The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.82: Dad's gaming chair

Episode Date: December 26, 2019

The title of this episode tells you everything you need to know about what Pete bought Stewart for Christmas, and we think he's going to be bloody happy about it. This episode, we hear about a bo...iler that finally packed up after a colossal 48 years, Pete runs us through the top Hartlepudlian nightspots this Christmas (including one where you can purchase a pint for just £1.99), a man blows up his car up by accident using air freshener and there are loads, and we do mean loads, of stories about meeting Gladiators. We're building up quite the collection.We hope you're enjoying your Boxing Day, wherever you are, and that this episode of LAPS goes well with your meals of leftovers and hard liquor.Don't hide your light under a bushel, email us today: 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 sweet cherry wine pete donaldson with you on the luke and pete show and uh i've got luke with me as well which is useful in many circumstances when it comes to the looking picture. Yes, and what better way to celebrate Boxing Day in Christmas week by reading a story about a driver who blew up his car by using excessive air freshener. Okay. Spray, spray, spray.
Starting point is 00:00:40 For lair, lair, lair. Exactly. No Armani, no Punani. He sprayed a load of air freshener in his car, excessively, according to firefighters, and then lit up a sweet cigarette. Well, look, I mean, you've got a propellant that's obviously going to ignite.
Starting point is 00:00:58 You've got a fair whack of oxygen, because presumably the air conditioner was coming in as well. You've got a literal magic tree in there, you'd imagine. So you've got wood, you've got the was coming in as well. You've got a literal magic tree in there, you'd imagine. So you've got woods, you've got the combustible there as well. So it's a perfect storm, Luke. It is.
Starting point is 00:01:12 Here's what I don't get about the story. According to the BBC, it was so powerful, the explosion, it caused damage to windows at nearby businesses. Yet the driver, the motorist, escaped with only minor injuries. the explosion. It caused damage to windows at nearby businesses. Oh. Yet, the driver, the motorist, escaped with only minor injuries. It blew out the windscreen,
Starting point is 00:01:31 the windows, and buckled the doors, but the man escaped with minor injuries. I mean, that to me seems like those two things can't be compatible.
Starting point is 00:01:37 What do you mean, like as in? He should have been really badly hurt, presumably. Well, I guess the explosion would break the glass,
Starting point is 00:01:43 would presumably go outwards rather than inwards. So he's not getting hit with any glass, is he? There's no head injuries. So everything else is just flames, isn't it? Yeah. So he probably got a bit singed. Probably feels a little bit stupid. You must have created an explosion or two in your time.
Starting point is 00:01:58 No, I was never a fire boy. I remember there was a lad who used to get Link's deodorant, spray it on his hand and then set fire to it. Yeah, people used to do that at my school as well. I mean, in retrospect, that looks pretty cool. It's a cool thing. Pretty cool, guys. There was also a very, very slow news day story on the BBC website a week or so ago,
Starting point is 00:02:15 maybe a couple of weeks ago, which was Devin Couple's 48-year-old boiler finally packs up. And this guy called Graham Braddock, he's not obviously an old fellow. I think he was in his late 80s. He happily and comically posed holding a handkerchief to his eyes pretending to cry
Starting point is 00:02:35 because he said the boiler, he was told in 1971 the boiler came with a 50-year guarantee. Wonderful. Fantastic stuff. How old was the boiler? 48 years old. So it's in...
Starting point is 00:02:50 So surely you can get a replacement for the same model or the company doesn't see. That's the problem. You get all excited about your guarantees and your insurance and stuff. There's no insurance if the company goes down. So stop being foolish, guys.
Starting point is 00:03:04 What would you think? I mean, presuming you've got to Christmas in Hartlepool, which is my favourite Christmas song, actually, on time, what do you reckon you're doing now at this point on Boxing Day? I'll probably have to make it back to London at some point, so I'll probably just prep in the suitcase. Doomsday prepping? Doomsday prepping.
Starting point is 00:03:23 Do you have a lot of leftovers on Boxing Day? Do you have a lot of leftovers on box and day? Do you eat a lot of leftovers? No, because my mum staggers all of the goodies coming down from the bedroom. She has a load of popcorn and nuts and chocolates and stuff like that, and then she'll sort of stagger its arrival, which is just annoying.
Starting point is 00:03:38 It's like, just get it eaten. The parents' house they live in at the moment is the house you grew up in? No. Oh, they've moved. My parents are the same. They've moved grew up in? No. Oh, they've moved. My parents are the same. They've moved like three or four times. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:03:47 But I will be staying in a single bed. Any social functions to be partaking in? Yeah, I'll probably be getting pissed on Boxing Day. Where are you going to go? I'm going to go out of town. I'm going to make it with a guy called Barber and Tomo. Barber and Tomo. What are the night spots up in Hartlepool?
Starting point is 00:04:06 Oh, everything ranging from the studio a live music venue to Causeway a terrible pub and King John's and also a terrible pub there's now a pop world
Starting point is 00:04:14 in Hartlepool which is very upward trendy for me how much is it for a pint in Hartlepool
Starting point is 00:04:22 it depends you can get them as cheap as well £1.99 can get them as cheap as well, £1.99. Can you? Yeah, I mean, they're bad beers. Bad beers in King John's.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Fizzy Lagers? Fizzy Lagers? Fizzy Lagers, yeah. You love a bit of that? I do love a bit of Fizzy Lager. Yeah, the drinks are considerably cheaper up north.
Starting point is 00:04:37 It's incredible. It's wonderful. Yeah, it sounds like it. You won't take your old man out for a pint? Well, he insists on going out at like 11 o'clock in the morning.
Starting point is 00:04:44 It's just too early. And will you take him to that older out for a pint? Well, he insists on going out at like 11 o'clock in the morning. Too early. And will you take him to that older run down Art Deco cinema? Get over the wall. Do a bit of exploring? Yeah. I saw on the internet
Starting point is 00:04:55 these little kind of braces you put on your knees. They've got little hinges on them and presumably they're either pneumatic or they're spring loaded. I think my dad would probably enjoy using those
Starting point is 00:05:07 because he's got a tripney and he carries a stick with him. I'm thinking maybe I should get him some of those. He would look ridiculous. He'd look like something from, not Cyberdyne Industries, or one of those ones that are doing those little dogs that they kick.
Starting point is 00:05:23 Out in America. They're always in the forest Boston Dynamics that's it Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics they look like something like that
Starting point is 00:05:29 you know when Boston Dynamics did that kind of vaguely terrifying dog thing yeah they did it running through a
Starting point is 00:05:37 forest didn't they which makes it more sinister do you know they've done that on purpose because if it was just running through
Starting point is 00:05:41 a lab you'd be like alright yeah yeah well I presume they started on that, but presumably the whole charm of Little Doggy is that it can deal with any kind of terrain.
Starting point is 00:05:50 I think your old man would be delighted to get something from Boston Dynamics for Christmas. It must be quite expensive. I think they're pretty close to bringing their robot
Starting point is 00:05:58 to market, aren't they? But it's nowhere near as impressive as people think. You've got that sort of humanoid one that jumps up on the thing and jumps off. That's like,
Starting point is 00:06:05 there's no one like that. I don't know why Chinese or Japanese or even Korean or even Taiwanese companies aren't jumping on them and going, look,
Starting point is 00:06:14 we've got a shitty robot. Let's franchise out your name. Get a bit of bunce. Who doesn't want a Boston Dynamics product in their, in their, in their stocking,
Starting point is 00:06:23 so to speak. I bought my dad a gaming chair as well. Really? Yeah. Why? Because his chair, because it was on offer on Amazon. This is amazing.
Starting point is 00:06:34 And yeah, his chair was rescued from his place of work and it's just a dirty little office chair. And I thought, you know what? I'm going to buy my dad a nice, comfortable chair. I think he's going to get a buzz out of it he can't get it upstairs at the moment because it's massive
Starting point is 00:06:47 and as I said he's got a dodgy knee so I'll have to take it up in the Christmas period but I think it's going to be a breath of fresh air for him bless him How much did you
Starting point is 00:06:55 shell out on that? It was only like £100 I think like gaming chair wise that's pretty budget So he can send his photoshops to you in comfort
Starting point is 00:07:02 Yeah exactly That's lovely Those Boston Dynamics robots always just remind me of that really, the bleakest of bleak Black Mirror episodes with those kind of AI dogs chasing those people in black and white. They're just relentless. It's just such a tough watch. Tee hee.
Starting point is 00:07:22 It's a really tough watch. I probably, I've actually got my by the time this comes out they'll already know so I can actually say this I've actually got my family tickets to go see Hamilton for Christmas
Starting point is 00:07:31 oh cool they're excited for that so whereabouts is the Hamilton is it Victoria yeah it's opposite Victoria Station so that'd be good it's brilliant
Starting point is 00:07:39 I bloody enjoyed it they all really enjoy it as well so that's good I saw a really interesting story as well last week Vera Lynn you know Dame Vera Lynn yeah still with us
Starting point is 00:07:49 102 she is bloody hell 102 she released an album last year didn't she did she yeah
Starting point is 00:07:54 no bunts just a re-releasing of old songs presumably you're not getting her in the studio surely
Starting point is 00:08:01 well I don't know I imagine her voice is awful right now. She'll be 103 in March. That's incredible. Which is amazing. So anyway, Vera Lynn is... Vera Lynn apparently in Cockney rhyming slang is gin.
Starting point is 00:08:18 Oh, gin, right. And I think apparently in newer slang it's skin, as in a skin for your joint. Right, okay. And... Who... Where does that kind of... Where do those two circles meet?
Starting point is 00:08:30 People who are into bifters and people who talk about virulin. Don't know. Not sure what the Venn diagram looks like there. Anyway, it's a company called Hailwood International, which make Krabby's ginger beer. You know Krabby's ginger beer? They also make a couple of whiskeys and stuff. They've just been told to cease and desist
Starting point is 00:08:49 and pay Vera Lynn's £1,800 cost after they tried to trademark Vera Lynn as a brand of gin. And Vera Lynn, despite all of her 102 years, said, I've been using my name as an unregistered trademark for Music and Char charity work since 1939, if you don't mind. You're not doing it. Get out.
Starting point is 00:09:10 Yeah. But also, I would say that she's probably not that arsed about it. Well, I mean, the drinks firm lawyer said that there would be no confusion. Like, there would be no crossover. People wouldn't matter. And he said it's a language, you know, it's a play on words and a bit of fun. You know, think of Ruby Murray for a curry. It's just a bit of fun.
Starting point is 00:09:28 Who was Ruby Murray? I don't know, actually. Yeah. I'm not sure, but that's obviously a well-known one, isn't it? My mates always used to say Cousa when we were kids. They didn't say, like, Ruby Murray. Cousa. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:09:38 It's our Cousa. Apparently, Ruby Murray was a Northern Irish singer and actress. They're all having it. That's right. They're all having it. Did you know that Amazon, obviously this time, Amazon's very, very busy
Starting point is 00:09:48 delivering package and the like, although I did buy a candle last week and it came smashed up. Oh, really? Absolutely smashed up. That's not what you want. To pieces. Would you be interested in boycotting Amazon
Starting point is 00:09:58 for that reason? I mean, you're on record as saying you're perfectly fine with their tax practices. Yes, I think they provide such an excellent service. They shouldn't pay any corporation tax because they are the community. Jeff Bezos.
Starting point is 00:10:12 Did you know that if Amazon's algorithms are so good and so on it and I realise just dipping your toe into their practice is fascinating and frequently fucking awfully scary. Would Jeff like to hear you say this or not? Would Jeff be endorsing of this message?
Starting point is 00:10:26 I'm sure he'll be fine. But he, they, if you buy FIFA every year, which I do, Yeah. They deliver a specific copy of FIFA
Starting point is 00:10:35 to your local, what do you call it, their little kind of like Delivery Depot kind of centre. They deliver a copy that is earmarked for you. So they know that you're going to buy it again.
Starting point is 00:10:49 That's scary. Because you buy a lot of it. So they think Donaldson's going to buy that. They think Donaldson's going to buy that again. Or if you really like a book, a particular writer, they stick it in there because they think that they're going to buy it again. And they'll just bombard you with marketing to get you to buy it? Well, not really.
Starting point is 00:11:02 I think they probably will as a matter of course anyway. But the idea, I mean, I'm fine with that. I'm not fine with that. It's rubbish. But I just find it fascinating that there is a copy that they have pre-selected for you. They've sent it to the depot knowing full well that you're going to do it again every single year.
Starting point is 00:11:16 When did you find this out? A couple of months ago, but I just completely forgot about it. I wrote a note to myself. I go, that's fascinating. But are you the kind of person that I think presumably you are the kind of person that will now refuse to buy it? Apart from someone else? Apart from someone else? No,. I go, that's fascinating. But are you the kind of person that I think, presumably, you are the kind of person that will now refuse to buy it? Buy it from someone else?
Starting point is 00:11:28 Buy it from someone else? No, no, no, no, no. I'm very movable with stuff like that. I had a bit of a rude awakening in doing some Christmas shopping a couple of weeks ago. I went to Hatchard's on Piccadilly, which is this beautiful bookstore. Hatchard!
Starting point is 00:11:43 To buy some presents for people. And I told myself, I don't know, I mean, maybe everyone knows this and I just didn't know it, but I told myself that, oh,
Starting point is 00:11:50 I'll go into Hatchards, one, because it's a beautiful shop, and two, because it's independent. And it's got a thing that says bookseller since 17-whatever. And there's a water stone
Starting point is 00:11:58 that's like five doors down. So you think, right, okay, I'm going to go to the independent one. So I went there, and I've been doing that for years. And I went in there a couple of weeks ago,
Starting point is 00:12:07 and they now offer a wrapping service. I'll take advantage of that. You put your books over there, they'll wrap it for free. It's amazing. It's a great little Christmas bonus, and they can wrap it in a beautiful way and stuff. And obviously there's time to kill while they're wrapping your thing for you.
Starting point is 00:12:18 There's just this lady wrapping it, so I started talking to her. She went, oh, how are you getting on with your Christmas shopping? I was like, yeah, yeah, not bad. I love coming to the shop because it's really beautifully decorated
Starting point is 00:12:27 and it looks amazing it's like a really Christmassy scene in there and I said oh yeah and also
Starting point is 00:12:31 because it's independent and she went yeah I'm actually owned by the same company that owns
Starting point is 00:12:36 Waterstones so I thought there's nothing sacred anymore I might as well stayed at home clicked the tick box on Amazon
Starting point is 00:12:44 said the gift wrap feature and got them sent to my house. Exactly. I had to carry them all the way home and that was the day, I told you about it
Starting point is 00:12:50 earlier in the week, that was the day where the trains were about to start as well. So I had to carry it all the way home. I'm not even getting the warm feeling
Starting point is 00:12:57 in my stomach and my heart that I'm supporting an independent bookseller. You're so naive, you're so... Put the kooks there. Put the kooks.
Starting point is 00:13:05 And then I thought to myself, have I been naive because it's not realistic that in 2019, almost 2020 now, that an independent bookseller would be able to sustain a shop of that size
Starting point is 00:13:16 on Piccadilly? No, especially with the rents nowadays. That's what I mean. And nobody really owns those places, so yeah. Yeah, I guess most of the shops will be like that. Right, so at least. And nobody really owns those places. So yeah, I don't, yeah, I guess all of us, most of the shops will be like that.
Starting point is 00:13:27 All right. So at least they pay a tax though, presumably. I mean, I haven't checked, but they'll probably be on the same hostel as everyone else. Probably do. Let's take a little break.
Starting point is 00:13:35 And then when we come back, we'll do some emails from our lovely listeners who are sitting there, stuffed with the food and drink on Boxing Day. The problem appears to be that we haven't got our photo ID to try and travel to Scotland, which, as far as I can remember, was in the British Isles. What can we do? We're utterly hamstrung by these thick-headed people
Starting point is 00:13:59 wearing orange suits. Suck it, Plummy. Suck it. Yeah. Oh, what's that? You've had life's hard for you, is it, pal? Yeah. Fuck you now. Fuckuck it, Plummy. Suck it. Yeah. Oh, what's that? You've had life's hard for you, is it, pal? Fuck you now. Buck your ideas up, mate. He's presumably happy
Starting point is 00:14:10 with the most recent election result. You can bet your bottom dollar. And if you're listening, sir, email us, hello at lukeandpete.com and tell us some of your objectionable opinions. Some people who've got in touch
Starting point is 00:14:22 are, who have we got here, Dino Alex Alan it's not like I'm making them all up but I'm not all my emails today are based around the gladiators
Starting point is 00:14:34 alright do you want this one yeah you do yours first give it a little air buffer hello to William William Peters hi guys this comes from last year's Christmas do at my mother's house
Starting point is 00:14:42 as we all know roasties and mash are the cornerstone of any Christmas day meal my mother decided to. As we all know, roasties and mash are the cornerstone of any Christmas Day meal. My mother decided to spice it up, though, by making sweet potato mash instead of normal mash. Well, hang on. I've got a problem straight away. What?
Starting point is 00:14:53 Sweet, what? Roast potatoes and mash on a Christmas meal? Apparently so. I've never heard that before. Have you? Well, it's nice to have a choice, I guess. Have you heard that before? No, but I imagine bigger families might have a bit more choice.
Starting point is 00:15:04 But would you say it's a cornerstone of a roast dinner? I think either or is the cornerstone of a roast dinner. But the idea of her spicing up to make sweet potato mash instead of normal mash is abhorrent in my book, to be quite frank. We all thought nothing of it, but the scenes that followed brought us crashing into reality. My great uncle is in his 70s. He's a bit of a character, but a nice chap.
Starting point is 00:15:25 He was absolutely livid. I swear I've never seen him so angry. He declared that Christmas dinners were sacred and couldn't be changed and was so distraught over his food change that he had to leave the dinner and then said he was going home. I admire the reaction.
Starting point is 00:15:37 His wife apologised profusely to my mother, but the damage couldn't be repaired and they departed. The weirdest scenes that have happened in the annual tradition, which are normally pleasant to the rest of the dinner was great.
Starting point is 00:15:47 I'm worried for this Christmas though because my mother asked me to buy sweet potatoes and I know he's coming again. Let's hope the same event doesn't repeat. Probably he's being invited again. That is worrying.
Starting point is 00:15:57 I love sweet potato mash but yeah, with a Christmas dinner it's probably, you're probably kind of pissing all over the tradition there. I remember once getting turned away from,
Starting point is 00:16:07 we always used to go to my nan and granddad's house for Christmas lunch. And so we'd do stuff in the morning, then we'd go around there. And I remember being turned away from the house by my nan, who was Scottish and fierce, because although I'd bought her a present, this is like in my university days. I'd wrapped it. No, I hadn't bought her a present this is like in my university days where I just I'd wrapped it no I hadn't bought her a card yeah cards were a big thing
Starting point is 00:16:29 my answer is I'd rather I'd rather I'd rather a card than a present yeah isn't that weird get yourself down the shop and buy me one
Starting point is 00:16:34 or find me a card or you're not coming in and I was like what am I going to do it's Christmas day she's like I don't care so I had to go walking I had to walk
Starting point is 00:16:42 about 15 minutes down the road found a little convenience like shop that was open found like a 99p card and write it to her and give it to her about 15 minutes down the road found a little convenience shop that was open found like a 99p card and write it to her and give it to her yeah that story would be out in Hartlepool
Starting point is 00:16:49 nothing's open nothing's open on Christmas day yeah do you know what I'm going to name check the shop I think it was
Starting point is 00:16:55 sadly no longer with us all days all days every day living up to its name lovely let us know I forget the name of the email lovely let us know I forget the name
Starting point is 00:17:05 of the email but let us know what happens with that because that sounds like it could be explosive doesn't it it does imagine if his mum
Starting point is 00:17:12 properly trolls his great uncle and says do you mind putting together a sweet potato mash for me today that'd be brilliant okay here we go
Starting point is 00:17:20 this is an email from Dino it's about the gladiators we've been working our way through different gladiatorial stories. This is the TV show, Gladiators from the 90s, not the Roman impressive athletes.
Starting point is 00:17:31 Although they are impressive athletes in their own right, the 90s TV ones. Dino says, Afternoon, fellas. After your call for stories about Gladiators, I thought I'd email him.
Starting point is 00:17:40 Writing this email is a lot easier than rummaging in my loft to find my copy of Wu-Tang Clan, Taste the pain um and my limited edition wu-tang w-shaped ps1 controller after you mentioned it on the pod a while back so i'll stick to gladiators when i was in year six i'm fearful of getting my head kicked in when i went to secondary school due to my complete lack of interest in football i decided to take up playing football in my hometown digcot which is statistically the most normal place in the UK. There are two kids teams to play for.
Starting point is 00:18:07 Didcot Boys, who all the cool kids played for, the undoubted main team in Didcot, and Didcot Gladiators, which can best be described as a ragtag bunch of outsiders and the manager's son, who is probably the best footballer of his age in the town. And we got our asses handed to us every single week. If you're listening from Didcot,
Starting point is 00:18:24 let us know if you've got're listening from Didcot let us know if you've got any stories about Didcot boys or Didcot gladiators during the pre-season just before I signed for the Didcot gladiators someone managed
Starting point is 00:18:32 to pull some strings and roped Shadow in as a club ambassador hello he came to a training session where all the boys and their parents met and had photos
Starting point is 00:18:41 the local paper came down for what I assume was a front page news story. Fast forward six months or so, and I'm halfway through my first season of playing football. And we've just started back at school after the Christmas break. And there was talk of Shadow coming back down to see us again.
Starting point is 00:18:54 And we were all very excited. Within a week or so, there was a rumor circulating in the playground. Shadow had been sacked from Gladiators for things that I can't mention on this show. The rumor was shortly disproved. He'd actually been sacked for a rather minor comparison of, of, of testing positive for steroids,
Starting point is 00:19:10 although it was alleged that he was caught up in doing some other stuff. Obviously I'm meeting with our club ambassador that was knocked on the head. And I assume he was dealt the double blow of being sacked from his prestigious role as ambassador of our football club. And I have vivid memories of all my teammates being taken out of their respective primary schools just after lunchtime uh and uh where the local itv news team have been sent to interview this group of crestfallen children about our disappointment at one of our heroes being sacked for doing something so shameful needless to say i was nowhere near the cameras as i didn't
Starting point is 00:19:38 care that much partly because he wasn't my favorite gladiator that was jet and if anyone claims that their favorite was anyone but jet they are a liar mainly because i got an extended lunch break where i could play football with my actual friends and not the dig cop boys players who uh who are in abundance at my school uh well my friends were being questioned one by one i'm pretty sure i can be seen in the background putting the goals away literally packing them up and putting them away mind not putting them away to show off my goal scoring prowess um he said he can't find the evidence this happening love the show you got the good work. He said I will go off and rummage in the loft with my Wu-Tang controller now.
Starting point is 00:20:09 There we go. Peace, Dino. Thanks for that, Dino. It's a good Gladiator story because I think I would have been bloody excited if I was a kid and my team ambassador was a Gladiator. Yeah, I mean, that's big potatoes, isn't it? I'm just looking at the gladiators.
Starting point is 00:20:28 There's a lot of... You can get a lot of them to do little personal messages on those cameo kind of websites. A lot of them are doing that now. A lot of celebrities are doing that now. Who's on there? Jets, I think. It was the good-looking fella who drove with his top down in his car.
Starting point is 00:20:41 Oh, was that Hunter? Hunter's doing it as well. That's courtesy of my mate Tommy, who said that. I know that's true. So I'm just reading Jets from Gladiator's Twitter page. Oh, she's retweeted Chris Ramsey, obviously a Northeastern comedian, and Justin Lee Collins.
Starting point is 00:21:00 She is a fan of long walks, exercising, and is a keen surfer here's another email from Alex from Barnstable he's met a gladiator as well he says
Starting point is 00:21:11 I'm writing in for the first time following you putting out the call to those of us lucky enough to meet a gladiator none other than
Starting point is 00:21:17 Rhino came to visit my taekwondo class back in the late 90s I was around 8 or 9 at the time and I can't really remember much about it
Starting point is 00:21:24 other than us all lining up in our robes to each get a picture taken with the big man until quite recently I had a signed Polaroid picture of me and Rhino
Starting point is 00:21:32 as proof that this wasn't some kind of fever dream although that's nowhere to be found after a clear out and the doubts are starting to creep back in
Starting point is 00:21:39 but I'm pretty sure I met him all the best Alex from Barnstable was there ever any like UK gladiators going over to do some wrestling in
Starting point is 00:21:46 the WWE? You would know mate, ask Mark Haynes. I might ask Mark Haynes. He would know about that wouldn't
Starting point is 00:21:51 he? And I've got a final email about gladiators here. I opened a can of worms here. I've just got to get through them.
Starting point is 00:21:57 Yeah, let's just get them through. People listening, I apologise if you've got no interest in gladiators but I did make a promise that I'm happy to keep.
Starting point is 00:22:04 This is from Alan. Hi guys, I was going to keep this to um but your desire to have met the entire cast of gladiators via the listenership persuaded me to share at the time of writing you haven't had an anecdote concerning zodiac well i once sat on her lap it's perhaps a bit more innocent than it sounds when i was very young kate staples akaiac, came round my primary school and patiently met every student. When it was my turn, I popped onto her lap and we had our photo taken. I didn't get a chance to congratulate her on her sterling pole vault career,
Starting point is 00:22:34 not least because I was seven and I had no idea. The photo has since been lost to the sands of time, sadly. It's a shame it wasn't yet, but presumably she was too busy hosting a millennium barn dance at Yeovil Aerodrome. That's a Partridge reference. Still, it's nice to get Zodiac ticked off the list. Cue up the great work.
Starting point is 00:22:50 Love the pods. Alan. Now, I'm not clever enough, and Pete certainly isn't admin savvy enough for us to know all the gladiators we've ticked off. So perhaps someone could email in hello at lukeandpetecher.com to tell us all the gladiators we've met. We'll make a chart.
Starting point is 00:23:03 We should, because I think we've done quite a lot of them now. I remember going to see American gladiators as a kid. Um, when I went on holiday to Florida with my parents, they used to do like a dinner show. Yeah. Like, like a gladiators version of the medieval dinner show in the cable guy.
Starting point is 00:23:18 You seen that? I mean, you mentioned the cable guy. I mean, this is so down a rabbit hole. People have the people who any of these gladiators are, especially in the U S and now you're talking about the cable guy. I mean, this is so down a rabbit hole. Half the people won't know who any of these gladiators are, especially in the US. And now you're talking about the cable guy,
Starting point is 00:23:29 which nobody watched. I think it was a good movie, the cable guy. It was Jim Carrey's dramatic debut slightly, wasn't it? No, he was quite a dark character, wasn't he? It's like a dark comedy. It's like a black comedy, yeah. It's not like Truman Show dramatic, but it's not Ace Ventura.
Starting point is 00:23:46 Maybe it's the gateway drug to his more dramatic roles but I think it's good there's a good medieval scene in it anyway who else is in the
Starting point is 00:23:53 Cable Guy I think there's two other quite famous people in it you fill in while I check hang on how would you like me to fill in
Starting point is 00:24:00 this is the Luke and Pete Shaw I'm Pete Donaldson Jack Black isn't it Jack Black isn't it and Matthew Broderick isn't it Matthew Broderick isn't it? And Matthew Broderick, isn't it? Matthew Broderick, isn't it? Two big stars.
Starting point is 00:24:07 And Ben Stiller. Ben Stiller. You can still find him. What do they play? Cable customers. I mean, Ben Stiller plays like the kind of straight... Is it Matthew Broderick
Starting point is 00:24:15 plays the straight kind of customer of Jim Carrey's mad manic cable guy? I always fancied Cable Guy, but I never got around to watching it. It's good. And I'm not about to
Starting point is 00:24:24 because I've got a lot of Office US to get through for the third time terrible terrible business alright Pete that's probably the culmination of our Boxing Day show
Starting point is 00:24:31 I hope you enjoy the rest of your Christmas and festive period we will be back on Monday of course as we always are thank you so much for those of you who got in touch
Starting point is 00:24:38 if you could send us an admin list of all the gladiators we met on the show that would be helpful hello at lukeandpeachow.com Godspeed love you all thanks for all your support on 2019 and we'll see you again soon an admin list of all the gladiators we met on the show. That would be helpful. Hello at Luke and Pete show.com.
Starting point is 00:24:45 Godspeed. Love you all. Thanks for your support in 2019. And we'll see you again soon. This was a Stakhanov production.

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