The Luke and Pete Show - How pickled are your onions?

Episode Date: August 4, 2022

Luke’s weekend was RUINED by under-pickled pink pickled onions. Naturally, he didn’t make a big deal out of it on today’s show or anything…Once that's dealt with, we read an email about a farm...er who had quite an astonishing reaction to a hot air balloon landing in his field. Strap in.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 00:00:24 Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running. Tell you what, I'm fucking murderously hungry for my lunch, but I'm going to get these done first. What are you going to have? I'm going to have you on toast, mate. I... I'm going to get a bit like
Starting point is 00:00:45 sort of spit at the back of my mouth into throat earlier on and I sort of went like that and it tasted like last night's Chinese so that Chinese has been kicking around the back of my mouth it's disgusting it's off by then
Starting point is 00:01:00 it's probably partially digested when you get to the point where you burp in, because I'll tell you, it was a very similar thing that happened to me. When I was watching the Lionesses bring football home on Sunday, I had a tortilla burrito. Nice. Yeah, it was good.
Starting point is 00:01:17 I like them because it's like a little, it's the soft burrito kind of thing. Yeah, not hard shell. It's a meal, but they've wrapped it up for you. Don't worry about your knife and fork or what you're going to eat next. You're eating it all at the same time, baby. Anyway, so I had that
Starting point is 00:01:29 and I asked for pink pickled onions in it. I love pink pickled onions. Where is that? Where's that come from? That's just part of the salad. Hang on, you don't like gherkins? No. Where does that work?
Starting point is 00:01:40 I like jalapenos and pickled onions. Why not gherkins? What have you got against the common cucumber? I told you, it's the white man's jalapeno anyway so i'm eating the pink people and i've long suspected that particular branch of tortilla they don't pickle the onions properly right okay if you don't pickle the red onion properly it's absolutely crucial because it's really strong tasting it repeats on you forever okay and i promise, for about 24 hours, every time I burped, just tasting that red onion. Yeah. If I'm pickling...
Starting point is 00:02:08 If I'm pickling... If I'm pickling... Pickle onion. Pickle onion. It's a tongue twister. If I'm pickling red onions at home, I am putting them overnight in the fridge before I even think about tasting them.
Starting point is 00:02:18 Why? Because they've got to be pickled properly. Right. It's recommended recipes for four hours. What? What? So from onion to... from onion to jar, it only takes four hours before you... So I'll tell you very, very quickly.
Starting point is 00:02:33 Right. I'll give you a recipe very quickly. Right. And everyone listening at home can have it. Okay, get yourself a mason jar. Okay. Okay, put that to one side for now. Get yourself three red onions.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Yeah. Skin them. Chop them up into slices. That's what you need to be doing because they're going to pop out of the circles anyway,
Starting point is 00:02:48 the layers. Soak them in boiling water for about ten minutes to get all the real sort of really strong tasting stuff out.
Starting point is 00:02:58 Drain them, put them back in the mason jar, add, fill it up probably two thirds with cider vinegar. Right.
Starting point is 00:03:05 Two, and then a third orange juice. Orange juice? Yeah. Interesting. Slice long ways a red pepper, like a, like a chilli pepper,
Starting point is 00:03:14 put that in, um, squeeze. Tabasco? No. No. Squeeze a lime in there. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:20 Put a lid on, shake it up, put it in the fridge overnight, next morning you've got perfect pickled red onion. I thought it was going to end with that throw through your landlord's window. And I want to know who at Tortilla is in charge of that, because they ain't doing it the way I do it. And I wonder whether they're getting them in bulk from the head office.
Starting point is 00:03:34 Right, and they're not letting them settle. Well, we're all being let down. We're all being let down because that is repeating. Because I'm sat in a studio with you. That repeated on me for about 48 hours. I went for a whole pack of chewing gum, couldn't get the taste out of my mouth. You just constantly tasted the onion. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:03:47 I'm sorry to hear that, Luke. That's terrible stuff. This is Luke and Peter, by the way. Hello. This is Peter. Hi. The problem is, and this is going to make you feel sick
Starting point is 00:04:00 when you think about this. You know at Tortilla where you go and you basically build your own burrito? Yes. So for you that's tough. Is that like Chilango? Is that like they kind of
Starting point is 00:04:09 Yeah or Chipotle or whatever. It's like a little salad bar a little bit like Subway but for Mexicans. It's like a blank slate. They give you the burrito the Tortilla wrap put it on the thing
Starting point is 00:04:20 on the piece of foil and go right what do you want? And you can build it. You probably hate doing that because it's probably confrontational for you it's just too much
Starting point is 00:04:26 work just give me everything give me everything you got in there but the problem is if you deliver it you're just trusting them it's just trusting to
Starting point is 00:04:33 put it together yeah and that's not good because I'm not going to open the burrito just check they've got the ingredients in there and we have to go on taste
Starting point is 00:04:40 well I'm just constantly sort of thinking because sour cream is my enemy my mortal enemy it makes me sick it just gives me food poisoning more often than it doesn't I'm just constantly sort of thinking because sour cream is my enemy my mortal enemy it makes me sick it just gives me food poisoning more often than it doesn't
Starting point is 00:04:46 I'm just constantly thinking how long's that sour cream been out I think that's what you're eating there is just out of date cream
Starting point is 00:04:52 yeah well it's quite sour it's not the same thing so I always feel like the thing is I'm not going to go to Clapham
Starting point is 00:05:00 I'm not going to go to Clapham sometimes Mimi sends me to Clapham for Taco Bell there's a Taco Bell there oh it's there
Starting point is 00:05:07 so there's one near Euston Square and there's one in Clapham so if I drive in the car down to Taco Bell with a pair of
Starting point is 00:05:13 tracksuit bottoms I do think to myself what am I doing I'm not even stoned what am I doing in my life as an American what is the
Starting point is 00:05:19 order that she goes for like the hard shell kind of mince ones crunch wrap supreme I think. Right. Oh, so wrap with
Starting point is 00:05:26 the little bits of... It's like a toasted wrap. But it's all together, right? Okay. Yeah. Interesting. To be fair to Taco Bell, they've not really cut through here,
Starting point is 00:05:34 have they? No, but they could if they wanted to. I think that, yeah, I wonder why that is because they've got one in Clapham, there's one up by Euston, I know that.
Starting point is 00:05:42 There's only a few dotted around central London. In America... What's their policy? Is it a franchise model or something? Probably, yeah. But in America, even though they are ubiquitous
Starting point is 00:05:51 and they're almost as popular as your McDonald's and stuff, I mean, not that far, but you know what I mean. It's weird that they've got a reputation for giving up on the shits. Yeah, what is that? Isn't that just like a racist microaggression
Starting point is 00:06:04 towards Mexican food though no no I think I think no I don't think it's anything to do with that right but I mean
Starting point is 00:06:10 and also like when you get the shit you eat hot food and Taco Bell isn't hot is it it's not it's not a difficult spicy food
Starting point is 00:06:17 oh it's giving me the shit because it's so spicy and Mexican and foreign it's not that they do do there's one particular thing you can order
Starting point is 00:06:23 which is pretty spicy right but it's not I mean it's not they do do they do do a there's one particular thing you can order which is pretty spicy right but it's not I mean it's a it's a Pete as you know it's like a it's a high street place yeah there's this it's a poor percentage game to
Starting point is 00:06:32 play to make really spicy food because people ain't gonna fucking buy it are they I got very and well but I kind of pushed through and I really enjoyed it the
Starting point is 00:06:39 endorphins started going the sweat started going some really hot Korean ramen noodles I saw that on social media yeah fucking hell where did you get them from
Starting point is 00:06:47 that was from the Chinese supermarket around the corner but I was just like I've seen them Sean recommended them two off for me he's a bigger boy
Starting point is 00:06:58 I can't do it how many did you get through I got I had the packet of the hottest one and I put all of the thing well let's see what this has got. Um,
Starting point is 00:07:06 and good God, it was just, I did the, I was just sweating immediately. Yeah. But then there's that kind of like endorphin rush of kind of like, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:07:16 Is it? I think it's the same. I think it's the same. Never do that again. I think it's the same part of the brain that handles like, like, um,
Starting point is 00:07:22 like, you know, what's it called? I can't remember the name for it, but like, you thought, yeah, yeah. Addictiveness to that. Um, how was the bot bot? Uh, It handles like, what's it called? I can't remember the name for it, but like euphoria. Like an addictiveness to that. How was the bot bot?
Starting point is 00:07:29 Bot bot's fine. When I have hot food or anything difficult, it's never the bot bot's the issue. It's just general stomach cramps and pain. Why did you keep doing it then? Keep doing what? I was fine with that. I was fine.
Starting point is 00:07:39 Speaking of fast food restaurants, I was speaking to a family member a week or two ago who made their money working at McDonald's. They were in the main head office thing in Chicago. And they were telling me, I thought it was really interesting anyway, about the business model of McDonald's, essentially based around real estate rather than burgers. Yes, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:08:01 Which is kind of a cool thing, right? It's clever. Yeah. So they basically buy up all the buildings. So if they move somewhere, it's a franchise model, yeah, yeah. Which is kind of a cool thing, right? It's clever. Yeah. So they basically buy up all the buildings. So if they move somewhere, it's a franchise model obviously, but if they move somewhere, they take care of the buying of the building.
Starting point is 00:08:12 The franchisee pays the rent and a percentage of the profits back to McDonald's. It's good, isn't it? And they get to keep hold of the building. So what's happened in Russia though? They've just taken the buildings. Yeah, I'm not really sure about that. I guess they just cancelled,
Starting point is 00:08:24 maybe terminated the agreement with the Russian franchises. buildings. Yeah, I'm not really sure about that. I guess they just cancelled, maybe terminated the agreement with the Russian franchises. Right. Franchisees and then that's that. Because didn't Russia kind of turn out its own kind of ersatz version really quickly? Yeah, and there's a lot of horror stories
Starting point is 00:08:36 of rotten... Because it's clearly old. Some of it's old stock, old bread stock from McDonald's. Donnie loves it. I love it. Donnie and his tracky bottoms love that. Bit of extra flavour,
Starting point is 00:08:46 bit of umami with the rot on the side of the burger. No sour cream though. Absolutely no sour cream. That'll do me a mischief guys. Yeah. So I found that
Starting point is 00:08:54 quite interesting because in many ways then it's kind of as close as to a full because the way I see it the reason I asked them the question is because we were
Starting point is 00:09:02 standing waiting for something and I think it was at Liverpool Street Station maybe maybe it's not Liverpool might have been Victoria but there's a McDonald's there
Starting point is 00:09:08 and I was just thinking actually if you were really interested in making money so if your thing was as an entrepreneur you just want to make money right and I know you've got to
Starting point is 00:09:16 handle the training and you've got to go through all the fucking rigmarole once you've got there it's hard to think of a more foolproof way of making money than having a McDonald's
Starting point is 00:09:24 in a busy footfall area. Yeah, but it's all about your margins, isn't it? Yeah, but the business model is set up for you, isn't it? Fine, but they're not stupid. They're making as much money as possible and your margins will be very small, won't they? I mean, at the end of the day, it's food, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:09:39 Food has terrible margins. When was the last time you walked into a McDonald's and it wasn't busy? No, but they factor that in in the deal, don't they? They go, you're always going to be busy. We're going to take 90% of that. No, they don't take anywhere near that much. You don't know either. I do.
Starting point is 00:09:54 You're pretending that you do. No, I do know. I do know, actually. If you say things confidently, that constitutes knowledge. I'm going to start calling you out on more of this. Not having it. What else don't I know? Oh, contact lenses. What are they made don't I know? Oh, contact lenses.
Starting point is 00:10:06 What are they made of? I don't know about contact lenses. Is it a shellfish? I don't know. I'm putting them in my eyes, though. I have an optician's appointment every year. Never needed glasses, Peter. Cool.
Starting point is 00:10:15 You've been wearing them, you jerk. That's for brightness. More lies. No, that's for glare. What? That's for screen. You're wearing anti-glare glasses that don't actually magnify your eyes. At home, I was, yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:25 What's that about? Because of the glare. Because of the glare? I don't understand that. You were just wearing your... I have a real thing about my partner I have access to. She'll use her phone bright in a dark room. I'm like, you're going to damage your eyes.
Starting point is 00:10:39 Come on now. Mimi, Mimi. Come on now. The Wi-Fi I have access to turns their brightness all the way down at all times drives me mad
Starting point is 00:10:48 why so at night I get it if you're in bed I get that you turn it right down it's a good battery saver I'm on board but sometimes
Starting point is 00:10:55 we'll be standing out on a bright sunny day and she'll be looking at directions and I'll be like just turn the brightness up just turn it up turn the brightness up
Starting point is 00:11:03 and she's like no I don't want to it's bad for my eyes you're outside you're outside the sun's up there I swear iPhone used to do an automatic brightness
Starting point is 00:11:10 do they still do that? yeah they all do that so maybe you should sort of bow down to our supreme iPhone overlords and let them decide let them roll the dice
Starting point is 00:11:19 about the brightness they wouldn't put a little LED like detecting chip or whatever it is a sensor in the phone if they didn't want you to use it. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:11:26 It's next to the camera. Have a look. Speaking of that, that new iPhone advert, have you seen that? Where it's the vibrating phone on the table that falls off the table? No. It says, relax, it's an iPhone. I don't get that. Well, it's made of stronger stuff in it.
Starting point is 00:11:39 Oh. Yeah, relax, it's an iPhone. Then you go, yeah, I think it's because a lot of the other phones are quite not as... Robust. Not as robust. I didn't think iPhone had any kind of reputation at all for robustness or quality. I think nowadays they're just kind of...
Starting point is 00:11:53 They're very waterproof. They're very... They're pretty good these days. But, I mean, when you do smash them, it does cost you a fucking arm and leg. They've actually started releasing official kits to fix your own. These massive fucking...
Starting point is 00:12:06 Wow, that's interesting. But it's for... I think it's for like iFixit kind of companies, but they're these massive... Because iPhones are just so fucking complex, and I think they worry about the right to repair EU rules and stuff coming in. You love taking things apart, don't you? I can't get them back together again.
Starting point is 00:12:23 So EU say that you need to have to be able to take them apart and be able to fix them yourself which is kind of a weird rule well if you buy something you should be able to fix them yourself or be able to open them up shouldn't be gluing everything together because it just makes this piece of electronics just completely disposable
Starting point is 00:12:39 that's why it's funny how Brexiteers are always piping up about EU laws but every time I see an EU law it's all perfectly sensible. Yeah. It seems to be genuinely in the spirit of... That's helping... That's what's funny. The sort of rules that the older generation...
Starting point is 00:12:57 And you don't like to generalise, but I fucking love doing it on the show. But the older generation do get... My dad gets angry about the right to repair, and yet, in another breath, he'll complain about EU red tape. And I'm like, Dad, they're literally looking after your specific interests. I couldn't give a shit, mate. I'll buy a new iPhone every fucking month because I'm an idiot.
Starting point is 00:13:19 I'm a mark. I want the very best all the time until I look at my bank and I go, you've got deeply rooted psychological issues around having money. Correct. Yeah. I want to get rid of it. Yeah. I want to get rid of it all.
Starting point is 00:13:32 I don't want to have any imprint on this world. But I understand how the EU law thing is normally good. Things like mobile phone roaming is obviously really good. Food standards. Clean water initiatives around Europe as well for people who want to go swimming in the sea.
Starting point is 00:13:48 What else did I say? Pet passports, did I say that one? Yeah, okay. That's a good one. Just passports and just free roaming. Yeah, exactly. But the right to repair one, is there not a valid point to be made here, Pete,
Starting point is 00:14:01 where you say, if you know what you're buying, and that's the price, and they're already bound by a lot of laws that say through warranty and through faultiness and stuff um surely it's just you know just buy it if you want it if you don't want it don't buy it yeah but it's your like you've always been a little fixed stuff like telly's i suppose once it's yours you should be able to get stuck into it yeah you own it so you should better do whatever the fuck you want with it. If I want to get this and I want to shove it in my mouth and chomp on it,
Starting point is 00:14:27 I want to be able to do it. That's not the right to repair, that's the right to eat your own phone. Well, just put it under as a little subheading. So at the moment, it's difficult to do that, right?
Starting point is 00:14:36 And I'll tell you why this is fucking, I know this is not the world's most boring chat, but as we came to this subject completely organically, I do just want to mention this. I am a month out from my new contract.
Starting point is 00:14:46 Okay, yeah. It stopped fucking working, hasn't it? Luke, it's not... We had this before with the recording you talking about stuff. It's not happening.
Starting point is 00:14:55 What do you mean? It's not happening. None of it's happening. It stopped working. It stopped working. Because they know... What's happened? I think there's built-in
Starting point is 00:15:00 obsolescence. I don't think EE are talking to Apple iPhone and saying... The joke's on you because I'm on O2, so... Oh, whatever. We can probably get a signal there's a bloody building then. So soon you're going to be able to get stuck right into your iPhone.
Starting point is 00:15:14 Yeah. And have a look at the little parts. Have a look at the little parts, yeah. And how do you even get into one now? Because there's no screws on it, right? It's just all glue. So you heat it up. And that's kind of like some of the tools
Starting point is 00:15:24 to kind of heat up the iPhone in a uniform way and apply the right pressure in the right places. Because before, it was just kind of like diagnostic tools and tools that would take stuff apart. And it was all kind of guesswork from like Chinese companies and stuff. What a great job that would be, Pete, where you just trial or error,
Starting point is 00:15:42 try and fix an iPhone. That's your job. It's a thousand new iPhones and you get to work out the best way to fix them you'd be loving that I just like some blogs with tiny microscopes
Starting point is 00:15:52 looking at boards you know there's probably three or four boards like main boards in an iPhone these days and they'll take them out and they'll go right
Starting point is 00:15:59 this fucking iPhone isn't working why is it not working and they'll send a charge through it and they'll look and they'll look with a heat thermometer which tiny little like one pixel thing is getting hotter than the rest because there's a short somewhere.
Starting point is 00:16:12 And it'll be one tiny little chip, tiny little transistor, tiny little resistor, tiny little kind, and how you take these off and stick them back on again, it's just astonishing the things that they can do. So the iPhone official Apple repair kit is going to be about 15 grand. Yeah, pretty much. And you're only going to buy it from the Apple website.
Starting point is 00:16:34 Speaking of repairing, look at that bulging bloody wall. Jesus, what's that about? That's good for the sound, isn't it? Why is it like that, though? I think it's because you drew a hole in the studio the other day and then there's
Starting point is 00:16:47 air pumping through it. Why would it be connected? There's air pumping through it. What was I going to say? I was going to say something. Oh, yeah. What about get all the old iPhones,
Starting point is 00:16:55 gather them up and get the semiconductors out of them because we need them? What, like take them out? Yeah, maybe, yeah. There's a business idea for you.
Starting point is 00:17:03 Because we need them, right? We're in big trouble otherwise. Yeah, I guess so, yeah. That's one to think for you. Because we need them, right? We're in big trouble otherwise. Yeah, I guess so, yeah. That's one to think about. Let's take a quick break while we think about what we're going to do with all of our second-hand semiconductors. When we come back, we're going to do batteries
Starting point is 00:17:13 because there's some more been sent in and we need to check if we've got any brand new players. So don't go anywhere. We'll be back in a moment. On each step with Peloton, from their pop runs to walk and talks, you define what it means to be a runner. Whatever your level, embrace it.
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Starting point is 00:17:58 and yeah, we're talking about batteries. It's what we do every single Thursday. Hope you're keeping well, battery boys and girls. We were out and about. Where were we? We were having a little sports day. well battery boys and girls we were out and about where were we we were having a little sports day oh yeah that was fun out and about
Starting point is 00:18:08 maybe we'll talk about that later but we had a I noticed when I was playing rounders that I just found somebody just discarded a load of Kodak batteries and I'm like how fitting
Starting point is 00:18:19 I threw one at Rory how very fitting I threw one at Rory and I missed him and he looked he picked it up and looked at me and went, oh yeah,
Starting point is 00:18:26 look, he had a little chocolate. Will Horncastle has got in touch with the battery he's found. Alright lads,
Starting point is 00:18:33 been searching for new players for years but I've only just come across the classic Everready, Pear Deer,
Starting point is 00:18:38 etc. I was looking in a battery operated fan during the 40 degree day of hell and found these.
Starting point is 00:18:44 A new player, Setup Alkaline AAA. Setup Alkaline AAA. Yeah, Will, thank you very much for emailing in and thank you very much for showing us this new battery because it is indeed a new player. No one has sent Setup Alkaline in before now. Thank you very much for sending it in. Lovely stuff.
Starting point is 00:19:04 Dylan has come in with HW Hiwatt. I emailed once about a duck calling someone a bloody fool. Anyway, I'm away with my company in the village of Launceston in Cornwall, a little B&B. The batteries in the TV are HW Hiwatt double heavy duty. A new player, perhaps? Not a new player because you missed out, Dylan, by six days. Because Andrew Ingram also sent HW High Watts in on July 21st,
Starting point is 00:19:32 all the way from Connecticut. So HW High Watts reaching across the Atlantic. Andrew got in there ahead of you, Dylan, I'm afraid. But, I mean, Cornwall does sound lovely. Part of me wishes I was in Cornwall right now. Cornwall is stunning. Stunning. Great ceilings.
Starting point is 00:19:48 Hello to, who have we got here? Chris Stockley. Chris Stockley. Hello, Chris Stockley. King Kong batteries. Any interest? Hello, guys. Working my way through your episodes,
Starting point is 00:20:02 it seems a main topic on the show is types of batteries. Thought I'd chip in and show you a picture of my King Kong batteries. Haven't heard them mentioned yet, so I thought I might have the best name so far. They came in an old Alba-branded TV I found in the attic. Yeah, this is interesting because Chris sent that email in on the 1st of January 2018. And then he's emailed again last week.
Starting point is 00:20:21 With another one, yeah. Saying, hi gents, it's been over four and a half years since I last sent this in, still haven't heard King Kong batteries mentioned so I am delighted to say sorry
Starting point is 00:20:29 yeah sorry about that we got a lot on yeah we haven't you were the first person to ever send in
Starting point is 00:20:34 King Kong batteries on the when was it the 1st of January 2018 right so congratulations to you on a new
Starting point is 00:20:43 player there are two new players out of our three on this week's battery check. It's good stuff. And I'm here for it. Peter, let's do an email about hot air ballooning. Okay.
Starting point is 00:20:55 Because we talked about hot air ballooning a week or so ago. Yes. And we've got a few comments about it around the comments of apparent. This is what cracks me up about the less than salubrious parts of the Luke and Pete show fan base you complain sometimes
Starting point is 00:21:10 okay and I've got a lot of complaints last week that I told the same little anecdote two shows in a row okay about Bill Burr and Neil deGrasse Tyson hmm I did it on one
Starting point is 00:21:20 show and then I did it followed up on the next show but in my defense I went back and listened and I said oh Pete I think I said this to you before, but and then people still complained about it. But in amongst all that, there was a
Starting point is 00:21:29 hot air balloon story. And I want to follow up on it from our listener friend Joe who says the following. Dear Luke and Pete, long time listener, second time emailer, though he's not mentioned what his first email was about. He says, I'm a hot air balloon pilot from the Midlands and it's not often our sport gets a mention so i was quite excited when
Starting point is 00:21:50 people brought up on the podcast i don't want to steal pc gordon's thunder in any way but i can shed some light on the legal position of hot air ballooning as far as her majesty is concerned we have a right to land and recover the balloon from anywhere. But that does not mean you don't have to deal with the consequences. For example, landing at Gatwick would breach a plethora of aviation laws and you'd be looking at a hefty stretch inside. But on the flip side, landing in a farmer's field, which spooks a sheep into sprinting into a gate post and dying, would set you back around £100.
Starting point is 00:22:22 You can land anywhere, but the law states you must pay the price for any inconveniences caused. On the odd occasion, farmers think they have struck gold when we land, demanding ridiculous fees of around £1,000, when we haven't caused any inconveniences or issues. But the majority of them are absolutely lovely and happy with a bottle of scotch or £20
Starting point is 00:22:40 as Pete encountered. These are fairly normal occurrences, but there are also some farmers who are just batshit crazy. There was an instance in the past where a farmer saw a balloon over his land and proceeded to take pot shots at it with his shotgun. Putting holes in the balloon
Starting point is 00:22:53 is not a major concern as they can still operate with small holes. The main issue was the hundreds of litres of flammable propane gas on board and half a dozen passengers. A shotgun could have easily punctured a propane cylinder and resulted in an instant explosion in the sky, ultimately killing everyone on board, and half a dozen passengers. A shotgun could have easily punctured a propane cylinder and resulted in an instant explosion in the sky,
Starting point is 00:23:08 ultimately killing everyone on board. Thankfully, he was a terrible aimer, Mr. Bloom, each time. Needless to say, the farmer quickly had his gun licence revoked and spent a night down the police station to try and explain his actions, but he ultimately received no punishment. Anyway, if you're ever up in the Midlands and fancy a flight, give me a shout.
Starting point is 00:23:23 Keep up the good work, Joe. Right, now, he shouldn't be doing that. No, he shouldn't. anyway if you're ever up in the Midlands and fancy a flight give me a shout keep up the good work Joe right now he shouldn't be doing that no he shouldn't he shouldn't be doing that absolutely not it's a
Starting point is 00:23:32 insanely dangerous thing to do and but there you go what are you going to do farmers can be farmers can be I mean that's attempted murder at best
Starting point is 00:23:42 isn't it is it at best at worst at best at worst what's best isn't it is it at best at worst at best at worst what's best what's better than it everything
Starting point is 00:23:50 yeah I feel like I feel like you so farmers are a funny old bunch aren't they because I've
Starting point is 00:23:56 encountered some angry farmers in my time yeah but a while back I was out walking with the Y5 actions to in the west country
Starting point is 00:24:04 and we got lost. Right. Probably my fault. We're in the middle of fucking nowhere. I don't know where we're going. And we turned the corner
Starting point is 00:24:10 around this hedge. We were basically just walking through fucking farmer's fields at this point. Yeah, okay. And we turned left around the hedge and the farmer
Starting point is 00:24:15 was just sat there on his tractor. On his iPhone, yes. So how do I get this open? And I was like, fuck, I'm really sorry. I think we're lost.
Starting point is 00:24:24 And he was like, oh, no, don't worry. And he gave us some directions. Now, he stopped short of giving us a ride back on his tractor, but he did help us. And I feel like, I don't know how you feel, Pete, as someone who's not from the countryside like me, also not from the countryside. If you approach a farmer
Starting point is 00:24:38 in his environment, there's something quite intimidating about it. Oh, definitely, yeah. I toil the soil. What are you doing here, tourist? I'm, yeah, I'm at one with the land, with nature's earth. Nature's bounty. Yeah, nature's bounty.
Starting point is 00:24:53 What are you bringing? What contribution are you making to society is what he's saying to you, isn't it? Normally with a gun over his shoulder. But I don't think he should be taking pot shots like a hot air balloon. He's not thought it through. No, best guess scenario for him is nobody dies.
Starting point is 00:25:07 And, yeah, the thing about it I don't understand is that you're doing that predominantly because you don't want the hot air balloon anywhere near your land. But you're shooting the balloon, which means it's going to have far more chance of landing on your land. If anything, get yourself a flamethrower out. Get the fucking balloon as high as you can. Yeah, I guess so, yeah.
Starting point is 00:25:25 Because that's how it works right the heat the hot air rises you don't want to be making the hot air in the balloon less
Starting point is 00:25:32 you want to be making it more so if he was thinking it through you'd think he would kind of go about it a slightly
Starting point is 00:25:39 different way anyway that's interesting right let's get out of here Peter we'll be back on Monday with another one of these so we'll look of here Peter we'll be back on Monday with another one of these
Starting point is 00:25:46 so we'll look forward to that we should probably also on Monday Pete talk a little bit about our sports day yes lovely just as a little spoiler alert for people
Starting point is 00:25:53 were you annoyed at how competitive I was no you were alright actually a little bit no you were alright actually let myself down there you weren't competitive enough you've got to deceive me
Starting point is 00:26:02 you don't care my competitiveness is what I've got really we'll talk a bit more about that on Monday and I'll let you know there's a little teaser trailer it involved
Starting point is 00:26:10 five-a-side football rounders and a tug of war oh lovely see you on Monday ta-ta the Luke and Pete Show is a Stack production and part of the ACAST Creator Network.

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