The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 40: Black Panther, video games and Pete getting annoyed about gifs

Episode Date: February 22, 2018

Luke's been to see Black Panther (spoiler: he enjoyed it), we hear another Stubbington Study Centre story which is even more bloody exciting than the last one, some amazing new batteries enter the game and, as ever, Pete is able to squeeze in some chat about video games.Elsewhere the boy Donaldo almost has a full on meltdown on the subject of gifs. If, like Luke, you need some further information on what he was actually talking about, hit us up: [e-mail]! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's episode 40 Luke Moer, episode 40. Hello pal. No, are you saying hello to episode 40 or are you saying hello to me? Everyone. Oh, he said hello to the people. It's a casual greeting. Oh no. How are you doing guys?

I'm alright. Everyone at home, how are you doing? How are you doing Pete? You jumped the gun there. Sorry. home, how are you doing? How are you doing, Pete? You jumped the gun there. Sorry. I'm very tired today. I don't know what's going on. Drinking heavily?

No, I drank on Friday, didn't drink on Saturday. And I think that's what's messing me up, to be quite frank. My body's going, what the flip? I did some feng shui on my kitchen. Well, so you're saying if you drink on Friday or the weekend, it still affects you on a Thursday? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, we're not recording

on a Thursday. Stop trying to pretend we are. Anything could have happened. It could have been a nuclear war. You know what, Norm? Why is he not referencing the nuclear war?

Because we're trying to cheer you up. That's why, dickhead. If there is a nuclear war, though, make sure you still get me that edited audio so I can schedule it in so people can listen to it

post-apocalypse. Yeah, let's hope the Acast servers are not hit by the nuclear war. Yeah. They'll be in Svalbard. Svalbard.

Is that in Iceland? No Svalbard's that big island up in the Arctic where they have all the seed banks. Yeah the seed banks. Have you heard about

that? Yeah I think you spoke about it on this very show. You're running out of seed bank chat mate. Yeah it's not very

prevalent my seed bank chat. A lot of the servers are found, I always talk about it, the wastefulness of having an office where we send all of our files to Iceland, to the WeTransfer servers, where I presume all of Amazon's servers are, because you get free, cheap electricity and cheap heating. Is WeTransfer owned by Amazon? Yeah, I think so.

Oh, I didn't know that. And then downloading it again. Right. It's like when I used to watch Arsenal play football on the televisions on the Holloway Road illegal hockey streams back in the day.

So you were right next to the ground. I was right next to the ground. So you could hear the crowd. You could hear the crowd shouting for something before you saw the thing because it was beamed to Turkey and then back again.

Yeah. Incredible, huh? That is... I love late 90s satellite technology. Fascinating stuff. Someone who thinks as deeply about technology as you do I can imagine

that is indeed very very interesting Got me very excited but I did some feng shui on my kitchen Luke if you want to it's been

it's been nice and early I rearranged my kitchen and it looks pretty swanks I mean about as swanks as a shoebox can look

I mean I've been to your kitchen and I'm trying to think about how to word this without seeming disrespectful I could do a push up now I mean, I've been to your kitchen and I'm trying to think about how to word this without seeming disrespectful. I could do a push-up now, I reckon.

But isn't everything fitted against the walls now? No. Well, it's not now. Oh, right. Got a crowbar out as Moose.

Do I really need that? What, the sink? Oh, that's good. Feng Shui's good. It does make you feel better, for sure. I mean, and then I had no sleep, so it

must have emotionally drained me. I think on that type of stuff, a change can genuinely be as good make you feel better for sure yeah I mean and then I had no sleep so it must have emotionally drained you drained me I think a change on that type of stuff a change can genuinely be as good as a rest they say that

people with long term depression one of the biggest advices is before you leave the bedroom if indeed you leave

the bedroom on any given day is tidy up your bedroom tidy up your bed yeah they say because it looks nice doesn doesn't it? It looks nice when you come back in the room.

You're like, oh, good. That looks welcoming. I also am largely in favour of not having any distractions in the bedroom generally. So we don't have a TV in our bedroom, for example. My wife sleeps somewhere alone. We only have books or whatever. That's it.

Because it's a place to sleep and you need to train your brain subconsciously to associate the bedroom with sleep. You should only nap on your sofa apparently. You shouldn't nap in your bed. That makes sense. It does make sense. I've got a projector in my bed. Have you really? A full-blown projector.

Have you? It looks good though. It's good. I could watch some Brooklyn Nine-Nine or whatever they call it. I think we all know what you're watching. I can't because it projects on the blinds and everyone can see what I'm watching from outside sorry let me just rephrase that

I think we all know what you're watching but maybe not the type of what it is you're watching right okay yeah yeah the broad brush stroke yeah you don't want to know to be honest

no I don't I watched well briefly we talked about post-apocalyptic Luke and Pete shows pornography no yeah what will porn look like after the apocalypse Luke are you doing this already what Well, briefly we talked about post-apocalyptic Luke and Pete shows. Pornography. No, yeah.

What will porn look like after the apocalypse, Luke? Are you doing this already? What? Four minutes in. What will porn look like after the apocalypse? Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. Unhealthy looking women and men going at it. Bits of them falling off.

Lovely old job. So British pornography then. Oh, there is nothing worse than British pornography. Why are we having this conversation now? They always use the word spunk and they shouldn't. Come on. Come on. Can I just say what I was going to say before you get into this?

I've got an email about the Mitford sisters, mate. That can come later. We'll go from spunk to the Mitfords. That is an interesting... That's the show title. That's the show title. You know, when I'm doing the naming of the show and I basically skip through the audio to try and grab a nice phrase. Okay.

And seriously now, if I hear myself speaking, I just keep skipping. Because the show title has always come from you. Spunky Mitfords. If I may say so, the Energy in Northampton song went down exceptionally well. In Northampton? No, it didn't go down well there. I pinned the YouTube video to our Twitter page which is

at Luke and Pete show so you can look at it if you haven't already and generally speaking a lot of stuff we talk about we do tweet about

as well so do check that out Luke at Luke and Pete show I wanted to just on my it's been very very very quickly I wanted to

say that I saw Black Panther oh yeah good it's excellent it's one of those where like I really want to watch it not that big on the superhero films but I don't think the trailer looks very good. It's excellent. I really enjoyed it. It's one of those ones where I really want to watch it. Not that big on the superhero films.

But I don't think the trailer looks very good but everyone's raving about it. I feel exactly the same as you read superhero movies. My wife absolutely loves them. So I go along and watch all of them really.

And I would say that Black Panther would be in my top three of the ones I've seen along with the first Guardians of the Galaxy and what's the other one? Oh yeah, Thor Ragnarok.

Is that the one where Thor says who's my friend from work? About the Incredible Hulk. Probably, yeah. I think it is. The best Marvels have got those little nods to the camera like funny lines.

Guardians of the Galaxy is very good for that. Yeah, definitely. But Black Panther was very good. The only thing, I mean, speaking of the trailer. My favorite is Suicide Squad. I haven't seen it.

It's universally banned. That's not Marvel, is it? No. I think it's DC. It's universally banned. That's not Marvel, is it? No. I think it's DC, yeah. The trailer... They're still superheroes, mate. Don't have a go. It's all the same, innit?

On the trailer thing, Pete, I would say to you that the music on the trailer doesn't feature in the film. So I was expecting the Kendrick Lamar curated soundtrack, which I was really looking forward to, but it doesn't feature. I think they've done that thing where they have music inspired by the motion picture and release it as a separate record. What's the point in that, then? curated soundtrack which I was really looking forward to but it doesn't feature I think they've done that thing where they have music inspired

by the motion picture and release it as a separate record what's the point in that it doesn't feature on the film at all is that probably like a price thing

he's probably a bit too pricey who knows didn't they have a 200 million dollar budget or something I know Kendrick Lamar

is the man he is the man he is the man at the moment Michael B. Jordan is the most handsome man in Hollywood at the moment

there are some absolute viewers male wise in that film and female wise I don't know which female actors are in there you haven't seen it

I haven't seen it mate but what was I going to say I remember when Charles Ford did a re-cutting a re-dubbing of the music from Drive

no that was an interesting little project I think the Wallfellas were heavily involved right and Church's movie I can't remember.

But, yes, and Wolf Alice were involved in Trainspotting 2, and I was talking about this over the weekend, and how good the use of that Wolf Alice song, can't remember the name of the song, but it was in the Trainspotting 2 trailer. Haven't seen that either.

I think it's fallen off the top of the building, and it's really cool, but it's not used in the same way in the film, and it really annoyed me. Right. Really upset me. There's a Wolf Alice song that I really like, and I'm struggling to remember the name of it. So that's a nice story for you.

It's the one, whenever she does like the whispering bits, or the talking bits, she always speaks in like an American accent. She's from like... London. Yeah, she is. Get it together. She is. Get it together. She is. Get it together, Wolf Alice.

I still can't remember the name of it, so there we go. I was going to say as well, Peter, before we get tucked right into the emails, shout out to, I saw the tweet and couldn't find it again, so apologies to you if you're listening. You know who you are.

A lovely battery update from someone who said they popped open one of their remotes and had a pair of Warriors in there. Warrior! I've not seen those before, have you? No. And then they flipped open the other remote. Guess what they had in there, Pete, for batteries?

What? A pair of Fords. As in Henry Ford's batteries? As in the actual Ford logo on it. Wow! What's that about? I didn't even know they were in the game. Chicago's gone crazy.

Is it Chicago? The city? Detroit. The big Ford Detroit. Detroit. Yeah, I didn't even know they were in the game. Chicago's gone crazy. Is it Chicago? The city? Detroit. The big four, Detroit. Detroit. Yeah, I didn't even know they were in the game, did you? No. I think that must be just for, like, putting their key rings.

But where do batteries get used? In a car? Yeah, don't know. I can't think of a single reason why you need a battery in a car. Couldn't tell you. With, you know, the obvious exception of a hybrid. Yeah. Obviously. There were some

interesting tweets that came in. FPL Gorilla, which I quite like, on Twitter. Why do British people use chip pans? Luke couldn't even describe a deep fryer. It was so alien a concept to him. Chip pans are so dangerous that they are constantly having ads about it while everyone else uses

safe and easy deep fat fries at home. I mean, it's the first time I've ever been accuseded of not really knowing my way around a plate of chips. I'll be honest. It's called Freezy, that song. It's Freezy. I finally remembered it. Okay, right. Their new album's good as well.

They're a crack at it. The chip hand point is that, and I did say this, I replied to the tweet, and I did say, weren't we talking about coming back from the pub in the mid-90s or something? Yeah, exactly. We didn't have these healthy things that use a humidity kind of thing. It's like an enclosed box that you plug in and it just puts a little bit of oil on them.

No, we're not talking about that. We're talking about submerging a lot of really cheap, crappy potatoes into an entire vessel of bright yellow oil. Vegetable oil. Do you know, Pete, when we first started having chips with a deep fat fryer, I can remember, it used to be like a wire net in a pan,

and when it was cold, it was actual fat. It used to go white and solid and you had to heat it up that's how we used to have chips and also if you would lift the little cage out of the pan

there would be little kind of cells where the oil had kind of collected I think and then they would pop and it was quite pleasing to do we should do that again

throw it at your sister hot oil Dave Nutt hello Dave Nutt I listened to the show on the way in Luke and Pete and it was quite pleasing to do. Oh, we should do that again. Throw it at your sister. Hot oil. Dave Nutt. Hello, Dave Nutt. I listened to the show on the way in. Luke and Pete, now I can't stop singing Denver, The Last Dinosaur

and feeling more awkward than I should singing a kids' TV theme song. Should we have another go? Hashtag pedosaur. What? Yeah. I've got a couple of emails

with the subject pedosaur. Really? Oh. Denver, the last dinosaur. He's my friend and a whole lot more. I went for a... That got in your head again. I went for a...

You know, when Peter... Which was the second singer from R.E.M.? No, but you didn't sound like him. You sound like Stephen Hawking. Is it Mick Mills? Mick Mills. He's the guitarist. Mick Mills, Dave Mills.

Yeah. Peter Buck. Scott Mills. Who threatened to cut off... Who threatened to hit a stupid S? I think it might have been. That was Ian Brown, wasn't it? No, he threatened to cut her arms off.

That's right. Very specific. I'm going to cut your bloody hands off. Peter Brock says, Hypothesis. Sound like a snowboarding expert by using footballers' names for tricks. Example,

a superb 720 to a Wanyama there, a marvellous 360 pog bit into a Mkhitaryan flop. Isn't that good? That's referenced our Winter Olympics chat from earlier in the week. Yes, it has. Yeah. Yes, it has, Luke. You've gone off-piste on tweets.

Should we go to emails now? No, I've gone on-piste, if anything. Oh, yeah, I didn't even mean that. Grow up. Shall we do emails now? Well, we can do. I wanted to talk about the Tomb Raider Barbie, but I can leave that. Go ahead.

I don't know what that is. It's a Tomb Raider Barbie. Look at her. Isn't she resplendent? Finally, a Barbie that can climb mountains and find treasure and stuff. I mean, technically,

you can make a Barbie do whatever they want because it's a toy, isn't it? Maybe in your house. Hashtag Peter Saw. I told you we weren't going to talk about your projection.

Alright, let's do some emails. Let's have some emails. Mmm, emails. Let's have some emails. Hmm. Emails. We'll both look off the loop. We'll both look off the loop. If he feels sad about mum and dad, we'll both look off the loop. It's emails.

Stubbington Study Centre. What? This is the gift that keeps on giving. Why is this back again? Every single show, I get a couple of emails about Stubbington Study Centre. The SSC. I'm going to take you there at some point. This is good one though from steve okay yo check this out pete what are the chances of this right hello both after hearing the stubbington scare night story

on the way uh into work this morning spooky teachers being spooky yeah vampire part uh math teacher part vampire i thought i'd tell you about the time I went there as a 10-year-old from Aldershot. Now, Aldershot, for those who aren't familiar with the area, is a horrendous town in the north of Hampshire, which we were told not to go to at uni because we'd get beaten up by army men. Army men? I'm thinking, like, plastic green chaps.

Yeah. No, not those. On bases, just run away. They can't run very far. Like a toy store, yeah, because their feet are stuck together with that bit of plastic. He said, while there were no manufactured scares over the course

of my visit there was a pretty big real scare Pete listen to this get on this as we happen to be there on the night of the great storm

of 1987 oh I heard I remember that I hope you were happy Michael Fish because they probably wouldn't have gone if Michael Fish

had got his forecast correct was that when he said there's not going to be a hurricane but he said it in the most patronising way ever he went

don't be C words I had a phone call from a lady who was terribly worried there was a hurricane incoming don't worry there isn't

that's just great two things there actually one thing there how can you just ring up Michael Fish the thing is I couldn't think of the technology as to how she got in touch with him.

It must have been a phone call because she's not going to write a letter because that takes days to get there. So she must have called the Met Office. I remember sort of when Victor Lewis Smith used to do crank calls and he rang That's Life and he got hold of one of the main presenters

of That's Life. One of the, you know, the good looking gentlemen who was on it. It was weird. He was just in the office, clearly, answering the phones. Victor Lewis Smith still does a column for Private Eye. Yes. And I still can't take him seriously because of that review he famously wrote about the office.

I can't take him seriously because of... Dreadlocks? Dreadlocks. Yeah, fair enough. Dreadlocks. Anyway, Steve goes on to say, I distinctly remember lying awake all night listening to the lob cabin-style dormitory we were in being battered with debris, windows being blown open, etc. In the morning, we went to the on-site weather station to see what the wind speeds had been, but the weather station had been completely blown away.

Well, you got your answer, didn't you, Matt? So exciting as a 10-year-old, that. I mean, I bet the teachers were going, yeah, this is troubling, isn't it? Yeah. This is a bit problematic. Michael Fish is to blame. I'll tell you why. Fish, man.

Because you did a Welsh accent earlier. That's Ian McCaskill. Michael Fish is the glasses, bald guy. No, I did a Scottish accent. Did you? Yeah. Is he Scottish? No.

No. And so if he had delivered his forecast properly, because obviously this is the days before the internet and apps and all the rest of it, maybe these kids wouldn't have gone. It sounds like there were no casualties though and they had a brilliant time. And Steve just finishes

by saying, unrelated, there was a rec room at Stubbington with some fairly decent arcade machines in it, Pete. Nice. Including, he thinks,

Battlezone and Dragon's Lair. I don't remember Battlezone but I remember Dragon's Lair. Now, I don't know whether you remember Dragon's Lair but it was a... The cartoony one. Laser disc, yes,

a laser disc based video game that was unlovable to play but I was a big fan of Don Bluth's animation back in the day, so I was a big fan of that particular. Did it not famously feature in the second series of Stranger Things? I think it might have done. There's a new Netflix TV show called Everything Sucks,

which I think might be a Descendants or an All album. I can't remember. But it looks like a box-ticking 90s retro mess. Just a mess. Watch the trailer. It's unlovable. I'm never going to watch it. People will probably love it.

But they mentioned the internet back in the day. The thing is, they had a representation of what the internet was like. And they were downloading an animated GIF of the Dancing Baby from Ally McBeal. And they were like, I love the web. And the way that the gif downloaded really pissed me off right it's too smooth it downloaded the animated gif was already going we know the animated gifs were always in a list so you'd get one part of the lines and then you'd get the other lines filling in and then they would just slowly get more animation frames as you

went along christ get it right guys I just finished my tea, mate. You may have completely forgotten. Oh, yeah, can I just finish this off from Steve? The gif thing aside, Pete, I don't know if Steve's to blame for that. No. I don't feel to blame. He's done what you do here,

where he's just basically taken it down into the trenches and ruined it by saying, I also remember almost being sent home after sneaking into a classroom and writing shit in three-foot-high letters on the blackboard for a dare, then getting caught. Nice. He says, I'm at work right now,

so he got a job at the end. No remote controls anywhere near me, but my mouse has a Duracell in it, which is disappointing. Thanks for that, Steve. The Stubbington Study Centre is the gift that keeps on giving. It sounds very much like Carlton Camp,

which is somewhere that we went to, which is a similar sort of thing. It had a lot of libraries and stuff, and you could go get nettles on your legs and rub dock leaves on and then come back to the dormitories and stuff and that was a big thing our orchestra went away even though there was no kind of orchestra sort of thing happening uh our school went away to that sort of thing actually um the lad i went away with um with the orchestra i told you this is his coming out story at the weekend you did yeah

coming out story from Hartlepool and he said yeah actually I've said his name now I'll go back I'll go back and bleep that

let me just write down the time code right 17 minutes in do you want me to wrestle this what are you doing bleep name are you okay coming out story

Hartlepool he said my dad was really supportive about about coming out. So how did he present it to his dad? I don't know. I think he basically said,

he said, I'm coming out. Hang on a minute. What? You did a coming out story that's so good. I'm coming out and you better get

this party started, dad. How did it come out? I don't know. I think he went into the room and went, I'm coming out. I want the world to know. But you guys first.

He asked, so he reported it as being a great coming out story. My dad was really supportive. But what his dad actually said was, I don't care what you do, son, as long as you don't do it to me. Don't have sex with your dad. No, it's not on the agenda, I think, for most people, is it? What a story. Hashtag Hartlepool.

Probably for every human being, the last person on earth. No. Yeah. Oh, fuck you, Dad. No, I'm covering that base, though. Yeah. His dad's like,

I'm covering that base. I don't want to go unsaid. A positive Hartlepool coming out story. I just remembered to go back to your favourite subject, video games. A good friend of mine,

I linked you to this on Facebook and I don't know if you saw it, but a good friend of mine I linked you to this on Facebook and I don't know if you saw it but a good friend of mine Jerry Ellis he has just he sounds like a singer or like a band leader Jerry Ellis

yeah I suppose he does he could probably do that actually he's just self published a book called The Book of the Game of the Film right where he's done proper

review analysis and great sort of cultural, contextual comment on pretty much every single game tie-in worth the name. Well, they used to be completely dreadful, unspeakable. Low points, including Cliffhanger. That was a terrible game.

E.T. was a stinker, yeah. That got put in landfill quite famously. Anyway, I bought a copy of it. It arrived earlier this week and it's very very good even for someone I love that I love playing video games around that sort of time

so it was perfect for me but for you you'd absolutely love it so you should check it out it's available it's self published what's it called again? it's called

The Book of the Game of the Film The Book of the Game of the Film he doesn't even know I don't even know if he listens to this show he doesn't know I'm saying this but I was just reminded of it but why don't you do an email mate alright then

I'll do an email hello to Sydney but I was just reminded of it. But why don't you do an email, mate? All right, then. I'll do an email. Hello to Sydney. Sydney. Sydney Dean. It's Nick from Sydney. Enjoying the show. I wonder if, like me,

other listeners look back at the show notes of previous episodes and think, I must have missed that one only to realise they did, in fact, listen to it. That's not a ringing endorsement.

That's not good, is it? It's just instantly forgettable. That is not a ringing endorsement. That's not good, is it? Just instantly forgettable. That is not a ringing endorsement. There's some strange dream state-like effect caused by your semantic gymnastics. And it is gymnastics. Anyway, on the point of abandoned things, it's cropped up last week. It reminded me of one of my favourite internet relics, the illicit Ohio reporting of Mike Tyson's abandoned mansion,

circa 2008. That's brilliant. I've seen it, yeah. It's brilliant. I can't find the original article anymore, but there are some amazing Flickr sets and the like still out there. I believe it's still in a state of disrepair. Yeah.

God knows what those tiger cages are like nowadays. I think he famously only visited, you know, boxing, I'm really into boxing, I think he famously only visited the house itself two or three times in total. Isn't that incredible? He made and burnt through something like $200, $300 million. Yeah.

Because I think, obviously, he had this financial mass of money thrust upon him. He has no real formal education or anything. So it's very, very difficult. I don't think, obviously, he wasn't advised very well. And he bought that house and, like I say, hardly ever visited it. It is an incredible photo gel to look at. Does he still own it, though?

Don't think so. Right. I think he might. I think, I'm going Don't think so. Right. I think he might, I think, I'm going off piste here again, but I think he might have been bankrupted, possibly.

Right. I remember, remember when, was it, who did, which one, it was either Gaddafi or Hussein, his son,

one of his sons died in his sort of mid-twenties, I think, and his room was left like a shrine to him. Okay. When either the Iraqis or the Libyans

broke into the house, broke into the compound. It was basically, you know, just gold everywhere. But there was this one room where the bed was kind of encased in this glass case. It was really strange.

Right. Really strange, but it's sort of weird seeing. It sounds like a mausoleum or something. Well, it's like opening up like a place that's never been seen by anyone. It's like going upstairs at Graceland. No one's allowed to do it, but one day someone will weird seeing... It's like a mausoleum or something. Well, it's like opening up a place that's never been seen by anyone.

It's like going upstairs at Graceland. No one's allowed to do it, but one day someone will be allowed to do it, I reckon. Yeah. And that person will be me. I've not been to... You've been to Graceland, haven't you? I was going to say, you've not been to Adair Hussain's house. No. I've not been to Graceland either, though. Have you? Yeah, I have, yeah. Because you've got to be a fridge magnet from there. Very humble.

Very humble house. Very small. We have a quite cute, I would say, tradition of bringing each other fridge magnets back. And I believe I've got one from Graceland. But speaking of the first part of that email. And you said thank you very much. You didn't. No, I didn't. I said, fuck, what the fuck is this?

Speaking of the first half of that email from Sydney in Nick. Sydney in the Nick. Maybe he's incarcerated. Who knows? If you want some insight into how this show's made it's essentially let's do some shows on this day

alright meet you there and then we just basically it's almost like a stream a stream a new stream on earth is able to forge its own path naturally

based on the laws of physics and the laws of the universe nature's laws if you like and this show is very much like that which is occasionally

we have to rely on other people's contributions because we're not that interesting. I think that's the only way we can make it. Speaking of that, we should probably get out of here. Yeah. If you want to get in touch with the show, as always, it's show at lukenpeachshow.com.

No. Oh, God damn it. No, it isn't. It's hello at lukenpeachshow.com. You wouldn't have show twice in the same email address, would you? Can we have, have we registered show at LukeandPeteHello.com? Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. Do you want a fucking email or not?

Because you ain't going to get any with that sort of attitude. We literally live by them and live for them. We'll be back on Monday with episode 41. We didn't even make a big deal of episode 40. Life begins at 40, mate. Damn right, yeah. Natural, it's just natural. Let's get out of here.

Yeah, keep your stuff coming in and we'll see you on Monday. All right, then. Don't care what you do, Luke, just don't do it to me.