The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 82: Next stop, Hither Green!

Episode Date: July 19, 2018

Tune in this time around for Luke and Pete reminiscing about puncture repair kits, before marvelling at how strange and unreliable the passing of time and capturing of memories can be. Don't worry though, we get on to much more firm and familiar ground shortly after that as Pete waxes lyrical about how he hates leg day at the gym.What's more, you beautiful listeners step up to the plate with tales of Don King, ejecting from a jet in the middle of a thunderstorm, and much, much more. Don't miss it, mother!Besmirch us here: [e-mail]***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.

So emotional. I get so emotional, baby. Yeah. I've got a button on my play-out thing that says emotional. Hit it. I don't know what it is, though. It might be Football Ramble related. I don't know.

Hit that shit, man. Ah, no, it's just a sweeper or something. Ah, why'd you call it that? Yeah, I think it was Chris Waddle getting emotional about getting through to the semi-finals. Most of them you don't even name. You just give them a number. So when I have to do the buttons when you're not around, it's like trying to pick through the mind of a maniac. So when I have to do the buttons when you're not around, it's like trying to pick through the mind of a maniac.

And for good reason. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. To the locum Pete show. It's Pete who doesn't usually work for your district, but he's popping in to help out the GP. He knows nothing about your medical history. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. I am the Luke, that is the Pete. Last time around, we did some stuff on... Sodium. Sodium, yeah. And also, you did a record-breaking attempt

at how many it spins you could do in a minute. Looking forward to the listener fall-off. Yeah, let's cover that next week because we've got a load of emails backed up.

We also talked recently about... We talked about me being backed up as well. Yeah, we did. How's that going? Still the same? It's got a little bit better.

Good. Speaking of that kind of stuff, we talked a bit about baby names. Now, before I get into this... Baby names, I just don't know. Is that Baby Kate? Baby Kate. Who's that by?

God knows. God knows. Sorry, mate. No, I need to have a Google of that. 2008, I want to say. Okay. Was it 2008? It was by Three of a Kind. Three of a Kind. Yeah. google 2008 I want to say okay was it 2008 it was by three of a kind

three of a kind yeah and what year did you say it was 2008 okay let's have a look actually no it's bullshit no it's 2008

let's go with 2008 I think it was way before that 2004 mate anyway welcome yes still it was if you are new to this show

you are very very very very welcome 2004 wasn't a welcome no it wasn't it was the Euros yeah we should know that hello at lukeandpeach.com if you want to get in touch about anything at all If you are new to this show, you are very, very, very, very welcome. 2004 wasn't a welcome. No, it wasn't. It was the Euros. Yeah, we should know that. Hello at LukeandPetra.com if you want to get in touch about anything at all. If you've got a funny story to get off your chest,

or perhaps a little rant you want to have, or a bit of trivia, or something that you just thought about yesterday when you were walking home from work. Ooh la la. Hello at LukeandPetra.com is the place for it. Again, you are very welcome. We're very pleased to have you. Baby names. Going back to baby names.

Baby names! I just don't know! So about a week ago, we talked a lot about things. You wouldn't name your child in 2018. Things like Neil. Things like... What's the other one?

Warren or whatever. I thought you were saying like... Jeff. Jeff. Imagine calling your baby Jeff. Baby Jeff. So anyway... Imagine mutton chops,

Baker Grove. That spawned... Yeah, Grove. That spawned, yeah, same. That spawned me to Google it the other day and look at some of the names that are being named or some of the babies

that are being named in 2018. Right. And maybe perhaps some quite unusual ones. Now, I was very pleased. Well, was I pleased? I was quite sort of surprised,

pleasantly surprised to hear this. That because of, do you watch Game of Thrones? Yes. You have seen it? So a lot of, apparently a lot of daughters

are being named Carlisi. What do you think about that, Donaldson? No. You're not having it? I'm not having it. Another apparently popular name this year,

despite being quite odd, is Arrow. Arrow? Yeah. I took an arrow to the knee. Yeah. Or the ankle or whatever. Seven is quite popular.

Seven? I would have thought Eleven would be popular because of Stranger Things. Um, yeah, Seven. Seven's a bit friendly

and it's lucky as well, isn't it? Minerva, Baron, Minerva, Hillary, wasn't that a Deftones album?

and Ragnar. Ragnar! You like that? album and Ragnar Ragnar you like that I love Ragnar because that's a proper name isn't it that's a proper kind of

Scandinavian type Scandinavian name isn't it Ragnar Ragnarok anyway that's what I thought I'd bring to the table

after the last time what have you got to tell me Peter I'm gay daddy I don't know what are you going to say it's not

it's not coming out it's coming out you made it sound like what have you got to tell me like we were sitting down for a family meeting and I was coming out to you I think you have got

something to tell me haven't you got something to get off your chest what have I got to say to get off my chest I think people want to hear an update about your poopy

poopy we've already haven't we talked about you said it's got slightly better that's not enough information I think that's all the information we need has anyone got in touch with better slightly better yeah that's not enough information I think that's all the information we need

has anyone got in touch with you with some exercises that could help you no what exercises could there be it's probably like sit ups I'm not doing them not for love nor money

I'll do my I'll do my I thought you did do sit ups did you crunches don't you what did you do Russian twist I don't know there's a chair thing

there's a throne thing you put your arms in and you're sort of supposed to lift up your legs oh yeah okay I did a couple of months of sort of flirting with that

I just like the shoulders and the chest it's like do ten of them and then do ten of them a bit harder and then put the weight

up again and do ten of them and you're and you go shouting ah this is heavy but I still lifted it to everybody in the gym and then people were like

what are you doing what's your name Ragnar when I finish one of the machines just push it over this is heavy, but I still lifted it to everybody in the gym. And then people were like, what are you doing? What's your name? Ragnar! When I finish one of the machines, I just push it over. You're dominated. When's leg day?

Never do it. I've got quite muscular legs anyway. I don't need more definition on that. Disagree. Look at them calves, mate. I mean, feel it. It's not bad. It's decent. Feel mine.

You didn't like feeling them, did you? You didn't like doing that. Why did that make you feel uncomfortable? I'm squeezing bad. It's decent. Feel mine. Oh. You didn't like feeling them, did you? You didn't like doing that. Why did that make you feel uncomfortable? Squeezing yoghurt out of an inner tube. Why would you have a yoghurt in an inner tube? Why would your legs do that? How did you use to fix the inner tube of your bike tyre when you were a kid? In a washing up bowl. Yeah, always. Yeah, baby. I miss a puncture repair kit.

Nowadays there's probably something futuristic, but I like the little bit of chalk I used to get. Love that. I like the little plaster and the glue, the rubber glue I used to get. Do you reckon, like, top-of-the-range mountain bikes or racing bikes now, do you reckon the tyres have moved on

and you don't have to repair them anymore? Probably. They're probably all squidgy or something. There's probably some kind of Kevlar or something in there. Because some car tyres I don't think you have to repair. I think they repair themselves. Have you ever seen videos of people repairing big tractor tyres or big car monster truck tyres?

Like, it's a whole thing. Because obviously, you know, these tyres could be thousands of pounds. So these guys fixing punctures or burstages in the tyres is incredible. They spend days grinding it down with an angle grinder. Has it got a big in the tube and tried it? I don't think it has. No, I think it's just a normal,

but if it wears down, they've got to grind it down with an angle grinder and then apply a particular kind of patch that's really heavy and the glue and then they've got

to grind that down. Check out tractor tyres fixing solutions. Incredible. Beautiful. I remember a big bonding thing for me and my dad was fixing my bike tyre when I was a big bonding thing for me and my dad

was fixing my bike tyre when I was a kid you get the air tube put it in a washing up bowl full of water and you find the hole mark it with a bit of chalk and you sand it down

dry it off sand it down to get the glue to stick and you put the patch over it let it dry the biggest problem when you're like 8 years old is like waiting for it to dry because everything feels like it's about 3 biggest problem when you're like 8 years old is like waiting

for it to dry because everything feels like it's about 3 hours long when you're that kid I can remember when I was a kid I don't know

if I told you this my parents took us to Florida for a holiday in 1992 when I was 11 and the reason we went there

is because my dad had been made redundant yes we spoke about this before ok yeah and the flight to Florida

whatever it was I think it was about eight hours. Now, of course... A wheel burst. Yeah, I get you. That happened to Concorde. It did, yeah. That's what caused the crash.

Well, it wasn't really their fault because somebody had left some shit on it. They hadn't cleaned the runway. Which I think is basic. I mean, that is basic. If something has fallen off, just check, just before Concorde,

one of the more difficult planes to fly, help the pilot out and the people who are on the plane by just checking the runway for any shit that's fallen off planes, which I imagine happens more often than not. Pilot Neil's mate got a free ride on Concorde, didn't he? He did. It was a really fancy child abduction, wasn't it? Anyway, so I went to Florida with my parents.

Whatever it is, it's like an eight-and-a-half-hour flight. And obviously, I fly to the US quite a lot now, and it's fine. It's like, to Boston, it's like six-and-a-half, seven hours. And it doesn't really feel like much. You watch a movie, have a bit of food, read a book, whatever. When you're a kid, going to Florida for eight-and-a-half hours, it felt to me like it was like a month-long ordeal. I remember getting off the plane and thinking,

I don't know if I can do that again. I don't know if I'm going to fly home. I've heard the flight home's even and thinking I don't know if I can do that again I don't know if I'm going to fly home I've heard the flight home is even longer I don't know if I'm going to be able to do it because I was so like like energetic and there's nowhere to go it was very very odd

now I know that's like first world problems I'm not complaining it was a great opportunity I enjoyed it of course but it's just weird how perception is different as you get older my grandad says

he's 86 now and he says every year you get older the faster it goes he said you will not believe how fast the years go when you get older. My granddad says, he's 86 now, and he says, every year you get older, the faster it goes. He said, you will not believe how fast the years go when you get to my age. And I guess that's because it's a lower percentage of your life. So I guess a year to a seven-year-old is what?

I think with a seven-year-old, you're discovering things, you're doing different stuff, people are specifically enriching your life. I've noticed this year it's gone very, very quickly. But notice has been more than last year? Yeah, yeah, I think so, yeah. It's weird, isn't it? Just have fun.

Have fun, guys. One minute you're hanging around, the next minute it's been five days since you've taken a shit. Damn right. Damn straight. Yeah, my gut doesn't know what day it is, clearly.

No. And you're off on holiday soon. You're going to Korea and that's going to mess with your guts as well. Yeah, long- term flights do mess with the gut a little bit, but I imagine my drinking schedule will probably sort that one out. How's your drinking schedule been impinged

upon? That's the most important thing. Still sticking to that rigorously? No, I tried after a heavy night, there's no problem, but the problem is it's the opportunity to have that heavy night. I'm busy at the moment.

It's a busy time. Speaking just before we move on to some delicious, delicious mother emails. The passing of time. You know that they say that you've got sort of length, breadth, and depth of the three dimensions. And the fourth dimension is time. Yeah, I think that's a misnomer. Certainly when we were kids, that was the thing, wasn't it? Fourth dimension was time.

I was going to ask you about that. Very 80s. Time can go faster or slower depending on where you are and what speed you're traveling at, right? We need someone, a decent quality theoretical physicist, to email in and tell us about that and explain it in layman's terms. Because my thing is, if you know it well enough, you can explain it to a five-year-old.

Or even a biologist. Because remember I sent you that tweet, it was like a tweet thread, which explained quite succinctly eyes and perception. Oh, that's brilliant, yeah. And blind spots and stuff like that. How your brain adjusts for the fact that you, so when your eyes move around,

technically there should be a blur between the two points, but your brain filters that out for you. That's amazing. Your eyes literally just lie to you and just sort of move your perception back in time. It's so mad. And what we're sort of seeing isn't really what we're seeing. It says, apparently, look at a photograph

that has been taken by a camera to experience how it really is, so to speak. And that's why a camera... Then how do you know your eyes aren't lying to you then? I know, right? It's like solipsism. You don't't... But then how do you know your eyes aren't lying to you then? I know, right? It's like solipsism. You don't know what's... How do you know what's real

outside of the fact that, you know, it could just be your own mind? Everything could be a construct. I think you've just always got to kind of go with, you know, what you're experiencing it through. And that's why I don't necessarily believe in reincarnation.

The world will die when I die and I can't fucking wait to ship it. Speed it up. At least it's going quicker than it used to. Another thing that's also notoriously unreliable

is memory. But your memories as a child, you can remember things that technically you can remember things that didn't happen because your perception

of it over time is just baselized and you can't remember things that did happen. And also the idea of free will. Studies have shown that the brain, before you make a

decision to do something there's already something that's gone on beforehand that you're not aware of which is terrifying for the concept of free will and the fact that we have our own decisions to make and stuff i mean it didn't work when i said it to the judge luke and it doesn't work now well it just makes me feel a bit better knowing that it wasn't actually technically my decision to do this for you every week i was a lovely job. I was a passenger in that decision. Shall we have some emails? I'll press this button. We'll be back with some bloody emails.

All right. The problem appears to be that we haven't got our photo ID to try and travel to Scotland, which, as far as I can remember, was in the British Isles. What can we do? We're utterly hamstrung

by these thick-headed people wearing orange suits who's that that was a man uh on a airport documentary a posh man getting upset at easyjet and i cannot get enough of posh people getting angry at the airport. That's great. There's nothing better. There is nothing better than seeing posh people lose their shit. I agree. It's wonderful. I 100% agree. I don't think the posh demeanour really lends itself to anger.

No, you go straight through anger to campness. Almost immediately, straight to campness. It looks funny. It's hard to think of something. You can't be posh and angry. I can't think of anything less intimidating. Which is interesting because back in the day, medieval times or whatever,

they'd have been the best warriors, probably. Yeah, probably. Yeah, so it makes you think, doesn't it? No. Not really. I will not be controlled into thinking about anything, Luke. That's a good... That's a good...

Another good thread for people. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. What's the funniest angry person, posh angry person you've seen? Yeah. And you can include yourself Pete show.com. What's the funniest angry person, posh, angry person you've seen. Yeah. And you can include yourself in that. Yeah.

Because I remember when, um, he's a man of several issues, but I've worked with, uh, ex footballer and well-known pundit, Danny Murphy regularly. And he can be a difficult guy.

Sometimes I won't go into detail on that, but to be fair to him, when he was asked, um, who was the most miserable famous person he'd ever met he said

in front of loads of people myself oh because he knows how miserable he is and he quite likes it I think he's a bit like he's almost a Morrissey

of ex-footballers yeah I'm not sure about his political views having that self-awareness having that self-awareness I'll forgive just about everyone anything if I've got self-awareness really?

oh yeah even if they know they're being a dick and they're a dick if they no if they go I will happily admit that I'm a dick

change it no because it doesn't manifest itself in that way the way it manifests itself is acting like a dickhead and afterwards going sorry I'm a bit of a dickhead there I didn't mean to be like that

that's what I'm like sometimes and that's self-awareness it's not I'm about to be a complete prick to deal with it that's not the right way round it that's not the right way round anyway that's not the right way around

I've got a fantastic email which could double up as a men Carter so I think we should do that at the end I think yeah alright okay so before we do that

it's about his death did you did you did you shortlist the email about Don King no do you want me to do that one

let's do that one okay so this is for our mark you know who don king is right does everyone know who don king is yeah okay for those who don't know don king is very famous boxing promoter still alive still doing his thing sort of um was well known as working with the some of the biggest fighters in the golden age of heavyweight uh boxing not be tyson did he rip him off? Legally cloudy, but... I think everyone ripped Tyson off. This is from Mark

who says, Peter Luke, hello. Love the show. My battery's our GP. We've seen those before. Still getting over the handy heroes of last time.

Handy heroes. He says, here's a story for you. I was on holiday in 2006 with my then girlfriend in Rome. As we toured the sites, we found our way

to the Colosseum. As we looked around, this man made spectacle and thought to the Colosseum. As we looked around there, this man made spectacle and thought of the horrors and marvel that had occurred there. I noticed an instantly recognisable hairstyle. On second inspection,

the gentleman in the black leather jacket, with his height and width looking very similar to a recliner chair, was none other than Don King. Wow!

He had a group of large gentlemen around him and slightly starstruck, I walked over to him slowly. Seeing that I was being a bit sheepish, Wow. Wow. urge to speak back to him in even more broker italian grazie i held my hands up and did the universal sign for photo clicking the imaginary shutter for good measure he nodded and i called my girlfriend over who took my picture with don himself and we both had our fist up in the customary boxing style he smiled and wished me on my way again in italian i had been stood one of the greatest hype men in history for just under five minutes with me with me and him both fully knowing we spoke perfect english on the spot with the greatest gladiators of all time fought combat and we did not utter a single word of the queens to

each other for no reason when my girlfriend asked what we had spoken about i said just stuff i could have asked him anything um or heard that unique voice in person but no my brain was being a dick i hope the story is as useful as I cannot mention the time I... Actually, I hope the story is as useful as I cannot mention the time I accidentally killed a cousin friend's rabbit by accident with centrifugal force, or the time I, in fact, broke my penis. I think, Mark, the donking angle there was the one to go with. Yeah, I would quite like to hear the penis story, though.

Unless it's related to the rabbit one. I was about to say, I hope they're not related. I hope Don King's not involved. Repeat, not involved. I imagine a rabbit clamped and spinning and the man is spinning around. That's how the rabbit

meets its end. Don King's... How would you kill a rabbit with a penis? Let us know. Yeah, hello at Luke and Pete show. Hello at rabbitandpenis.com. Don King was also

the inspiration for one of the most 80s of insults. When you saw someone with hairy armpits, you'd say, they looked like they had Don King in a headlock. Nice. Do you not remember that one? No, I don't remember that one at all, but I'm enjoying it.

Because Don King had this sideshow bob, massive hair. Armpit hair is one of those things that nobody talks about. You haven't got any, mate. I have got them. They came back. You had them lasered off, didn't you? No, it was my armpit sweat glands.

So what's the difference between the sweat gland and the hair follicle then? Literally, they've got two different terms for them, Luke. Yeah, but they don't occupy the same hole.

No. Hmm. Hmm. Interesting. Interesting. Tell me more about your armpit hair. It's a completely

different skin cell. What's your armpit hair all about? What are you going to say? I'm just saying that people don't talk about armpit hair very much.

Like, it's not seen as being shameful. Unless you're a woman, because we treat women badly. Right. He means society, not Peter and I. No.

No, I treat... I mean, you do treat them quite badly. Just by being there. Hello to Sid's friend, Jack, from Leafy. Hithergreen. On the subject of... Where's Hithergreen, from Leafy, Hither Green. Where's Hither Green, Pete?

Hither Green is near Lee and Mottingham. No, it isn't. Hither Green is on the way to Bromley. Oh, it's in Lewisham. It's a change. Yeah, it is near Mottingham. It sounds like it's really nice. It'd be really beautiful.

It is quite nice. It sounds like we are the Hither Green Preservation Society. Now Lewisham's looking pretty swish. I imagine Hither Green Preservation Society. Now Lewisham's looking pretty swish. I imagine Hither Green looks bloody lovely. We can but hope for those good people that live there. I hope it's better than Catford, Mother. Watcher, says Jack from Leafy. Hither Green.

On the subject of father censorship from episode 73, I was reminded of a similar incident involving my friend, let's call him Sid, back in the heady days of the mid-90s before we had regular access to the internet. Being your archetypal 16-year-old, Sid had developed an interest in the opposite sex and was always keen to carry out some further research when the opportunity presented itself.

On this occasion, having been lent an uncut copy of Basic Instinct on VHS. Wonderful. A dream. Now to introduce Sid's father to the tale, a lovely chap who ran a corporate team-building sort of company, a job which required him to do various activities and seminars, often including the use of video presentations.

Oh, I can see where this is going. Yeah. As a result of this, Sid had access... It's like watching a dump truck go down a motorway towards a tunnel and the dump has gone to the vertical position. I know this ends. Yeah. Something getting broken.

Something going to go one way. Yeah. Somebody ringing that number that's on the side of bridges saying, if this bridge is struck, please ring this number. Have you ever called a number on the side of a bridge? Hello at LukeandPetecher.com. No one's done that. No one has ever done that.

There's one next to the stockpot viaduct and I sort of look at that and I sort of go I think whatever's striking a goddamn viaduct is coming off second best to be quite frank

ring 999 first massive yeah yes so as a result of this as a result of this Sid had access to a range of video equipment

leading to the opportunity for some video duplication which is lovely so do you remember when people had those really 80s double-decker VHS bro VCRs? Did you have one of those?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Did you, really? No, we just had two video recorders because my dad loved telly and he liked recording two different channels at the same time. I mean, even now he's got a DVD recorder, he's got a TiVo and something else as well to record.

It's all very extreme. I love the double-deckers. I also love the TVs that had a VHS slot in them. Because the thing about that was, if the VHS thing broke, the VCR broke, you'd have to take the whole telly to get it fixed as well. So you'd lose your TV as well. I don't see the logic in that.

There were only small ones, weren't there? There were only mini-pod. Can you get DVD ones as well that are built into a TV? Yeah, definitely. And Blu-ray now? Yeah, but they'd be like behind the flat screen, wouldn't they?

Do people still buy Blu-ray now? No. What about online video? You don't need to, do you? Yeah, but I mean, if you want, yeah, but to be honest, like streaming is so,

I think there's a certain sector of people who want to own something, want to own physically. Do you reckon? I never had the fear of doing that. There's a big trade in, yeah, well, you're going to take advantage of we used to be on our stuff now you know it's it's all rentals and stuff and like if the company goes bust or for whatever reason you can't find your licensing details or whatever people are renting stuff when when they

could be owning it and watching it whenever on sky they send you a hard copy as well you know yeah they send you like a dvd or a Blu-ray. When you buy something off the... That one lasts forever, though. Guaranteed. Yeah. Go tood, mate. Yeah, what were you going to say? Oh, yeah, the guy who's taping stuff on VHS.

Yes. So basically, Sid had access to a range of video equipment, leading to the opportunity for some video duplication. Now, rather than just copying the steamy thriller in its entirety, Sid decided to save time by just compiling some of his favourite scenes for future access. Clever boy, apart from his failure in using a blank VHS to copy

to. Now, I'm pretty sure you've worked out where this is going, so yes, this is where it went. Sid's dad's presentation of a packed meeting room, his corporate film suddenly cutting to snatches of some saucy-storn naughtiness. One moment in particular had apparently been duplicated by Sid to help preserve its memory. I can't remember the repercussions

of this event but I think it's fair to speculate that Sid's father probably limited all future access to his video machines and SCART leads

and rightly so yeah Sid is still a good friend and his father has now forgiven him wonderful how do you I think I'd probably

just if I was given that presentation I'd just gotta go uh did anyone like that? Yeah. Don't go, I have a teenage son.

I'm so sorry. Is it? I would say. Is it bad? Is it bad that I, when I heard that story then, that is what I imagined you to be like as a kid. What do you mean?

Technology, pervy, uh, quite sort of audacious. Fair dues. Yeah. A combination of those things. Can't complain about that really, to be honest.

Yeah, so if this was you and it was your son, what would you do in the presentation? I'd go, oh, that's a steamy scene, isn't it? Do you know what's also quite attractive? Being good at your job. Just link it. Link it. Always linking.

Yeah, roll with the punches, mate. That's what makes me the great presenter, how I started this show. And that would make you as well a firm entry in the Guinness Book of Records for seriously using the word steamy. Yeah. Steamy. Outside of a tabloid newspaper.

Can I just say, so Basic Instinct came out in 1992. Right. It was a Paul Verhoeven movie, wasn't it? Yes. And it was notorious. Stan Comer was in the sequel. He was. Weirdly.

I'm not going to talk about the sequel. I'm just going to briefly talk about this. So it came out in 1992. I imagine the VHS would have come out probably the following year because that's how it used to work then. Right. And I remember vividly, I used to walk to school with two or three, sometimes four...

Copies. Yeah. One under each arm. Open the jacket. Two twins, Dominic and Richard Bunt. two or three, sometimes four pals. Yeah. One under each arm. Open the jacket. Two twins, Dominic and Richard Bunt, good lads.

James Wern, who's a good lad as well, and my mate David, who was probably my best friend at the time. This is important. So it's five of us used to walk to school generally. Sometimes my mate Jimmy would tag along.

So there'd be a few of us and it was about a 30 minute walk to school. David, I think it was, at one point had managed to see basic instinct right um either on vhs because he nicked it from his old man or it was left on his own or whatever and we would have been about 12 13 it's very uh it was a big oh it's massive it was a massive situation it was massive no internet nothing it was and when you

get into that age as a boy it's like it's big deal it's a big deal. It's a big deal. He had seen it, right? And he didn't have a reputation as being a bit of a storyteller like me. People would believe him, right? So I remember us vividly spending the 25 to 30 minute walk to school on that balmy morning in May or whatever. And a couple of the boys, myself included,

we insisted he told us everything about every single sex scene in it. Wow. And it was an incredible walk to school. And I will never forget that, and that's what basic instinct means to me. What does basic instinct mean to you, Pete Donaldson? I think the pivotal, iconic scene of the crossing and uncrossing of the legs, obviously parodied and pastiched

with wanton abandon in the media at the time to a child of that age, was it 92? I'll be about 10 or 11. That's not the part of a lady you're that into at that point. You're like, oh. Were you into boobies? Boobies.

Yeah. Boobies. Always boobies. So it were you into boobies boobies yeah boobies always boobies so it's it's mainly just boobies it was at that time i remember thinking this is a bit much did you you didn't feel comfortable show me the boobies you didn't feel

comfortable i'll do i'll deal with the rest later about 20 years later um all right good yeah please we we we um we we wrap that up yeah um i've got a quick one here from ellis she should have wrapped it up she should have she's a caught a death of cold uh up. I've got a quick one here from Ellis.

She should have wrapped it up. She should have. She's caught her death of cold. I've got a quick one here from Ellis from Cambridge before I want to go into that previously promoted Mankata. This is from Ellis. He says, this is a little bit of a football crossover,

which we don't tend to do, but you'll see why. We talked about Pilot Neil again on the last show. We've heard from him a few times. We haven't heard from him for a while. He says, Ellis says, Hi guys, Gary Lineker spotted a Southgate lookalike in the crowd at the England-Sweden game last week or two weeks ago, whenever it was.

And he's seemingly become quite famous at the time of this email. You know who I mean. The guy who looked like Southgate dressed like him. Apparently he was tracked down on social media and he is a guy called Neil who is a pilot

for BA Ellis wants to know is this the pilot Neil of the Luke and Pete show fame can we please get confirmation or denial

from the man himself pilot Neil if you are listening this is an urgent a mayday if you like please land as soon as possible and let us know

I did a bit of sleuthing about pilot Neil I think he might actually not have a BA he does he told us he did a bit of sleuthing about Pilot Neil I think he might actually not have been here he does he told us he did oh did he sleuthing

you listened to what he said oh god you're one of the finest minds there was a guy who worked for Easy Jet I think he's a pilot he's not Pilot Neil

not that posh guy who emailed the Football Rumble account who I think it was Easy Jet and he when you are coming into land

they give you a little printout a little readout of what's happening the weather conditions stuff like that and as he came out of land

in Gatwick Gatwick sent the message the weather's this blah blah blah and on the readout it also said it's coming home oh did it

and British Airways have put it on their boarding passes haven't they as well have they no I think that was just a problem no they haven't

yeah I think they have now there was a Photoshop originally but I think they've now started oh really awesome stuff it's just an easy PR do you know what

for me it's not really that enjoyable until loads of companies cynically get involved that's when I start to like it so as you were talking about the other day

about something different but anyway that's another story pride this yeah this email it's from Tom Vandenhoek and I admit the reason I started reading it is because his name is good you wouldn't call a baby Tim Anyway, that's another story. Pride. Yeah, this email, it's from Tom Vandenhoek.

And I admit, the reason I started reading it is because his name is good. You wouldn't call a baby Tim in 2018, though. No. Baby Timothy's even a bit weird, isn't it? That's a cross that Tim's going to have to bear. I'm a Timotei. What, I'm a Timotei? Can you still find it? I don't know.

Anyway, listen to this email. I've titled it. No. Man survives mad thunderstorm in a parachute. Wow. Tim says, greetings to the Luke and salutations to the Pete. I've titled it No Man survives mad thunderstorm in a parachute Wow Tim says Greetings to the Luke and salutations to the Pete

While listening to episode 78 of your fine show the Mankata entry about the trailer park tornado Remember? Oh yes He said that jogged my memory to a similar tale

of aerial mishap May I present the saga of Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin better known as the man who rode the thunder Is this a Mankata? Looks like it might be, yeah.

Well, we need the bloody Mencarta jingle, mate. 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.

One not-so-fine day in 1959, Rankin was piloting an F-8 Crusader above South Carolina. If you've ever read the excellent book The Right Stuff, by Tom Wolfe of course, you will know that the US Air Force pilots of this vintage were absolutely mad, and no strangers to any kind of tomfoolery or feats of derring-do. Rankin was of course no exception and on that day was cruising at the regal altitude of 47,000 feet over a full-blown thunderstorm when his mighty

steed lost power. Things went from bad to predictably worse when as he tried to activate the auxiliary power the lever broke off in his hand. Out of options but not in a pressure suit he tried to activate the auxiliary power, the lever broke off on his hand. Out of options, but not in a pressure suit, he ejected into the minus 50 degrees Celsius sky, leading to almost immediate frostbite, decompression, abdominal swelling,

and bleeding from various orifice, including his eyes, losing a glove in the process as he descended into the storm. Oh no, my glove, he said. It started badly. Parachutes of this era were opened automatically by an altitude gauging pressure switch but the thunderstorm now enveloping him was wreaking a barometric havoc and his chute popped far too early leaving him at the mercy of the swirling winds trapped in this maelstrom of near zero visibility rankin was subjected to rain hard enough to feel like he was drowning

hail violent turbulence tossing him six thousand feet up and down thunder strong enough to feel like he was drowning, hail, violent turbulence tossing him 6,000 feet up and down, thunder strong enough to feel, and nausea I don't care to even imagine, and at one point, with lightning illuminating his parachute from above, Rankin was convinced he had died and was on his way back up through the sky to meet his maker. Oh, that's nice. When the violence

of the storm had finally subsided, Rankin was set adrift from the storm's grasp and floated back to Earth, and surely must have thought his ordeal over. Fate Wow. Having fought and survived World War II and the Korean War, Rankin must have been the absolute epitome of old school toughness. And I imagine this tale was just one in his armoury. He died at the grand old age of 88.

Beautiful. Lovely stuff, isn't it? That's nice. What do you think about that, Donaldson? I'd like to think, I would have liked that story more if he died at the grand old age of 88 as he was still dangling from the passage because he was really old and mad. Yeah. He died at the age of 88, as he was still dangling from the

parachute, because he was really old and mad. Yeah, he died at the age of 88 when he finally emerged from the storm.

There was a guy in Texas, Austin, who's 111, he was a pilot in World War II. He's 111, still with us,

I think, and I think the documentary was filmed two years ago, so he was 109, and he's still driving a car. Wow.

109. He passes the test. You've got to take it every year when you're that old. And he still passes the test every time. My grandad just bought a new car and he's 86. Nice. My wife's great, let me get this right, great grandmother. My wife's great.

She is great. My wife's great grandmother is still alive and I think she's 101. Jeez. Yeah. That's something, isn't it? My nan is 96. Good. It's a I think she's 101 jeez that's something isn't it my nan was 96 good it's a good old age that

good old age that isn't it good stuff so why my mam is obsessed with clearing out the loft so that when they pop off it doesn't mean that I've got to tidy up a loft

yeah it seems a bit churly it seems a bit foolish because she's got a good 40 more years in her at least and I do apologise if I've mispronounced that

it's either Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin because he's American or good 40 more years in her at least and I do apologise if I mispronounce that it's either Lieutenant Colonel William Rankin because he's American or as we would say Lieutenant Colonel I suppose I don't know which one it is

doesn't matter does it hello at lukeandpetech.com with your ranks get your ranks out for the lads get your ranks shit right cool I think that's about time

for us isn't it Peter get out of here mate if you want to get just with the show that was like you were like Bez then yeah it's uh hello at luukenpeakshow.com

For all your emails, all your subjects, all your attempts to beat the Pete Donaldson, it's been world record. It's been, it's been, I'm not doing it.