The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.82: Dad's gaming chair
Episode Date: December 26, 2019The 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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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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
What do you mean,
like as in?
He should have been
really badly hurt,
presumably.
Well,
I guess the explosion
would break the glass,
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.
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,
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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?
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?
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
in Hartlepool
which is
very
upward
trendy for me
how much
is it for a pint
in Hartlepool
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
Out in America.
They're always in the forest
Boston Dynamics
that's it
Boston Dynamics
Boston Dynamics
they look like
something like that
you know when
Boston Dynamics
did that kind of
vaguely terrifying
dog thing
yeah
they did it
running through a
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
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.
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
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,
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,
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,
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
102
she is
bloody hell
102
she released an album
last year didn't she
did she
yeah
no
bunts
just a re-releasing
of old songs
presumably
you're not getting
her in the studio
surely
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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!
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,
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
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,
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.
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
and it looks
amazing
it's like a
really Christmassy
scene in there
and I said
oh yeah
and also
because it's
independent
and she went
yeah
I'm actually
owned by the
same company
that owns
Waterstones
so I thought
there's nothing
sacred anymore
I might as well
stayed at home
clicked the tick box
on Amazon
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
the WWE?
You would know
mate, ask Mark
Haynes.
I might ask Mark
Haynes.
He would know
about that wouldn't
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Godspeed.
Love you all.
Thanks for your support in 2019.
And we'll see you again soon. This was a Stakhanov production.