The Luke and Pete Show - Justice for Cocaine Bear

Episode Date: October 13, 2022

Pete’s back from driving a bigger boy’s car down the west coast of America! He only almost rolled it once, so it went pretty well overall.Elsewhere, Pete reviews American towns he visited in three words and we scream “JUSTICE FOR COCAINE BEAR” as news has reached the Luke and Pete Show that the peace-loving icon has been done dirty in a movie adaptation of his life.Want to contact the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rory, if I could give you one piece of advice, producer Rory, always take your wallet with you. Never leave it in the changing room, in the dressing room, because it might get stolen. This is the Luke and Pete Show. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Luke Murr on Thursday and we're basically imparting a little bit of advice on producer Rory who has a side gig, a side hustle as an internet famous DJ and he and I'm just giving him a bit of advice about

performing and how to stay safe on the road. I respectfully you know I love you Pete. I've got a lot of love for you. I've built that love over the years and your love for someone does grow when you spend time with them. I've got a lot of love for you i've built that love over the years and your love for someone does grow when you spend time with them i've got a lot of miles on the clock with you now i don't think you should be giving him advice about that because i've seen you leave plenty of things in dressing rooms when they needed to be on stage for example okay that's your stagecraft that's a different thing i would say that? Oh, okay. You meant to do that. I was giving personal safety tips.

I've never been knowingly robbed. Yeah. Never been knowingly robbed. This is the Luke and Pete show, Peter, isn't it? It is, yes. It's Thursday. It's the 13th of October. It's autumnal today.

It feels very autumnal to me. It is autumnal. And I was thinking to myself, you know, whenever I think of the changing of the seasons and I think of a song that suits the changing of the seasons my mind always goes to summer breeze makes me feel fine but that's obviously a summer song yeah i couldn't really think of any autumnal songs the only one i could think of was sort of dead leaves in the dirty ground by the white stripes um that isn't overtly about autumn so um i don't know the sweater song by weezer how are you peter you've been

driving that cadillac down the west coast of the us of a baby and now you're back kia suv down the road it was a kia it was a big boy uh bigger than any car i've ever driven before but luke i passed with flying colors apart from one moment when I think I could have possibly rolled it. They've got this basic technology in these really fancy, expensive SUVs, right? Where it just drives for you. It locks into a lane on the motorway and the little wheel just turns and turns and turns

and takes corners for you. I've seen that. It's mental. And if you cross over the white line to another lane, it writes you, right? Well, yeah, it sort of beeps. But yeah, as soon as it finds a line, it just sort of sticks in that line forever.

And it doesn't matter how severe the turn is, it'll always kind of turn for you. So I've just been having a lovely time just accelerating and braking. And I've also, there was a time when if you saw a white line, you'd beep at the top of your voice. It's good stuff. Welcome back anyway.

Good. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Welcome back. I'm enjoying the autumnal scenes here in Leon C. I'm a bit disappointed that I've got a tree next to my window where the neighbours can can basically see what I'm doing on my computer

and when the leaves fall off the trees they can just see what I'm doing it's problematic isn't it they can see exactly what I'm looking at on the internet

are you saying that you can only you can only masturbate in front of your computer in the summer months well I mean let's make it very clear I can't masturbate

because I've got two big windows so I'm just saying I don't like to be leered at from where the neighbours can see effectively. No, the ones who are passively, aggressively complaining about the noise from Lola and Barkley. No, that's a different pair. Have you got to the bottom of that mystery yet? No, I couldn't find the original picture. They left a piece of paper on a car

uh next to to our house basically saying stop parking on my drop curb um and oh they did that as well yeah and i took a picture of it because i was like i'm kind of thinking that i i'll need to kind of sort of collecting the handwriting a little bit um nice and uh good angle and so and and so i've got that and then i, you know, Adam and Donaldson strikes again. I don't know where I've left it. Right. Yeah, I couldn't figure out who left that piece of paper on the couch. Very disappointing. Incredibly disappointing.

Have you thought about talking to the good people at This American Life? Well, look, Adam's science-free, so they're probably looking for another project, I would say. I love the idea of this I love I'm Pete Donaldson and you're listening to This American Life

episode one who hates my dogs the drop curb the drop curb yeah you'd have to do this a lot you'd have to go like this and so

I found the letter in the letterbox. But that's next time. It's very much not my energy, I would say. I don't think I'm an actual true crime kind of guy. You do it all in one episode. I'd get so confused. I'd say the end first.

Yeah, production meeting. You promised to make episodes. You've already done it all. Yeah, exactly. Efficiency. Don't thank me. i'm just efficient for crying yeah exactly so so yeah a little trip away you drove around down the west coast of the us and in a korean vehicle which i think is disrespectful actually to the good people of the united states okay um i i don't like they're getting on the i i think that you know different car manufacturers from different countries should just do different types of car.

Like, for me, if it's a big, long road trip, it's got to be a big old American car, baby. If you're bipping around the city or doing something, I totally get the Korean car. Totally get it. For me, it feels like it's a bit of a shame. Well, I just don't think you can really sort of be that jinguisticistic when it comes to hiring a car american brand only please well i told you i'm already banned from enterprise aren't i so oh yeah because you didn't pay not for jingoism can i just say nothing to do with that i wasn't i wasn't xenophobic about about a territory no you refused it i mean so does that mean you can never hire another enterprise

car again because you're blacklisted because you wouldn't pay oh yeah baby and their affiliate brands which i wasn't aware of. You refused to pay the fine you were dodging all the time. No, it wasn't a fine. It's a disputed payment. Right. I'm happy to go on record

of saying that. Okay. And they've been very, very unreasonable in my view. Right. And Pete, imagine what it must have been like

for someone like me to think they're being unreasonable. So I'm pretty cognitive at the best of time so imagine what they've done they dragged my name through the mud so i don't even know if i could be saying this about about it was probably it was because there was mud on the car i believe yeah that's fine you can do that it doesn't matter at no point do they say your car's a bit dirty yeah you can't do that so um so so i started off seattle right i'll just give you two words uh i'll

give you two words three words review of everything right seattle okay chewing gum wall there was a wall in seattle where everyone's just shoving their fucking chewing gum right and it lasts for like a block and people are just covering the whole thing and chewing them disgusting right uh portland missed out on that one uh drove straight to a place near salem called uh independence where i watched a wrestling show good fucking wrestling it was like a little wrestling in a kind of an elk lodge uh with that sounds great with me in about probably about 30 people very few people in the room so that's too few for me yeah i i want to see an independent wrestling show that seems a lot more real, a lot more interesting, but I need there to be enough people there to limit the chance of me actually having to get involved.

We're out of wrestlers. Who wants it? Yeah, you might have had a lovely time. But that was fun. And the best characters, I think, were this big fat wrestler and this slightly smaller hench wrestler. And they were dressed like working men with high-vis jackets and hard hats. And the best thing, they came out

and the man had like a measuring tape. What do you call a measuring tape here? What's a measuring tape? Tape measure. Tape measure! Thank you. But you actually had the words themselves in a different order. A measuring tape.

What does it do? It tape measures. Oh, the other way around. He just comes out, and it's the funniest entrance ever. He just jumps out, and then he just starts measuring stuff. What? It's such a good gag. It's such a good gag.

Funny. That was good. Eugene, bit of a frightening town. So I've never heard of Eugene. What state is that in? That is in... Oregon. It's in Oregon, yeah.

It's in Oregon. So it's like, it's just kind of like a Passover kind of little town. Ate weed gummies and went to the bowling and did all right. Did all right for a man who was giggling uncontrollably. That's such a great thing to do in the Pacific Northwest. Eat weed gummies and go bowling. The thing about weed dispensaries is, and it's not something I've kind of experienced.

I've experienced one in Colorado and one here in, well, where do we buy it? I guess it was kind of Eugene. The people who are in weed dispensaries, they're really into weed, aren't they? Like even more than Americans who are already fucking into weed like we're into booze and childhood obesity

and they are very much into just getting blasted on weed and talking about it I don't think the Americans are that far behind on childhood obesity do you think

if behind at all but it's a scene isn't it it's like the vaping scene remember when we were in Northampton you and I together and I wanted to get into the vaping scene and just ask people about it and you got embarrassed and left

me yeah like it's a bit like that but with and the thing is here they obviously the latest their brainwave from those in charge here want to make cannabis a class a substance which right i mean that is proper like swivel eye lunatic stuff that's basically that's basically sitting there in a meeting and going what's the worst thing they can they can accuse it what's the worst thing we can do how can we think of that yeah think of that and then go beyond that yeah do that yeah just where's the general sort of trend of history and direction going where's the general trend going let's let's put the brakes on and not only put the brakes stick the kia sorento in reverse and go a few miles up

the but but not only that when they when they announced that to the lobby the press the press call i imagine even the ones who are essentially shields for these kind of rent a quote shields for whatever the government does essentially like propagandists really even they at that point if they didn't get the briefing at a time they're just throwing their arms up and they go how are we gonna fucking sell that can you give us some notice at least it's the most baffling bizarre thing to say you know it's like saying right um on thursdays going forward everyone has to hop everywhere. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the point?

It's just you're doing it on purpose just to annoy people. Is it making everyone's life a bit harder? Yeah, yeah, probably. Yeah, yeah. Anyway, carry on. Sacramento. Head to Sacramento. That was, spent a couple of days there.

I'm trying to think what happened there. Went to a railway museum. That was a lot of fun just walking around uh sort of um uh broken up kind of railway carriages uh but like a bit like amazing stories of like uh the the chinese immigrants uh that you know before the turn of the century building these building these uh massive railroads like endlessly uh and, you know, true to type, as most of history kind of goes, at the end of it, not really being celebrated for it and actually being racially kind of hounded out of their houses and, you know, having their houses burned down and stuff like that.

It's just solid stuff, isn't it? You know, build the infrastructure. Now, fuck off. This is not a Tory thing again. This has been in all their lives. A similar sort of vibe, eh? But what I very much liked, it was quite interesting. There were so many Chinese immigrants who, you know,

the thing at the time was like they worked harder than everyone else. Them and the Irish worked harder than all of the other people who were working at the time. But they'd work, you know, 12-hour shifts, you know, from the dawn of the day to daybreak. Sorry, daybreak's in the morning. What are you talking about, Donaldson? I'm tired, I'm jet-lagged.

Just say all day. Just say all day. Working all day until the sun goes down and getting on that sweet opium, which helps with the muscles. On the historical newspaper, they love their opium, and it helps with their muscles. I did a thing I did a thing a while back

about how American missionaries to China and back in there I guess it would be around the late 19th century so kind of similar time from memory when there was an influx

of Chinese immigration into San Francisco and it's quite an interesting time but it's a lot of opium chat just a lot of opium chat just a lot of opium chat some people go into China to spread the good word and all the rest of it, it used to happen

not only because individuals want to do it but it's like an element of soft power diplomacy for the US in the Pacific region just disappearing, never being seen again see you later I'm on the opium way I forgot to tell you I get it the

thing that made me laugh was like the the because you know nobody had fucking time in between the opium and the and the working every hour that fucking god sends for six days a week like they didn't have any off time really so nobody really um wrote anything down from the chinese immigrants side they didn't write anything about their lives or they certainly haven't found any. So all of the historical accounts and the things we know about the Chinese immigrants on the railroad, apparently it's just from stuff they've found,

like fucking pots of tea. Just kind of like the way you'd kind of surmise how Roman life was. Yeah, okay. There's no kind of running thing down, which I found very fascinating. Well, I mean, sorry to be a nerd but the romans a bit very good very good record keeper all right it's kind of before that after

that so yeah in the dark ages after the romans left like it's i mean i'm interested in history but to me personally obviously there are plenty of people out there who are brilliant it's a really great guy called uh mark someone who wrote a book about the anglo-saxons very recently mark morris i think his name is, Mark with a C. I'd recommend that if you're interested in that kind of area. It's baffling work. It's so hard. The sources are just so difficult to get hold of and to

read and that kind of stuff. It's a completely different type of history. That's weird. So what era are you talking about there, though? I don't know what the dates were. It must be at the end of the 19th, probably. Yeah, it was around there. No, it was mid... Mid-20th?

No, mid-19th, wasn't it? Mid-19th, okay. Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, I just wondered. But they did the whole fucking east to west kind of job in like a few years. It's just absolutely incredible. I think the record was 10 miles in a day.

It's a remarkable story the infrastructure with the railways in the us around that time and i think it's a real shame actually there's not a lot a lot more is not made of that because the rail system in the us isn't that good compared to say the uk like the uk's even though many many rail stations have closed down the uk over the last however many decades uh it's still really amazingly interconnected um and the us i think many decades it's still really amazingly interconnected and the US I think

I mean it's a different challenge of course but the US could be better so did you fly out of Sacramento or did you make it all the way down to LA no so we flew out of LA

had a stop in Fresno for a night and then just headed straight to LA spent a night in downtown night in Santa Monica and then we were

actually going to we were trying to head to San Diego but we forgot that TwitchCon was on where all of the Twitchers, so all of the hotels were like a grand a night so it was like, that's not happening.

Oh, mate. One last broker, back. Did you see the TwitchCon? So they, like they do at these kind of events, they sort of bring a ball pool in or like a big pool

where you can have like a little fucking gladiator style cotton bud fight or whatever and knock each other into the soft padding. Like gladiators? Like gladiators, yeah. And I think, I don't know what they did but I don't know where they bought their form from

but it was in some kind of weird configuration. Turned out it was made of concrete. It's a couple of, one lass dislocated her knee, one lass jumped off and was smiling. She's like, I can't move. She'd brought me back in two places. So that's Twitch Confi.

Speaking of that, this is in no way related to that story, apart from the fact that I set myself up on Twitch this week. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I might try and do some PUBG stuff. I really enjoy playing the old PUBG, don't I? Lovely. So maybe I can find some people to play with me on the on twitch perhaps is that how it works i don't even know now you've got your uh now you've got your uh new camera new lights and stuff

so you had a nice time on your trip can i take you all the way back up to the northwest and talk about chewing gum very briefly yes i just finished a book by warren ellis if you do you know warren ellis i don't, no. He is the right-hand man of Nick Cave. Right. He's one of the bad Cs. He's a big beardy guy who plays the violin, but he's also got a band called The Dirty Three.

Really interesting artist. And he's written a memoir called Nina Simone's Gum. It's a really interesting take on the old rock stars, autobiography type thing so he was apparently he's had an amazingly interesting life right and

so for years publishers have hounded him trying to convince him to write this memoir but he never wants to do it so it's boring I don't want to do it

he's one of those types right he's very very alternative like a true artist like he lives like basically lives the life of a bohemian anyway so

in 1999 i believe it was do you remember the meltdown festival in the south bank in london yes it would be every year it'd be created by someone famous so like javascript oh yes i remember yes i did the cure one year i think right okay fine but you created it good for you um but anyway so one year i think 99 nick cave curated it and he got warren ellis, like I say, is his right-hand man, to help him. And they both booked Nina Simone, who's obviously this legendary artist.

She's dead now, but she was a very, very impactful protester, singer, musician, songwriter. She had loads of different styles of music. I'm not going to do her justice talking about how important she was as an artist. So if you get a chance, look her up. Anyway, she headlined this festival in 1999. And she was very old by that point

and quite cantankerous. And she died in 2003. So she's quite near the end of her life. And she came out and played. And it was just her and a piano and a band. And she did all these songs. But when she came out on stage, the way that Nick Cave and Warren Ellis tell the story is that she was very combative she was very kind of quite cantankerous in her old age and she would be quick to um to anger and all

the rest of it and she came out on stage this is old woman basically in front of the meltdown crowds and like staring them out pumping the fist being really aggressive with them then she sat down at her piano took her chewing gum out of her mouth and stuck it on the piano and started playing and then and then she played did the show everyone loved it blah blah and she but she left the chewing gum on the piano and warren ellis being the type of character that he is was like that is like an amazing sacred relic to me i'm gonna get it get it. I'm helping to curate this festival. I'm going to take it because it's going to be thrown away.

So he took the chewing gum, put it in a paper towel, and kept it safe and kept it for 25 years or whatever. Or however many years it is now, 20, 21, 22 years. And so he essentially uses that as the starting point of his memoir and talks about the chewing gum and the gum, and it follows him around and does stuff with him. And takes like imprints of it and gets it made into jewelry and he sends the different things to different people uh based on it and then nick cave takes it and puts it on display in a in a um exhibition an art exhibition that he's doing in denmark it's all

really interesting and essentially everything that he talks about in his life goes to channel is channeled through this kind of sacred musical souvenir, I suppose. It's really interesting. It's called Nina Simone's Gum. Yeah, I mean, when you said Nina Simone's Gum at the start, I thought you said Nina Simone's Gun. I was like, when's she going to get the gun out?

No, Gum, Gum, G-U-M. All right, fine. I've got a very poor diction for a broadcaster. You should know that by now. There's so many times where like you know at the radio stations

I worked at like a guy would come in or a gal you know the guys and the gals they'd come in and they'd be very very famous indeed

and they'd be having a cup of coffee or whatever and they'd just leave their coffee with like lipstick marks on it and stuff like super super famous people there must be so many people

who've hoovered up little trinkets here and there. It's like my famous Brian Blessed story about that. I told you that. Oh, with drinking the coffee and then he goes... Yeah.

It's an old coffee. That wasn't my coffee. Yeah. Classic. He's a legend, Brian Blessed. He's so funny. Yeah, somebody who's a super... He's still alive, isn't he?

Yeah, he's still alive, yeah. He'll never die. I've never... Can I also just say about Brian Blessed? We're just sure coming out. Yeah, yeah. Angela Lansbury's gone.

He's got to be next, hasn't he? Jesus. Yeah, he's just turned 86. He had, I've been in the company of him a couple of times, and he has by far the loudest voice I've ever heard. It was almost like comically loud. And I'm not someone who, ironically, because I know I can be quite loud,

I quite like quiet. I quite like it when it's quiet. If I'm knocking about a house on my own, it's all quiet. I'm very happy with that. And it was almost quite jarring how loud his voice is. So like as if the walls weren't built for a voice that loud, you know, like there was little studs in the wall

kind of cracking because they'd never been subjected to such vibration. There was, yeah, there was a guy producing him when I was there called Phil. Phil Secretan. Do you remember Phil? Yes. Good guy.

And I was saying to him at the time in the booth, how are you taping this? He's shouting into the microphone really loud at all times. It's like the last thing you need. Anyway, Brian Blesser, what a legend. Anyway, Nina Simone's gone.

Give that a go if you get a chance. I'm not being paid to say that. I've not had any contact with the publishers, who I believe are Faber. They would. Why would they? Give them a go. Why would they be spending money on you?

People might hear an advert in the ad break and go, oh, he's hawking this again. He's hawking that again. I'm just saying, I enjoyed the book. You will too if you like that type of stuff. So give it a bash. Shall we have a quick break, Peter, and then come back and do some batteries?

Yes, I will be talking about products I definitely endorse next. Nina Simone's batteries. Nina Simone's batteries. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. It's Thursday, so we're talking about batteries, aren't we?

We've got batteries coming out of our bumholes. You sound like Matt Lucas. Nah, no. You did. Somebody pointed out that David Walliams has got a board of Terrier. Made me feel a bit sad. Do you not like David Walliams?

What's he done? Has he been cancelled or something? No, he's not been cancelled. I just think... Should be cancelled for that little Britain stuff. I think what he... Yeah, he should be. When it's posh middle class people, it doesn't count.

Exactly, my friend. Oh, Cleese is on GB News, isn't he? Cleese, oh! 18 fucking five or however old he is, fucking on GB News. He says this show would never, these days, this show would never be commissioned because four of the people working on it

are from Oxford. He's like, you've just got a show commissioned, mate. It's on GB News. It's a piece of shit, channel, but you've just got commissioned, you fucking chub. I also like the fact that John Cleese, I literally heard John Cleese say

that you can't say anything these days because no one gives you a platform anymore. You get cancelled. On the fucking Today programme, which is the most popular breakfast show in the UK and has been for years. It's not a shame for me, though. I've said this before.

I don't have very many kind of mostradamus kind of predictions, but I fucking saw this coming a good 15 years ago. He was always whinging about his ex-wife and living in Jamaica or wherever the fuck where he lived. Yeah. Dickhead. Did you see that interview with Eric Iden, The Guardian, last week?

No, I didn't, no. Who seems like a really lovely kind of fella fella and uh he was asked about john cleese and the answer was like the closest answer you can get like a british person trying to be diplomatic i'll read i'll read the answer to you um it basically just generally being asked about what he thinks about john cleese these days he says uh he he is who he is now. The thing I try to remember is the good times when we were young and funny. We are no longer those people. We're old farts.

We should be left to go quietly to bed and watch the telly. Good stuff. That's what you need. Anyway. I do think, before you get into your battery, I've got it here.

I know what you're going to say. I'm ready to go. I just do want to say that Little Britain stuff is not aged very well and no one really seems to talk that much about that. Or maybe I've just missed it. I don't know.

I think you have it on your Brit Box or Dave. All those things still pull quite well with the British public, and you can get quite a few viewers by sticking an episode on. And even the stuff they did, that airport thing, which is even worse, to be honest. It really leans into those sort of stereotypes. Well, as in blacking up and stuff like that yeah a lot of black and up a lot of chinese stuff you know japanese teenagers sort of stuff um they uh they just put like a warning before saying uh yeah it's different like it's different rules for different uh times as well

isn't it like this was a different time and like literally 10 years ago. It's just a massive cop out. Massive cop out. I saw that on, I was watching, I watched, this is another story entirely. I watched Gone With The Wind on Amazon Prime a while back.

And that's obviously hugely problematic, but it was made in like 1936 or whatever. And it's got a warning at the start now. A lot of people are saying it shouldn't be out there. It shouldn't be... Different times. People have moustaches.

Different times, mate. Exactly. Different times. What's the first battery? Battery brands! Every week on a Thursday on the Look and Pitch Show, we talk about battery brands that you found in random bits of consumer electronics

where you are. Maybe you're in a hotel. I did have a look around, to be honest, in the hotels that I stayed in. Very, very basic kind of energy cells. Your usual kind of Korean brands and Duracells and stuff. Very Korean-themed trip for you. Nothing really jumping out.

And a bit of kimchi at times. David Upcraft has got in touch. Hello, Luke and the Pete. As ever, long-time listener. First new battery player attempt. I was sorting through my daughter's collection of clunky plastic toys

to find this delightful D-Cell in a Chad Valley motorised fishing game. Is it a possible new player? Or have I missed this in a hundred episodes of battery searching? Dear sirs,

I present you with a Pifco D-Cell. Pifco D-Cell. Do you remember that little fishing game? It was like a little circular fishing game. Yeah, I loved it. Battery powered, I present you with a Pifco D-Cell. Pifco D-Cell. Do you remember that little fishing game? It was like a little circular fishing game. Yeah, I loved it. Battery powered, and you'd have a little fishing line which was magnetised.

And there would be like gaping mouths, and they would open and close. Yeah, I remember that, yeah. What was the vibe? You started to get about as many as possible in a certain amount of time. It was a bit like Hungry Hippos, was it? I think that's how it was.

Yeah, a little bit like that. Well, not, I mean, kind of, I guess, in principle, possibly slightly similar to Hung hippos but not really um i'm sure we can look it up and find it later sorry yeah a few observations on david's email one is that he's got good old fashioned workman's hands he has yeah solid he presents the battery in close-up he's got a great signature for his email as well very nice to see he's taking the time there pifco d this is a pifco d so it's a d size battery i am delighted to say it is a new player so congratulations to you david pifco's found there has not been a single email in the inbox with the word with pifco how have we possibly as a new brand yeah i mean to be honest pifco just seems like the sort of one we would have seen before. But we haven't seen it before.

That's incredible. David, well done, mate. Yeah. Well done, Dave. Up to your craft, sir. Hi, chaps. Hi, craps. CJDB.

You don't want to know the backstory. Chris, I think we do. And I think we can have a think about what that might be. SJDB is a battery brand. What do you reckon? Is that from Chris Roger? It's from from chris yeah yeah yeah yeah or does he not want his surname being used i've only got chris on my on my on my list i'm afraid to say that just a month before his submission our friend abby emailed in um with a battery battery she found when she was changing the batteries in a toy remote control for her toddler, and she unveiled a pair of SJDBs herself.

So I'm afraid you're the second person to send those in, Chris. Yeah. But it's not a new player, I'm afraid. So Chris presumably also found it in a toy for a toddler. Luke says, Mavida and Mustang AAA. I almost destroyed the air-con remote retrieving these batteries, along with a very well-known Sony-branded battery. There was also a AAA Mavida battery and some of that tasty battery crust.

In the TV remote was a Mustang AAA battery. Any chance of a new player? I'm almost certain the Mustang is an old player that's been giving its time in the sun so many times before. But Movida, super alkaline. Any shout, Luke? Mustang has been sent in 41 times. Fucking hell.

Yeah, which might even be a record. Movida is a new player, though. Congratulations. I can't find Movida in the email inbox anywhere. Possibly in the Twitter DMs, but I can't see it in there either. So Mo Vida is a new player. So no to the Mustang. Yes to the Mo Vida.

That's two out of three this week. Two out of three ain't bad. Unlucky Chris. Well done, everyone. Pack yourself in the back. Right. Yeah, that's the thing. You might as well just say it because the speculation from Pete is always going to be worse.

It's always going to be worse. I do want to know the backstory because I will invent one and it'll be worse. All right? Definitely. Definitely worse. Peter, before we dash off, shuffle off this podcast coil. There have been a lot of emails about this new movie, Cocaine Bear. Oh, yes.

Yes, yes, yes. Which is a story that we kind of discovered, we stumbled upon maybe a few years ago now, of an American black bear who found essentially a cocaine that had dropped from a drug runner's plane and killed himself ingesting it, essentially. And it was something ridiculous, like 90 kilograms of cocaine.

The bear consumed as much as it could. Good on him. It's the way that he wanted to go. He was found, massive cocaine overdose, poisoning, and was then stuffed, I believe,

and put in some kind of bar or some kind of tourist attraction in the middle of nowhere. I want to say, I want to say Colorado. Maybe I can't really remember. It doesn't matter. But this happened in the 80s.

Oh, actually, it's on display currently in Lexington in Kentucky. So I wasn't that far away. But anyway, they've made a movie out of it. And what they've done, essentially, what it looks like is, and this has caused great interest among the Lucanpicia community, hence we mentioning it. We've got so many messages about this. In a Kentucky, the current listed plot for the film is in a kentucky forest an american

black bear goes on a murderous rampage after ingesting a staggering amount of cocaine they've done that bear dirty they've done him dirty they've added a murderous rampage into a noble honorable bear's life and death right yeah but it can't help it it's already murderous rampage into a noble, honourable bear's life and death. Right. Yeah, but it can't help it. It's already murderous by its very nature. But, you know, you give it a bit of cocaine, he's more beast than beast, isn't he? Yeah, I just think that what happened in reality is that Cocaine Bear stumbled upon this, you know,

these 40 plastic containers of cocaine, got fucked up, fine, overdid it, died, it happens, and now they've said, oh no, what happened was he took a lot of drugs and then tried to kill loads of people. That didn't happen. He was a peace-loving bear.

He was fine. And I also like the fact, it's a great tribute to the great late Ray Liotta's career that I think it's going to be the last film he's appeared in. It's good stuff, isn't it? Well, it's produced by, it's going to be the last film he's appeared in it's good stuff isn't it well it's produced by it's directed by Elizabeth Banks

who you'll have seen on every sort of comedy show for the last 20 years pretty much she's in the 40 year old virgin she will

she might be yeah she's a Lego movie person as well right yeah she was she played Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers I didn't realise that the original Rita Repulsa in the Power Rangers. I didn't realise that the original Rita Repulsa died.

I have no idea who that is. Do you not remember watching Power Rangers? No, the Wi-Fi I have access to when I speak about it is a lot. For some reason, I never watched it. I thought it was because I was too old, but you're the same age as me, so that doesn't make any sense. It was probably a little later. It was on ITV, wasn't it at uh weird times i

seem to recall when you're getting ready for for college or school i remember watching it though and you should have been watching it if you're at sixth form college what time did it when did the mighty morphin power rangers i thought it came out the late mid to late 90s i was way too old for it 1993 was the premiere so yeah i mean oh yeah you were queuing up for the premiere were you there's no way you were watching it from the very start. You were probably watching it about three years later. I didn't realise that she played the Bandora character in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

She died in 2006. She was 16. So she must have been, like, when she was playing, she must have been in her 50s playing she must be in her 50s. Not very interesting for you Luke because you've never watched Power Rangers.

I've got something to say on it as you can probably imagine. I do remember like it coming up quite a lot a while back and thinking I'll never watch that I'll check it out

and I watched a version of it which I then later found out I think was just a straight American version where it seemed like what they did is they had taken

a lot of the existing Japanese scenes and spliced them in with newly shot american scenes so i think all of the kind of cityscape kind of big well it's all of this all of the big kind of like city destroying battles and stuff yeah that's the that that that's what they took from the japanese version and they just sort of spliced in the uh you know uh four four kids or five kids in a in a in the suits kind of running around with with with different people so maybe they didn't have the budget to completely remake it or something yeah i mean they've already done all the work what's the point but it always looked very to to to my eyes as a young as a younger man it always felt very cheesy and very sort of like this isn't our usual sort of thing this looks very cheap like the cityscapes look terrible but for the japanese eyes it's kind of like a bit more

bit more godzilla in it really it didn't do it for you the same way he requested it for you not in that way we've talked about that let's leave that there shall we okay let's go uh let's get out of here what we should probably say to our listeners before we go is that if you do go and watch cocaine bear um which i believe is out um pretty soon actually we'd better be getting the fucking advert i'll tell you what yeah we'd better be getting that i may have soiled my britches over the ted lasso debacle over on the ramble but we'd better be getting cocaine bear stuff to be quite frank yeah i think they're really kind of missing the trick there if they don't um we don't let's do it so it doesn't come out until February of next year.

So there's plenty of time. We're under a bridge between now and then. Get banks on the blower. Definitely. I'm not sure how much of a marketing budget it will have, but we'll keep our fingers crossed. If you do go and see it, make sure you send us your short reviews of it, and we'll read out our favourite ones.

That's for February. So that's how good the Luke and Peter admin is. In four months' time, if you go and see a movie, send us a review. Yes, please. And we'll read our favourite reviews out.'s for February. So that's how good the Luke and Peter admin is. In four months time, if you go and see a movie, send us a review. Yes, please. And we'll read our favourite reviews out. Peter, let's go.

We'll be back on Monday, won't we? We will be. Tell them when we'll be back, Peter. We'll be back on Monday. Tell them what time it is. We'll probably upload about 5am. GMT.

I was just doing the Chuck D to Flavor Flav. Tell them what time it is. Let them know what time it is. Didn't a friend of mine, his friend was working with, who's the fellow with the clock? Is that Chuck D?

That's Flavor Flav. Flavor Flav, sorry. He was coming in the room and he went, what time is it? What time is it? Because that's his thing, isn't it? It's time. It's his old father time.

What time is it? What time is it? And he went, you're the one with the clock on your fucking neck a lovely little takedown of Flavor Flav's life

in Britain people would be like er it's ten past four exactly yeah that won't work that doesn't cross over

culturally good point alright Peter let's go Monday we'll be back have a lovely weekend enjoy yourselves look after yourselves as well, by the way,

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