The Luke and Pete Show - My Name Isn't James

Episode Date: April 30, 2026

The Imperial War Museum’s got a WWI-era puppet and it’s brought up some terrifying memories for Luke. Maybe ARC Raiders would take his mind off it if it hadn’t gone to pot recently.Today, a trip down memory lane is in order as Luke and Pete reminisce about the incredibly hard video games of the past and the ways in which you used to be able to just get away with stuff. Luke had a few tricks up his sleeve in New Zealand.Finally, there’s a battery and some train stations to have a look at.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [e-mail] Luke and Pete Show is the sometimes ridiculous, always funny podcast with Luke Moore and Pete Donaldson: two men who have time on their hands and a good idea of how to waste it. Subscribe to get your comedy podcast fix every Monday and Thursday. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and the Peach Shopping Donaldson with you, joined by Mr. Lukie Mur, Lukie. I've still got a big mound of licorice sweets that I'm piling through, and I do not mind admitting I'm having the time of my life. Good to hear. While you're eating that, have you seen this guy on Twitter who is essentially found a World War I era puppet from the Imperial War Museum's TikTok page?

What? So basically The Imperial War Museum TikTok page Which is surprisingly Funny For what is You know

Which is Last time I was there Had a truly horrific Holocaust exhibition And it's got this World War I Like Marianette Type puppet

Not like a French Reliquist dummy type puppet Oh So it's got like a figurehead Like a sort of Totemic Kind of mascot Yeah

I think it's just An exhibit It's just an exhibit That they've just Decide So what they did is they post the TikTok quite recently.

You know those truly horrific mouth-moving Vince Relucous Dumbies? Yeah. It's like that, but it's dressed up as a World War I soldier, right? And the Imperial War Museum's official TikTok did, instead of asking chat GPT, why not ask Douglas, our slightly haunted World War I puppet,

what he thinks? And so people are sending questions like, Douglas, how do I save a PDF? And Douglas is replied with, I do not know what PDF is. Is it in no man's land? That's not very well written. Douglas, how do I correctly estimate my taxes?

No need for taxes in the trench. Get digging. Get digging, Ida. Douglas, help me with my assignments. Where have you been assigned? Is it the SOM? If so, good luck. Oh, fantastic.

Great work. Douglas, what is love? Love can be seen everywhere in the trenches. Thanks, Douglas. Oh, I love this. He's horrific to look at, isn't he? Yeah. I can remember.

Remember, this is going to shame me, but I'm going to say it anyway. I remember being about 15 or 16. And I had a job at ASDA. I must have been 16. I was in the dairy section at ASDA, which meant I had to be there for six, which when you're 16, is fucking brutal. And you have to be there for the milk delivery, basically, and the shop I opened at like 8 or whatever.

And that was on the Saturday. On the Friday night was the Harry Hill. show? Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you remember when Harry Hill went through that phase of having that Rentaliquist Dummy? Yes, I do remember that. It used to fucking freak me out so much. I couldn't sleep and I'd be so tired at work next day. Because it was genuinely really frightening.

And I think my fear of them stems from a movie with Anthony Hopkins called Magic. Have you seen it? Oh, I remember something about that, but no, You have to remind me.

So basically, it's directed by Richard Attenborough, and it's a, Anthony Hopkins plays a magician who is crap. And so he starts a new act, which is like a combination between a being a magician of ventriloquist. Yeah. And he's got this ventriloquist dummy called fats, right? And it starts becoming really successful. And then, you know, essentially.

eventually you start to wonder whether Corky who's the kind of oh no sorry Corky is the character sorry Corky's played Bounty Hopkins Fats is the Grinch Rooker's dummy Who's the real puppet master here?

Yeah yeah yeah Yeah and it is frightening Absolutely frightening Because he's quite chipper isn't he Anthony Hopkins Oh yeah yeah Oh yeah yeah Yeah really chipper yeah

So I think that's where it comes from But do you have a fear of them as well? Yeah, you know what? It's not even their funny little faces. It's not the fact that they're made of, you know, carved wood and papy mashet and stuff. It's not the fact that they look like they're from the Victorian era. It's their little clothes.

It's their little, you know, put together. They're always wearing like a suit. And like it's basically babies in suits. The boss baby, horrific. Absolutely horrific. Horrible. Horrible little fella. voiced by a man who killed a woman.

Who's that? Alec Baldwin. Oh, right, yeah. But, yeah, the boss baby. Yeah, I mean, there's there a whole, like, subplot there that he was being abused by his wife as well? Who, Alec Baldwin or Boss Baby? Alec Baldwin.

Oh, I don't know, I don't know. Doesn't he have a wife who pretends she's Latino? Latina, but she isn't. I'm fairly sad. I'm sure he got, like, something. I'm sure there was some mad thing he came out about Alec Baldwin's wife, like being, behaving very strangely towards him or something. Right, okay.

And Alec Baldwin's situation was that, like, he fired a gun and it killed someone, but it was the prop, there's a prop error though, right? It's always a prop error, isn't it? I don't know why in this day... I think we spoke about the time, but I don't know in this day in this day and age, we need actual blanks, we need all that stuff. I think guns can generally be CGIed in pretty effectively these days.

Yeah. And it's the same thing happened with Brandon Lee, right? Yes, yeah, he was, that was a blank that basically propelled a bit of metal into him. Yeah. It was behaving strangely. Yeah, Hilaria Baldwin was born Hillary, Herewood Thomas. Yeah, she thinks she's Spanish. It's hilarious to hear her speak when she's not really Spanish.

That's a very odd thing. She's from fucking Cuba or something. She's from Boston, apparently. Yeah, it's good stuff. Well, I mean, you'll do anything to get rid of that accent, why yeah? Oh, that's a good accent, Nat. Is it, or is it just charming?

Is it basically just the Leeds accent of America? You can ask it. What's wrong with the Leeds accent? It's just not as good as Cheffield, is it? Where's this come from, Peter? Where would you rate the Hartle-Pudlian accent? Um, I don't think we really have one. I think, I've said before, the lads get to a certain age,

and they just sort of go, we're not Jordy's, we're not from Middlesbrough, we're somewhere in the middle, and we just sort of adopt this kind of like Vic and Bob kind of accent out of nowhere, because we're just thrashing around, trying to find one, really. When you go back up north, do people say your accent softened? Yeah, but then I'll pump it up to do the old voiceos, won't I? Oh, yeah. That's how it works.

So you really, like, the guy who did Big Brother, because remember you saying it was way, way back in the day when I first met you, the Big Brother Voice had gone, no one talks like that, me or like. No, no one talks. Well, of course no one

toss at her, but it's just the, oh God, yeah, it's just a bit, it's a bit, it's from Bellingham or something.

He's not even from, like he sounds like he's from, like Sunland or something. I think he's from Billingham. No. No. The diary room. The big brother house.

I wonder what the chat was there. I wonder what the chat was to how, how to get to where, like, you need to be kind of like, this guy who, have you played the new Indiana Jones video game? Obviously not.

I play out of Raiders. you're an our creatorsman well it's very good which has gone to shit by the way why what you've got to shit in it oh really yeah I think I was reading a yes they like it's not so much 70% of his players

right but that's games we've gone for a while you can't you they keep issue in patches and it keeps not fixing it right I wonder what's gone wrong there yeah maybe all the servers have been switched over to doing AI stuff yeah maybe anyway what were you going to say about in the ad Jones

and the guy who does the voice was basically saying that when he first started it's an incredible approximation of a young Harrison Ford really really good stuff he was doing this thing with his fingers and the director said stop doing that thing

with your fingers because then you're doing an impression of Harrison Ford you're not being Harrison Ford you're not being Indiana Jones and he's like and it really sort of switched things around for him I mean it's give it give a little Google for his What's the name of the games?

The name The game is In other Jones and the something about a circle, the golden circle maybe. It's great. It's the last performance of, oh God, tall, black guy, bald, not the jelly man.

Candy man. Oh, okay. The jelly man. It's not even a thing, is it? What was your brain like to that? I don't know, I was just trying to think of what it was. But yeah, so he's, it's a last 1%

but it's a really good game and it got no awards because when games get put out on like at the start of the year by the time it gets to award season if you get your game out about February time

you're not getting an award even though you can be really really good and your arc Raiders are coming in November take all the awards disgrace I find Arkrad is a curious thing because for those of you listening

you don't know what it is basically it's a combination between I said it's a bit like a more in-depth complicated hell divers but it's got a bit of a battle royale feel to it as well.

Yeah. And I do quite like it and I enjoy playing it. Basically, the whole premise is that human beings live up. Do you know about it? Yeah. Yeah. So human beings live underground and you go up onto the surface and you kind of

collect things and you have tasks to do and the whole planet is basically taken over by these kind of AI machines, right? Yeah. And you have to fight them sometimes. And it's kind of cool and it's interesting and it's clearly got that thing that keeps you coming back, which is you collect this thing. Just collect that one more thing. upgrade this and do all that kind of stuff.

But the weird thing about it, I find, is that you encounter other raiders while you're playing, real-life players in different squads. And you can just choose whether to shoot each other or not. That's right, doesn't it? No, it's kind of weird in practice because it develops this kind of almost, like, caught between two stalls type feel,

where if it was like you weren't able to kill each other, or actually, no, we'll tell what would be better, It would be better if you could just choose a game mode, whether you could say, right, I do want to fight other Raiders or I don't. Yeah. Because when you try to shoot one of your own squad in Arc Raiders, you can't kill them. So you could easily activate that just for other Raiders,

and you could embark upon missions together. That would be really fun. But the problem is, like, you never know if someone's friendly or not, and you could be halfway through a mission with them or take down a big arc, you know, bad guy, whatever. Yeah. And then when you're looting it after you've killed, they all just kill you.

But that's, isn't that not just life? That's just, you know, love life. And when they kill you, you lose all your stuff. Yeah. So, look, I'm in a business proposition with you, look. You could turn around and do that to me tomorrow. That's the, that's just, that's the rich tapestry of life, isn't it, really, I suppose. When you lose all your stuff?

You could betray me, I could lose all my stuff. Mate, I would never, I would never go after your, your blueprints. My blueprints. Or your, I'll have your kidney. I'll have your little kidney, though. I'd never go after your, um, your leaping. your leaper pulse unit i'd never do that man have you played right out raiders it's quite good no and that's why it sounds

ridiculous it probably has more it probably has more swear probably has more um heft when you're talking about it because you know what it's talking about i'd never take your um your bombardier cell or your um your um your anvil that's a type of game anyway so i i kind of like it on one level because it's more in-depth and hell divers which did get genuinely quite repetitive yeah and And then I guess I was kind of a bit bored of PubG. Because the reason I got bored of PubG is because the game engine they're using is just now so fucking outdated. Because ultimately all they care about is it seems to be like Korean teenagers. Right.

And competitive players. And the graphics and the fucking glitches and stuff were so bad. Are they not going to sort of change it to a new system? I think they are. I think they changed it to a new game engine. But I don't actually know when that's happening. Right. Which would be, I mean, that would be amazing if they did do that.

They're changing it to, apparently they're changing it to Unreal Engine 5 or something, if that's a thing. Oh, I mean, that's not always a path that's recommended. Right, is that bad, is it? Well, it does have, you can tell an Unreal game a mile off, really, because they all kind of look, they're not the same, but they've got certain similarities, I think, and it can sometimes, I think, was the last oblivion remaster, I think, that was run on the previous game engine

but then it had Unreal running on top of it which just seems very very unwieldy but I think it managed to sort of get there it's just a difficult thing to sort of deal with yeah I've seen the guy who's playing Red Dead Redemption at four frames per second yeah I saw that guy

it annoyed me just watching it yeah and there's also a guy on Skyrim and he's doing one thing a day so he like so and he gets chat to decide what he's going to do so he's I think he after about a year he's escaped out of the um out of the dungeon at the start of the game and then he'll get to like a house and and he'll do so he does one thing so that means like one action open a door close a door open a casket close a casket um take an apple drop an apple and and the people in chat decide what he's going to do and basically they they could you get to

this place in a map where there's like 100 potatoes or something. He has to pick up every potato or every coin or something. That Red Dev Redemption guy playing four frames a second. It's really, it's really nostalgic for me. It used to be acceptable. Yeah, when you're playing as really old-fashioned, like choose-your-own-adventure-type games. Like, it was, I actually went down, I think we were talking about this a couple of weeks ago, but I actually went down a bit of a rabbit hole afterwards watching solutions to,

the hardest lemmings levels. Oh wow, okay, nice. That's pretty cool. The guy doing it was really good. They're quite intricate those things, especially with like an Amiga mouse back in the day. Good timing. You did good timing.

Yeah. But I remember sitting down in front of my old, like, 386 PC or whatever and really toiling at a load of these Lemings levels. And there's a really interesting article. It might have even been in the aforementioned Atlantic, actually, about the culture of, of video games as they relate to the generation of people

were at, you know, so basically what it was saying was like Generation X, people like us, we grew up as, obviously we're the first generation to have for video games being that prevalent in our lives, but we grew up in a kind of three lives and you're done, no saving of progress, really, proper, like high stakes gaming. And this guy was talking about how now the model for games

is to save your progress and endless lives and all the rest of it and that's just how games are now and he was talking about how that relates to people's outlook in life right to get attitude towards things it's really I'm not doing it just as it sounds like a kind of um it was better in the olden days you know the the the avocado toast cream he wasn't really saying he wasn't really judging it he wasn't being judgmental about it he was just saying that um for people of mine and your generation um it's it's like I think, I guess what he was essentially trying to say is like, we, we care a lot about things and we get anxious about stuff. And he was relating it to it. And when he was saying that people who play video games now are like, they're just apathetic because the stakes are much lower. And there's obviously other reasons for it and everything. It wasn't like a kind of old back in my day, you know, stop eating, stop drinking your five pound lattes and you'll get a bill for the house. It wasn't that kind of chat.

Right. It was just quite interesting how it was reflective of. But that's why games like Dark Souls sort of bringing it back to, you know, making it a little bit tougher. People sort of really responded to that and sort of going, you know what, this is what games should be really. It should be testing. It shouldn't just be a...

But then also, if you make a video game that's in any way difficult these days, especially with attention spans with, you know, the internet and stuff, they have other things they could be doing. Yeah, it's a balance to strike, isn't it? Because people... You've got to remember, like, you'd have... I'd have the impossible video game paper boy that would take five minutes to load up on the old specie,

on the old Amazon 616-128, and you'd play it. And if you wanted to play something else, it would take another five minutes, or you'd have to go out and buy a game. Nowadays, you just download them, you can watch streams about them, you can do all this stuff.

But if I was a video game creator who spent ages toiling over a video game and you wanted people to experience it, I'd be a little bit annoyed if people just played a couple of levels and then, you know, chucked it. Like, kind of just got rid. Yeah, do you remember, Super Goals and Ghosts?

Yes, yeah. That's like scenes one of the hardest games ever, isn't it? Any time, yeah, Ghost and Goblins, ghouls and ghosts. I don't know where Ghost and Goblins, ghouls and ghosts fit in. I was always a ghost and gobblins guy.

Wasn't the Goals and Ghosts and is the Super Nintendo version maybe? Right, well I mean, similar, certainly similar concept anyway. You're starting a graveyard, you're a knight, and when you get hit and lose a life, oh, you're close fall off. Yeah.

It's really, it really is sexy stuff. I remember a game I remember a game called Striker's Run back on the BBC Micro maybe So it was definitely around that time And it was like a side scrolling platform A really basic

Because it was like Either an Akelele-Electron game Or a BBC Micro game or something And it was It got to the point where There was this bit where It was super hard to get past it And as was the custom of those games

Back in the day If you got three chances at it And if you got it wrong You just back to start again and I never got past it and then a friend of mine wrote a book called, what was it called now?

It's called the eight-bit book or something and he basically reviewed and retrospectively looked at all the different games of that era and he basically just did some research, spoke to the developer and found out that that's actually impossible. It was a fucking glitch or something

and they could never get past it. And there was no people you could complain to these companies kind of arrived and disappeared like under the curve of darkness anyway. Exactly. I remember those video game called Metro Cross that no one ever remembers or talks about. And I used to think that it was

because it was like basically a like a cyber punk kind of I get from one side of a very shiny floor, I don't know, like TV show or something, to the other side. I thought it was based on the Metro Centre because I was in the North East and the Metro Centre was a most futuristic thing anyone could ever imagine or consider,

conceptualise. What was that? was your link. That was my link, I thought, because it had the word metro in it. It's got to be about the Metro Senate. It's all anyone's talking about. That and the Harvest Festival.

That is funny. Speaking of how kind of, like, DIY-ish and feel those kind of games were, that game I was always obsessed with that. I told you about before, Exile. Yeah. But the lads who made that, they had like a phone in their office,

and there was like a number printed in the instruction booklet for the game when you bought it, and if you need any help, you just call that number and they'd answer it. And they'd talk you through it. Don't do that. And if you completed it, they sent you a certificate?

Yeah, yeah. Don't do that. Crying out loud. Why? I have nerds ringing you up. Be a proper company like Sierra Online or LucasArts where you'd ring a helpline. You'd get all that delicious money. Yeah, but I don't think they had the resources.

I think it was just like, yeah, it's the office phone. Just call it. It's good point out. Yeah. And it was in and answer it. Did you ever ring any of those, like, club call-y kind of things where you'd, like, phone up or... Pornow lines? Not porn or, like, you.

You'd ring up like, I'd ring up like transfer talk. No, I was too scared of my mum's do that. I'd get actually smashed if I did that. But I needed the information. As a 14-year-old Newcastle United fan, I'd needed to know whether the Keith Gillespie deal was coming through. I'd always take like five years to get to get to. I don't know why.

Yeah. They'd always take so long to tell you what was actually happening. Yeah. I used to genuinely watch, say watch. I used to basically experience a lot of football matches through television. text. Yeah, hugely. Yeah, three or two. So we'd be on, we'd be on, my mom, my nan-granddad's house, and we'd have, like, grandstand on, and then every few minutes, my uncle would be loading up C-Fax for the scores.

It's good, in it? And it'd refresh once every, like, ten seconds. And how's a goal? Did you celebrate it like what was go? 4.2, I think, was digitiser, maybe. That was, uh... So 301 was sport headlines. 3.02 was football headlines. and 303 was live scores, I think.

Yeah. And then Channel 4, Teoteotex was good, because that had a bamboozle. Bamboozle, the bamboozle, man. Yeah, we pressed the red, yellow, green or blue button to answer the questions on the quiz. And if you got it wrong, it'd start the beginning again.

Was it like other quizzes and stuff, I seem to recall? I think so. I think so. I think so. And also, do you want to know something else? Fucking mad. I went on my first lad's holiday in 1999. Yeah.

I was 18. me and nine of my mates so ten of us went brilliant what a what a time yeah it was me piercy clarky JT

um Phil Duncan Dan Lee who else Penny and then one of our personnel

forgot oh Rob yeah what did Penny Maud end up doing yeah she wasn't involved anyway we book

that holiday by through teletext right how do you but like how do you transfer money like over the phone

and stuff how did we do that back in the day and I think you paid using a kind of I think I end up paying my portion of it

using my mom and dad's like credit card or something right and I paid them back from my savings or something like that yeah

yeah I just I just can't like like fraud must have been everywhere fraud must have been absolutely everywhere when I went

on like my trip to New Zealand where I end up getting like a round the world ticket yeah that was a legitimate physical

round the world ticket and it had like it basically had a collection of like 10 plane tickets in the book yeah and it had open dates

on the plane tickets oh so you could rock up and sort of go so I knew for example I was going to be playing football in New Zealand for X amount of months

yeah and the and the and the tickets were dated around that yeah in the order so so basically it was like right so on this day

you're going from London to Sydney via Singapore. Then your next plane ticket, you're flying out of Brisbane around this kind of day and you're going from Brisbane to Christchurch. Then you're going to make your way up.

I travelled around New Zealand. Then eight months after that I had a ticket from Auckland to Fiji. Then I had a ticket from Fiji to the Cook Islands. Then the Cook Islands to Tahiti. then two weeks after that a ticket from Tahiti to LA How were they talking to all these different companies

and just getting tickets? And then I had like a few weeks after that LA to New York and then a couple of days in New York and I flew back to London and the whole plane ticket was across like a whole year. So what was the so the plane ticket like what did it say like how do you make that

plane ticket? How do you book that plane ticket in basically? Have you got to ring up the provider? So you go to like a local travel agent. Right and go can you book that in from? Yeah and it was STA travel who had branches all over the world. I see. Estia travel were huge.

Are they still with us? I'm not sure. They were massive. Yeah. But the other thing that I remember about it was that I had to go away for this amount of time. I had this like water and air type sort of bag thing. Right. They had a seal on it that I had my plane tickets, my passport.

Yeah. And some like emergency travellers checks or something. Right. Okay. Yeah. And that's all I had. How quickly were you thinking about getting, those travellers' checks.

I spent all the money before the season, the football season even started in New Zealand and I wasn't getting paid to play. No, okay, right. So I had to get a job. And by the way, I didn't have a work visa.

Does I not tell you what I did? I probably should be admitting. You were doing stripping, you're doing shop fitness or something, right? You'd stripping copper at the walls. That was with my mate's dad. So he just paid me cash in hand.

Yeah. But to get a legitimate job, really needed. I must have told this story. I basically posed as my mate who did have a work visa. Right, yeah, yeah.

I took a passport photo of myself in a passport booth. I put the photo over his photo and his passport. Yeah. Photocopied it. Yeah. About six times.

Posed as him. Interviewed for jobs. One of the, mate, sorry, seriously, one of the jobs I got in a bar, he did the, interview for, got the job, decided he didn't want it. I told him to accept it. And on the first day, a week later, I turned up and they didn't notice. They didn't notice that you were a different

guy. Didn't notice. That was a totally different guy. And I showed him the photocopied passport and they just accepted it. Yeah. The problem is I had to keep remembering that my name was supposed to be James, right? And I almost got caught out a couple times. Right. And then the money got paid into his bank account and he would just give me the cash. That's absolutely wild. Do you not to get caught? To be fair to me, we didn't. But that, I mean, 20 odd years ago, you could get away with that stuff. You can't do that now. Yeah, no.

Yeah, people have, like, it's QR codes, isn't it? It's QR chords that has done it for us. But I remember once, this is a pub, I don't know if it's still there. If people are listening from Auckland, they'll be able to tell me. But there was a bar called the Eagle. Right. And it had, like, it was a cool, quite a cool bar. And at the back it had, like, a venue space.

And so I had a job there as a barman and then a glass collector and stuff like that. And honestly, after like two weeks of doing it, the manager pulled me in and said, because they kept calling me James, right? And my name is simply not James. Yeah. The manager called me into his office,

like before a shift, and he was like, you know, is everything okay? And I was like, yeah. And he said, look, you can tell us if you like. And I was like, what?

Shit in myself. And he was like, if you're hard of hearing, you can tell us. Brilliant. And I just denied it. He said pardon. Yeah.

I managed to squeeze like another couple of weeks workout and I just had to leave. Right, because it was just too obvious you weren't. Yeah, it was ridiculous. I could have kept that going. I did the same thing. Honestly, there's a really famous department store in Auckland and it's still there, and I'm not going to name it. But anyone who knows anything about Auckland will know what it is. It's like the fucking, you know, the John Lewis or the Selfridges of Auckland.

And I got a job in there, right, with no work visa. No ID, no bank account. They just did it. Everything they asked for, I just fucking made up. They didn't check it. They paid the money into my mate's bank account, didn't check it. And I worked there for a wee while as well. There you go.

Jamesy face with an Auckland booty, as they say. Shall we take a short break and come back with a quick battery? Sounds good. We're back with Lugapit Shoeff feature that occasionally runs. It's an occasionally running service. It's just like one of those local bus routes that haven't been seen for a couple of days. Speaking of that, I saw something in my time on Instagram the other day of a girl who visited the least used train station in the UK. Yeah.

And it had been, in the entirety of 2025, he had seen 68 passengers through its gates, both on and off the train. It's just one train a day. I can't remember the name of it, but it was in rural Nottinghamshire somewhere between Nottingham and Grantham. Yeah. And she basically stood there all day and no, one train stopped and no one got on and no one got off and that was it. I mean that's the thing that you sort of, that you are, you sometimes see it in like rural Japan where they'll keep a station open

just for the last young girl to finish school. Right. And then they'll stop the train because like everyone's old in Japan. And so like she's the last young person in the scene. the village and so they run it until she um you know graduates from college or whatever and then they just stop doing it it's just really depressing um but it's uh but you do sort of go around some kind of like rural train stations in britain you do sort of go who's using this who's using this for crying out loud you know um speaking of train stations right if you look at

there's a there's a don't ask me how i know this but there's a list on wikipedia of the closed railway stations in great britain so every railway station that at one point existed since the advent of rail that no longer is no longer there it's got a list next to it of the years that they were closed right yeah and there is something like um it's all separated out in alphabetical order and there is something like mate 300 odd stations that no longer exist that have been closed that just start with the letter a Jesus Christ I've been serious yeah but if you look at the ones that that I start with the

let us see there's like another 300 there must be someone should do the numbers there must be think how small Britain is right right but there must be mate like

two three thousand railway stations that don't exist anymore yeah it's but I guess villages sort of shut down and new ones and you add but then surely there must be like

did St Niotz have a fucking train station because there's no reason for a train of St Yots I always think whenever I go who's St Niotts I'm like this is I hate this town. Pimlico on the

Victorian line. In the last five minutes ago. Which one on the Victoria line? Pimlico. Pimlico. Yeah, waste of time. Just kept open because it's rich people, isn't it? Elton-Austin station is the least used one

in the UK. Bruno, try and find out how many train stations have been closed in their entire since the advent of rail in the UK. I'll promise you, it's a fucking baffling number. Well, we bash out a quick battery submission. Tom is looking for a third

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Luke will look for that one hi chaps Tom from Cheshire here formerly of power of love fame from the early days of laps I'm not really sure what that's referring to

but sounds delicious I'm a few shows behind but in the latest episode Luke declared the end of the world is imminent so I thought I'd get this offering into the battery daddy and it's robotic keeper before Armageddon mates podcasting infeasible. Last year, I was away with uni mates in Austria for a long weekend.

In the apartment we stayed in, the TV remote didn't work, so I opened it to reveal a lovely pair of Vurths. TV, wine, alpine maps and apples in the blurry background. I'm not absolutely confident with this submission, but it's a long shot, hoping they'll earn their place next to the boots and junior batches of previous had success with. note. Was it a new one? Third ever submission. So pretty rare but not unique. Not bad. I saw that and I thought I'm very surprised we've never had a verth before, but good on you. Well, on a separate note, you were interested in celebrity sightings a while ago. Back in September, I was with my dad at Alteringham Market, getting some food before the England, South Africa, T20, Old

Trafford. A great record-breaking game that I'm sure both of you would have zero interest in. You're not bad on a bit of cricket. A familiar-looking, yeah, a familiar-looking, well-dressed bald man asked if he could sit at the end of the table we sat at and we agreed after he was joined by a friend around half an hour later some school kids came over to ask him for a photo it finally registered it in my mind that it was nicky butt man united and yacall castle midfielder well he was a man united midfielder and current occasional pundit occupier of a chair around the overlap table i've course didn't bother him i'm of the donelson school of thought that his day wouldn't have been improved by any interaction with me a

complete stranger good work tom i'm also a liverpool fan but not one of those Liverpool fan so he's playing cricket didn't bring much enjoyment apart from that time he was the best player at the World Cup apparently keep the go-out Tom from Cheshire seen Nicky but in a pub not too shoddy I think and he didn't bother him good lad it's a pretty good um pretty good spot I think mm definitely sorry it's not a new player but it's a pretty rare battery so not a bad effort no and a rare sighting of Nicky but in the wild as well so well done fella and keep your messages coming in hello look petechow dot com is the way to do that you can get in touch on the

YouTube as well. We'll be back on Monday. But do you want to know about train stations? You want to know about train stations? Oh yeah, go ahead. Bang it in, yeah, all right. Bruno's ran out for that. If someone's filled something in at the top of the running order, I was in the battery section, having a little people. That's okay.

Finishes off with a little, finish us off with some train facts. Bruno said that back in the 1960s, the United Kingdom had over 7,000 train stations. Too many. There's too many. There's two and a half thousand now. But I feel like I'm the only person on this show passionate about this. I think we should be honest with ourselves and understand that for an island the size of the UK, 7,000 train stations is obscene. Over-trained.

It's absolutely obscene. Yeah. It's wild. I agree. That's why they're so expensive. They've got to manage all of the systems there. Well, there's very 2.5,000 left now, which is still quite a lot. Yeah.

Good point. All right. We'll be back on. See you later. I'm off to catch my train. Loki is too. We'll see you later. It's like leave it.

You just leave the house. could you be on a train. The Luke and Pete show is a stack production and part of the ACAST creator network.