The Luke and Pete Show - I don’t respect my George Foreman Grill

Episode Date: October 25, 2021

Back for another week! Today on The Luke and Pete Show, we discuss which household appliances we respect the most. Spoiler alert - Luke's George Foreman takes an absolute battering...Elsewhere, there's a video that sparks Pete Donaldson's holy trinity of nightmares and listener Luke from Cardiff weighs in with some epic classic dad behaviour. Send in your classic Dad stories and more at [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. It is the 25th, the 25th of October. We are hurtling towards another festive season and I've just bought a big box of mince pies, Luke, and I'm unrepentant. Bring it on. I think you should be unrepentant. Hello, everyone. Thank you very much for joining us again. Pete, that is an excellent way to start this week's episodes of Luke and Pete Show. We need to know what brand you went for, what style you went for, and what they taste like. I bought Waitrose, and I went for the puff pastry variant of that particular.

Because they get more complicated every year, don't they? They add extra things in. Sometimes they smoke the sugar so it tastes all smoky. It tastes like lap sang souchong. And yeah, it's all a bit of a dealer's choice. But I went for the puff pastry ones because I just think they're lighter, less stodgy. Yeah. So did you go Waitrose or did you go full off the reservation Waitrose, Heston, Blumenthal?

No, no, no. I haven't seen Hide Nor Hair of Heston. I mean, he doesn't have a lot of hair, so you're never going to find a pub in your food from him. Because, I mean, I believe Waitrose, you know, and God bless them, they do their standard Waitrose mince pies and they bring in the Heston Blumenthal's over the top for the ones who say, do you know what?

You're the kind of person who likes to go to Waitrose to shop. We don't think all of you are quite so boring, Curt and Twitchy middle class losers. Some of you want to try something a little bit different. Here's Heston for you and his little baldy head. Here he is.

Here's the smoky, smoky sugar. And it's going to be smoked sugar. It's going to be orange peel. It's going to be the powdered skull of a man killed in war, dusty over the top. Do you want them or do you just want the normal one? And you've said, no, thanks. Just give me the puff pastry.

Give me something a little bit lighter for the palate. So, Luke, what have you been doing this weekend? How have you been? You all right? I've been pretty good. What have I been doing? I went for dinner on Friday night. It was bloody nice. I went, I did nothing on Saturday.

I did a proper like nothing on Saturday, Saturday. That feels good. Yeah, it feels really good. And then Sunday I went to my niece's, the niece I have access to's, sixth birthday party. Family birthday party. Were you dressed as a clown?

I wasn't, but she did try and paint the entirety of my face in glitter. Yes. Which I then spent the rest of Sunday trying to remove before I came to work today, which I think I managed to successfully do because no one's mentioned it. Right.

Well, until now. You're looking very glittery today, Luke. Have you ever sort of turned up to a Christmas party, speaking of mince pies, with, you know, when men with certain, like certain beards, they decide to put like glitter in them and they decide to put like little baubles in them and stuff. Have you ever flirted with that kind of revelry before? No, because my beard doesn't get that long. of revelry before?

No, because my beard doesn't get that long. It kind of stays fairly close to my chins because it goes a bit bushy and a bit scraggly and a little bit, you know, haven't had a wash

for a long time. So I can't really do that. The only person that's ever looked good on when they put the little mini baubles in is Jason Momoa. And I don't even know

if he's done it. But if he has done it, it would look good. No one else can get away with it. Did you see, I mean mean it can get away with a lot of stuff i just like the fact that he talks uh quite wonderfully about uh what it's like to train for something like aquaman or game of thrones where he's he's like going do i have to like get all muscular again it's just sort of like the rigours of actually maintaining that kind of body for those kind of films is just insane.

There was a clip of, I think, one of the later Sean Connery, James Bonds, and I think it was the one where he was pretending to be Japanese, pretending to be a Japanese farmer,

which is fraught with danger and trouble and problems. But he just, he's just like a man who's carrying a bit of timber. And he's supposed to be James Bond. It was very enjoyable. Well, if you look at like

the Roger Moore James Bonds, I mean, he's basically just a 50-year-old bloke. He's literally just a normal, quite posh 50-year-old bloke. Like basically, Pete, it would be like casting Richard Madeley now as James Bond.

They're so different. And I said to you, didn't I, when I saw No Time to Die, to me, Craig, who I don't mind, but he's just not Bond now. He's just too old. He's got bushy eyebrows and sort of larger ears and stuff, and it doesn't really work.

But then you go and watch Live and Let Die, and it works perfectly fine in comparison. Well, you'd think that that was probably what a spy would be like, you know, with his gadgets and stuff. He would be a man of all the years, a man who's sort of able to blend in. But that's not really what Blonde Bond is all about. He's kind of a bit... And I just sort of think with Bond,

like, if it was Richard Maidley, he'd just be shoplifting all the time. Affainting people. He wouldn't get any spying done because he'd be running out of test scores with a bottle of Boson Resolve. Too many questions. Too many questions. Too many questions.

He can't fade into the background if you're Richard Maidley as Bond. No. Because you're inquisitive all the time. It's not going to work. But I would say this. If Bond was just about gadgets, which you kind of sort of alluded to there, I mean, you could be Bond. Well, maybe Richard, maybe that's how judy's um top fell open uh he had a button in his in his trousers he went like a curtain can i just say then because we're talking

about bond i thought you were talking about judy dench and i was like what i don't remember this happening is it getting hot in here pete um richard may doesn't speak like that Richard May doesn't speak like that. He sounds like Nelly. Pete, can I bring to the table, for the benefit of our listeners, but let's be honest, mostly for the benefit of yourself, the video I shared with you over the weekend about semi-conducting microchips. Did you enjoy it?

I think I watched it when I was a little bit, a couple of sheets to the wind, but I did enjoy it. It's basically just saying, it's just basically explaining to the layperson how difficult it is to make stuff. Yeah. What I find fascinating about it, so for those listening, it was basically a 15 to 16 minute explainer

from some very good tech YouTuber about how microchips for mostly for kind of mobile phones, but for other computers as well, work and how they're made. And the reason I found it interesting is because it's something that if you're me, you take completely for granted. But actually, it's really fucking hard to make them. There's only a couple of machines on the planet that can make them to the level they need to be made at and it's monopolised essentially by one big company that if that went to shit,

I mean, it's not an exaggeration to say the world as we know it would probably change massively. We'd be cracking out the old Nokias, wouldn't we? We'd be sort of using our 3210s again, I think. Yeah. We'd have to sort of live within our means. They're not using the microchip, are they?

They're just kind of, you know. Oh, well, there's probably just valves in there, isn't it? Probably valves and membranes and steam. You're just blowing it. But they've got to the point now where microchips are so small and so advanced that the way that they're being made is they're firing like lasers at liquid tin to make plasma or something to imprint upon the silicon board to make the chip. It's absolutely baffling, mate. That seems very imprecise for me.

I'd expect spattering at that point that's the thing about like like they call them i think dyes i call it they're like sort of processor dyes and and on one kind of like cd sized die you get you know i don't know you know 20 or 25 uh individual processors and that's for like the most advanced uh cpus in the world the ones that go inside the computers and the servers that we use every single day but the thing that gets me is there are some of those that don't pass muster like i would assume that a chip either works or it doesn't work you know that every single lane every single um every single kind of um little little wire or vessel inside that processor needs to be working and it needs to be doing something and if it doesn't everything dies but there's a layer of redundancy so it means that um if not

every single channel every single lane works on that processor the processor can still function not to its greatest capabilities not to as fast as it should be and so there are kind of like b grade c grade d grade processors that come off these dies. And then they go into like inferior products and they get sold for a little bit less. So they run just a little bit less. They can't be run at high speed. They can't be run at high temperature. But they still work, which I think is amazing.

So it goes in your microwave or something instead? Well, it'll still go in a PC, it'll just be put into um slightly inferior products it'll be you know a b-grade uh model of what it is and it still works and it's still um you still get an insurance not insurance you still get like a warranty on it and stuff like that i just find that sort of thing really really interesting that they're able to sort of go well this isn't good for the best but we'll sell it off a little bit cheaper uh and you'll get a bit of a bargain they're doing it well yeah exactly they're doing it at such a high level now that those those chips have to those top level chips have to be manufactured in a you know a purpose-created vacuum as well now so the machine first the machine that makes them has to first be able to

create a vacuum inside the machine for the for the thing to be able to do its job but speaking of inferior electrical products what's the hierarchy for home electronics what do you think is the the least respected home electronics item oh i reckon so it starts off your your graphics card in your computer or your television something that processes images that's top level uh right down to um smoke alarm maybe a particularly complex um i don't really respect my george ford grill what did that really have did that need microchips just to turn on turn off in it i'm talking about electronic kind of items generally electrical items generally in the house the george ford grill gets no respect from me even though it does a very efficient job and i've had it for like 10 years and it still works just because it is it's so impossible it's like basically cleaning a fucking a sea anemone like there's so many

different little areas like it's like basically like cleaning like cleaning absolutely clean otherwise it stinks like an entire crocodile's back. Right, okay. In between every little sort of groove. But do you not just let the grease kind of roll off? Isn't that the kind of the whole thing? It doesn't all work though. Right.

And then also you've got the dilemma about what you do with the fat that drips off because you need to, really you should, be waiting for it to dry and then using kitchen roll or something to get it scoop up and put it in the bin because you're not supposed to put down the sink right and i understand that you shouldn't do that because it's terrible for the for the environment and for the sewage system and everything but i've got two cats and they love salty goodness they will let one of my cats i caught licking the salt cellar a while back so i've then got to take this tray of fat wait for it to dry

and then put it in the bin but for all to wait for it to dry i need to put it somewhere the cats can't get it so i end up just put it in the cupboard or something it's just it's just perverse it just seems like a really weird what i've done is i've created a load of processes around what i have to do if i want to cook a fucking sausage rather than just put it in a frying pan just get on with it yeah i guess if you're in a situation where you're hiding lard around the house yeah and take a look at yourself really well people would think of think think that of me though right secret secret lard boy hide it around your body uh in front of my pocket put in your pocket um but i mean that's the aspect of cat ownership I always kind of forget.

They get fucking everywhere and they can get fucking everywhere. They can go to places you can't go to. They've probably got stashes of lard around the house. Yeah, one of my cats, when he knows he's got to go to the vet, he'll go up on top of the kitchen cabinets. How does he possibly know? Because he can only just squeeze. Well, because one of them's really clever and the other one's really stupid.

So if you get the cat carry cages out for the vets. Yes. If I put my hand within two feet of the cat carry cage in the house. The cat carry cage. Yeah. One of the cats will leave the house and you won't see him for like a day. Right? The other one, you can bring it down, put it on the floor, open it,

and he'll sometimes just get in it. Right, yeah. Because he's got a blanket in it. So that's the combination of stupidity you've got. And the one who's clever, he'll get up on the cabinets because he can only just squeeze up there and he knows that I can't get him. Right, okay.

And then it becomes a kind of war of attrition then because he knows I also don't want him to shit up there, right? So he's got that in his locker, right? He's quite fat, so it doesn't matter if he doesn't have food for a while. Yeah. And he is, I mean, because he's also not got a job, he's got no responsibilities,

so he can sit up there for as long... He looks at you as if to say, we can do this all fucking day, mate. I can do this all day and all night. Sounds like Extinction Rebellion, Luke. You've invited Extinction Rebellion to your house. He did once glue himself to the kitchen floor. He did do that. I remember that.

Yeah, I remember that. Anyway, I was just going to say, before you take us to a break, I was just going to say, actually, do you know what? We'll wait until after the break because you shared something on the group running order that I don't understand but I'm going to wait until we have a break and then I'm going to ask you about it when we

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Jackie the Ripper. Hold on to your bollocks. And we're back. This is part two of the Monday edition of The Luke and Pete Show. I do hope you're keeping well. Luke, you had a very important question you wanted to ask me about. Yeah, you shared a gif with me. Okay.

And it's on the running order, and it's of what looks like a human being trying to carry a bin out, but falls over. Right. And I don't really get it. So this, I mean, kind of what we were talking about before with the processors uh it's quite interesting so a man as uh i can't watch it i just watched it i didn't want to watch it uh i can watch it because i don't know what it is yeah so it's a man helping

out another man with his um computer a man has taken his computer round to a friend's house to fix it. And the man has fixed it. He spent some time fixing it. And now it is back in the arms of the original owner of the PC. Now, he comes out of a doorway and into the front yard of an American house. And he's carrying this very expensive gaming pc you know thousands of pounds right and then he rolls his ankle luke i saw that his ankle goes and then he drops his pc and it smashes everywhere and i thought that that is that's two of my worst

nightmares in one and i was like wow i wasn't expecting this to happen but this is i'm going to be thinking about that for weeks and weeks a rolled ankle not completely over he got he restores him he restores um verticality uh and then he drops his bloody pc it's awful luke it's awful and also if you look really closely there's a car in the driveway and there's a driving instructor in that car and there's your holy trinity right straight away for Pete Donaldson oh no I drove through

St Albans yesterday and I had to go across the London Colony roundabout which is the roundabout that I had to traverse on my test and in my driving lessons and I fucked it people were beeping at me. So I'm like, nothing.

Is that when you turn right to go to Radlet, which is one of the most beautiful villages in the UK? Probably, yeah. That's the, yeah. It would be. It's very underrated. There's no reason to be in Radlet, I don't think. That was a rhetorical question.

It is. It's okay. There's no reason to be there, and that's why it's so beautiful. Because I've been there for work before, and I've been a bit earlier. I've just sat on a bench in the middle of a little square. Beautiful. It looks like a postcard.

It's amazing. I can't imagine the type of people that live there. I'm going to say busybodies. They're probably having their smoked sugar on their mince pies. Oh, big time. Big time. Big time. Speaking of smashing something,

I told you I was at my niece's birthday party yesterday. And my mum was in the kitchen at my sister's house helping out. And she was just drying up a load of the washing up that had been done just to get it out of the way and get it in the cupboard. And she had this massive mixing bowl, which I think had probably been used to bake a cake or whatever. And she was talking to my dad. And it slipped out of her hands

and if that if it smashed on the floor obviously that would have been problematic they've got a couple of pets they've got a six-year-old they've got a six-month-old you don't glass on the floor it's a nightmare but she went one better than that because what she actually did was drops it onto the open oven door, smashed that, went through that and smashed on the floor. It went through the entire oven door? Yeah, because

the oven door's big, right? Yeah. So it smashed everywhere. And the oven door was shattered. How heavy was this food? No, it was just a bowl. Oh, there's no food in it? No. Wow. Just a bowl. Oh, there's no food in it? It's just a bowl. No. Wow.

It's just a bowl. So it was, do you know what it looked like? God bless my mum, she's lovely, but it was like, it was an accident, obviously. We cleaned it up,

no harm done, you know, everyone's fine, that's the main thing, we'll get it sorted. But it was like she had done the most amount of damage possible that she could have in such a small space.

Yeah, it was unbelievable. It was like, you know, the guy who walks up to the space shuttle and just taps one of the tiles and the whole thing explodes. It was like that. It was unbelievable. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I want to hear about this man who tapped the tiles and smashed all of them. No, I just made that up. I don't think that actually happened. I just made that up. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I want to hear about this man who tapped the tiles and smashed them. No, I just made that up. I don't think that actually happened. I just made that up. But to put it in perspective, me and my brother-in-law spent, I think, an hour and a half cleaning it up. Yeah, and it wouldn't be big shards of glass.

It would be very small shards of glass. Absolutely dominated proceeding. What's the worst thing you've broken, Donaldson? I did one really bad once. This is bad. I was about 10, and I was in my mate Paul Button's back garden, and he got a new skateboard, right? Right.

And his dad was a... Remember we talked about this with Karate Kid, with Terry Silver and all that, in the 80s and the early 90s. There were suburban dads who were really into kung fu and stuff. Yes. Yeah. So he was one of them. And he was hard.

I once saw him beat up another dad. He was tough, right? Why? Huh? Why did he beat up the dad? The other dad? Some kind of low level parking dispute probably. I can't remember. Dad beef. Yeah. Not everyone's as well balanced as we are, Pete, now

living in London and being cosmopolitan. He was just tough. Anyway, he was also really into gardening. And he had this massive, I guess what you'd call, like, is it an arboretum where they have all these little plants inside a big glass thing? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. So it was a massive circular arboretum.

So it looked like an upturned bell and it was huge. It was probably five feet in diameter. And it had all these beautiful like eastern exotic plants in it. And we're playing around on the skateboard. You can see where this is going. And Paul said, oh yeah, have a go on the skateboard. And I had a go on it

and I slipped off it and the skateboard flew off at quite some pace to my left and just plowed into the fucking arboretum and the whole thing smashed. Everywhere. And so then, obviously he was like pissed off because like his dad was going to have a go at him

and his dad wasn't going to be home from work for like a few hours. Oh, the waiting. Absolute death row stuff. Death row stuff. So I had to go home, speak to my mum. My mum went round to see his mum before the dad got back she said oh don't worry about it it'll be fine it was just awful so i've got what

i'm trying to say is in my family it probably runs in the family smashing glass things at inappropriate moments but you must have smashed some stuff in your time i i you know what luke i'm clumsy and i'm feckless and i'm an idiot, but I don't think I'm that smashy, you know. I'll total the odd wine glass, but I've never really... I can't remember the last time I smashed a pane of glass, not with, like, a football, not with a Frisbee, nothing really.

I don't think I've really sort of broken much at all in my life. I'm quite... Maybe I'm just quite aware and scared of glass. That's kind of my thing. Yeah, but I kind of feel like that'll be hope you'd be you would be the person who'd be hyper aware of it so then you would smash more of it i deserve this i think i think uh yeah i'm i i remember seeing a lad smash a glass uh a window uh when we play football in university

like just in the backyard having a kick about and he booted it and smashed the window and I I find the idea

of having a smashed mirror a smashed mirror or a smashed pane of glass to be it does something in my head

where I sort of go how are they going to fix that how are they going to replace that glass? Even though glazers, there's no pane of glass they couldn't replace. But I'm just, it's so, it looks so important to the integrity of the house or building that I'm looking at.

I just cannot fathom how one could replace a pane of glass. You've got to take bits of wood out, but put it in there back in the day. But nowadays, I guess it's all kind of double glazed and it's a lot harder to smash. But stuff like that, you know when you walk down the high street and someone smashed the front of a shop? And that's really thick glass. And it never truly breaks.

It just shatters into a million pieces behind that kind of thick plastic they've got. And I just sort of go, that is going to be so difficult and expensive to break out and then replace. And you'd have to cut the glass that you're replacing with to the exact same specification of the one

it's replacing. I find that stuff genuinely unfathomable. Magicians. I once was in a little town square kind of thing when I was a teenager. And a drink had been taken. And people were just hanging around. And someone got a snooker ball.

I don't know why they had it. I can't really remember. Must have stolen it from a pub or something. And threw it at someone else. Right. And you know what? A snooker ball kind of, the integrity of a snooker ball, what it at someone else. Right. And you know what a snooker ball kind of, the integrity of a snooker ball, what it's made of,

and everything around was obviously concrete. So it just bounced and bounced. Like it would bounce forever. Yeah. Until it came to a stop somewhere. And it bounced and it went smashing through a massive shop window. Oh dear. But it left a hole that big. That was it. The whole thing didn't smash. It it left a hole that big.

That was it. The whole thing didn't smash. It just left a hole in it. And there was cracks everywhere. And it didn't smash. But the alarm obviously started going off. So even though I hadn't done anything, and there was nothing to do with it, we all just legged it. But it felt like the world's most exciting but also terrifying and serious

thing. Yes. I remember when I was walking over the school field you know that i used to walk over a school field there's two horses that used to chase me around to go to school um we're walking in behind uh two or three lads uh who were they must have been a few years older than us they're probably like 16 17 um and someone had parked their car in front of the horse's field. And this one lad just got up on top of the car and just started silently, wordlessly,

just kicking the shit out of the car, Street Fighter 2 style. Absolutely just destroying it. Smashing all the windows, kicking everything off. And then all the other lads joined in. And they just did it. They didn't talk about it. They didn't sort of go, hey, let's do this. They weren't excited about it. They were just very systematically smashing up this car. And we fucking pe did it. They didn't talk about it. They didn't sort of go, hey, let's do this. They weren't excited about it.

They were just very systematically smashing up this car. And we fucking pegged it. We were just, oh, my God, what is going on here? Because we thought we'd be in trouble. And I thought about that for, like, I think 10 years afterwards that they were going to find me. Did you ever get an explanation as to what happened? No, I don't know. I had so many fantasies in my head that, you know,

they'd wronged the kids somehow, but they were just naughty kids who just kind of decided to set upon this Ford Fiesta one November night. That's quite bad, isn't it? That's bad crack, as my dad would say. Bad crack. It's quite bad. I mean, I can think of a mate of mine stealing another one of my mate's cars. It was actually his mum's car.

Right. And just driving it as fast as he could around the playing field, just doing massive donuts in it and stuff. Which is bad. I mean, that's bad. That's like a naughty thing to do. At the time, it was absolutely hilarious.

But it's bad. Anyway, listen, mate, we've got to squeeze an email in because we haven't done it yet. And this is a kind of a nice segue into it. Because, of course we talked about dads we talked about um uh bad behavior dads don't like bad behavior but they do like dad behavior and luke from cardiff has emailed in with the following hello to you luke

he says recently just moved into a new house and obviously called in the cavalry to help with that move. Brackets my semi-retired 61 year old dad. He exhibited classic dad behaviour during the entire trip which included the following. One hiring a transit van and demanding to drive it all day. That sounds quite good. That sounds handy. Yeah

handy. Two, wearing cargo shorts during the whole quote operation. Yes, please. Again, wearing cargo shorts during the whole quote operation. Yes, please. Again, that's probably something I would do. Number three, bringing his set of 40, and I quote, high-end Allen keys. That's the best part of the email, and it's the reason why it's in the running order, because the idea of someone having 40 high-end Allen keys, his words not mine, amuses me terribly. The dad thinking about, like really having a

boner about his own allen keys, high-end. When you buy some furniture, they put the allen keys in the box, don't they? They do, but they're always very, I've got one right in front of me, as you can see. I don't know what camera we're on. Yeah, there you go. Oh yeah, where do you have it from? I've got my houses filled with them.

They're not high end though no the final two points that Luke emails in about my dad also criticised my cabling methods definite dad stuff and demanding a cup of tea and a sausage sandwich Luke that's ok that's fine he's working for you for free mate all day anyway

he says my dad's dad behaviour led to a great discovery as well we've been in the new house for five minutes. He immediately headed to the garden to check out the shed situation and found an old Anderson shelter at the bottom of the garden. I could probably do something cool with it, but we'll probably just spend some time drinking some cans in there and point at it when people come around.

P.S. No interesting batteries. Sorry, guys. I just went and bought a load of IKEA AA's wholesale. All the best, Luke from Cardiff. And Anderson Shelters, a great little bonus in the garden. Yeah, why do they call it Anderson Shelters? I mean, I presume some guy called Anderson designed it. But, like, a lot of that...

That's right, yeah. I think my partner's parents used to have one, but they got rid of it. I mean, it's a great little extra, and you should really know about that when you get a new house, no? That should be on the plan, shouldn't it? Yeah, I think so.

Sir John Anderson, the chief in charge of air raid precautions during the Second World War, that's why. Ah, right. You know, it could be on the plans, but it may not be... I suppose it probably would be a permanent structure. So, yeah, I don't know. It's difficult to say.

But there was a couple of those down near where I used to live. Because, of course, if you had a garden and you had a big enough house or a basement or whatever, you could do your own thing. But a lot of those shelters were communal, right? Yes. So there's a load of them there's a couple of them still survive when i live down where i was where i'm from uh at the bottom of the road and in the park all that kind of stuff quite quite haunting really yeah it's a it's a

weird kind of echo of of what once what was the i i never understood how protected you could get though because it's just a basically a mound of dirt with a bit of corrugated iron on top i mean is that i mean that's not going to protect you from the actual impact, but it might protect you from some rubble or something as it bounces off. Well, I think some of them are made of concrete, but generally, I think a direct hit is curtains, right? Yeah, I wouldn't like to test that one out.

Yeah, I don't think that's what they're going for. I think they're going for, as you say, like rub oil and shrapnel and all that type of stuff, I suppose. Right, yeah. I know a karate dad's going to protect you from that. It's not something I'd like us to they're going for, as you say, rub oil and shrapnel and all that type of stuff, I suppose. Not something I'd like us to return to. No, thank you. No.

It wouldn't be ideal. I'd need an Anson Shelter if I broke your gaming computer, wouldn't I? Oh, yeah. And I wouldn't even care if you'd rolled your ankle, to be quite frank.

I'd be like, Luke, no conceivable reasons why you've got my computer and I'm fuming that you smashed it. Notivable reasons why you've got my computer. And I'm fuming that you smashed it. Not that there's any glass in my computer. I'm not a show-off.

I'm an introvert when it comes to my gaming stuff. You can have glass-panelled ones, can you? Yeah, glass-panelled ones, blubbing tubes with luminous liquid in them. It's all very show-off for me.'s all of it i was a steampunk one yeah oh mate it's built for steampunk isn't it tubes and cogs and stuff i was watching this man doing a uh he's a guy who's just obsessed with this one roller coaster out in like bristol or somewhere and he's a bloke who um he's gone on it he's gone on the same wooden old school roller coaster for i think about like something like 20 years so he's been on one

one thousand five hundred times i think he he's had a one thousand five hundred times and he's trying to get to 2000 and he's trying to beat the record or whatever uh and he's on there every day and and his whole thing even though he knows every last part of the the wooden roller coaster he loves he puts his hands in the air to accentuate the downs and the ups and the roller coastery G-forces. He puts his hand there. He says, it's not for showing off. I'm not saying look at me.

It's because it accentuates how good the roller coaster is if you put your arms up. So he's very much the glass-fronted gaming computer of roller coaster riders. He's not later proven to be problematic or anything like that. He's just a lovely guy, likes his roller coaster, and that's it. Or he just learned about him yesterday, so he could be. I don't know.

No, but I quite like it when people just know what is honest. There's an honesty about that. This is what I'm into. It's not that Francis Bourgeois guy on TikTok or Instagram who loves his trains. This is what I'm into. There's nothing affected about it. I'm not ashamed of it. I'm into yeah Francis Bourgeois guy on them tick-tock on Instagram loves his trains yes what I'm into there's no nothing affected about it I'm not ashamed of it I'm bloody excited my enthusiasm is going to be infectious to you and actually otherwise you know brighten up your otherwise dull Sunday I look at Francis Bourgeois the great man and I think if everyone was as happy as him the world would be a brilliant place and it's probably the same as your roller coaster man

I completely agree except roller coaster man doesn't tape a 360 camera to his head and just if everyone was as happy as him, the world would be a brilliant place. And it's probably the same as your rollercoaster man. I completely agree. Except rollercoaster man doesn't tape a 360 camera to his head and just puts the results on YouTube, which is the greatest part of his stuff. All right, then. Let's get out of here, Luke. We've got some more Luke and Pete Shaw shenanigans coming at you on Thursday.

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