The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 41: How to cook the perfect steak, and the greatest bear of all time
Episode Date: February 26, 2018Luke 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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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,
he said,
hey,
I was about,
it was about 10 years ago,
I was playing Oblivion,
a video game,
Elder Scrolls,
kind of RPG,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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?
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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.
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.
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?
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?
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...
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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?
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.
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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,
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,
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,
respiratory failure,
hypothermia,
renal failure,
heart failure,
stroke,
you name it,
the bear had it.
What a way to go.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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,
to be honest.
There you go.
Fantastic.
Cocaine Bear,
have you got a story
of any other animals
that have inadvertently
nailed their way
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,
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.
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
clear the
back of the
plane
yeah
I don't understand
how he did that
have you heard the
story of
DB Cooper
yes who
got off the
back of a
successful hijacker
apparently but
that's because they
never found the
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
D.B. Cooper
yeah
and none of them
has passed muster
no
incredible
mentioned in an MF Doom song
as well,
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.
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
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
I literally just said it
pre-recorded
difficult