The Luke and Pete Show - Melatonin Mayhem

Episode Date: April 28, 2025

Fresh off the plane back from Vegas, Pete takes aim at the culinary crime scene that is Panda Express and regales us with tales of invisible man matches, and his new survival tool of choice: melatonin. Elsewhere, Luke delivers the brutal news about Chick-fil-A’s problematic past and the lads wonder why anyone cares what other people spend their money on.Plus, Pete narrowly avoids a risky duck blood meal before his 11-hour flight home and Luke’s genuinely impressed with his growth! Email us at [e-mail] or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram if character-restricted messaging takes your fancy.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Luke and Pete Show and we're doing the Luke and Pete Show for you, in your ears, on your headphones, on a Bluetooth speaker in the park. Don't play us in the park, don't be those people. That would be amazing. I know. I'd love to see that. Busting out some Luke and Pete Show fun. Yeah, it's the Luke and Pete Show.

I'm joined by Mr Luke Moore. That's what we do every single Monday and Thursday. And this is Monday the 28th edition. Yeah it is Peter. I think there's no, there's no, I cannot take any issue with anything you just said there. No. Have we ever seen it to the fruit? Oh that's good. Great, great process Donaldson. Well done. What a lovely intro. Seriously, is that copyrighted that thing? Yeah that is Demis Roussos clapping and hooting and hollering. It's not from the last Beatles show, is it? But you know what?

We haven't seen each other for a while now because of the magic of show business. People won't know this because we would have pre-req'd a show or two. And the reason we pre-req'd a show or two is partly because you were at WrestleMania in Vegas. WrestleMania. And I was at the Snooker in Sheffield. You were, yes. You were spotted on a long lens in the Snooker in Sheffield.

But why are you saying it like that? Caught on a long lens, furtively eyeing up some some bears. Some balls. Some balls, eyeing up some cues and balls. Basically, I was I was at a broadcasted sports event. Oh, right. It doesn't mean I was on a long lens. No.

It doesn't mean I was like, you know, cavorting with someone I shouldn't have been in the backyard of Chris Evans' house. Right, okay, fair. Why are you bringing up Chris Evans at this juncture? That's kind of the tabloid kind of high point, isn't it? Yeah, true. That is fair. Yeah, my friend Alex just texted me.

He didn't strike me as big. He's big in a pool, but he didn't strike me as being the sort of person who watches the snooker. I signal these people who don't have children that I lost after clearly with their free time. He just seems to have a lot of free time to... Horizont. Horizont. Yeah, he sent me, he gets time to just watch a lot of snooker for some reason and he sent me

a picture of you furtively ironing up some balls at the Crucible. Yeah, I thought of myself the other day, I thought it would be absolutely amazing if I could keep my son in nursery for the evening session. But yeah, I did go to the snooker. Was it good? Jimmy Wildwin White and Steve Davis and Ronnie O'Sullivan, all of them. Did you see Andre the Giant at WrestleMania? I saw plenty of pictures of him, yeah, so have some respect. He's still big in the culture. Sadly, only one of those three snooker players you mentioned was there. Well, Jimmy White will be there, but he didn't qualify. Jimmy White still plays

professional snooker. I think he's ranked in the top hundred still. But he didn't qualify for the Worlds this year. And Steve Davis is very much part of the commentary team now. Will Barron Didn't Marcus make the point that Jimmy Welwyn Snooker-White, as he is well known? That's not his name. He did a song called Minted that Mark Haynes popped out on. Yeah, he did. He's got a personalised number player that was like Q-Boy or something. That's good though, isn't it?

Is it? Q-Boy? But that's part of the asset. It's good because that's what snooker players do. Right, okay. They drink hard, they drive badly and they have grit. Of that generation. There's a guy called Stuart Bingham whose nickname is Ball Run. Right? Ball Run.

Stuart Ball Run Bingham. Right, okay, nice. He's won the World Championship. Is that like the bull run? Like running of the balls? I don't really know. I don't really get the nickname. Right. It's spelled obviously ball as in snooker ball.

And he has a ball run personalised number plate as well. So I think it's just part of the aesthetic of what snooker players are like. Anyway, I love it. It's great. It's a lovely calm oasis in such a hectic modern life that I have a lot of affection for it and I like going there every year. When else can you go and sit somewhere for about four hours and just watch great high-level sport in silence? That's a good point actually. It's probably the most perfect sort of spectator spot because you're not dealing with fucking

idiots all the time because you have to be silent. Tennis is probably pretty good for that sort of thing, is that fair? We talked about this on Round Blank Cart this week. Marcus was trying to tout tennis but I've never knowingly watched a tennis match so I couldn't tell you. Not even on the telly. Let's go to Wimbledon's. No thank you.

Have a little Pims on the telly. Let's go to Wimbledon's. No, thank you. Have a little, have a little Pims. But what's good about the snooker is that everyone who's at the snooker seems to be genuinely into snooker. It's not something you would just go along to. Yeah. Because tickets are quite tough to get and it's pretty full on and the behaviour is expected of you is quite high. And people just aren't going to do it. It's essentially like going to the cinema for four hours,

but watching sport instead. Right, okay, yeah. And the drama of what that entails. So it's great, I loved it. I love Sheffields, a great town as well. I love the city, I like visiting that. I love visiting there. Yeah, it was good.

How was Las Vegas? What was the trip like? So my impression of Las Vegas, or WrestleMania for you and Mark, is kind of like my impression of, or my experience of when I go away to Europe for football stuff with Andy. Right, okay, yeah.

Very full on, very busy, very tiring, and before you know it, you're home again, because there's always something to do. You're home again, yeah. I mean, I think it's like that, but like more people that we've worked with professionally, who are all so descending on WrestleMania Vegas, constantly DMing and constantly texting going, are you

going to be at this show? You're not going to be at this show. All right, well, I'm not going to see you then. You have a lot of these relationships and you go, oh, I'll see you at WrestleMania. Let's have a swig. And we never do. A swig? Let's have some swigs.

Let's have some cans. You don't say swigs do you? I say swigs. I don't say swig. When it came out of my mouth in the singular it didn't feel right. Didn't feel good. What do you mean by swigs? Why don't you just have a beer? Have a beer. We'll have a beer. But we never do because there's just never enough time. I mean they were sure starting at like, supposed to be starting at midnight and they weren't starting until one and with jet lag that is a fucking stinker. That's a recipe for stinking time. What time do they start in the morning?

They were starting at 11 in the morning at the Palms Casino. We went to, we went in and the Palms Casino was the first night and I'd come off the back of some fucking horrible gastric kind of flu just sweating in the night, it's horrible. And so that didn't help my performances, let's say. And so we went out and went, oh, You weren't wrestling were you? I'd be very slippy slidey. If I'd have exerted any, you know, if I'd run around a little bit it might help.

You could be the slug. I could be the slug, little slippy slimy man. But yeah, we got to the Palms Casino and we, there was this bar that had a massive, who's the fellow who cuts up, Damien Hirst cuts up the old shark, big old fucking tiger shark in three pieces in formaldehyde and this thing. And all of this kind of quite iconic British art just seems to be in the Palms Casino. Was it actually Damien Hirst? Yeah, it was Damien Hirst.

And also there was a lot of his, you know, his kind of knockoff kind of circles. They're just like loads of different circles on a canvas. And you're like, that's yeah, you are you are doing them to order just to make shitloads of money there. He has a big team of people doing that. Yeah. Yeah. And it's nice work if you can get it. I don't want people begrudge it. I don't know why people get so sorry to cut in, but I don't know why people get so

annoyed about this. Is the thing is a general bugbear of mine across my personal life and society generally. I don't know why people have got so much of an opinion on what other people want to spend their money on. I mean, I think there's a problem with inequality in society. I think like inherited wealth and tax avoidance, that kind of stuff is all generally a very bad thing. But if you've got out there and some money or found yourself a trade, something you're good at and people like it and they want to pay for it, good for you.

You should change your opinion on it because it's fucking really successful. I can go and watch a, I can go and watch a Michael Jackson impersonator do some, do some wrestling. So that's the, I have done that. Yeah. That was one of the performers. He, he wrestled, he wrestled a Japanese wrestler called Antonio Honda, which is very, very enjoyable. But anyway, we're in this casino bar. First bar we went to, that night I only had one beer

and it was in this bar. And I turned around and Ric Flair was propping up the fucking. Lovely, you're on the biz? A man with, yeah, a man with a famous drinking problem. I don't even think he knew that wrestling was on. I think he just rocked up. Did you speak to him? No, no. Why would you do that? What a terrible life. Because you've got a fucking wrestling show? And you owe it to your listeners?

I don't owe it to the listeners, do I? He's a bit of a joke these days. He's pretty toxic. Oh, fair enough. Because of the things he said. I like that your general outlook is that I don't owe my listeners anything. I don't owe my listeners anything, that's absolutely true. I don't think you really get hot scoops out of 75 year old wrestlers. They've scooped themselves so many times the well is pretty much dry. It was just funny to see him really. Ric Flair. And also we saw one of the main guys at WrestleMania, Gunter, the German.

It was really funny because there were some people who were annoying Mark, who sat next to Mark anyway on the flight, and they were saying, I think I just saw Gunter. And the other one was going, there's no way that Gunter would fly on a Virgin Atlantic plane. He'd be on a private jet. It was like, mate, if he's on 300 grand, I'll be very surprised. He's a wrestler. They don't pay him that much. And it was Gunter. He was picking up his packages at the airport.

But yeah, it was a really good time. I like loads of really great indie shows. WrestleMania was WrestleMania. It's always pretty much the same. But it's the indie shows that where everybody from Mexico to Japan, they all sort of descend on on an underground sort of theatre in in the Palms Casino, in this case, just do shows. And there was some absolutely fantastic stuff, stuff that makes you

your heart proper sing. And I mean, Vegas is a shithole. Absolutely awful place. Awful place for scumbags. But it was really it was really quiet and I thought it was going to be. The last time I went was obviously the floors of the casino. There was just a lot more stuff going on because I guess back then, 15 years ago, they had like live croupiers, like doing, administering all the games.

But nowadays people are just content to just press the fucking button on the big LCD screens. And I don't know, I mean if you're a gambler you have to know the odds of stuff and if you're a gambler you have to know that that video game machine is not giving you the money that a general game of chance or a general game. Yeah but the thing is it depends what type of participant they are right because if they're just oh I'm in Vegas on holiday I've got some money to blow, and this is part of the experience. Or if they're just pissed, then I always thought when I worked,

I worked at a betting company for a long, old time, and I went into that job thinking it was like, professional gamblers were like fucking James Bond, Monte Carlo types. They're not, man, they're just nerds with spreadsheets. And they don't go to places like that, because the odds are so shit, like you've already identified, right?

But you're absolutely spot on, playing a game of uh blackjack has got an element of um an element of skill in it right and you back yourself if you're good at it like but roulette and those machines and stuff it's all just luck i mean it's lady luck isn't it lady luck's going to visit you or she's not you probably can't even say lady luck these days peter you have to say lord luck person lord luck well lord and lady luck is lord going to visit you yeah but don't take a job even say Lady Luck these days Peter, you should say Lord Luck. Lord Luck? Well Lord and Lady Luck. Is Lord Luck going to visit you? Don't take a job off a woman, what's wrong with you? That's true actually, that's even worse.

You're the worst. No, exactly, exactly. But yeah, it was good man. What I found fascinating is the whole of like, Las Vegas, you can't really walk anywhere. Everything is too far away. You have to get ubers everywhere they've got those weird sort of underground Tesla tunnels that the thing he's made and and all of the

vagrants and homeless people obviously they live in the storm drains, don't they? They live they make most of their kind of like life in the storm drains, you know, there's kind of like big kind of like you know that bit in Terminator 2 where the truck goes like down there I've seen Terminator 2 boy Oh I've seen Terminator 2 boy and so every time we'd walk past one of these kind of entrances to storm drain oh he was so welcoming I just wanted to see what was going on down there because that's the interesting bit innit Why didn't you go? You should have Because I don't know it's not really for me I wanted to have a look around but obviously that's the ridiculous thing to want to do Were you go? You should have. Because I don't know, it's not really for me. I wanted to have a look around but obviously

that's the ridiculous thing to want to do. Were you frightened? Yeah massively. Just show you were frightened. Just to see I'm frightened. There's a brick wall down there. There's no brick wall, it'll pop down there. But yeah I've got to say all the Michael Jackson impersonator, I saw like three or four wrestlers wrestling the Invisible Man.

Some of them better at it than others. What is that? They have had invisible man matches before. A referee wants refereed two invisible men fighting each other, which was quite good. But do you mean actually no one in the ring? No one in the ring. OK, it's not all the invisible men in the movie. It's this wonderful performance piece from the referee,

inferring what is going on in the ring just by hand movements and shouting and councing stuff. And people are kicking up a rock, David Hirstart. And so, yeah, the invisible man, it was basically, it was called the Clusterfuck and it was on at 12 o'clock and it didn't need to be on at 12 o'clock because everyone was very tired, but it didn't finish till about half three, I think. We managed to about after we simply had to go to bed. But yeah, they kept bringing people out and those at the end, I think there was 120 people

at Pugilists in the ring and pretty much every wrestler who was who was doing a bit of wrestling over the weekend Was in the ring and the invisible man and the Michael Jackson impersonator and Antonio Honda and the sex doll So on TV it was streamed on on Triller. I think it's kind of wrestling Netflix now these wrestling events. Well the WWE wrestling events are but the WWE slowly sort of Take it. Also. There was one wrestler who called sleepy Joe or sleepy wrestling events. Well the WWE wrestling events are, but the WWE are slowly sort of taking, also there was one wrestler who called Sleepy Joe, or Sleepy, no it wasn't Sleepy Joe, Sleepy Ed I think, who came out with a big mattress and he just slept and so everything that happened in the ring while he was asleep, everyone had to sort of do very quietly.

And so the fans are going, this is awesome, this is awesome. Oh my goodness. Like doing all that shit. That's so funny. This is actually quite avant-garde. It was lovely, it really was. And to have all of these kind of like people coming out of nowhere and doing their wrestling and stuff and dealing with madness and kind of stipulations and weird things is where

the joy and the artistry comes from. But yeah, I can't remember where I was going with that one, but yeah, it was a really, really good set of shows. And keen-eared listeners of the Stacks table will know that, as you've already just alluded to, that when you're about to leave you're actually quite sick because you're always sick, even though you say you're never sick. And were there any kind of mishaps on route? Did you make it OK? No, I just didn't.

I decided not to eat on the flight and decided to just take it easy, not really drink for the first three days, basically. So I got me stripes WrestleMania night one. That's why I was able to get through to the clusterfuck. But yeah, it was... Was Mark a boozer? No, not really. But there was this, you know, like at modern sporting events They take a massively like million K high definition picture of the entire crowd and you can sort of zoom in on

Your position in the thing and and we were completely obscured by some lighting equipment position in the thing and and we were completely obscured by some lighting equipment so you couldn't see me but Marcus there laughing and supping from the world's biggest kind of modello which I think is a lovely moment. Yeah that's what I was going to say, so the WWE are, you can really tell the WWE are trying to kill independent wrestling by buying up a lot of the wrestlers by not necessarily putting them on their program but giving them basically a developmental kind of per diem like 40 grand a year just to sort of if AEW or other companies come calling they can go nah, he's technically our talent but you can go and do all of the

indie shows and fill your boots and eat as many indie shows as you want as you would normally do but you but if you've got that WWE development little little stipulation deal it means that you can't do so But if you've got that WWE development little stipulation deal, it means that you can't do sort of AEW and it just means that WWE are just killing independent wrestling again. They've just bought up the biggest Mexican company as well, AAA.

And so, yeah, that's going down the pan as well. So they really are making wrestling worse. So, good stuff. And what was it like coming back off that big flight home and then straight into childcare? To be fair, to my daughter's and partner's credit, I only had two or three hours to do. It was more just kind of getting back and writing up what we'd done and editing a couple of videos and stuff and go, I don't remember any of this. I don't remember any of this.

But I tell you what, Melatonin's good, isn't it? Oh, is that what you've been taking? And you can buy so much of it at Walgreens. What, are you allowed to bring it back? I don't know, I did though. I mean, obviously it's a dispensary town. You can get weed and stuff. And I didn't test the

limits of Virgin Atlantic's rules there but I did take a lot of melatonin home and I did take a lot of melatonin on the flight over. Are you banging it now? No, well, yeah I took one last night. But I'm going to give the rest to my dad because he doesn't ever sleep like a big weird vampire but yeah that's it's pretty good stuff. I'll tell you what else I brought home as well Chick-fil-A sauce. Oh nice. I discovered the standard Chick-fil-A sauce it's like this kind of mustardy sweet mayonnaise. It's just called Chick-fil-A it's not Chick-fil-A it's Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A. Is it not Chicka? Is it not Chicka Chicka? Chick-fil-A? Alright, Chick-fil-A. Is it not Chicka? Is it not Chicka-Chicka? Chicka-fil-A?

It's just Chick-fil-A, yeah. Chick-fil-A. Alright, Chick-fil-A. Chicka-fil-A sauce. You can call it whatever you want. Brought that home. And finally for now, Panda Express. I know that Chinese food in America and Panda Express specifically is usually reviewed as being quite awful. I forgot briefly and had some Panda Express. How are they getting this so wrong, Luke? They need a Chinese English food diplomat to pop out there. Because I walked from the Airbnb to the Art Center, nowhere, to this Chinese market. And I was going to sit down and have a bit of proper Chinese food but I looked at the menu and it was like cubed duck blood and I was like you know what I'm not risking that on an 11-hour

flight home in economy I'm not having that. That shows a bit of growth from you that. I know, I know. I was like oh duck blood that before. Ugh, he's in the hospital again. But so yeah, I kept it safe and I had some Panda Express and it's fucking dreadful. Absolutely awful. Yeah, so Panda Express is like Chinese takeaway but American style, right? Yeah, it's like a joke.

And I kind of thought it would be, especially on the West Coast, I kind of thought it would be good because there's a big tradition, I know it's not that close to Las Vegas, but it was a general point, like, San Francisco's got a legendary Chinese community and stuff.

Yeah, and you thought it would be okay. But then obviously, what you're used to in Chinese takeaways here, isn't anything like what they eat in China, right? No, but I would say that the American stuff is even further away because I've not even bothered putting any sugar in it. Right, or there's no MSG in it.

Oh, awful. But in the undercheek foret thing, you know they're quite a controversial outlet as well. Oh God, I can't have anything nice. I brought an entire pint of it home. It said one pint, chick filet sauce, brought it home, made sure it didn't explode in my carry on. They're quite controversial because they've got some pretty regressive views around... Chicken rights. No, just around things like same sex marriage and that kind of stuff. Why have they even got a policy? Why do they even need to get involved?

The guy who, I don't know if he still is, but the guy who was in charge is one of those people who just can't resist making these public proclaimments or proclamations about, I think I've got it in front of me here, he said people who have the audacity to agree with same-sex marriage are inviting God's judgment on our nation. So a lot of people don't like going there for that reason also because they've got a pretty regressive policy around animal welfare and stuff as well. Well I will pour all of that chick filet sauce down the sink. I think the best way you can undermine them is by continuing to call them Chicka-filet. People will be confused about their brand.

And people will be going I looked to go for my dinner at Chicka-filet, yeah. People are gonna be confused about their brand, don't they, who they're talking about? Oh, Chica-Chica. Oh, Chica-Chica. And people will be going, I looked to go for my dinner at Chica-Filet, but I couldn't find it anywhere. Yeah, exactly, yeah. So I decided to go somewhere else, and it'll work that way. Me and my boyfriend had to go out somewhere else. Unbelievable. Yeah.

Unbelievable. Yeah, definitely, so that. Pete, that's a great roundup of what you did last summer. Thanks for that. Yeah. By the way, that film's out again, isn't it? They're doing a new one. Well, I know what, I I know what you did last summer. Say it again.

I did know what you did last summer. Do you feel it? Yeah, confusing. There's a new I Know What You Did Last Summer, confusingly just called I Know What You Did Last Summer. I don't think you should be allowed to reboot that. You need a new, you can't just boot like a video game and just sort of go, it's Sonic Man, you're not having it. It's not fair. Yeah, I also don't like the fact that, you know, the two people I think who are in the original, because the original was like a pretty fun, like slasher movie, right? Yeah, who was that? Who would you mean who was it? Buffy. Was Buffy in it? No, it's Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prince Jr. Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie.

Who again, confusingly, are just in the new one. Right. So you're not even going to be able to describe which one you're talking about. Do they play the dads? Do they play the mum and dads? That's what they usually do, innit? I guess they must do, but you have to say. Oh my god, they're back. I've just watched, I know what you did last summer, open bracket 2025, close bracket.

Yes, okay, nice. Rather than being able just to say the film, just call it a different fucking film. Will that not sort of impact it at the box office? Maybe like it's not necessarily aiming towards a box office, but like, is that not kind of, I know it's part of the franchise, but give it a new name so it looks like a new one rather than the old one.

Do you know what I think it is? I think it is as cynical as 1997 means absolutely fuck all to every kid this movie's been targeted at under the age of 25. So we're just going to use the name recognition for the older people. And the younger people aren't going to give a shit. They're not going to know. So it's a good name. It's a good title.

So we're just going to go with that. That's basically how cynical it is, I think. Completely agree. Completely agree. You've done well there. There's two movies I want to watch coming up. One is The Ballad of Wallace Island, right, which is a comedy comedy with Tim Key, Tom Baston and someone else and it's supposed to be absolutely brilliant and

there's a Michael B Jordan vehicle called Sinners Out which is a kind of I think it's like a kind of set in the deep south in the 1930s, but it's also a vampire movie. The um, I can't remember one of the big cinema sites that said, yes it made 60 million dollars in its first weekend but the target was actually 90 million. It's like, yeah it probably will make 90 million if it made 60 million the first weekend. I don't give a single solitary shit about how much money it makes. I don't care. But it just means they won't make any more, innit? Yeah, that's the problem. That's what really pissed me off about...

Sorry, I just knocked my mic. That's what really pissed me off about that Dungeons & Dragons movie. That's the one you'd want to pick. At least pick the second Blade Runner or something. No, Dungeons & Dragons, Honor Among Thieves is genuinely one of the best family movies I've seen for such a long time. It tapped right into that kind of, do you remember back in the 80s and 90s there were movies like Willow and stuff like that? Like really good fantasy family movies. Yeah, it was basically like that.

It's really funny. The script is really sharp, the performances are good, Hugh Grant's brilliant in it, Chris Pine's brilliant in it, Chris Pine's brilliant in it, Michelle Rodriguez is amazing in it. It's really fucking good. If you haven't seen it, I promise you should watch it, right? And it's basically like a total antidote

to how boring those Marvel movies have become. It's what a Marvel movie would be like if it was a fantasy movie and Marvel movies were still good, right? Hugh Grant plays an amazing like camp bad guy in it, it's brilliant. Because it only made $208 million of a $150 million budget, they're probably not going to make any more. Surely they'll make another one won't they? That's a big front. They said they're developing a TV series for I think Paramount Plus instead. Right okay, well

there you go. You can watch it and... you'll get even more film there. You'll get nine EPS from it. It's just one of those ones where... I don't know, obviously I'm not an expert in this at all, but like you watch a movie and you go, right, that was unquestionably a really fucking good movie. Yeah. Like really well made, really funny. Like I say, sharp script. Good romp. Looks brilliant. Yeah, and then people are like, oh yeah, it's fucking disappointing at the box office and

the critical reception was average. I don't know how well people are fucking watching, it was brilliant. Yeah. Anyway. I very much want to see the film Friendship with Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd in, it looks, it's got a good trailer, it's been reviewed quite well. That sounds great. And it's out on, it's out on May the 9th. By the way, I discovered a comedy show yesterday for the very first time that I'd never heard of before. Really?

Which is right up your street called Nathan For You. Yeah, how have you not run into that? I'd have never heard of it. You like it, yeah? I like it, yeah. I think I stopped watching it because I was... I don't know what I'd been watching. I think I'd been watching a lot of Eric Andre

and I was like, I can't handle the sort of cringey sort of awkwardness of, I mean Nathan for you in particular is quite cringey and awkward. But I mean stuff like the Starbucks one is like absolutely legendarily... It's basically what is it like a bit like, I know he's Canadian but like an American slash Canadian like borat type thing is it? Yeah well he's helping people with their business ideas and just doing them completely incorrectly. Which I think is a lovely way to sort of deal with life I guess. Just bringing in an expert that doesn't know what he's doing but tries really hard. But the people in it are real people yeah?

Yes I believe so yeah and that's where I think that's where I started going ehhh they just want their shop to be good. The Eric Andre thing is fucking tough to watch. I love his hot ones as well which is fucking so funny. He's smashing a glass on his head. All right Peter have we had a break? I can't even remember. We've not had a break. Shall we just stick one in earlier on?

I don't know. What would you want to do? That's a bit meta for the listener, saying that we're going to do it in retrospect. Did you enjoy your ad break? I'll tell you what, Pete's basically bored everyone to tears with WrestleMania chat, and it's not my fault, it's his fault. It's WrestleMania's fault. It's one of the most successful sports entertainment devices in the world ever in history.

So do you want to not talk about the most popular thing in the world or do you not want to talk about it? It's been this back involved yet or not because his wife's now doing all this government stuff, isn't she? Yeah, there's a lot of visibility of the old McMahons apart from the big dog. I think he was at the UFC, I think,

looking like a weird melted Cary Grant. Oh boy, UFC won't judge him. UFC won't. UFC have got like, you know, I don't know if you know this because we don't talk about UFC very often because I'm not a massive kind of guy on it. Pimlet or his name is he? He smashed that guy's face in. Who did? Paddy Pimlet. Pimlet.

Yeah, he's brilliant. I mean, he seems really genuinely very good. I don't know anything about the sport, but what I would say is, just so you know, UFC have basically got essentially a card carrying Nazi in the UFC and he's not been banned. No, yeah. Do you know about that? Price Mitchell. But they won't let us see it. Yeah, didn't he get the shit kicked out of him quite recently though, quite helpfully. Yeah, but Dana White's reaction to what Bryce Mitchell said about the fact, but basically Bryce Mitchell said, it wasn't even like a contextual thing, he said in an interview Adolf Hitler was a quote good guy and the Holocaust ain't real, right?

Off the back of saying loads of stuff about and loads of anti-semitic stuff Those are homophobic staffs and transphobic stuff all the usual shit. I mean, he's basically a fucking idiot We just asked about your training, mate That's my light gone off there after Dana Dana white obviously thinking with his wallet Was asked for a quote on it. And as far as I'm concerned, right the UFC was was asked for a quote on it. And as far as I'm concerned, right, the UFC was sold, I think, to Endeavor for I think four billion.

So I don't think Dana White's short of money, right? I think they're probably doing okay. They've got a lot of good fighters. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to just go and, yeah, we can't really have that. I'd just find another fighter. You know what I mean? But he said, what he said was beyond disgusting and he needs a real education on the facts

surrounding Hitler in World War II. But he's not gonna be banned. I'm not banning him now, because it's free speech. No, yeah, that is very much their viewership. It's very similar to WWE, to be honest. I mean, you look at the amount of people, quite problematic ex-WWE individuals who wrestled the weekend and they were just absolutely beloved by the crowd. But yeah, Dana White was booed on the Saturday night of

WrestleMania. He didn't turn up for the Sunday edition. He bowed when he came on the screen. Yeah, I enjoyed the quote from a journalist who covers UFC, Ariel Hoani, he said, each and every day MMA finds a way to reach a new low, a new way of embarrassing itself. There's nothing we'll be done. Say what you want, it just continues to baffle me how unbelievably stupid some of the people in this sport can be. Not exactly a ringing endorsement, but what seriously though, I don't use this word very often, spoiler, take it under a caution of what I'm about to say, what a nini. What an absolute prannit. Yeah, what a fucking pratt. What a pratt.

On that note, oy, oy. On that note, let's go. Come back on Thursday. Let's get out of here. We will air our CTE-related grievances on Thursday show. I don't even think it's that. He's only about 25. Thursday, the first of May.

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