The Luke and Pete Show - Midwest Pete

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

Hello everyone and welcome back to an all-new episode of The Luke and Pete Show! This time around, the lads imagine what it would be like if Pete grew his ponytail out properly and started running a gas station in the Midwest. Would he get addicted to meth? Instantly.Speaking of petrol stations, they always sell the duo versions of popular chocolate bars and they also always sell McCoy's crisps. Why? Meanwhile, there's also time to dissect the absolute insanity that is The Donald's latest speech about paracetamol, as well as why Pete is always on the lookout for a DVD copy of K-Pax whenever he heads to Europe.Email us: [e-mail]! You can also get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram if character-restricted messaging takes your fancy.Please fill out Stak's listener survey! It'll help us learn more about the content you love so we can bring you even more - you'll also be entered into a competition to win one of five PlayStation 5's! Click here: https://bit.ly/staksurvey2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to the Luke. Welcome to the Luke, Pete Short. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Lukimau. It is Thursday, the 25th of September, and I am feeling good in my house, in my cabin. I've just finished off a entire packet of Bonds of London's strawberry bonbons, which are from a garage. I like they call themselves Bonds of London, but they sell them in petrol stations. Yeah, there's no...

I mean, it says 1895 on the top, and it's got a picture of St. Paul's on the packet. If you're selling Bonbons to £1.25 at the SOR garage, I don't think that's true. I don't think you were established in $18.95, personally. I agree with you. I think that's confusing. The petrol station near me still,

and what is an incredible hangover from what West Norwood used to be the battles we were fighting yesterday in West Norwood still insists on you paying in advance for your petrol. That is bizarre. I mean, I imagine there's a lot more

kind of miscreants running away with the petrol, but do you not think that it's do you not think that it's kind of like it just slows everything down? Yeah, because you've got to basically be able to predict how much you're going to use Can you? Could you not use the

Is there not like pump-based card machines Like they're old school It's very old-fashioned Yeah Like bonds of London Did you always sell bonds of London 8095 sweeties I don't

It's just boxes of crisps And windscreen washer fluid There's new spicy ridge-flavoured McCoys I was going to say It's always McCoys I would say McCoy's are the, they're the definition of a petrol station

crisp. Yeah, and the very, and what you get is some kind of weird packets of meat, maybe a packet of cheese strings, and you will definitely get a pre-packaged somosa, vegetable samosa. Oh yeah, definitely, 100%. And the rest will be hughal

and bottles of water. They also have large sized chocolate bars in petrol stations, which is weird. Bigger than a human needs. So you'll get like the, so you fancy Say you fancy a whisper, right? No one said that since the 90... No one fancies a whisperer.

A whisper... I like a whisper, only with a cup of tea only, but like nobody goes into shop just for a whisper. You can only buy a duo. You can only buy whisper duos in petrol stations. Oh, so the ones that are like two smaller whispers in a big tube sort of thing. They're just not easy to carry, I find.

You just feel like you're broken. You feel like you let them whisper down. You feel like you've broken it in the middle. Do you know what I do? If I'm going to buy It's a little treat to myself this This is a proper Alan Partridge stuff Right

If I go and buy petrol And say I fancy a chocolate bar right I'll buy two chocolate bars And I'll put one In the little central storage thing Nice for later And then even during the summer months Possibly not during the summer months

But then like a few weeks later I'll be opening that up looking for saying Oh fuck there's a chocolate bar in there What a bonus and I'll eat it Yes Luke I mean so much Self care mate But if a petrol station self-care

And you could spread the love By jamming a whisper up the nozzle hall On a petrol pump And then the first thing people do They get it out And there's a whisper peaking out And they're like, yes, free whisper I've paid in advance

I ain't doing that I ain't paying in advance To shovel out of chocolate in the petrol tank In the petrol pipe, yeah I guess so That's a what delicious situation I can see With your look and your general vibe

and you're... I wonder where this is going to go. P-de-far. No. That Italian man who was jamming the petrol pump up his bum, do you remember? Oh yeah.

It was that old for that, Italian, was he? I think it was an Italian bloc hilariously because my best mate's Italian. Yeah. And I'm terrified of becoming a meme at your hands. Terrified of becoming a meme at my hands. And it's just very funny that whenever people like Kevin Spacey do,

their new film. It's always like a weird Italian director who's taken the taking a role of the dice, sort of speak, and I always send that to him as well. But she's fine with because he loves K-Pax and his favourite film. I mean, that is the most problematic thing of the whole thing you just said. It certainly is. Completely

agree. I tell you, well, I had a project on the go for a while, never saw a lot of day where it was a co-pro of another company that I won't name because it wouldn't be fair. And they kept trying to... Sounds like they were difficult. They kept trying to force Kevin Spacey on us. Like post-alligation, Kevin Spacey.

Makes a gentleman doing it himself. Well, I know. In a delicious irony, a handsome boy like me. But anyway, so I was like, I remember being on a call and going, just, guys, just, you know what I'm like, guys, just stop. We're not, we're not having Kevin Spacey on this. Yeah. It's not going to happen.

He won't do it, right, for one. I know he's at the old vicar, whatever, and he's down the road. He's not going to want to do it. And secondly, imagine taking a project to market in 2023 or whatever going, oh, and delighted to be attached with Kevin's... Like, I've got the press release. I've got a quite press release about how delightly I have being associated with Kevin Spacey. Just do a master chef, focus on the contestants.

Put it out anyway. Strong edit. To do a strong edit. Do a strong edit on it. So what I was going to say was, with your look and general vibe, I could genuinely see you running your own petrol station It's probably the Midwest maybe

Yeah I could I mean I'm wearing a TNA shirt wrestling shirt that was gifted to me A long sleeve TNA shirt And I could see myself sort of Grow my ponytail out a little bit Being absolutely addicted to meth And yeah running an all night petrol station

Where is a latter It's flashed forward Matthew McConaughey in the first season of The True Detective. It is, yeah. The moustache is getting ahead of me a little bit. It does look little. Just pounding cans of lager.

And when you finish that can of lager, you're smoking meth out of it. Yeah. I am having the odd drink in the evening these days. That's how it starts, isn't it? Is it delicious? Because my chest is like hurt of me and it's like stressing me out a bit.

It's a tired of this old of time, isn't it? Because I'm a terrible. What do you call it when you're just worried you're going to die all the time? Whatever that is. Hypercondriac? Hypercordia. I don't have chilly out, didn't it?

Having a can or having a ginger wine. It really, you know what? It really does. And I was like, if this, if a can a day keeps the doctor away, then I think that's absolutely fine. All I'll say. That's how they get you. Is that Kurt Cobain only got into heroin initially

because of his undiagnosed stomach pains. Right, okay He should have got He's how it starts He had the money He had the money didn't he He shouldn't just be I think at the start

Right, okay All right fine Right I think he's probably About a lot more money dead than he has a lie So he managed to sort of launch his entire career

Absolutely off his bonts On the old Harry heroin I think it started quite I think he was hanging out With Harry quite early on Right okay That's fair For which up from what I've read

Yeah Your chat Luke About the two whispers In a bag In a kind of packet has reminded me of the most disgusting man on the internet who is on Instagram and I don't think I've sent you him

but he's this bloc who we spoke about the top duration before because as a man of five foot eight I'm obviously fascinated by the process you've probably shrunk a bit like that since then though oh yeah emotionally just figuratively yeah I reckon I've lost a couple of inches definitely but he is this guy who's

he's gone to I think he went a turkey I think for the old or maybe somewhere else he went somewhere for the old snap your legs space them out watch the bones

go higher I thought that was China and I don't think it's exclusively Chinese anymore I think you can get them done and you can get them done in other places as well

but this guy's gone from 5 foot 7 to 6 foot 5 which well it's too much it looks ridiculous he looks like he looks like a grasshopper

because his limbs are too long his bottom limbs and he's yeah he looks an absolute freak but and he's also had he's recently got in the old put some

sebaceous fat into my penis vibe and also he's gone for the old he's gone for the old hair operation as well which must feel like it must be like he must be like spending

most of his time under these days he's just constantly having operations where they're just extending his fucking legs I mean jeez-all to go from 5 foot 8 to 6 foot 5 is way too much

I mean it is icarus it's like you've flown too close to the sun and you are also now literally closer to the sun Yeah, exactly His waxy legs are melting But like that's got to be What is that? Three, that's like nine inches, right?

Too much, isn't it? Way too much. It shouldn't be possible. What do they put in the shins? They put like splints in there or something They just break them Spitz them out and then I think they just It's like

What about the skin though? How does the skin stretch? I think the skin's the least of your problems There's the bones, isn't it? The bones that have to do all the work. But there's not enough skin, surely. There's enough skin. You can, you can, I think most skin can accommodate a gut.

It's making me feel weird stretching the skin. Thinking about that. Why is the skin the weirdest thing? Why is the skin the weirdest thing? It's the most part. That can do most of the heavy lifting. It's the bones that makes me feel sick. But he's just in the back of these kind of golden,

and tarted up SUVs that Turkish hair operation companies sort of get you from the airport and you go

you film yourself going look at this little minivan in They pick you up from the airport Yeah I think if you go

for the more bougie ones they pick you up from the airport all part of the service and they drive it to wherever you need

to be and you get your hotel and stuff I think it's all kind of sort of built in because you know

a lot of people will be thick I forgot where to go I got lost in the most want to make sure they fucking turn up. Yeah, exactly, yeah, guaranteed.

It's like, yeah, certainly. But just seeing his, like, big, long leg. He's got to walk on crutches. Of course he has. He's got to walk on crutches because he's probably on agony constantly. God knows. You don't see him off them. You don't see him off.

You see him sitting down or you see him on the crutches. It sounds like hell. Can it be reversed? I don't know. I just don't know. If you were younger and you cared more about your appearance, would it be something you'd be interested in? I mean, I was somebody who got their, needlessly got their armpits injected, didn't I?

Like, well, injected with lichen and then lasered. So maybe that will be something like, but nowadays, I'm like, I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even take like a regain or a raw gain neck nowadays, because I'm just like, just this, this might end me. But if I put anything more than a Tylenol in my mouth, that was the best Donald Trump. Oh, God, that's not talking about Tylenol. Oh, bloody hell. Tylenol.

I was listening. I was out for a change in the subject. I mean, you did announce to us live on the ramble that you had your armpits lazered. And it's one of the many occasions working with you where I just don't know where to go with it. I didn't even know it's a thing. I don't know what it means.

You're deadly serious about it. You're putting your armpits up in the air showing how that you don't sweat anymore because you've had this laser treatment. I never know where I am with it. But on that, on that Tylenol thing, you're of course referring to. Trump doing his latest fuckery. I was out for a run yesterday, beautiful afternoon for a run. Yeah.

It's a really weird situation because I had a couple hours spare, I need to go for a run. So I went out. I did about five or six miles. It didn't take me a couple hours, but you know, I had some time spare. And it was beautiful autumnal day. And it was actually very serene. I was running through

different parks, running around the back of Dulwich College. It was very quiet and pleasant. With your reputation. What do you mean? My reputation? What, for dishing out Chinese burns, guilty. Dishing out Chinese burns are the posh nerds. Running around college age youths, unbelievable.

With that mustache, outrageous. I was just running past them going, headlock, headlock, Chinese burn, headlock, headlock, headlock, slap. You stay there, I'll be back around after I've done my run. Yeah, I'm too tired to go back for the old Chinese burn. Anyway, you probably can't even say that anymore, can you? I don't know. It's one of those things that is so inert these days. I genuinely think we've got bigger problems

it sort of went like yeah I just genuinely think the Chinese go the Chinese seem completely like I've blocked up with that kind of like we are building a new generation of successful people

we don't care what you say we don't care what you say we're busy taking over baby it's mad how like oh yeah we'll suspend our belt and road initiative around the world because someone said Chinese burn Not very likely, is it?

You're not going to get our belt. You're not going to get our road. But we simply must be sensitive to other people, though, Peter. I mean, it's not, you can't, you can't just, right off, you've got to be kind. I will. In a world, Pete, where you can be anything, be kind. Be a duck. What is it?

Be a, be a dog. Be a stupid dog. But shit's everywhere. There's two dogs inside all of us. Right. And Alcation and one's a cunis. Picanese. Can I even say piccanese anymore? Yeah, well, I was going to say that, you know, in snooker and cricket, there was phrases for ways of doing things, which were, you know, kind of mentioned China and Chinese people, and they had to stop on both.

Right, okay. So I'm confused. Could you allude a little further, but without saying the words? Well, no, I'll just tell you. What they used to do for, in snooker, if you put the whiteboard, the kubel behind the color, and you snooker. and you snooker someone, you know what that means, right? Yeah.

If the white ball, cue ball was in front of the colour and therefore very difficult to queue over the top of the colour, they would call that a Chinese snooker. Right. And then in cricket, there was a type of spin bowling where the ball would spin the other way to which you'd expect,

and they would call that a Chinaman. Right, okay. Is it, is, hmm, now one would be, the snooker one, you sort of think, is that sort of in relation to how difficult the language is, how difficult and in, not imperceptible. You can't, you know, the culture is really hard to sort of get your head round. Or it's those subversive cheeky.

My assessment would be. Chinese, is that the thing? Yeah, my interpretation would be that it's, it's the opposite way to what you'd expect it to be in both cases. Therefore, it must be Chinese. Right. So it's, so it's almost like it's, upside down like Australian. Do you know what I mean?

I think on one level it is quite benign, but I totally understand that it is offensive, right? They don't do it anymore anyway. They don't say it anymore. Fascinating. Yeah, I read a really interesting long read.

It might have been an academic journal piece a while back about when the first Chinese people went to San Francisco and the effect that had on American people and most of it was totally mythical. It's where you get this kind of idea that all the surreptitious weird stuff it's happening has to be Chinese people.

It's very strange, very strange phenomenon at the time. I think it was around the turn of the 20th century maybe. I was a bit, what we're talking about, oh yeah, Trump. They built half the fucking railroads out there. The ones that they've still got were built by the Chinese and the Irish. But like, Samadisco's got a hell of a China town. Like, one of the biggest ones. Yeah, I think that's one of the first place of Chinese people arrived in the US

when they try and get as many people over as possible. I've never met anyone from like the far east. And they're like, there's a lot of them. You're like, what, what? Yeah. These aren't even, these aren't Spanish people. The, um, the Trump thing. Anyway, so I was on this run.

And, um, I was listening to Five Live Drive, as is my want. Five Live Drive. I quite like listening to Live Radio when I'm running. It feels like I'm plugged into the, to the, to the Matrix. Yeah. Anyway, so imagine the scene, you know, I'm running incredibly slowly around quite a bucolic. As Bucolic as kind of South London gets, like a nice, countryside-y, type scene.

Yeah. And Five Live just start basically trailing or running the speech that Trump gives about Tylenol. In full? In that context, it's just like, what the fuck am I actually listening to? It's like some kind of surrealist. Do you know what it sounded like? It sounded like Vic and Bob in the 90s, done like a sketch about a president.

Right, yeah. Okay. It's just so surreal and so odd. And then you've got RFK Jr. there, who I saw someone earlier describe as sounding like a drowning lawnmower, which he absolutely fucking does. Like, it's like, you can definitely imagine Vic, Reeves, being the president, saying all this surrealist, weird shit about paracetamol, and then Bob playing RFK Jr., the really weird voice.

It's Councillor Cox and Evans, if you remember that sketch. Council of Cox and Evans, yeah, it is. And they always have like a hairbrain sketch. to attract people to their part of Middlesborough or something. Yeah, and it hit me. It just hit me. I was like, this is, this is Vic and Bob. Like, you've got Bob Mortimer playing a guy with a mad voice talking about strangling a bear,

and you've got Vic Reeves as the President of the United States who's obsessed with and phobic of paracetamol. Is it just fucking, it's so spot on, like, is exactly what it is. And they're going to ban Sudafed as well. I just think, with that whole Charlie Kirk thing and now this thing, I think the surrealism of the cult has gone up a couple of notches in the past couple of months.

Oh yeah, I mean the, what was it, like a wake or something, where Charlie Kirk's kind of... It was basically a Republican National Convention, wasn't it, in everything but near. Oh, it's a memorial service. No one, none of his family are there, just his wife. His parents weren't there? None of his friends or his family were there. No, just...

His wife turned up on stage like a fucking wrestler. Yeah, with the sparks. Yeah, like Batista. It was like Batista or Goldberg or something. Very weird. Yeah. It's very strange. That's what you're up against, though, you know?

You think about like, say, and I am going to use, I know this is pejorative in the wrong context, but I think it's perfectly spot on for this. Think about normal people, like you and I. We've got our own proclivities and our own kind of ideas, and maybe some people listen to us think we're a bit strange sometimes. We're basically normal people, right? Yeah.

I don't think we've got any conception or understanding of what this, if this is going to be a great political struggle of our time, probably the collapse of Western democracy as we know it. I don't think people like us, even who are quite politically aware and interested, have any idea what the rules of the game even are anymore, let alone what we're dealing with. Like, I see people in my WhatsApp,

I'm on loads of groups like with political stuff from my masters or just friends who are interested or whatever. People who work in politics, I know quite a few of them as well. And they are having conversations about this stuff. And I'm just thinking, I think you're fighting yesterday's battle. I think you seem to be quite annoyed that there's hypocrisy and they're tearing up the rule book and stuff. It's like, get with the fucking program.

They don't care. They do not fucking care. They're not playing a board game with you. They are smashing the board game over your fucking head and kicking you out the house. And then when you're outside the house, they're sitting you on fire. And you're going, oh, well, that's not,

you didn't roll a five. You can't do that. Forget it. But it's not, isn't the way that they're sort of doing it, it kind of, they're so cack-handed at it. And they're so kind of, the sort of thing that, you know, governments would historically have put pressure on TV networks to play the game when it comes to thin skin presidents. And it will have happened all the way through, you know, the 19th 20th century, right? Or the 20th century, rather.

It would have happened all the way through that because of that's how, you know, politics works. But because you've got so many fucking podcasts available for, you know, these so-called personalities to go on and sort of shout out their game plan, in open, like in open waters, like people kind of can hear them their plans before they actually enact them. So they're doing it so cack-handedly. They're doing it so poorly that none of kind of, um, none of it eventually works. They make a big noise. They, they, they, they, they're governed by, you know, tweets or whatever. And then they don't end up actually enacting the thing that they wanted to do because they do it illegally because they've sort of gave away the game plan. They're not, they're not, they're not, they're not tacticians. They're not very clever at it. So that's

Kind of the saving grace, do you not think? Stuff like the, you know, you're named on this Riverside recording as Vanessa Carlton, singer of a thousand miles. A woman who is described by a lot of the left wing media as being, you know, very successful singer Vanessa Carlton. She is very successful, but her boycotting a fucking Disney thing does not really, it doesn't really, it's not really that much of a blip for anyone, is it, to worry about. You know, Vanessa Carlton's out.

I just posted that as my name because it came on my shuffle earlier. Oh, right. Well, she's been in the news because all of like the, you know, the minds. Titus touch and stuff are going, well, Vanessa Carlton, popular singers, she's boycotted a Disney fucking, fucking Neil Young boycott Spotify and then no one noticed. You know what I mean? That shit sailed. That shit is long gone.

But no, I don't agree with you entirely, no, because I do think that you could look at it either way. With the Jimmy Kimmel stuff, you could say what you've just said, and I totally get it as a viewpoint. But my counter would just be that, is it that or is it like, this is a warning? you know this is this is yeah all right you can go back on air but don't fucking do it again and it's no coincidence the day that he was announced that he's going back on ABC the FCC chair who was a fucking Trump lapdog appeared with a Trump gold pin on his lapel literally a bust of

Donald Trump on his lapel on his suit in a job where he's supposed to be entirely apolitical and neutral in terms of what his responsibilities are. So, look, it's, my argument would just be that it's just a lot more insipid, a lot more sinister than that. Yeah. But do you not think that, like, they've revealed a lot of levers that the Democrats, if they tell about the House, relevant. The Democrats can't do shit, mate.

They can't really. That's right. They won't pull the levers. That's the problem. It's like me saying to you, with the Democrats at the moment, it's like me saying to you, Oh, do you think it's kind of letting on a bit showing that little slug where you keep your salt pot? The slug can't do anything about it.

Slug's going to fucking die. It doesn't matter. The fact that the slug knows, the fucking provenance of the salt that's about to, you know, send him to his inevitable and painful death is not going to be any comfort. Anyway, let's have a break.

When we come back, we've got batteries to do. We got batteries and beef paste. Not beef paste. Batteries. We're back with the Luke and Pete Shaw, and we have got some batteries for you from the celebrated, venerated. Pilot Neal! Pilot Neal's got in touch. Yes. Dear Luke, dear Pete, just wanted to add my two cents to a passing comment that was made in a recent episode regarding the touring and travelling arrangement of boy bands. A while back, I was part of the crew that flew one direction from London to Tokyo.

Lovely. When I'm pilot, Neil, must be one of my series pilots if he's doing that stuff. cannot imagine the did they all fly separately in like the KFC secret secret powder guys did you see that Harry Stiles I saw something that I really rated

the other day I saw that two things that Harry Stiles did which I thought were very impressive one was that he his marathon yeah well that was one of them one was that he turned up to his childhood friend's wedding

without any kind of without any kind of like ceremony to accept his invitation turned up sat on the table did his thing and everyone was full of how great a guy he was which I thought was nice given that he's probably quite

hard to stay grounded when you're Harry Stiles and the second thing was that he and honestly signed up as you just mentioned to do a marathon ran it in like basically partial disguise with sunglasses on in under three hours I mean Is that good?

Mate you'd be very very hard pushed to find anyone that could do a marathon I mean not anyone I can't do anything for three minutes I get distracted I said

Three hours, I mean. Sorry, two hours. Look, I don't want to overstate it, but I think, I think it used to be the case that if you run under three hours, the London Marathon, you get to be in the elite runners bit. Okay.

So it's serious. Like, it's serious. Like, I mean, the fact that he did it in that time, it was incredible to me. He must keep himself an amazing knit given his lifestyle. I mean, he really must do that. Anyway, carry on. Pilot Neal.

Well, he did run the marathon, but he did go under a nom de plume on the running. and he named the Netflix CEO as the name, which I thought was Licksbittal stuff. Real fucking... Give us a Giss a series. Gizzy. Giz a fucking series, mate.

It reminds me of when my mate, we all run the Great South Run, and my mate had a bet against my other mate who would do it faster. And then the mate who won, it was like a decent bet for like, I don't know, a night out or something. We were quite a bit younger, so it was quite a sizable bet for if someone pays for a night out. And my mate won, and he went to go and claim his prize for my other mate.

And then when we looked up the – and we all knew he'd won. We all knew he'd, like, finish way ahead. And we looked up the official timings. And my friend who thought he'd won, and therefore won the bet, had accidentally attached his chip to his wife's trainers. And the other way around. Oh, nice. She ran a lot slower.

And so he came in, there was like 15 minutes behind his men. And we all knew it was bullshit, but it was like the most amazing loophole. So you had to just basically accept defeat. Oh, fantastic. Excellent. I can remember my other mate going, I can still remember him now saying, we really do have to go on the official standings. How else are we going to do this?

Yeah, exactly. Anyway, pilot, Neil. I hope that guy like spitting his drink. Anyway, so part of Neil has taken one direction from London to Tokyo when they're going out on tour. As you may expect, very well looked after on board. But it was notable that while the boys were in business class, their management were in first class.

The most memorable part of the trip was actually when they arrived in Tokyo, which I'm sure is the close I'll ever come to experience in the hysteria of Beatlemania. I've just gone and found a video on YouTube and if anything, it's more mental than I remember. A podcast isn't the ideal medium for video, but the link is below.

And I mean, I'm fairly certain. Did we expose Pilot Neal as a Bay Air pilot? I think we may have done at some point. They move around, are these pilots? They go with the money, baby. I guess so. But presumably, the business class and the first class

isn't there's not that much difference is there oh they've come out in kimonos outrageous behavior outrageous adoption of the yeah it's pretty full on in it how how um mob they're being yeah i wonder i wonder where pilot neal is in this in this little

he's filming it probably yeah he probably had to turn turn off the turn off the plane or something i don't know but uh is that henada feels like it's henada that would be the sensible one to go into anyway uh pilot niels come in with the battery May I also take this opportunity to resubmit what I believe is a rare battery find whilst on the hunter to Polish flea market

I love European flea markets they are the best What's the best thing you've bought from one? Best To be honest Every time I go anywhere in Europe these days It's with my three friends Alex Craig and Mattie

And all we do in the flea markets Is look at the DVDs to see if you can find a copy of care packs So yes I previously submitted this species last year says Pilot Neal but I never got a year near verdict on his perspective entry into the BD we sometimes get so excited

and clearly Pilot Neal by virtue of his excellent career he's got to be details guy and we just get so excited that pilots talking to us funny and we yeah we get so excited

sometimes we don't put them in the battery daddy or not I don't always see I don't always see, we get a lot of, I mean, one thing we do get in our email inbox is a lot of battery entries, right? And I have to essentially look for what ones I can find when we're about to record. Sometimes it's just luck of the draw, right? So I don't mind you resubmitting. It's fine. Yeah, absolutely.

If you feel like you haven't, you haven't had your day in court in front of your angry men. Yeah. Your's anticipation, palat, nil. Rakita, rakita. R. Air Care, I-E-T-A, Rakita. Yeah, so Neil first sent those in. I've done some research off the back of this,

because I apologize to pilot Neil for this the first time around. So he sent these in April of 2024. It was missed. It was an email about Flight 666, the Iron Maiden JumboJet and the Air Force One and all that type of stuff. And it was just on the end of it, and we didn't include it. So he sent it in April of last year. it was a brand new player then

he's resent it now in September of 2025 and I can confirm it's still a new player now so it's such a rare new player that it's not even been seen again in 18 months fantastic well congratulations pilot Neil as I said he just knows the details

hello to Dave not not the drug professor one hashtag legalise it hello look Pete long time listeners since the Pete somebody isn't very occasionally emailer my last email was

a successful battery submission from Mombasa. This time I present you the AAA Kendall battery from our air conditioning unit in a holiday apartment in Cotor Bay. It's not one I recall, but that also doesn't sound very exciting, does it? Kendall, has that been sent in before? It's in Montenegro. Yeah, he's in Montenegro. I mean, Cotor Bay, I googled that earlier.

It looks absolutely beautiful. Have you seen what it looks like there? Yeah, I'm trying to sort of figure out what. What vantage point that? No, I'm not being to Montenegro. It's interesting, like all of the pictures of this part, this bear, are from a very high vantage point. I don't really know what's down there.

It looks beautiful, though. Look, unfortunately, David, I'm pleased to hear you're not the guy that I think quite unfairly lost your job as the government science advisor or whatever it was on drug policy. Hopefully you've got a job and you've not lost it unfairly. Kendall are not a new player though you are the 36th person to send in Kendall batteries

which surprised me I didn't think it'd be that many but them's the brakes yeah okay what was the story of Dave Nut he just sort of David Nutt he just sort of David Nutt wasn't it he um

Missal was it under I think it might have been under the Labour government um oh he said that horse riding was more dangerous than ecstasy correct that's right yeah so it's probably ill-advised

you know he was I mean the problem was I think as far as I remember, he was literally employed to look at the scientific basis for dangers involving recreational drugs, which he then did, right? Yeah. Now, maybe he said some kind of unadvised things or whatever about like that kind of tough stuff, particularly in the out and the presumably in the aftermath of like the Leobetz incident and stuff like that. But he just got binned. He just got unceremoniously binned because it was bad policy to follow his advice, basically. Right.

Yeah, it didn't fit where he, you know, governmentally, they felt where they needed to be. It's a more diluted version of what certain people are experiencing over the pond, I imagine. But, yeah, Dave Knott has come in with Kendall. Is it a new player? Look him on. I've already fucking told you, Pete. Oh, sorry, I completely missed it. I said it's the 36 person to send them in.

All right, well, David Knott. So read that Professor David Nutt and listen to my answer. He's off his head on nuts. He's off his head on drugs. David Nutt. What's wrong with you, David, Nut? You like Professor David off his nut. Yeah.

You reminded me. my son then who's two asking questions not listen to the answers what doing um yeah over and over again um yeah so uh in the on the um wikipedia page for david not um there is a uh obviously he's got all of the stuff government positions psychedelics career summary and research and then he's got the dismissal part um we just as we're recording um dicky bird the um um umpire uh the cricket umpire It's passed away, sadly. And I was trying to wrap my brain. I was thinking, has he ever, is he one of those blokes who's got like,

who will have one of those obituaries that are kind of quite complex? And I was like, no, he's absolutely clear, according to my preliminary Googles. The only controversy Dickie Byrd has ever seemed to have got into was an incident at the 1980s centenary test between England, Australia. It's about a waterlogue pitch. Yeah, about a waterlog pitch. they had a bit of a scrap about a waterlog pitch

and that seems to be the audience I have no grounding in cricket at all he may have said to problematic things but a very rare national treasure who seems to have passed without pissing all over his legacy it's fascinating yeah there's a load of posh people

at Lords who were kicked off weren't they apparently apparently when you look up Dickie Bird controversy right AI which is, let's be honest,

is absolute slop, right, but... Gone to the UKIP guy. Yeah, said there's another guy with the same name as Dickie Bird. He said some hobophobic stuff back in 2015, but this is not Dickie Bird, the cricket guy. So even the big controversy that you could attribute

isn't even him. Isn't even him. Yeah, I think with, we could all do with a little UKIP, Pete Donaldson and Luke, we can sort of pin stuff on. No, he was the bond run around colleges, dispensing burns to the arms.

Very much as Jupiter of our solar system, gravitation of Paul putting all the problematic things into their to its orbit. Of course he was using terms like Chinese bird because he was

he's UKIP right funny for now Gordon Gjordan Jordan of hard bin man dad fame we had a story

where I think bin man dad had a scrap or threatened to have a scrap and we got a picture of him and he looked absolutely steely and tough

and yeah he looked like he could handle himself on the deck of a ship On the recent topic of dreams It's a great compliment to pay so on I think so On the recent topic of dreams

I know most dream chat is boring But I wanted to mention a story that happened With my sadly now passed away Father-in-law He was once having a dream That most of us have had Stepping up to take a penalty for England To clinch the World Cup

He steps up and he goes to kick And he follows through on You know And he wants to follow through To certainly be the national hero His dream is abruptly interrupted With the brutal reality Of him painfully kicking the wall

Full Force Fortunately no brother I can put a story I often think back fondly of because how quickly you can be brought back to earth with that absolute terrible foot pain. To help with this, I've also included a battery taken from my multi-meter. No doubt not a new player, but worth a punt to get into that battery daddy. It's a 9-volt heavy-duty battery.

I think it might be one of those normal 9-volters, but he's taking a picture of it. It's such a weird angle. It looks like the sort of thing you would find. It looks like the sort of battery you see in a radio control car. Yeah, it does. Golto, G-O-L-T-O-E, is a brand-new player. All right there.

Congratulations. Well done. So that's two out of three this week. Very, very good. Your father-in-law, no. Yes, father-in-law's bad fun. Right, we'll be back on Monday. So look after yourselves.

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