The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 41: How to cook the perfect steak, and the greatest bear of all time

Episode Date: February 26, 2018

Luke opens proceedings on how he likes to cook a steak, much to Pete Donaldson's chagrin and scepticism, before the boys get through *yet another* email about Stubbington Study Centre which almost beg...gars belief. It feels like the entire south of England has visited there at one time or another.After lots more of the usual dicking around, we finish the whole foul jamboree with possibly the greatest Mencarta entry in history, all centred around a bear who stumbled upon a pretty sweet find back in the 1980s.Send us your nonsense: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I forgot to come in there to be honest Luke. I wonder what you're doing, I was looking at you but you weren't really sort of registering. No, my play out system was being silly. So, how have you been? All right? Very, very well, thanks. It's episode 41. We didn't make a big deal about episode 41, so let's make a big deal about episode 41.
Starting point is 00:00:34 What do you mean by that? I don't know. What are you going to do? Get a party popper out or something. A party popper. Get a party popper or something. Get the poppers out. Get the poppers out.
Starting point is 00:00:41 Give yourself a little headache and a little wee sexual feeling. Blow their nethers. Episode 41. If you want to carry on, you could just like fade your mic out and carry on doing that. Episode 41.
Starting point is 00:00:53 I think we should do a Mencarta. Yeah. At some point today because we haven't done one for a while and I think I've got quite a good one.
Starting point is 00:00:59 Okie dokie. And I also want to do a bit about how to make the perfect steak. That's what I'm bringing to the table today. A literal steak. But how's your weekend been? How's my steak been?
Starting point is 00:01:11 I didn't have any steak. What did I have? What have I eaten this week? I hung out with a friend of the Football Ramble, Slim. I had a bit of food with Slim and his good lady wife. From the Kingdom of Five. Slim married? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:23 That's a surprise. A wonderful wife. What a wonderful wife Slim's got. I don Kingdom of Five? Yeah. Is Slim married? Yeah. That's a surprise. A wonderful wife. What a wonderful wife Slim's got. I don't doubt she's lovely. He made, he really made me laugh because he sort of said,
Starting point is 00:01:32 he said, hey, I was about, it was about 10 years ago, I was playing Oblivion, a video game, Elder Scrolls, kind of RPG,
Starting point is 00:01:39 and I'd just joined the Thieves Guild and I was eating a free bentos pie and I was drinking Capri Sun and I thought, life doesn't get any better than that. And I thought, you're right there, Slim.
Starting point is 00:01:52 That's exactly what life's about. I mean, he said it in full view of his wife, which is rude. Best day of his life. Listen, if you are sat in front of your wife and say the best day of your life involved a frae bentos pie. For those people who aren't in England best day of your life involved a Frey Bentos pie. For those people who aren't in England or have never indulged in a Frey Bentos pie, heaven knows they're not as popular as they used to be. I thought you were just going to say, get out, turn it off.
Starting point is 00:02:14 It's a pie in a tin, but not like a tin that you just make a pie in a tin. It's like a can. You open up and you just put that can in the oven and you bake it. Quite ingenious, really. I was a big fan of it back in the day. I can honestly tell you I've eaten one for a good few years. But the chicken and mushroom one I think they did was very good. Steak and ale was very good as well.
Starting point is 00:02:35 Well, the puff pastry sort of just got up. It's quite ingenious how they do it. I mean, all puff pastry does that. No, I know. But the fact that that's able to be canned and not spoil. Remember when we did canned food, that man who ate rations back in the day? Yeah, that was good. A guy at a US Civil War biscuit.
Starting point is 00:02:51 Yeah, hard tack, I think. Yeah, hard tack. Yeah, and he was like, it doesn't taste very nice. I could tell you that. It tastes like mothballs. Why are you eating mothballs? Why do you know what that tastes like? Well, he eats anything, this guy, doesn't he?
Starting point is 00:03:01 But on the food theme, give me an it's been. It's been. Because I and i've because i want to firmly get into that section of the show now because i made a steak over the weekend and i don't particularly rate myself as a cook at all right um honestly but i do feel like i can make a good steak and i don't know if many people feel like they can so i thought i'd back myself is there much to it though well? Well, I'm about to tell you. I don't think people
Starting point is 00:03:27 know the key, the very simple but key things to do to make the steak taste delicious. Right. Bearing in mind, I'm like, I've made
Starting point is 00:03:33 beef wellington before, mate. I'm like, I'm like third Dan or something. Yeah, but what does it taste like? It impressed me. It's very nice.
Starting point is 00:03:39 I've made my own little kind of mushroomy patty off my side. Duxelle, they call it, don't they? Duxelle. You've talked about
Starting point is 00:03:44 your beef wellington before, but you've never threatened to make call it, don't they? Duxell. You've talked about your beef Wellington before but you've never threatened to make me it. No. Even though you've now got a brand new kitchen. I've not got a brand new kitchen. I just moved everything around.
Starting point is 00:03:51 I'm having a new kitchen next month. Yeah. Land barren. Out of the other half live, eh? So basically, how to make the perfect steak. First of all,
Starting point is 00:03:59 get yourself a nice cut of steak. I would go for... Shut... No, because... Get out, Luke. No, because... No, but this is an important point. Oh, I'm going to get
Starting point is 00:04:06 stew and steak. Brilliant. Do you want this to go on for the whole show? Because it will. No, because it's important that people say, I'm going to have a steak,
Starting point is 00:04:12 I'm going to treat myself, I'm going to buy a decent cut. Don't just go and buy braising steak and go, oh, it didn't taste very nice. Well, of course it didn't taste very nice. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:20 You've got braising steak. I mean, that's... Going back to basics. There is steak that you can buy sometimes where they've made steaks out of just different chunks, but they glue it together with food glue. This is what I'm talking about. I didn't even know food glue existed.
Starting point is 00:04:34 I thought if anyone I know would know it existed, it would be you. It'd be really cool. You could make Lego creations out of food. God, get in touch if you've done that. Chip Castle. Get in touch if you've done that. So anyway, I would favour a ribeye, a nice medium thick ribeye.
Starting point is 00:04:47 Then go to the shop and purchase some food glue. No, that's not right. Here's a key point though. Get your steak and get it to room temperature. It has to be room temperature because otherwise it contracts and it gets very tough. So take it out of the fridge a few hours before you want to cook it. Then oil the steak and not the pan. That's also really important. Right. And season
Starting point is 00:05:08 it properly. Then... Hurt it with salt. Get the pan so hot that it's actually starting to smoke. Okay? Right. Where's your smoke alarm? It's in the dining room. Right. But I've got an extractor fan made by my good friends at Neff. My extractor
Starting point is 00:05:24 fan doesn't go anywhere it just it just comes into the fish chip shop downstairs it just concentrates it uh but there's just a gap between the ceiling and this extractor fan it doesn't go anywhere okay so weird yeah that's my cooker hood i mean that's not an extractor no it's rubbish um and then you want to lay the the steak on the pan when it's nice and hot and leave it for a medium cut of ribeye about two and a half minutes each side. Don't tamper with it. Don't muck around with it. Leave it.
Starting point is 00:05:48 Time it to exactly two and a half minutes. Flip it over. Another two and a half minutes. That's for about probably just under medium, which is exactly how I like it. And then take it off and let it rest for about six or seven minutes. And the final stage of this seven or eight point plan,
Starting point is 00:06:03 whatever it is, Enjoy your steak. What do you think about that, Pete? Right, your hints and tips are buy a nice steak, season it, put it in a pan. No, oil the steak, not the pan. Get it to room temperature. Let it rest. There's loads going on. You're just describing, oh my, I had a nice
Starting point is 00:06:20 dinner over the weekend. Let's do a blind taste test. You'll cook a steak, I'll cook a steak, and I bet I win. Alright, I'll get some posh wagyu or something like that. Oh yeah, that would be cheating. Oh God, I love wagyu.
Starting point is 00:06:31 Shall we do emails? Let's do some emails, Luke. Let's do some bloody emails for crying out loud. Where's my things? Where are my things, Luke? Okay, Luke, don't conge me, mate.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Pipe down, Pete. I told you never to argue with the customers. Not had that one for a little while, Luke, have we? Why are you arguing with me about my, Pete. I told you never to argue with the customers. Not had that one for a little while, Luke, have we? Why are you arguing with me about my steak when you've been told not to argue with the customers? You're not my customer. And if you were, you would be banned from the store.
Starting point is 00:06:52 I bought a quart from a shop this week, and they hadn't removed all the tags. There was three of those big plastic tags. Oh, I hate that. It's annoying. And the security... I was on the phone with my dad, trying to convince him of something we were talking about on the show.
Starting point is 00:07:08 What's the latest on that? He said no. So we left the... So I'm going out of the store, and the security guard starts beeping. And I hand the security guard the bag to have a look at. And he beckons me back into the store like I'm going to do a runner.
Starting point is 00:07:23 Oh, that annoyed me, Luke. So you did run. I felt like going, maybe I should run just to teach him a lesson. He doesn't look like he'd run very fast. Oh, that annoyed me, that did. It would be quite funny.
Starting point is 00:07:34 So I go, come back in the stall, shoplifter. It's like, it's your person who didn't take the tag off. I bought it. What you should have done is,
Starting point is 00:07:40 what you should have done is, because you actually bought it, right? So what you should have done is legged it and let the police get involved and when they caught you what are you doing I just thought I'd run
Starting point is 00:07:49 this is my receipt what are you worried about that would have been brilliant what happened after that at least you didn't get it all the way home that's a killer that is an absolute killer
Starting point is 00:07:57 you've got to go into the shop I'll go in another shop and it starts beeping in there as well yeah sort your crap out guys so did they take it off yeah they did good
Starting point is 00:08:05 all right fine the coat was the wrong size anyway so have you got any more um on your dad um yeah he's just he's just having none of it
Starting point is 00:08:12 he's just being a dick he's just he is just being a prize dick he's pretending he's like oh i've got an interest in going to those places i'm like
Starting point is 00:08:19 shut up dad will he come around do you think will you have to try a different location um i might try a different location. What's the location on the table for him at the moment? Canada or Japan.
Starting point is 00:08:29 Okay. I mean, they are big trips, but I'm like, he's just being... It's just the faff on. He can't be arsed with. Does he not... Oh, yeah, sorry, son. Have you offered to pay?
Starting point is 00:08:41 It's not about paying. He'll have to pay because he'll want to pay. Right, okay. But, that's nothing to do with it. It's just him being stuck in his ways.
Starting point is 00:08:49 But I think you should start off small, maybe offer him a holiday to the Lake District or something. So it's not, I don't want to, no,
Starting point is 00:08:56 I don't want to go to the Lake District. I went last year actually, it was very nice. Do what you want, just don't do it to me. Let's get in this tent, Dad. Let's get cosy, come on. on um okay well listen do keep us updated because
Starting point is 00:09:08 i know for a fact our listeners are very interested in you and your dad me and my dad this is my life hello guys says stewart i just want to confirm that pete was indeed correct that's in stating that palm trees do grow on the west coast of scotland that's good um i live in mayball south asia and i've seen them growing in people's gardens up and down the coast, from Ballantrae to Largs. The first one sounding lovely, the second one not so nice. Also, Pete's random word generator wasn't entirely random this time. They do indeed grow thanks to the Gulf Stream, which blows some warm air and also a shitload of rain
Starting point is 00:09:40 across the Atlantic to our beautiful corner of the world. Donald Trump was also mentioned, which is also supposedly a random comment too. However, buried deep in Pete's subconscious, he of course knew that Mr President owns Turnberry Hotel and Golf Course a couple of miles down the road from me, which also happens to boast a couple of palm trees
Starting point is 00:09:57 in the car park. I think we did mention that, did we not? I don't know. I don't think we did, to be honest. Largs, I've not been to Largs, but you said they sound very nice. It's supposed to be honest Largs I've not been to Largs but you said Mar-a-Largs it's supposed to be very very nice
Starting point is 00:10:07 so there we go keep up the great work keep up the doodling keep up the doodling won't you I've got an email here Pete alright then about Stubbington Study Centre
Starting point is 00:10:16 oh stop this I have stop it why have you got so many about the SS these are very very real emails from people who've had experiences there
Starting point is 00:10:24 what do you want me to say? That's what this show's all about. Experiences there. The community aspect of this show is very important. This is from Charlie. He says, hello, guys. Following on from the Stubbington Study Centre story last week, I too went to school in Basingstoke and also attended Stubbington.
Starting point is 00:10:40 On the last evening of our week's stay, we played a game called Stubbington Murder. From what I can recall, teachers a game called Stubbington Murder. From what I can recall, teachers and employees of Stubbington would dress up and we, the pupils, would have to go round the grounds very late at night asking questions about who may have seen the murder and what happened. Think of it like a real-life Cluedo.
Starting point is 00:10:56 I remember a lot of people running scared back to their dorms, so yes, I don't think it would be okay to do now. All in all, I remember absolutely loving my weep at Stubbington Study Centre and even remember the One Piece Sweet Shop. All the best, Charlie. There we go. Lovely old job.
Starting point is 00:11:11 This is the gift that keeps on giving. I wonder what kind of sweets, what kind of candy you got for one penny. Be those little shrimps, probably. Flying saucers. Cola bottles. Blackjacks. Fruit salads.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Fruit salads. See, the fruit salad and blackjack One Piece Sweet, looking back on it, that's probably the ones I didn't want you to buy too many of because the wrapper meant it probably was very, very different. Wax wrapper. Yeah, it probably meant it wasn't a very cost-effective sweet to manufacture. Mind you, though, I think the taffy's probably quite cheap.
Starting point is 00:11:37 It's effectively taffy, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it is, yeah. But even so, you're only charging a penny. Yeah, I know, still. I think you'd be all right, to be honest. I think you've got to remember, you've got moulding for prawns.
Starting point is 00:11:49 True, that is true. You've got moulding for prawns and colourant, a very strong colourant. Yeah, pink. Yeah. That was my mum's favourite sweet. I mean, it still is. She's not dead. Unless she's...
Starting point is 00:11:59 Nobody's told me about it. Yeah. Unlikely since her mother lived until 96. One pea sweet's like four or five pea now, probably. Yeah, probably.
Starting point is 00:12:09 They probably don't even measure them out like that. No. I used to get, little 20 pea mix, lovely old job. Those little golf balls, fantastic.
Starting point is 00:12:16 It's probably done per 100 grams or something now, isn't it? Yeah. Do you remember when quarters used to, would turn into 100 grams?
Starting point is 00:12:23 It used to be quarters. Yeah, did you speak quarters? Did I get a quarter of sweets and then it turned into 100 grams? It used to be quarters. Yeah, it did used to be quarters. You'd get a quarter of sweets, and then it'd turn into 100 grams. Americans, they're not into metric measurements, are they? No, they're imperial, yeah. That's strange, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:12:32 Yeah. Get with the program, America. I'll tell you what is strange, though. Even more strange, arguably, is that we do a bit of half and half, because we do metric for lots of stuff, but obviously there's an old-school element that we still refer to things as like...
Starting point is 00:12:43 Miles. We still do miles. Yeah. Whereas in Europe, they obviously do kilometers. Oh, well. Members of my American family have come here for the first time without
Starting point is 00:12:52 exception have all been surprised that it's miles and not kilometers. Yeah. Because they assume it's metric. Isn't it? I prefer it. Miles are more meaty, aren't they? They're more substantial.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Yeah, I think so. I think you get more bang for your buck with a mile. Go on. Do you want a quick one from Tom? Afternoon, Luke and Pete. I recently introduced my wife to your show and every now and again we go back and listen to old episodes. Wow. Going back to episode 12,
Starting point is 00:13:14 Train vs Fox, you spoke about Kit Kats without the wafer. This reminded me of an incident that happened when I was working at the time. One of my colleagues had the misfortune of a waferless Kit Kat so the team decided to contact Nestlé. I've attached a copy of the letter that was sent. I hope you enjoy it. Nestlé did reply with an apology
Starting point is 00:13:29 and enclosed a cheque for £1 sterling, which I believe my colleague still has to this very day. Yeah. Cheque's only valid for six months. Is that true? That's worthless now. Is that true? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Really? Yeah. Any cheque? Yeah. That's not... What? That's crazy. What about data cheques? Yeah, from the date. What? That's crazy. What about data checks?
Starting point is 00:13:46 Yeah, from the date. From the date, okay. This is the letter. It just made me giggle, to be honest. DNS there. I'm currently eating what I thought was one of your quality products, the KitKat. KitKat is in inverted commas. The KitKat? The KitKat. I believe the children call it the KitKat.
Starting point is 00:14:01 Whilst I was munching through the first finger of my four, I found that there was no wafer. Of course, I am a reasonable person, and regarding the first finger, I am able to make an exception. To my shock and dismay, when I went to bite into the second finger, the wafer-free theme continued. And again, in the third finger, when I went to inspect my fourth and final finger, it felt suspiciously weighty,
Starting point is 00:14:20 and there was no sign of wafer on the underbelly. No wafer was found amongst the innards. I immediately explained the unpleasant situation to everyone who works in my office, including several people who had called in sick today, and we all agree that this is an absolute outrage. To sum up my 10-minute unpleasant experience in consuming one of your products, I was most disappointed. I was supposed to be eating a wafer-based product, and to strip a Kit Kat of its wafer is like stripping an elephant of its trunk. It would no longer be an elephant.
Starting point is 00:14:48 It would merely be a fat horse. I await your response. I think we established before that getting a KitKat without a wafer in it is something of a bonus, no? Yeah, I know. It's great. But he doesn't like it. Buy another KitKat, mate. There you go. For more emails of that type of standard,
Starting point is 00:15:02 and hopefully better, hello at lukeandpeachshow.com. Is it bowling pins that have pool balls in them? Or is it bowling balls that have pool balls in them? Answer that question by emailing hello at lukeandpeachshow.com because I have no idea what the question is. When people have cut open a bowling ball or either possibly a bowling pin, they found smaller items like pool balls for waiting purposes. I have no idea.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Just a cracked pool ball. They just put that in for weight sort of thing. I didn't know that. Yeah, fascinating. If you can't open a golf ball, it's full of elastic bands. Yeah, all wound up.
Starting point is 00:15:41 Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Shall we go for a break before we go to Mencarta? All right then, let's do that. Yo, yo, yo, yo wound up. Yeah, it's interesting, isn't it? Lovely. Shall we go for a break before we go to Mankata? All right, then. Let's do that. Yo, yo, yo, yo, yo. I'm very, very good. Funky. That was funky, wasn't it?
Starting point is 00:15:58 Unexpected. Do you want... I've got... This is Mankata's brilliant. Do you want a Mankata... Can I give me a Mankata jingle before we go into it? Give me a Mankata jingle. Is it too many jingles?
Starting point is 00:16:06 Too many jingles. I love a Men Carter jingle. We haven't had it for ages. I've used it for ages. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. It's one small step for man. You don't understand.
Starting point is 00:16:20 Willie was a salesman. Say simply, very simply, with hope, good morning. There we go. Good morning. You forgot to cut your voice off again. You should have spoken. I'm never going to do it. No, but you normally speak over it.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Oh, yeah, sorry. In the terrible Band-Aid plaster attempt at making it better. So this, Mankata, it's been a while since we've done Mankata. We do still love it. So do send your suggestions in. This one's come from Rob Charrington. The Chesser. The Chesser.
Starting point is 00:16:50 Chesslepops. And have you heard, I'm hoping you haven't, because I'd never heard of this. Have you heard of Cocaine Bear? Is this something to do with the adventure of Bear Grylls? No. Wait, no.
Starting point is 00:17:04 Medellin. For legal reasons, it is absolutely nothing to do with Bear Gry Bear Grylls? No. Wait, no. Medellin. For legal reasons, it is absolutely nothing to do with Bear Grylls. He will have tried. He's eaten everything else. He's eaten lizard gizzard. If he's eaten lizard gizzard, he'll have had some chis.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Some bugle. Some bugle. Some snout. Cocaine Bear is nothing to do with Bear Grylls. I'm pleased to state it's actually much better than that. So, check this out. Cocaine Bear was briefly famous
Starting point is 00:17:28 in 1985 when a bear was found dead after eating roughly $15 million worth of cocaine dropped from a duffel bag dropped from a drug smuggler's airplane. Oh, so they do that thing
Starting point is 00:17:44 where they chuck the drugs out and then people have got to collect them, but the bear got to the pick-a-nicker basket. The smuggler, do store your drugs away from your camp. Make yourself big. Bang a dustbin. Andrew Carter Thornton II was the wealthy son of an elite Kentucky horse-breeder family. And he fell to his death when he bowed at the plane, hit his head on the tail of the aircraft apparently,
Starting point is 00:18:10 and didn't open his parachute until it was too late. And his body was found down the road or whatever. And nine Coke stuffed duffel bags were recovered along the plane's flight path. Cocaine Bear was found three months later in the woods just south of the Tennessee-Georgia state line at Sprawls next to the ripped open 10th bag. All of the cocaine, roughly 76 pounds, was gone. These two guys, Witt Heiler and Griffin Van Meter,
Starting point is 00:18:39 brilliant names, tracked cocaine bear down because he was eventually stuffed and put on display and they took ownership of him and they've got him in their store or something um and this is like a big ball of cornflakes he's hungry well yeah listen to this though according to the uh the autopsy done by um i suppose a veterinary surgeon he said um its stomach was literally packed to the brim of with cocaine there isn't a mammal on the planet that could have survived it. It had cerebral hemorrhaging,
Starting point is 00:19:07 respiratory failure, hypothermia, renal failure, heart failure, stroke, you name it, the bear had it. What a way to go.
Starting point is 00:19:13 It's a brilliant way to go. Say hello to my little friend. It's a brilliant way to go, man. Wow. Imagine it. Isn't that fantastic? Cocaine bear. Cocaine bear.
Starting point is 00:19:21 What happened to him after that? So he got stuffed? Well, he's now on display, I believe, at Whit Hyler and Griffin Van Meter's store. Right. And I think he's in some shop in Kentucky. And he's on display.
Starting point is 00:19:34 And he's quite famous. Yeah. And they use him now as a sort of quite funny way of telling people about the dangers of drugs, I believe. Well, don't eat all of the drugs. Don't eat cocaine. I mean, don't start all of the drugs. Don't eat cocaine. I mean, don't start with 76 pounds of it.
Starting point is 00:19:50 So, like, if you ate, like, a paracetamol, that tastes disgusting. So, like, if you just ate it, it would, right, it's not sweet, is it? It's not, like, Moorish. I mean, it is Moorish, but it's cocaine. That's the bear. So, I mean, I guess, did they get to keep, did the drugs people have to remove the bear's stomach? Or did they get to keep the very... I think the bear went on to become the state mascot or something.
Starting point is 00:20:10 Cocaine bear, the state mascot? Because it was used as a way of stopping people taking drugs. That's not... We're not bears and you don't eat all the cocaine, do you? It's on display apparently at the Kentucky Fun Mall. The Fun Mall! in Lexington, Kentucky. That is fun,
Starting point is 00:20:26 to be honest. There you go. Fantastic. Cocaine Bear, have you got a story of any other animals that have inadvertently nailed their way
Starting point is 00:20:33 through $15 million of street value of Class A drugs? Then by all means, really do get in touch because... If you're buying a taxidermy bear,
Starting point is 00:20:42 I mean, go for the one that's full of really valuable substances. I don't think that's how taxidermy works i think it's literally just the skin he taxidermied himself mate yeah he did he did yeah imagine it though it's just what are the chances of that happening magical fantastic so that's from rob cherrington thank you very much for that rob he doesn't mention what batteries he's got that is a fitting men carter to be honest.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Apparently, they've renamed it Pablo Escobar as well. Nice. I'm trying to think of other people who did a lot of drugs. He's got a Kentucky wide brim hat, an oversized gold chain, and there's a sign on it that says, don't do drugs or you'll end up dead and maybe stuffed like poor cocaine bear. And if you are jumping out of a plane try and
Starting point is 00:21:28 clear the back of the plane yeah I don't understand how he did that have you heard the story of
Starting point is 00:21:34 DB Cooper yes who got off the back of a successful hijacker apparently but that's because they never found the
Starting point is 00:21:41 body he might not be successful well there was a big rumour that the back end of Mad Men was going to be that Don Draper
Starting point is 00:21:48 was going to be DB Cooper I thought he was a guy who changed his identity in the Korean War or something yeah but that well I mean
Starting point is 00:21:53 that's a big old spoiler buddy but how old is it those ages it's the first season so you're alright but I think no I think
Starting point is 00:22:00 the last season was going to be that he goes on to be DB Cooper that'd be great that'd be great but I mean instead I think we'll just go on to be that he goes on to be DB Cooper that would be great that would be great but I mean instead I think they would just
Starting point is 00:22:07 go for that Pepsi advertisement but DB Cooper yeah that is a fascinating story especially the way that the plane is built as well being a very like a gentleman
Starting point is 00:22:16 kind of hijacker and kind of that he just got off the back of the plane on the because they used to have stairs at the back of the plane underneath the
Starting point is 00:22:22 they changed that didn't they they changed the we still get them. I remember Barack Obama got royally mugged off by the Chinese when he landed on Air Force One at one time. They pretended that... They basically said, oh, we didn't have time to get the steps out.
Starting point is 00:22:37 It's gone. Barack Obama's... The President of the United States of America is arriving and you forgot to get the sky... What do you call those? Passages out. You've got to get the sky, what do you call those, passages out. You've got to get the stairs down
Starting point is 00:22:48 so you can walk down. So he had to really pathetically get off the back of the plane with his own stairs. Oh, okay. So they were mugging him off. Very different to how
Starting point is 00:22:55 the Chinese treat Donald Trump, of course. They just flatter because it works for him. Well, they obviously have done their homework and know it works for what? Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Clever Chinese. Do you remember the story about Donald Trump and the nuclear football? When Donald Trump was in China... I don't even understand the sentence. It was an Axios... Is that an Edie Blyton novel? It was an Axios report about Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:23:17 and his recent trip to China. It was a situation where the US military aid carrying the nuclear football entered the Great Hall. Chinese security officials blocked his entry. Basically, the bloke who carries the nuclear football is supposed to stay close to the president at all times, along with the doctor. A US official hurried into the adjoining room and told Kelly what was happening. Kelly rushed over, this is General Kelly, and told the US officials to keep walking. We're moving in, he said, and the Americans all started moving.
Starting point is 00:23:44 There was a commotion. A Chinese security official grabbed Kelly. Kelly shoved the man's hand off his body. Then a US Secret Service agent grabbed the Chinese security official and tackled him to the ground. What? So at no point, it's reported, did any Chinese official touch the nuclear football.
Starting point is 00:23:59 But, yeah, troubling. Troubling, isn't it? Oh, press the button. That is very, very strange. It's strange, isn't it? Yeah. A complete lack of protocol, troubling. Kind of troubling, isn't it? Oh, press the button! That is very, very strange. It's strange, isn't it? Yeah. A complete lack of protocol, guys. Get it together.
Starting point is 00:24:10 Yeah, get your protocol right. Get your protocol together, guys. I was just going to say, before we get out of here on the DB Cooper thing, that it's a fascinating story. But one of the things I find interesting about that sort of stuff is how many people come forward
Starting point is 00:24:23 and say they're him. Like you say it happens with like loads of people that are at large essentially doesn't it and the FBI said on the something
Starting point is 00:24:30 I listened to about D.B. Cooper like between like 1971 and 2015 or whatever hundreds of people have come forward claiming to be him
Starting point is 00:24:38 D.B. Cooper yeah and none of them has passed muster no incredible mentioned in an MF Doom song as well,
Starting point is 00:24:45 so extra credit for that. There we go. Well, that's what he would have wanted. So send your nuclear footballs to hello at lukeandpeachshow.com and make sure the satchel is firmly fastened. Exactly. Don't let anyone touch it.
Starting point is 00:24:56 Crying out loud. Get in touch. We'll be back next week. I love doing these shorter shows. I feel lean. For the first time in 10 years, Pete, I feel as lean as I've ever been so fresh and so lean lean
Starting point is 00:25:06 lean and green hello at lukeandpete.com we'll be back next week love ya no we'll be wait we're back on Thursday you idiot oh yeah sorry
Starting point is 00:25:18 I literally just said it pre-recorded difficult

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