The Luke and Pete Show - My name is Grandma
Episode Date: September 29, 2025The lads open proceedings by chatting about a picture of Pete's dad's quite strange-looking foot, which has been provided to us in x-ray format via whatsapp. When is a bunion not a bunion? Quickly, di...scussion progresses to the story on everyone's lips - the advent of Kerry Katona and Katie Price's live tour. Why did Kerry say that about Katie's son Harvey?Elsewhere, there's hijackings, emails about government procurement and we may have found someone who's actually worse than Pete at small talk. And he's been accused of quite a serious crime...Email us: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com! 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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It's the Luke and Pete Shaw with me, Pete Donaldson and Mr. Lukie Mo.
How are you doing?
I'm doing all right, thank you. How are you?
I'm good. It's quite rare. I do a show with a YouTuber called Chris Broad. You might be familiar with it. It's a Broad Japan and it comes out every Monday and Thursday. And he always starts the show, he introduced the show and then he says, how are you doing, Pete? And I've always, I'm always scrambling. I've never done anything that week and I'm always scrambling. I don't know what I've done. I don't know what I've done. I don't know what I'm thinking about. And I try and turn the question back onto him and what he's doing because he's in Japan and basically it's a show where I interview him about his experience in Japan because I'm not in Japan, et cetera. And, and,
it's not quite nice to throw
how are you doing Luke
to you to be quite right
I'm doing right
I never stop talking
so you never stumble or fumble
no I don't
I noticed that
I did fight and talk
on BBC 5 live
yes
a couple of weekends ago
and I noticed that
and now I noticed that the
in the way that that show is set up
I've always got loads of things to say
and it's taking me a while to get used
to the idea that actually it's an hour
and there's like five people on it
and you can't keep talking
so you've got to be really concise
bring that to
bring that to Stack Towers
because then you'd be fucked
wouldn't you wouldn't be a talk
I'll talk about
I'll talk about
well we ended the last show
talking about
I think his name is Jordan's
ex-father-in-law
who once booted a wall
because he thought he was scoring
the winning penalty
I don't think he's ex-father
and he's just a father-in-law that's no longer with us
yes I sometimes find that
That's why I can't do fighting talking.
I would be disrespectful by accident.
Yeah.
My dad just sent me a picture of his foot.
Would you like to see?
Would you like to see a picture of my dad's foot?
Obviously.
Obviously.
There you go.
Whoa, man.
There's like a claw.
Look at that.
Look at what the tour's up to.
It's absolutely.
It's like crossing over.
It's a bunion.
It's like started to sort of start a new
like Tor
very weird
It looks like a
It looks like
The fossil of like an archaeopteryx bird
It looks like a little beak
But it's just weird that like
The tour is just sort of deciding
To comfort the tour next to it
By just clambering on it
And like he has to sort of presumably decide
Whether it goes on the top of his tour
Or the bottom of his tour
Very weird
Why has he sent you here?
I think it was, I mean, I always knew he had gammy feet,
but I think just seeing that that aberration at the top of his foot
was really good stuff.
It looks just like a commonal garden bunyan to me.
And what a way to start a show.
But bunions are just flesh, aren't they?
They're not born.
Oh, I don't know.
It just looks like the shape of one.
The bone's sort of gone out and then come back in again
and it's falling in on itself.
I think a bunion's just like fleshy, flesh, flesh, isn't it?
Is there any way, is there any better way to start the week?
I mean, think of people that listen to this now, probably on their way into work.
It's a Monday, a new week's upon us, and they're looking forward to what the week may bring,
and then they think, bangedishists have spoiled their trousers with excitement.
Apparently a bunion is a bony bump at the base of the big toe, causing the big toe to drift towards the other toes.
Yeah, it's the direct dictionary definition of it.
I've just never seen such an extreme example.
Like my dad's,
my dad's foot looks like an arrowhead.
Fascinating.
It does.
It's disgusting.
So what I wanted to bring to the table to start the show this week
is that we had a lot of people respond
to the Katie Price, Kerry Katona, spoken word tour.
That I dipped out of.
Yeah, because have you seen what happened
at the show in Whitley Bay.
So I think
I've seen two stories about this.
One was, I think the Newcastle one,
Jordan didn't turn up until like half nine or summer.
Yeah, so.
She was very late indeed.
This was covered in the Newcastle Chronicle
and it said that
the show was supposed to start at 7.30.
It didn't start until 8.
8 o'clock rolled around.
Kerry Cotoner, God bless her, is on the stage on her own.
And they've chucked Katie Price up on video link in the car.
I mean, they must have had that prepared.
Good God.
They must have had that prepared.
Wherever she is, she can do it on the phone, presumably.
It's crazy.
It's absolutely insane to do that.
So excited.
You just sort of lost her breath there.
She did eventually turn up and they did end the show at around half past 10
with a rendition of the atomic kit and classic hole again.
Now, had she arrived with her?
with Harvey because the
I think that was the scene that I saw
on one of the tour shows
and bearing of mind
they've got a lot of shows to get through
one of the shows ended with
her singing Atomic Kitten
but it was quite upsetting
to see Kerry Ketona
shout, ball, bark
at in the direction of Harvey
you still turn me on
you can make me whole again
oh that's not good that's not good
I mean he's of age now I suppose but it just seemed
it left a taste in my mouth to be quite frank
yeah i think she's probably got carried away there and thought that would be a sweet
cute thing to do hadn't think at thought of the lyrics
no apparently this yeah this has been reported in the uh in the sun newspaper and was looking
now carrie cotona branded quote wrong as she sings song about being turned on by katie price's
son
i mean it's 23 now harvey god bless it 23 yeah yeah oh there you go
oh it's 33 dates this tour it's going to wear thin pretty quick if this is the gruel
they're serving up already.
It sounds like they're panicking already.
It's, you know, it's the
equivalent of the ramble doing
a bit where I dance, which we've done
repeatedly in all of our shots.
Yeah, but that's the best bit.
That's the best bit.
That's the best bit. That's the meat.
Yeah, so apparently Katie Price said that
it's taken her nine hours to get to Whitley Bay.
I don't know where she was coming from,
fucking Bangkok or something.
Yeah.
And she was running on stage for half an hour.
Yeah.
Yeah, job done.
I mean, she'd better do a signing, surely.
She'd better get out there and do some work.
Here's the most damning quote from the whole thing
from a very unhappy punter, according to the Sun newspaper.
They didn't even say sorry.
Love that.
Such a British thing, isn't it?
Yeah, just say sorry.
Say sorry and we'll be much more likely to forgive it.
But I'm looking forward to going now.
I mean, I haven't got anyone to go with.
I'm going to go on my own,
possibly the biggest midlife crisis cry for her.
help of my life so far um but um i'm excited for it yeah um well god does you you know you start
you start you run with one shore and by the end it's you know it's grown into something different
i think that's really nice it's a nice thing i don't think that's going to happen to them is it it evolves
i don't think i don't think that's going to happen to them mate no i think i think they're
going to slowly but surely start scraping the ground where the barrel used to be that's what i think's
that happen.
Like we all are really in this life.
Make more barrel.
Make floor barrel.
That's just extending the barrel.
It's not scrape the barrel.
It's making more barrel.
Not ideal.
But in other news, by the way,
speaking of, you know,
amazingly dangerous things
making landfall,
apparently it's a hurricane on the way.
To what?
To our aisles,
the United of Kingdoms?
To our fair, septed aisle.
And we've had winds.
Like you wouldn't believe,
like my neighbours,
I've got to get in their
getting their roof converted, the loft converted,
and they're scaffolding.
I'm surprised it's still up.
It's been absolutely whipping, whipping around here.
Maybe we're right in the middle of it now then,
but the BBC are reporting that there's something
that's formed over the Mid-Atlantic,
and it's heading this way.
Oh, my God.
And it's going to get here on Monday,
which is the day we're recorded,
a day was just shows that they come out.
I mean, we were recording a couple days before,
but like, it's, yeah, apparently it's on it's way, big boy.
I'm worried that we would
I'm worried that
what if the ships
that are in the
you know the the the estuary next to my house
what if they just find that way into my house
what if they get blown off course
and there's no foghorn to let them know where
and they just end up in my house
there was a I don't know what I said out on the show
there was this famous
I've said it on the I don't think I've said up
the Newcombe show but I've sent it on one podcast
there was a ship in 2015 that went
down in a hurricane
and I think it was in like
the kind of sort of Bermuda way
where a lot of this sort of thing seemed out
in the Caribbean
and they steered
they made a bad decision
and they found their self in
it was a merchant ship
found its way into
the eye of a hurricane basically
if indeed they have eyes
and basically it went
it went down
and just broke apart and went down
and it just fucked
and the last recording
of one of the sectors of the ship
ended with someone going
R-R-R-Roe like Scooby-Doo.
What?
Why?
It's basically this transcript
that they read out in the investigation
afterwards and it says like
one unknown person goes
R-Rot-Roe like Scooby-Doo
and then someone goes, what was that?
And then end transmission.
What a twist.
R-Rut-Roe.
It goes down.
You go down on a ship
No souls
300 souls on board
No one survives
And the legacy for your family
Is an accidental Scooby-Doo impression
I think so
Yeah I think that's true
I kind of hope that's true
Because I mean there's
You know
Everyone thinks they've got
As discussed before my
Potential drowning in Costa Rica
My last words would have been
Hey look at this
It's really cool
Look at what I can do
It's really cool
That's not so bad
That's not I
But that's the effect of rot row
Isn't it?
That makes me
but that's a very Pete Donaldson thing to say
like I would take
small comfort from knowing
that those were your last words
I did that's definitely a bit of Pete that
because I would always
automatically assume that your last words would be
some kind of tantrum before you walked off
in front of a car or something
right
I wasn't wanking
I wasn't wanking actually
that's so good
by the way you mentioned
you mentioned it going down in Bermuda
I think
the Bermudeau the Bermude
Bermuda Triangle was a big deal for kids when we were young.
QuickSand, Bermuda Triangle.
We used to hear about Bermuda Triangle all the time.
Yeah.
Because no one would investigate that shit.
And if they did, you'd never hear about it because there was no internet.
You just think, oh, yeah, fucking out.
Like, it's a, it's a thing.
It's like an actual thing.
It just seems like, why has anyone going down there then?
Why is anyone doing anything down there?
Do you reckon they still, do you reckon people avoid it still?
I reckon, I reckon people are a bit like, whoa, we're going into the Bermuda.
Bermuda Triangle, uh-oh, Spaghetti.
Have we not found a way around it?
It just seems that...
Probably, yeah.
It's just a lot of storms around there, isn't it?
That's the problem.
And back then, you couldn't really sort of navigate around them
because you didn't know they're coming.
Yeah, I think there was apparently a study down in 2013
for the 10 most dangerous waters for shipping
and the Bermuda Triangle wasn't in there.
And I don't think there are more...
The bearing? Is the bearing up there?
I don't know which ones were.
I mean, I can love a look if you want.
I'll just Google it.
but I don't think there's also
I don't think there's any more per capita
like aircraft incidents
either than you'd expect
The world's most dangerous waters for shipping
The South China Sea
The Gulf of Guinea
I guess the Gulf of Guinea is probably for piracy
The Strait of Malacca
Cape Horn and the Drake Passage
the Bay of Biscay
and some parts of the North Sea
due to storms
I once
sailed across the Cookstrait
between the north and south
island and that was fucking choppy.
I was well surprised
the ferry even went across.
That might be in an absolute wet blanket maybe.
It's amazing what you kind of can
like what, you know,
people dealing with like massive fucking swells
and some ships obviously,
their very size can't, don't give a shit.
They can't give a shit.
They're like, we're too big.
Just do with it. It's absolutely fine.
I was one of the excellent mentor pilot plane crash videos
Where
That's what you do all the time
You just watch plane crash videos on YouTube
I don't watch, I listen to him
He's got a very calming voice
And he talks about
I think it was a good
I think it was an African carrier
Who basically just didn't bring enough fuel
He didn't bring enough fuel
And as he came through the clouds
Apparently when you're dishing water
You've got to line the plane up
I tried to let's shoot one for Pilot Neil
apparently you've got to line it up with the swell
so you don't smash into a wave
I mean it kind of makes sense I suppose
and break open the ship and stuff
but I love a bit of mentor pilots
very relaxing
there's a load of
there's a load of airlines
banned from EU airspace aren't there
for exactly that stuff for like not being
diligent enough and things like that
so if you look at say
the countries where
the airlines are banned from
flying into EU airspace.
You've got some stuff like Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine and say Liberia doesn't
have an airline, that kind of stuff.
But like the amount of like countries, to be fair, most of them are African.
But apparently all airlines from Armenia are banned from EU airspace, which sounds quite
restrictive given the geographical location of Armenia.
Just sort out your safety record.
But is it not just like these kind of like fleets that have like got one seven for seven?
and they're just like, it's all we got.
This is our airline.
We've got one seven four seven and it's been in service since
1973, do you know, and that sort of thing?
You're like, fucking hell.
I think that applies to Nepal,
because apparently Nepal's only got one airline
and there's absolutely no motivation for them to be any good.
Right, okay, yeah.
Yeah, and they seem like the most difficult places
to sort of, you know, deal with.
All of the Nepal airports are really difficult to fly into it.
Probably be brilliant.
Pilots would probably be amazing, wouldn't they?
Yeah, well, yeah, you think so.
I mean, but it'd be very sort of, you know,
oldie-timey kind of 1940s World War II sort of piloting, wouldn't it?
It wouldn't necessarily be IELS approaches and stuff.
Like, let's do this on the stick, yeah.
And apparently the Venezuelan national carrier,
Avial Airlines is banned because of repeated hijacking incidents,
which is a lovely throwback.
Lovely throwback.
Yeah, you don't really see, you don't sort of see hijackings anymore.
Oh, dear, because people would, I guess,
we spoke about this before with September 11th and stuff.
You imagine that, like, nowadays,
that sort of hijacking wouldn't work anymore
because people would know that that plane
might be smashed into the ground,
or somewhere else.
So people would sort of, yeah.
Did you see how, I might have mentioned this to you before
a long, long time ago,
but have you seen the sheer amount of hijackings
in the United States in the 1970s?
Oh, they're all at it.
It was brilliant.
It was like a proper, like,
it was real, the regar stuff.
Yeah
People jumping out of
DC whatever's
With a suitcase full of cash
Love it
A bunch of like
Just bunch of black panthers
Sam right take me to Cuba
I want to go Castro
Like over and over again
People just wanted to go to Cuba
Like
Yeah
It's crazy
The DB Cooper one's really interesting
Because that's obviously
Yeah that's
And that guy
Do whoever that guy was
Yeah I know it's a hugely
Traumatic
Don Draper
It was Don Draper
Well yeah
Could be
He didn't kill anyone
did he just he did from like and yet like you say hijacks were happening all the time back then because
there was just no security no yeah he also i know no one died but the thing is it's obviously
going to be really traumatic for the people on the flight i think i think by the time he jumped out
wasn't there i think the only block on there was the pilot wasn't he didn't they stop get some
money and then they flew up and then and then uh he jumped out he told he told the um cabin crew that
he had a bomb yeah oh yeah i mean that that bit's quite stressful but
As I said, ten a penny back then.
Ten a penny back then. There were procedures.
Yeah, he jumped out of the back of the plane with a parachute, didn't it?
And he's never been found since.
That's amazing.
Amazing story.
I mean, one thing I would say, I mean, I'm obviously generally not in support of hijacking planes.
But you've got to have a pair of balls on you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I've got to have a pair of knives on you, I suppose.
Oh, you've got to be, you've got to study people's, you've got to be able to study.
manipulate people, I suppose.
It takes confidence,
you're not doing that.
There's no way
you've got the comments
do it.
No. I'd be terrible.
When the high jacking is happening,
I'd have to indulge in a bit of small talk,
which I am absolutely terrible at.
I think your hijacking would be
saying to call the
cabin crew member over.
Just say to them,
I've got a bomb and I'd like to hijack this plane.
Is that all right?
No worries if not.
That would be you.
No worries.
Only if you've got time.
Only if you've got time.
What do you mean you can't take,
You can't make Tokyo on this fuel.
Unbelievable.
What's your tactic going to be?
I am going to switch all of these back of the seat entertainment devices to watch all of
Curby enthusiasm.
Curvy.
If you do not turn it around.
Also, what about, I just, guys, don't panic.
I don't mean to hijack.
I just really, really want to jump out of a plane with a parachute.
So can you just lower it a bit?
so I can do it, open the back door, deep pressure off the cabin, open the back door, and I'll
be away. I'll be going away, yeah. And I'll give you my word that you won't be responsible for
whatever happens to me. Yeah, exactly. Give us, give us what, let me just climb to him on one of those
little part halls. Because I guess the front of the plane, you can't you? The pilots can open
the windows. So I just go in the pilot. Can they look? Not a 40,000 feet. How do they
breathe? No, I imagine that would be difficult. Well, you pressurized at that point, but I imagine,
yeah, that that would be physically difficult. Oh, so when you're lowering down,
You could, yeah, you could certainly open.
You can open the window lower than whatever miles or whatever.
Yeah, when I was flying to Calabra, we were in a plane.
I only flew at 1,500 feet, and it was like, you could open the window.
Yeah, stick your finger out.
I want to go out.
I don't do that.
I tell you what, before, you don't see them around very often, but I saw a couple of airships recently on me travels.
And, God, those look chill.
Those look like a lot of fun.
very like it feels like it's got the safety of
it looks like it's got the safety of like
an airline with all of the
you know the things you can get up to on an airline
bit of food bit of telly or whatever
but oh the grace of it all
and the quiet as well
you reckon it would be quiet
yeah I think so it's not like
it's not helicopter or plane loud
I've seen videos where
you know for promotional reasons
they'll get like wrestlers up and yeah it's good
it looks really chill
I would like to go on an airship
though I imagine the ones in the UK
wouldn't be very nice
I'll tell you what doesn't look chill
the Hindenburg disaster
well I forget which
was it hydrogen
was that the problematic one I forget
one like yeah one of them's fucked
one was absolutely fucked
one of them absolute
one gas fucked it
it was hydrogen wasn't it
it's very very flammable
pretty quick
I know what you mean though
I mean though
I mean it looks quite
it's something quite retro futuristic
about it
yeah
and like you know
Indiana Jones is probably going to be
having like fight in one
A bit of that, yes, a bit of that.
Other than that.
Have you seen any of the new Alien Earth series?
I haven't, no.
People have been saying it's exactly that.
Pretty good.
Pretty good.
And what's really interesting about it is being done
in a retro futuristic style.
So, like, you know when you saw the prequel to the Star Wars movies?
Yeah.
It's a bit weird because they're supposed to be before the movies,
but they're so much better.
Not much better.
Yeah.
Whereas this one is done.
it's set before
I can't remember exactly where it is in the timeline
but it's set in the future
but obviously it's being done
in a retro futuristic way
so the technology they're using
stuff is like pleasingly
quite 1970s
right
and that's where the charm comes from
that's where like I think the video game
Starfield was this kind of NASA
futuristic kind of stuff where everything looks
like a dumb terminal and everything's
like whoa
my cat's a cat
what a
What on earth!
Alicited that problem?
Wow! The howling of that cat was amazing.
One of them's in the seat with the other one wants to be in.
Dickheads.
Carry on.
They're always at it.
One's in the comfy seat.
One of them's trying to get the other seat out of the comfy seat
to just be better.
Yeah, I love anything like that.
I love that kind of, you know, 70- sci-fi vibe to stuff.
It just makes it feel more realistic and more kind of weight.
Yeah, it's good.
I think it's a good show
It started off a little bit slow
I wasn't that into it at the start
But it's really come on
Anyway, let's have a break
Because I've got a couple of emails
I want to do, mate
We're back with Luca Peter
And we've got just enough time
To give you a couple of emails
If that's right with you
Yes, well, it's all right with me, Peter
This one's from Andy
Who's got back in touch
Off the back of the chat
on civil servant
And government
Procurement
Now it's not as boring
As I've made it sound there.
Okay, he says, hi, guys.
Did we not talk about this last week?
Like a, you know, a little rubber, nothing.
Yeah, it's a follow-up.
It's a follow-up, me.
70 quid or something.
Yeah.
He says, I'll work in government, and as a proud member of the Luke Nation,
I'd like to point out that Luke is correct on two things,
but potentially wrong on the third.
Yes, you're right.
Government waste is excessive, and they fail to address the recommendations from staff
and instead do horrendous things,
such as canceling estates, facilities, management contracts,
and then retender at a lower price,
which then cuts the wages of all the essential workers.
workers. He's also right that our contacts for other procurement with large management consultancies
like PWC, Accenture or E&Y are quite scandalous. Having spent five years working for one of
those before moving over, I can say firsthand the contracts are a joke. And if the public knew,
there'd probably be riots. Examples include charging and government hours billed for managers
when they actually just provide a lower grade and justify it as a temporary promotion for the
contract. They have follow-on clauses which poorly trained.
government lawyers don't consider, you know, and he said, however, for Peaks' interest on military
procurement, Luke did slightly miss the mark. Yes, military contractors also shaft the government,
your example of $350 for a cork. However, this is because the items procured usually need to meet
certain or specialist safety standards. To use your truck and drainage whole cork analogy,
if that truck is carrying corrosive liquids or fuel, the cork must make sure.
it doesn't rot or get destroyed, which would lead to leakage. Also, you have no idea where the
truck might be operating. Hence, the cork would need to work at minus 30 in Norway or plus 45 in the
desert. The cork must be able to expand or shrink and still do its job. If either of you have
watched a West Wing, I haven't. There's a great episode on this where Christian Slater's cameo
explains why an ashtray or glass bowl costs so much. He goes to smash the civilian version
and it explodes into a million pieces. He then says, imagine if a small
bit of that glass got stuck behind the missile launch button would all be fucked, highlighting
a military one would be required to make to a higher tolerance. So you said there's a lot
of detail in that, a lot of dev in the detail, but an interesting follow-up on what we were
talking about. I think so. And it's almost unfortunate that we used the £350 for a cork analogy
because I think you probably could make a pretty good cork for 50 quid. I think you probably
could. But you know what I mean. I'm going to chuck on another.
the email onto the email at Barbecue
if that's right with everybody
we got one from Jack
Jack Jack Jack Jack
Jack Jack Jack he's my
bobby boo
A little Jackie boy
Jackie
Hello fine gentlemen
On the last show when Luke mentioned
First meeting someone you shake their hand
And say your name and expect them to say theirs
Well you're struggling with this don't you die
I certainly do
Yeah I actually saw someone
worse than me at Small Talk
And it was a man
Who has been accused
of the disappearance of
Madeline McCamp
that gentleman
who was in a phone shop
and he's a suspect
isn't he I think this fella
and if he's not
he's on the news
he's on the news talking about anyway
he was caught on a security
camera showing
basically in a phone shop
you know those kind of phone shops where you just
buy in either vapes or phone cases
do you know any of those kind of shops he's in there
and he's got small talk with the
up behind and in in i want to say Portugal maybe not um anyway he's uh he's showing off his ankle tag
that he's got he's showing off his ankle tag and uh and he's talking about how i'm gonna get
murdered because i just know too much about a certain little news story right no no no you know all this
and and i just felt that man in this in the phone shop just telling everyone about his
dark secret it made me believe that he completely innocent of all charges because he just
sounds like an idiot. And two, it also makes me think that he's just bad at small talk. Just
bad at small talk. Yeah, it does sound very, very poor, this small talk effort there. What's Jack saying?
Jack is saying, I met my new neighbours last month, a lovely older couple, but not the age to be
described as elderly. They were moving in with their son and toddler grandson helping. I extended
my hand to the lady and introduce myself, hi, I'm Jack, nice to meet you. Her reply, friendly enough,
was, nice to meet you.
This is my husband, my son and his son.
Names redacted.
And I'm Grandma.
Not one to be rude and ask what her name actually is.
I just smiled and carried on the chat.
Now I'm at the point of exchanging pleasantries
and knowing her as Grandma next door.
What do I do?
Do I suck it up and ask?
Do I ask another neighbour?
Or do I just steal their mail?
Jack, you can't steal someone.
You can't have to.
You reckon. You can't suck it up and just sort of go,
sorry.
You did say your name was Grandma, but I'm probably going to need more than that.
You need to be on the guard.
You need to be on the Gordon Ramsey vibe, because Gordon
always goes, hello darling, Gordon, name is, name is.
What's your name, dog?
Oh, name is.
You've got to, you've got to ask explicitly with some people.
But the problem I find isn't that.
The problem I find is even if I do explicitly ask their name, which I do sometimes,
I instantly forget it.
If I'm trying to find out more than two names at once in a situation,
I'm forgetting the, probably within a few minutes.
Like the amount of times I'm with my son
and someone comes over with their child of a similar age
from nursery or from the playground or whatever
and they clearly know who we are
I'm literally like oh saying to my son
who's that who's that
but I'm genuinely asking him who's that
because he remembers everyone so right
he'll go oh it's Johnny or whatever
oh Johnny and Johnny's mom
you know what I mean you're using your son
like a file of facts from the 80s
And he doesn't even know.
He does not even know he's being...
Little Ronnie Roller Dex.
He doesn't even know.
I'm Geppetto to his Pinocchio.
I'm planning like a fiddle.
Oh, well done.
And if you want another snack, you're going to answer my question.
Yeah.
Let me use some of your data.
Let me use some of your brain killer bites.
Listen, that's a confusing situation for you to be in Jack.
You are going to have to ask around, look at the post, you know, whatever.
Or the other one you can do is, remind me of the spelling of your name,
which is a high risk manoeuvre
because if it's like John,
I suppose John could be J-O-H-N or J-I-N so that would work.
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