The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.80: Sausage meat and trifle
Episode Date: December 19, 2019Pete's been binge watching TV shows for a comfort blanket after he's had to rein back his Chinese takeaway addiction. You cannot go on spending £50 a week on Chinese food forever, it's just not susta...inable. And if you learn just one thing from today's episode make sure it's that.There's also an airing of grievances, Masterchef chat, lifting the lid on yet more Gladiators, more time discussing Pete's Only Fools and Horses obsession, and the dangers inherent within the sausage meat scene.Don't be pigheaded! Email us: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Discussion (0)
🎵
Hello! How's it going?
I'm good, I'm sorry, I just pointed at you there, didn't I?
That's what I do on the radio all the time, pointing at people.
Oh, what? So I say, start.
Yeah, so you can talk now.
Go! There we go. Yeah, how's it going, mate? I'm alright, mate. I'm, er, I'm funky. I at people. Start. Start. You can talk now. Go. There we go.
Yeah.
How's it going, mate?
I'm all right, mate.
I'm funky.
I'm fresh.
I'm ready to get going
once again for some
more.
Some more.
I'm looking
peachy.
What podcast are we
doing here?
Looking peachy.
What WrestleMania
is this?
You're not even
convincing yourself
there, are you?
Just confused.
How's a week of
Tory government
treating you?
Oh, mate.
I am homeless and loving it. I'm just confused. How's a week of Tory government treating you? Oh, mate! I am homeless and loving it.
I'm not paying any tax
because I don't have a house.
Yeah.
Don't have any income.
Don't mind it.
No, that's not true.
Don't mind it.
I know you take a hearty amount of income.
I, um...
Not from this company.
No, I cancelled my Deliveroo subscription.
Oh, right. Cutting my cloth accordingly, my Deliveroo subscription oh right
cutting my cloth accordingly my friend
how much is that a month?
it's a tenner
but it works out
because you're paying a delivery fee every time
and if you get four meals a month
yeah you said that to me before
but how on earth
is that going to make a difference
to your household income
on a monthly basis
what do you mean?
it's a tenner
I went to chicken
to get my own chicken at the weekend,
so that's what I'm going to do.
Surely actually saving the money would be not spending 55 quid on Chinese every Sunday.
Correct, correct.
But that's not a sacrifice you're prepared to make.
I'm not going to go, I'm not going to have Deliveroo take my money.
Well, I could just go into Chinatown, get a takeout,
and it'll just mean I under order
because I'm a terrible
over orderer
and it's getting to the point
where it's not doing
my body any good
and I can't be dropping
50, 60 quid
on a Chinese
every Sunday
there are people
listening to this
who will be
absolutely astonished
well that's London
waiting as well
there's London
waiting for wages
but there's London
waiting for Chinese food
yeah but there's not a London waiting
I mean I think
if you canvassed people
and asked them
what an acceptable order
from a Chinese
for one person would be
the par would probably be
between 15 and 20 pounds
there's not a 300% waiting
in London
prawn crackers
congee
sometimes fried rice
if I can be arsed
spare ribs
crispy shredded beef
lemon chicken
you're already getting
to the 50s there mate
in London
it's just that
in central London
that's just the way it is
that's how three meals though
it's the way it is
well it does last
for another meal
but it's yeah
it's excessive
and I'm not losing
any weight like
but the point is
that surely if you want
to cut your cloth
accordingly and save money
not having those things is going to
be the way forward.
You want to get
some food and
cook it yourself.
Take your storage
out of the oven
start cooking yourself.
I have been cooking
a lot more recently.
What have you been
cooking?
I had a baked potato
in the week.
Because I've got
some I can't believe
it's not butter in
the house so I
thought I'll have
that baked potato.
I tried to make
some hash browns
unsuccessfully.
It's been a long
time since I've
made hash browns. Tell us about that. How do you make those? What do you mean? Potatoes. Yeah but how do you make some hash browns unsuccessfully. It's been a long time since I've made hash browns.
Tell us about that.
How do you make those?
What do you mean?
Potatoes.
Yeah, but how do you make a hash brown?
I don't know how to make a hash brown.
I'm asking you this now.
Egg, potato, onion.
That's your major.
That's your main bit.
Well, pack them together like a little bit like patties
and then fry them or...
Yeah, the problem is they get very wet,
so you've got to kind of like get a kitchen roll.
But the problem is it's just...
Potatoes are already wet when they... You've just got to kind of somehow dry them. roll but the problem is it's just potatoes are already wet when they you've just got to
kind of somehow dry them
how would you do
on Marcus Waring
or Monica Galletti's
skills test
what's the skills test
I told you before
it was the best thing
on telly
you've got 15 minutes
to do
to fillet a fish
and make a
salsa verde
no I wouldn't do
very well
nor would I
you're giving knives away
we heard on Monday
you're giving knives away
you don't need them
yeah
well the problem is
like when you
when you sort of go
right so somebody
likes cooking
and that's all
they talk about usually
and eating
so like
buy them a knife
buy them a nice knife
Japanese knife
because they're
one of the better ones
bare minimum
you're dropping
like 35 quid
bare minimum
and our limit for the
Secret Santa was 20 quid
what did you do then?
so I had to go over
and above
that's the thing
for those listening
I felt like Michael Scott
in the office
buying Ryan an iPad
an iPod colour
an iPod video
I don't know that reference
so I'm going to press on
alright
but I think
just so people are aware
when the Secret Santa's drawn
in Stakhanov Towers,
believe me when I tell you,
you are hoping and praying you get Pete.
Because he will spend
whatever he feels like spending.
And you could end,
I'm not exaggerating,
you could end up with like a computer.
You could end,
no, but you think,
but if you think about something,
right, what do they need?
What are they like?
And then you get that.
And if that's out of the price range, you're like, well,
it's a bit of a compromise, isn't it?
No, you're supposed to think creatively within
the limit. That's the point of it. No, that's
one of your little games, that you'd like
buy them a bottle of locusts or some
shit like that. That's what you're all about.
No, that was a different game. That was just punishment.
I bought Jim Cowell two excellent books.
True. And it came to £19.98.
Oh, hello.
So get on that.
Oh, you're in the £9.99 section.
Books are expensive, aren't they?
Not for the amount of joy you get out of them, though.
No.
You probably get a solid week's reading out of those.
What if it's a naughty book?
What if it's a book that you shouldn't be reading?
Like what?
Give us an example.
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Why shouldn't you be reading that?
Mein Kampf.
Oh, I just bit the inside of my mouth.
You shouldn't be reading Mein Kampf
I said something a bit naughty
on the WhatsApp thread last night
and everyone gave me pelts for it
and then the lights went out
wow
I had a massive power cut
for five seconds
and now you've just mentioned
Mein Kampf and bitten your cheek
and bitten my cheek
yeah
the world's
giving me punches back
the big man upstairs
has got his eye on you mate
I watched The Irishman this week.
Oh, yeah?
Have you seen it?
No, I've just heard it.
I'm whinging about how long it is
because they're fucking babies.
No, I didn't mind that.
Watched it in two sittings.
Yeah, exactly.
So it's fine.
Oh, I don't like things that are long,
but I will watch
42 episodes of 90 Day Fiancé
back to back.
It's good.
What's 90 Day Fiancé?
It's like a TLC show
that my wife and I watch.
What was I going to say? Yeah, it's good,'s that your dear fiance that's like a TLC show that my wife and I watch what was I going to say yeah it's good
The Irishman
one thing I would say
about it
is that
do you know how they made it
you had to chat about
how they made it
yes
all the de-aging
and all that business
yes they de-aged
De Niro
Pesci
I want to say
and
someone else
doesn't matter
and because it's set in different time periods Pacino Pesci I want to say and someone else doesn't matter and
because it's set in
different time periods
Pacino
is the other one
and
what's really interesting
about it is
it kind of works
to the point where
you forget about it
and it looks great
and it's a really cool thing
but it doesn't work
when they're
moving
because they still move
like old people yeah I think so it doesn't need to throw a punch at one point but they're just work when they're moving because they still move like old people.
Yeah, I think so.
It doesn't need to throw a punch at one point,
but they're just kind of like...
Well, there's a scene where they kick someone in
and it just looks ridiculous.
It really takes you out of it.
Why wouldn't they have just got someone a bit younger?
You know, same build,
but who could actually move a little bit.
Yeah, it's like a stunt double effect.
Yeah.
Yeah, I don't know.
You put someone's head on someone anyway.
I don't know why they couldn't have shown,
because Scorsese
is a brilliant director,
obviously.
He could have just shown
what was going to happen
and then just
panned the camera away.
And that would have still...
Oof!
Yeah.
You just punched me
like a 25-year-old.
But at one point
in the beating up,
he's stamping on someone's hand.
Yeah.
And he's like stamping
like the old guy
in The Simpsons
it's like
it's not going to hurt
your hand
it's not going to hurt him
it's a bit WWE
so that aside
but the thing is
there's no one better
than
Scorsese
at doing those kind of
beautifully lit
amazing gravitas
kind of
discussions
between like
heavyweight actors
like you know who else Stephen Graham who's fucking brilliant he's such a good actor does he play an American amazing gravitas kind of discussions between like heavyweight actors.
Like, you know who else?
Stephen Graham, who's fucking brilliant.
He's such a good actor.
Does he play an American?
He does, yeah. Is he an American actor?
Because obviously Scott says he cast him in...
Boardwalk Empire.
He plays an Italian-American called Tony Pro
and he's excellent in it.
He's really good.
He's just a great actor.
My Tony Pro.
He sounds like that, yeah.
He sounds like that, yeah.
You sound a bit like Harry Hilda in it. It sounds like that yeah you sound a bit like Harry Hill
doing it
it sounds similar
yeah
but anyway
it's a good
movie
I enjoyed it
it's also
I mean it's
obviously set
I presume it's
a fictionalised
account of a
non-fiction
instance of
Teamsters and
Jimmy Hoffa and
all that kind of
stuff so it's
got a lot of
nods to history in it as well
so it's well worth
a watch
I've not watched anything
apart from The Office US
I'm just going through
all of the shows
I don't know why
it's like a comfort blanket
for me
maybe I'm just
you know
maybe I'm having some
tough times
and the dark recesses
in my mind
I just want something
comfortable
but I feel alright
What shows fall under
the term comfort blanket
for you
because I'll probably say
mine
I never re-watch stuff
mine's The Thick of It
The Inbetweeners
UK Office
Alan Partridge
they're my comfort blanket
go to shows
yeah no
I never re-watch stuff
invariably
but that is
it's just something
that I'm just
catching myself doing
for three hours every night
have you played any video games
nope
I downloaded
there was a video game, not expo,
like a video games award show over in California last week.
And there was a video game company that produced a game called
What the Golf?
Right.
A cutesy kind of like wacky golf game.
And they told everyone by bringing into the auditorium golf balls
and they rolled them down the auditorium
like through people's legs
and stuff
all the way through
the rather dull
broadcast of this award show
why?
they said because
the award show
was very boring
which it kind of is
but also
I mean it made me
I heard about the story
and it made me download
the video game
Hot the Golf
is it good?
I've not played it yet
it's one of those things
the thing about mobile gaming is
I'll install stuff
and they'll never touch it again
I thought you liked that goose game
excellent
wonderful
yeah
wonderful
is it Pete Donaldson's
game of the year?
it's my game of the year
Control is my game of the year
which is about a
sort of
psy-ops
kind of woman
who can
bend the world
and move the world around.
And she's like the CEO of a company
that's doing some weird paranormal stuff
in other realities.
And it's beautifully put together.
By the same people who did Max Payne.
Remember that?
Okay, yeah, I do.
And they, I can see you're kind of like
glazing over a little bit.
No, what formats is it available on?
Is it available on Switch?
PC and
the PS4
and the Xbox
I believe
the big boys
no Switchy
no Switchy
damn
mate
it's too technologically advanced
for the Switch
it's a beautiful game
it's a beautiful game
so yeah
my game of the year
is Legend of Zelda
Breath of the Wild
Breath of the Wild
I think there's a second one
coming out now
yeah there is
they're making it
yeah they are making it
cool
alright good stuff.
And so when do you finish at Absolute Radio?
When does this come out?
I finish this Sunday live,
last live show is Sunday.
Interesting.
Okay.
Might go out with a tirade.
Might do a,
who's that guy who did a tirade?
There are people who are against me.
On air.
Well, Danny Baker did one,
didn't he,
complaining about
paying conditions
on a live on the BBC?
Did he?
Right, okay.
And of course,
there was that guy
who shot himself in the head
at the stock exchange.
You could do
sort of something
in the middle.
Right, the guy shot himself
in the head.
Bud Dwyer.
Cut your own arm off,
something like that.
Yeah.
Are you having a leaving party?
To be honest,
one of the DJs
did just spill coffee
all over the desk,
so I probably won't
be fluiding everywhere.
It's incredibly destructive.
Why don't you have
a leaving party
on Christmas Day?
Yeah.
I see you turns up.
I see you really like me.
I see you really like me.
You're mamma and me dad.
I won't be invited
but if I was,
I wouldn't be there.
No.
I've got nothing else
for you Pete Donaldson
so why don't we have
a quick little break
and then we'll work through
a lot of these emails.
So the first step is to find the right position for you.
Put your hands down and lower your chest to the ground.
Just do that and pretend that you're holding poop in,
and it should sound a lot like this.
The payoff's always so good.
It's the crisps.
I'm still not bored of it.
It's good.
It's still real to me, damn it.
You're not bored enough of it
to change the jingles?
Nope.
No.
And why would you be?
Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com
is the place to email us.
We've got a lot of stuff
to get through,
but please do still send them through.
We'll get to them eventually.
Pete, do you want to go first?
I'll go first.
I can't go first.
Oh, I'll go first.
I just get concerned that people hear too much of me,
and then I get blamed for it,
but in reality it's because you're an absolute...
All of me!
You're a husk of a human being,
and you can't get your shit together.
Is that unfair?
You're just a big old gas bag.
Yeah, I am.
Right, hello to Sam in Nottenham.
Evening, guys.
Long time listener to The Rumble
and The Luke and Pete Show.
First time email.
I thought I had to get in touch
to contact you
about the Christmas dinner extras chat.
Although I've never heard of sausage meat
as an extra on the plate,
an ex-girlfriend's family
would serve hot ready,
sorry,
hot ready salted crisps.
What?
With all Sunday roasts
and Christmas dinner.
What the,
where does that come from?
Whoa,
I've never encountered this anywhere
and upon asking
why they would serve this,
they assured me
that it was a Midland tradition.
Can you or anybody else
let me know
if this is correct?
Also,
Luke is an,
as Luke is a
avid watcher,
a master chef,
who's your favourite
for the win?
Will it have won?
I'm a bit behind.
Right.
So I'm not going to,
I don't know if I can say
because it's going to
instantly make me look ridiculous because I've been away and then my wife was away for a bit and right so I'm not gonna I don't know if I can say because it's gonna instantly make me look ridiculous
because I've been away
and then my wife was away
for a bit
and we watched it together
I'm only at the
I'm not at the
semi-final stage yet
right
so who would you have said
at that point
was the best
I really like this
one girl left in there
I really like her
she's called Olivia
she's very good
and there's another guy
I want to say
called Stu
who I think is good as well
yeah
don't fucking spoil me
you're tapping away
please don't spoil me
I'm just saying
she in the next round
she served
veal
and got kicked off
for being rotten
yeah
yeah
out of order
I've never heard
ready salted crisps
anywhere near a roast dinner
and I think
I'm just trying to think
in that position
if I was going to
someone's house for dinner
for the first time
and they said
come over
have a glass of wine
on the Sunday roast
I'd love that
get there
they serve up
ready salted crisps
I'm definitely going to
respectfully and politely
ask what the situation is here
what do you mean as in
well I would mention it
would you not mention it
yeah
I mean he doesn't say
does he
is it Sam
it is
Sam yeah
he doesn't say but is that in lieu of roast it Sam? It is Sam, yeah. Yeah, he doesn't say,
but is that in lieu
of roast potatoes,
do you think?
No,
God no,
it'd just be on the side.
What,
in addition to roast potatoes?
In addition to roast potatoes.
What would you do
if your mum served that up
at Christmas this week,
next week?
I'd be thankful.
And crumble them on top
of everything
to give it a bit of flavour.
I'm sorry,
ma'am.
She doesn't listen.
When I was a student,
did you ever used to have that little drinking game
called the three-course meal?
No.
Was it a four-course meal?
Four-course meal.
So what it was,
was you'd have your starter, main, dessert,
and cheese and biscuits courses.
Right.
And it's four pints.
If you listen at home, don't do this.
It's probably really irresponsible.
But the chat was that the average human stomach
couldn't take four pints of liquid.
Right.
I don't buy that.
Well, I don't want people to do it
because it's probably quite dangerous,
but it's what used to happen at university
when I was there.
And so you'd have your four-course meal.
So the first course was, I believe, a pint of lager.
Right.
Second course was your main course.
It was a pint of Guinness with cris course was your main course was a pint of
Guinness
with crisps on top
right
right
and the third course
was
your dessert
which was your cider
and the fourth course
was your cheese and biscuits
and there was a pint
that was this
it was a pint of lemonade
so basically
the idea
cloudy or
cloudy or Schweppes
no but Schweppes
so the point being
that tip show
over the edge
it makes you puke
because there's so much gas going on.
And that's the only time
I've ever heard of
ready sort of crisps
being eaten outside
of the packet environment.
I think I could handle that,
to be honest.
There's no way you could do that.
Mate, there is...
I've done like five pints
of odd brick in the seal.
I swear I have.
Yeah, but not...
You've got to down them.
Yeah.
You've not downed five pints in a row before. I know I have. Yeah, but not, you've got to down them. Yeah. You've not downed five pints
in a row before.
I know you well enough to know
you've never done that.
You've literally never done that.
I've drank four or five
in rapid succession
and not gone to the loo
and went,
Jesus Christ,
I've not gone to the loo yet.
And then it begins.
Did you feel bloated?
What?
Did you feel bloated?
Yeah, of course you do.
Yeah.
I remember people doing that
at house parties
when I was at uni
and most of them,
to put it in perspective,
most of them had to be done
in the bathroom.
It's just horrendous.
It's horrendous behaviour.
I don't endorse it.
And I certainly did not endorse
Ready, Set, and Crisp
when I'm fucking roast dinner.
We should do it.
As soon as they make contact
with the gravy,
it's over.
No, yeah.
Yeah.
It would provide
an unwelcome kind of like,
it'd be like eating
a contact lens.
I think Sam should get back in touch
after he's got an explanation from his wife's family,
his wife or his girlfriend's family,
because that is mental.
But while we're on the subject of roast dinners.
I'll show you Olivia Beck.
It's not, I don't know anything about it.
It's her biog.
She was born in Worcestershire.
Worcestershire.
Who?
And educated in Shropshire.
Your favourite from the Masterchef.
Oh, stop this. I'm not doing it. Right. in Worcestershire Worcestershire and educated in Shropshire your favourite your favourite from the Mastership oh stop it
stop this
I'm not doing it
right
you're such a silly
when it comes to spoilers
we had a big row once
in this very studio
because you wanted
to talk about
the end of Game of Thrones
a day after it came out
I didn't want to talk
about the Starbucks
cup in it
in Game of Thrones
that massive
Game of Thrones
touchstone
that everyone
that had so much to do
with the narrative.
But I didn't know
at that point
Daenerys Targaryen
was buying her coffee
at Starbucks.
So it was a spoiler for me.
While we're on the subject
of roast dinners,
this one from Simon's good
because Sam mentioned
sausage meat there
and there's an email here
from Simon on that subject.
He says,
Dear Luke and Pete,
I want to weigh in
on the sausage meat
at Christmas topic.
Firstly,
my family has always had this. It's epic,
especially when paired with cranberry sauce,
but then again, what isn't? However,
I have a story that centres around Christmas sausage meat.
What a sentence.
My parents spent about 25 years of their working life in the Middle East
as my dad was a civil engineer and worked out
their designing roads and bridges. And because
of this, we spent a lot of time
in Kuwait and Qatar
both as kids
and then after we left home.
One recent Christmas
we visited my folks out there
and as a family
we snuggled
and a family member
smuggled some sausage meat
with them.
Smuggling sausage meat.
I mean it sounds like
it should mean something else.
For some reason
my mum cooked this
in a small countertop convection oven
rather than the main oven itself.
And while it was cooking, I opened the door to see what was in there
as I was looking for oven space, then closed it and pressed the start button again.
No harm, no foul, or so I thought.
We had a textbook Christmas dinner, followed by a lazy afternoon
and an evening tea of leftovers.
My brother retired reasonably early, complaining of not feeling great.
I went to bed my usual time after everyone else had already gone.
I was awoken at about 1am by a sound I can only describe
as what I would imagine an exorcism sounded like.
After investigation, it was my brother being repeatedly and violently ill.
We concluded he must have picked up a bug that had developed that afternoon,
so I went back to bed.
About 2am, i woke up feeling like
every part of my incise wanted to escape and i rushed to the toilet and replicated my brother's
feet coupled with vicious diarrhea my brother then woke and had a repeat performance in another
toilet cue a few hours of both of us keeping the whole house awake with our illness and to make
matters worse the water at my parents place was driven by a water pump which chose that moment
to break luckily Oh, no.
Luckily, my dad is a bit of a DIY master,
so he coaxed it back to life.
The next 48 hours was pretty rough,
and it was generally concluded it must have been the sausage meat
that I interrupted cooking,
although I dispute that to this day,
as when I opened the oven,
it hadn't been on that long,
and so if the oven hadn't started again,
I think we'd all noticed
we were eating cold, raw sausage meat.
Anyway, don't let my story put you
off sausage meat.
It truly is the king of Christmas side dishes.
Merry Christmas, Simon. I like that Simon
sent us that story partly because
of its relevance, but also
as an airing of grievances, which of course
Christmas is traditional for.
Yeah, he's done well there. He's ruined
everything. What would you say is the
grievance you'd like to most air with me
at this Christmas, Pete?
What do you mean?
As in what?
A time to air grievances?
Yeah.
Just don't get worried about spoilers.
I'll never do it.
What are you going to say?
What's the cut off for spoilers, though?
If you want to talk about a show on this show.
A year.
A year?
Okay, so a calendar year
since the last episode came out.
Yeah, and then that's absolutely fine, I think.
I think that sounds reasonable to me.
Yeah, it is. I'm a reasonable man. You know me.
You know me.
Max got in touch with a picture of...
He was in Belgrade a couple of weeks ago
and he found on a wall a picture of
what can only be described as Rodney Trotter.
For some reason.
Yeah, just a drawing of Rodney Trotter and the reason that's weird yeah just a drawing of Rodney Trotter
and the writing
in
is it Cyrillic
yeah I think so
the writing says
Rodney Uplonker
in the language
in the local language
that's brilliant
did you see
David Jason's performance
on The One Show
I did yes
he's
you'd like to expand
on that at all?
A man out of time.
A man out of time.
Yeah.
Yeah.
If you imagine
if he got in trouble,
it would be seismic.
Men of a certain age
losing their fucking shit.
Most of them
voted Brexit.
You have a pathological
hatred for
Only Fools and Horses
and I find it interesting.
I do.
You send me the most interesting of Only Fools and Horses nonsense.
I did a little mash-up between Frasier and...
You did.
Frasier and audio Frasier.
You're going to have to ghost on to sell this
to an unsuspecting listening public.
One of our number in a WhatsApp group really, really likes Frasier
to an almost insane level.
Psychotic level.
Yeah, agree.
To a degree that I,
it doesn't deserve
as a TV show.
But,
and Luke likes to taunt me
with images and things
about only frozen horses.
So I decided to marry the two
in what could only be described
as a hilarious passage.
You know...
What a plonker.
Oh, Frasier, look over there.
It's my fair Daphne.
My love is as boundless as the sea.
Oh, I appear to be falling through a bar.
Niles, you appear to have fallen
through an Art Deco walnut bar with
brass recesses. Oh, dear, Frasier, I don't... Well, I'll have you know, Frasier, I actually
bought the chandelier at a knockdown price at Bonhams. The damn wretch didn't even know what
he really had. Well, Niles, you have to get it home first. I'm a policeman and I'm going to throw
my dog Eddie at the chandelier. He'll probably shoot a gun. Do you policeman and I'm going to throw my dog Eddie at the chandelier
and probably shoot a gun.
Do you know what I'm going to do
if you die?
Right?
What?
I am going to
persuade all your family
and friends
that you and I
had a secret bond
that we first met
only over four years ago.
At your funeral
I'm going to find someone
that you hate
and I'm going to recreate
the Del Boy
falling in for a bar scene
at your funeral.
If I outlive you
I'm going to do that at your funeral. Make bar scene at your funeral. If I outlive you,
I'm going to do that at your funeral.
Make a set of a little bar next to my coffin hole
and push my coffin through it.
That's what you would have wanted, everyone.
In a trench coat going,
play it cool,
Rodney,
or whatever the fuck he's talking about.
And trigger.
And then I would,
yeah,
your funeral cortege
will be
the London Paris Peckham,
New York Paris Peckham kind of three-wheeler
uh it's what you would have wanted isn't it yeah um what about this from let's have a look at the
name tom i promised on monday we'd catch up on some gladiators chat um people who've met
gladiators back in the 90s etc um and tom says even chapsaps you ask for occasions when listeners have met any of the gladiators
well picture the scene
it's June 1995
I'm 8 years old
and after my mum
was made redundant
she did the same
as Luke's dad
and paid for me
and my sisters
to have a once in a lifetime
trip to Disneyland
although because of
the gender pay gap
she could only afford Paris
so after spending a week
having the time of our lives
it gets to our final day
of the trip
and because most of the signs back then were all in French,
we didn't realize the last day of the trip happened to coincide
with the opening of the brand new ride, Space Mountain.
Cool.
Iconic.
This being one of the most legendarily known rides in Disneyland,
the grand opening was quite the spectacle,
with even the newly installed president, Jacques Chirac,
in attendance alongside the following list of 90 celebrities.
Boyzone, Danny Bear,
and Andy Peters.
Why are they all English? Or British?
Oh, Boyzone are Irish. Anyway, the
creme de la creme for any eight-year-old was the sight
of several of the gladiators walking the red carpet
for a ride on Space Mountain.
Call it what it is. Montagne de la
Spas. Yeah, Montagne de la Spas.
Unfortunately, there was no jet or wolf,
but Scorpio, Hunter, Shadow and Lightning
were all in attendance.
Big red.
A truly magic holiday made all the more special
by some beautiful people, clearly on steroids.
Keep up the good work, Tom.
Can I say that or no?
Ah, come on.
They're all gigantic.
They're all gigantic.
I've got another Gladiator one as well.
Just very, very quickly.
Hit me, baby.
From Dave in Oxford.
He says,
to keep up with the show's advent calendar
of Gladiator meetings,
I can help you tick off Nightshade.
I met her while in the Birmingham Ikea
during the peak of the show's popularity
in the mid to late 90s.
She seemed very amiable
and happy to talk to a star-struck child,
despite most likely wanting just to get on
and pick out her flat-packed furniture.
Key up the good work,
Dave.
So, I mean,
most of the gladiators
have been seen
by our listeners
in real life
at some point.
And I think that's
something to be
very proud of.
Come again with that one?
Nightshade.
Yeah.
In Ikea.
Right.
You having that?
Why not?
Well, because there's
an email about Shadow.
She should change her name to Lampshade.
Hey!
Carry on.
What were you going to say?
They've got some very interesting news.
It'd be quite a good game, I think,
if you got the names of IKEA products
that seemed to have no bearing on anything.
And then you had to figure out what kind of thing it was
just from the name.
Oh, on my radio show,
I used to do a legendary,
and it is legendary,
quiz every week.
Oh, give it a big licks.
No, I don't have a radio show.
Piss off.
I've got a radio show.
I've had it for five minutes.
Sort of thing you should have done
on your radio show
and you wouldn't have lost it.
Pete,
I used to do...
Congratulations to Arbinder
for winning MasterChef.
Are you fucking welcome?
I'm not, I'm not.
I looked at the list
at the start.
You fucking prick.
You absolute prick.
I was trying to think of a name
that couldn't be
Andy Arbinder.
There's a lot of them at the start, isn't there?
Domingo of Little Oakley.
Craig.
Debbie.
Pete.
Exorze.
Pete.
He's handsome.
Hello, Exorze.
Yeah, he's very handsome.
He might win it, actually.
He's very good.
Peter.
I don't know if he's still in it.
One of the quizzes I did was Swedish footballer or IKEA item.
Racist.
Carry on.
Talk spot.
Apparently, Shadow
was spotted in Tesco's
about 10 years ago.
He and the security guard
got a call
of the in-store radio
to urgently run over
the front of the store.
The sight that greeted him
sent shivers down his spine
and also a tinge
of nostalgic excitement.
Yeah, Shadow had some tough times.
Had some tough times.
Shadow,
a couple of family-sized trifles
under his arm
trying to run out the shop.
The police arrived.
Thankfully now, Shadow,
Jefferson King,
is a reformed character
and works for a drugs rehabilitation charity.
Excellent work, Shadow.
But I think trying to leave a store
while being dragged down
by a couple of security guards,
quite gladiatory.
Do you not think?
Gladiatorial.
Gladiatorial.
No, you can't say gladiatorial.
It's gladiatory
because the product was gladiators.
Gladiator.
Gladiatorial.
Yeah, okay.
Gladiatorial.
Also.
Gladiatorial.
Crucially,
that's the actual word as well.
When I was working at Safeways,
which is now Morrison's,
part of my job,
I don't know why they got me to do this.
People listening will probably think
it's because they wanted to see me get a shoe in.
But the area I worked in
had quite a big drug problem.
And they only had one security guard.
They probably wouldn't get away with saying this now,
but they used to say,
if the security guard legs it out
after more than one person nicking stuff,
can you go after them
and help
that's not right
I did that about three times
really
I remember
after prized bottles of whiskey
out of people's hands
and stuff
they
the Sainsbury's
next to my gym
which is the only
literally the only
supermarket I visit
just because it's right
next to my gym
and I
they used to have
the honour system
to defeat all honour systems
on the self-services
there was no waiting
there was no
scale
so it knew what you had
White Towers down there
is like that
yeah it's just kind of like
you know
they just assume that
and it is much quicker
when you don't have to wait
for the scale
to register something on there
but after
I think it's in a pretty high
kind of like
loss retention
kind of
area of town
so obviously
because you see people
nicking stuff all the time
that seems to be quite frank
and
they've started
putting the scales there
and it's like
you've defeated
how good this shop
used to be
now you can't nick anything
I used to run
what was that
they didn't have onions
on the setting
so I had to put it through
as
what are you doing
buying onions
what do you mean
for the aforementioned hash browns don't tell me you put it through as what are you doing buying onions what do you mean for the aforementioned
hash browns
don't tell me you put it
through as aubergine
that's twice as expensive
no I put it down
yeah I put it down
as something expensive
so they couldn't shout at me
because I'm so honourable
great looking to your side
for Mr Sainsbury's
by the way that shadow story
about the supermarket
I saw that in the email inbox
but I couldn't stand it up
online legally
so I decided not to do it
okay fine what do you think just leave it in if we get sued by shadow that's probably quite a good PR I saw that in the email inbox, but I couldn't stand it up online legally, so I decided not to do it. Okay, fine.
What do you think?
Just leave it in.
If we get sued by Shadow,
that's probably quite a good PR.
Yeah.
Is it?
It would be our level,
wouldn't it?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Probably what we'd expect.
What was I going to say to you?
I think that's it, actually.
Yeah, that's it from me.
Yeah, so I did used to... Might not have got the car.
I used to have...
Yeah, true.
I used to have to help the security guard,
who was a lovely fellow.
I think he was called Neil.
Big, tall guy. Prized bottles of whiskey to help the security guard who was a lovely fellow, I think he was called Neil, big tall guy,
prized bottles of whiskey
and vodka out of people
who had stolen it.
I mean, it's very sad.
It's a very sad situation.
And they would always steal things
like the high value stuff,
like weirdly,
like not nappies would get stolen
because they're quite expensive,
I guess.
Alcohol, of course,
all the rest of it.
That is quite bulky though.
Razors,
go for the razors.
That's why they're behind the till,
I guess.
Yeah.
They used to have an honour system at one of the train stations for's why they're behind the till I guess yeah they used to have
an honour system
at one of the
train stations
for papers
where you just
put the 50p
or whatever it is
in the box
because people
would be hurrying
to get a train
or whatever
I don't know
if they still do that
they don't
in like a lot of
Japanese offices
I don't want to
bring up Japan again
but in Japanese offices
they just have
like the honour system
on
they don't necessarily
have a lot of
vending machines
there's not a lot of room
so they'll just have
a little table
where there's loads
of snacks and treats
and stuff
and you've got to put
your 100 yen in
for whatever you want
how much is 100 yen?
it's like 75p
hmm
I didn't say what the product was
no what is the product?
half and a half
half Oreo
I don't know
Coolish
oh I love Coolish
alright let's get out of here
alright
let's do this
thanks very much for listening
have a lovely weekend
we'll be back on Monday
with more of this
inane nonsense
to get in touch
hello at
lukeandpeachshow.com
we eagerly anticipate
and enjoy all of
your emails so do
send them in if
you've got anything
you want to say or
bring up on the show
thank you very much
what kind of name
is Curtis
Curtis don't I
he's one of the
Lorena I'm just
trying to find
someone who might
you might be aware
of Malin
I know all of them
I've watched the
show there's 48 of them Luke you can't know of. Malin. I know all of them. I've watched the show.
There's 48 of them, Luke.
You can't know all of them.
I can't remember all of them.
Jesus.
This was a Stakhanov production.
Own each step with Peloton.
From their pop runs to walk and talks,
you define what it means to be a runner.
Whatever your level, embrace it.
Journey starts when you say so.
If you've got five minutes or 50, Peloton Tread has workouts you can work in.
Or bring your classes with you for outdoor runs, walks, and hikes
led by expert instructors on the Peloton app.
Call yourself a runner.
Peloton All Access Call yourself a runner. Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running.