The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 26: Sex, lies and videos of tapir
Episode Date: November 27, 2017In 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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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.
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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
put some fire exits in.
Right.
And I'm using
million pound makeover
as a substitute
for the word
money laundering.
An early effort
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
play fights.
They have eBay valuation wars.
Do they?
Yeah.
Fantastic.
Have you ever been given
like a personalised product before?
Good question.
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
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.
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
Southampton,
there were some
builders working
on Pompey's
Stadium and they
put a Southampton
shirt inside the
wall.
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
of them doing it.
Oh, was there?
Okay.
Maybe it is true,
yeah.
In the Absolute
Radio main studio
they were doing it
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,
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.
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
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
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
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.
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?
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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?
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,
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.
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
any other
flightless birds
used to do
sort of go
well
just class them
all together
penguin
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
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
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?
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.
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
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
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.
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
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?
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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...
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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,
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,
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
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
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,
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.
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
Asian flavours
and quality ingredients
prepared with the
skill, dedication
and discipline
of a samurai warrior
yeah
stereotype
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
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.
Dreadful.
It's quite racist.
Yeah, massively.
Yeah.
Massively.
Because I'm a dribbling...
Still ate them,
didn't you?
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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,
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,
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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,
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
I could get there
with my hands
but A,
I was shaking uncontrollably.
B,
my weak forearms
probably wouldn't have
had the strength
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
and street heroes
to a certain extent.
Right.
Just characters.
Characters.
Nathan's from Manchester.
All right, chaps,
just thought I'd point you
in the direction
of a rich scene
that mixes
classic Luke and Pete
tropes,
town oddballs
and shit jobs.
The first topic
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,
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
you're the whoopsie guy
you're the whoopsie
yellow sticker guy
what supermarket is it
as he said
Tesco's
Tesco's
basically
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
so we'll have some good tales to tell when I come back.
Hot dog jumping frog.
We'll see you next time.