The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 81: The It's Been World Record

Episode Date: July 16, 2018

We start today's proceedings by talking about a one hour documentary on Japanese trains, including men fashioning a light fitting 'the old fashioned way', whatever that means. It's not as boring as it... sounds though, and before you know it we've moved on to camel urine anyway, so that's a plus.Elsewhere on your all-new episode of The Luke and Pete Show, there's more sodium-based tom foolery, actors that didn't act more than once and a big end-of-show finale as Pete attempts a physical and mental feat that any sane man wouldn't even consider...To contribute: 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 What a crisp drum sound that track has. Finger clicks. It's like clicky, isn't it? Click, click, click. How you doing? It's Pete Donaldson here and Luke Moher and we collectively together. Can you be collective if you're two people? I don't know. Either way, it's Luke and Pete Shaw. Welcome to it. And you are welcome to it. Hello.
Starting point is 00:00:30 All right. You're not allowed to talk. That was a bit of a monologue from you, Pete. I was just enjoying it. Just enjoying it. Listen, just enjoy watching a master at work. Professional. I say professional sometimes because there was two kids on a train and I think they were
Starting point is 00:00:44 a bit, they were silly boys. But one of them had said, oh, my phone is broken. And the other one had a skateboard, and he went, gives it here. And he got the phone, and he smashed it against the trucks on his skateboard. And the other kid went, oh, you fixed it. And the other one went, professional. So every time I hear somebody say professional, I go, professional. Do you need a hard reset because that sounded like
Starting point is 00:01:07 the sort of one of those generate buzz feed generating meme stories of the day I think you're breaking down too yeah I don't know
Starting point is 00:01:15 it's too hot in here isn't it watching you then do the intro to that show Pete was a bit like it was like watching a master in action it was like when you know in the
Starting point is 00:01:23 Sunday night Sunday evening popular BBC show Countryfile where they'll go to the middle of nowhere It was like watching a master in action. It was like when, you know, in the Sunday night, Sunday evening, popular BBC show, Countryfile, where they'll go to the middle of nowhere and say, this guy here with the moustache and the dungarees on, he's the country's last ever barrel maker. Yeah. And then he'll make a barrel. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:40 And then everyone will go, God, that's a master at work. That's what it was like watching you. It's a dying art. If you're ever, obviously I do the podcast at Abroad in Japan, so I have the NHK, which is the BBC of Japan, their app installed on my television.
Starting point is 00:01:52 So occasionally, for some whatever reason, I'll turn on the telly and NHK will just be on. Is it Japanese language? There's no software? No, no, no. So it's all English.
Starting point is 00:02:00 It's all in English. It's basically like the World Service, but it's Japanese, basically. So they run documentaries about master craftsmen, Japanese master craftsmen. And basically, this guy designed this incredible train. I think it was called the King's Train or something like that. And it was this beautiful kind of plush Orient Express kind of situation. But it was the body of an old crappy train that nobody liked anymore.
Starting point is 00:02:23 And basically, these guys had to make this very particular part of a light. And it was an hour-long documentary by these men making this bent bit of metal fit the original train situation. And they didn't have any plans for it. They just had a drawing to work from. And basically they admitted halfway through
Starting point is 00:02:42 that this could have been done with computers really quickly. But these guys went, but we want to do it the proper way. And they fucked it up so many times, they don't even want to get into it. Is it boring? But all the way through, they were just ringing their bosses and apologising in a very kind of earnest way,
Starting point is 00:02:56 as the Japanese do, because it's all about honour and respect and all that stuff. So they were basically, it was like Challenge Anika, but they had to finish this little bit of golden metal. And every time they bent the metal in the ship, they had to get theika, but they had to finish this little bit of golden metal. And every time they bent the metal into shape, they had to get the strongest man on the team to bend this metal physically into a shape. And then they'd have to buff it again and get it gold-plated.
Starting point is 00:03:13 And, oh, man, it was a right old rigmarole. It went on for an hour. It went on for an entire hour, like the story about it, really. But I recommend watching NHK. It's very relaxing. And also... Must have one in the background. A bit like the Good Food channel, like I was talking about last. It's very relaxing. And also... Must have one in the background. A bit like the Good Food channel.
Starting point is 00:03:27 Definitely. Definitely. Get the NHK app. Until James Martin comes on your channel. They had... They don't have many English speakers to do the voices. Like the charismatic voices of the engineers. Get your agent on it.
Starting point is 00:03:41 I know, right? Yeah, you've just been dropped from another one of those. You've got loads of time. All Alright, I did it for eight years. You know, that's a long time in continuity. As it said in the letter, it's run its course. It's run its course. Actually, I was the last D-Max announcer, so
Starting point is 00:03:55 I went down with the ship. Do a country farthing on it. A dying breeze. The last continuity answer on Discovery. Yeah, and these guys do it, they got like the, you remember like Eurotrash back in the 80s? Oh, big time.
Starting point is 00:04:08 Whenever they would have like a, it would be like a guy who does pig impressions in France or something. Yeah. Or Versailles or something. And it'd be like,
Starting point is 00:04:16 oh, this man can do a lot of impressions of pigs. And the guy might go, oh yes, I've been doing a pig impression for ages. It's kind of like that they're like the engineers
Starting point is 00:04:25 like this really cam boss they're not going oh I'm going to bend the metal into a right shape now they always used to on Eurotrash they would always get
Starting point is 00:04:33 a really over the top translator to undermine the whole thing and that thing you're talking about there like a Frenchman doing an impression of different pigs
Starting point is 00:04:40 was a part of content which I used to refer to as the filler bit before you see another naked lady. Yes, definitely. Because that's the only reason any adolescent man was watching that show.
Starting point is 00:04:50 Get Lola Ferrari back on. I think we spoke about it on the show. She died now, I think. She's dead. Recently on Luke and Pete, I should give people a little round up.
Starting point is 00:04:57 First of all, lots of people, Pete, interested in a sunburn update from you. You're back fighting fit now, are you not? I'm back fighting fit now, are you not? I'm back fighting fit.
Starting point is 00:05:06 Doing okay. It's now recovered, though. I am in day four or five of a rather barren patch for the old pooples. Oh, dear. And you've talked about this on the show, so it's not me being gauche or rude. It's like back 2012, when you only had three in the whole year.
Starting point is 00:05:18 I went to find some tablets to help the process go along. Sunacot? No, there's two different kinds of poopies. There's stuff that softens the stool, and there's stuff that just gives the whole system a kick, like a cup of coffee or a big heavy cigarette. Or a fig. Or a fig, or a line of cocagna.
Starting point is 00:05:40 Stop it. And so I always go for the latter. Not the cocaine. I mean the tablets that rush it along physically. You get the muscles moving, so to speak. I've got a lazy gut, clearly. And I found some tablets. I had about three of them.
Starting point is 00:05:57 I realised they went out of nick in 2009. Oh, dear. That's a long time ago. Yeah. So what's going to happen next? It might come out my mouth, I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:06:07 2009, I don't know. If you've got any tips, hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. Maybe some exercises Pete can do. He spent too long in his youth
Starting point is 00:06:14 on all fours with his butt butt up in the air trying to suck air into the pumps and now it's come back to bite him. Other things we were
Starting point is 00:06:21 talking about, oh here's one Pete, I've embarrassed myself here, so it's only fair that I come clean. The secret chocolate bar. Remember we talked about that?
Starting point is 00:06:30 Yes, yes, yes. Well, I sent an email to Cadbury's about it and then said, can I please come around the factory as well? And have a look at the bits and bobs.
Starting point is 00:06:41 Well, they flat battered me away. Turns out the reason they flat battered me away is because the secret bar was made by Nestle. Oh, no. Why didn't they tell you that, though? Theybattered me away. Turns out the reason they flat-battered me away is because the secret bar was made by Nestle. Oh, no. Why didn't they tell you that, though?
Starting point is 00:06:48 They should know the history. More accurately, Roundtree. Remember Roundtree? Yes. Which was eventually bought out by Nestle. Hang on. So Roundtree's fruit pastels are not made by Roundtree. They're made by Nestle.
Starting point is 00:06:58 I think Nestle owns them now. What? Yeah, I think so. That's a buyout. So I've made a bit of a dickhead of myself there. We talked a bit about those guys that almost blew up an entire school. More on that. That was so violent.
Starting point is 00:07:10 I was so into that story. I've got more on that. What a mess. We also did, Pete, names that you wouldn't call a baby in 2018. Eric. Yeah, Eric wasn't one, was it? I'm having it, though. Could be now.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Yeah. was it i'm having it though could be now eric yeah um the most robust fast food um in terms of how it would stay together if you if you dropped it from a height or whatever and also uh bringing animals into the studio something we haven't done this week but we can't rule out in the future long egg the long egg as well of course and if you want to get in touch about any of those subjects it is of course hello at lukeandpeachshow.com. Speaking about those guys that almost blew up an entire school, if you don't remember or you haven't listened to that episode yet, that was basically to do with them stealing, essentially, some sodium
Starting point is 00:07:54 or some sort of version of sodium, I suppose, from the science department. And Ben Steele, a friend of mine and listener to the show, got in touch. And he says the following. The Luke and Peach Show story about the sodium exploding in the toilets. My dad tells of how he used to work as a lab technician at a school. And at the end of term, chucked a whole load of the same stuff off the pier at Skeg Ness. Because the chemistry teacher couldn't think of a better way to get rid of it. He claims they threw one in, nothing happened, so they thought it was fine,
Starting point is 00:08:24 and threw a load more in and then the first one exploded because it must have taken some time for the oil to wash off. He said yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:31 He said the 80s just sound ridiculous. I'd love to have been like a fly on the wall when that conversation happened. Why did you get rid of that though?
Starting point is 00:08:39 What were we going to do with it? Well, not that far from the sea are we? Was the school shutting down? Why did they have to
Starting point is 00:08:45 get rid of the sodium it sounds like the scene from is it crocodile dundee where there's a dynamite in the lake and all the fish come up incredible yeah so there you go
Starting point is 00:08:54 any more sodium based stories do get in touch but yeah look to go back to the secret thing it's a regret of mine I've embarrassed myself there because if there's one thing I like to think I know about
Starting point is 00:09:02 yeah chocolate bars would be up there and I didn't even realise that it wasn't a Cadbury's a Cadbury's bar so there we go that's all right I mean you should assume that with uh you just assume that Cadbury's make all the chocolate bars yeah I think so anyway I agree that's right oh dear um shall we do some emails is that kind of like the state of play yeah we've got loads we've got loads of emails recently about things I've just mentioned there but we'll get to them
Starting point is 00:09:27 in sort of an order due process yeah because we can't otherwise we end up missing ones out and we don't get through the ones we want to get through
Starting point is 00:09:33 so be patient if you've sent one in about some of those subjects we will get to them and we always have a little bit of inertia so just bear with us but after this quick break
Starting point is 00:09:40 we'll have some emails thank you Pete so Sheikh you're telling me that drinking camel's urine is part of the thing? Ach, you don't get me wrong. Don't get him wrong. Don't get me wrong. I've got an email about camel urine.
Starting point is 00:10:00 What? I don't know. Have you actually? Yeah, I have, yeah. We are email. Right. This one is from John Spooner. Spoonzo!
Starting point is 00:10:09 Hit him off your leg, make a little song. Isn't that a Soundgarden song? And this email is ostensibly about camel urine, but listen to the final sentence as well. So if you're listening at home, take it in, embrace it, enjoy it. It's about camel urine, but there's a nice little payoff at home, take it in, embrace it, enjoy it. It's about camel urine, but there's a nice little payoff at the end.
Starting point is 00:10:26 I don't want you to miss it. John Spooner says, about 10 years ago, I enjoyed a couple of walking holidays in the Sahara. Right. Did you just get dropped?
Starting point is 00:10:36 And you had to just make your way across the Sahara? John, were you lost in the Sahara? I think you'll find it was a walking holiday. Why have you got no clothes on? The wanderlust of wandering in the Sahara.
Starting point is 00:10:47 If it was a walking holiday, John, presumably you're not thirsty. Yeah. No, I'm not thirsty, actually. I don't want any of that water. He says, while we trot along, our gear was carried by camels. Camels, as is well known, have a huge capacity for storing liquid and take every opportunity they can to take on more water. Yes. What is less well known is that they take on more water than they can carry,
Starting point is 00:11:06 and immediately expel the excess from their bodies. Ah. By a process which I can no longer recall, a swishing towel perhaps, the urine is converted into a fine spray, so that cooling mist you experience in the desert heat can be camel urine. No. So if there's one thing I've learnt in life, he says, it's never to follow a camel too closely when leaving an oasis listen to the payoff my batteries in my hotel hotel room last night were
Starting point is 00:11:31 dead at uracels so to make it work i got the batteries from my head torch that were and get this because a new player has entered the game handy heroes handy heroes have you ever heard of a battery called a handy hero that's wonderful because it isn't a play on cell or power or anything like that they're handy and i help you out handy heroes amazing battery chat that yeah that's top draw battery very english and handy's not uh an international english word you know what i mean because most of these batteries are just rebranded i imagine you said the word handy to a lot of foreign speaking people handy hero can I have a handy hero please
Starting point is 00:12:09 why is it when I'm gosh you go Peter I think I've got I sort of bring a veil of respectability about it no I'm not having it
Starting point is 00:12:17 one of our iTunes reviews said Luke does his best to keep this show out of the gutter yeah which I guess is sort of true and I drop sodium into it bringing the gutter to you in many ways absolutely right sort of true. And I drop sodium into it,
Starting point is 00:12:26 bringing the gutter to you in many ways. Absolutely right. So have you got anything to add on the camel urine thing? I don't think I've ever been close to a camel. We used to have a couple of Bactrian camels in the zoo. I prefer a dromedary, I think. Which are, they're two, no, one hump is Bactrian. Dromedary is two humps. I think they're based around East Asia,
Starting point is 00:12:42 sort of Mongolia around there. Lovely looking animals. When they're mistreated East Asia, Mongolia, around there. Lovely-looking animals. When they're mistreated, they can look a bit sad because their humps kind of sag a little bit. But the problem with that is, and as you well know by now, I'm not an expert, if they're being well looked after and they're getting fed and watered essentially whenever they want it, do they need the big hump?
Starting point is 00:13:02 Good point. There you go. Animals only, you know, people talk about the cruelty of zoos and i agree i don't think they should exist uh except for um keeping animals that would otherwise die uh from from living um but animals invariably only move on and need a lot of room because they've exhausted the food supply. And if the food's in regular supply, they don't move. So I think all animals should have been cages for the rest of their lives. A lot of zoos are educational, sort of studying type things for people, right? You can study.
Starting point is 00:13:35 Nowadays, you can study from videos and stuff. You don't have to be right there, do you? No, of course you do. You can't put your hand up a camel's butt on a video, can you? What zoo allowed you to do that, you deviant? Your one. I always think it's ironic. Ten quid.
Starting point is 00:13:48 Glory Hall. Camel Glory Hall. Don't mind the mist. Don't spray the urine. I always think it's ironic when we talk about zoos, which comes up a lot when we're actually sat in a box with a window at the front. Essentially, it's like a human zoo.
Starting point is 00:13:59 We just watched... Guaranteed, a couple of you will be familiar with the photo of Amal. We just watched Marcus Speller try to reconnect a HDMI cable to a PlayStation 4. Hasn't managed it and has just left the building. He's that annoyed with it. He just left the building. He is the archetypal sort of duck on top of the water. Very smooth, but underneath the legs are whirring around.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Wow. I don't know who's enjoyed that more. Us looking out at them doing it or them looking in going, I don't know what I'm doing. I like that they just downed tools and left. No, rather than going. I don't want who's enjoyed that more. Us looking out at them doing it, or them looking in going, I don't know what I'm doing. I like that they're just down tools and left. No, rather than going, I don't want to play that much. I'd rather go home.
Starting point is 00:14:30 I'm not wasting an afternoon on this. Oh, man. Chris in Sheffield. Hello to Chris in Sheffield. Oh, no, wait a minute. No, what I've done is, speaking of which, I'm like I've appended Ramble emails
Starting point is 00:14:42 to the top of the Look and Picture. Look and Picture, Steve Barron. Hopefully a relation to Steve Bannon. No, I like that Steve Barron comes along so quickly after an email about the Sahara, which of course is Barron. Good point. Probably isn't Barron, actually. No, people have got to live there, haven't they?
Starting point is 00:14:58 Barry's Pop, Boring Panasonic, thank you. I've just listened to episode 78. I thought I might add to your list of child actors who never acted again Carrie Henn who played Newt in Aliens excellent
Starting point is 00:15:10 they come at night mostly oh it's a great performance they come at night mostly after that iconic role she never acted before or after that role she was asked to act in Alien fan film
Starting point is 00:15:19 an Alien ant film sorry Alien farm she was the front man in Alien ant farm she was asked to act in Alien Ant Farm. She was asked to act in an alien fan film, but 20th Century Fox put a stop to that. She now works as a school teacher
Starting point is 00:15:30 in California. You see that a lot in video games, a lot of fan mods and fan games that people put together with obviously IP that doesn't belong to them. Sometimes the companies involved are quite benevolent. They'll let them just get
Starting point is 00:15:46 on with it and play with their IP a little bit. Most of them very much do not. Nintendo being a notable exception to that one. I really like that Carrie Henn has got six credits in IMDb for her career. One, Aliens of course. The other five, video documentaries about aliens.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Nice, I like that one a lot. That's an interesting point because that is a fantastic film. Nice. I like that one a lot. That's a really interesting point because that is a fantastic film. Now, people of an older generation... Is that the one where she gets the robot arms, like the lifting arms and stuff? Yeah. That exoskeleton thing.
Starting point is 00:16:16 Get away from her, you bitch. You'll stay away from her, you bitch. It's the second one in the series. I like all three. I like the first three anyway. But anyway, people of my parents generation will always tell you the first one's the best one
Starting point is 00:16:27 right because it's like a thriller it's a horror you never see the alien it's a suspense thing but for me I came into the party watching Aliens
Starting point is 00:16:34 as my first one which of course is this great like James Cameron allegory for the Vietnam War and there's a lot of action and there's a lot of great lines in it
Starting point is 00:16:41 and Newt is brilliant in it and for me that's the strongest one right but to think that she was in such a prominent field a James Cameron movie and there's a lot of great lines in it and Newt is brilliant in it. And for me, that's the strongest one. But to think that she was in such a prominent field, a James Cameron movie, massive budget, huge stars, did really well. It's rated as one of the best films or one of the best sort of, I guess,
Starting point is 00:16:55 whatever you'd call it, sci-fi action, thriller films of all time, really. Yet she's never appeared in anything again. Do we know why that is? Why she didn't want to? Did she not want to? Did she not get any more work? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:17:06 I just think people just kind of, I think it's enormously difficult for child actors to break out of that particular, they've kind of got to go away and then come back again. No, but they get other opportunities. Yeah, but you get typecast. As a child actor, you get typecasters playing the same kind of role over and over again.
Starting point is 00:17:20 I always think with child actors, they never need to be that good. And when they're really good, you're like, oh, wow, yeah, you've got some chops. Child actors don't necessarily need to be that good. And when they're really good, you're like, oh, wow, yeah, you've got some chops. Child actors don't necessarily need to be that good. No, that's right. I think when you get a couple of child actors who are genuinely good, and I'm thinking Stranger Things kids here, it's really surprising.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Yeah, and I think when they're good, they're either just normal kids who happen to have a little bit of choppery, and then there's the stage school kids who are really precautionary. You're like, no, I don't like you at all. Or there's just people who are just fucking brilliant, and they're happen to be have a little bit of choppery uh and then there's like the stage school kids are really kind of precaution you're like no i don't like you at all oh there's just people who just fucking brilliant and they're gonna be actors for the rest of their lives those stranger thing kids a lot of them are stage school kids i think maybe one of them
Starting point is 00:17:53 was in lima's arrival something like that right tell people when you talk about chops and when you talk about choppery what do you mean like having a propensity to be able to do it chops acting chops chops out have you got podcast chops? God, no. I do enough of them, so I should. I'm hoping to gain some. What sort of brand of chops
Starting point is 00:18:10 have you got? I am... Goodness me! Really good at buying wires. Yeah, that's true. You've got good wire buying... Wire buyer. Wire purchasing chops.
Starting point is 00:18:19 Oh, wire buyer! I'm very good... My chops, I'm very good at... Essentially, I think I've got to the point now in my Sainsbury's local where I where I have tried
Starting point is 00:18:29 every single different brand of not just crisps but biscuits as well is that chops have you literally chops
Starting point is 00:18:38 have you have you flirted with the the Patix product in the International Isle no no
Starting point is 00:18:44 not gone for the you know I love those I think they're maize or corn based kind of snacks they're a little bit like skips but they're spicy
Starting point is 00:18:52 kind of oh yeah International Isle International Isle things I like you'll occasionally get it in kind of Brixton area Bigger Juice
Starting point is 00:19:01 which is a really strong tropical drink it's too sugary for me that stuff. It's incredible, though. It's something else. I put on a lot of weight during the mid-noughties when I was drinking a lot of bigger juice. I was getting two or three bigger juices a day.
Starting point is 00:19:14 You're still getting them? It's beautiful tropical punch. Can you still find them? Yeah, you can still buy bigger juices. What flavours are we talking about? Just the usual kind of Jamaican fruit punch kind of flavours, but it's strong. If you ever get the chance to indulge in a bit of a bigger juice, but it's weird in,
Starting point is 00:19:27 in kind of like, um, in that aisle, you'll always get bigger juice, but you also get super malt as well. Super malt's one of those drinks where I've indulged, I flirted with it, but I just can't get my head around it.
Starting point is 00:19:37 I just can't. My brain can't process the flavour. Yeah. I'm, I'm trying my best to kind of, it's like Guinness without the booze. It's like, yeah,
Starting point is 00:19:43 I can't, my brain finds it very hard to process things that to my brain should be sweet, but are in fact savoury. My next door neighbours are absolutely lovely. The lady, she made carrot courgette and cheese muffins. Okay. Yeah. That would work, wouldn't it?
Starting point is 00:19:59 But to me, a muffin is a sweet thing. So my brain's expecting something sweet. A muffin's a sweet thing. Oh,'s expecting something sweet a muffin's a sweet thing oh oh the sweetest thing yeah can we go back to child actors really quickly
Starting point is 00:20:09 alright because Danny Lloyd of The Shining remember we talked about him yeah he was actually in one other thing so we
Starting point is 00:20:14 I think we mentioned that he he was only in The Shining in 1980 wasn't the making of The Shining no no it was it was this weird TV movie
Starting point is 00:20:23 a couple of years later but did I say to you I might have done apologies if I did that they they worked really hard making The Shining, no? No, it was this weird TV movie a couple of years later. But did I say to you, I might have done, apologies if I did, that they worked really hard to shoot his scenes in a way that he didn't realise he was in a horror movie
Starting point is 00:20:33 because they were worried about him. Yeah, yeah. I mean, it's hard to dress up that lift. Why is Jack Nicholson looking like that? That's what I've been thinking. Why does he get on hacks? Yeah, he's eight years old at this point. Have you seen the videos of him
Starting point is 00:20:44 trying to get crazy in one of the rooms yeah it's great suffering 75 yeah it's brilliant warming up for it so you know that's really interesting
Starting point is 00:20:52 because you know this idea of acting the method form of acting where you become that person so Daniel Day-Lewis or whatever he never comes out of character on set
Starting point is 00:20:59 I love the quote it's not very tedious I love the quote from Laurence Olivier I think it was Laurence Olivier who when he was asked about it and why he didn't do that he was like it's all very tedious I love the quote from Laurence Olivier I think it was Laurence Olivier who when he was asked about it and why he didn't
Starting point is 00:21:07 do that he was like it's called acting you're supposed to act it was Dustin Hoffman I think we spoke about this on the show before where
Starting point is 00:21:14 Dustin Hoffman ran around he had to pretend he was out of breath so he ran around the block a couple of times and I think he was
Starting point is 00:21:21 acting with the aforementioned actor yeah the marathon man it was he said what are it was he said he said what are you doing
Starting point is 00:21:26 he said I need to be out of breath he's going why don't you do some acting here boy why don't you do some acting lovely lovely stuff so what email were we doing then
Starting point is 00:21:34 I've forgotten oh oh Newt we did Newt Steve Barons yeah go on would you want to do another one or should I do one
Starting point is 00:21:40 I'll stick in a double do you want a quick one I'll smash out a quick one you do one here because I've got a quick. Do you want a quick one? I'll smash out a quick one. You do one here because I've got a quick one for you after. Okay. Please keep me anonymous.
Starting point is 00:21:48 I use my pseudonym Dan Gleeballs. I'm currently in the vicinity of boring energiser batteries. I work on the London Underground and spent eight years as an engineer on nights, spending shift after shift
Starting point is 00:21:59 on the track and down the tunnels maintaining signal equipment and fault finding. A job that I cannot imagine. It could be made easy by any stretch of the imagination. Watch out for those shower curtains. Watch out for those shower curtains. In episode 78, you were talking about rats found in the tunnels
Starting point is 00:22:13 and whether or not the rumours of dog-slash-cat-sized rodents lurk beneath the rails. To put it simply, bullshit. The biggest I've seen is no larger than your average adult male's hand span. Is that a conspiracy? Yeah, dangly balls. That's exactly the sort of thing I'd expect someone to say who was actually secretly breeding a load of super-sized rats. That's why he was kept anonymous,
Starting point is 00:22:34 because he's breeding alpaca-sized rats. He was to be kept anonymous because his rats are so big and so advanced, they've all got iPhones now, and he doesn't want to hear his name to blow the experiment. I think most of the rats are off to Canary Wharf, yeah? Huh. Yeah. Rat race.
Starting point is 00:22:51 Rat race. I told you about Morning Sheep. Morning Sheep. Morning Sheep. I wish he was still about. He's almost certainly passed away. Yeah. Good stuff from Dan Gleable.
Starting point is 00:23:00 Thanks, Dan. What about this from David Pete? David, Pete. His name isn from David Pete David comma Pete not his name isn't David Pete he says hello lads I'm at first duty
Starting point is 00:23:09 bound to inform you that my TV remote is boasting a pairing of Philips and a rather exciting V2 extreme power battery it is now to my matter at hand
Starting point is 00:23:18 I'm going out on a whim here is that the term no it's going out on a limb David's let himself down there although he has
Starting point is 00:23:24 spelt the word whim properly, so good for him. I'm going to suggest that I speak for many a listener who has tuned in since last summer's episode one when I ask, whatever happened to Donnie Sterling bare naked ladies impressions?
Starting point is 00:23:35 I found myself doing it the other day and it made me realise we'd not heard it for a while. I therefore ask that Pete gives us a rendition for old time's sake. Now, before I get into that, I was in the kitchen yesterday. Surprise. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:49 My phone room. My wife was making meatball subs for dinner. Delicious. And I was helping out, I think. And we had Absolute Radio on. Right. Which is a parish you are a very much a key member of. Treasurer, probably.
Starting point is 00:24:02 Treasurer. I'm on everywhere. And you played Bare Naked Ladies and then afterwards you did The Impression I did The Impression not good enough
Starting point is 00:24:09 for these fucking listeners is it but it's good enough for them you've taken it mainstream David your answer is Pete Donaldson
Starting point is 00:24:14 has taken it mainstream I get paid a small amount of money to do that show it's a pre-recorded show
Starting point is 00:24:22 which I do relatively quickly I've got quite good at it that's. I've got quite good at it. That's what I've got quite good at. I find that very hard to believe. You've got chops. You've got absolute radio chops. Doing three-hour radio shows in upwards of,
Starting point is 00:24:32 well, downwards of seven minutes. And, yeah, I think because of the nature of the fact that the 90s is over, there can't be any new music that's produced. And obviously... This is Absolute Radio 90. Absolute Radio 90. So there's no new music coming out of the 90s is over there can't be any new music that's produced uh and obviously so there's no new music coming out of the 90s effectively you can find a little bit some bobbies you can we should do a feature called haven't heard it for ages where we play a song that you don't get here on the radio very often and that's always nice but the normal absolute
Starting point is 00:24:58 radio night is you ain't gonna get a new song so um i've kind of exhausted all of my stories about every song so i'm having to kind of diversify a little bit. Bare Naked Ladies, I had nothing. So I just went, it's been. That was all right, actually. Yeah. So do you practice it behind, keep your eye in sort of thing? What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:25:16 Well, the same way that Gary Lincoln said the other day that he used to do 50 penalties a day in case he got one at the weekend. Oh, really? And he would do a different one each time. So he'd say, right, what I mean by that is he'd say, today I'm going to practice, I'm going to do my 50 penalties and I'm going to put them in the top right corner. And whatever he had practiced, he would put in practice
Starting point is 00:25:35 in the game, right? Do you do that with your it spin? Do you do 50 a day to keep yourself going? No, I think it's such a short thing. I could probably do 50 in a minute. I'm not going to. Let's make that very clear. I'm afraid you fucking know. Right, how many it spins such a short thing. I could probably do 50 in a minute. I'm not going to. Let's make that very clear. Oh, I'm afraid you fucking know.
Starting point is 00:25:47 Right, how many it spins can you do in a minute? I'm going to time you now. Let me get my timer out. You can do 50. I'm going to try 50. So I'll time it and I'll count. Right. Bear with me a second.
Starting point is 00:25:57 I've got to get my stopwatch out. All right. If you can count, that'd be cool. I'll count them, don't worry. You just do as many as you can. All right? Do you know what I'll do? I'll do it on timer so it counts down. Yeah, okay. Ready? I'll count them, don't worry. You just do as many as you can. All right? Do you know what I'll do? I'll do it on timer, so it counts down.
Starting point is 00:26:06 Yeah, okay. Ready? I'll count you in. They've got to be of requisite quality. Okay. Okay? And go. It's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been,
Starting point is 00:26:17 it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets. It's binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets. How long have I lived? It's binnets, binnets, 20 seconds! Fuck me! It's binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets,
Starting point is 00:26:58 binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binnets, binn been, it's been, it's been, it's been. It's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been. It's been, it's been, it's been, it's been. It's been, it's been, it's been, it's been, it's been. That's the end.
Starting point is 00:27:14 Oh. I must have nailed 50 there. Easily. Easily. Hello, Luke and Peter, if you're counting, because I lost my mind. Pete's neck. Your neck, then. It looked like you were going to have a heart attack. That's Luca Pichov. You're counting because I lost my mind. Pete's neck. Your neck, then. It looked like you were going to have a heart attack.
Starting point is 00:27:27 That's where it comes from. The power's all in the neck, like a Ronaldo header. So I think that they were probably all of the requisite quality we were after as well. You kept it up. Well, after a while, when you repeat anything for any length of time, it's spin it, spin it, spin it, spin it, spin it, spin it. It's like when you hear somebody
Starting point is 00:27:45 says I've got an anti-lil now if you say anti-lil it sounds like little and once you
Starting point is 00:27:52 hear anti-lil you can't hear it again little little it's like when someone talks to you about how
Starting point is 00:27:57 often you blink or whatever you can't stop blinking if you are listening to that still apologies for my
Starting point is 00:28:04 corpsing. And you did count, or you can replay it and count back. Hello at LukeandPete.com to see how many. I think Pete was well over 50 in a minute. Easily well over 50. You forget how long a second is sometimes, I think. I think one thing doing radio...
Starting point is 00:28:19 When it comes to the bedroom. Radio and podcasting and stuff does teach you just how long 10 seconds is. You can move quite a long distance in 10 seconds. Yeah, massively. 10 seconds is a lot longer than perhaps you think, but if you can beat that, Pete's record. We should get Norris McWhirter on for that.
Starting point is 00:28:36 He's dead, isn't he? Who got shot at the door by the IRA? Was that Ross McWhirter? Either him or his brother got shot at the door by the IRA. I think Norris McWhirter might have died old. Norris McWhirter was on record breakers. Ross McWhirter was shot by the IRA. I'm fairly certain that's the case. So Norris McWhirter died in 2004, age 78.
Starting point is 00:28:52 Look under brother. Okay, I will. He died of a heart attack at his home in Wiltshire. Who's the other one? Ross. Ross McWhirter. I've never even heard of Ross McWhirter. I can't remember why.
Starting point is 00:29:03 What was he known for? I can't remember why he was shot. Oh, he was a twin brother and he was a contributor. He was murdered by the Provisional IRA in 1975. I knew it! Did not know that. Why did they target him? They wanted to break a record. Oh, he was a
Starting point is 00:29:17 Conservative Party activist. Maybe that's not what did it. Who knows? Let's not get into that. Let's not get into that. Let's go. I I mean what I would say is Luke we've you know I thought that was a really good finish
Starting point is 00:29:29 me saying it's been 50 times it's more than 50 I think you probably got to about 70 you brought it down with the provisional IRA now haven't you
Starting point is 00:29:36 with your record chat I always get you in the end so is that all we've got time for this time around yeah let's get over here mate we've got things to do I've got loads of good
Starting point is 00:29:44 emails for next time I know you have I'm looking forward to them I've barely scratched the surface because of your your nonsense you asked me to do it hello at lucanpeachshaw.com
Starting point is 00:29:52 if you want to get in touch and if you want your shit read out to be quite frank we'll be back next week with more not next week this Thursday
Starting point is 00:29:59 for more fun and games we'll see you then see you later see ya and games. We'll see you next time.

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