ways well they say that apparently what's his name CM Punk
Starting point is 00:15:20 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
Starting point is 00:15:29 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
Starting point is 00:15:36 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
Starting point is 00:15:43 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
Starting point is 00:16:21 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,
Starting point is 00:16:36 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
Starting point is 00:16:56 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.
Starting point is 00:17:17 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?
Starting point is 00:17:35 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.
Starting point is 00:17:50 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,
Starting point is 00:18:00 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.
Starting point is 00:18:16 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.
Starting point is 00:18:37 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.
Starting point is 00:18:54 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.
Starting point is 00:19:08 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.
Starting point is 00:19:25 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.
Starting point is 00:19:42 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
Starting point is 00:19:50 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
Starting point is 00:19:57 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.
Starting point is 00:20:09 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
Starting point is 00:20:26 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
Starting point is 00:20:32 musterliz so yeah that's that chat that um what's the name of the email Dean yeah
Starting point is 00:20:37 the email that's come from is from when we were talking about um his dark materials and what type of animal your demon
Starting point is 00:20:44 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.
Starting point is 00:21:12 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.
Starting point is 00:21:25 That's Greg Wallace, Peter. Right, sorry. Marcus Waring. Think of the opposite person to Greg Wallace and you've got Marcus Waring.
Starting point is 00:21:32 Marcus Waring, an English celebrity chef who is currently the chef at the one Michelin-starred restaurant, Marcus. Marcus?
Starting point is 00:21:40 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
Starting point is 00:21:48 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
Starting point is 00:21:57 on MasterChef the professionals is the most compelling part of any kind of factual TV show this century.
Starting point is 00:22:08 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.
Starting point is 00:22:24 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,
Starting point is 00:22:44 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.
Starting point is 00:23:19 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...
Starting point is 00:23:31 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,
Starting point is 00:23:42 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.
Starting point is 00:23:54 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
Starting point is 00:24:05 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
Starting point is 00:24:17 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
Starting point is 00:24:24 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
Starting point is 00:24:31 in a in a subway yeah did you think it just it just applies to any subway station sushi I think I'd eaten
Starting point is 00:24:41 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...
Starting point is 00:24:50 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
Starting point is 00:25:10 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?
Starting point is 00:25:36 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
Starting point is 00:25:53 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
Starting point is 00:26:27 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,
Starting point is 00:26:33 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
Starting point is 00:26:41 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.
Starting point is 00:26:49 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.
Starting point is 00:26:59 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
Starting point is 00:27:09 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.
Starting point is 00:27:19 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
Starting point is 00:27:28 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.
Starting point is 00:27:38 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.
Starting point is 00:27:45 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.
Starting point is 00:27:55 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.
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