The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 25: Goblins?

Episode Date: November 20, 2017

Pete has made a truly disturbing discovery about the very bones that hold literally all of our bodies together, there's some decent discussion about airports and the presence of strange car raffles within them, some more British awkwardness and lots more including more from our egg correspondent.It's getting to the point now where we don't need to tell you that we have a bit about off-brand batteries in there also, isn't it? Make of that what you will.Spark us off, be a part of it: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. I'm Pete Donaldson. And I'm Luke Moore. Yeah, I didn't like it as much. No, it doesn't feel natural. But are we going to get into it? Is it something that's going to improve, I didn't like it as much. No, it doesn't feel as natural. But are we going to get into it? Is it something that's going to improve, or is it just like, let's just not do it, it doesn't suit us? Yeah, I'm not sure. Sounds like newsreaders, don't we?

Which we are, in a way. We are a little bit. Reading out people's dispatches from the front line of awesomeness. Exactly. Quite. The front line of something. How are you, mate? How are things this week?

I'm all right. Didn't do any sleepwalking. Though buoyed by everybody else's horrific stories about what they got up to last week. Just trying to think of the damage I could do if I did sleepwalk. I'd be in a tumble down some stairs probably. Oh yeah.

Would you be able to do that? I'd have to unlock a door. Yeah. I do sometimes because I'm not OCD but if I know I'm about to leave the house what I'll do is I'll just walk past the front door and sort of just unhook the yale a little bit. I'll sort of unlock the Yale. So the door's effectively just open and sometimes I'll go to bed and fall asleep and the door's been

unlocked all night. Why would you do that? I don't know. No, because I'm a faffer. So I'm like, right, I need to leave the house now, but I just got to check things and I just got a copy of file over on my computer and I'm a bit of a faffer like that. so by me um hooking the door opening the door effectively and unlocking the door it's me going Peter you need to leave now you've got you've got instead of just walking out of the door and leaving which I could easily do but for security purposes you've got an outside door anyway right yeah so it wouldn't be as dangerous if I did it because my door goes straight out of the street the um yeah

exactly and also the um the people who live downstairs i walked past their door and they had six umbrellas outside their door like it's a one bedroom flat at best six people i don't use an umbrella anyway what do you mean i've got a bit of a funny thing about umbrellas as far as um when if you're in a busy city and you're the height i am yeah you've essentially when as soon as the umbrellas come out it's like an assault course yeah so i i just got a real big sort of um aversion to umbrellas that's interesting yeah that's very interesting but you know speaking of the old security thing and and the faffing so when mrs lukey buys stuff from amazon right

it gets sent to the house um on her preferences she's not got please try and re-deliver or please deliver to a neighbour because we're quite friendly with our neighbours as you found out last week when I got locked up

at the house she's just got it set to leave it on the doorstep because where she comes from it's fine and I'm like right you're in London now it's a nice part of London

fair enough but you can't risk that and I'll be honest you're a stop from Brixton mate exactly I've been waiting for something to go missing. Right?

And do you know what? The other week. Did something go missing? Well, I'm going to tell you the story. The other week, something went missing. And so I said to Mrs. Lukey, I said, told you that was happening. I told you that was going to happen. Change your preferences.

You're in London. You're not in Kansas anymore, Dorothy. You're not in Kansas anymore. Anyway, so she said, okay. She wouldn't do that in New York, would she? No. Or Los Angeles. She wouldn't.

Anyway, she changed her preferences. Yeah. And not only that, she made a complaint saying they shouldn't do that in New York, would she? No. Or Los Angeles. She wouldn't. Anyway, she changed her preferences and not only that, she made a complaint saying they shouldn't do it because it's London and they should know better, to which they said, okay, we're very sorry, we'll send you another one. But it's in your preferences. They sent her another one. It was an electronic item of reasonable value. So they sent her another one.

Nice and vague. I was walking around feeling very smug and no word of a lie, next day, knock on the door, next to a neighbour, someone left that on the doorstep so I took it in for you in case it got stolen. Oh, so you got two electronic items. Exactly. Wow. Yeah, and do you know what it was? It was the Magna Doodle from last week that I was carrying around. Hang on, so you're a two-man Magna Doodle man? I was, I gave one away and one was a present anyway. Okay. There we go. I mean, you're admitting Amazon fraud here

on the podcast. I got bigger fish to fry. Pay your tax, Amazon. Call it tax. Yeah, call it tax. Pay your tax. Hashtag Paradise Papers. Don't know what they are, but everyone's talking about it. It's been big, isn't it? Everyone's... Were you named? Were you named? No, I wasn't named, no. I don't think my accountant

knows how to do... He can't file my normal taxes. You were the subject of an erotic novel called The Paradise Papers, weren't you? Yeah. That's what I was getting confused with. They were like rolling papers. Yeah, okay. Luke, I've had a week where I've just been learning things.

Rolling papers. It's been... It's not a bad one. Yeah, one of my better ones. I think I'm getting better again. I want us to get to the level where we don't even need the jingle anymore. When the next time we see the guy who actually sang that

in real life, we go, I don't need you, mate. I can have an it spin off. Yeah. Oh, it's audio. Remember a couple of weeks ago when we played his little clip out? It's not video. No. Listen, you're not getting on the TV now, mate. That's what I would have said. 2017, mate.

So, I can't believe this exists. You could buy skeletons, real skeletons. Yeah, for research, right? For any reason. In Poltergeist, the actress Jo Beth Williams found out, after she shot the scene in the pool that the skeletons that she was swimming around with in the mud were real skeletons. It was cheaper to buy them from a medical supply company than making them out of rubber at the time. And this whole

kind of trade in human remains is fascinating. Great movie anyway. Great movie. But that is a great movie, Pete. Have you seen it? It is a great movie, yeah. Back in the day. But I just couldn't believe that. We're looking at dead people on the screen. Yeah. There was an episode of Britain's Next Top Model

on the other day. And they were doing, one of the challenges they had to do was a model shoot for people for the ethnic treatment, the ethical treatment of animals. And the props they were using were actual skinned animals. Amazing. So they got

the reaction they wanted out of the models? Yeah. Very full on, that was. Who was involved in skinning them? That's the problem, I have no idea. It was wonderful. And also the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland originally also used all real skeletons. I love that ride.

It's a brilliant ride. Yeah, but real skeletons. Why are you not horrified? These are actual people, actual souls. You do realise you're walking around in a skeleton. What? Yeah. Somebody did on Twitter a little joke saying,

what if dogs realised they were full of bones? What would they do? What would they do? What would they do? But India in particular has got a big underground trade in human remains. And what gets done, it's either grave robbing or people who have got a dodgy deal with somebody who's going to immolate the bodies at the, not the abattoir, what do you call it, when you burn a body? I don't know. I know what you mean.

Cremation. Crematorium. what you mean. Cremation. Crematorium. Crematorium. So here's the price tag for all of the things. And the most prized skeletons, they've kind of closed loopholes and stuff, but it still goes on. The sale of... What, in this country?

Well, mainly India and out. But you can buy, for either research purposes, or presumably it's not illegal to use them in entertainment like in Poltergeist, like in the Pirates of the Caribbean. Yeah, you can buy full skeletons. The most prized ones, usually what happens once they've been bleached with hydrochloric acid stuff and dried out in the sun,

they go and they sort of nail a full skeleton together even though those bones don't belong to each other. Oh, that is weird. And it's really weird. So if you want a skull with teeth, that's $1,200. So it's a big amount of money. If you want an ulna or a pelvis, that's around about $150. Well, an ulna should not be the same price as a pelvis.

An ulna is just an arm bone, isn't it? A pelvis is a massive deal. Yeah, but I mean, pelvises don't break as often as arms, presumably, so they're probably not as highly in demand. An articulated foot, 150 quid. A femur, 149. A full skeleton, just over three grand, and half a skeleton, two grand.

So if you're grave robbing and stuff, I mean, three grand in Indian money is probably a little bit more i like the idea that they're doing you a deal for a whole skeleton it should be well yeah a whole skeleton that's actually and i think it's much more than that if you uh if you want a skeleton actually where all the parts belong to each other which is incredible like i i just don't know what to think so we had a skeleton in our science class at school and it definitely now that would have been a plaster of paris, wouldn't it?

Probably, yeah. Yeah, but fascinating that these things still go on. How do you know your bones are on Plaster of Paris? Good point. How many bones have you broken? I've broken quite a few. I've broken a collarbone and tongue. Collarbone, tongue.

I've broken a fracture in my skull twice, I think. Have you? I broke this part of my elbow. I remember that story. But you know when you used to say stuff every so often and it starts to make sense about why you're like you are. When we first came into contact with your father for example.

Great guy but clearly you're a chip off the old block. The fact that you've fractured your skull twice tells me a lot. What do you mean? I can't fall down the stairs. I fell down the stairs. Did you? How old were you? I wasn't old enough to be up some down the stairs did you how old were you I wasn't old enough to be up some stairs

I know that oh really okay negligence yeah where there's blame there's a claim what is the statute of limitations for suing your mum and dad

I think it's for being shit I think it's probably less than 35 years but I've broken a couple of fingers a big toe a collar bone

both arms right a nose a nose that's a lot there's a lot of fingers a big toe a collarbone both arms right um oh nose broke my nose that's a lot there's a lot of stuff going on do you know how I broke my nose

right my friend Richie climbing a watery ladder no no that wasn't anything to do with it although I could have broke my neck um

my friend Richie who probably doesn't listen to this show good guy he he was we were playing football at uni having a training session or whatever right and I slid tackled him

and he's a big unit and he landed right on my face and it busted my nose and I the worst listen this is a little bit of a bit of

public information there to help people if they go through the same thing if you break your nose the last thing you want the first thing you want to do

and the last thing you should do is blow it. Oh, is that right? Because it feels like you've got something in there, you need to blow it. But if you blow it, bang, two black eyes. Oh. Because it just blows it up, basically. Oh, right, okay.

I guess because there's no, the integrity isn't still there. So anyway. So how do you get that kind of encrusted blood out of your nose, though? I mean, that's got to go somewhere. Well, because I was the age of about 19 and I thought I knew everything, I didn't go to the doctor. Right.

And so I just let it sort itself out. But I still have a few sort of respiratory problems now with the old nose. So I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I'm sort of looking at you. There is a slight kind of tear. Very slight.

Yeah, on the bridge. Yeah, very slight. So there we go. Bones. Bones. We've all got them. Do you remember that TV series, Bones, on the bridge. Yeah, very slight. So there we go. Bones. Bones. We've all got them. Do you remember that TV series, Bones, with the guy from Buffy the Vampire Slayer?

Yeah. I think it might still be going. Is it really? It's terrible, isn't it? What's his name, that guy? It's really annoying me. I've got in my head Emilio Estevez, but that's clearly not true.

David Boreanaz. David Boreanaz. Excellent knowledge. Is it David Boreanaz? It is, that's right. That's correct. I watched all of Buffy, every last one of them,

but none of Angel. So, people who, Angel was the spin-off, right? With David Boreanaz. Yeah. People who listen to the show regularly

will know that I mentioned my friend Tommy quite a lot. And he, he's a man of impeccable taste when it comes to TV series and music and all the rest of it, in my opinion. And he re-watched Buffy

fairly recently. Right. It was actually quite good. Stands up. Yeah. Stands up. It was good. Yeah. Would. It was actually quite good. Stands up. Yeah. Stands up. Yeah. Would you agree with that?

I would agree with that, yeah. Long time ago, though. Have you watched Stranger Things 2 yet? I've not watched the first one, to be honest. Oh, have you not? I find this new generation of pandering to people of our age, remembering the 80s, a bit one-note. Well, listen, we've talked about this type of thing in principle already,

and I'll say to you what I've said to you in the past. It's buying a Super NES or a SNES. You don't have to pander. Just watch it. If you enjoy it, good. If you don't, that's fine as well. Well, we got a mate who we mentioned very briefly last week, and he won't watch anything with dragons, anything slightly whimsical.

Anything slightly fantastical, he won't watch anything with dragons anything slightly whimsical anything slightly fantastical he won't watch. My interpretation of that is anything I might be wrong. Anything other people like? No, no, no, it's anything that I think he says anything that couldn't happen in real life he doesn't like. Right, okay. So basically now it's got to the point where it's descended where you're on a group chat or whatever and you ask him if someone's seen a show

and he'll just write, goblins? And the answer to that is yes he's not interested. I fear You ask him if someone's seen a show, and he'll just write, goblins, question mark. And if the answer to that is yes, he's not interested. I fear for his child, who's going to be reading fantasy books and kids' books. Oh, I'm going to buy his children all that stuff. It's got to be done.

It's got to be done. They're just tolking the house up. What's the use if he can't drive a wedge? But anyway, we should get into emails. No sleepwalking ones this week. So turn off if you want. We've got you downloaded by now. I've got emails here, Pete. I've got one about British awkwardness, which I really like.

I've got one about eggs. It's Ben from last week who I said I'd read out this week. So we've got to do that one. And I've got one about St Kilda, which is a particular area of interest of mine. And I think, Pete, at some point next year, we should go to St Kilda which is a particular area of interest of mine and I think Pete at some point next year we should go to St Kilda

can we not choose the Caribbean or something I'll go to St Kilda I've got a Caribbean I'll FaceTime you FaceTime you there's no coverage

so yeah that's what I want what have you got in the locker well why don't we just see where we get to with those I really fancy

reading the British Awkwardness out can I start from Chris Medlock yeah read it we just see where we get to with those? Okay. I really fancy reading the British Awkwardness out. Can I start? Is it from Chris Medlock? Yeah, read it. Go for it. This is from Chris Medlock. Do you want to jingle first? Can do, yeah. I mean, we don't usually do jingles here. Do we not? No, we do jingles as break

points now. Okay. And then if we've got a bit for Men Carter at the end, we'll do the Men Carter jingle. I'll leave the jingles. Apologise to everyone listening. I'll leave the jingles up to you. Please take it away, Chris Medlock. Unbeknownst to you, I put a pump jingle in a couple of weeks ago. You didn't know because you didn't listen back. Ha, ha, ha.

Ha, ha. Chris Medlock says, I'm not sure if this falls into the right category, but your talk on British awkwardness reminds me of a moment time. A moment time? A number of years ago whilst I was travelling through Edinburgh Airport. Not a great airport, by the way. Remember? Been a long time a number of years ago whilst I was travelling through Edinburgh airport not a great airport by the way remember

been a long time we flew back from there when we were in Scotland and we had to queue for ages to get our security clear oh did we do you remember

it was awful mate it was really really small really pokey I didn't like it in my bottom five airports probably oh no my bottom

is definitely Hamburg Hamburg airport Las Vegas is bad do you know what my bottom is definitely Hamburg. Hamburg airport, Las Vegas is bad. Do you know what my worst is? JFK. Well,

JFK is JFK though, isn't it? They've got a lot of people to get through. I avoid it like the plague. I never go to it. My advice to anyone travelling to New York City,

do not travel for JFK. LaGuardia is nice. LaGuardia's got a real retro feel to it. That's the stranger things of airports. Is it really? Boston's very good. Both Tokyo airports it. Yeah, it's all right. That's the stranger things of airports. Is it really? Yeah.

Boston's very good. Both Tokyo airports are spotless, as you imagine. I imagine that, yeah. But you know, with Boston, I guess if people don't travel to the US that regularly, or they've never travelled there, they would probably think, they know the story about the Border Patrol and everything in the US, it's really difficult and everything like that. Boston, you go through, you put your fingerprints on a scanner, you answer a few questions on a computer

and it gives you a printout and then you go straight through. They do that at JFK now though, don't they? Do they? Okay, right. So I've done Boston Airport from wheels down, touchdown at Boston Airport through getting my luggage and meeting and getting out the other side.

I've done that in under half an hour. Wow. Which is pretty good going. More than a feeling. My other tip would be get the last flight of the day in because by that point everyone wants to go home. Everyone's left. Wow. Which is pretty good going. More than a feeling. My other tip would be get the last flight of the day in because by that point everyone wants to go to the line.

Everyone's left. Yeah. Anyway, sorry Chris. Walking through a quiet terminal I could see a stand ahead with a typically well turned out salesperson with a clipboard standing in front of a gleaming Audi R8

clearly struggling to gather interest in selling raffle tickets to win said vehicle from the limited public. Now that is an odd phenomenon. It's one of those, yeah, it's one of those things, isn't it, that you only gather interest in selling raffle tickets to win said vehicle from the limited public. Now that is an odd phenomenon. It's one of those things that you only ever see in airports. I've never known, and if you have done this, please get in touch, hello at lukeandpietro.com. I have never once encountered or heard of anyone buying a single raffle ticket from one of those car things.

I've only ever been in a first class lounge once um and that was because a mate worked at virgin um now sadly not anymore right uh and uh you can get like haircuts and stuff has anyone ever had a haircut at an airport my that's another question my my my point on the car raffle things even if you take um you have to drive it out of? Yeah, yeah. Put it in your hand luggage. I think, listen, let me get this right. So even if you had a £30,000 car, which isn't that expensive for a nice car. Right. And the last time I was in an airport,

the raffle tickets were £20. That's 1,500 tickets you've got to sell to break even. Yeah. And that's even before you've employed the guy to sell the tickets. All the other stuff that comes along with it. I've never known a single person to buy even one raffle ticket. I reckon it's probably airport for airport.

I reckon there's only one car for a million airports, and that's in the T's and C's. Oh, very, very good angle. You're probably right, yeah. And they've probably got about 10 cars. They put a car in each one, but you only win one car. Right. I think that might be the case, just to maximise.

Anyway, so this person was standing in front of an Audi R8, trying to gather interest. This is going to be a battle of wits. I had to talk pasta. Sorry, I had to walk pasta. I mean, Chris, come on now. Chris hasn't spell-checked this yet. I had to walk pasta.

Well, it wouldn't have passed muster anyway. I had to walk pasta, but I had to stand my ground. Act casual. Look uninterested. I'm ever so sorry. I'm in a real hurry. I don't want to miss my flight. Not today.

Sorry. Maybe next time. No sooner had the poor lady uttered the words, excuse me, I retorted with, I don't like you. Excellent. I love it. Wonderful. Clearly stunned by such a verbal assault from an otherwise unassuming member of public, she replied, you don't like me?

And then I quickly hit her with, I don't like what you stand for. Yeah, raffle tickets were against my religion. Oh, no. This exchange still haunts me. Even writing this now, I can feel my hands trembling and my heart is starting to race. Chris, fantastic. I wanted this email to end and now we're married. But it didn't.

Oh, did you not go back and explain? Sorry, I panicked. I'm a bit nervous. It's like charity muggers, isn't it? It's like walking up Carnaby Street. You've always got to have something prepared. Do you know what I always say? What?

Oh, you're too late. I just spoke to your mate. Yeah. I mean, invariably I say I spoke to your mate in that I told him to F off as well. Yeah. I mean, invariably I say I spoke to your mate in that I told him to F off as well. Yeah, yeah. And sometimes when someone says at airports,

have a nice flight, behind your desk, I always go, you too. Oh, yeah, that's annoying. That is annoying. Every time, never mind. We'll both look after Luke. We'll both look after Luke. If he feels sad about mum and dad,

we'll both look after Luke. Shall we do some egg work? Yeah, egg work. Not the long egg. The long egg is endured. People still tweet us about the long egg now. There was a lovely find your log egg name, which I quite liked on the Luke and Pete Show Twitter page.

What was yours? I think it was just Stephen Long Egg or something. Well, this is from Ben Goldman, and Ben, I hope, is still listening because last week I said I'd read his email out. So, in a bare-faced attempt to get him to keep listening. And Ben said, hello, the Luke and the Pete. As a self-appointed egg correspondent, well, we've appointed you ourselves as well.

Yeah, okay. I'll do my best to answer all your egg-related questions. Now, a few weeks ago, Pete, you asked how egg colour is determined. Yes. Why the eggs in the US look white and the ones here look a more sort of browny-beige colour. Ben says, egg colour is determined by the breed of the chicken. White leghorn chickens, think foghorn leghorn of Looney Tunes fame. I say, I say.

There we go. Lay white eggs on our popular choices for commercial egg layers, in the same way farmers and scientists have created larger tomatoes, bigger and more red strawberries, and larger wheat grains, chickens can be selected for larger and whiter eggs. Cleaning them can't hurt their visual presentation, but they aren't bleached or whitened. While the eggs are pretty, though, chicken conditions can be pretty poor,

although regulations are being enacted and enforced to give these animals better living conditions what used to be an exercise in cramming as much egg production into the smallest amount of space has become far more conscious of the chicken's well-being. Things like free range and cage free are terms that ensure chickens are better treated, at least here in the US

I'm not sure what the labels are like on your side of the pond. Eggs of a variety of colours can be created and purchased, although white and brown eggs are the most popular. My family though had a chicken we named Fish that would sometimes lay green eggs. Green eggs and ham! So, it's even included in the picture, and it's more of a duck

egg green, like a duck egg blue. Yeah, here you go. There you go. I mean, it's like the sort of green eggshell mix that you'd get in a pint. It's like the sort of green eggshell mix that you'd get in a pint. That's what I mean. You'd see an arctic ceiling that colour.

Duck egg blue, but duck egg green, I guess. He says she was an araucana and particularly feisty in her old age. He said there was a thriving cottage industry of pretty chickens similar to dog breeding and dog shows where people pamper their birds to make them look amazing. People will pay lots of money for chicks of rare chicken breeds with delicate plumage. So there you go, chicken and egg expert, Ben Goodwin. One thing I will say to you, Ben, what came first?

It's not enough to have pretty white eggs. You've got to have a pretty white chicken too. Exactly. Indeed. You're my pretty white chicken, Ben. Thanks, mate. Thank you. It's nice to get some info from Ben on that.

I know. It's nice to have a little bit of a follow-up. Shall I do the St Kilda one or you? Because you proper bum St Kilda. Have you got another one you can do? No. No, you do it. You do it.

Okay. Jamie from Paisley. Lovely part of the world. Could be the home of Prince. You never know. Hello, Luke and Pete. A few episodes back, you guys were talking about St Kilda. I was recently visiting my gran when she brought up a story about her brother

who was doing some building work in St Kilda at a military base on the island. One Christmas, the waters were so bad that they couldn't ship in any food for the soldiers on Christmas Day. So they decided to parachute in whole chickens, resulting in one going rogue and striking a senior officer square in the head and breaking his neck. Wow.

I'm confused. Why was the senior officer on the ground? Because I'm fairly certain chickens can't get that much of a, that much flight span.

They can fly. Yeah, but not that high, are they? I think you'd be surprised. I think a chicken could probably fly up into a tree.

No. I reckon they could. Let fly up into a tree. No. I reckon they could. Let's ask Ben Goldman. My gran said that it wasn't all bad as the officer received a very big payout from the army and was more than chuffed. What a weird situation to get yourself in, I suppose. That is very strange.

Dangerous. You think when you go somewhere there's literally no one, it wouldn't be as dangerous. Jamie from Pairsley there. I mean, you think when you go somewhere where there's literally no one, it wouldn't be as dangerous. Jeremy from Pairsley there. Thank you, Jeremy. The batteries in his remote are called Rocket. Rocket. Oh, we've actually got a few more batteries, of course.

You're not going to get through one of these shows without talking about batteries. Indeed. Andrew Neil unveiled a pair of Omni remotes. Nice. Benny said he's got some Gritty. Gritty? Yeah.

Gritty. Mike Green's unveiled a pair of, he bought a bike light, a new light for his bike, and he dropped the latch open to be faced with a pair of Dura Days. Dura Days. I would say the more exotic ones are things that just require, that do one thing, like a fan or a light, rather than a computer or a remote control for

an on-brand telly. Greg Sleet will steal quite a lot of the plaudits though by sharing with us a photo from a Korean supermarket in which he showed us a whole rack of Bexels. Yeah, Bexels I've heard possibly from the same gentleman. Korean

7-Elevens sell a lot of them. That's a really interesting kind of thread as well. Well, not that interesting, but Japanese, Korean, and Chinese slash Hong Kong 7-Elevens, like convenience stores, convenience as they're called in Japan. There are three major brands in Japan. 7-Eleven, the big brand, 7-Eleven. There's Lawson's, and I think one called k-star or something right um i've read before something um you might be to help me out on this but it's so they are everywhere they're ubiquitous they're on every single uh street i

heard i was reading about a a completely identical but nonetheless not endorsed and not official Apple store in China. It's completely indistinguishable from the real thing. And they sell knockoffs. Yeah. Knockoff Nigels. Somebody in New York converted a glass-plated lift that took people down to platform level in the metro.

They just put a big Apple sign on it and employed people to stand in a line and pretend that they were waiting for the new iPhone. It was fake kind of New York. Where was that? It did look very Apple-story because it was kind of encased in glass. Where was that? That was in near Times Square, I think. I've got an iPhone, so I'm not someone who's against Apple products,

but when you see that stuff of people queuing up all night and then getting clapped in to buy a new one i mean that to me is pathetic well you get that for many kind of geeky uh electronics electronics and video games but what i would also say is that um the paying people to stay in line for you that's against against my principles, so to speak. And you don't have many of those. I'll never have a cleaner. I've got one more email, actually, that I keep meaning to read

and I keep not doing it. And last week I didn't do it because we did a sleepwalk special. And I need to get this one in. This is from David. Now, Pete, do you remember a while ago, it was episode 19,

as David here sort of generously reminds me. Well, at least he knows which one it was. We're talking about lake effect snow in Buffalo. Right, okay. Remember I told you it was directly linked to global warming? Yeah, okay.

More water was being brought out of the Great Lakes and dumped on particular towns and cities. Now, this is one of the things I love about this show. David was actually there and lived through the incident. Whoa. So he's emailed us about it. Now, for those of you who don't remember, either go back to episode 19 now and

listen to it or I'll just give you a quick pre-sieve it now. Because of particular changes in air temperature a lot more water was being sucked up from the Great Lakes than would normally happen at that time of year a while ago and so it was being dumped in ever larger quantities on towns like Buffalo which is up in the top of New York State. Now, David is from Buffalo, lives there, and he says the following. Hello, Luke and Pete. I've just been catching up on the show today at work, and I got to episode nine where you referenced the massive snowfall we got in Buffalo, where I've lived for seven years. The most interesting thing

about that snowfall for us was how narrow and sharply defined the storm pattern was. Essentially, the 10 to 12 feet of snow was only dropped on the southern half of the city and surrounding suburbs while the rest escaped relatively unscathed have you read this email no this was most distinctly illustrated in the eastern suburb of cheek to waga right now i know the reason i've heard of cheek to waga is because they've got a newspaper called the Cheektowaga Bee. Isn't that cute? That is very cute. With a little bee on it.

Was it Cheektowaga? Yeah, C- Sounds like a racist WDV character. Well, it'll obviously be based on the Native American name of the town. It does a bit. Apparently, so, the eastern suburb of Cheektowaga,

which was directly on the edge of the storm, where my wife and I lived at the time, in an apartment block set far back from the road at the end of a long driveway. I woke up that first morning and looked out our second story window to see the ground quite a bit closer than i remembered it the night before the storm had come on us somewhat unexpectedly and at some point during the day i realized that we had not have any of the vital necessities in the house that we needed so being the adventurous soul that

i am i decided to set out on foot to reach the grocery store just up the street from us and see if they were open. I had to dig my way out of the front door, then trudge through armpit deep snow to get to the main road. As I got closer to the store, I realized the snow was getting lower and lower until I finally reached it and my upper, sorry, actually not even the store. As I finally reached the street at the end of my driveway, to my utter bafflement, had only received a light dusting of snow the houses across the street had received nothing and most of the cars driving along had little to no snow on them i easily walked the rest of the way to the store which was obviously open and recounted to a disbelieving store clerk just how much snow i had to dig my way through to get here less than a quarter of a mile

away that's so weird i guess it doesn't flow snow does it it falls and then invariably just stays where it is he said we still had it a lot easier than some friends of ours who live to the south of our set to escape out of the second floor window to dig down through approximately six feet of snow just to reach the roof of their buried pickup truck inside which they had left their mobile phone he said cell phone I said mobile phone if you jumped say like snow

was up to the second floor window or the first floor window like I would worry that if I jumped in that snow I'd sink right at the bottom

and suffocate I don't think it happens like that it's too tight yeah I think so I think it depends on the type of snow because I've experienced

quite deep snow in Vermont not as deep as some of the people listening would have experienced. Certainly not the same as David. And when you get to a certain point, you just don't sink anymore, I think. But again, it does depend on the type of snow. They have a type of snow in that part of the US, and I forget the actual name for it,

but colloquially it's called heart attack snow. It's really hard and heavy and compacted and when people are shoveling their paths and their driveways they have heart attacks yeah because in the US

I think you're only responsible for your own driveway and your own path everything else is ploughed for you but obviously to get your car out you've got to do the driving yourself

so yeah there you go I was watching speaking about wrestling I was watching Wrestlemania 3 and it was in the Pontiac Silverdome, which I think is in Michigan.

Is Michigan at the top of the country? Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, Michigan, I think. And they, basically, the Pontiac Silverdome

was built in the 70s, and I think Elvis played there once. And it was held up, the roof was held up, it was like this kind of sheet roof, and it was held up by air,

just kind of air being underneath it effectively. And unfortunately, a couple of decades later, the snow was so heavy that it just collapsed. And the video of the Pontiac Silverdome collapsing is something else. There's not only, presumably. There's a couple of people in it. They're driving one of those trucks that looks after

the NFL pitch. They're driving off and the roof just starts to sink and sink and sink until one of the cells bursts and a load of snow comes through and the speakers that are connected to the roof just keep on going. It really is something to behold. That's amazing. I've never even heard of that. Yeah, so there we go. WrestleMania 3, was that the one with Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant?

That was when Hulk Hogan scoop slammed, I think Hulk Hogan and Andre the Giant that was when Hulk Hogan scoop slammed I think you call it Andre the Giant and a fascinating and opening it was Aretha Franklin it was the first

kind of proper decent Wrestlemania I've been going through the old ones and it kind of hit its stride at three I think after the nonsense

that was Mr. T in 1 and 2 and all kinds of nonsense so the one I first properly remember would be Wrestlemania 7 which was I think Hulk Hogan and Sgt. and all kinds of nonsense. So the one I first properly remember would be WrestleMania 7, which was, I think, Hulk Hogan and Sgt. Slaughter. Right, okay.

And that was the one where... I think it might have been quite controversial because Sgt. Slaughter spits on the Stars and Stripes or something like that. There's a lot of that going on sort of thing. Is it Sgt. Volkov or something? Oh, Nikolai Volkov. Nikolai Volkov. I think he was,

I can't remember, he was in one of the, he was like anti, I think his thing was, he would sing the Russian National Anthem. But he was actually from some state that got screwed over

by the USSR back in the day. So, by him playing a heel and playing an evil character, it was really cathartic because he was basically booing the Russian National Anthem

all the time. I think there's a lot of that sort of stuff and the mad iron shrek who again Iranian kind of character very strange Wrestlemania 7 was brilliant

because it had Hulk Hogan against Sgt Slaughter Virgil beat Ted DiBiase the million dollar man Ultimate Warrior beat Randy Savage it had Undertaker

against Superfly Snooker the Nasty Boys against the Heart Foundation the British Border against the Warlord there were so many good matchups couple of murder of murderers in there jake snake roberts as well against the model rick martell who was a really good heel loads good i'm not really a big wrestling fan but i love wrestlemania so no i think i was never a fan when i was a kid but i've got a mate who

really likes it and knows all the stories behind it so when you sit down and watch it with him or you know we talk about it later i do find it fascinating that these the whole carnival or carny kind of background to uh wrestling where you're just a block and your body is your temple and if you can't work you don't eat your stock in trade it's your stock in trade and it's very it's almost like being like a band on tour like you if you don't look after yourself if you don't kind of um keep your words about you and you beat the crap out of your body i find the whole discipline fascinating and i never knew if you don't kind of keep your wits about you and you beat the crap out of your body I find the whole discipline fascinating and I never knew wrestling

I don't know wrestling I don't go and watch wrestling I don't watch wrestling but I do like the stories behind it they used to take a lot of drugs as well haven't they

have you seen Beyond the Mat no I haven't it's good it's very good I'd recommend that it's a documentary about the whole thing it's got Jack the Snake

in it quite a lot this is very much the Montreal screw job of podcasts I think it's fair to say I told you about that can I stick something into Men Carter yeah why not have of podcasts, I think it's fair to say. I told you about that. Can I stick something into Men Carter? Yeah, why not?

Have we got time? I think we've got time. Let's have a bit of Men Carter. There's the Men Carter jingle. We've got to finish this podcast pretty quickly because my stomach is rumbling like a wrong. I've only had one whole wheat bagel today. One? That's pretty stodgy.

I've had nothing today. But it's like, it's three o'clock. I never eat in the morning. That was nine o'clock. I don't either really. So there's this house in Virginia

and it's, they're basically selling it, this came out a few weeks ago because it was Halloween. It's the last place that local trick-or-treating children want to hit up for candy on Halloween.

The Tombstone House was built in 1934 using the lower half of marble tombstones procured from Poplar Grove in a nearby Civil War cemetery. 2,200 discarded headstones in total, all from Union soldiers. So all of these soldiers in question all died in the siege of St. Petersburg at the end of the Civil War. After their original wooden grave markers rotted away, the government installed upright marble headstones to take their place. However, during the Great Depression, maintaining the cemetery obviously suffered because they had no money.

And so the city decided to cut the tombstones in half and lay the top halves, which are engraved with the names of the soldiers, on the ground so they no longer stood up erect. So these makeshift flat graves save money on mowing and maintenance costs and stuff like that. The bottom halves of these tombstones were then sold for $45 each. Their new owner, Oswald Young, used them to build his house, chimney, and walkway. Have you got a picture of it up there? Have you given it a little Google? I haven't seen it.

Well, I haven't got a picture with me but it's just basically this house. This solid, shiny looking house. Remember the name of it? All built, just the tombstone house

I suppose. I'll have a look. In, where was it? I'll have a go at describing it. Yeah, well it just looks like a really strange house. Oh my goodness,

yeah that is very strange. Isn't it good? Yeah. I mean it looks like a kind of, like a townhouse, but it's all made out of gravestones.

It's going to be a, sure that's a Wes Craven movie in the making. Something else, isn't it? That's a crazy, a crazy idea.

2,200 tombstones. Waste not, want not. Is it disrespectful? I think that it's a Benthamism in action. It's utilitarianism in action. Jeremy Bentham, back in the 18th century, I think he died,

possibly 19th, he died and wanted his body to be stuffed and put on display as a makeshift statue. And his head is in one of the universities in London, and I visited it once. And it's in a right fucking state. Similar to those monks that you were talking about a couple of weeks ago. It's in a right fucking state. Similar to those monks that you were talking about

a couple of weeks ago. Oh yeah, those cool monks. And if you ever Google those monks and please do in Sakata,

for some reason one of them's got sunglasses on. Yeah, so I found a photo of those monks just for social media

purposes. Yeah. And the first photo that comes up is one of them wearing a pair of sunglasses. Now I presume

that is because they want to preserve the eyeballs maybe, I don't know. Oh maybe I mean surely there are better ways to do that. You think so? You would certainly think so. Well I was wearing sunglasses while I was watching the monks which is very disrespectful but what I would argue if you ever see me in

sunglasses at an inopportune moment it's because I wear prescription lenses and I've been known to be on platform level tube with prescription sunglasses on. We've talked about this before. I think that you need to understand that people aren't going to know that.

They shouldn't be so judgmental. I could have just had an eye operation. You're wearing a pair of normal glasses right now. These are my backup. You'll notice that you probably can't see my pupils because they're incredibly reflective, because most glasses nowadays have all kinds of coatings that reduce reflectiveness. Right, and you haven't got those on that one?

I haven't got those on these because my other one's busted. Why don't you wear contacts? Because it's far on, aren't they? Have you ever fallen asleep in your contact lenses? Yeah, the new ones are not too bad, but the ones that used to be monthly ones that were a bit more durable. Oh, agony. Why is it so painful?

It's just dry, really dry, and they stick to your lens, they stick to your eyeball. Is it bad for you to do that? As a non, yeah, it's not great because you're depriving

your eye of oxygen. Remember, I mean, back in the day, I remember my mum wearing hard contact lenses. What are they? Well, I mean, soft contact lenses

that you can kind of roll them up in your fingers but hard contact lenses they were just rigid. The ones where you used to have a little jar with a little thing sticking into it

where you put them in there in the solution. My dad used to wear those. Incredible. And I remember reading before about the future of, there's one of these sort of magazines

they give away in Hammersmith, whatever, with the economists. They give you a free economist and they give you a free economist and they give you this magazine with it. And they gave another magazine. And they gave this magazine about the future

of human beings. And a lot of it was about cyborgs. Augmented humans. Yeah, basically. But it started off by saying actually, we're probably pretty much there anyway. By definition because, if you look at the dictionary definition of it,

we wear glasses, we wear contact lenses, we wear hearing aids, all this other stuff to help us already. And people have got plates in their heads and their arms and their legs and all that other stuff. So we're already really there. Hearing aids have gotten so much better in the last few years. Is that right? They really have.

They're really tiny and small and they look cool. My dad's got a... He's got his eyes lasered. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it works very well for him. Yeah, I'm thinking... You can get it done in like 20 minutes now. Yeah, I'm thinking I might indulge in later life.

Well, you've already had the old armpits lasered. I've got my armpits lasered. How is that taking priority over your eyes? How have you thought, I've got a few grand to spend on this, I'm going armpits. Well, because that's so manageable. That's so manageable.

But like, eyeballs, you don't want to mess around with them if you can get away with it. I'm fine. But it's good for you. It's good for you. I wouldn't trust... Lasering your eyes.

I wouldn't trust Rick Edwards going there. But for most people, it's perfectly safe. Shoot a laser up his ammonia-tinged nostril. Yeah. Anyway, that's enough about that, Peter. Yes. If you want to get in touch with the show, as always, it's really simple. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com.

Yeah. Somebody invited us to a drug exhibition. Oh, yeah. I meant to mention that. A drug exhibition. Should I try and find the email now? I've got it here somewhere, I think. So it's the Museum of Drug Policy. Yes.

It's coming to London, and we were invited to go there. It's coming to London. To be honest, all um it's invitation came from the delightfully named oliver volubin oliver hidalgo volubin yeah i think uh oliver might have got in touch before because i remember that name it's beautiful i need to apologize to oliver because i saw the email very late and by the time i saw it um it already happened but um museum of drug Policy is a pop-up art and cultural hub featuring

live programming from around the world, highlighting how drug policies impact and shape our communities. I love that I did it all of a scene and thought, that's perfect for Luke and Pete. Well, what I like about it, it's only open to the public from November 3rd to the 5th and then after that, who knows what happens? The drugs get eaten.

Yeah, quite, exactly. We should have just wandered in there really drunk going, we've got some policy ideas for and then after that who knows what happens the drugs get eaten yeah quite exactly out of the literate we should have just wandered in there really drunk going we've got some policy ideas for you

get it up my nose where's the where's the goodie bag I want some Mandy anyway come on what we didn't go

we didn't go no you got drunk you got drunk I couldn't find it thanks for the invite anyway. And anyone else who wants to invite us to any sort of opening, do please get in touch. Hello at LukeandPete.com.

But if you just want to email and say hello, do that as well. We'd love to hear from you. We love reading your emails. We read every single one of them. And we do read out our favourites. I want everyone to know what I did to Luke's computer. We bought a new computer.

Oh, come on. I've actually got to sort that out. For the Luke and Pete show slash Football Ramble slash all of our other endeavours. And on the front of it, it was like a power PC. It was like a gaming PC laptop. Shall I tell you what actually happened? What? We had a load of ideas about stuff we wanted to do in the future.

And everyone was like, that sounds good. And then you went, I want a new PC for it. Yeah. So, yeah, I bought a gaming computer because they're quite quick for editing and it came with some really gaudy kind of stickers. And I put it on the back of Luke's laptop so he looks like a power user, let's say.

Well, my problem isn't that. I don't mind being judged for that. I just don't want people to come up and ask me questions about it because I have no idea what I'm talking about. What's an NVIDIA GTX? Yeah. How's your thermalVIDIA GTX? Yeah. How's your thermal paste?

You're obsessed with thermal paste. Yeah, because I never knew it was a thing until you mentioned it. What even is it? It's just a paste that you put in between a heat sink and a processor, or a heat sink and a graphical processing unit, and it dispels heat.

It transfers heat, basically. So it stops overheating. It's a metallic compound. Is it a better way, basically a better version of a fan? No, it's just a better way for connecting two things. So if you put aluminium, which is what a lot of the heat sinks are made of,

or copper, on top of something that needs to dispel heat, there's going to be some space on a really small level in between those two surfaces. So to connect them, you just use a thermal paste and it fills the space that it's allowed effectively.

Oh, so it's like when you inject foam into bricks for insulation? Yeah, exactly. So it's an insulation, but it transfers heat. And my final question is, why should I believe someone who doesn't even know what a twin-stick shooter is? I know, you're quite right, aren't you? Let everyone down there.

I think both genres are quite dull anyway. I know how to cut to the very core of you Pete and it is identification of particular genres of video games so yes it's been real

it's been emotional thank you for joining us this week for number 24 was this this was 25 this was 25 next week will be 26 we're recording live

next week from the Tombstone House yes so don't miss that exactly I'm going to be doing ketamine off the balustrade

the drug policy thing yeah I get it see you later see you later Outro Music