The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.85: Digging up skulls

Episode Date: January 6, 2020

It's the second episode of 2020, and Pete is pretty happy at the moment. He rates his happiness at an 8.0/10.0 but wants to keep an eye on it. Very sensible. If it goes below a 6.0 he's going to let u...s all know.On today's episode we learn a bit more about both Pete and Luke's respective families, hear of a friend that buries dead animals in his back garden and then digs them up when they've decomposed, and marvel at the wonder of local facebook groups.To get involved, and we'd bloody love you to, it's: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Heaven forfend, we should offend the micro-bloggers. Don't know where that's come from. Where has this come from? I don't know, but it's Pete Donaldson and Luke Moore, and it's the Luke and Pete Show. It's what we do every single Monday. It's what we do every single Monday. It's what we do every single Thursday
Starting point is 00:00:27 and we have a lovely time every single time. Yeah. Yeah, we do. You're wearing a lovely cardigan. Thank you very much. I'm, I love a card,
Starting point is 00:00:36 I love a bit of the cardigan game. Look what's happened to mine there. Oh yeah, that looks quite convenient though. Pick your thumb through that little hole. Fucking moths. Mother,
Starting point is 00:00:43 but not even pantry moths. Just my house is one big pantry. I think I've... For the moths. Am I alone in never, ever having had a moth eat through any of my clothes? Insanity. It's never happened once.
Starting point is 00:00:53 I didn't even know it was a thing until very recently. I'm going to throw one at you. I reckon I've spent my life giving off some kind of pheromone. Pheromone that upsets the moths. Yeah, can happen, because some people don't get bitten by mosquitoes, for example. Is that true? Some people just don't get it.
Starting point is 00:01:05 I get absolutely ravaged by them every time I... I don't go to a lot of places that have mosquitoes, mind. And isn't there a small area in a part of Italy that is almost entirely immune to heart disease?
Starting point is 00:01:19 Where does that come from? No, I think there is because it's something to do with their diet over many years, many generations. They're genes. Are they kind of interbreeding maybe
Starting point is 00:01:29 I don't think so I don't think so I've I thought I'd start this week we don't really do this at all let alone very often
Starting point is 00:01:36 right by reading out some of our reviews on iTunes oh do you want to start 2020 proper yeah
Starting point is 00:01:43 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 5 out of 5 in a row wow Samba81288 I like you both Julian Assange says oh yeah
Starting point is 00:01:53 G Holland says thanks for the pod deco22 ramblings and nonsense love it a podcast for me cool Mr Evans says
Starting point is 00:02:01 fantastic show listened since day 1 and thought only fair to give this pod the five stars and extra exposure it deserves. Anthony Peacock says, great listen,
Starting point is 00:02:09 informative and very funny. And Rob says, I like your work, lads. Keep it coming. 10 out of 10 pod for 2020. Are you trying to get more people to review us?
Starting point is 00:02:18 Positively. I just think that it's... It does help. It's a cyclical, multiple rewarding sort of ecosystem, isn't it? We provide a show for them for free. Happy to do it.
Starting point is 00:02:30 Enjoy doing it. They then listen. Great. Appreciate it. Give us a review. We'll then read your reviews out. You'll like us more. You'll listen more.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Everyone's happy. Everyone's happy. I just worry that... Apart from the people who listen but hate it. Because there are a lot of people out there who listen to shows they don't like very much. I don't think they do. I think they listen to bits of it and then kind of pile in.
Starting point is 00:02:49 I don't know why you would spend a full half an hour, sometimes 25 minutes, listening to something you can't stand Monday and Thursday. I think you'd be surprised. But there are some interesting people out there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:00 They're a large part. If you do anything online, create anything online, they're a large part. If you're successful in doing it, they're a large part of the you do anything online, create anything online, they're a large part. If you're successful in doing it, there are large parts of the internet that hate you. It's weird. I don't really get it.
Starting point is 00:03:11 I don't really get the mindset, my friend. I've never committed to, as you get older, you get a little less angry, a little less resentful for other people's success. But as I get older, I just tend to care less. I've certainly never reviewed anything harshly.
Starting point is 00:03:28 That's the point. You're just shouting it into a void. I probably have done it when I was younger. Probably got pissed off. I'm probably just as bad as everyone else. What's your mindset for 2020, Pete? I've got no plans, to be honest. I was talking about this over Christmas.
Starting point is 00:03:43 I'm quite happy. I just want to remain this happy, if not happier. If it dips below what I experienced in 2019, though, I'm going to be really annoyed. What are you out of 10 at the moment for happiness? I'm an 8. I'm enjoying the spoils of war. And it has been a war.
Starting point is 00:03:57 For now, we toast. Yeah. But what would it have to dip below for you to start taking affirmative action? Six? Six? Six, yes. And what's the happiest you've ever been? Honestly, last year was good.
Starting point is 00:04:13 Last year was good. It may surprise you because you see me as a dour, upset chap, but I'm quite into what I'm doing at the moment. I don't see you as a dour, upset chap. I see that you've got a northern sensibility, which I've learned to love over the years, but I feel like you're
Starting point is 00:04:27 the kind of guy who, at any point, could flip and be unhappy. You're a very finely tuned athlete. I do think of the worst situation that could possibly happen. I worry quite a lot.
Starting point is 00:04:40 You're an emotional racehorse. Yeah. You're so finely tuned, one tiny little mental fibre goes out of sync. Yeah. I'm still having... I'll have to take you around the back of the street in the head.
Starting point is 00:04:49 I'm still having... Please don't. I'm still having radio DJ dreams. Go on. I stopped being a radio DJ middle of... Well, literally Christmas Day was my last pre-recorded show. And I'm still having dreams, like those DJ anxiety dreams where you get to
Starting point is 00:05:05 a studio and nothing works and everyone's waiting for you to talk and you can't talk or you've forgotten what you're going to say I mean very much like
Starting point is 00:05:11 what I've done in real life yeah and I listened to you actually over Christmas very good very enjoyable very enjoyable
Starting point is 00:05:19 cheers pal you and Max oh yeah together at last nuts and gum that was a good show that was a good show Max is good I like him he's good he's fun he's a fun broadcaster because he realises and remembers You and Max. Oh, yeah. Together at last. Nuts and gum. That was a good show. They said it couldn't be done. That was a good show.
Starting point is 00:05:25 Max is good. I like him. He's good. He's fun. He's a fun broadcaster because he realises and remembers that... People are listening. Yeah, there's two things. One, he's actually a listener.
Starting point is 00:05:33 And two, he's actually quite a cheerful mindset kind of guy. So he's up for doing stuff. Yeah. I listened to him and Barry Glenn yesterday on Talk Spot. They're good together as well. They're good. Max should be, in my opinion,
Starting point is 00:05:46 it's just my opinion, not the opinion of anyone else, I think Max should be, should have a more regular spot on that station personally. Cool. There you go. Lobby.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Can't all get what you want. I think I should as well. I think you should as well. Who's in front of each other in the queue? Is he in front of you in the queue? Well, you know what it's like, Pete, in this industry,
Starting point is 00:06:02 everyone's jostling for everything and I think because I've got a situation where my primary focus and the thing I love doing the queue? Well, you know what it's like, Pete, in this industry. Everyone's jostling for everything. And I think because I've got a situation where my primary focus and the thing I love doing the most is working with you guys here. That's a fucking lie. That's a fucking lie. It says it here. Because the unique way that North Norfolk Digital is funded.
Starting point is 00:06:20 Because we are North London's best music mix I see talk sport as something that I'm interested in to pursue to work really hard to get better at and to hopefully
Starting point is 00:06:32 be successful in be an asset and I'm not I'm not kind of downplaying how important it is I do love it
Starting point is 00:06:39 and I'm always there and I'm always giving it my all but I don't have the pressure of knowing it's my only job right so whereas I think for a lot of people it's kind of they're jostling for position same same with that same with a lot of radio to be honest like people only have that and if you've got another couple of things going on it makes it a lot less fraught
Starting point is 00:06:57 with danger and worry yeah i think that's right yeah i think it means it frees you up and makes you more flexible do your best work but changing the subject ever so slightly I treated myself and my lovely wife to tickets to Kill a Mockingbird in the summer I needed the other film version of, because you did a show I read at school
Starting point is 00:07:18 I needed an impression of a person and then I realised I had a big old n-word in the middle of it yeah don't do that. No don't do that. It apparently was really well received in the US on
Starting point is 00:07:29 Broadway. It's an Aaron Sorkin adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird. That's got to be excellent book, excellent film, adapted by Aaron
Starting point is 00:07:37 Sorkin. That is a recipe for success. And the Atticus Finch is being played by Rhys Ephans. I'm off the
Starting point is 00:07:44 boat again. For fuck's sake. Do you even know who Rhys Ephans I'm off the boat again for fuck's sake do you even know who Rhys Ephans is yeah he's the Welsh bloke who was in Love Actually I'll probably interview him
Starting point is 00:07:50 he's uh I saw him in a bar once with his girlfriend wife Beth Jordache is that what he calls her his girlfriend wife this is my girlfriend wife
Starting point is 00:07:59 Beth Jordache and she and there was a pianist Anna Friel and he was playing somebody was playing the piano and she was singing in that actory Anna Friel and he was playing somebody was playing the piano and she was singing in that actory way
Starting point is 00:08:07 that hey look at me everyone I'm singing don't like that da da and he was just sat there looking a bit down to you first lesbian kiss
Starting point is 00:08:15 on television what mean you yeah let's do it now I used to watch a lot of Brookside around that time it's a good show they put first lesbian kiss and then was that before or after?
Starting point is 00:08:27 No spoilers, they killed their dad. No spoilers, it was in 1992. Yes, I think it was around the same time, wasn't it? Brookside, to me, I might be misremembering this. Misremembering what? It was kind of a hard-hitting, interesting site, It was, yeah, Channel 4,
Starting point is 00:08:46 pure Channel 4, where they were pushing boundaries. I'm one of those people who so like... Claire Sweeney was in it. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:54 Jimmy Corkill. Do you remember Jimmy Corkill? Yeah, he was great. What happened to him? He had this dog, Cracker. Cracker.
Starting point is 00:08:58 Come on, Cracker. Tinhead? Tinhead was in... Was he in something else? Hollyhoax. Was he in something else Hollyoaks was he in Hollyoaks yeah I'm going nowhere
Starting point is 00:09:07 oh he might have been in Brookside but he was called Tin Ed in Hollyoaks ok fair enough do you spend a lot of time watching Channel 4 is that your most watched channel would you say
Starting point is 00:09:14 I like a bit of Come Down With Me so that's on Morpho isn't it so these days at any point during the day you can turn on it's Canon
Starting point is 00:09:23 it's Channel 4 Canon a Channel 4 derivative and you can watch a come down me. I watched you on yesterday while I was having my tea and fucking hell, there was a rude man on there.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Oh yeah. This rude kind of like camp gentleman who would not stop just being unreasonably rude. Like kind of, he sort of went, all right,
Starting point is 00:09:42 I'm going to go all in. I've grown up and all of my heroes have been, presumably his gay icons would have been quite bitchy and quite that kind of stereotype that you saw quite a lot in the 80s and the 90s. And he's kind of taken it on wholesale and he's just a twat to everyone.
Starting point is 00:09:59 Incredible. And he's just been really horrible. We all know, Pete, the best ever come down with me episode don't we uh what is it um keep i'm trying to think i'm gonna play it now yeah in fourth place is me i don't know why you're shaking your head at me you won jane oh my god enjoy the money i hope it makes you very happy dear lord what a sad little
Starting point is 00:10:29 life jane you ruined my night completely so you could have the money but i hope now you spend it on getting some lessons in grace and decorum because you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on. Brilliant stuff. Brilliant stuff. For those of you who don't know what Come Down With Me is, can there be anyone out there who doesn't know what it is? Probably not.
Starting point is 00:10:54 Is it a format overseas as well? Why haven't they brought it into America, though? Like, why haven't they got that kind of format? For those who don't know, it's like an episode every week for, I think it's four people or five people, and they each take it in turn to do a dinner party for the other contestants. They all vote independently and anonymously. And at the end, it's unveiled who wins a thousand pounds.
Starting point is 00:11:12 And that guy took it quite badly, safe to say. But I would say, Pete, the real star of the more four stable, for me, is four in a bed. Which is the same, but with B&Bs. Oh, it's just people running their fingers over the top of four poster beds and going
Starting point is 00:11:28 I've not dusted up here why doesn't everybody just dust everything they know the cameras are going to be there they know the other people are going to be rating them on how dusty the place is
Starting point is 00:11:36 get a fucking feather dust route awful I saw a guy on that show go into the en suite bathroom and run his finger around the underside of the toilet room
Starting point is 00:11:44 that's disgusting it's a bit dirty that it's a fucking toilet mate what'd you expect it's a dirt box mate it's a fucking dirt box it's funny though because sometimes
Starting point is 00:11:55 they have what they'll do to mix it up is they'll put a couple in there who run a B&B in quotes but it's actually like
Starting point is 00:12:03 swingers a glamorous no they're billy bollocks the quotes but it's actually like swingers a glamorous no they're billy bollocks the whole time it's like a glamorous camping site that isn't actually
Starting point is 00:12:10 that glamorous and all the people who run B&Bs are really snobby about camping so they don't want to do it because they run a B&B I love the picking order
Starting point is 00:12:16 of hoteliers versus campers we've talked about this before but I'm a B&B fan you're not are you you prefer an Airbnb don't like to be waited on. I like to be...
Starting point is 00:12:26 Punished? Punished. I let her do everything myself. Speaking of which, was your dad punished for coming back to the house with that multi-pack of crisps? Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:33 Yeah, I saw my dad quite a lot over the Christmas period and he was as mad as ever. Time for family, isn't it? Time for family. For four days was enough. You shared... Four days is always enough.
Starting point is 00:12:43 Yeah. You shared, not with your family, but with families in general, you shared a picture of your dad coming back into the house with a massive box of crisps and your mum looking very upset about it.
Starting point is 00:12:53 My mum had sent my dad out for a couple of bags of crisps and he came back with what can only be described as an industrial sized box of crisps. And what happened then? It was just a lovely moment. Like my dad going,
Starting point is 00:13:03 oh, looking quite down at heel and quite sad. Yeah. My mum looking quite angry at him. Presum going, oh, I'm looking quite down at heel and quite sad. Yeah. My mum looking quite angry at him. Presumably she's, I mean, they'll keep,
Starting point is 00:13:09 they'll last a long time. They'll keep, yeah, I'm sure they'll get eaten at some point. Stick them in the courtyard? I had a go. I'm a gannet.
Starting point is 00:13:15 Yeah. Stick them in the courtyard. Yeah, the courtyard was full of food and drinks and treats and potatoes and stuff like that. Actually, the potatoes this year
Starting point is 00:13:21 were very good. I've complained on more than one occasion that my mother's roast potatoes are dreadful Actually, the potatoes this year were very good. I've complained on more than one occasion that my mother's roast potatoes are dreadful. They were alright this year because they were
Starting point is 00:13:30 pre-cooked at McCain. Are you joking? I know, I know. Oh dear. Look, you can't because you can't be told. She can't be told. Speaking of gannets,
Starting point is 00:13:40 I went to a friend of mine's friend of mine the other day and he's got this thing going on with his kids that whenever he sees a dead animal he buries it in the back garden he takes it with him
Starting point is 00:13:50 buries it in the back garden waits for it to decompose into skeletons digs it up again and shows his kids what the bones look like and the jawbone and the skull and everything
Starting point is 00:13:59 and he cleans it up and he puts it on the mantelpiece that is it's not prime dad behaviour, but it's quite dad behaviour. It's something I would do. You get excited about something and no one at any point grabs you by the arm and goes,
Starting point is 00:14:11 this is disgusting, Peter, stop this. He's quite a cool metal dad. Metal dad. He always says his ambition is to be the most metal dad. And that is quite a metal thing to do. But his kids love it. He's got two boys. They're about 10 and 12, something like that.
Starting point is 00:14:24 I've wrote down a couple of things me and my dad had a drink on Christmas Christmas day it was really nice I don't get to drink
Starting point is 00:14:32 with my dad very often we played a couple of games at the pool he hammered me being a pretty good pool player does the local pub open for like a couple
Starting point is 00:14:38 of hours on Christmas day yeah it does the range of dogs and people Gillens down around the corner from my dad's house in Woodstock Way
Starting point is 00:14:47 shout out to them shout out to the Woodstock Ways how much was it a pint? I think like Doombar it was only like £1.99 or something
Starting point is 00:14:55 for the cheapest beers my god brilliant eh bloody brilliant but I was chatting to my dad we got a bit pissed so I learnt a few things
Starting point is 00:15:03 about my dad's family obviously we don't talk about them I don't know anything about them So I learned a few things about my dad's family. Obviously, we don't talk about them. I don't know anything about them. So I learned a little bit about my dad's family. My dad's brother, Raph, bit of a wronging. He's the reason why we don't see any of his side of the family. He got into a fight with a man.
Starting point is 00:15:20 He got his jaw broken by the man. And then he had his jaw wired shut, and he was sick of drinking, you know, just liquids and soup and all that kind of stuff. And my dad said one of his defining moments was watching his brother with the pliers basically just undo all of his jaw wiring and pull it out with a pair of pliers so he
Starting point is 00:15:45 could go back and fight the man. Wow! But luckily the man was on an oil rig. The only way, the only natural way that story could have ended was with the word oil rig. And one of the other reasons why my dad doesn't want to see his brother, his late brother now,
Starting point is 00:16:02 was because he'd killed his rabbit, his tortoise and his was because he'd killed his rabbit, his tortoise and his hamster. My God. What a prolific animal murderer. What an unholy trinity that is. Unholy trinity. So yeah, that was good.
Starting point is 00:16:15 And then me and my dad had an argument, a rather boozy argument on Christmas Day where I suggested that possibly getting up at 2am was not good for your health, was not good for his health. And he said, I get up at 2 o'clock because my knee is killing me I said
Starting point is 00:16:28 well just adjust your sleeping patterns so that you get up at 6 o'clock instead of 2 o'clock my dad said no it always gets me up at 2 o'clock
Starting point is 00:16:35 and I said your knee is not an atomic clock dad it doesn't know what time it is so that was the tenor of my we had a big old
Starting point is 00:16:42 it's the most wonderful time fucking hell like just so you know should we do some emails should we do some emails So that was the tenor of my... We had a big old... It's the most wonderful time. Fucking hell. Like, just so... You know. Shall we do some emails? Shall we do some emails? Shall we head to Adbrick?
Starting point is 00:16:50 Before we go to the Adbrick, as a way of sweeper, I'm going to play this piece of music. It is a man, and it is a man, playing the Inspector Gadget theme tune on a church organ. Love it.
Starting point is 00:17:03 It's great. Wow, that sounds brilliant. This bit played by his feet. Fuck, that's brilliant. It's good, isn't it? And the final chorus. Verse. Verse. That is so fucking good.
Starting point is 00:18:09 All on the feet. And we'll be back in a second with more of that. And we're back. It's the Little Peach Show. That was so good, that inspector. I know we've had a little ad break, but I'm still not over it. It's good, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:18:23 What's so good about it is the instrument lends itself to the piece of music so well, but also he's doing all that stuff on his own. Feet going, hands going at the same time. All of the bass notes are all on the feet. So, well done, man. And you're a recent pianist, so to speak. Yeah. And so you must appreciate how good that is.
Starting point is 00:18:38 I appreciate it. More than I ever would ever. Mate, I appreciate it. Show, no, what is it? Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email address. You're not making a jingle, mate. We've built up some good emails over the Christmas period while Pete was away.
Starting point is 00:18:54 And so there are a good few to get through. So let's start with one from Alex. Alex has got in touch to say, Hello, chaps. Sending this email from sunny Miami over the Christmas period on a recent episode Pete asked if any UK gladiators
Starting point is 00:19:09 had gone over to the wrestling business got a few emails about this and a personal friend messaged me as well oh very nice not a gladiator
Starting point is 00:19:16 from the original series but Oblivion from the Sky One reboot became a wrestler for both Impact Wrestling and is now NWA champion good level
Starting point is 00:19:24 love the show Alex I think NWA is the NWA champion. Good level. Love the show, Alex. I think NWA is the oldest wrestling business. I think that might be the case. It's the one that Billy Corgan bought. It confused me because I didn't know what it was. And the only thing I know about NWA is coming straight out of Campton. Well, they may have done a show in Campton. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:38 I just don't know. Yes, it is. That's the email address. Hello to, what have we got here? Cobra's wife had a women's hairdresser salon in Belvedere, southeast London. On many occasions, my mum would be having her hair done only to see Cobra in there having his highlights done
Starting point is 00:19:55 whilst fully decked out in Lycra. He is also extremely confident, often helped by alcohol. You just have grabbed everyone. When using the zebra crossing outside the salon and didn't want to didn't wait to check that the cars
Starting point is 00:20:08 planned on stopping for him before he started crossing which led to a few near misses Ian Wilson a man who is enjoying life
Starting point is 00:20:16 it sounds like it why not with his memories of gladiators boozy gladiators stopping traffic I've got a gladiator story here
Starting point is 00:20:22 where literally none of the protagonists can be named. Oh. But I'm going to read it anyway and I'm going to be very careful
Starting point is 00:20:28 not to name anyone. And it's from Dave. Okay, Dave. That sounds made up but it is actually from Dave. Alright chaps, listening to your recent
Starting point is 00:20:36 gladiator chat reminded me that when I was a young pup my dad came home from work with signed pictures of the gladiators one and two. I'm not naming them obviously. A big score when you're eight years old while back over christmas i brought this up during
Starting point is 00:20:50 a loving conversation and my father seemed to remember obtaining the autographs quite well now you might be asking what line of work my dad was in to receive such bounty and this is where the tale takes a slightly sinister twist at the time my old man was working in the drug squad for merseyside Police. According to him, there was an ongoing issue with a nightclub on the outskirts of Liverpool
Starting point is 00:21:09 selling copious amounts of narcotics and so it was raided. This particular night, one was on the premises, reportedly in the company of several men who were in possession
Starting point is 00:21:17 of a large amount of cocaine, steroids and cash. The group of men, including gladiator number one, were all arrested and taken to Coppy Lane Station.
Starting point is 00:21:26 My dad, who is an avid Liverpool fan, said he remembers this clearly, as he also arrested another Liverpool player that I can't name that night. He's part of the group. I have to say, the thought of one and two fighting it out with pugil sticks brought a smile to my face. Anyway, they were all released without charge
Starting point is 00:21:42 and off they went. Several of their companions were not so lucky. Yeah, I don't know. Several of their companions were not so lucky well I'm saying Rush yeah I don't know several of their companions were not so lucky and were actually sent down for their troubles the next night
Starting point is 00:21:50 my dad arrived back at work and was told that gladiator number one had come back to the station the next day acting very sheepishly and apologising for any inconvenience he may have caused
Starting point is 00:21:58 he apparently wanted to confirm that as far as he was concerned the matter was closed but more importantly to him the arrest would remain confidential. In a bold attempt to sweeten the deal, he brought along a pile of signed photos of himself to hand out to the drug squad
Starting point is 00:22:12 and any other police officers who were fans. He obviously realised this might not be the suite that everyone wanted, so he also brought in a stack of signed... Steroids. Nandrolone. A signed pile of photos from another perhaps more attractive
Starting point is 00:22:26 gladiator as well not quite sure what I was using his name then I was quite right at the end not quite sure what he was doing
Starting point is 00:22:33 with a boot full of other photos but fair play to him for recognising his audience I'll be very surprised if this got read out but I hope it at least raises a smile
Starting point is 00:22:40 we could still want a Jet's bras if you want where's that come from I'm just saying he's making a plea bargain. Don't name any of them in conjunction to this. I'm not saying Jet was involved. Was Jet involved?
Starting point is 00:22:50 Speaking of Jet, has she come out massively as Brexit? Oh, I don't know. Is it her? She's from Middlesbrough. Come on. Come on. You know that part of the world better than me, mate.
Starting point is 00:22:59 Mate, you ain't going to buy a new transporter bridge without some EU money. So they were talking about, oh, I was really enjoying the Hartlepool Facebook pages over Christmas. I kept on putting stupid pictures on them because I'm dead inside. And there was a woman who was going on about
Starting point is 00:23:16 there needs to be, between Middlesbrough and somewhere else, there needs to be a hovercraft service. And I was thinking, they're not going to do that. They're just not going to do that. There's a hovercraft service and I was thinking they're not going to do that they're just not going to do that there's a there's a hovercraft museum in Gosport
Starting point is 00:23:29 oh right yeah so you've got two hovercrafts big licks for no because the hovercraft goes from Portsmouth right
Starting point is 00:23:35 so the other side of the harbour but I think when they're taking that commission they come to Gosport and there's a hovercraft museum
Starting point is 00:23:41 it's only open a couple days a week how many could they possibly have my dad loves it it's got about five in there. Really? Yeah, different types.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Yeah, different types. Yeah. Those ones you see in the Everglades or in the Bayou. Those, no, no, no, no, big ones. Yeah. You know that those kind of local Facebook groups for different areas are really fascinating. So the one where I live in London is quite an interesting place to get local
Starting point is 00:24:07 information. There was a horrendous crime up the end of my road on New Year's Eve. Cool. So it was good to get information from
Starting point is 00:24:14 on that to find out what was happening and whether we could actually live peacefully again. And other bits and pieces because it's quite a dynamic area
Starting point is 00:24:22 where stuff, new shops open up and other things happen. Not dynamic necessarily in a good area where stuff new shops open up and other things happen not dynamic necessarily in a good way but there's always things going on is what I'm trying to say the one
Starting point is 00:24:29 where I'm from Gosport is basically just people reminiscing about the war and things aren't there anymore same here same in Hartlepool
Starting point is 00:24:36 because obviously we come from two big ship building towns you'd presume and we were bombed heavily in the war I don't know about yeah Gosport was
Starting point is 00:24:43 yeah so there's a lot of there aren't that many buildings standing from the war. I don't know about... Yeah, Gosport was, yeah. So there's a lot of... There aren't that many buildings standing from the war in Hartlepool because, you know, it was just absolutely ravaged. Some of the streets in Gosport, Pete, if it's on a hill, you stand at the top of the hill, look down the road, and you can see exactly where the bombs have hit because there's different type houses built in their place.
Starting point is 00:25:00 Right, okay. So you can actually chart the map of where the bombs went. There's one mosque in Hartlepool which is what people do on the Facebook group every day just a lot of poppy, a roundabout remembrance there it is poppy heaven on the Hartlepool pages this isn't two sniffy middle class men
Starting point is 00:25:16 who now live in London laughing at their hometown but we have to hear about these people I'm very proud of where I'm from I'm just noting the differences but there's a lot of people in my life who have that mentality have to hear about these people. I'm very proud of where I'm from. I'm just noting the differences. There's a lot of people in my life who have that mentality, who they're just obsessed with the war and they can't let it go.
Starting point is 00:25:32 Even though none of them fought in it. Farhan Ali on the Hartlepool page. How many of you know everyone from the Nazir Mosque in Hartlepool? We've got one mosque. It was recently mentioned in the Brexit party. It've got one mosque. Right. It was recently mentioned in the, is it the Brexit Party?
Starting point is 00:25:46 Yeah, the Brexit Party had a bit of a stronghold. That Thais chap wanted to get the seat at Hartlepool. I think it remained Labour though. I went back to Labour anyway.
Starting point is 00:25:56 And they interviewed on Hidden Camera, I think Channel 4 Dispatches maybe did it. They interviewed a man who said he'd buried a pig's head out in the cement
Starting point is 00:26:07 at the mosque was he lying just trying to show off or he's just a bit of a dick a local dickhead but yeah
Starting point is 00:26:14 so we've got one mosque and it's that one to do the members of Nazir Mosque at Hartlepool celebrate New Year with special prayers in the morning
Starting point is 00:26:21 and then did litter picking in Hartlepool we hope and pray this year brings peace, happiness and joy for everyone. Beautiful. A lot of people have got the church, got the mosque outside with litter bags and stuff like that. 180 comments.
Starting point is 00:26:36 I was like, I'm not even going to click on that. I did. Everyone was very lovely about it apart from one man who was very angry he wasn't invited. Oh really? Why am I involved? He was so angry. He was like, why didn't you tell me? Why didn't I get an invite to the mosque?
Starting point is 00:26:51 And why didn't I get an invite to doing the litter picking? That's amazing. Well, I mean, he's not a Muslim, so, I mean, you'd hear about it if you went to the mosque. A classic of the genre is that amazing, remember the EDL, are they still a thing? English Defence League? Yeah, probably. Aren't they all the young, proud boys or the young boys or something? Yeah, anyway, they posted a
Starting point is 00:27:13 photo on one of their groups and the little album was called St George March for England. Someone posted a picture on it and the comments on this, a load of comments underneath, but I'll read a couple of the highlights.
Starting point is 00:27:27 Would look lovely in Saudi Arabia. Where is this? This is on one of the main roads down the front in Brighton. So that mosque is in Britain. Jesus Christ, the size on it. And that's not even half of it. Turned out to be Brighton Pavilion.
Starting point is 00:27:42 It's just got a lot of turrets in it. They thought it was a super mosque they're marching marching against it super mosque that's who you're dealing with fantastic yeah
Starting point is 00:27:50 on that note on that I was going to say bombshell then maybe I can still say that on that bombshell Luke that's our half hour up that's our half hour up
Starting point is 00:27:58 we're off to pick some litter yeah let's do that let's pick some let's be nice to our community I've actually you just reminded me I've got to have a word with Lars Sivitson
Starting point is 00:28:05 for leaving the dirty coffee cup in the studio last week. Dirty Lars Sivitson. Dirty boy. Do we know anyone at Watford Football Club? Luke, there is a hotel here in Japan that took me out for a meal with the mayor in a really...
Starting point is 00:28:19 Where's this come from? Before we're finishing the show. Because I was on Facebook and he messaged me. Remember I went on Japanese and he messaged me. Remember I went on Japanese radio a little while, like a long time ago, in a remote location in North Japan.
Starting point is 00:28:35 Well, the hotelier who owned the hotel took me out for a meal that actually had the mayor involved as well. So we had a lovely meal. He paid for it all, the hotelier, the manager. And now he's in London in a few weeks time and he wants to go and watch
Starting point is 00:28:47 Watford vs Liverpool and he can't get tickets and so I'm like I only know how to buy tickets for Newcastle I don't know how to they're all sold out
Starting point is 00:28:56 what do I do? I'll make a couple of enquiries let him down gently we've got Troy Deeney's number let him down gently I'll make a couple of enquiries
Starting point is 00:29:04 it's hard isn't it being nice I speak to Doggy him down gently. I'll make a couple of inquiries. It's hard, isn't it, being nice? I speak to Doggy. Who's Doggy? He's a friend of mine. He's well connected. Is he? Yeah, I'll let you know.
Starting point is 00:29:12 Diggy Fresh. See you on Thursday, everyone. Bye. This was a Stakhanov production.

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