The Luke and Pete Show - Holloway Road Taco Bells I admire

Episode Date: August 15, 2022

Pete needs to buy a birthday present for the partner he has access to. To the car boot sale he goes...Elsewhere we discuss nighttime toilet etiquette, London's newest Taco Bells and discover that we m...ight be able to influence politics in the fine country of Denmark. We're taking over, baby!Want to contact the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh God, oh I've just remembered my partner's birthday is approaching and I've not got nothing. I just read the bloody... It was the Wi-Fi back to his birthday last week and a lovely time was had. Look, what do you buy people? What do you buy people for their birthday? I've kind of run out of things. If I buy dresses and stuff, I always get the ones that don't necessarily suit her all that much. I don't want to be rude, and I'm sorry to speak out of turn here.
Starting point is 00:00:36 Hopefully you'll forgive me for this. You should not be buying dresses. I've been successful in the past with buying dresses. I don't believe. I simply do not believe you. But I think the difference is when I buy... Welcome to the past I don't believe, I simply do not believe you but I think the difference is when I buy, welcome to the show, hello yeah we're talking about me
Starting point is 00:00:50 forgetting my partner's birthday but no, we are I have been successful in the past but the problem is, in my opinion and I think she should take that as a compliment, she looks great in whatever like she could wear anything yeah that's lovely, it's nice of you to say, like she could wear anything. Yeah, that's lovely.
Starting point is 00:01:05 It's a nice thing to say and I'm sure you sincerely believe it and that's lovely. Good for you. But she very much has very different ideas about what I buy for her. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:16 But I think in your case, this is not a kind of chauvinistic point. In your case, Peter, you are a unique, I suppose everyone's unique, but you are a particularly unique person with ideas about things. And in many ways, that's to your credit. I don't think the Venn diagram, if we drew it on the whiteboard in the office, should cross over into perhaps buying clothes for a significant other is all I'm saying.
Starting point is 00:01:39 But you are welcome to refute that by showing us that you've been successful in the past. welcome to refute that by showing us that you've been successful in the past yeah i just what why are you for why are you thinking oh the first thing i should be doing is buying the partner i have access to a dress um because lasses wear dresses i mean that's you know that's if you know what that's post-feminism speak donaldson there they do wear dresses sometimes so i thought you're just gonna say it's either that or a wrestling figure. What do you want? What do you want from the car boot? I'm going to the car boot in five minutes. What do you want?
Starting point is 00:02:08 If I set you a challenge, and you don't have to do it if you don't want to, if I set you a challenge on behalf of us, of our listeners, to say, your challenge is you have to find something that your partner you have access to genuinely wants for her birthday
Starting point is 00:02:22 at the car boot. Could you do it? No, I don't think she'd want a BMX. I don't think she'd want a bit of driftwood with the words Elvis screwed into it. That's the challenge. You've got to find something that she does want. I found some Nazi
Starting point is 00:02:40 memorabilia in the last one I went to. Again, not sure that's going to be suitable. I think she probably wants the Elvis wood. I, not sure that's going to be suitable. A big raw iron gate. I think she probably wants the Elvis wood. I've noticed there's a lot more Elvis stuff kicking around the car boot. I think it's because
Starting point is 00:02:52 that film came out and people sort of see their piece of shit Elvis thing they bought from the back of the Daily Mail, You magazine. But there is still
Starting point is 00:02:59 a burgeoning, I don't know if it's burgeoning, but there is very much does exist still and I've got direct experience of this with a family member or two.
Starting point is 00:03:06 There very much exists a subculture of people who are still obsessed with Elvis. And the way it manifests itself is the way that it manifested itself, say, in the 80s when people were obsessed with Michael Jackson. People never go kind of half into Elvis. It's all or nothing. It's like meeting a French person or an Australian person. Never meet someone who's a little bit French. They're all really French. So with the Elvis fans,
Starting point is 00:03:30 they are proper like every spare square inch of the wall in every room is covered in Elvis stuff. So I'm not surprised there's a surplus is what I'm saying. Well, it's like people who are really into Westerns. They've always like, oh yeah, Dave down the pub, he's really into Westerns. Has he got a cowboy hat on right now? Of he has because you don't go like a teddy boy yeah
Starting point is 00:03:50 exactly yeah you know no one's just into teddy boy culture a bit are they i'll occasionally put a movie on or whatever no they've got the sideburns they've got the fucking kentucky necktie they've got the jacket with the black lapels they're always wearing it it doesn't matter where they go they're always gonna wear it for example, that's what I love about it. The teddy boy culture is a great example of this actually. So you go into a family member's wedding, but you're dressed as a teddy boy.
Starting point is 00:04:11 You go into the chip shop on a Friday night, you're dressed as a teddy boy. You go into the football, you're dressing as a... There's no alternative. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:20 There's not enough, but I don't think there's enough characters like that. I think that should be more accessible. I think that should be more accessible. You see it in Japan quite a lot where people will just become obsessed with something and that will be their thing forever. They'll hang out in a yogi park and they'll dance around in their jeans and stuff. And they never give up. That's kind of their thing forever.
Starting point is 00:04:44 And then they'll get bored of it ten years' time and sell it all off to up. That's kind of their thing forever and then they get bored of it ten years' time and sell it all off to somebody else who's just getting into it. I think there should be more... Like you and Steampunk. Not like me and Steampunk at all,
Starting point is 00:04:54 thank you, Luke. Oh, you're in the top hat right now. Speaking of... Can you not hear the cogs? Speaking of jeans, that I spoke about about ten minutes ago um there's a guy there's these guys right and in america you know like mines uh get abandoned after they've you know
Starting point is 00:05:12 all the stuff's come out of them um they get abandoned and uh you know maybe dangerous gases sort of build up in them so they can't go down there anymore etc etc um there's these like set of guys and yeah i'm not um being pejorative when I say, I mean, they're all that. They are, they're like mine explorers. And they go looking around mines for ages. But they're not looking for like valuables or like lumps of gold or anything. They're looking for old jeans. What?
Starting point is 00:05:42 Miner's jeans? Well, yeah, like jeans you would wear at the turn of the of the last century like um like yeah like jeans like jeans that like from the 1800s like old levi strauss kind of like old i can i can see the attraction in seeing what they would be like well well they sort of get them and they get them and they i mean you can't really you can't just pop them on because they've been in a mine for like a hundred years but i think put them on the bath i mean it's the very it's the very definition of being stonewashed isn't it but yeah they they they go down these mines and they're just looking for like 120 year old um jeans and and then they sell them to rich
Starting point is 00:06:21 idiots who want really dirty old jeans that are in a mine for 100 years. I mean, I'm interested in that. Not to the extent where I'll go into an abandoned mine to see them. No. But I kind of like that. It's quite an interesting hobby. Yeah. And it also goes to show you.
Starting point is 00:06:36 So it's funny because my nan, God rest her, she would always be very, very violently against jeans. Right. Okay. Yeah. So she's a lovely old Scottish lady. She was tough because she's from Aberdeen, so a tough old place. She didn't take any shit or anything. She was really lovely, but
Starting point is 00:06:53 she would never let my granddad wear jeans because to her they were workman's clothes. So she would be like, well, the family are coming over for lunch or whatever. You can't wear jeans. And then if I was wearing jeans, she'd be like, what are you wearing jeans for? Even though it'd be like 1992. To her, they were always work people's clothes.
Starting point is 00:07:11 I'm not sure if enough people realise that that is where they come from because they're so hard wearing, right? Could you not have got away with like a denim skirt and said it was a kilt? Yeah, probably. I didn't think about that when I was 12. Probably still embarrassed by everything anyway.
Starting point is 00:07:27 Dodging cricket balls everywhere. That'll help me out. Get a denim skirt on. Speaking of dads, remember I was recording in the house last week, in my mum and dad's house, and I noticed just as we finished recording that on the hook next to the computer that he's got in the spare bedroom, three, not one, not two, three head torches. Wow. What possible business does my dad have?
Starting point is 00:08:00 How many heads does he have? I know, with three head torches, just completely out of nowhere. What's he doing with one head torch I have interest exactly I think he would occasionally and again he'd got the
Starting point is 00:08:10 at the night in the night he didn't want to turn the lights on in the house because it woke my mum up he would wear a head torch to get to the to the bathroom
Starting point is 00:08:17 that's kind of what his his vibe was I'm sorry mate you're going to have to repeat that he would occasionally put a head torch on to go to the toilet so he wouldn't have to turn the lights on I think that's very considerate
Starting point is 00:08:29 so that's a really odd experience for me and an odd emotion I'm feeling right now because on one hand I'm thinking that's a bit weird on the other hand I'm thinking why have I never thought of that because that is a brilliant idea it's so accurate
Starting point is 00:08:41 I mean it does mean you have to stare at your winky when you're going getting down to it But yeah Spotlight on your own penis Nobody needs that Because I always just Sort of pick my ways
Starting point is 00:08:52 Because you know They say If a burglar You know obviously Heaven forbid But if a burglar Breaks into your home While you're in
Starting point is 00:08:59 Never turn the light on Oh because they don't know Where it is Yeah because you know Your house better than them, right? So you've got an advantage there. Yeah. And I kind of, I never,
Starting point is 00:09:09 so we have a little bit of a situation at our house because if I'm waking up in the middle of the night going to the toilet, which doesn't actually happen that often, I never put the light on. I just kind of pick my way through it. Yeah, me too. But in the morning,
Starting point is 00:09:19 if I'm up before the wife I have access to and she's not maybe going to the office that day or whatever, I have to leave the bedroom door slightly ajar because the moment either of our cats hear someone getting up, they go mad because they think
Starting point is 00:09:30 it's breakfast time. So they start scratching and then once they've had their breakfast, all they want to do is get into the bedroom and get on the bed because it's the
Starting point is 00:09:37 comfortable spot. So if I had to get up and leave and shut the bedroom door behind me because I want the Wi-Fi I have access to to be able to sleep, they just pulled the carpet up and they just ripped the carpet up trying to get up and leave and shut the bedroom door behind me because I want the Wi-Fi access to be able to sleep
Starting point is 00:09:45 they just pulled the carpet up they just ripped the carpet up trying to get in so I have to leave the door open in exact position
Starting point is 00:09:52 so it's wide enough for them to get in and jump at the foot of the bed so they can sleep but not so wide that it lets all the light in right okay
Starting point is 00:09:59 so it's an absolute minefield mate yeah do you not sort of find that when you've gone like midnight wheeze you know in the middle of the
Starting point is 00:10:07 night wheeze I'm invariably I'm sitting down I'm not even testing out oh really no I never do that I never ever do that
Starting point is 00:10:13 I just think it's safer for all concerned because I've got up the next day and went what were you doing last night Donaldson that was nowhere
Starting point is 00:10:20 near anything because I was doing it in the dark oh really okay that's that I mean so i never even think about that because you can because you can get nowadays you can get these lights that um
Starting point is 00:10:30 we were doing i was doing a project with uh with a with a show um uh it's not important which show it was um but the person who was hosting the show um she she was very keen on one particular story and the fact that she was very keen on one particular story and the fact that she'd bought some lights that go in the toilet. And every time she spoke to, interviewed someone, she would always mention these lights.
Starting point is 00:10:56 I'm racking my brains about who this is. She would always mention the toilet lights. And I was like, and I was thinking, God, I really need some of these toilet lights.
Starting point is 00:11:04 They sound amazing. What are they? They're just lights that live in the toilet lights and i was like and i was thinking god i really need some of these toilet lights they sound amazing what are they they're just lights that live in the toilet so i've got a little bit of a hack now and i didn't say anything because i don't want to show off okay sorry if you finish your story carry on well you you subscribe to the paint your penis with highlighter pen don't you so i just yeah i used that um i used that radioactive paint they used radium girls yeah um Radium girls. Yeah. No, I was going to say that I... We have in our bathroom, because we've never had our bathroom done, we have
Starting point is 00:11:32 a little... You can press the mirror. If you touch the point in the mirror, then the light behind the mirror comes out. So it's actually a really soft, nice light. Nice. And you look amazing. I love hotel mirrors that have that kind of backlighting and you turn it on and you're like,
Starting point is 00:11:48 I look fucking brilliant. That's what I've got. Yeah, it's nice. It makes you look really good. Yeah, and then you leave the house. And you leave the house and people go... Fucking hell, I look like a fat vampire. People in the street just go, boo, just go, boo,
Starting point is 00:12:00 get back in there. The other great experience of looking in the mirror as well, I was a bit younger and I used to go out on the piss a lot more, and you wake up in the morning still a bit pissed, look in the mirror in the bathroom and go, God, I look quite handsome today. You're basically just pissed and perving yourself. Still absolutely hammered.
Starting point is 00:12:16 Yeah, yeah. One of the shows that me and my mum watched last week was a show called, called oh god what was it was just a show where uh the met police just um uh police the the square mile effectively um and they're just forever picking up shoplifters and drunkards and uh there was one guy who you know the club reflex in the city uh the 80s themes themed, light up dance floor monstrosity. I've never been in one, but I know what they are.
Starting point is 00:12:47 Yeah, they're a chain, aren't they? But they, yeah, this guy was getting thrown out. He got thrown out of Reflex because he was doing a piss on the dance floor. Now, the light up dance floor at that, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:13:01 He's just doing a big piss because he's pissed. And it was his birthday. And then when he got out of the club after he'd done a wee, he just rang the police because he said he shouldn't have been thrown out. And I just think, you know what?
Starting point is 00:13:14 I don't think I'm that much of a liability when I'm pissed. And I always have been. I'll never create a cuff-off like that. But there are just certain people who just cannot drink and they shouldn't drink. I love love those tv shows i told you before my favorite type my favorite of the genre is booze britain which they basically can't show anymore because it's so irresponsible but at the time i'd make no bones about it at the time it is absolutely compelling tv yeah it's
Starting point is 00:13:41 it's compelling and and there's something about tv like that which really gives you a lot of information so for example if you were someone moving to the uk for the first time you can do all that citizenship test you know you can you can you know learning this which are ridiculous by the way aren't they absolutely yeah of course i mean um me and me have to do one it was mental it's insane uh anyway all that kind of stuff, the formal side of things. You put on, make people sit and watch the whole first season of Booze Britain. They will learn almost everything
Starting point is 00:14:15 they need to know about Britain. Yeah, I completely agree. Everything is contained within those parameters because it tells you so much about what the youth of britain are like have been like probably are continuing to be like and and i think that's especially revealing and i and i often find that a lot of pompous people a lot of kind of elitist type people will go oh that's just fucking tv that rots your brain or whatever and of course plenty of tv is is like that and
Starting point is 00:14:42 but you should never trust someone who says, I don't watch much TV. Because they're either fucking lying or they are genuinely not interested in the world around them because it's not their, quote, their type of culture. It's like saying, you know, I don't know, they won't ever eat at McDonald's or whatever.
Starting point is 00:15:00 There's so much more to the actual thing. Do you know what I mean? It's like a metaphor for other stuff. Yeah, it's a cultural experience more than, you know, what you're actually putting into your body. I think, like, I find those people, I find people fascinating who will not watch anything, but they're really into some TV show that you've not really thought of in your life.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Like, my mum doesn't watch any telly, but she'll watch Blue Bloods, the TV show. She's just into that. That's her thing. That's her jam. That's just her hang, and I can't figure it out. It's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:15:30 It's like, you're just really into something I'd never... It's like someone really into being into, like, the TV show Chuck, or Bones, or something like that. It's like, wow. You know how much I'm really into Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares, don't you? Yeah, but you watch other stuff as well. That's the thing.
Starting point is 00:15:44 It's not like well Amazon Prime released two new episodes of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares that's hitherto been unavailable on streaming service
Starting point is 00:15:53 what do you mean where did they find them why were they I don't know why this is the case and maybe our listening community can help me out on this
Starting point is 00:15:59 so there's a load of seasons of Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares but if you look at my streaming services on all four or Prime they're all a bit of a hodgepodge they're like there's like load of seasons of Ransom in the Kitchen Nightmares, but if you look at my streaming services on all four or Prime, they're all a bit of a hodgepodge. They're like, there's like three episodes of this season, two episodes of that season,
Starting point is 00:16:10 and there must be some kind of legal reason or rights reason why there's a load of the episodes that aren't available. Do they not sort of like, I mean, there must be some centralised play. I mean, why doesn't he just start his own streaming service where he just streams, where you pay a couple of quid i don't think because because i just that's a good point and i think he's probably close to doing that because he's got his own production company now but i don't think he was anywhere near powerful enough back then to have the rights to it so he there's no way he owns the format yeah that and he probably would do now but he doesn't then yeah and so he
Starting point is 00:16:40 probably can't get them and and so there's a few episodes that i remember watching at the time thinking they were brilliant. And interestingly enough, some of them were available in the US, but hardly any of those ones are available here in the UK. So when he released the two new ones, I noticed it about seven o'clock one night. I just binged them both. Could you follow? Did you have to watch like a review of the last season? A round-the-k the last season could you follow what
Starting point is 00:17:06 you're fucking mad it's the most formulaic that's why it's so good it's so formulaic like it's it's it knows what it's good at and that's why i think it deserves respect anyway let's have a break peter when we come back we've got a couple of emails we've got um uh read out because we've got to follow up on some earlier stuff if that sounds right to you lovely we're back hope you enjoyed those ads we're back back with Luke and Pete Shaw. And that means we've got emails to read out because we love reading your little messages. They make our hearts sing.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com or at LukeandPeteShow on socials is the way to get in touch with us. Ian Ryan has been in touch following up on the Taco Bell chat for a week or so ago. He says, Hello friends, I'm here to inform you that Taco Bell has in a week or so ago. He says, Hello friends,
Starting point is 00:17:45 I'm here to inform you that Taco Bell has in fact also opened up in the hallowed grounds of Finsbury Park and Holloway Road. Your old stomping ground, Pete. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:54 He says, Sad to see that Pete has become so out of touch with the happenings of his beloved Holloway Road. The Essex elite mentality is in full swing. The Big Red
Starting point is 00:18:01 will be ashamed. Yeah. I mean, I think whenever I call uh whenever i talk about big reds um it was never called big reds no one ever called it big reds but i call it big reds because it reminds me the chewing gum what's actually called though i think it's just called the big red um right but anyway look you were talking about the big red i mean the big red
Starting point is 00:18:21 doesn't exist anymore it got taken over and they try to get rid of all the goths. I've been in there a few times. Yeah, it's good. It was good. Now everyone says it's rubbish. It's the same. Don't worry about it. You don't have to have a policy on it.
Starting point is 00:18:33 No, that's true. I used to hang out on the Holy Road. I used to go to Nambuka quite a bit. Yeah. Did that burn down? I think that burned down, didn't it? Yeah, it did. You know Rupert Fryer?
Starting point is 00:18:41 He used to live on Holy Road. I used to go see him quite a bit as well. Yeah. He lived above a shop everything's above a shop on Holloway Road isn't it that's where you've got to live
Starting point is 00:18:50 sorry I was having a swig of the Nalgene then mate sorry mate I had the I very much was the I mean I presume the Holloway
Starting point is 00:18:58 yeah the Holloways were kind of forged in Nambuka weren't they awful sorry awful awful band
Starting point is 00:19:04 they almost certainly were but they were awful right okay that sounded personal in Nambuka, weren't they? Awful. Sorry? Awful. It's an awful band. Where did that come from? They almost certainly were, but they were awful. Right, okay. Is that fair? That sounded personal. No, I don't know any of them. I couldn't pick a single one
Starting point is 00:19:13 on the line-up, but I remember them being bad. That's all. Good stuff. What do you want from me? I don't want anything. To be honest, I was going to go and see them live
Starting point is 00:19:19 once or twice, but I think Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares was on. Well, look, you've chosen your groove. I got a message from Sauron, a sledding accident email. Hello, Luke and Pete.
Starting point is 00:19:31 My name is Sauron Slott. It's not a name well suited for the English language. It actually looks like Sauron Sloth, written without the, I don't know what the or with a strike to how you say that. And I have a story I'd like to share with you this story happened in January many years ago when I was 19, snort had fallen
Starting point is 00:19:49 and I was practising for my entry auditions for a classical music conservatory, my instrument is the trombone, okay I think it's the first trombonist to ever email in you reckon? There'll be other people surely I'd be surprised if it isn't a few days before the audition I decided to take half a day off when you play a brass instrument you need to keep your lip muscles in top fighting shape for concerts,
Starting point is 00:20:09 so I didn't want to practice the whole day. Instead, I accepted an offer from my girlfriend to go sledding in the snow with her and her little sister, who was around 10 at the time. Good to get some, you know, goodwill brownie points in the bag, I think it's fair to say. We find a suitable hill with a field at the end and no trees. Luke, did you just change the email that said Tress? You changed the spelling on that? I'm updating the live doc as we go, so make sure you read it okay.
Starting point is 00:20:35 I'm helping you out, baby. It said Tress, and it was in a field. I mean, I can probably follow that one. Yeah, but I just want to help you out. I know what you can be like. Sometimes you'll read the word Tressress and I'll just think to myself why are you like this so I'm helping you
Starting point is 00:20:48 Bilbo Baggins I'm not here to rob you I'm here to help you I'm here to correct some spelling well there was in fact a single Tress but it was Tress small we're talking around one metre and the trunk was not much thicker than a broomstick
Starting point is 00:21:06 this is a lovely little sapling just hanging out uh certain that nothing go wrong uh we started sledding my girlfriend sister wants to join me on the sled because as she said you're super heavy so we'll go fast good stuff it's good stuff kids have no filter um i accept and the two of us start sledding down the hill unfortunately the way she was sitting was interfering with my ability to steer the sled and it quickly became obvious that we were headed straight towards the one tree on the hill half a second before collision my girlfriend sister throws herself off the sled
Starting point is 00:21:34 but I keep sitting like a witless teenager I hit the tree which proceeded to bend beneath the sled until I was halfway to simply running over the whole thing then it sprang back like a faulty acme device in a roadrunner cartoon and. Then it sprang back like a faulty Acme device in a Roadrunner cartoon and catapulted me off like a piece of cabbage
Starting point is 00:21:49 on the spoon of a toddler with a sugar rush. I ended up hurting my hand quite badly and a few days later I played my audition with my whole hand wrapped in a bandage and tied to the side of my trombone. Oh, that's wonderful. I looked ridiculous and the judge informed me that they would not be giving me any pity points.
Starting point is 00:22:06 What is this? So cruel. Yeah. No pity points. I still made it in, though, so everything ended well. Thanks for the show. It's always great listening to you. Best regards.
Starting point is 00:22:17 Saron Slott. Saron Slott. Current candidate for the National Parliament of Denmark. What? Wow. What? That is a plot twist. That got slid in like a drum roll.
Starting point is 00:22:28 Listeners, I've already seen Pete Donaldson highlight the name to almost certainly paste it straight into Google to find out what the fuck is going on with Sir On Slot. What's going on? Yeah, I mean, a lot of this is all in a language. Can we genuinely be on the cusp of being able to influence political policy, like public policy, on the cusp of being able to influence political policy
Starting point is 00:22:45 like public policy in the beautiful nation of Denmark He looks he looks like he's got a lovely way about him he's got lovely
Starting point is 00:22:53 long hair in this photograph in his LinkedIn Don't give him why are you giving him all this information away He's given it
Starting point is 00:22:58 if he wants to run for parliament his dirty laundry is going to be all over the place his broken body and his tromboning Tromboning All his tromboning.
Starting point is 00:23:06 Tromboning. All his tromboning. They might not be the same person. They might be a common name in Denmark. I'm looking at his political party. What is it? I don't know. I hope it's a good one.
Starting point is 00:23:21 You know where the world is these days. Knowing that part of the world, they do get in, don't they? Yeah. Bloody hell. One week you're laughing at Alex Jones giving away damages. The next you're boosting another one. That was so much fun, that.
Starting point is 00:23:36 Oh, mate, honestly. It was just him being told that they had all of his phone records. He was like, oh, dear. Nothing can make up for the appalling things that man's done the man's done i'll tell you what got very him having to give away tens of millions of dollars of his own money is a pretty good second prize i would say sounds like it's a drop in the ocean as well amazing amount of money well i believe he's trying to he's trying to get into the situation where he can you know all the usual business where you're trying to kind of hide the money here and there and everywhere and yeah all the usual horrible stuff that those types of people do. But $45 million so far.
Starting point is 00:24:07 I mean... I mean, the truly frightening thing is actually how popular InfoWars possibly is, but certainly was at its peak. Like, $800,000 a day it was making. Well, you're just assuming that these grifters are kind of like, they're not making any money because they're a bit embarrassing and, you know, how much money can those tins of uh food that you put in your um yeah armageddon prepping packs and stuff yeah all that stuff you'd sort of think how much money could you
Starting point is 00:24:34 legitimately make it be making but uh turns out a fucking lot yeah that's the sad thing about it there's a market out there for it i'm afraid a lot of stupid people want to try and understand the world um and that's the way they choose to do it's a market out there for it, I'm afraid. A lot of stupid people want to try and understand the world. And that's the way they choose to do it. I mean, this is anecdotal, of course. But I mean, a number of years ago, certainly pre-COVID, around, probably around when Trump won the election. So you're talking, what, late 2016, early 2017, when he takes over.
Starting point is 00:25:02 I was in the US a reasonable amount then. And you would see a lot of Infowarsars bumper stickers because Americans love a bumper sticker right so there would be a frightening amount of InfoWars bumper stickers I mean what are they saying there I like a particular television well they're saying I love this show I love it enough to part with money
Starting point is 00:25:18 and I love it enough to publicly endorse it on my car therefore marketing it to other people because I think it's such a good idea that is a proper passionate fan of a show why do you think that shows you the the kind of strength of the branding i guess let's get some luke and pete show ones out there yeah the car is a benign they're a bit like you know i think i can't think of one but i think you know you know i you know our conspiracy conspiracy theory basically always exists within the parameters of some kind of rubbish reality TV show. Yeah, that's fair.
Starting point is 00:25:49 Oh, by the way, speaking of reality TV shows, before we go, we mentioned the Big Brothers coming back, right? No, we didn't actually, no. I think we did. Did we? What, on a previous show? I thought you meant this show. The rumour is that Jed would have been able to host it. Right. By which I mean they've putour is that Jed would be going to host it. Right. By which I mean they've put their hat into the ring to want to host it. Yes, it's just one of the stories where
Starting point is 00:26:11 they've said, what are they doing at the moment? They made a bit of, weren't they a bit of a success story? They made a bit of a coin. Do they want to do a podcast? Good God, can you imagine? I always just think we're like lads that thick, they're going to fall foul of. They're going to say something terrible at some point.
Starting point is 00:26:29 Maybe they won't. I just always think they're going to fall foul. Well, you think that about certain social media stars who we like and you think, oh, they're going to let us down at some point. But I think some people are genuinely just quite good natured, mate. Even if they aren't very clever,
Starting point is 00:26:39 they don't have any awful views because they're nice people. Right, okay. Those lads that we watch on Twitter who have got their own um don't give it away that's our little subculture just for you and me why'd you have to share everything why'd you have to why'd you have to publicize our love sorry well it's just it's just lads on the internet um uh just sculling uh pints and then kissing them and then it's lads on the internet doing things that we're not brave enough to do
Starting point is 00:27:03 ourselves that's true i mean they are drinking stouts. They're drinking like 9.5 stouts at like nine in the morning. It's not ideal. Again, because we're not brave enough to do it.
Starting point is 00:27:12 We're not brave enough to be absolute elkies. All right, on that note, we should probably get out of here, Peter. It's been bloody
Starting point is 00:27:19 lovely talking to you as ever. We will be back on Thursday, of course, as we always are. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com to get in touch on the email at LukeandPeteShow on social media.
Starting point is 00:27:29 Pete's already cracked open his first can of Hazy Jane IPA. So I better let him get on with it. And we'll catch up with you again very, very soon. Say goodbye, Peter. Goodbye, Peter. Farewell. And it's goodbye from me as well. the luke and pete show is a stack production and part of the acast creator network

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