The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 46: What's happened to that donkey?

Episode Date: March 15, 2018

After the craft ale ridiculousness last time around Pete stays true to form and gets drunk on his own at home using Japanese liquor of some description. Alongside that we hear of another animal partial to the Bolivian Marching Powder, a windy night in Ireland to say the least, and a plane flight that went on for ages for no real reason that we can ascertain. Oh and one final thing before we go, there's a truly horrific email in here somewhere featuring a man's buttock and so you should probably consider this fair warning.To send an email in about buttocks or otherwise: [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🎵 Mmm! Ah, yes! Craft Ale! Delicious! Delicious! It's Luke and Pete Shaw! Yeah!

I've started brewing my own beer! There was a craft... I did something like that a while back. Well, there was a Craft Ale guy who made beer out of the head brewmaster's beard. Because you know what you make yeast out of anything? Yeah. And they made it out of this disgusting man's beard. Luke and Pete show, everyone.

What an intro. Welcome. To the disgusting man's beard show. The disgusting man's beard show. I'm Luke Moore. It has been leveled at you before, to be honest, Luke. Yes, Luke and Pete show are back again. It's Thursday.

I hope your week has gone swimmingly. Do you want to do the official apology now or later on? For what? I'll do it. I'll do it in Alan Partridge style when he gets embarrassed by his Ukrainian girlfriend. Okay. To everyone who listened to the show on Monday and sat through the entirety of Pete's rant about craft ale.

It was poorly thought out and poorly executed, but I stand by everything I said, unless we edit it out because of sponsors. Sorry about that. Episode 46, Pete. Last show we talked about who the 45th President of the United States is. It's Donald Trump. Who's going to be number 46?

Eisenhower. I think it might be Oprah. Or The Rock. Has she said she's not running? Or said she is running? Why would you want that? Why would you bother? As you know, I make a very, very important stand

to not get involved in any other country's politics. So I couldn't tell you. What does that even mean? I couldn't tell you. What have we got coming up this week, mate? What have you been doing in the interim three days since we last broadcasted a version of this show? I have.

I had shochu, which is a kind of Japanese whiskey made with barley. And I had a little bit last night. And I had a very small glass, but got very drunk. Did you? By myself, never drink at home. I've brought the bottle into here so we can both try it out at some point.

Oh good, you didn't get a little stiff neck, did you, while you were doing it? They do call it a stiffener, sharpener. Yeah, whatever,

yeah, whatever. A man, I think I've mentioned his films before on the show, it was that Fugue Chana, Fugue Fugue Flats. Yeah, you did,

you mentioned that not long ago third window films I met with him and we had a little chat he listens to the Luke Peake show and he's a man who lives in Japan

in Tokyo and he's a producer of films and he also distributes them as well and he gave me a bottle of shochu which is very nice of him

how would you feel here's one for you I took a 900 for you here's one at the risk of awakening the kra him. How would you feel, there's one for you, there's a conundrum for you, at the risk of awakening the Kraken again, how would you feel about drinking

Japanese craft ale? Japanese craft ale. Well, there is a there is a Brewdog in Roppongi last time I was in there. But it's not just Brewdog, that's just one brand of dickheads who do it.

I know, I know, but it seems to be a particularly corporatised kind of, it's a corporatised word. I don't know. a particularly corporatised kind of... It's a corporatised word. I don't know. Yeah, corporatised kind of thread.

Yeah, but it's untranslatable into English. Yeah, there's one in Roppongi. Yeah, so Craftdale's obviously on the rise out there, but I mean,

the Japanese will have a crack at anything. But you'd be happy with that, would you? No. Right, okay. No, everyone's a dickhead. But I guess...

Well done for not being a hypocrite. But a fetish is a fetish. I think the Japanese, everyone's into somethinghead. But I guess... Well done for not being a hypocrite. But a fetish is a fetish. I think the Japanese, everyone's into something. And when they're into something, they're really into something. But I just think out of all the things you can be into, ale is not good conversation. Yeah.

You could do something else with your time. That's always true. But you extend that attitude towards people who fetishise food as well, don't you? If you go on Instagram

people take a picture and say, I made this ramen. Have you? Good. There's restaurants and cafes in London who do really well

because their food is so Instagrammable. There's one called Farm Girl Cafe on Portobello Road. Astonishingly overpriced. Very, very busy. I mean, it's fine. It's fair. It's fine. I mean, I went there and overpriced. Very, very busy. I mean, it's fine.

It's fair. It's fine. I mean, I went there and had an alright meal. Very, very expensive. But it was full of people just taking photos of their food.

Yeah. I don't think I've done it much, to be honest. If you check on my Instagram and there's food on it, I apologise now, but it's not something I get involved in quite a lot.

Anyway, I brought some ramen in that I made from scratch. I'll ram it in you. I want to in quite a lot. Anyway, I brought some ramen in. I made from scratch. I'll ram it in you. I want to just break with protocol ever so slightly and just say this week is an opportunity. It's been, go on. It's been. It's an opportunity for me to say that you guys should really listen

to Berkhamstead Revisited, which is another Radio Stakhanov show, which you can find by searching for Berkhamsted Revisited on iTunes or wherever you get your pods. It is brilliant. It's two girls who we know who've decided to go through one of their teenage diaries from when they were kids. It is. If you're the sort of person who loves to laugh,

but also cringe, and that's pretty much everyone as far as I understand, you've got to listen to it. It's so funny. Episode two should be out now hearing a grown woman talk about her teenage experiences of using a chopper chop like having a chopper chop

in her mouth she thought it was sexy because she thought it was sexy I've seen you do that it makes me laugh when I was a kid not because it was sexy

but I remember being very proud that I could tie a cherry stalk in a knot with my mouth and i showed up my dad and my dad went that's really not for you to do that's that's uh i mean yeah i mean he had he had his he had his uh presumptions did he say did he say but i think he went i think he went you realize that isn't necessarily about the dexterity of being able to tie a cherry sauce,

it's about something else. And I was like, is it? My dad would have taken it. So I can have a look at that. That's it. Chucked it on the floor and stamped on it. And then put it in the bin. And looked at me with a look that said,

we're not talking about this again. That's what my dad would have done. I don't care what you do, just don't do it to me. I'm not saying it would have been right or wrong. I'm just saying that's what he would have done. But yeah, so Berkhamstead Revisited. If you're having trouble spelling Berkhamstead, because it's a small town in England

and you're not from England, I understand. Lovely place. Just make sure you Google it or whatever. But yeah, check it out on iTunes or Podcasts, Apple, wherever you get your pods. It's very, very well worth checking out. So that's what I've been doing

because I've been helping to make that show. And so that's what I've genuinely been doing over the last few weeks. Berk Hamstead. Exactly. Yeah, it's very very well worth checking out so that's what I've been doing because I've been helping to make that show and so that's what I've genuinely been doing over the last few weeks Burke Hamstead exactly yeah it's not Hampstead

no Hamstead so you're fucking confusing it don't confuse it B-E-R-K Hamstead S-T-E-D yeah

let's talk about Craft Ale let's talk about S-T-Ds no I would have I would say Craft Ale is

more than S-T-Ds I said no so that's it's been should we should we just dive right tell you what we've I would say Craftellers must nest in these. I said no. So that's the it's been. Should we just dive right... Tell you what we've got to do, though, Pete, actually, because we owe this to the list. Well, actually, we don't owe them fucking... We don't owe them nothing, mate.

We don't owe them anything. We do two shows a week for nothing. But if we do owe them something, and that's a philosophical debate for another time, we do definitely owe them Amen Carter or two. So let's save time for that at the end of the show. Let's make sure we do that. Before we do that

let's get into the old emails. Do you want to have a little jingy? Jingos! Jingos, mate! I'm very, very good. Nice. It's one of my favourite ones. Punchy, isn't it?

Punchy. Can I jump in with Murray Butler's email? Murray Butler! Murray Butler! I'm drunk. He's a man I'd like to have in my employ.

Exactly. Hello Luke and Pete. After hearing your cocaine bear story and your interest in other animals who have got the gear, I've got on the gear, I thought you might enjoy this story. My friend was travelling around Colombia and ended up on a secluded beach

where backpackers could buy copious amounts of the nation's most famous product without fear of police or gang interference. And that is cocaine. And that is cocaine. The disco tent, as it is called, did not have any kind of sound system in, but was instead just a Colombian bloke

with an enormous block of the devil's dandruff and a chisel. Jesus Christ. That is bleak. That is dreadful, isn't it? My friend bought an entire ounce of the stuff and stuffed it into his backpack. Later that night,

he discovered that most of his backpack and the drugs in question had been eaten by one of the roaming donkeys that hung around the beach. And basically, they used to eat everything that was left. Donkeys will eat anything. Tired and quite sober, he went to bed in his tent, only to be woken by some loud eoying, the sound of one very coked-up amorous donkey

attempting to shag all of the other donkeys on the beach. Yeah. Wow. Could he reach tumescence is the question. I would argue probably not. No. Flopping it around. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase,

I couldn't give a swinging donkey's dick, doesn't it? But even the mention, who's that from, by the way, Peter? That's from, lest we forget. Oh, Murray Butler, sorry, yeah, the mother. From Red Hook in Brooklyn. Very nice. Red Hook, I've not heard of that. No.

I was just going to say, the mere mention of the term Devil's Dandruff reminds me of... Of Jay McInerney's Oblivion Marching Powder. No. What? No. No.

I don't even understand what you just said. They called it the Oblivion Marching Powder, didn't they? I thought you said Oblivion. I was like, what? Oblivion. Yeah. The Devil's Dandruff reminds me of what I would consider to be the most underrated comedy series of the last 20 years.

Right. Which is Steve Coogan's Saxondale. Yeah. Have you seen it? Yeah. Brilliant. So good. Everyone of our generation kind of watches everything Coogan does,

really, isn't it? I don't know if I know many people who've seen it, though, because I mention it all the time, and you're a bit of a comedy aficionado, Pete, which everyone will no doubt be unsurprised to hear, but a lot of people, when I talk to them about it, they don't know it. Really?

Yeah. Round for two seasons. Very, very good. I've been watching a lot of Brooklyn, is it Brooklyn Nine-Nine? Never seen it. It's all right, actually. It's very watchable.

It's a little bit like The Office, I suppose. Very tame, very family-friendly. Like the little bit like The Office I suppose very tame very family friendly but like the American version of The Office yeah a great little watch

so Saxondale I've realised I've just left that out there and I've not really explained what I mean the reason that

The Devil's Dandruff thing reminds me of that show is because Steve Coogan plays a guy called Tommy Saxondale who is an ex-roady

in the 70s who worked with loads of big bands and is now a pest controller in Stevenage and he basically trades on telling all these stories about rock androady in the 70s who's worked with loads of big bands and is now a pest controller in Stevenage. And he basically trades on telling all these stories

about rock and roll excess in the 70s and he uses the phrase Devil's Dandruff quite a lot. Yeah, in my line of work I do sort of broadcast to and chat to that kind of chap who loves a bit of Clapton. Yeah.

Kind of looks a bit like Eric Clapton. Yeah. Has the same spectacle as Eric Clapton and always wears old band t-shirts we'll all get there we'll all bloody get there I'm arguably already there so thanks for that Murray

I've got an email here Peter about oh do you know what we didn't do? We didn't do the passwords email from last week at the risk of essentially robbing you of everything you own because people are gonna get involved i thought i'd do this one from andrew because i promised it on monday and i don't like to deliver or not deliver when i've promised something so andrew says hi guys i'm just eight minutes into

a recent episode and listening to the password woes of pete now for those of you who don't remember this pete's terrible with passwords i mean if you if you are stupid enough to have either a communal email address or your own email address linked to some piece of software that Pete needs to use, expect emails on an almost daily basis of passwords being reset. I request new passwords on a daily basis. So Andrew goes on to say,

how is a man so into his tech not using a password manager and how is he letting Luke use a spreadsheet? Come on, guys. Personally, I'll go for LastPass and it's great. Chrome and Firefox extensions, app for your phone, pretty cheap. Get on it. Regards, Andrew. Pete, talk to me about password managers because I'm ashamed to say

I don't really even know what one is. It's just using one centralized password. Dangerous, though, no? Well, no, but it automatically kind of automatically gives you access to basically it interacts with all of your different sites and basically types in the right password for that particular site. But that's dangerous, all you've

got to do is crack that one password then and you're in. Well, yeah, but I think there's there'll be two-factor authentication, there'll be stuff like that, there'll be safeguards that prevent people, and also it's not one of those ones, it's probably like a, there's a difference between server-side passwords,

which people can crack, or people can kind of decrypt a lot of the time, or in leaks and stuff like that, when Adobe, or I think I got, I fell foul of the Adobe leak a few years ago. And obviously, not Addison, eh? What was that sex one? Ashley Madison.

Ashley Madison, wonderful. Yeah, those kind of leaks. People keep their passwords on the server and sometimes unencrypted because there's no rules against it. So why don't you use a password manager? A password manager is a client side password that no one's ever going to access. Why don't you use one?

Don't want to, dickhead. Got one. Can't remember the password for it. Yeah, exactly. It would just be me requesting that password every bloody time. There you go. I'm enjoying the face identification thing on my phone, though. On the iPhone X. Yeah, but you look like everyone. That's a dangerous game to play.

Oh, my God. Hitler's just broken my phone. Richard Spencer's on it. Yeah, I do look like a lot of terrible men. Well, your face is like... Terrible men. Terrible men. Pete Donaldson looks like terrible men.

There's a new show on Discovery Real Time Extra. Pete Donaldson's Terrible Men. Oh, he's terrible. Oh, terrible. And episode 24 of 24. And of course, the ultimate terrible man is myself. Solemnly kind of like stood over, I don't know, fucking Stalin's grave going,

oh, isn't he terrible? But Pete, if I had to describe your face to an alien civilization, I would say it's a blank canvas. An amalgam. But a blank canvas of people with specifically very right-wing views. Anyway, next email.

Yeah. Should we have an ad break while we consider about how terrible we are? Yes. Okay, Luke, don't gunge me, mate. Pipe down, Pete. I told you never to argue with the customers. Never argue with the customers, Luke.

Never. How many times do we have to be told? I know, right? Oh, by the way, we've got a new jingle you said we had on Monday. No, we've got a new Men Carter jingle. Oh, okay, great. So we're going to have that in a bit, are we? Yeah.

All right. That's exactly what. Okay, so you do an email, then I'll do one to finish, and then we'll go to Men Carter jingle. Oh, okay, great. So we're going to have that in a bit, are we? Yeah. All right. That's exactly what. Okay, so you do an email, then I'll do one to finish, and then we'll go to Men Carter. All right, then. Hello to, this is from Ben Wicks. Hello, Ben Wicks. Wicks.

Hello, Luke and Pete. Can't say I'm a long-time listener. Rude. But I managed to smash through the entirety since Saturday afternoon. The entirety? He's not here for a long time. He's here for a good time. It's like 50 odd bloody

episodes we're on episode 46 incredible you're mentioning of Mr Blobby having an abandoned theme park ages ago prompted me to search for it

that's what we're here for yeah I saw this email I clicked on the Daily Mail link and it was depressing yeah and I came across a Daily Mail article from 2009 what stood out for me

was this basically the abandoned ruins of Mr Blobby's theme park ravers broke in and had a rave, which is fucking badass. Yeah.

The ravers, basically, this is a quote, the ravers should have more respect for Mr. Blobby. He was a hero to a lot of kids and the thought of them taking drugs

and having all night raves in his house is completely disrespectful. I mean, he's a fictional character. His house! I read the Daily Monarch article and I...

Say the words Crickley Bottom or just don't mention his house and the name the name of the guy who apparently gave him a quote which is so obviously a made up name

I was like no one's going to say that no one's going to give you a quote on that oh I love it I can't tell whether it's tongue in cheek or not

but Pete the pictures that accompany the article of Mr Blobby World or whatever it's called which obviously a weird character based on a 90s TV show presented by another weird man

but the pictures of that all overgrown and the idea of someone going there to have a good time while intoxicated for some reason made me feel very very upset it's just horrible to look at but it's like it's horrible to look at the same way you see those amazing photo journals of abandoned Olympic venues.

Right, yeah. But at least the abandoned... We've spoken about abandoned. Yeah, but at least the abandoned Olympic venues had some glory to them, had some real almost idea of something bigger than us, like amazing achievement, that type of stuff. Crinkly Bottomwell doesn't got that.

Anything with Noel Edmonds' fingerprints all over it. And Noel Edmonds is an underrated maniac as well. He's got some very fringe views. Oh, my dears. Like, whenever I see a deal or no deal, not cash machine, fruit machine, I get the bile rising in my stomach. Yeah.

A man who managed to become successful without being funny, without being handsome, without having any charisma, is a testament to how boring radio was in the 1980s. Do you not think he's an alright presenter? His presenting skills? Yeah, but there's a lot of alright presenters who are also

rather charismatic yeah can't think of one but Pete because that's what people say about the late ungreat

Richard Keyes isn't it that he was an amazing presenter he's so skilled at presenting but he's just a complete knob

for some reason is it BN he's in BN in the Middle East in the Middle East they did a short I think on they broadcasted it but he's just a complete knob. For some reason, is it BN he's in? BN in the Middle East. In the Middle East, they did a show, I think on, they broadcasted it on one of the streaming sites.

I think it was Periscope or something. And for the first time in, what have we got, 10 years now, I guess? Like,

I watched him present a show and it's like, apparently no autocue. Like, he is an amazing presenter but, you have to be a more rounded individual, let's say, in 2018 have to be a more rounded individual,

let's say, in 2018. I'm not defending the guy. I'm just saying. I think that... Maybe it goes hand in hand being a very weird person and being a decent presenter because you don't second guess yourself. Well, if you might, you'd be good. No, no.

Well, no. That was me. No, but I'm constantly sort of second guessing myself and that's what makes me a bad presenter because I'll start down a line down a route goodness me exactly I can't speak I worry about what

I'm about to say next whether it's okay or not but presenters don't they just you know run about fuck all that's what that's what Mark Chapman

said to me when I interviewed him and he talked about John Inverdale right he's just such a good presenter it's so easy and

natural to him that sometimes he just belies the fact that you know you can fill in the blanks but but the fact that you know yeah if you can fill in the blanks but but um but i the reason that's an interesting point of view though and an interesting discussion personally i think is because um people assume that it's really easy to present but it's not no and oh it's yeah you just it's just speaking it's not it's really

really difficult and uh it's a real skill to be learned and people who are naturally good at it are worthy of respect in in in that small area of their skill set, I would say. Yeah, and I would argue that I find this show a lot more difficult than when I present on the radio or whatever, simply because it's my house. I know where I'm going to go nine times out of ten. I mean, it occasionally and frequently, let's face it, falls down. But just knowing that you've got 30 seconds

or a minute or two minutes to fill, I find that a lot easier than dealing with curveballs and dealing with explaining my thoughts, bearing in mind how disordered and strange my head can be at times. I think people listening to this show regularly will recognise all that stuff from both of us. But anyway, email, because we need to do Mencarta.

Yes, okay. Let's have an email. Oh, you're sure, isn't it? I just did an because we need to do Mencarta. Yes, okay. Let's have an email. Oh, you're sure, isn't it? I just did an email, mate. Oh, yeah, you did, yeah. Okay, I'll do this one really quickly. I'll apologise in advance to Joe in Ealing who's got super alkaline PKSL batteries

because this email probably deserves more time. But sadly, we have got to squeeze some Mencartas in. But I will go through it very, very quickly. He says, Hello, chat. It's been meaning to email him for ages following the story of the light bulb testicle incident.

I don't remember that. Rings a bell. Testicle bell. He says it brought up old memories with regards to an equally gruesome story that my cousin told about 15 years ago at a family curry. It's a longish story, but bear with.

You know what? A family curry sounds bloody lovely. It does. We're waiting a minute. People listening who are of of delicate disposition who don't particularly want to hear a type of gruesome story like this ah shut up you know what you came for get on with it i don't want to hear about it or turn off we still get the download anyway that's a warning that's fair warning okay he says uh his cousin uh was is a policeman in the met and regardless with an incident that happened to his partner

while on patrol a few days before, they were following a lead to the whereabouts of a suspect wanted for petty theft, which paid off and led to a pursuit through the streets of South London. They chased the offender into an alleyway with a wire fence at the end, flimsy and a bit messy structurally,

but nevertheless an obstacle giving them an excellent opportunity to gain ground on the hot-footed hoodie. The perp took a few moments to navigate himself over the fence, and so my cousin and partner almost had him in their grasp. The partner, smelling victory, raced ahead and performed what my cousin described as a monumental hurdle attempt to clear the fence, a la Jackie Chan, but made a grave misjudgment. The angle that my cousin's partner landed meant the fence had effectively

impaled his right buttock and almost completely tore it away from the muscle attachment. He had to wait hanging it from his arse cheek for over 30 minutes. And Joe finishes the email by saying I had a bit of a weak stomach for things like this,

especially as a 10 year old, and upon completion of the story, with hand remarks, I promptly fainted at the dinner table and had to be carried the short walk back to my aunt by my dad. You know when you sort of like feel that kind of horrible story and you're just like, I can't handle this. I can't have this. If it catches you off guard or whatever.

It actually starts, that feeling starts in the buttock a little bit. And that's where the, you know, that's where the problem lay in the first place. For me, the issue I've got, which could the problem lay in the first place. For me, the issue I've got, which could possibly, I'm not very squeamish, generally,

but I do tend to avoid the worst parts of the internet stuff, videos and fun. I'm not, I'll watch anything. I'll watch executions. I'll watch murders.

I'll watch anything, blood or guts, I'm fine with. But if someone rolls an ankle, if someone looks like they might sprint, if a model is tottering about on some massive heels on a thing and she starts, and an

ankle starts to go, I can't turn it off. If a footballer gets tackled and his ankle rolls, I just know how horrible that is. I know how big your ankle can get, because I used to do it every couple of days outside the Garnet High Commission in Highgate. They've got cobbles outside there, and I used to roll my ankle every of days outside the Garnet High Commission in Highgate.

They've got cobbles outside there, and I used to roll my ankle every single week, and it was painful. It's not worse than getting killed, though, is it? It's up there. It's up there. Rolled ankle, wry neck, getting killed. That's the top three. Have you got a history of ankle issues, then?

Yeah, I just would constantly just roll my ankle, and it would put me out of football for a long time. So everyone's got their buttons that can be pushed. I was just going to say that the bit about the buttock being tore away from the muscle is not for me

that I'm not here for that. That seems kind of clean though. Seems like there wouldn't be a lot of blood. I'm sure he probably

begs to differ there. Are you actually last week. Thank you that email that was Joe Joe and Ealing. Join Ealing. Jack had an email

last week that you read out but you omitted the PS and I quite enjoyed it to be honest. Oh sorry go ahead. Take it back. Take it an email last week that you read out. You omitted the PS and I quite enjoyed it, to be honest. Oh, sorry. Go ahead. Take it back. Take it back down to Monday.

He asks four questions. Where is Luke's wife from? Name an Asian country beginning with J. Who was the last person Pete interviewed? What's the name of Boston's international airport? Hopefully, some listeners are now completely hammered. That referring to the Luke and Pete Shaw drinking game from a few weeks ago. My wife is American.

Pete loves Japan. What were the other two? What was the last person Pete interviewed? Yes, tell me that. I think it might have been the Blossoms. Okay.

And also Boston's International Airport. It's Logan. Logan. Boston, Logan. Very good airport. It's a great airport. It's a great airport.

It's up there, mate. It's got those machines where you can get a printout so you haven't got a queue. Nice. My tip would be if you're flying into that part of the world.

Oh, here we go. If you're flying into that part of the world... Oh, here we go. If you're flying into that part of the world, get the last flight you can to Boston, because when you get there, everyone wants to go home, and you absolutely breeze through. There we go. Oh, dear. So, shall we get into a bit of Mencarta?

Yes, let's do that. So, let me find my Mencarta jingle. There it is. We actually got given a new Mencarta jingle. Sam in York, aerosol batteries he says afternoon boys as you can tell

by the attachment I've taken it upon myself to cut the Mankata jingle correctly so it won't have Pete talking over the end of it what's the fun in that though

now we don't have to be annoyed by it every time Peter you dirty little melt if anyone from Absolute Radio is listening I will be happy

to take a job, as I can now clearly find myself more skilled than at least one of your current employees. The presenters don't do their own jingles, though. So, they do. So, here is the audio that he attached. Oh, Sam in York, you've

muffed that right up, mate. Sam, you've got to label your attachments properly. Mate, Jesus. I mean, what you've done there is you've recorded it off the Looking Peach show, but you've had another tab open. Yeah. That's not right. I mean, that's something else. Completely Samignac.

You've let yourself down there, Sam. Yeah, never mind. So we're going to have to go for... The original and the best. The original and the best. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace 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. Right. We go the end bit. It's the best. I know, right? And if you can take one lesson from that

Sam and anyone else stop it anyone else listening is that Pete takes his territory his train set very seriously

oh mate I've peed all over this iPad and if anyone wants to come anywhere near it they better bring their mates and bring their dinner because by the time Pete's finished with you

you're going to need it right Ben Carter you're up very troubling I didn't have a Ben Carter ready I thought you had one oh I've got one yeah but you told me you had a couple because by the time Pete's finished with you, you're going to need it. Right, Men Carter, you're up. Very troubling. I didn't have a Men Carter ready. I thought you had one. Oh, I've got one.

Yeah, but you told me you had a couple. No, I had the intro to En Carter. I've got one myself. Men Carter, not En Carter. Listen, I've got one here sent in by Ilum in Galway, Ireland. Ilum. Which I'm happy to read out. But if you've got one first perhaps we could

no you get involved okay I'll start with this one and you can follow up with your one okay Ilham great name by the way fantastic Ilham Sphere

who listens to the Football Rumble every now and again his real name's Ryan oh Ilham says I don't know if you're still doing Menkata

that's a dig that's rude isn't it it's just been running out of time our time management can be quite poor well we've got two shows a week so it's confusing isn't it? It's just been running out of time. Our time management can be quite poor. Well, we've gone two shows a week, so it's confusing, isn't it? Exactly.

But if you are, I'd like to submit The Night of the Big Wind. I've had a few of them. Yeah, we all have. After family curry night. Yeah, yeah. Not after your buttock's been ripped, though. No. Oh, imagine that noise.

Illum, Illum. Flapping. Like a boat turned to wind. Like a barn door. Sheets of the wind. Illum is also kind enough to include the Irish name for the Night of the Big Wind,

which I am not going to disrespect the Irish people by attempting. Do you want any, Pete? Where is it? It's here. Give it here. It's there. The Night of the Big Wind!

No, it's Oik and Gothmore. Okay. It's better than I would have done, but you ruined it by being... The big old wind there! A bit before, Anne. Oh, that wind! That's enough now.

This is why we can't do one, two a week, because Pete gets carried away. It was January 6th,39 in pre-famine Ireland and there were 10 million people living mostly in thatched cottages without electricity. As night fell, the storm got worse until it started ripping the thatched roofs

off the houses and knocking down walls. In complete darkness with wind in excess of 115 miles an hour, people had to leave their houses and shelter in holes in the ground. More than 200 people died and 42 ships were wrecked off the coast of Ireland.

Because it was the epiphany, January the 6th, people thought it was the end of the world. And my favourite fact is that when the old age pension was introduced in 1900 in Ireland, the only way of deciding whether you got it or not was being able to accurately remember the night of the big wind.

That was the test. That's lovely. Do you remember it? Yeah. Tell us what happened. Yes, but not having it. Oh, it's windy. I'll tell you what.

Oh, the big wind! Remember the wind you thought of as the worst times it by at least 10? Give them my money. I think everyone was very surprised by the amount of snow, certainly in Cumbria. Right.

It's still going on. Not as serious as this, though, is it? Illum also says that he's got Duracells in his remote. But I checked this out, and it is true. Prior to 1863, there was no birth registration in Ireland. So one of the big consequences of this night of the big wind as well was a starvation of livestock. Because literally all the stacks of hay and corn and food for the livestock

had just been blown away. There's no way of feeding them. And it was such a severe storm that a quarter of all houses in Dublin sustained some sort of reported damage. That's crazy, isn't it? Yeah. Like Dublin's a big place. A big place.

Night of the big wind into Mencarta. What about that? Right down that big river. What have you got for your one then? Thanks for that, Ilham, by the way. That's the sort of stuff

we love. I'd never heard of that before. Everyone hopefully got a bit of interest in that terrible thing, obviously a long time ago now, but that's exactly the sort of stuff

we want for Mencarta. Definitely. What have you got? Well, a couple of things I wanted to, I should have mentioned in the It Spin. I was rather disorganised to start the show because it's sleepy, blah, blah, blah. Michael Shannon. You know the actor Michael Shannon? Well, a couple of things I wanted to, I should have mentioned in the, it's been, I was rather disorganised

at the start of the show, sleepy, blah, blah, blah. Michael Shannon. You know the actor Michael Shannon? Yes, love him. The excellent Michael Shannon. Love him. He's brilliant

and he's in everything good and he makes everything good too. Did you see, he was like, he was, I think he's from Chicago or he works in Chicago. Basically,

he was doing some kind of, he's directing a play and he didn't go to the Oscars. So there's a shot of him just watching The Shape of Water, the film that he's in, win a bottle of Oscars, or certainly the best picture anywhere, in a bar, just having a drink. I love that.

Lovely! Keeping it real. It also reminded me that The Shape of Water, which I haven't seen, and I do really want to see it. As far as I understand it, it's a metaphor type thing, like a woman who falls in love with this water monster type thing, right?

And it's very Guillermo del Toro, Pan's Labyrinth type stuff, because that's obviously what he does. But it was funny, because I saw something in The Sun last week, which said, Snowflake said that Frankenstein's monster might have been eligible for human rights.

And it was like, okay, have you completely missed the point of what Frankenstein is about? Because, I mean, it's essentially a metaphor. And you work in the printed press, so hopefully you know what a metaphor is. So you're either willfully talking down and trying to whip people up who don't know any better than you or you are literally

the thickest journalist in Fleet Street. And it's a packed list, let me tell you that. All of them have got degrees and like we were talking about Milo last week, people having opinions

for money and, you know, appealing to people who perhaps aren't as educated as them. And speaking of Michael Shannon, Speaking of Michael Shannon. Interestingly enough,

how about this for a link? We got an email last show from a guy from Red Hook in Brooklyn yeah remember that's where Michael Shannon lives

is that right Red Hook in Brooklyn yeah no but he's working in Chicago you're right that's why he was

in Chicago yeah so well done that man there was a bit are you suggesting putting Michael Shannon straight into Mankata no no

I don't think so but I think you know maybe in a couple of films time keep playing your cards right Mickey you'll get in there

the shape of Shannon the um I can't remember what it was good Man Carter do you Man Carter do you Man Carter

yes the diversity bit in the Oscars I remember now the diversity bit in the Oscars it's like I'm visiting an elderly relative

oh planes everybody the diversity bit in the Oscars. I remember now, the diversity bit in the Oscars. It's like I'm visiting an elderly relative. Oh, planes, everyone. The diversity bit in the Oscar where they did a compilation of prominent women in this year's films.

Yeah. They had the shape of water. It's like, the fish are underrepresented in films, I'm sure.

But that did not, I think that kind of dilutes in the aforementioned water, the message somewhat. Isn't the main part in the film a woman, though? Yeah, but I think the shot they used was of the fish, man. Just of a sea monster.

A sea monster. Look, see? Black people, women, and fish. They should be represented more. Unbelievable. The Hacienda Hotel. Okay. Basically, it was a hotel that was in Las Vegas, I do believe.

But that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the plane that advertised the Hacienda Hotel, the Cessna 172, with Hacienda Hotel plastered on the side in big letters, flew for ages. Basically, a slot machine mechanic managed to fly 150,000 miles over 64 days without landing back in the 1950s.

Huh. In a plane. Just went round and round and round for 64 days. Did the plane have a toilet? The plane did have a toilet. It also had a rudimentary bed as well. Did the plane have a toilet

where he could rub bread on the seat before eating it? That's a callback. That's a callback. A disgusting callback. So basically, two fully grown men in a plane flying around for 64 days. Now, it's hard enough for us doing this podcast, Luke, for an hour a week. Or a couple of hours a week. But yeah, it's incredible.

So they had to modify their plane massively. Fueling was a big situation as well, obviously. Why were they doing this? Just to advertise the hotel? Well, just to advertise the hotel. No, I think the hotel advertisement was just kind of like a PR thing. But basically, they just wanted to see

how long a plane could fly for. I don't actually know why they stopped at 64 days, but they managed to keep flying for that amount of time. How did they refuel? So 95-gallon belly tank on the plane. So, it was 142 gallons worth of petrol, of aviation fuel. Yeah. And so, they basically could refuel by grabbing a horse from the refueling truck with a hook and a winch.

So, it would fly very low. Wow. How slow would that have to go for that? Well, exactly. Very slow. No one's slow. And an electric pump transferred fuel up to the wing tank

so they refueled twice a day the tanker truck had to obviously keep speed with it and whoever was on the in the co-pilot seat basically just hung a little platform

out the window between the fuselage and the wing strut so they could step outside and refuel the plane which is just mental that's crazy there's absolutely no reason

to be doing this it's a good well just kind of when they eventually land were they like 10 years younger which is just mental. That's crazy. There's absolutely no reason to be doing this. It's okay. No reason. Well, just kind of, you know. When they eventually landed, were they like 10 years younger? Yeah, definitely. That should have happened.

128 times they managed to refuel before they landed. The only hairy refueling they reported was when they had to do it at night once. Did you have any information about the land they covered? Presumably they just stayed around Nevada, did they? Yeah, I think they just sort of flew around. So basically they had to refuel as it was going

around. The generator crapped out on day 39 so that it was a hand pump to pump the petrol. I love that.

It's not going to stop us. It's not going to stop us. So they couldn't fly that long without sleeping but they did

bathe and sleep. The core pilot's seat had been removed and the swinging fuselage door replaced with a fold-out door for easy entrance and exit while the plane was in flight. It was just so they could sort of change positions. There was a little sink inside the plane for shaving and toothbrushing, but bathing was done with a quart bottle of water outside on the platform,

which is just insane. Standing naked and wet on the outside of a moving plane. Yeah. Incredible situation. Not for me, thanks. There was a cushion running the length of the fuselage for sleeping. Neither man could really sleep properly, which is incredible. Well, you'd think at some point they would just crash,

because if you're not sleeping properly for 64 days... No, exactly. Well, they were in a canyon somewhere between California and Yuma, Arizona. The pilot, Tim, dozed off for an hour. Luckily, the autopilot was still working at the time. Because if you have one night's sleep, you've stopped playing the wrong jingle and reading out the wrong email address.

Food was prepared by a kitchen. They only used the freshest, healthiest food available. But before it ended up on the plane, it had to be mashed into a thermos. All this nice food just mashed into a thermos, which is incredible. Set up the fuel pipe. Yeah, that's how they got towels, laundry, water, all mashed into a thermos. Really?

Isn't that incredible? Yeah, that is very, very good. I've never heard of that before. They managed to fly for 64 days. Is it Jalopnik? I don't know what that word comes from. I think it's something to do with cars or something. But Jalopnik was the website that wrote that piece.

But it's fascinating. It's a good concatenation. Because sometimes you'll find out about something and you'll try and find a piece that kind of distills it down to its main points. There was an aviation website that did it and it just did it. It was too...

A bit beardy. It was a bit beardy. It was obsessed with how the plane worked. A bit neck beardy. 64 days. It's an incredible story. That's exactly the sort of stuff we want in Encarta. So two for the price of one there.

But listen, it's about time we nipped off for a craft ale, isn't it? All right, let's have a crafty. Let's get out of here. And we'll see you on Monday. If you want to get a touch of the show, as always, it's at hello at lukenpeachshow.com. We look forward to hearing from you soon. And we'll see you on Monday for episode 47.

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