The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.93: Into The Valleys

Episode Date: February 3, 2020

It's Monday and it's time for a very special episode of The Luke and Pete Show! The Pete part of the equation is off gallivanting around Japan (don't worry - he sent us a voice message for the show), and so Luke is joined by one half of food podcast Set Meals, the esteemed Samuel Ashton Smith!Luke and Sam talk the perfect burger, the perfect type of beer and get into what it was like growing up in The Valleys of Wales. They also take the time to read through some of your emails before marking your homework as well (weird things in gardens etc), so stick around for that.To get involved, it's: [e-mail]***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and Pete show with me Luke Moore on Monday the 3rd of February. Bloody lovely to have you along, lapses as ever, the only way to start the week in my opinion. You're only hearing my voice for now because let me just get that theme out of the way yeah there we go um because um pete donelson our um erstwhile you know kind of little brother interesting dude you know what he's like you all know what he's like he's actually in japan at the moment and so what we thought we'd do as a little treat if it can be a treat to have a break from the donaldson uh which it might not be but we'll find out is we've

got a guest host instead he's from um another staccato of production called set meals which is the finest food show anywhere around it is mr sam smith hello how you doing sam i'm not pete donaldson you're not I'm not in Japan. No. I'm here. And many people have fallen into the trap of trying to be Pete Donaldson. Yeah.

You should not do that. He is a one-off. He is a renegade. He is a man unto himself, a law unto himself. He really is. So just be yourself. And I think what we'll do in a minute

is we'll talk a bit about set meals and you can tell us all about it and why people should stop sleeping on it. We can get them over to that channel. Is that why you're here? Yeah, find all of them in. Okay, great. But first, I thought what we'd do is get a little bit of an update on what Pete's been up to in Japan.

So give this a listen. Hello, the Luke and Pete show. Pete Donaldson here, reporting from the Snow Festival in Sapporo. I've just got here on a plane. There was about seven people on my plane, which is insane. And there's no one at the back of the plane, but the flight attendant still felt the need to do the safety demonstration to literally no one at the back, which I found very amusing.

I hurt myself in the shower. I turned funny. And now I've got a very painful side. If I had come on slowly, I would have assumed it was some kind of more serious kidney-based illness. But no, something went pop. And now I've given myself what can only be described as an old man injury. I'm in the middle of the kind of roads

where all of the ice sculptures are being put together. I'm not really sure whether they're taking them down or putting them up. But what is actually happening is that Chris Broad from Abroad in Japan has decided to take a hotel in what can only be described as, I'm going to say the adult entertainment district of Sapporo. So he'll be in trouble. the adult entertainment district of versaporo so it'd be in trouble so i'm in what can only be described as a capsule hotel away from all that jazz honest mum and uh yeah it's really good i'm in a little um capsule hotel and uh i'm in a little tube and it's very affordable uh but it's got like a sauna and showers and men just just lots of men hanging out in there.

Jim Jams. So yeah, that's a place for me. So I'll bid you adieu. My back really hurts. So I'm going to have a lie down. Bye. Have fun with Sam. Sam, have fun with Luke.

Pete Donaldson there at great pains to insist that he is not anywhere near the adult entertainment industry section. No, he's gone there. I have avoided it at all costs. Exactly. And if I am there, how come I'm not? I'm not, all right? Yeah, exactly.

You liar. Why aren't you sending in videos, Pete? That's what I'm saying. He has sent some videos, but I don't want to play them out. That is a shame. Sam, tell us a bit about Set Meals. Don't make it sound like an advert because people listening will be like, oh God, he's only on there to talk about Set Meals.

Set Meals is a premium food podcast. Food is a visual medium, I hear you say. Nah. Not always. Not always. It's funny, because it's a taste medium, really. So you'd think back in the day when TV first started, people might be thinking...

Smell-o-vision. Yeah, don't bother putting food shows on, because people can't smell or taste the food. But're really popular so why not a podcast as well uh yes facet meals is like a um a very it jumps around quite a lot i do it with my friend taylor forcer um we basically spend or spent our entire life whatsapping each other and asking about what we were eating and tay's an editor he shoots some stuff he's always on set eating really random often very bad food. That's where the idea came from.

And then it's just sort of like a collection of our eating exploits, I guess. Nice. And you've been around the world. You've been to Japan. You've been to the US. We went to South Korea and Japan last summer, which was very enjoyable. The planning that went into that trip was minimal, to say the least. We booked 15 days away and did, I think if you condensed everything we did into days,

we did like four days worth of stuff. The rest of the time we were just wandering around. Right, nice. Yeah. Talk to me about, I'll tell you what, this is because Pete, as you probably know, because you work with Pete closely like I do, he doesn't, you can't really get Pete excited about food. Even when you get him along to a decent restaurant, which have done in the past he just kind of frowns at the food

he does do a lot of that and what was it like Pete? ah it's alright yeah it's good it's decent yeah it's good

that's all he'll say Pete will do a thing as well when you go to dinner with Pete any restaurant it can be a fast food joint or a very nice restaurant like when

we were in the states recently when you start taking pictures of food on the table he'll like put his hand in the way and become like a little naughty boy

he doesn't like it he doesn't like to be involved in the sort of the idea of fetishising boy. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like to be involved in the sort of, the idea of fetishising food. Yeah, he doesn't like it. And yeah, so I can, every time I ask him about

that kind of thing, he doesn't want to be and talk about it. I'm pleased I've got a fellow food enthusiast here. I mean, you're a proper foodie, I'm not, but you... I do enjoy eating, yes.

Talk to me about your perfect burger. It flips around a little bit because I quite like a simple smash burger so like on the grill push down so it kind of like the patty gets spread out and you get all that crusty edges or whatever yeah cheese on there covered so it steams it a little bit melter cheese in like a potato roll like a spongy in the uk i don't do potato buns i don't do it at all i had a potato bun

at egg breaking notting hill at the weekend and i was like yes why are we not having these underrated hard to find over here it's better than the brioche isn't it 100 brioche went through a bit of a moment and i just feel like you get a lot of bad brioche yeah it breaks apart easily especially if you're carrying too heavy, too thick a patty, it doesn't like it. I like a little bit of burger sauce, however you're making that.

I'm not even sure what's in burger sauce. Isn't it a cross between ketchup and mayo? I think it might be. I assumed it was. I feel like there should be more in there. Yeah. Because it tastes... It should be more complicated.

You know like Big Mac sauce? Yeah. What's in Big Mac sauce? Yeah, similar, isn't it? You know what I mean? Yeah. I like a, like Big Mac sauce? Yeah. What's in Big Mac sauce? Yeah, similar, isn't it? You know what I mean? Yeah. I like a bit of Big Mac sauce. I like the finely chopped onions on top.

Cooked. I like a few gherkins. Yeah, cooked. Yeah, I can't get with... I'll tell you what, I remember once, back in the dim distant past, regular listeners to this show will remember it vaguely, Ben Bailey-Smith, a.k.a. Dot Brown, came on,

and he was talking about onions. I don't know why we're talking about onions. I mean, it's the Luke and Pete show. It's probably why and he said I do like a raw onion in a burger but I need to make peace with myself

that's my day over because you can't speak to anyone after that yeah that is true you know when you go to like pubs that do like gourmet burgers

and the onions are like inch thick get it out my burger raw as well get it out it's bizarre what do you think about it?

It's bizarre. It's really bizarre. How about you? What do you say? I'm just keen for it not to be too busy. So I feel the same way I feel about a pizza topping.

I don't want it to have too much going on. So I'd go for potato bun, patty, cheese. I'd go for cooked red onions, a nice bit of lettuce that has the, it's hard to explain, but not the spine, crunchy white bit of lettuce that has the, it's hard to explain, but not the spine

crunchy white bit of lettuce, the nice green leaves. Yeah, there's a nice, there's a middle ground in it, the lettuce. You don't want the little end bits. No. The soft bits. You want the middle bit, but not the spine, as you've already said. No, because it doesn't taste really. No.

And then I'll go ketchup. Yeah, okay. And I could be persuaded, if someone twisted my arm to go for a bit of mustard in the mix up as well a bit of mustard yeah you famously don't like mayonnaise do you no i do i don't mind it but it's only there for me for lubricant i don't like the taste you once i think i'm going so far as to say shouted at me yeah that mayonnaise was empty calories it is a waste of calories waste it's to be... When you get a bit older... Imagine coming to work,

listeners, and that is what you hear first thing on a Monday morning. Yeah. It's a shame. Imagine talking about mayonnaise the first thing on a Monday morning. That's your problem.

But when you get older, you have to get stuff that's worth the calories. You're fine. So, for example, I hardly ever eat chocolate cake. I just don't like it enough for the fact that it's going to

put a thousand calories in my bin. Yeah, true. I don't need it. I'd rather have something that I do like that's far fewer calories how many calories in a pint it's difficult to say 200 ish probably depends on the pint depends on the alcohol level what about a pint of chocolate cake exactly that was like i got on ground force tommy thingy tommy walsh oh yeah is he still alive yeah i think so He's pushing a heavy diet, isn't he? He was at the time. He ended up being on Celebrity Fit Club.

And when they went to his house and they just monitored his daily intake so they could work out what they're dealing with, he was having a pint of Baileys with his dinner. Imagine. Tommy, here's your your problem for God's sake it's so sweet but I've signed a contract

with Bailey's and I can't get out of it exactly yeah I've got to keep drinking it so funny what else have we been talking about so I need to bring you

up to speed I suppose Sam so have you got a bathroom bedtime bathroom routine well you kind of briefed me on this a little bit and I firstly got

a little bit confused to whether or not it was a bedtime and a bathroom time routine, or if it was the bathroom pre-bedtime. I assume that one. It's that one, yeah. So I used to have my,

this is really boring. I used to have a really sort of simple, my 2019 routine was this. Have you re-upped it for 2020? I have actually, yeah, I have. Brush teeth. Yeah. Ice cold water splash on the old face

keep it fresh you know dry said face get in the shower after face wash what? clean pair of boxes not in the shower

not in the shower after the shower straight to bed this year I've forgotten the shower I've got rid of that yeah teeth brush

floss mouth wash cleanse tone and moisturise my girlfriend works for a skin care company right warm water flannel yeah wipe it all off

and that's it but you have to go extra hard because of the amount of grease around your mouth because of your podcast how dare you no because you're just eating food all the time

yeah I know I've actually I went to the dentist for the first time in about not even about in 10 years last year yeah I got told I needed a few fillings have the dentist for the first time in about, not even about, in 10 years, last year.

I got told I needed a few fillings. Have you had them? No. You've got to have them. So expensive. Do you know how much a filling is in London?

£125 a tooth. How many do you need? Seven. Seven? That's not a few fillings. That's a new mouth. No, I know. I needed seven

because some of them are like, four of them are really minor but they're on teeth and they're like,, and I'm really worried my teeth are one day just going to like disappear. What do we need to replace in the new car? Well, four wheels, the chassis, the engine, the roof,

the sunroof, the seats, the seatbelts. That's a new mouth you're asking for there. The cigarette lighter is fine, though. Exactly, yeah. Not my finest hour, but that is my routine, yeah. I went to go and just change the subject completely because I don't really like talking about the dentist or teeth. It freaks me out.

Weirdly, it puts my teeth on edge. I went to go and see the personal history of David Copperfield. Oh, yeah. Have you seen it? No, I saw the advert for it when I went to see Little Women. It looked very good. Isn't Little Women good? Unreal.

Yeah. Very enjoyable. Yeah, Donny wasn't interested in that either. Now, aesthetically, I didn't want to like it. And then I got in and I was like, I'm so invested in this. Yeah, I'm the same. Like, from start to end. I couldn't keep my eyes off it.

I felt exactly the same. I think it was my wife who sort of drove it, drove the project. And I went along. But I had one of these situations. It was such a good movie that I enjoyed it so much. I think I said this to Pete at the time. I ended up not even eating my cinema snacks. Where do you stand on cinema snacks?

See, I'm kind of a hypocrite on it because I don't want to hear one decibel, one single solitary decibel of anyone else eating or drinking or doing anything in the cinema. Completely agree. But I do want to enjoy a snack. So my local cinema, I talk about it a lot on the show my local cinema is um it's good you get beers in there you can get um they do like cakes and

cookies and meals and everything it's got a little cafe there so you can have a good decent size sort of you know cranberry and white chocolate cookie doesn't make any noise to eat do you live in london yeah exactly but my wife likes the old popcorn so you gotta be you gotta be careful i always thought that they should just have you know how everyone gives out you know any brand gives out a tote bag now that's like the new freebie right you need to explain to normal people what that means so like that's that's really proper like london i'm a brand designer all right fine tote bags like really simple kind of you get random branded stuff on it

whether it's like oat milk or chocolate bars or whatever you'll get loads of freebies usually in it and everyone has maybe not everyone but I have

a lot of tote bags in the house just like gathered loads of them gathered right my point is why don't they give out little mini tote bags

made out of canvas via popcorn in the cinema so it makes it quieter really quiet because of the packaging it's not the actual although the scraper of canvas via popcorn in the cinema so it makes it quieter really quiet because of the packaging it's not the actual although the

it's the scraper and the fingernails on the cardboard right yeah exactly and the rustling you know the falling away I also think

that it took me a while to get used to going to the cinema in the US because their sensibilities are completely different they just not care not as much

if it's like a really exciting film there's be whooping and hollering and clapping and stuff. That pisses me off. Yeah. When I went to see Little Women,

the two girls next to me, I shit you not, went through nine cans of mojito each. Nine. Each. There wasn't a moment in the film where there was like a noise the entire way through.

I will always, if I'm cracking open a can, which is rare, if I'm cracking open a can at the cinema, I'll time it with an explosion 100% same as like a sniffle or like a clear of the throat

or anything and also one of the things that the picture house do where I live which is an initiative I agree with is they go big heavy on the no mobile phones

and they also say I mean they're not as implied as this but they're like listen turn your phone fucking off and the way they say that is they say

the light is as distracting as the sound turn the fucking thing off don't just put on silent and don't be looking at it yeah i can see you answer your messages you prick yeah turn it off um obviously there aren't that many explosions in little women so you can't hopefully can there but i went to go see the personal history of david copperfield and i really enjoyed it um but it kind of made me realise afterwards that because I love Armando Iannucci so much for Alan Partridge and all that other stuff, Day to Day, Brass Eye, etc.,

that my expectations for him are very high. So when I went to go see The Death of Stalin, have you seen that? No. I almost watched that last night. It didn't make me laugh. And I was like, it's not that funny. I don't know what movie it's trying to be.

And then I realised that my that my my expectations were too high so I went to go and see David Copperfield and I tried to temper my expectations

and ended up really enjoying it now I know that might be because that's just a better film yeah and it is really really good but I found I enjoyed it more but I would recommend it it's really really good

obviously it's Dickens it's a really good story laugh out loud funny because the trailer was hilarious yeah the trailer's, it's Dickens. It's a really good story. Laugh Out Loud funny? Because the trailer was hilarious. Yeah, the trailer's the best, the funniest bit. Oh, that's a shame. It's not consistently

Laugh Out Loud funny but it was good. But anyway, what else has been going on, Sam? What have you been up to in the last week or so? Moved house on the weekend. You did!

Congratulations, your first house. Yeah, first house. Podcasting pays, people. It really does it. Yeah, moved a bit further east uh to like sort of forest gate upton park kind of way a bit a little bit terrifying but that is that is fine is it um what's terrifying about it it's just new new a new end isn't it a new end to kind of work

out and it's way less gentrified um do you know what when i was unpacking the house yesterday putting all the alcohol away in my house I thought alcohol cupboards are weird aren't they yeah I've got one do you know what I think though there's something a bit

is an alcohol cupboard more or less sort of like a bit like dirty than like a weed box it's the same principle do you know what I mean though because you're basically saying

that I don't want people to see my problem yeah do you know what I mean why don't people put alcohol just in the same cupboard as the food it's weird isn't it yeah and even when I placed it you know when you're arranging your new kitchen

you're putting stuff and it kind of like you have to like sort of set into it a little bit yeah initially it was above all my sort of teas and coffee stuff and i was like nah i can't be looking at sort of like my leftover mezcal on my top shelf looking at my coffee in the bottom very very odd yeah i don't know why people do that. That's a good point. My parents used to have it in a separate cupboard in the living room. Yeah, that's the other thing. The placement of it

kind of moves around the house. Like, there is actual furniture that you house alcohol in. It's like a drinks cabinet. It's weird. Do you think it's because initially people are just, it's like an adult thing

and they don't want kids to see it and stuff? Yeah, I don't know. I don't know what it is. The other thing I realised when I was moving house was man in the Van as a job is a very odd job. It's a hard job. It is a hard job, but it's quite a bizarre thing, really. And then I wondered if it was like a British thing or if it's just like a worldwide thing.

Yeah, no, I'm pretty sure it was a big thing in Australia. But, oh, because they have Aussie men. Isn't that what it's called? A lot of them seem to do it in London, don't they? Yeah. Maybe it's just because the British brand man in a van thing is such a, I don't know. It's weird. It's very bizarre.

When you think about the value of how much it costs to move house, and then you're paying so much money, I think paying for a removals company is kind of the ultimate value play. Because if you're, say it costs you, because of the tax years and the estate, as you well know how much it costs. Say it costs, I don't know, for the sake of argument, it costs 15 grand to move house.

You're down right on paying an extra 500. Yeah, exactly. To get someone to do it all. Because it's the ultimate value play. It's so stressful anyway. I wouldn't even do my own move anymore yeah would you did you do did you do your own well thing is we were in a bit of a weird one because we didn't have that much stuff because we lived in a really tiny flap till now we didn't honestly had nothing so we just chucked it in the back of a zip van and it took but one trip yeah one trip it was amazing

so that was a vibe however we couldn't get our bed out. Because my bed got built by a friend in the bedroom, and it's all wood glued together, so I couldn't actually dissemble it. So it's still in the old flat. So you left it in there? So you sleep on the floor at the moment? Yeah, I have a mattress, but no bed.

That's not going to last long, is it? Podcasting doesn't pay. Podcasting pays, unless you want to sleep in a bed. All right, listen, let's have a little break. And after we do that, we'll come back and we'll answer some homework that was set on Thursday and answer and read out some of your emails, which you've sent in to hello at lukeandpeachow.com. There we go.

One of Pete's better ones, I'd say. That is Simon Lebon at Live Aid, I think. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show with me, Luke Moore, and Sam Set Meals Smith over there. So on Thursday we set some, well, we've been setting homework over the last few weeks, really. The ones we've set recently are stuff you found in your garden how would you make a sausage using only the items you currently have in your house um did you get a free dvd with your dvd player um go up into the attic and find the most interesting

thing you can etc etc so why don't we start with a few uh homework. I've got one here from Nathan G who says, Hi, like all the school homework, I'm late with this one. With weird things found in gardens, I have a concrete garden. That's depressing. Yeah. Just the term concrete garden is depressing. Yeah, it's really, yeah, grim. Which had plant beds on top.

And when I removed these, I discovered thousands of eggshells in about a two meter square patch having spoken to our neighbor the gent who lived in our house before us put the flower bed and didn't have any chickens to make it weird as some eggshells were still whole but empty what yeah like chicken eggs like actual eggs i think so yeah nathan also says uh also buried in my mom slash grandma's garden is a bike. My grandad, while running a building company,

thought it was a stolen bike. So like any sane man would do, he buried it in his own garden. Jesus Christ. So weird. Have you got a garden in your new place? Yeah, buddy. It's a big guy.

You found anything in there yet? No, I haven't actually walked out there yet. I thought it was going to be the first thing I did, but I didn't actually do it. There's some planters though. Nice. Might be bodies under there. Could be. Maybe didn't actually do it. There's some planters though. Nice.

Might be bodies under there. Could be. Maybe. Did you get it cheap? Could be buried vertically which would be weird. That would be, yeah. What about this one?

Jamie Davis says, alright, that's making a sausage. Ignoring the sausages in my freezer and you are right to ignore the sausages in your freezer, Jamie, because that wouldn't be making

a sausage, would it? Correct. And as we all know, Donnie used to eat them frozen straight from the freezer. Disgusting. Have you heard that story? Oh, I've heard Correct. And as we all know, Donnie used to eat them frozen straight from the freezer. Disgusting. Have you heard that story? Oh, I've heard that story, yeah.

I've met Donnie. It all makes sense. Yeah. Jamie says, I'd open the banana and pull out the middle bit, leaving the banana skin. Good.

Then I'd mix together a load of Weetabix and milk in a bowl. Not so good. And carefully pour the gunge into the banana skin and then seal said skin with some honey. The honey is not holding that.

Surely you're chopping the end off, squeezing it out. And then pouring it in. And then pouring it in. But you can't eat banana skin anyway. So it's a pointless vessel. Yeah, fair. Yeah, you are right, actually.

Can you not, though? What if you boil it? Surely it loosens up, no? There was a 90s rumour that definitely the rounds in my town Yeah, you are right, actually. Can you not, though? What if you boil it? Shouldn't it loosen Zapna? There was a 90s rumour that definitely did the rounds in my town and probably did the rounds in a lot of towns with people listening as well, that if you boil down banana skins,

you can make drugs out of them. Oh, my God. That's such a school rumour. Yeah. Did you ever hear that? No. What was the word to school rumour at your school? You're Welsh.

You must have had some absolutely ridiculous ones. Mine's pretty dark. Is it? Yeah. Go on. Did you have the old razor blades in the flume at the swimming baths? No, it's really dark. I don't know if I can say it.

Just say it. There was a rumour there was a paedophile around the corner from our school living in a house in the woods. Yeah. And then our lad burnt his house down. That's not great. I told you it was dark. You've just looked at me then and said,

why have you said that one? Ladies and gentlemen, may I present to you Wales. Yeah, very dark, the valleys. So you were told to keep away from it, were you? Correct. So what was it like growing up in the valleys? It was fine. Only when I look back at it, I realise how bleak it is.

Do you remember the concrete garden from a few emails ago? Imagine that. But on a massive scale. Because I think people would think about the valleys as being quite picturesque yeah it is very picturesque a lot of muscly blokes but the towns in the valleys are so stuck in time and the mentality is so stuck in time that against this like pretty beautiful backdrop there's just like this just poor and small-minded and not amazing. Do you ever go back?

Not that often. Are your mum and dad still there? Yeah, but they've moved now to Pembrokeshire, which is the good bit, which is like the coast and amazing rolling hills. Okay, so I thought the Valleys was that. But you're saying the Valleys can be just outside Cardiff or Swansea or whatever?

Yeah, the Valleys is about 10 miles outside Cardiff. That's where it starts? Yeah, and then you go into Brecon or whatever. Ah, okay. We should do a road road trip we should do a Welsh road trip that'd be cool we'd have to try and not annoy a steroid pumped

Welsh muscle man bleach blonde hair upside down triangle yeah really tight clothes but that's one of the things I never really noticed

that as a thing until I left and met people like you who made a joke of that sort of stuff. Don't sound like me. Because everyone looks like that. Yeah, exactly. All right. Have you got an email there?

I've got an email from Adam Morris. Yeah. Good morning, gentlemen. Having listened to the podcast this morning, I decided to join in on the fun, albeit late. In 2002, our family decided to go full tilt into kitting out the living room space for our home. To accompany the brand new flat screen TV, we also purchased a Sony DVD player

which came with a copy of Gladiator, brackets, epic film. I agree. Agree, yeah. For pure enjoyment. My father, wanting the full package, decided he needed to purchase the matching sound surround system

to fully be immersed in all the action. Sensible move. That's great. My dad did exactly... You are not her dad if you're not doing that to his dismay this added a second DVD to the bundle

Bridget Jones Diary the thought of him trying to watch a romantic chick flick in full surround sound just to show off something still makes me laugh

to this very day I love it you've got to put Gladiator back in there yeah but get it back in can I give I love that email that's great

and that's such a dad thing to do 100% and also getting that whole like hi-fi system or whatever around that time was so synonymous Can I give... I love that email. That's great. And that's such a dad thing to do. Oh, 100%. And also, getting that whole, like, hi-fi system or whatever around that time was so synonymous

to that time of, like... I think my parents have still got it. Yeah, big time. So, like, I am 99% certain that when my parents bought their TV with the surround sound,

there would have been a under-the-breath, quite fierce argument about whether they'd get the surround sound or not. And my dad would be like, we are not getting it without the surround sound. My mum would go, about whether they get the surround sound or not and my dad would be like we are not getting it without the surround sound my mom go you don't need the surround sound is everything okay yeah fine thanks we don't need it it's another 200 quid we need a 32 inch telly as well do you we don't need that but we're getting it you could

have it but it's your christmas present do you know what on that on that actually on the size of tellies that's what i realized this weekend also, how big the standard size of a telly has got. Because we had a projector until we moved, and then we're looking for a TV now. Can't get a TV smaller than 50 inch. It's like 50 is the new normal. It's bizarre. So I wouldn't be able to fit one that big in my house.

It's sort of a bearing though. The living room, you can go too big, I think. Yeah, I think so. One of the other email themes we've had Sam is that we've talked about

types of beers. I think we probably go into this in more depth on Thursday. But I'll get us up and running with this email here from, it's a

brilliant email from Bryce. And when I say types of beers I don't mean an IPA or a lager or a Guinness. I mean the situation type. So Bryce has done

a brilliant job here of doing what he says is definitive rankings for the location and activities that go best with a beer. Putting time into the emails, Bryce. Top eight.

It's a top eight here, mate. I like that. And I'll tell you what, I am stunned because bottom of the barrel for Bryce, number eight, a shower beer. It splits a number eight, a shower beer.

It splits a lot of people a shower beer. Pete dismissed it out of hand. I love a shower beer. I like a shower beer because it rings nostalgia of uni for me. Right.

Preloading. Big time. Yeah. Big time. I want a shower, but I'm not taking 15 minutes out of my preload. If you think,

I'm not taking a stubby into that shower whilst I'm showering. Exactly. So Bryce says shower beer. Leave the suds to the soap. Enjoy your beer once you're out of the shower. Number seven, walkie beer. Can be quite complicated in America where I live with strict open container laws,

so I haven't been able to properly enjoy this phenomenon yet. I don't mind a walkie beer, but I know that it'll make other people perhaps feel uncomfortable to be around me because they'll think I'm a lout. Yeah. Number six is depressing.

I don't know how this has got to number six above a shower beer. Breakfast beer. Substituting your favourite lager for milk in your cereal. That's not a thing, is it?

I've not done this myself, but I've witnessed it on more than one occasion. Number five, game beer. When lacking quality, just amplify the quality as the quantity. Whether it's beer pong, Mario Kart,

or just a little spice to your favourite car game, this will surely add to your competitive spirit. Unfortunately, though, these endeavours usually have you feeling worse for worse sooner or later. He's talking about a beer going along with having a bit of pastime games. Number four, you'll like this one, Sam.

We would call it a barbecue beer. He calls it a grill beer. Yeah, that's up there for me. As you may have noticed, we've turned a corner here. An orchestra for the senses, the smell and sound of the grill with your favourite plant-based batty crackling away, the sun on your face and a crisp, refreshing beer. Number three, river beer.

Can't enjoy that in London. You're not going to jump in your... No beer is going to make the Thames better. No, you're not going to get in like a rubber ring on the Thames with a beer London. No. You're not going to jump and you're in a... No beer can make, it's going to make the Thames better. No, you're not going to get in like a rubber ring on the Thames with a beer in your hand. But where Bryce lives,

he says the best way to make a lazy float down the river better is to tie a six pack of beer to you as you go. The cool mountain water keeps those babies at the perfect temperature.

Number two, sports beer. That kind of speaks for itself. Number one, he's gone for top of the pile, the very best in his opinion the beach beer yeah i think i'd agree bryce says few things can compare to enjoying some craft brew with the epic pacific northwest coast where i was born and raised the salty

crisp air is the perfect palate cleanser between pools from the pint preferably from a brewery with a beachside patio i.e pelican Pelican Brewing in Pacific City, Oregon. Do check it out. I want to live where he lives. He makes it sound so picturesque. Oh, he's having a lovely old time. The only thing he's got to worry about, Sam, is when he wakes up in the morning and thinks,

what type of beer will I have today? As he's pouring it on his Cheerios. Yeah, you and I, Sam, are like, weather spoons beer? We'll do it more next week. Sorry, on Thursday tell us now give us a little flavour

a little teaser trailer what's up there for you up there's gonna be beach do you know what up there is this is very specific I'm not just plugging my food podcast

when you go to a foreign country and it's hot and you're eating spicy food that beer because it's comforting because you know it and it helps with the spice.

Yeah, I can see it. For me, he's not mentioned this because there's no public transport infrastructure to speak of anywhere in the US, outside of the main cities. He's not mentioned the legendary train beer. We'll talk about that more on Thursday. Thank you so much for getting involved Sam. No problem, thanks for having me.

Of course, people should go and check out Set Meals when they get a chance. Subscribe wherever they get their podcasts. We'll be back on Thursday with another episode of the Luke and Pete Show with me and the great Sam Smith. This was a Stakhanov production. How does it feel being Pete? I feel sexy.