The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.85: Digging up skulls
Episode Date: January 6, 2020It'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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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
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,
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,
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.
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.
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?
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
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
right
by reading out
some of our reviews
on iTunes
oh
do you want to start
2020 proper
yeah
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
G Holland says
thanks for the pod
deco22
ramblings and nonsense
love it
a podcast for me
cool
Mr Evans says
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,
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
what I've done
in real life
yeah
and I listened to you
actually over Christmas
very good
very enjoyable
very enjoyable
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.
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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
be successful in
be an asset
and I'm not
I'm not
kind of
downplaying
how important it is
I do love it
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
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
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
Broadway.
It's an Aaron
Sorkin adaptation of
To Kill a Mockingbird.
That's got to be
excellent book,
excellent film,
adapted by Aaron
Sorkin.
That is a recipe for
success.
And the Atticus
Finch is being
played by Rhys
Ephans.
I'm off the
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
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
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
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
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?
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,
pure Channel 4,
where they were
pushing boundaries.
I'm one of those
people who so like...
Claire Sweeney
was in it.
Oh, yeah.
Jimmy Corkill.
Do you remember
Jimmy Corkill?
Yeah, he was great.
What happened to him?
He had this dog,
Cracker.
Cracker.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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.
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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
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,
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
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
planned on stopping
for him before
he started crossing
which led to a few
near misses
Ian Wilson
a man who
is enjoying life
it sounds like it
why not
with his memories
of gladiators
boozy gladiators
stopping traffic
I've got a gladiator
story here
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
oh right yeah
so you've got two
hovercrafts
big licks for
no because the
hovercraft goes from
Portsmouth
right
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
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.
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
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
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
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
where I'm from
Gosport
is basically just people
reminiscing about the war
and things
aren't there anymore
same here
same in Hartlepool
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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...
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.
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
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
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
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.
Diggy Fresh.
See you on Thursday, everyone.
Bye. This was a Stakhanov production.