The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 26: Sex, lies and videos of tapir

Episode Date: November 27, 2017

In this week's fifty minutes of daftness, we learn of Luke Moore's love of herbivorous mammals, the life-size cabbage patch doll who lives in his house, and Pete learns of a frightful eyesore of a bui...lding in Lebanon. Get in touch via @lukeandpeteshow on twitter, and hello@lukeandpeteshow.com for all your correspondence, which for obvious reasons we can't live without. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 🎵 Ooh, me stomach just made a bit of a noise there, Luke. Apologies. It's the Luke and Pete show. I'm not going to pretend I know what number it is. I'm Pete Donson. And I'm Luke Moore. Rawr, stomach. Episode'm Pete Danson. And I'm Luke Moore. Episode 26. Episode 26.
Starting point is 00:00:29 We can now legally, I don't know what you can do at 26. You hate numbering. Well, I hate the numbering and I think at 26 you should be allowed to do everything, I think. Well, 26 means you can now, to take this quite boring trope
Starting point is 00:00:42 through to its conclusion, you can now hire a car because you've got to be over 25. Do you have to be over 25? I think so, yeah. So if I, my mate, who is as useless as I am at, you know, tasks and hand-eye coordination and video games and stuff, he has just recently had a, like, a week's worth of driving lessons
Starting point is 00:01:00 in an automatic car. He tried a few in manual like I did. Yeah. I think I've done 10 hours in a manual. How long ago was that? Probably about three years ago. Okay. I was with my ex.
Starting point is 00:01:10 Okay. And we broke up soon after. What does that tell you? You are a terrible driver and lover. And yeah, he just passed his test. And I was thinking, I... Have been left behind. I have been left behind, both figuratively. To be honest though,
Starting point is 00:01:25 most of my friends can't drive, so I'm not that bothered. Well, Pete... But I was thinking, I'm never going to own a car while I live in the centre of town, so... No. Could I rent a car immediately after I've passed my test? Presumably there'd be a cooling off period.
Starting point is 00:01:42 They're not going to just give you a car, are they? I think they might ask how long you've had your licence for. They might have different factors. But do you know what, Pete? I'll give you a lift off period. They're not going to just give you a car, are they? I think they might ask how long you've had your licence for. They might have different factors. But do you know what, Pete? I'll give you a lift, mate. Yeah, all right, mate. No problem. And one thing I would add to the idea that we've turned 26 now,
Starting point is 00:01:54 I wish that were true, is that you could probably go to over 25, no, over 25's not it, Fever in Hartlepool, no? Fever? What's Fever? It's a nightclub in Hartlepool, apparently. Have you Googled it? It's on Church Street.
Starting point is 00:02:05 Now, mate, Church Street pubs and bars change hands so often. There are clubs in Church Street that have a million pound makeover and they've just
Starting point is 00:02:16 put some fire exits in. Right. And I'm using million pound makeover as a substitute for the word money laundering. An early effort
Starting point is 00:02:24 for your legal problems of the show normally it takes a bit longer didn't name a particular one did I alright over 25 over 25's night
Starting point is 00:02:31 in loons then loons is that still there mate that's an over 40's night bare minimum a little bit of loons they've got one of those
Starting point is 00:02:38 really sort of parochial DJ's who will just talk over the songs like dip the songs play half a song and then move on but he'll just be like talking about people in the actual club. Oh, she's getting a finger in the corner. I'm just saying that's what she's that's what they're doing. It's really it's really horrible. And that's why you go there. And that's why I DJ there. So what's
Starting point is 00:03:00 been going on, Pete? Another week's passed. We're all a week closer to the grave. And I include you, the listener, in that as well. past we're all a week closer to the grave and i include you the listener in that as well 26 years young we're closer to the grave um i learned something about you uh specifically your missus uh this week oh god that your good lady is a cabbage patch mcdonald's doll oh yes i'm fascinated by this that is true good um good spot so i when i told you that in confidence i didn't expect you to bring that to the table, but you have now, so that's fine. This is like when Doc Brown bought a load of sand
Starting point is 00:03:28 and started talking about my wife. Yeah, my wife. Essentially, a couple of members of her family worked for a very long time in McDonald's and her aunt was in charge of essentially the Happy Meal section of, this was a long time ago, it's like late 80s, early 90s, Happy Meal section of McDonald's.
Starting point is 00:03:53 And she was responsible, partly responsible, for designing the Happy Meal toys. And around that time they had a tie-in with Cabbage Patch Dolls. Do you remember those? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, did you just mention Cabbage Patch Dolls? Yeah, yeah, yeah. You just mentioned cabbage patch dolls. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, cabbage patch dolls.
Starting point is 00:04:08 And so, a very sweet move. Her aunt designed one after her. And so, there's loads of them knocking about all over the world, really. Do you not think that's really weird? Basically, your wife, like little versions of your wife on eBay for a couple of quid apiece.
Starting point is 00:04:23 They're actually a bit more than that. Oh, premium. Yeah, we've got the original template. I don't know what you call it. I think it's a template where you know you must produce something.
Starting point is 00:04:32 Yes, okay. The original template. They've painted it up. They've painted it up as you would the actual toy itself. And it was presented to my wife as a gift. Fascinating.
Starting point is 00:04:39 We've got it in a presentation case at home. I just find that that is, I think, weirder than you give it credit for. I think I'm more blown away by it, I think, weirder than you give it credit for. I think I'm more blown away by it. I think it's cool.
Starting point is 00:04:47 And there's one, there's one designed on her sister as well, her younger sister. There's a couple of them knocking about and I think they, my wife and her sister have, have, fights,
Starting point is 00:04:54 play fights. They have eBay valuation wars. Do they? Yeah. Fantastic. Have you ever been given like a personalised product before? Good question.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Yeah, probably from like some terrible PR agency. I've got, yeah i got a pair of football boots with my name on them yeah that was that was a low point yeah for them yeah hello point for them how many times have they been muddied a couple of times maybe do you know what i did did i tell you the story about selling what selling them what so i've got a few different pairs and one pair i i i would never used and um i think they didn't really I don't want to be I just know I won't won't mention the brand because um it won't it won't stitch them up but they didn't fit my feet very well right and so um I sold them not for much but I just sold them
Starting point is 00:05:34 and gave the money to a charity what are you laughing at yeah well it's just the way you look you did a little look there you managed to wink without closing either of your eyes because I don't want to talk about my charity work. Anyway, when I was selling them, I noticed that the buyer on eBay was based in Southampton. Now, of course, I'm a Portsmouth fan. So I wrote Playout Pompey on some pieces of paper and put them under the soles. That's creepy. So they always have Playout Pompey whenever they use them now.
Starting point is 00:06:01 How do you know? What, underneath the soles of the soles? That's hilarious. Yeah. They'll never know. That's hilarious. They'll never know. That's naughty. That is like when wasn't there a
Starting point is 00:06:07 Southampton, there were some builders working on Pompey's Stadium and they put a Southampton shirt inside the wall.
Starting point is 00:06:15 I think it's the other way round. Right, okay, yeah. People always say that. I don't know if that's true or not. There was a picture
Starting point is 00:06:19 of them doing it. Oh, was there? Okay. Maybe it is true, yeah. In the Absolute Radio main studio they were doing it
Starting point is 00:06:24 up and these walls get pulled out all the time so it will probably last out to years. Maybe it is 3am, yeah. In the Absolute Radio main studio, they were doing it up and, you know, these walls get pulled out all the time so it'll probably last out to years. Oh, is this about the creepy guy? But I wrote,
Starting point is 00:06:29 no, no, that had nothing to do with Bauer Media or Absolute Radio. That was another building, global. Yeah, that was 12 years ago. That was 12 years ago.
Starting point is 00:06:37 And that was on, we talked about that in one of the earlier episodes of this show, didn't we? Yeah, I think we did, yeah. Because the guy, he went and delivered
Starting point is 00:06:42 the washing machine and there was loads of pictures of women on the wall with the eyes cut out. Oh yeah, that's right, that rings a bell. Yeah, I think we did. Because the guy, he went and delivered the washing machine and there was loads of pictures of women on the wall with their eyes cut out. Oh yeah, that's right. That rings a bell. Yeah, but I wrote
Starting point is 00:06:49 Peter's cool, NUFC, in the wall. In the wall! So someone will find that at some point. If you don't mind me saying, that is two quite juvenile
Starting point is 00:06:57 and adolescent things to write. Your wife is a doll. Yeah, she is. She's a doll. She's a real doll. In more ways than one. She's an real doll. In more ways than one. She's an absolute doll. I have a personalised jar of both Swarfiga and HP sauce.
Starting point is 00:07:09 Oh, you told me about this. Well, the Swarfiga was given to me by a mate who'd won a competition and he kindly gave over his chance to have the word Gav written on the side of some Swarfiga. That must have been a wrench for him. I know, right? But I've also got a bottle of HP sauce with my face on it. It was like a Movember tie-in when I had to grow a moustache for it. Have you used it?
Starting point is 00:07:30 You know what? It's in a colleague's drawer at work, and he's halfway through the bottle, and I feel like going, give me my face back, sir. Because what you could do, if you keep it, is it a glass bottle? So you keep it. Even when it runs out, yeah, you could refill it with the squeezy bottle one. Yeah. HP sauces. Keep it. It's a glass bottle. So you keep it. Even when it runs out, yeah, you could refill it with the squeezy bottle one. HP Sources. I don't know how far HP Source goes
Starting point is 00:07:49 in terms of its world presence, but I know that our cousins and our friends in America won't necessarily know an awful lot about HP Source. No. But I think you do get it in Australia and New Zealand,
Starting point is 00:08:01 but I'm not sure about anywhere else. You get a similar, when you have Okonomiyaki sauce, which is a kind of sweeter sort of HP sauce, that you put exclusively okonomiyaki with some mayonnaise. I think it's made by the Kewpie Company. The mayonnaise certainly is anyway, and that's very HP saucy. So I think there's a derivative all over the world.
Starting point is 00:08:19 All over the world. I'd love to know the most far-fetched place that you, the listener, have consumed or even just seen a bottle of HP sauce. And also the relevant price point. Price point. Because there'll be a lot of exporters using it, I expect. So hello at lukeandpeachow.com for that. For that.
Starting point is 00:08:38 Do you know where I'd really like to go, Luke? Go on. Greenland. I wouldn't mind it. There's nothing there. There's nothing there. There's nothing. Apart from Canadians and oil riggers.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Is it a principality of Denmark? Owned by Denmark, maybe? I think so. Danish territory, I think. What is the place where they do... We're going to have so many dull emails about that. Oh, actually, Luke. Isn't it Greenland in Denmark where they do that thing
Starting point is 00:09:02 where they keep replacing each other's flags and they leave a bottle of vodka or something? Oh, that rings a bell. We heard about that. I feel like that was somewhere in Canada, though. Yeah. Maybe. But Greenland would be cool.
Starting point is 00:09:11 There's not much going on there, I don't think. What I've heard, you know, I love nightlife, Luke. The nightlife is just people getting sharted. Well, I bet it is. That's your whole life. I know. But you could also, if you went to Greenland, I feel fairly confident you could find the Greenland shark, which is a very important species of shark for lots of reasons.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Mainly because I think that it was only discovered very, very recently. And scientists also discovered that, based on samples they took, that they're astonishingly old, Greenland sharks. I think some of them might even be the high hundreds of years old right and they're all apparently blind that every single one of them's got some sort of um north injury no no no it's like it's like an infection between yeah that might be that might be a knock-on effect but it's like an infection or some sort of parasite on their eyes right and so i think because they swim so deep they don't
Starting point is 00:10:03 really need them right so anyway there anyway, loads of people out there who know loads more about greenling sharks than I do, but they're a fascinating species. Since the Little Peach Shops started, they've discovered a new primate, which is incredible, a new ape. Right. We've got the lesser apes, we've got the gibbons,
Starting point is 00:10:16 and we've got this new kind of orangutan. What, in Borneo? It's one of the, I think it's Borneo, there's two kinds, or there was two kinds, Borneo and Sumatran, and I think it's Borneo there's two kinds or there was two kinds Borneo Sumatran and now there's a third one as well
Starting point is 00:10:28 and I can't remember which which population they've taken these out of so basically so these are incredibly endangered there's only 500 of them
Starting point is 00:10:36 in the world now but they've decided they're different enough it was like when the bonobos were discovered in the 1920s but it's the first discovery of an ape
Starting point is 00:10:43 since 1929 or something like that which is incredible. And they've only just reclassified them. They've got slightly fuzzier hair and slightly smaller heads, and they've decided that they're different. But the problem is, by taking 500 of the population
Starting point is 00:10:56 of either Samaritans or Boyans... The others are now more endangered than they thought. Yeah, and I suppose when people hear stories about new species of primate being discovered, they think, oh my god, it's like bright blue and never seen it before. But what tends to happen in evolutionary terms is that they're just very slightly different from the existing species, right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:14 Okay, right. It's still good though. I mean, it's fascinating. I mean, that never happens. It literally never happens. Like last year, last time was just under 100 years ago. It always really blows my mind whenever you hear about... By the way, we should mention that Blue Planet 2
Starting point is 00:11:29 at the moment is absolutely amazing. Yeah, everyone's been... Have you not watched it yet? I've not watched a single episode. I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. Oh, it's fantastic. Yeah, I say that sometimes. Clearly not to you, Sunshine.
Starting point is 00:11:40 No, I always watch it. But it's been fantastic so far. But those types of programs, the Attenborough voiceover, which is obviously this completely iconic thing and the godfather of TV and all the rest of it. But when he sometimes says stuff, you think, can that be true?
Starting point is 00:11:55 And obviously it is true. They said that about the Lemmings and it was all a Disney ruse. It was, exactly. But the great, and the same with the ostrich, which never actually buries its head in the sand. That's not true either. But what I was going to say was,
Starting point is 00:12:08 you'll be like, say they're talking about penguins, and they'll show like an emperor penguin. And I'm making this up, but you understand the principle. Oh yeah, and the emperor penguin is one of 5,400 species of penguin. You're like, can that be true? Cut it down.
Starting point is 00:12:23 Or like, this tree frog is one of 42,000 I mean the penguin is what we say is the penguin it's a penguin it looks unlike
Starting point is 00:12:32 any other flightless birds used to do sort of go well just class them all together penguin
Starting point is 00:12:37 penguin is fine it's going to have no bearing on our lives but Ricky Gervais says in one of his stand up things he says he wonders whether
Starting point is 00:12:44 scientific research and funding and stuff is really based on that. So it's like, oh no, this is actually a new species and we need more funding to learn more about it. They painted it. Well, that's my disappointment of how little gibbons are studied because they're not as sexy as the gorillas
Starting point is 00:12:58 and they're not as sexy as the chimps and, you know, to a lesser extent, the orangutans. Yeah, the gibbons just aren't studied any often. They're the funniest ones. They're the funniest apes. And how different, forgive me my ignorance on this, and I know they're only, I think they're limited just to Madagascar, but how different are lemurs?
Starting point is 00:13:14 Are they a completely different species as well? Well, they're monkeys, but yeah. They're different, aren't they? Because they only exist in Madagascar. Yeah, well, they've got that long sort of snout, and I always use that as a kind of, not a parable, but a simile for not a parable, but a simile for people who've been, expats is a good example.
Starting point is 00:13:32 If you live in like Hong Kong or China, and you're just in an expat community, your deficiencies socially never get called out because you need each other effectively. And you grow into these strange creatures, very much like the lemur they had no natural predators so they just grew into these long-nosed freaky animals yeah that's cool that freaky bright animals it's um the sort of variation on that thing i suppose is the um the idea of convergent evolution where you have two different species and a completely different
Starting point is 00:14:00 size of the planet and they've evolved exactly the same thing well yeah they've evolved completely separately but their environmental pressures are in some planet. And they've evolved totally separately. Well, yeah, they've evolved completely separately, but their environmental pressures are in some way similar. So they've evolved to develop really similar characteristics. And I think you might get, there's a couple of species of tapir, one in South America, maybe one in Asia or something, who evolved almost completely separately
Starting point is 00:14:19 over millions of years. Anyway, I'm probably getting that wrong, but you understand the point. It's fascinating that. I want to say the Malaysian tapir. Is there a Malaysian tapir? If you're a Malaysian tapir and you're listening, hello at thecompeteshow.com.
Starting point is 00:14:30 They're particularly adorable and freaky. Before I started working at the zoo, I'd never seen one before, and I was like, whoa, what are these guys? It's a fake animal. That's a cutting shot, mate. You taped two together. When the first sample of a duck-billed platypus
Starting point is 00:14:44 was sent back. Oh, and they just went, fuck off. Yeah. Why? At least make it reasonably believable. What have you melted that bloody beak, you idiot? Shall we do a couple of emails? Shall we get into it?
Starting point is 00:14:56 Where's the It's Been? Well, we should have done the It's Been at the start of the show, really. Let's have an It's Been now. It's been. Thank you. Emails. I thought the pitch was good, but the performance was poor. Well, then, do it again.
Starting point is 00:15:09 It's been. It's a bit out of tune, but it's... It's been. Better. No, because it goes in. It's like a big dipper. Yeah, but the second half is a bit flat. It's been.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Yeah, that was the best one. That was the best one. It's not bad. You still got it, mate. Listen. Don't listen to what all those girls on Tinder say. You've still got it. What were we talking about?
Starting point is 00:15:29 What was the one that last was doing? Bumble. Bumble. Oh, yeah. Bumble. We'll both look after Luke. We'll both look after Luke. If he feels sad with our mum and dad, we'll both look after Luke.
Starting point is 00:15:42 Do you want an email? Yeah. I just didn't know I was going to say the word bumble. So I've got a battery email, obviously.
Starting point is 00:15:50 I've got a really good locked out of the house story, which is quite long. Just get into them. Okay, all right. All right. Do a little kind of contents of what's in the book.
Starting point is 00:15:58 You go for it. Hello to Henry in Hampshire following on with the chat about Pete wanting a dog but being allergic. This is kind of a public service email in many ways. I want to share my own experience of the same situation. I myself am also allergic to dog hair and all other animal hair for that matter.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Dog dander. Dog dander. But my girlfriend is a massive animal lover. She decided we were going to temporarily foster an ex-racing greyhound until he found a permanent home. It turns out that as long as I wash my hands after every time I've contacted, which is a bit of a pain, Hoover wants every few days and keep him off the sofa.
Starting point is 00:16:28 I have no reaction to him at all. I've had him for over a year and I didn't spend any money on stupid shit. That's good. So thank you for that, Henry in Hampshire. He's attached a picture of Derek Trotter, the X-ray, so you'd enjoy, even if it's not an audio feature. It's a lovely looking X-ray around. Yeah, it's
Starting point is 00:16:43 that box there. Oh yeah, very nice. Very small. I think it's not real audio feature. It's a lovely looking X-Ray round. Yeah, it's that box there. Oh yeah, very nice. Very small. I think it's not a real time. Yeah. But lovely looking dog. Thank you very much Henry and Hampshire
Starting point is 00:16:51 and good for anybody who also has terrible allergies. I can perhaps shed a bit more light on that as well. My friend Tommy. It's not hair.
Starting point is 00:16:59 No, I'm not shedding any more hair. My friend Tommy who I speak about quite a lot on this show. Bless him. Lovely chap. Right on, Tommy, bless him, lovely chap. Right on, Tommy!
Starting point is 00:17:06 One of my favourite pals. He is allergic to cats. And he's allergic to nuts as well. I almost killed him once, but that's a separate story. With a cat filled with nuts. Maybe I'll come on to that later. Like hand grenade.
Starting point is 00:17:15 Yeah. Cat hand grenade. I basically got a massive walnut shell and put a lot of cats in it and then grenaded his house. No, he stayed over at mine because we were flying to somewhere the next day quite early. So I said, let's stay at mine. And I obviously completely forgot he's allergic to cats and then grenade at his house. No, he stayed over at mine because we were flying to somewhere the next day
Starting point is 00:17:25 quite early. So I said, let's stay at mine. And I obviously completely forgot he's allergic to cats and I've got two cats, Magnus and Hercules, official cats of the Luke and Pete show.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Any more information you want on those, do let me know. Anyway, but we put him in the spare room and the cats love the spare room. They're always sleeping
Starting point is 00:17:41 on the bed there. And about, bless him, he didn't say anything because he's polite but you know that British plightness where you're like
Starting point is 00:17:47 no I will suffer this torturous thing for the next 12 hours because I don't want to cause a fuss I kept hearing him sneeze and I went into the room and I was like
Starting point is 00:17:54 look mate are you struggling here so I basically completely changed the bedding I just killed the cat I sacrificed the cat in front of him
Starting point is 00:18:01 and he doused himself in the blood now he's fine it's like local honey with hay fever and I completely changed the bed sheets and everything and he said I sacrificed the cat in front of him. And he doused himself in the blood. Now he's fine. It's like local honey with hay fever. And I completely changed the bedsheets and everything. Right. And he said it was actually completely fine.
Starting point is 00:18:17 So it might be less the cat itself and more the idea of the cat's hair over time just clinging to everything. Yeah. I mean, you could have just given him some antihistamine, surely. Doss him up with some benilin. We didn't have any. We had expired stuff and he didn't want to take that. But my downstairs neighbour who we're very friendly with... I think medicine just got...
Starting point is 00:18:26 It never really goes off. It just gets less... Effective, yeah. Less effective. I think that's probably right. Our downstairs neighbours who we're very friendly with, we go downstairs to theirs
Starting point is 00:18:35 for dinner quite a lot and we don't ever... They don't ever come up to ours because the girls are loads of cats. Right. So we end up cooking in their flat for them but in their house.
Starting point is 00:18:44 That's weird, isn't it? That's the solution we've come up with. That's strange. Somebody was, somebody texted in, emailed in, disappointed that you'd used the phrase, I knocked my neighbour up.
Starting point is 00:18:55 Yeah. Yeah. I see what they mean. What a dirty boy. So knocked them up means, obviously knocked on their door, but it can also mean got them pregnant. So interpret that how you wish.
Starting point is 00:19:03 I think we all know what I meant. Yeah. At the time but um just quickly before we move on on the tommy thing he's also alleged to nuts and he came over to mine for a curry i said look come over we'll get a takeaway curry and a couple of beers you gotta be so careful well i called him up and i said um can you let me know the curries that aren't um that aren't don't contain nuts and they told me so we ordered a few he got tucked into one and had the worst reaction. He was in the toilet being sick. It was awful. It's like the airways
Starting point is 00:19:30 sort of closing. Yeah, he's not that bad. All right. So, I mean, I've heard of people going to like anaphylactic shock and stuff, which obviously
Starting point is 00:19:37 is literally life-threatening. I was watching a dude on the internet taking a bullet ant sting, which is the strongest, I think it's the strongest sting from an animal that small. But it's taken a bullet ant sting which is the strongest I think it's the strongest sting from an animal that small but it's just a horrible black ant
Starting point is 00:19:50 How big is it? It's probably about as big as a thumbnail basically It's an ant It's the one that takes you out of action for a day and you're just in waves of pain Why do they do that?
Starting point is 00:20:04 He's just a guy who goes around checking out all the stings of horrible animals takes you out of action for a day and you're just in waves of pain for a day. Why do they do that? He's just a guy who goes around checking out all the stings of horrible animals. On the internet? On the internet. The internet is... He's a very brave man. He's not brave, is he? No.
Starting point is 00:20:13 He's absolutely idiotic. Well, he's just trying it out, isn't he? He's just sort of going, oh, look at this one. And he's just got loads of different kind of... Was it linen ant? It was some kind of ant. And he worked his way up into a bullet ant sting, which is apparently just dreadful.
Starting point is 00:20:28 There was these DJs, I think, in Australia. They did one where they went into the jungle somewhere and they put in this kind of tribal kind of test that they do out in the sticks. It's put bullet ants in like a glove and you put your hands in it and you just get loads of stings by a bullet ant. And it's like you go transcendental of stings by a bullet ant and it's, and it's like,
Starting point is 00:20:46 you go transcendental kind of mental for a good few hours. But this guy had to have like a sat phone and by his side every time and all the, what do you call it? Like epi shots and stuff.
Starting point is 00:20:59 Epi pen, yeah. All that wacky stuff. You must be allergic to some of that sort of stuff. No. Bees? No, no. I've been stung by pretty much everything.
Starting point is 00:21:07 With that bullet ant business, I guess if you got an army of those ants and they all started stinging you, presumably your history, that's it? Apparently not. But it is just the most horrible pain. I mean, if you've got a weak heart, maybe, but chances are just climbing up the bloody hill to find them
Starting point is 00:21:23 is probably going to do you in. Terrible. What about this from Greg Sleet who Sleet oh! Who helpfully does acquiesce to our request for where he's
Starting point is 00:21:32 from and what batteries he's got in his remote. He's living in Seoul at the moment so right up your neck of the road and he's got some Bexels and it's
Starting point is 00:21:40 actually Bexel he wants to talk about. He says hello chaps having been ignored repeatedly on the Twitter page, I thought I'd have one more go at shedding some light on the LG, obviously the electronics manufacturer, Bexel connection. Last week, I was doing the big shop at Korean supermarket Emart.
Starting point is 00:21:56 Are you familiar with those? Their work, Pete? I think there actually might be an Emart on Tottenham Court Road, or certainly a Korean supermarket that sells all the brands. Well, Greg was in Emart when he happened to cross a whole rack of Bexel batteries. Recognising the name from the pod,
Starting point is 00:22:11 I went on to do a little more research by checking a few more shops. Very, very studious. I discovered that Bexel are the third most available batteries in Korea behind only Bearmoth's Duracell and Energizer. What with LG being a Korean company, it stands to reason they'd use a popular Korean battery
Starting point is 00:22:27 in their remotes. I've attached a photo of said batteries. He has as well, a whole rack of them. When one of the floor assistants saw me taking a photo, she let me know they're on buy one, get one free. 32 AA Bexels for 8,901, or about six pounds. That's a lot of remote power. P.S. My Chinese remote
Starting point is 00:22:45 had a MIDI max battery in it. MIDI max. Yeah, there we go. They're sort of hedging the bets there, aren't they? Yeah, MIDI or max. MIDI or max. Let's see how we go.
Starting point is 00:22:52 Take your pick. Two things. Recently, I've become obsessed with a meal. I say meal. I had in Seoul once. It was by a street food artiste
Starting point is 00:23:05 who created a meal. You eat out of carrier bags quite a lot. They just put this soupy stuff in little plastic carrier bags. I'm obsessed with this thing. It was like a tomato dish. And these kind of really smooth, what looked like anemic sausages
Starting point is 00:23:20 you'd get in a tin. You know, those really terrible sausages. But it was just like a kind of pasta, kind of wheat-based kind of pasta. But it was these solid sausages in tomato sauce, eating out a curry bag with a toothpick, that I did once, and they were just red hot. And I can't stop thinking about me eating those.
Starting point is 00:23:42 For good reasons or bad reasons? Well, for good reasons, because they were all right, but they were just very, the actual sausages themselves were quite tasteless. And I was like, there must be something to peck this up.
Starting point is 00:23:50 And then I got run over by that man in the scooter. Oh, yeah. The old man. The old man in the scooter who ran you over then tried to offer you 20 cigarettes
Starting point is 00:23:56 to not tell the police. Yeah. Did you tell the police? No, I went home and went, ah, leg. You don't even smoke anyway, do you? Say again?
Starting point is 00:24:03 You don't even smoke. No, it's not funny. And I went to the demilitarized zone. I don't know smoke anyway, do you? Say again? You don't even smoke. No, it's not fine. And I went to the demilitarized zone. I don't know. Was that related? They related, those two of you? No. Nice little toer, though.
Starting point is 00:24:11 I don't think it's made enough of on this show how interesting, and I am going to use the word interesting, your eating habits are. You are. And what I would say about you is you're an absolute trooper, so you get ill quite a lot because you eat weird stuff. Yeah. That's a consistent theme in your life. I can't stand people who,
Starting point is 00:24:28 you've been in a restaurant, oh, don't know, and I'm eating something mental, and I'll go, try this, it's something mental, you don't have to eat it for the whole meal,
Starting point is 00:24:35 but try it. You know, it's something a bit weird. And they go, oh, no. And I'm like, you're never going to try that again because you're never going
Starting point is 00:24:42 to buy it yourself, and you probably don't have people, you perhaps don't have people in your life who are idiots who will happily ruin a meal just for the sake of saying I did something, you know, novel. I mean, your crippling stomach pains, which are consistent, are a testament to that, I would say. Yeah, I mean, you know, weeping stomach ulcers
Starting point is 00:24:59 probably, you know, nascent in my gut right now. But you are a trooper. You do still always turn up to work and sometimes, like earlier this week, you turned up to work with crippling stomach pains and you were cripplingly struggling. And you got through it, and good for you. But you did turn up with three packets of instant noodles,
Starting point is 00:25:14 one of which you proceeded to make in the office and eat, which to me, I'm not a doctor, but to me it's only going to make it worse. Yeah, it wasn't good. But I mean, what I would say is that the noodles did eventually work. But I was quite offended by the... I was quite obsessed with the actual back of the noodle packet. The kabuto noodles.
Starting point is 00:25:33 And the whole back of it, all the preparation instructions are... You know, I'm a Nihonophile. I love Japan. But this is just a bit much. I've got a picture of you, actually. I had that on my camera because I took a picture Kabuto is a delicious combination of authentic
Starting point is 00:25:48 Asian flavours and quality ingredients prepared with the skill, dedication and discipline of a samurai warrior yeah stereotype
Starting point is 00:25:54 and it's like remove lid fill the original side pot with boiling water an opportunity to meditate or practice your karate step two stir well
Starting point is 00:26:03 leave for one minute enjoy your noodles and soup straight from the pot. If no bowl available, try upside down helmet. Remember to stir well, samurai, for true goodness lies beneath. Beware, samurai, for your noodles will be hot. Have we mastered our craft or should we fall on our swords? Share noodle wisdom on our website. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:24 Dreadful. It's quite racist. Yeah, massively. Yeah. Massively. Because I'm a dribbling... Still ate them, didn't you?
Starting point is 00:26:29 I still ate them. Yeah. They were actually tasteless until you got the bottom and I realised I hadn't stirred it properly. Oh, right. Okay, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:34 It was a pocket of air, I think. That's always a problem with the instant noodle sort of type thing. You have to make sure you give it a good stir. And also,
Starting point is 00:26:43 you need to use hot water otherwise it's really crunchy. Add rice wine vinegar as well. It just makes everything just more... Good tip. Yum. Good tip. Yum.
Starting point is 00:26:50 Do you want an email about being locked out of a house? All right, then. This is definitely your thread, wasn't it? It's from David. David. Sorry, David. I mean, this is a very specific email, so everyone's going to know who you are,
Starting point is 00:27:00 but I didn't get your second name. So David says, this is quite a long email, so bear with me, but it is a very good story. Well told. He says, Hi guys, Luke's story of being locked out on last week's pod I think it was a couple of weeks ago now, wasn't it? Brought back some quite horrendous memories for me
Starting point is 00:27:16 which is some sort of coping mechanism I feel compelled to share with you. Around 10 years ago, I moved to Brussels for a semester abroad as part of my degree studying French. The university I attended was located in the same square and area as the European Parliament, and so it was quite a well-to-do neighbourhood. Fortunately, the university had special affordable accommodations for students near the uni,
Starting point is 00:27:40 and so I moved into a place while the original tenant was off doing his own exchange semester elsewhere. The place was a small halls-like room with a small kitchen in the corner and shared bathroom with all the other students in the house. It also had a small business occupying the ground floor which we would walk past on the way up to our rooms. All was well until one fateful Saturday in September, one of my first weekends there. I was enjoying a relaxing Saturday afternoon listening to the football on the radio and making myself something to eat. I saw that my bin was full, so I went down to empty it. Now, this is a classic textbook way of getting locked out. This is why I like it first and foremost. As I entered the garage area between the main front door and the glass entrance door,
Starting point is 00:28:16 the entrance door slammed shut right behind me. In that moment, I realised to my horror that I didn't have my keys on me, and so there I stood, phone-less, shoeless and belt-less. That becomes important later on, so bear with me. Nice. return home on most weekends rather than stay in brussels probably due to the fact that it doesn't take very long to get anywhere in a country so small and to my utter disbelief in that moment every single one of the 10 other rooms was unoccupied i also had no phone to contact the landlord and also didn't know the number off by heart anyway never mind i thought i'll just hop on the bus to a mate's house and crash there till tomorrow when everyone returns and i can get back in then my heart fell and my heart felt like it fell through the floor as I realised that this was not an option.
Starting point is 00:29:09 Before heading down to empty the bin, I had left a pot of pasta on the hob for dinner. Oh, no. Now it was do or die. It was do or die, Peter, according to David. Now or never, either I get in that flat or Brussels shall burn. My ham-fisted attempt
Starting point is 00:29:26 to pick the lock lasted five seconds whereupon the piece of metal I was using snapped off inside the lock itself. So he's ruined it for everyone else.
Starting point is 00:29:32 Now I had the added bonus of not being able to enter the room even if I had turned up with the key or someone else turned up with it for me. Fortunately,
Starting point is 00:29:40 my flat looks out over the road and was only on the first floor around five metres up so i looked around the garage for some sort of ladder there was nothing there that could help me except a few tables so i sprinted down to the corner shop and asked a rather perplexed guy behind the counter using my then rudimentary french whether he had a ladder thankfully he did and after considering
Starting point is 00:29:59 and convincing him that i wasn't going to run off with it and leaving in my driving license to some sort of ersatz deposit i hurried back to the flat it was no use the ladder simply wasn't going to run off with it, and leaving in my driving licence and some sort of ersatz deposit, I hurried back to the flat. It was no use, the ladder simply wasn't long enough, and that's what happened to me when I was locked out. By now I was in full despair mode, but then I saw a group of people leave their house a few doors down. I abandoned all inhibition and begged them for help,
Starting point is 00:30:17 and we quickly put a plan together. What are the options? Call the fire brigade, maybe. That was probably going to cost me a lot of money, so I filed that under last resort. Find a longer ladder? Good idea. So me and my saviours
Starting point is 00:30:28 trotched off to the local hotel, a Hilton no less, to try and find one. A longer le ladder. Yeah, exactly. Le ladder. Le ladder. I don't know what ladder is in French.
Starting point is 00:30:37 Nor did David probably. Inexplicably, no one had a ladder to lend us, although I do admit they may well have been lying as to not give away valuable hotel equipment to some deranged English football supporter. And so we returned to the flat. The first good news in a
Starting point is 00:30:50 while came in the form of a man on his balcony directly opposite my flat. He had eyes on the pot of pasta. I was able to confirm that no, it wasn't burning yet, but he'd keep an eye on it. Racked with despair and with my problem solving abilities reduced to that of an infant child
Starting point is 00:31:08 it was left to my group of helpers to formulate a plan. They had a bit of a brainwave putting one table on top of two other tables and then the ladder on top of that. It was rickety, it was horrendously unsafe but it might just work.
Starting point is 00:31:21 It's like a bloody Wrestlemania. I know. It's like a Royal Rumble. It sure is. And so I scaled the god awful contraption in an attempt to bloody Wrestlemania. I know. It's like a Royal Rumble. It sure is. And so I scaled the God awful contraption in an attempt to reach my window.
Starting point is 00:31:28 I could get there with my hands but A, I was shaking uncontrollably. B, my weak forearms probably wouldn't have had the strength
Starting point is 00:31:34 to pull me up anyway and C, even if they did my lack of waist or belt protection would have resulted in me losing my jeans and giving everybody
Starting point is 00:31:42 an eyeful which was a small price to pay admittedly i couldn't do it i just couldn't do it so i clambered back down in shame before i knew it the smallest guy in my group of helpers sped up the ladders while his girlfriend covered her eyes loudly and asked what and asked the rest of the group for god's sake he's gonna fall why is he helping out this english idiot he was compact he was agile he was bloody well quick he got to the top pulled himself up and slipped through the window like a champion gymnast.
Starting point is 00:32:07 The cremated remains of my rigatoni made the whole house smell of smoke for at least a week, but at least everything was safe. As I accompanied my saviour downstairs and back outside, he had to remind me to put the entrance door on the latch. As with the lock broken, I wouldn't be able to get back in. We'd be back where I started three hours ago. Imagine if he'd done it again. This enhanced my sense of stupidity and shame
Starting point is 00:32:25 to levels it has fortunately never reached again. We said our goodbyes. They laughed at me for a bit and even invited me to a party they were having later. I said I would think about it and I wanted to buy them all the correct beer for their assistance. However, in truth,
Starting point is 00:32:37 I could barely look at any of them in the eye, so I wallowed in self-pity in my room. I reckon that must have been a bit of a regret because that probably would have been a fun little party, I reckon. In a vain attempt to forget one of the most traumaticity in my room. I reckon that must have been a bit of a regret because that probably would have been a fun little party, I reckon. In a vain attempt to forget one of the most traumatic experiences of my life. There we go. Good on you, though.
Starting point is 00:32:51 That's a great story. I hope I did it justice. I would have asked the hotel for seven or eight ironing boards and just put them on top of each other. Well, the problem is, I think, even when I use the ladder to get up into my attic and it's a good solid ladder and I rest it against
Starting point is 00:33:07 a sort of closet we've got on the landing, it's still not that safe. And even with the ladder stuck into the carpet, which you give it a bit of grip, you still really have to get someone to hold it.
Starting point is 00:33:18 In a carpet? Yeah, you still need someone at the bottom of the ladder. So that, I mean, Pete, you would be good at that stuff because you're quite small and lithe. Yeah, I've climbed up things, jumped off things.
Starting point is 00:33:25 I used to do that quite a lot after nights out. So dangerous. In Leicester, we used to climb up fire escapes in the centre of town and run across the roofs. Yeah, that is dangerous. Right across. But it was fascinating. Like, I think we were very much the precursor
Starting point is 00:33:38 to parkour enthusiasts, but we were drunk and we didn't really jump over anything. Okay, right. But we'd make our way from one side of the town to the other, which you can do. And then I found an abandoned car full of old porn. Isn't it never more than a few minutes away from you turning it south? It's not south,
Starting point is 00:33:54 just mentioning an interesting find after a night out. My friend, a house party we had, slid off the roof on purpose, onto the roof terrace, but things went awry and he ended up breaking his coccyx
Starting point is 00:34:06 that's bad that that never that never righted itself no and he had to um he had to lie on his front with frozen
Starting point is 00:34:12 peas on the base of his spine for a few days on his bum bum just saying what it was you know what one at one
Starting point is 00:34:18 point i guess he didn't realize that the peas in the middle of the night slid down the side of the bed oh no so his bed was
Starting point is 00:34:24 next to the wall. And then, obviously, there was a horrendous stinking smell like a week later. Oh, peas were... Oh, my word. That's dreadful. It just got worse and worse.
Starting point is 00:34:33 Talking about really awkward British things, hello to Dan Button, who is a friend of a couple of podcasters. Dan Button's always getting in touch. Nice to hear from you. I think he's always getting in touch, but he's certainly a very talented artist. I know that for a fact.
Starting point is 00:34:46 And his email sign-off says, sent from my Motorola Razr, which I quite like. What's that? Remember those old phones, the Razr, the really thin ones? The really thin ones with the futuristic buttons.
Starting point is 00:34:55 Iconic. That's got to come back at some point, if indeed it hasn't. Up there with the, in terms of iconic phones, up there with this Matrix one that you press the button, the Nokia, and it flicked open.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Yes. That was great. Oh, my word. Yes, giving directions to people. I was once approached by two attractive American ladies while walking near the South Bank a few years ago who asked me where the Thames was. Nice. It took me a few seconds to work out what they were talking about.
Starting point is 00:35:21 They meant the Thames, obviously, and I didn't have the heart to correct them. Instead, leaving them the opportunity for someone else to enjoy a Thames moment later on during their trip to London. So I simply replied, oh, the Thames? Yeah, it's just down there. And also, somebody was in a meeting with Dan this week at work, and someone asked, what were those
Starting point is 00:35:38 CD library things? To which I replied, Men Carter. Yes! Instead of N Carter. So there we go. Our mission should be to change the name of it in retrospect. I once was asked by a tourist, I don't know where they're from, probably American, possibly Canadian, this was years ago, how to get to Leicester Square. Nice.
Starting point is 00:35:56 I mean, that's a classic, isn't it, really? I think so, yeah. Leicester Square. It is spelt like that, isn't it? Yeah, there's no reason why. It certainly went Edinburgh. Well, the English language is veryelt like that, isn't it? Yeah, there's no reason why. It certainly went Edinburgh. Well, the English language is very fascinating for that because you've got...
Starting point is 00:36:09 In a way, I sort of think that... I know everyone speaks English and it's everywhere in pop music and films and TV, so that makes it easier. But I think if you're learning English as a second or third language, there's a lot of interesting stuff to get your head around. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:36:20 Like, I mean, especially place names. I mean, near where I'm from, there are two train stations one spelt C-O-S-H-A-M and the other spelt B-O-S-H-A-M but that's pronounced bosom
Starting point is 00:36:35 it's inexplicable it's inexplicable I occasionally have to do the travel on the radio and the amount of abuse I get from southerners getting upset about southern names that I've never heard before. I'm like, I don't know what that is. London.
Starting point is 00:36:50 Hammersmith. You know, my friend, he's a producer with BBC now and he used to be on BBC Radio London and he used to read the news and apparently he used to get, he's from a place called Blackrod, which I think is near Bolton in Lancashire, and he used to get dogs's from a place called Blackrod which I think is in Bolton in Lancashire
Starting point is 00:37:05 and he used to get dogs abused every time he read the news from people with nothing better to do saying texting in tweeting in
Starting point is 00:37:12 saying why have you got a northerner reading BBC Radio London news it's like you should be a Londoner nice what do you care what are you talking about
Starting point is 00:37:20 what a prick yeah I know right what a load of pricks yeah Nathan in Manchester we were talking this is kind of a mixture between crappy jobs and street heroes to a certain extent right you talking about? What a prick. Yeah, I know, right? What a load of pricks. Yeah. Nathan in Manchester, we were talking, this is kind of a mixture between crappy jobs
Starting point is 00:37:27 and street heroes to a certain extent. Right. Just characters. Characters. Nathan's from Manchester. All right, chaps, just thought I'd point you
Starting point is 00:37:35 in the direction of a rich scene that mixes classic Luke and Pete tropes, town oddballs and shit jobs. The first topic
Starting point is 00:37:42 was at Tesco in the stock control department. I was the chump who put the reduced stickers on the produce. Oh, I used to do that. So the little yellow stickers on the... In supermarkets, yeah, I used to work at... I worked for a long time at Safeway,
Starting point is 00:37:56 but when I was at Asda, part of my job would be... They used to have this thing, people listening who worked at Asda will remember it, and they probably don't do it anymore, called a whoop sticker. Oh, like a whoops, you've dropped it or something. You've dropped the price. It's like a gun and you stick things.
Starting point is 00:38:12 I've done it, I know the job well. But basically, I think it's become a bigger thing though. It's become part of supermarket life before it really didn't. There used to be a little shelf with yellow stickers on. Now just yellow stickers everywhere. And people,
Starting point is 00:38:27 you know, they turn up at like five o'clock in the afternoon just to get these yellow stickers. That was never a thing when I was growing up. The way it used to work at Avda used to be, if you had like a few bits and pieces, you'd check the dates on the dairy stuff. And if it was a day to go, you'd whoops it.
Starting point is 00:38:43 Say there had been a mistake made or whatever and there was a massive batch of them out the back, you would then take the whole batch. if it was a day to go, you'd whoops it. But if it was a load of, say there had been a mistake made or whatever, and there was a massive batch of them out the back, you would then take the whole batch. If it was a big, big unit of them, you'd put them on that special shelf. Right, okay. So it's a two-pronged attack. A two-pronged attack. Well, basically, he is the guy who did the yellow stickers,
Starting point is 00:39:00 but he sort of halfway through the shift, you realise that you're going to be shadowed sometimes discreetly but more often than not infuriatingly obviously the entirety of your four hour shift just people following you around because they know
Starting point is 00:39:12 you're the whoopsie guy you're the whoopsie yellow sticker guy what supermarket is it as he said Tesco's Tesco's basically
Starting point is 00:39:20 yeah a couple of this with the second epiphany that there is a direct correlation between people that go to Tesco every day in an attempt to save often feebly small amounts on prepackaged salad, a reduction staple, and people on the fringe of society.
Starting point is 00:39:34 You've got yourself a rubbish job, effectively. I'll run through a couple of regulars. Old Jim, a man that spoke like the Warner Brothers character Porky Pig. Nice. I can't remember how Porky Pig spoke. It was like... He certainly speaks like this, didn't he? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:39:50 The Sherpas, two tiny Chinese women who would physically climb into the reduction fridge, they'd climb into the fridge to check the top of the fridge to quell their thirst for a bargain. I've attached a picture of this. My missus never believed me when I told her this, so it felt good to be vindicated
Starting point is 00:40:06 when I saw one of them at it again recently. I would usually think that was a little bit racist, but I was thinking, no, they're climbing into a cold place and Sherpas are from Nepal, so it kind of works. But he also says they're Chinese. Yeah, well...
Starting point is 00:40:18 So it is a little bit racist. Well, China have differing opinions about who owns Nepal, so maybe he's a Chinese nationalist. Mr. Grey, an everyman who won an Arsene Wenger-style sleeping bag jacket, undoubtedly the most sneaky of the regulars, often whipping a newly reduced item directly out of your hand and vanishing into the ether of the dairy aisle.
Starting point is 00:40:39 There are literally about 20 more that I could go through. We should do top trumps of people, the yellow sticker fans. Sticker fans. Needless to say, I moved on. They now do reductions in the back to avoid mob violence. I would be interested to hear of other stock control regulars. I'm convinced this is the same
Starting point is 00:40:56 everywhere. Thank you, Nathan in Manchester. I quite enjoyed working in supermarkets. It was one of the most rewarding jobs I've done. What? It was good. What next to doing this? Helping people out and making an actual positive contribution. Yeah, because you're a tall man.
Starting point is 00:41:09 You're the bloke who fetches stuff from the top shelf. That's the only thing you used to do. You were just all ladies. You were just helping out all ladies.
Starting point is 00:41:16 Well, part of my job was actually every Tuesday, I think it was, this blind man would come in and I'd have to help him with his shop. Well, there you go. You're making a positive
Starting point is 00:41:23 contribution to society. That's what I liked. Yeah. Yeah, but I'd have to help him with his shop. Well, there you go. You're making a positive contribution to society. That's what I liked. Yeah. I'd be the one, because you're a tall man, so you'd be doing that sort of thing. You'd be doing
Starting point is 00:41:31 the physical labour. I'd be the front-facing PR guy because I worry about what people think about me and you don't. Well, one of the things I did used to do, actually, and I'm not going to say
Starting point is 00:41:40 which supermarket it was because I worked at a few. I used to, one of the supermarkets I worked at was pretty big. Well, yeah. Come on now. That's not a revelation, is it? I used to, one of the supermarkets I worked at was pretty big. Well, yeah. Come on now. That's not a revelation, is it?
Starting point is 00:41:47 I used to work in a sandwich factory who's eating the food. Yeah. Just like a big tray full of dried bacon just jamming that in your mouth while you're making the egg mayonnaise.
Starting point is 00:41:57 I wonder why you get these stomach problems these days. It's very salty down there. One of the supermarkets I worked at was massive and on a Sunday it would be a skeleton staff back then and it was obviously there'd be a lot of people there because it's at was massive. And on a Sunday, it would be a skeleton staff back then.
Starting point is 00:42:05 And it was obviously, there'd be a lot of people there because it's a big supermarket. Sometimes you're able to come in at, say, your 10 o'clock start time, go and speak to your boss. And my job would literally be to go around the store, making sure the promotions were full and all that sort of stuff. That would be it. Sometimes I'd go in at 10, say, oh, yeah, I'm here.
Starting point is 00:42:21 And I'd make sure everything was stocked up and full. And I think, well, it's probably going to take maybe 45 minutes to an hour now for the stock to go down. I used to just leave. Just leave. Go and do other stuff. And come back an hour later. People would just assume you're somewhere else in the store.
Starting point is 00:42:36 Right, yeah, yeah. So it wouldn't matter. Have a little nap behind the tins. And if someone said, yeah, I did that as well. A little flashback. But sometimes you would get someone saying, oh, by the way, we called you over the PA, but you didn't respond. And I'd be, oh yeah, I did that as well. A little flashback. But sometimes you would get someone saying, oh, by the way, we called you over the PA, but you didn't respond.
Starting point is 00:42:48 And I'd be like, oh, yeah, I was in the freezer. I couldn't hear you. I was in the freezer. I used to do stock picking for the big factory, the big refrigerated factories behind what the actual supermarkets get sent. So you'd be in this big refrigerated thing with pump trucks. Oh, right. Carrying around bloody 25 kilograms worth of produce.
Starting point is 00:43:10 And you'd be order picking for the supermarkets at the big kind of centre. At Source, basically. At Source, yeah, fascinating. And they used to play Leicester Sound. And they... Gabrielle used to come around every... No, not even Dreams.
Starting point is 00:43:23 One of her more unloved songs Walk on By? Did she do a cover of that? Yeah I'm trying to think I can't remember the song but one of her smaller hits
Starting point is 00:43:33 they used to just go around every half an hour used to drive me mad Yeah, she definitely did a cover of Walk on By I'm going to look up her discography now
Starting point is 00:43:39 Let's have a look at the big Gabrielle singles Oh, Give Me A Little More Time? Give me just a little more time No, no,lle singles oh give me a little more time give me just a little more time no no no that is give me a little more time I need to make up my mind oh yes
Starting point is 00:43:53 is it that one I thought it was like do your life or something like that what about out of reach out of reach that's another one
Starting point is 00:43:59 that was another stinker that they used to play a lot oh disgusting did she also do oh no coulda wouldaa, shoulda, or whatever it was. That was Beverly Knight.
Starting point is 00:44:06 I always quite liked. Right. She's still got a career, Beverly Knight. She does a lot of Shores. The Shores. And I also had, just briefly before we move on,
Starting point is 00:44:15 I also had a job doing as the... Bodyguard work for... You know, as the delivery. Oh, when I first started. Yeah, in 2001, 2002, something like that, when it first started yeah in 2001 2002 something like that
Starting point is 00:44:27 when it was very very new as a concept that was quite a good job because as soon as you finish your deliveries you could just go home yeah and I used to get given a van
Starting point is 00:44:33 and I was at uni at the time so it was great to have a little van to drive around admittedly it was a massive as the van and it was put in the fridge come on ladies
Starting point is 00:44:41 I've got I've got a sleeping bag in the back I'm parking that in the club well we've kind of reached the end of the show unbelievably Come on, ladies. I've got a sleeping bag in the back. I'm parking that in the club. Well, we've kind of reached the end of the show, unbelievably. Can I do a quick one? All right, then.
Starting point is 00:44:52 This is from Rotisserie Alex. Oh, hello, Rotisserie Alex. We can't let that go by. Can't let that pass by us. Can't let that rotate slowly in her own juices. Can't let that walk on by. Rotisserie Alex says, Hi, gents. It's Thanksgiving time in the US.
Starting point is 00:45:06 That's how I'm recording. And thus, the busiest time of the year at Whole Foods, which is where she obviously works. She's our official rotisserie and Whole Foods store correspondent. She says, I've got a red apron that says, Ask me anything, which prompts all sorts of questions about the answer to life,
Starting point is 00:45:22 the meaning of life, 42, ha, ha, ha, and other stupid things. That being said, if anyone needs to know the turkey to people ratio, I'm on it. What do you mean? As in, like, in the store? Yeah, I guess so, yeah. Tell us, let us know. She says, rotisserie Alex, California energizer. What? And that's how we like to sign
Starting point is 00:45:35 off. We had so many emails this week. We haven't got through them, it's incredible. So, what I would say is that Whole Foods is weird. In America, it's like a place where people do their shop. That's right. But here, it's like expensive place where people do their shop. That's right. But here, it's like expensive food. Do you remember when we were doing an episode of this show
Starting point is 00:45:50 a couple of months ago and we were still in the old studio and that was a bit early so I went to Whole Foods because my wife's massively into Thai chilli crackers. Yes. And it's like the only place you can get them.
Starting point is 00:46:00 Yeah, they're really nice. Yeah, they're expensive. I bought a couple of boxes of those. I can't remember how much they were but expensive. And I bought a donut each for you and I. Yeah, they're really nice. Yeah, they're expensive. Right. I bought a couple of boxes of those. I can't remember how much they were, but expensive. And I bought a donut each for you and I. Do you remember? You don't remember, do you? No.
Starting point is 00:46:10 The donuts were £3.50 each. That's disgraceful, isn't it? Each. And I appreciated every bite. Unbelievable. It was remarkable. Yeah, Whole Foods, I don't think is quite, I think it is seen as still quite expensive, but it's not as bad as it is here.
Starting point is 00:46:22 No, exactly. And yeah, you know. Good. Marcus Speller from the Footwear Room will just turn bad as it is here. No, exactly. And yeah, you know. Good. Marcus Speller from the Footwear Room will just turn up with his top off. There we go.
Starting point is 00:46:29 He's a very hairy man. What an Easter egg for Luke and Pete showing us this. What an Easter egg. Can I finish with the final bit of Mencarta?
Starting point is 00:46:36 Go for it. Let there be justice for all. Let there be this for all. And one small step for man. You don't understand.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Willie was a salesman. Say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning. Have you seen this thing in Lebanon? That building there? Wow, I've never looked. It looks like... It's a fascia of a building. Yeah, it looks like a fascia or a facade, if you will.
Starting point is 00:47:03 It's basically just the front of a building. And, it looks like a fascia or a facade, if you will. It's basically just the front of a building. And two brothers each inherited a plot from their father. Road Infrastructure Party reclaimed one of the areas, so the owner of that plot built a thin building in 1954 on the available piece of land so that it blocks his brother's building's sea view, which will eventually lead to the decrease of his sibling's plot, which is fantastic.
Starting point is 00:47:24 How pity that is. It's fantastic it's called in Arabic the albasa the grudge very nice I had no idea that existed isn't that fantastic
Starting point is 00:47:32 great stuff Pete we'll stick that in a late and quick entry I'd like to apologise when you use the word my wife I go my wife and that's from the
Starting point is 00:47:38 Adam Buxton podcast and I don't even listen to it that much no it's from Borat isn't it what it's originally from Borat oh yeah no
Starting point is 00:47:44 but like well well, yeah. I think that's a good example of kind of parallel thinking, maybe. Conversion evolution. My wife, conversion evolution, yeah. But I don't even listen to it that much, but it's stuck in my head and I can't stop doing it. In a mission that will probably get me absolutely no credit whatsoever, I have never listened to that show.
Starting point is 00:48:01 Not a single second of it. Maybe I should. It's very good. Maybe I should. You have some great guests. If you are listening, Adam, do get us on. Bit of single second of it. Maybe I should. It's very good. Maybe I should. You have some great guests. If you are listening, Adam, do get us on. Bit of cross promotion.
Starting point is 00:48:08 Bit of cross, yeah. Who did you have last week? Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama. Have you heard of Luke and Pete? Yeah, I'll give Mark Maron a ring. There's a builder in my house at the moment
Starting point is 00:48:17 doing me a shower up and he looks like Mark Maron. But it could be. And I keep thinking it's Mark Maron. Could be him. Morning, Mark. We've had Rick Edwards on.
Starting point is 00:48:26 We could have Adam Buckson on as well. Let's get out of here. Thank you for joining us this evening, afternoon, morning, whatever you are listening to this. We'll see you next week. We'll see you next week. And I'm off to the US,
Starting point is 00:48:37 so we'll have some good tales to tell when I come back. Hot dog jumping frog. We'll see you next time.

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