The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 58: The Mothpocalypse
Episode Date: April 26, 2018Pete's been admiring Beyoncé from afar, Luke's been admiring Duncan Bannatyne from afar (again) and we settle the 'Can you land in a wingsuit without a parachute?' debate once and for all, courtesy o...f a stuntman.Elsewhere, giant moths v a tennis racket in a battle of wits for the ages, possibly the world's most terrifying sniper and lots, lots more. Don't miss it. And to contribute, email us: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com***Please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's Luke and Pete Shaw episode...
Thursday, Thursday, gotta get down on Thursday.
We are recording this a week in advance and my word, Luke Moore.
week in advance and my word Luke Moore
I think Beyonce
has you know
crawled into the upper echelon of
performance. Crawled? Crawled
with ten
costume changes. Brought out
Destiny's Childs bruv. Mate
she was incredible. I only saw bits
of it but fuck me she squeezes a lot in
And I misread it and misheard it. A Coachella
an unlovable festival. I misheard it because I thought she broughtes a lot in. And I misread it. Coachella, an unlovable festival.
I misheard it because I thought she brought out Adrian Childs.
What?
Destiny's Childs she brought out.
Sounds like Adrian Childs.
I thought she brought out Adrian Childs.
Talking about West Brom.
He was going to do West Brom and then a bit about how much money he took to move to Daybreak to ITV.
Never moved to ITV.
Beyonce, if you listen.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, never do it. Beyonce's above ITV. Mass. Never moved to ITV. Beyonce, if you listen, no, but I'm saying never do it. Yeah, never do it.
No.
Beyonce's above ITV.
Massively.
She's incredible.
Yeah, she is.
I know everyone's going,
she's incredible.
She is just incredible.
Doesn't Coachella look like
the worst place on the planet?
Oh, can you imagine?
Apart from Fyre Fest,
which is amazing.
Apart from...
Remember Fyre Fest?
Ja Rule's Fyre Fest?
Yes, I do remember.
That's nice.
You were there.
Everybody...
You were there.
I was one of the city planners.
Early adopter Donaldson was there.
In one of those fucking UNESCO tents.
Yeah, Coachella always reminds me of,
am I saying that right?
Coachella.
Coachella?
Coachella-ly.
Always reminds me of that video that went around,
I've been advised who did it,
where they got a lot of young kids who were at Coachella
on their way in,
asking them what bands they were looking forward to seeing.
Making up bands.
They were making bands up.
Yeah, it's bad.
It's lost hanging fruit,
that sort of nonsense,
isn't it, really?
It is a bit of a...
If you get asked stuff,
if you go to a fucking
London Fashion Week and go,
what do you think of,
you know,
Botticelli Taccini?
And they go,
what?
Why is it always
London Fashion Week?
Like, always?
Yeah, because the stupidest
people head there.
What's been floating
your boat this week, Pete?
Because I've got a Duncan Bannatyne update.
Mainly Beyonce.
So maybe just move on to that, I suppose.
She's brilliant.
She fitted in a nail changer, did you notice?
No, I did not.
That is attention to detail.
She changed costume about 10 times
and she also fitted in a nail changer at one point,
which I think is amazing.
That is a Michelin star attention to detail, that is.
She should be in the Michelin Guide for that.
Which is sample sort of stuff.
Worthy of making a special trip.
It was incredible.
Speaking of someone else who's incredible,
Duncan Bannatyne.
No.
Not in the same conversation.
I've got a Bannatyne update.
Well, you say that, Pete,
but the Bannatyne content among our listeners is,
listen, it's ranking very highly.
Nobody has emailed about Duncan Bannatyne.
Not a single person.
And bearing in mind, we are a global concern nowadays.
No, because I Google alert them to my inbox.
Bannatyne.
Yeah, Bannatyne.
Any time someone mentions the word Bannatyne.
Stop Bannatyne.
Stop Bannatyne.
Do you want a Bannatyne update?
I think I've made it very clear that I don't,
but we're going to get one, aren't we?
He's recently been criticised for refusing to give a man with a
muscle wasting disease
a swim only membership
at one of his gyms
saying simply when asked
we will not do that
we will not do that
I mean
well hang on
he's got muscle
wasting disease
so he wants to be able
to just swim
he said I've got
a muscle wasting disease
I don't need a membership
to the whole gym
I'm not going to use it
I'm literally throwing
my money away
Duncan give me a swim only no well yeah no of wasting disease. I don't need a membership to the whole gym. I'm not going to use it. I'm literally throwing my money away, Duncan.
Oh, right.
Give me a swim only.
No.
Well, yeah, no.
I mean, I kind of agree with him.
You're siding with Duncan.
You're coming around.
You've either got rules
or you haven't.
What if I only used
three machines in my gym?
But can I just have the...
Well, you do only use
three machines in your gym.
Can I just use the chesties, please?
I don't need the running machine.
Maybe there should be a price on this machine.
Yeah, chesties.
Just a little vending machine.
You put your coin in, you get to use it for a bit.
Do you skip leg day, Pete?
My legs are the only muscular part of my body anyway.
Right.
So you don't need to use them.
Everything else needs to catch up.
Just keep them what God's given you.
Yeah.
There we go.
So, Bantam Update.
Always,
listen,
if anyone's got a Duncan Bantam story out there,
get in touch.
Oh,
and also,
I've got to ring Travis later on.
Have you really?
I've got to ring the band Travis and talk to them.
What for?
I don't actually know.
Have they got,
I think they're touring The Man Who.
Are they in its entirety?
Yeah.
A lot of bands are doing that.
Breakthrough Records,
that's a money spinner, isn't it?
Nostalgia is, yeah.
It is what it used to be.
Paul Draper's doing
Attack of the Great Lightning in full.
I noticed quite recently.
Manson?
Yeah.
Okay.
Maybe it's his opinion.
I'm in a wide open space.
Is that right?
I love Manson.
That was my first gig I went to.
Supported by the band Gay Dad.
I'm a gay dad to earth with love.
A friend of mine is friends with a guy from Gay Dad.
And I know that because he calls him Gay Dad Ed.
So there must have been someone in Gay Dad called Ed.
Ed.
I'll check.
Was he the one who was like the,
because they were roundly criticized for being a band
because one, I think the lead was um a journalist for the rolling stone
he was certainly a journalist for somebody quite big and people were kind of like well you know
you've i think i think that's right yeah i just checked and there was no one called ed in gay dad
so i don't know where that's come from maybe just a gay dad funny nickname yeah it might have been
yeah um my first ever uh gig uh i went to see, I don't count this because it makes
it like an absolute bell end and I was only about eight.
Right.
But I went to go see B.B. King with my dad.
Oh, fuck off.
Yeah, but my real first gig was Reef at the River Mead Centre in Reddington.
Better.
Much better.
I actually loved it.
Yeah.
I just could not believe what was going on.
I could not.
I can't believe this.
Here's a measure of how much I enjoyed it, Pete.
Straight away, came home, next day, bought a
couple of tickets to see Bush at Slaughton Guild
Hall.
Didn't he go out with... Gwen Stefani.
No, didn't he go out with...
Steve Strange? No. Was he even
gay, Steve Strange? I can't remember.
No, Marilyn.
Remember?
Gavin Ross,
Gavin Ross was rumoured
to go out with Marilyn
for a little while.
I did not know that.
Also,
you've been,
Pete,
in the Wild West
that is this podcast discussion,
you've been rounded up
by the County Sheriff,
aka me,
thanks to Rob Loveridge,
who emails into our shows fairly regularly,
who linked me and you,
although I doubt you took the time to watch it.
A video of Gary Connery landing in a wingsuit without a parachute.
Right.
That's that Donaldson.
No.
What?
You're,
you're using this to prove your point.
It can be done.
He landed in cardboard.
You just said you just go up a bit and then land.
Listen, listen.
The only way he was going to survive that,
he basically fell out of a plane and landed in a load of cardboard.
And he just used the wingsuit to manoeuvre himself into position.
He was going 80 miles an hour.
How do you stop yourself from 80 miles an hour?
Just pull up. What are you worried about?
I'll read the sentence again, Peter.
Gary Connery, celebrated
stuntman, has landed in a
wingsuit without a parachute, and so
that's that. One person did that, and
he landed in cardboard. It's been done.
No one said, it's like
the equivalent of you saying to me, oh, you can't walk on the moon.
And I say, well, someone has walked on the moon, and you've
only nine people have done it.
But it's still been done.
No, but you literally,
no, your point wasn't that he just landed it.
Your point was that you definitely saw someone fly.
Like how quick those wingsuits got.
As mentioned, 80 miles per hour
and suddenly you can just slow yourself down.
He slowed himself down with cardboard.
That was not part of your point.
I'll admit it was a particularly rocky landing.
But it's been done.
Cardboard rocks.
It's been done.
You must have rocks
in your head.
I'm writing it in my notes now.
Now.
So I can put it
in the synopsis
for the episode.
You're definitely not having that.
More proves right.
That'll be the headline.
More's law.
There we go.
Anyway, that's what's been
floating our boat this week.
Should we have some emails?
Yeah.
Do you want to go to a break
or what?
I think that's probably prudent.
Okay, Luke.
Don't gunge me, mate.
Pipe down, Pete.
I told you never to argue
with the customers.
Do an email, you prick.
Do you want me to do it?
Yeah.
All right, okay.
I've got one here.
What have we got?
Oh, yeah.
Listen, this is a bit indulgent
of me reading this one
because it's one I particularly love.
Okay.
You may not be interested in it,
but I'll explain a bit after.
Actually, no,
it's quite self-explanatory.
It's from Chris
and he says,
hi Luke and Pete,
leak cell,
take the notable honour
of powering my Blu-ray player remote.
Never heard of them,
but they're doing a swell job so far.
I've never heard of leak cell.
Have you?
No.
I mean,
that's the last thing you want
a battery to do.
He says,
Chris goes on to say,
but onto business. Onto business. A few episodes ago, you want a battery to do. He says, Chris goes on to say, but onto business.
Onto business!
A few episodes ago, you made reference to Florida Man, of course, referring to the seemingly endless supply
of crazy and outlandish news headlines that come out of Florida.
I love this email because it's to the point,
and also it's very interesting.
Yeah.
The reasons why, something we've talked about before,
Florida Man et al.
When I read this when preparing for the show
this blew my mind
so we talked a lot
about how
in the US
people always say
oh you know
well it's Florida for you
because all the mad stories
just come out of Florida
Florida Man this
Florida Woman
a Florida Man
yeah
anyway
Chris also includes
some examples here
he says a Florida Man
claims wife was kidnapped
by holograms
he's murdered his wife
yeah
Florida Man steals 850 pairs of underwear from Victoria's Secret.
He's a pervert.
Yeah, a Florida man caught masturbating in McDonald's car park
and claims his privacy was invaded.
He's an even bigger pervert.
Et cetera.
Is that worse?
Which one's worse?
Stealing, I mean, 850 pairs of underwear.
That is a lot, isn't it?
There was a teacher.
Probably the same man, actually.
In the Abroad in Japan
podcast I do with Chris Broad,
YouTuber, we did a story where
a man, a school teacher,
a school teacher,
was thieving pants.
He was found with something like
850 pairs of pants at school
and his argument was that he was going
to sell them to the students.
That's alright, isn't it? Yeah, it's fine, isn't it?
That is desperate stuff.
Were they packaged?
Nah.
No.
Were they even washed?
Were they even washed?
What a dirty man.
To give you an insight into how the exact type of school I went to,
there was constant fighting in our school because one of the...
The pants man had limited supplies no i suppose you
would call it a pastime in a way and i'm sorry to chris who's emailed him and we will get back to
you in a second um one of the pastimes was going around people's houses and gardens of people you
didn't know and stealing the clothes off their washing line was that is that a pastime so it
was called it was called washing line basically and what but then what the reason there were fights
is because if someone turned up
with a new item of clothing in PE or something,
they would be accused of having washing lined it.
That I had a pair of them and they've gone missing.
And they'd have a fight about it.
What kind of...
What paucity of clothing choices?
Why were you going around stealing each other's clothes?
I wasn't doing that.
I was from a very nice family,
thank you very much.
I would never have been seen
dead doing that.
My mum would have kicked my ass,
but it happened.
Anyway.
You are a larger child.
I wasn't.
That's the thing.
I wasn't large or fat
until I hit about 19,
and you know that as well.
Anyway,
going back to Chris's email.
He says,
the reason,
well,
I'll just pick up
how he phrases it.
Such headlines are in plentiful supply, which has led many to believe that people from florida must be absolutely crazy as we've
already discussed however that's a bit of an unfair assessment because the freedom of information
laws in florida make it easier for journalists to obtain information about arrests from the police
than in any other state and this is in fact the real reason we get such a large number of bizarre and
entertaining news articles from our dear friend
Florida Man. That's
fantastic, isn't it? Love the show. Love you both.
Keep it up. All the best, Chris. Chris, that is
an absolutely textbook email.
Stone cold fox of an email, that, isn't it?
It's entertaining. You've taught a site we didn't know, which
admittedly isn't that hard, but it ticks
all the boxes for me. So thanks for that, Chris.
He does end the email by saying at any rate
we can never be that mad
at Florida
they have Disney World
Disney World
yeah
I quite like Disney World
I went through a phase
of not liking it
and thinking it was
a bit pathetic
and now I quite like it again
it's become very hipster-y
it has hasn't it
very popular
my favourite pop artist
as you know
I don't know
who's your favourite pop artist
Carly Rae Jepsen
oh pop artist so they've been like a kind of like a Roy favourite pop artist? Carly Rae Jepsen. Oh, pop artist.
I thought you meant like a kind of like a...
Roy Lichtenstein.
Yeah.
Carly Rae Jepsen.
She was in Disney World according to Instagram the other day.
You should not be following her on Instagram.
It's weird.
Why?
It just is weird.
Why is it weird?
You're a grown man following Carly Rae Jepsen.
And how old do you think Carly Rae Jepsen is?
26.
Do you really?
Yeah.
No, she's 32, mate.
Is she really?
Yep.
Holy moly,
she's older than I thought.
Not as weird now, is it?
No, it's still weird.
Very much so.
Remember when Anastasia
came onto the scene
and she was like
35 or something
and they kept pretending
that she was 22
and she had to remember
her fake birthday
but after a while
she just kept forgetting it.
Is it quite sort of popular or well,
I don't know if it still is these days,
but because I seem to remember something similar
with Jerry Halliwell.
Don't they have like showbiz ages and stuff,
which is quite a sad indictment of society, really.
Oh, yeah, they will do, yeah.
Yeah, there we go.
Who's the one who does...
Let's not talk about that.
Steve.
Yo, Steve.
Let's.
Should we not do that one?
Oh, I like that one because it involves a poo,
but let's not do that one.
Yeah.
All right.
I just think your bullshit on it
is just a bit skew-whiff.
It needs work, I admit.
Why don't you do the one from Jamie
about the mothpocalypse?
Hello, boys.
Apologies to stories based on something I heard
in episode 49
concerning Pete's hatred of moths and slash everything in Australia trying to kill you. That's why we number these episodes, uh hello boys apologies stories based on something i heard in episode 49 concerning
pete's hatred of moths and slash everything in australia trying to kill you that's why we number
these episodes by the way so people can say oh yeah episode 49 i wholeheartedly share this phobia
nothing in the world terrifies me more than moths which made my decision to move to australia and
into the outback all the more questionable i was living in a tent uh on the border of new south
wales and victoria in the middle of nowhere with my girlfriend at the time,
and I heard a storm brewing.
If you're going to live in a tent, you have to be prepared
to come face to face with nature, red in tooth and claw, occasionally.
On hearing the storm, I moved out from the tent to see what was happening.
What I saw can only be described as my worst nightmare realised.
Around 50 moths, the size of birds, they can get rather big,
had gathered around a lamppost above our tent,
presumably moving out of the storm.
They were so big, I locked myself in the kitchen area
as they descended upon us.
I sent my poor girlfriend out with a tennis racket
and she killed around 10 while I curled up into a ball,
admitting defeat.
They were so big, it often took four hits with a tennis racket
to fully floor the moths.
I uncurled myself and bravely looked outside
to see my girlfriend with a moth attacking her collar.
Terrified by fear, I kept the door locked
and watched the battle between girl and moth.
What a gentleman.
I know, right?
We broke up a few months later,
not related to the moth incident, I don't believe.
Oh, it was.
Oh, God, Shanghai.
He's in Shanghai now, so all the best from Shanghai.
They're horrible. You shouldn't be killing them with tennis rackets. Tell you Oh, God. Shanghai. He's in Shanghai now. So all the best from Shanghai.
They're horrible.
You shouldn't be killing them with tennis rackets.
Tell you what, though.
When I'm trying to kill
a clothes moth in my house,
a tennis racket
is probably a good idea.
A tiny tennis racket
would be a pretty good idea.
But they're perfectly harmless.
Catch them in your hand
and put them out the window.
You don't need to kill them.
There's too many of them.
Too many of them
and they are unspeakable shit.
Well,
they need to die.
The Atlas moth is
the largest moth in
the world, but they're
found exclusively in
South America.
So this must be the
Hercules moth, which
is the largest moth
by surface area of
wingspan and stuff in
the world.
I don't think you
should be killing
them.
They're just going
about their business,
aren't they?
Yeah, as long as
they're not eating
your clothes.
I'll kill them if
they eat my clothes.
I don't need them.
Let me make a compromise with you then, Pete.
I won't hit a big moth.
The little clothes moths I'll kill,
and a carpet moth I'll kill.
If you're going into an animal's environment,
you shouldn't be killing it.
Exactly.
Is that fair?
Yeah.
Moths have no business in Nuttall Copland Street.
I'm just trying to make peace with my...
Unless they're gay moths.
Admittedly, if there is a moth in your jacket pocket,
that is probably your territory. Yeah, exactly. But forgive the moth yeah admittedly if there is a moth in your jacket pocket that is probably your
territory yeah exactly
but forgive the moth
he knows not what he
has done I would very
much like a to open a
wallet like a cartoon
and a moth come out
that'd be great that'd
be cool wouldn't it
you'd be like oh
that's like a cartoon
I told you about I
was you as you famously
said my sister's cat
was the Trojan horse
of a of B transport
oh yeah yeah that was brilliant he's got a B in his bonnet I've got a question directed to you As you famously said, my sister's cat was the Trojan horse of bee transport. Oh, yeah.
With the bee in its mouth.
Yeah, that was brilliant.
He's got a bee in his bonnet.
I've got a question directed explicitly at you, Pete.
Oh, and I hope it is explicit.
No, it's not really.
No.
Not in the way you'd hope.
This is from Aaron, who says his batteries are active energy.
Not a hugely popular brand, that one.
No.
He says, hi, guys, please help.
I woke up in the middle
of the night last night
wondering if frozen sausages
are actually safe to eat
tuck in
Aaron
I did some googling
but to no avail
does the frozen nature
of the sausage
make any harmful bacteria inert
or is that wishful thinking
can any of your listeners
help answer this question
that is tormenting me
thanks
that's from Aaron
Donny
you're the frozen
sausage expert here so i guess i have to defer to you i couldn't find a single article online
about eating sausages straight from the freezer every time i typed it in a different variety of
ways on google it just gave me loads of articles about how to cook frozen sausages if you can
understand what i'm right yeah so i mean i don't think there's any science behind the idea that
oh it's it's frozen so the harmful bacteria is inert i don't think that means anything yeah i mean you
think that um if the frozen stuff is in your stomach it's instantly going to be um uh acted
upon by the by the bacteria in your stomach and the and the acid as well so and and if you're
eating frozen sausages there'll be a lot of acid down there.
And I don't think there'd be a massive problem with eating frozen sausages
because freezing does get rid
or certainly puts in stasis the microbes,
the dangerous microbes.
But yeah, I mean, cook your sausages.
Yeah, do cook them.
Pete did that in the 80s.
There's certain things you could do in the 80s,
as Calvin Harris said,
that you can't do now.
And that's one of them.
It made me think, this email though,
made me think about something we probably take for granted
and that is actually quite wonderful
in terms of natural phenomena,
which is the stomach itself.
I mean, there's so many questions.
So many questions.
Where does the food go?
Why doesn't stomach acid burn through your stomach?
Question number one.
Well, it's not strong enough acid, is it?
How is it able to digest of digest so much stuff?
Because of the acid.
It's amazing.
It is amazing, Peter.
I'm answering all the questions.
Okay, why doesn't it digest itself then?
What do you mean?
The stomach.
Well, because the lining will be covered in an anti-acid coating.
You don't know.
I think the way I answered that full of confidence
and that's half the battle
it's not
it's clearly not strong enough
surely is it
to dissolve it
if you were a bone
if you were an actual bone
from a chicken
your stomach acid
is dissolving that
at some point
well no it isn't
you're not
you're not shitting out a bone
yes you are
a whole bone
yes
have you done it
no you might have done it? No.
You might have done it.
Shall we do a Menkata?
Yeah, that'd be great.
Men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men, men.
Where's the bloody men?
Let there be justice for all.
Let there be peace for all.
And one small step for man.
You don't understand.
Willie was a salesman.
Say simply, very simply, with hope.
Good morning.
From Maya Angelou there.
Yeah.
Definitely still alive.
Rest in peace, Maya Angelou.
We hardly knew ye.
Nice.
I'm just trying to cover your jingle botch job.
Jingle botch job?
I love that.
That is your rap name, isn't it?
No, it's Maya Angelou.
Paul in Montreal.
Hello, Paul in Montreal.
Hello, Luke and Pete.
Hello, Paul in Montreal.
Oh, I thought you were going to do Mark from Molden.
No, I'm doing Paul from Molden.
All right.
Just listening to your Monday episode
when you didn't have a man Carter,
so I would like to offer you my suggestion.
Seymour Hayar,
also known as the White Death.
Oh, yeah, this guy's amazing.
The guy...
This is an incredible story.
The world's most extreme badass.
I mean, it's sad,
because, you know,
he's just killing a lot of people.
But I'm not a fan,
or a particular fan of military history.
Occasional delicious blunders aside.
But this guy blew my mind when I read about him.
He was, in short, a sniper from Finland
who brought his wrath upon the invading Russian army
during the Second World War
and must have scared the living shit out of them.
Let's begin with the numbers.
It's reckoned that this guy killed 556 Russian soldiers
all by himself.
556.
Even at a conservative estimate, 500 is a lot by himself. 556. Even at a conservative estimate,
500 is a lot by yourself.
However, what makes this figure even more
incredible is that he was only active for around
100 days in the winter in Finland.
Bloody hell.
That's five a day. Incredible, isn't it?
He's getting his five a day. He's getting five hits a day
during a Finnish winter when there was
very little daylight and the weather could drop to minus
30. Here are a few things about him which blew my mind.
He refused a scope on his rifle
because it would mean raising his head by an inch,
which could give him away, so he did it all with iron sights.
Just, you may as well use a blunderbuss, crying out loud.
Despite the cold, he would fill his mouth with snow
to make sure his mouth would not steam up and give him away.
Nice commitment to the cause, that is.
He would often lay in the snow so the gun would be lodged
and muffled when fired, reducing the noise.
He was badly injured in early 1940,
but lived until 2002 and the ripe old age of 96.
Yeah, he got shot in the face, didn't he?
He got shot in the face and the pictures of him,
he's got quite bad scarring to the left side of his face.
Incredible work.
It's a different world, isn't it?
When we hear stories about the two great wars in the 20th century,
it feels like a different world to me.
Hugely.
Completely different.
Amazing story.
Well, thank you for that, Paul, in Montreal.
That's Simo Hayer.
I don't know how it's pronounced.
Simo Hayer. The Finnish language is a tough old one.
She's a tough old bird.
100%.
It's a great story.
I thought you were going to do Mark from Molden.
Can I do him really quickly?
All right, well, go on.
Do you mind?
Yeah.
Do you mind me just dishing out two men carters in one?
Yeah, you could do, yeah.
So Mark is the guy who emailed in the men carter a couple months ago
about the dead jockey that still won the race.
Do you remember that?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's great.
He says,
I know you like to keep football and this podcast separate,
but I have a Mencarta entry which will pique your listeners' interest.
And it's fine,
because it's not really about football.
He said,
knowing you've just come back from Italy,
I'd like to put forward a sport known in Italy as Calcio Fiorentino
or Calcio Storico.
Storico originated in 16th century Italy
in the city of Florence
and combines the two sports of football and MMA.
The rules are pretty simple.
Try and score in a 20-meter wide net
by any means possible.
And by any means,
I mean beat the shit out of the opposing team.
The four courses of Florence make up four teams.
Santa Croce, Santa Maria Novella,
Santa Spirito and Santa Giovanni.
They play each other in separate games
with the two winning sides playing a final.
Even former popes have been known to play
in the Vatican City.
Teams are 27 men strong,
containing four goalkeepers,
three fullbacks, five halfbacks
and 15 forwards.
A cannon.
It's just so manly, this game.
A cannon is shot to announce the start of the event
and the 15 forwards of each team begin close combat and allowed to punch kick tackle trip
hack and wrestle their opponents to try and tie them it normally descends into an all-out brawl
and i've seen videos of it and it absolutely does it's something that if i send their cameras to
every year yeah players suffered uh severe injuries and in some cases it's resulted in death and if that wasn't bad enough a bull yes a fucking bull was sometimes released onto the
pizza try pitch to incite victory uh the games last 50 minutes but these days uh the rules are
a bit strict to try and avoid death there's a rule where it's prohibited for more than one player to
attack an opponent and kicks to the head are also banned other than that it's pretty much the same game as one player uh played you in the 16th century um i remember there being an advert for some sort
of italian pre-packed salad which featured this sport and that's how i found out about it yeah
but it looks absolutely brutal and you know what you're talking of the vice cameras um turning up
at these places have you seen that vice video i think it's Vice. Where they send cameras to Italy for that traditional horse race.
Where they race around the streets of an Italian town with no saddle on their horses.
Right.
And they go at like breakneck speed around like 90 degree turns and stuff.
That's very similar, in a very similar sort of way to this game, Calcio.
A real Fiat scratcher.
Storico.
Do you fancy a bit of that?
Similar to your
Saturday kick arounds
isn't it
yeah pretty much
it's a bit like
British Boulder
but with a ball
and fighting
it just looks exhausting
though
quite apart from
anything else
just punching and kicking
and the men
who play it
are sexy as fuck
they're tough
they all look
absolutely tough
sexy
olive skin
beauts and do you know what you win if you win the tournament have a guess sexy as fuck. They're tough. They all look absolutely tough. Sexy, olive skin,
beauts.
And do you know what you win
if you win the tournament?
Have a guess.
Loads of money.
Nope.
A nice hat.
I don't know.
Try and think of
the most underwhelming prize.
Some packaged ham.
Some pre-packed salad.
Similar.
Alright.
A calf.
Oh, you win a calf?
Yeah.
Well, you know.
Oi, 16 man teeth, one calf. We don't even get a calf each. win a calf yep well you know 16 mantis
one calf
we don't even get a calf each
well you know
outrageous
that cheese rolling
that's quite brutal
oh yeah
in a really British way
that problem
you win the cheese
presumably you'd rather do the
calcio esterico
because of the ankle thing
mate if you rolled an ankle
bleh
did we talk about that
golfer with the ankle
that I sent you
I don't know
you sent me a video
of a golfer
who popped his ankle out
and then he popped it back in
straight away
it was disgusting
it was the most angry
I've seen you
when I made you watch it
there we go
I've got to get over that
haven't I
it's not right
have you had problems
yourself in the past
with ankles
all the time
I probably said
about this before
but I used to roll my ankle
weekly
outside the Ghanaian
high commission in Highgate.
Oh, yeah, you did say, yeah.
Yeah, I'd cobbled.
Those cobbled streets in Naples
can't have been your friend then.
No, definitely not.
No.
Disgusting.
There we go.
Yeah, so that was fun.
So more of that next week, I think.
If you want to get a description,
as always, hello at lukenpichot.com.
It's as simple and as unallied as that.
This week, sorry, this show,
we've covered Beyonce Duncan Valentine
landing in a windsuit
the mothpocalypse
the white death
some mad Italian sport
so any more of that
sort of stuff
next week
is more than welcomed
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