The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.89: Gateshead Garden Festival

Episode Date: January 20, 2020

Hello and a very warm welcome to today's episode of The Luke and Pete Show, thanks for joining us! This episode we learn of someone with a fart machine at a live snooker event, and it can't have been ...Pete because he spent the weekend in Seville. His alibi is watertight. Elsewhere, there's chat about what you should and shouldn't stick in the dishwasher, the 1992 World's Fair, and of course all the things you've found in your respective attics. Believe us when we say, there's some absolutely belting stuff up there.To get in touch, hit us up here: 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 All right, Doughnut Dunkers, it's Pete Donaldson and Luke Merle on the Luke and Pete Show, and we're back for another Monday episode. A dose, if you will. The weekend is over, and we're back to fill your ears with nonsense, non-secretorsaries and badly planned content. Allow Pete Donaldson to give you a dose.
Starting point is 00:00:31 Yes, exactly. No penicillin can defeat. Do we still use penicillin? Surely. Why can't penicillin come back? Because we keep complaining about the antibiotics. But guys, we need an alternative. Is that the umbrella term, penicillin?
Starting point is 00:00:46 For what? I think there's different other types of it, aren't there? Yeah. Amoxicillin. I don't remember the last time I saw some medication at a friend's house or an elderly relative's and saw the words penicillin on the screen. Is it a cellin, though?
Starting point is 00:00:58 Is it just kind of different derivatives of cellin? I think so, yeah. That's how it works. How's your weekend been, Peter? Been good. I've been in Seville, baby. Oh, yeah? Tell us about that.
Starting point is 00:01:07 I recommend that for a little city break. It was magnificent. The food was fantastic. The buildings were amazing. They had fountains and plazas and oranges growing from every tree. Every tree? Every tree had an orange in it, and I was eating them liberally. I was like,
Starting point is 00:01:27 why is nobody eating these oranges? And I found out it's because they're quite bitter, but still not uneatable. What's the general rule? The general rule is that... Is it enough for everyone? If you just walk around, you can just pick them.
Starting point is 00:01:39 I'm certain that's not the case, but I did. When we were in Menorca, I took a couple of lemons from the lemon tree in the garden and brought them home. Did you make lemon marmalade? Did you make lemon curd?
Starting point is 00:01:49 No, Mimi made an amazing, yeah, like a lemon bread. Right, okay. With those lemons. But I didn't know if I was allowed to take them or not, but I didn't take them off at the airport or anything. Yeah, they're quite careful about importing veg, aren't they? Just in case it disrupts the fine
Starting point is 00:02:07 ecosystem. At JFK airport, there's a woman whose job it is to just grind up food. What a job. I was watching an airport show in Seville, and a man had these frozen marinating chicken.
Starting point is 00:02:25 He wasn't even in a fridge or anything. It was just a man importing barbecue meats. And he's like, it's for a barbecue. And I'm like, I'm sorry, we have to take this off you. You mad bastard. They're really hot in Australia and New Zealand, aren't they? Yeah, because they have a very delicate ecosystem. But I would argue that I imagine the fire is sort of seeing off a lot of that.
Starting point is 00:02:43 And I would argue you are not an expert in that field well who is not me certainly not the heads of state no
Starting point is 00:02:51 now you're getting into political satire again what was the indie bar like in Seville fun club was it it was
Starting point is 00:02:59 no it was just a bar really it was nice though where was it on the snob scale not as good a snob not spacious there was I mean it wasn't really an indie bar it was just a bar, really. It was nice, though. Where was it on the snob scale? It's not as good a snob. Not spacious. I mean, it wasn't really an indie bar.
Starting point is 00:03:08 It was just a bar where it played sort of alright music. The Killers, The Man, was played every night, which I'm not sure you're familiar with. Wait, you went to the same bar every night? No, but you asked what the... The Indiest Bar was a bar. It had on the walls pictures of Nirvana. And they were dressed in suits.
Starting point is 00:03:31 And they looked like they were in a funeral or awake. And I was like, I've never seen that picture of Kurt Cobain. And then I realized there was a picture of Little Richard in one of the plazas in Portugal. And I realized that it was just photo shops of famous musicians in one of the plazas in Portugal and I realised that it was just photoshops of like famous musicians in,
Starting point is 00:03:48 not Portugal, in Seville rather and they'd just done them themselves. But there is a famous picture of Nirvana dressed in black shirt and tie.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Right, okay. So maybe something to do with that perhaps. So yeah, no, it was really good. A lovely time as had?
Starting point is 00:03:59 It was so good. Who did you fly with? British Airways. And what was their safety demonstration like? I wasn't. I was watching that NFL Netflix documentary about Aaron. Aaron Hernandez.
Starting point is 00:04:10 Aaron Hernandez. I'm two episodes into that, yeah. What a story. Amazing story. Why have I never heard of this story? It's insane. It's like Joey Barton having a sideline in Moida. You know when I tell stories in the office,
Starting point is 00:04:22 and after a couple of minutes, everyone just switches off, but I carry on. I think i might have told that before but people just weren't listening which is fine it's absolutely fair enough but i think that's what a story it's amazing um the world's fair in 1992 in seville by the way oh what did i have that they had the um scene they had a world's fair um showcasing the very best that seville had to offer in 1992 and i kept seeing these stickers and promotional radios and stuff in the vintage shops. Seville 92, Seville 92, Seville 92.
Starting point is 00:04:51 They offered Chicago as a possible kind of sister thing. But it was all celebrating the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus leaving Seville. Oh, okay. And obviously discovering the Americas. But they, yeah, and they had this big World Fair, this big showcase. And ever since 1992, it's been left to go to shit.
Starting point is 00:05:12 And it is wonderful. I love nature taking over these big kind of like, these big kind of like displays. They've got these big like worlds and constructions. And then there's like a space rocket that's just gone to shit. It's brilliant. There's a lot of abandoned Olympic sites,
Starting point is 00:05:29 aren't there? Yes. I love walking. I'd love to walk around. Could you walk around the one in Seville? No. There was a man
Starting point is 00:05:34 who stopped us. Oh, really? We tried to get in but a man stopped us. But I love anything like that. I love that kind of abandon. I think that's why a lot of music videos,
Starting point is 00:05:43 a lot of people are obsessed with the area around Pri it's a pripyat near chernobyl the um the big the famous fairground um yeah stunning stunning stunning site there's a great book i think i've talked about before eric larson devil in the white city about a serial killer who was operating at the same time as the World's Fair in Chicago in the late 19th century. In my mind, the European ones, they used to call them expos. Yes.
Starting point is 00:06:12 Is it called an expo? Is that the same thing, though? It's just a different name for it? Yeah, I think so. It's just a different World's Fair thing, yeah. Okay. Interesting. Because we had, I think we talked about this on the show before,
Starting point is 00:06:20 we had the Garden Festival in the North East. And Gateshead, that was a big deal when I was a kid. We had the Garden Festival in the North East. And Gateshead, that was a big deal when I was a kid. We had the Garden Festival. Then I think we went to Liverpool and also went to a place in North Wales as well. Was the Gateshead Garden Festival better than the Seville Expo, do you think? Hard to say, but it was certainly,
Starting point is 00:06:38 they'd sort of taken over. Did they have to do the same approach to air conditioning because of the hot weather? Very, very doubtful. I remember having a great day out at the garden festivals. It was a beautiful celebration of all things Northeastern gardening. Is that the one where you sat on the elephant? No, that was just a dirty old circus.
Starting point is 00:06:55 Dirty old circus. Dirty old circus. Listen, Pete, while you're away, an amazing news. We've got a new, by the way, we've got a new mic going on here today. And I can't hear if I'm on the mic or not so if I go off the mic to those listening I apologise
Starting point is 00:07:08 you should be able to hear whether you're on the mic I can hear if I'm on the mic I'm not on the mic now now I'm on the mic your mic skills are better than mine and while you're away Peter there was a big story
Starting point is 00:07:17 in the snooker right which of course it was the world masters snooker which is a big event I think it's considered one of the big three events
Starting point is 00:07:24 along with the UK Open and the World Championships. And in the, I believe it was the semi-final between Stuart Bingham and someone else, there was an issue
Starting point is 00:07:35 with a crowd member, an audience member, who had brought a whoopee cushion in. Had he brought a whoopee cushion? And it will have been a he. Yeah. First of all, have been a he. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:07:45 First of all, 100% a he. Second of all, listen to make up your own mind. Here we go. There must be a problem at the minute in the auditorium. If they spot him, he'll have to go. I think it might be someone with a whoopee cushion. Can you believe it that's all we need
Starting point is 00:08:08 but if they find him he's gone he's gone yeah someone's planted it somewhere just come and shed your own bread
Starting point is 00:08:17 so to put it in perspective though the commentators I never want to hang out with those commentators they're not enjoying it miserable the players are gutted the players are fuming but the crowd are absolutely loving it To put it in perspective though, the... Commentators. I never want to hang out with those commentators.
Starting point is 00:08:25 They're not enjoying it. Miserable. The players are gutted. Miserable. The players are fuming, but the crowd are absolutely loving it. Yeah, for us they are. So,
Starting point is 00:08:31 Eurosport, and this is one of the most important stories of the year so far, so I make no apology for doing a deep dive on this. That was the BBC's coverage. Right. Eurosport have gone for
Starting point is 00:08:40 the fart machine angle. They don't think it's a whoopee cushion. Of course it's not a whoopee cushion. It's clearly a fart machine that can be set off remotely. Let me know what you make of this. That's a big one. That's a good one.
Starting point is 00:08:57 So, someone tried to derail the Masters, which by the way, as you know, I'm a big Snooker fan. I'm going to go to the Worlds again this year.
Starting point is 00:09:04 I don't endorse it but I understand I'm not po-faced enough to say that it's not funny it's good it was a great gag because it's
Starting point is 00:09:12 so tense and quiet and it's it's really hard to figure out who it is and he's not doing it when the guy's playing his shot
Starting point is 00:09:18 he's doing it afterwards yeah which I think he's kind of making a concession to the fact that he does love snooker but he wants to have a laugh as well.
Starting point is 00:09:26 Because if you did it just so the guy pulled the cube back, that would be poor form, right? It would be very hard to figure out who it was because obviously it'll be an RF, remotely controlled unit, I imagine. I imagine it's not line of sight because that would be too obvious. Talk to me about the tech.
Starting point is 00:09:38 How would it work? Bluetooth? No, I don't think it'll be Bluetooth. It's way too puerile to put Bluetooth technology in there. RF, so you just mean like a remote-controlled car? Yeah, so it'll be like a radio-controlled fart machine. So the fart machine will be hidden somewhere. I mean, it's worrying that you can hide anything in such a public event. And you can do it from the confines of your pocket.
Starting point is 00:10:00 So you just need to see everyone's hands, what they're up to. I've seen people... Everyone put their hands up. Yeah. I've seen people removed from the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield for the World Snooker
Starting point is 00:10:09 yeah purely for crisp reasons yeah bag of crisp reasons they are zero tolerance like you wouldn't believe people who cannot handle
Starting point is 00:10:18 a crisp packet I'm quite good at quietly doing stuff I was in the Airbnb all the weekend I know you are. And people, all of my friends just walk down the stairs like this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:31 I'm like a ninja. Even with my heaviest, loudest, cloggiest shoes. I've got a theory about that. Arrogance. Arrogance. People who slam doors. Arrogance. I have this conversation with my wife very regularly.
Starting point is 00:10:40 people who slam doors arrogant I have this conversation with my wife very regularly and I think that even almost sometimes subconsciously when you live in London
Starting point is 00:10:50 in a flat you learn to walk on the balls of your feet quietly but if you've never had a history of living in that kind of environment you don't
Starting point is 00:10:57 so I think Mimi stomps around right she's tiny I know but we've got people living below us so I say you need to
Starting point is 00:11:04 bear it in mind because sometimes we're on a WhatsApp group with downstairs neighbors we're quite good friends with them but they will say oh look
Starting point is 00:11:09 the baby's asleep kind of thing and I say it's you people say it's me but it's not it's definitely you because I've lived
Starting point is 00:11:15 in a flat for so long I know that you can't stomp around like that she's from like a townhouse she used to be in America
Starting point is 00:11:21 where everyone's got space and there's not anyone around for another 50 metres so I think it's probably something to do with that so do your friends not have a history of living in flats It used to be in America where everyone's got space and there's not anyone around for another 50 metres. So I think it's probably something to do with that. So do your friends not have a history of living in flats? Yeah, I guess they have got their own houses.
Starting point is 00:11:35 My mum lives in a high-rise that's all cement, so maybe. Maybe. Maybe they're just twats. How was the Airbnb discipline this time around? It was good. I smashed a glass and put washing liquid in the dishwasher which created
Starting point is 00:11:51 many suds. A problematic amount of suds. They didn't look well. If I hadn't sorted it out and neutralised the ridiculous amount of suds that was piling out of the dishwasher with some window washing fluid, which obviously is...
Starting point is 00:12:07 Well, it seemed a little vinegary. It smelled a bit vinegary, so that's going to calm down the alkali in it. So chucked that in, calmed it down. Lovely old job. Little science experiment. Yeah, I'd made a real mess. Anyone with a dishwasher will say, never do that. I've not had a dishwasher for ages.
Starting point is 00:12:24 I can remember when I was traveling with my friends and a few of them, their feet started to stink after a while. We complained about it. So they, obviously because they've been wearing trainers with no socks. Right. So they said, oh, look, we'll clean our trainers. And they didn't want to push them through the washing machine because I think it can muck up around with the stitching.
Starting point is 00:12:40 So they got some washing up liquid and cleaned them. It was fine. It worked. And then like about a week later, it starts getting foamy. And we started, it started to rain and they all foamed up. Like it was,
Starting point is 00:12:51 it was mad. It looked like they had some kind of massive feet condition. So it can happen. Can happen baby. It can happen. All right, Peter, should we have a little break?
Starting point is 00:12:59 And when we come back from the break, I think for the first time ever, we're going to start marking some of your homework. With the right equipment, you can make your own sausage at home. I'm too scared, I told you. You ever made your own sausage? Too scared to. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:13:15 I told you, we talked about this before. I'm worried about getting into the sleeve, into the sheath. Fun love making. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email address for your generic emails and of course your homework now on thursday we set you the task of spending the weekend or at least a portion of the weekend heading up into the attic and telling us the most uh interesting thing you could find so without further ado, I am going to start with Rory,
Starting point is 00:13:47 who said, hi guys, I recently moved into my loft. You'll like this one, Pete. However, when I look into my mum's loft, so what he's basically saying is, he can't look into his attic
Starting point is 00:13:59 because he's converted his attic into a place he now lives. Can we rule out the possibility of a second attic above the attic? I think we can rule that out. Right. He'd probably know about that, wouldn't he? He would. He's looked into his mum's attic instead and said,
Starting point is 00:14:14 because I visited her this weekend, and I found something that might twig Mr. Donaldson's interest. Oh. I found one of the very first laptops, a Sinclair ZX88. What? That can basically be described as a keyboard with calculator screen that runs along the top of the keys. When I continued to look, however,
Starting point is 00:14:34 I could not find a power lead. I asked my mum about the lead. She informed me that my late dad had lost it and they just kept hold of it in the hope they could either sell it or find the lead. This has cemented my opinion that my mother is a class a hoarder love the show steady rory my mother is a class a hoarder love the show
Starting point is 00:14:54 rory pete um any thoughts on the zx88 sinclair is it a spectrum early spectrum yeah i mean i don't think it is a sinclair uh zx88 I think you might be talking about a Cambridge Z88, which is a, it's a similar Z80-based computer with a tiny calculator screen. I don't think Sinclair were involved. I might be wrong. I think it evolved from
Starting point is 00:15:17 Clive Sinclair's system. But yeah, that's what I'm basing my very limited knowledge about that kind of sphere I was an Amstrad man so there were very few crossovers there but the Z80
Starting point is 00:15:29 obviously a very very popular processor at the time and when you sit at the Homework for Thursday's show across the weekend you'll be able to take
Starting point is 00:15:37 it down your own avenue this week but when I did it I didn't think of how much this would be up your street right what basically is happening is people are finding
Starting point is 00:15:44 old tech and cables up in their attic because was him has been in touch another one that will pique your interest peter he says hi chaps went rummaging through my attic not much in there apart from the usual boxes of vhs tapes spare mattresses and old suitcases but i did however come across a box of cables with one in particular that pete may enjoy it's's a USB 2.0 on one end and a 3.5mm audio jack on the other. Can't for the life of me figure out what it would be for. Maybe you can shed some light on it, Pete. I've taken a look. Okay.
Starting point is 00:16:14 See, it attached the photo very helpfully. I think it is for a digital camera to provide some kind of video out that could possibly end up at a thing
Starting point is 00:16:29 at a laptop or something or could just be a charging cable you can send power down anything
Starting point is 00:16:34 these days obviously this is very old three and a half jack mini jack it's got a mini jack right
Starting point is 00:16:40 you could send power down that could you you can send anything down anything yeah correct you can send
Starting point is 00:16:44 video down you can send video down ethernet mate that anything down anything yeah correct you can send video down you can send video down ethernet mate that's how wild that is so yeah hopefully that
Starting point is 00:16:50 solves your problem Wazeem this is a very good one from Tom from Manchester who says the attic in my house is
Starting point is 00:16:58 my room and thus is full of loads of tat but last year I went to the weird and wonderful festival Boomtown Fair what's the Boomtown Fair.
Starting point is 00:17:05 What's the Boomtown Fair? I don't know. I didn't look it up, but it sounds, apparently, it seems very weird. And he says, it wasn't until I was back home
Starting point is 00:17:13 unpacking my bag that I found an odd-weathered letter titled Yoga Instructor. And the letter reads, Dear friend, I can see you reading these words. I know you. Do you know me?
Starting point is 00:17:23 I doubt it. If you know me, you would be running. I know you. Do you know me? I doubt it. If you know me, you would be running. I am watching you right now. This is no laughing matter. I need you to do something for me. If you do this, you will escape unharmed. Kneel down. Get on your knees. Shout at the sky these words. Oh, beloved turnip, I love you like the flowers love the sun. Come back to me, old turnip. I love turnips. There. That wasn't hard, was it? You are safe for now.
Starting point is 00:17:49 I am always watching, Mr. Turnip. Yeah, I've looked at the festival lineup, and that kind of letter probably would be found more often than not. Just wacky cunts, is it? Yeah. It's a little bit steampunk for me, Stephen. For those listening, they should understand that whenever I see anything to do with either Only Fools and Horses or steampunk, I always take a photo,
Starting point is 00:18:12 or if I can take a copy of it, do that, and always share it with Peter. Don't I? Yeah, you should send it to Tom in Manchester. It sounds like right up his street. Tom, are you a steampunk? Are you a steampunk man? How many cogs have you got in your life?
Starting point is 00:18:23 Is the entrance to your attic bedroom got a lot of cogs in it? The hinges are just cogs. Be honest. Do a cog check. Is it a big cog? And let us know. Is your house coggy? Coggy registered?
Starting point is 00:18:38 I'm in charge of the homework this week, of course, so I'm happy to continue. But did you do any homework in yourself? Because I can, I can read something here from, um, Matt in Edinburgh. Well,
Starting point is 00:18:49 I don't have a loft, so I can't really, as I said, I'd have to break into the, um, flat above me. I found, don't do that.
Starting point is 00:18:55 Not again. I found a amazing, um, wrapped in newspaper. Yeah. Huge print of, um, what I believe they call
Starting point is 00:19:05 the Green Man. Do you know that? What's the Green Man? What do you mean? It's like a spirit, like a nature spirit. Right. It's found
Starting point is 00:19:15 all sorts of architecture. It looks like that. Oh, yeah. I've seen one of them before. I found a big, for some reason, a massive print of that wrapped in newspaper in my attic,
Starting point is 00:19:25 presumably from the people who lived there before me. Why would they leave that behind? Don't know. Big picture of a green face. Here's a bit of homework that's sent just six hours ago. So you've probably...
Starting point is 00:19:36 Hot off the press! Good-ish morning. Firstly, I love the podcast. I will admit it was a slow burner for me. All right. Dig. I live full-time in Asia, being purposely vague here. It's weirdly a little slice of home that you look at Pete Shost.
Starting point is 00:19:52 There you go. Fines in loft. I was planning a very 40-year-old man activity this past weekend, namely clearing the loft as the wife and kids were away. Your request for fines last week inspired me to actually do it. My aim is to bring down some old clothes and suitcases to take to the charity shop.
Starting point is 00:20:08 Rock and roll lifestyle I'm currently living. Once all of this was down, I sifted through all the pockets and compartments of random items in preparation for cleaning them. This is what I found. They were what can only be described
Starting point is 00:20:19 as three disco biscuits from a little while ago. Initially, I was very relieved that this was not going to be sent to the old days at Scope and put them into the bin. Then I got bored. With a clear Saturday until Sunday evening ahead of me, I thought, stuff it, I'm going to take one, and then another,
Starting point is 00:20:33 and then a bit later, the last one. I think I watched some football on Saturday. I certainly played a lot of mid-late 90s dance music that evening, according to my Spotify account. Sunday was awful. McDonald's breakfast, two pizzas at lunchtime, one saved for my tea.
Starting point is 00:20:48 A lot of time on the sofa. A low day. Anyway, what I found on my loft was feelings of self-doubt, some existential crisis and a bit of loathing. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:20:56 I blame you. Yeah, I mean, that's the thing about the attics. You go up there and you think you're just going to find some old bits of tat and you might find some drugs. You find an existential crisis.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Can happen. Why don't you have a little drug box? Anonymous men. Yeah, find some drugs. You find an existential crisis. Can happen. Why don't you have a little drug box? Anonymous men. Yeah, you should do. A woman. Could be a woman. It's a man.
Starting point is 00:21:11 Could be a woman. I remember someone I know who I also won't name stealing the box that they put the confiscated drugs in at a nightclub once and just leaving with it.
Starting point is 00:21:25 Okay. And it was like a little round suitcase. Yeah. No, it was old fashioned. Like a hat box. Yeah, like a hat box full of different drugs,
Starting point is 00:21:33 but it was every type of drugs. It was like contraceptive pill, paracetamol. Oh, that is not as interesting. Disco biscuits, weed,
Starting point is 00:21:41 all sorts in this box. Nice. My friend stole it. They didn't even know. They didn't even know. They didn't even know. What they were doing is they were searching people. If they found the drugs,
Starting point is 00:21:52 they were obviously saying to the person you couldn't come in. And take the drugs. And put them in the box. I guess they had to keep them for the police or something. Right.
Starting point is 00:21:59 But obviously that didn't happen very often. It was probably one in every 50 people. So they weren't going to the box very often. And the box was just sat there. So my friend just took it. I was like, yeah, fair dues. No wouldn't go into the box very often and the box just sat there. So my friend just took it.
Starting point is 00:22:06 Yeah, fair dues. No one's using it. Ask me what he did with it next. He fed it all to a horse. He fed it all to a horse. No, he handed them all out on the night bus.
Starting point is 00:22:16 He handed them all out on the night bus. Correct. That, drugs are moody, grey market, grey area business. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:24 If you're taking drugs that a man gave to you from a suitcase a little hat box in a on a night bus yeah
Starting point is 00:22:31 you've only got yourself to blame yeah alright and I don't care what the Daily Mail says about it stop stop ruining the fun for everyone else because you're going to hurt yourself
Starting point is 00:22:40 if you're eating drugs from a night bus man eating them eating them eating the drugs from the night bus man yeah I'm just Eating them. Eating the drugs from the night bus man. I'm just saying, I'm just, I'm just,
Starting point is 00:22:46 look, all I am is a vehicle for the story. You get on the bus with your day server and you come off. Smoke a reefer in the corner. Smoke some reefer in the corner that a man's given you on the night bus. Yeah. Disgusting. Are people normally discerning with who they buy drugs from?
Starting point is 00:23:00 No, but I mean, yeah, but he's just handing them out. He's a man handing out drugs. Yeah. Like a mad, oh, that's on CCTV. out he's a man handing out drugs yeah like a mad oh that's on CCTV
Starting point is 00:23:06 first one's free isn't it that's how they get you that's how they get you let's have a look at a couple of regular emails but thank you very much
Starting point is 00:23:14 for everyone who contributed with their homework obviously Pete will be setting more homework for you on Thursday and who knows what he's going to set
Starting point is 00:23:24 could be anything he's quite to set. Could be anything. He's quite an imaginative chap. But if I know Pete well, he probably won't plan it in advance. He'll probably just come up with it. See how I go. See how he goes. All right, what about this from Matt Littlestone,
Starting point is 00:23:36 who says, Hi guys, in the last episode, during the discussion on the mousetrap, of course, the Agatha Christie story, now a play in the West End. Luke was under the impression that the mousetrap rotated its ending in order to keep the audience unaware
Starting point is 00:23:49 of who the murderer might be and thus increase the show's longevity. I wasn't under the impression of that. I just inquired if that was the case. I didn't know because I've only seen it once. But Matt says, as far as I'm aware, this is incorrect, but I have a suspicion that Luke may be thinking
Starting point is 00:24:05 of The Mystery of Edwin Drood, the musical based on the unfinished work of Charles Dickens. This show, which had a West End run in 1987, allowed the audience to choose the ending and in particular, the murderer of Edwin Drood. I have a vague memory of going to see the show myself. I don't think it was very good as it didn't last long. Unlike The Mousetrap, which I have not yet seen. and love matt littleston so there we go um it's not a uh a rotating whodunit
Starting point is 00:24:31 and also on that um note uh from christoph christoph has emailed him and he says hi guys a long time listener using um off-brand jade and tag batteries jade and tag i haven't heard of them before on the topic of fictional works with different endings that luke brought up in the recent knives out discussion i'm afraid to say that's not a novel idea ayn rand yes i know already did it in a 1934 play night of january the 16th allowing the audience to act as the jury and determining the defendant as guilty or innocent and a more recent example of a similar approach is 2016's movie The Verdict, based on a play that deals with the ethics
Starting point is 00:25:08 of preventing a potential terrorist attack by shooting down a captured plane. If you haven't seen it, go and seek it out. It's exceptional. My personal favourite, though, has to be 1985's Clue, as it sits firmly on the throne at the intersection of camp, board game-based movie, a movie with several different endings.
Starting point is 00:25:25 It's great fun. Greetings from a German train. Keep up the good work and all the best, Christoph. Fun! I hope Christoph's Jaden Tag battery has got him through that train journey alright. Speaking of Knives Out, I actually went to see another film this weekend.
Starting point is 00:25:38 I went to go see 1917. Okay, yes, good. I thought it was bloody good. Apparently, they had a real problem with filming because the vicar from Fleabag could not light a ...
Starting point is 00:25:52 Oh, Andrew. Could not... Andrew Scott, is it? Andrew Scott. He'd fuck up the light a bit every time. At some point during the thing, obviously,
Starting point is 00:25:58 it's all big chunks of filming. He's got a brilliant cameo in it. Yeah. Really good. Oh, so that's what you mean, because of
Starting point is 00:26:04 the way they shoot it yeah should i explain that for people who don't know it's basically made out like it's done all in one shot but of course there's moments when they cross over people
Starting point is 00:26:11 and yeah and it and it kind of tricks it but it does give it a really good impression of it's you almost get you know i think when you're watching films when the scenes change you go
Starting point is 00:26:21 from a chaotic scene to a quiet scene you kind of relax a little bit yeah this does a really good job of keeping you on edge all the time and yeah
Starting point is 00:26:28 Andrew Scott's in the trenches at a certain point and he's like I don't know what rank he is but he's a higher rank than the other guys
Starting point is 00:26:35 and he's talking about what to do and he does that he's a very kind of I know this is a pretty obvious thing to say but he's a very
Starting point is 00:26:44 kind of watchable person. Yeah. He brings a lot to every role he does. When he played, who's the baddie in Sherlock Holmes? Moriarty. He plays Moriarty, didn't he? And he was very,
Starting point is 00:26:54 he was very good at that. He'd be a good Bond villain, I think. I think some actors, yeah, he must be in the frame. If he's not already been in a Bond film, he'll be in the frame definitely. But yeah, I think some actors just bring so much presence to a role. he must be in the frame if he's not already been in a Bond film he'll be in the frame definitely but yeah I think some actors
Starting point is 00:27:06 just bring so much presence to a role and you just sort of think star you can't buy that star star absolutely star quality
Starting point is 00:27:13 1917 is centered around these two guys mostly but what it does is it brings in amazing big name cameos so Benedict Cumberbatch is in it
Starting point is 00:27:21 Andrew Scott's in it the kid who played Robb Stark in Game of Thrones is in it oh big cameo it the kid who played Robb Stark in Game of Thrones is in it oh big cameo he's a big actor I can't remember his
Starting point is 00:27:29 surname Richard someone and I thought he did a really good job of getting across the chaos of war because when you I find too often
Starting point is 00:27:39 I have no experience with the armed forces but when I watch a film about some kind of war or some kind of armed forces you think it's too obvious too clean everything seems to be like channel command everything's clean and i don't imagine war to be like that yeah whereas this film is very chaotic which i think is makes
Starting point is 00:27:53 it kind of more realistic yeah it's a brilliant movie now i'll definitely recommend it very very good cool five stars yeah 10 on 10 let's make love uh let's get out of here peter we're back on thursday where pete will be sending uh setting you homework i should say have a lovely week um yeah 10 on 10 let's make love let's get out of here Peter we're back on Thursday where Pete will be sending setting you homework I should say have a lovely week do leave us a review
Starting point is 00:28:10 and tell everyone about the show because it does make a great amount of difference hello at lukeandpete show.com to get in touch goodbye Peter
Starting point is 00:28:17 goodbye everyone This was a Stakhanov production.

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