The Luke and Pete Show - Niam Leeson

Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Luke and Pete are genuinely impressed by that massive sphere in Las Vegas. It's just a shame that U2 are involved.Today, the lads discuss that and give an unwanted update on Liam Neeson. But fear not, there's also an update about some sheep that ate 100kg of cannabis.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Luke Moore, Monday the 9th of October. How have you been? Good weekend? Staying out of trouble? You alright? Feeling good? I'm very well, thank you, mate. Can't complain at all. Yeah, okie dokie. Look, I can't complain when I sit here looking at you talking crap with me old pal, thinking

everything's right with the world now. It's fine. Everything's fine, yeah. I, you are now, you're now quite lucky, actually, because you're actually talking to someone who is qualified, a qualified first aider, Luke. So if you get anything, if you choke, if you bleed, I will be there for you. But you're recording this remotely

so there's nothing you can do. Within five hours I could be up there to give you heart compressions. Like the plus 44 song, that terrible Blink 182 side project along with Boxcar Racer and all the rest.

I'll be there when your heart stops beating. And I will be there to break your ribs as much as I can. Terrifying. Absolutely terrifying. What I find about, like, courses, we got basically, I had this course to teach me how to stop people from turning in. And the thing about this course is there's little information

spread over a lot of time, if you know what I mean. It's designed for very low-speed people, normally, I find. Yeah, and that sounds rude, but it's not rude when you've got to sit through it. You know what I mean? Four hours for three nights to teach us a few acronyms and a couple of you know piss about with a doll for a bit it just seems like this could be done quicker not for like because i know what i'm doing just that i just need to

write down the things that i need to write down so the test at the end i could get through it just seems like there's a lot of and and i would say the p in in the same way that um michael scott from the u.s office found it very problematic that um a man uh would have to come into the office and and basically perform a uh a sort of ted talk on uh like not being racist or not doing this or not doing that and he feels like he's not really the best person to do it because he's not a performer. These people aren't necessarily always performers, if you know what I mean.

No, but it's great when you get one that is. Yeah, but if you get one that is, the courses last longer because they're doing their little jokes. They're doing their little jokes. And no joke is worth four hours in the evening for me, Clive. No, I agree. So I think I've got a couple of thoughts on this.

One is that it fascinates me to think of you having to do this. Because you're the last person that I can think of that would get anything out of it. Because you don't like being sat in the same place. No, I don't. And yeah, I find it. Yeah, but you do like sat in the same place. No, I don't. And yeah, I find it... Yeah, but you do like sitting in the same place, but you're a bit of a fidgeter. I don't like sitting in the place.

You're a bit of a fidgeter, but I'm not necessarily so much of a fidgeter, but I would just like to do one big leave rather than a lot of little fidgets. What would be ideal for you is if they could do the first aid course, say it's four hours per time. On the go.

No, they could do like half an hour spots in eight different locations. Eight different locations, yeah. Make it like a little experience, like one of those interactive theatre exhibits. Like take me to a warehouse and I'll just explore and then you tell me the Dr. ABC danger. Could they do it in that abandoned nuclear power station you like? Yeah, exactly, yeah.

Cut around that, yeah. Speaking of that, you've seen that big sphere in Las Vegas. Oh, it's... You know what? I just want to watch something there when it's still um working because you know for a fact whenever you go whenever there's something like that there's always like three or four dead pixels on it you know i mean there's always black spots i just want to go there and i want to see something when it's still working because Because about a month in, the little panels and pixels here and there,

hither and thither, will start to break down. And the whole experience will be spoiled for me. So I just want to see it before it fucks up. I think if you were there now and watched the site there, you would spend the entire two hours looking for a dead pixel. Yes, I would, yeah. There must be one. There just has to be one.

There just has to be one there just has to be one it's incredible do you know what i'll say something about this i don't know anything about it other than the fact that it's just been all over my social media feed yeah i would say this it's the first thing i've seen in absolutely ages where i've looked at it and gone i don't even fucking know what that is but it looks amazing what the fuck is happening like i didn't even fucking know what that is. But it looks amazing. What the fuck is happening? I didn't even know a sphere had been built. Yeah. It's absolutely amazing. And then I put the sound on and it was you too.

I was fucking fuming. Well, it costs so much money and I just can't believe it. Like, A, it costs so much money. And B, no one talked about it until it actually arrived. It's like it just got installed. Like, it just got installed. Like it just came down from heaven. And it's just now there's just a big smiley face on it.

So no one knew about it? You know I like all this shit. Why did I not find out about it before it became visible from fucking everywhere? It's amazing. So it cost $2.3 billion, took five years to make, and can hold almost 20,000 people. And it does look just absolutely unbelievable.

Yeah. I mean, you're right, though. It is annoying that you two are the first ones to have a crack at it. But it's massively you two to do that, though, isn't it? Yeah. It's basically similar. It's the same energy as putting your album on a fucking iphone that everyone has to have which i reckon they do more harm than good yeah it looks so amazing i just i just want to see something there and and there's very few reasons i'd ever want to bloody

go to uh uh to to vegas for any reason because it is a shit hole, but I would happily roll into town just to watch. I'd even watch U2. I'd watch a song and a half of... I think they've got a new song called Atomic City, which is the most U2 song title I've ever heard in my life. So I think, to be fair to them, they are doing... It's like 25 Nights, isn't it?

And they're doing... I think they're doing Actung Baby. Okay, fair. Which is actually decent. Yeah, okay, it? And they're doing... Right. I think they're doing Actung Baby. Okay, fair. Which is actually decent. Yeah, okay, fair. Obviously from the early 90s. To me, I mean, let's not get too deep into this because it is, let's be honest, fucking boring.

Yeah. But my favourite U2 era is probably the kind of mid to late 90s, like that pop kind of era. But just before that, Actung Baby has at least got some fucking decent songs. Yeah. And if you can get past the fact that they're the biggest cringe fucking bunch of people in the world um then um it'll be good but visually it's going to be fucking spectacular i've dread to think how much

tickets are for it i dread to think how much energy it takes to uh to power the bloody thing but yeah uh yeah can you imagine they'll have like sliding scale tickets and stuff and there'll be like three grand to get in there and 20,000 people. I mean, they're not stupid, are they? So the cheapest ticket currently available looks like 500 euros. Right, okay.

I mean, it looks like there's a lot of... To be fair, I guess there's a lot of... The viewing distances are pretty good. I reckon you can probably... Oh, mate man it'd be amazing yeah brilliant i don't really want to hear anything from their triptych collection of the last three albums songs of innocence songs of experience and songs of surrender are we pissed enough listeners because you two are really popular aren't they do you reckon the listeners are fucking going to be switched off by this i think um it wasn't um the in the in the film um taken weren't the young lasses off to see you two around europe and that's how they got found in that's how they got um kids because they were so um

who's the man who's who's um he's mr angry pants isn't he? Liam Leeson. Liam Leeson. No. Liam Leeson. It just sounds like you're pronouncing Neve incorrectly. Liam Leeson, he basically allows his daughter with her friend to go around Europe following you two. And they're sort of working out right. No wonder he's angry.

This film was released in this film was released in like 2000 or something there's no way some 15 16 year old girls are going to follow you too around you have you seen what um neil leeson looks like now i'll just send you a picture in the whatsapp group all right let me have a look he looks very hard it's hard quite hard to describe what he looks like now don Don't make me look in the WhatsApp group. I was trying to avoid someone noticing I was online. Oh, God, he looks full-on Wild West sheriff, eh? It's amazing.

How old is he now? He must be cracking on for mid-60s, surely. His hair. surely um his uh his hair like i i don't i never understand why men of hollywood think that just having brown hair into their 70s is acceptable he's 71 71 and he's got completely not a single bit of white hair on his person and he's having and he's pretending that that's his face no i agree i think i think um i think that um yeah he's obviously got that's his face. I agree. I think that he's obviously got a history of saying some quite problematic things as well. How do we

get talking about him? Oh, because in the fucking plot of the film Taken his daughter is travelling around Europe. I didn't even know that was the premise. I've not seen it. Although it came out in 2008, not 2000 by the way. Okay, fair. That's absolutely fine. I'll take that on the chin. Very, very strange. seen it although it came out in 2008 not 2000 by the way oh okay all right fair all right that's absolutely fine yeah i'll take that on the chin very very strange um anyway peter so um you won't

have a chance to watch encounters yet but we'll keep an eye on that um for perhaps next time one of the stories that took my um that took my fancy over the last few days is that um and it's kind of um underpinned by the climate crisis because it apparently has been caused by heat waves and wildfires and flooding and stuff like that yeah did you see that story that came out um that um a herd of sheep in greece um ended up eating 100 kilograms of cannabis 100 kilograms between them what's that i hope so i fucking hope so yeah yeah so temperance lads bit of temperance so you know one thing about sheep is they can get anywhere right so they you think they're pretty easy to to kind of rein in they're not at all

they can get anywhere and and a load of these sheep um smashed into a greenhouse right that was there i think by the government producing producing medicinal cannabis. So it wasn't like an illegal plant or anything. And by the time someone realised, they'd eaten 100 kilograms of it. And I would just love to know what that lamb tastes like, what that mutton tastes like. Oh, what? Do you reckon it'd be like a gummy?

Could be. Stuck it on their bones, it'd be like eating loads and loads of gummies you can buy. I don't know what the kind of physiology of it would be, whether it would manifest itself in that way. I'm not really sure. No, I reckon you would... Yeah, you'd definitely feel something, wouldn't you?

I never know, like... I'm fairly certain if you eat weed, I'm fairly certain that it's not... I think you have to sweat it out. You've got to, like, heat it up. It's much worse. It's much worse. It's much worse. But you have to prepare that weed to put it in food,

if you know what I mean. Yeah, of course. You're going to have terrible effects, obviously. But I think to make anything with it, I think you've got to sweat out the cannabinoids or whatever the fuck it is. It's all just very complicated, isn't it? I only know about this because Rory told me,

producer Rory told me. Yeah. I've never done it myself. Legalizer. He's not listening. He's gone. He's right. So, and Pete,

and I really want to mention that because that really took my fancy. But the other thing I want to talk about is that, so when you and I were discussing Small Talk on the last couple of shows yeah um that really kind of resonated with um with our listeners and i've had quite a few dms on the old insta because i've actually started sharing stuff on the insta now um of um of people asking how you're getting on with your small talk mission because people are concerned that you're

not perhaps as good as it as you should be. Has it got any kind of encounters recently? Because last time you ended up talking to some stranger about your dog's nuts. I had to as part of the first aid thing I had to, obviously a lot of the time was spent like lying down while people demonstrated

checking your heart and making sure your respiration is up to scratch. So, like, touching a complete stranger's stomach to check for blood pooling in the stomach. I mean, it's quite intense for me to be just manhandling a bloke who's lying on the floor. So you're not even doing that with a doll, you're doing that with a person? Doing that with a person. What're doing that with a person?

Doing that with a person. Ah, what's the small talk right there? Well, that's just really intense, isn't it? So I'm just, because obviously with stuff like that, you've got to, you have consent when they're awake and if they're obviously passed out, you have implied consent that you would probably, they would probably want you to probably do chest compressions if they weren't breathing or they didn't, you know,

their blood, their heart wasn't working. That implied consent would state that you probably have the consent to do that. I mean, if it was you doing it to me, I'd rather be unconscious. I don't want to see that face, pumping up and down. So I'm having

to talk all the time, saying, I'm just going to check your arms, pull on your legs a bit, can you wiggle your toes, all this stuff. And it's just really... So it's not much different to what you say when you see someone in the street, then, no?

Wiggle your toes. Just, yeah, it's just stuff like that, really. So, yeah, I had an experience actually last week where I had three or four kind of social appointments, Vicar of Dibley style, and I went to loads of them. And I did 50 minutes of top class small talk. Good for you. Which, say again, good for me.

I did 50, it was like speed dating, but with small talk. And then got on my line bike, scooted across town, did 50 minutes more, and then did 50 minutes at the end and so it was like a really and i got home from it and i was like that was a good night i didn't overstay my welcome 50 minutes i think is the is the prime time slide in sink a couple of beers do some small talk and then f off that's basically every night out with you so the results are back in because I know for a fact that it was with the sports horn lads no it wasn't

I'm not including them in small talk I've got past the permafrost of that one but there was a couple of others there they've got past that what do other people think I don't think it's down to you to be able to decide whether it was good or not oh yeah but I mean they'll enjoy what they enjoy.

They're going to endure me whatever, aren't they? I've got, I just don't like small talk, but I enjoyed the small talk that I enjoyed on those evenings. And what kind of things did you open with? Weather? Weather, yeah. I mean, you know me, I get sexual

quite early. It's mainly just sexual jokes really, isn't it? Yeah, that's the problem, isn't it? That is the problem. That is the problem. These days, you can't be doing that. You can't be doing that. No.

You can't be doing that. I'm pleased that you feel like you got over a hump. So, do you feel confident, like, next time you're taking the dog out for a walk and you bump into someone? Because dog people always like to talk to each other, don't they? Yeah. Well, one of the dogs, Lola, she went for a dog last week. Oh, really? That's sad. She got bitten when she was little,

so she's just a nervous wreck, really. But she had to sort of deal with talking to a man. She didn't hurt the dog or anything, but I talked to her. Lift up your dog right now! Oh, my God! Which you don't want to hear. You don't want to hear. No. As a terrier tears up your talk right now, oh my God. Which you don't want to hear, you don't want to hear.

No. As a terrier tears after your loved one. But everything was fine. But yeah, you've just got to be a bit careful, I think. Fair enough. Because just,

you know, terriers be terroiring. Absolutely. Well, be careful, won't you? Yeah. If you need to ice break.

Bully XL. I'm going to get a bully XL. What happened, I mean, sadly, like, this is a sad question to ask but I presume if you get

found to have one of those you're just going to have it taken off you it's going to be killed is it I just thought you weren't allowed to breed them anymore I don't think they're

talking about killing dogs I mean that would that would be mad wouldn't it I've never really owned a dog I think they're just saying I think they're just saying right you've got one

enjoy it. But we're not making any more of them because that's mental. Because they're literally... And people are sort of talking about it like dog breeds haven't been made up over time. You know what I mean? Like, you're always going to go down a cul-de-sac and go, this was a bad idea, let's reverse.

Do some reversing and go down another thing. But like you said, it was designed to get around a an already in place and restriction anyway so you know we're not fucking stupid we are we are we are aren't we unless we're bright people we come back we'll be able to do some emails if you like all right then go back to school with rogers and get canada's fastest and most reliable internet perfect for streaming lectures all day or binging tv shows all night save up to 20 per month on rogers internet visit rogers.com for details we got you rogers we're back at the look of picture and we've got some emails from you guys. If you'd like to say hello, hello at lukapitchshow.com.

Would you like to say hello to the previously emailer? No? Let's have another go at that one. I'm reversing out. Beep, beep, beep. The previously email... I've done it again. The man who emailed previously,

the Danish politician, Soren Sloth. Love it. I've got his again. The man who emailed previously, the Danish politician, Soren Sloth. Love it. I've got his website up right now. Handsome Scandinavian looking fella. Handsome Scandi man. Yeah. I'm the Scandi man.

Soren Sloth. Hi, look at Pete. Having failed several times to enter the hallowed halls of battery connoisseurs, I was very enthusiastic to hear the beginnings of a tallest listener contest. I am

two metres and four centimetres. It's good, isn't it? That's tall. That's six feet eight. Six foot eight. Six foot eight. The quoted height of Hollywood Hulk Hogan.

How tall is he in real life, though? He's probably six, three, six, four. Yeah, but all wrestlers have their height and weight kind of beast up, don't they? Hollywood Hulk Hogan fucking hell how tall is he in real life though he's probably 6'3 6'4 something like that but all wrestlers all wrestlers have their height and weight kind of beast up don't they yeah massively

I'd be I'd be a 6 footer very easily fucking hell everyone's everyone's 6 foot apart from like your luchadors

and your rare mysterios of this world of this world so yeah so 6 foot 8 is the opening bid from Soren Sloth our friend and confidant

if you're out there and you can do better. I mean, someone called Vincent's email in saying, I've been listening since the start. I'm seven foot six, but I'll not provide photographic evidence. I don't believe that. So that's not being regarded. We're not accepting that one. The current official tallest listener is Soren Sloth,

who is six foot eight tall. If you can beat that. I kind of admit that Soren hasn't actually sent in photographic evidence either, which we'd like him to follow up with. We are going to need you holding the day's paper with a tape measure someone else is holding, hopefully, presumably and preferably, on some kind of step ladder.

And we would accept it on that basis. But for now, a starter for 10, Soren Sloth is the tallest official tallest listener of the Luke and Pete show and he can put that in all his bios if he wants I don't think it's going to help him run for public office having that in his bio but it's up to him. Well I'm seeing like

him, I'm on his Facebook fan page and he is standing next to a woman who's got a big flag, and he's nearly as tall as the flag, Luke, so... How do you find his Facebook fan page? That's crazy. I just can.

There's a guy who's like a legal guy who looks like the man who interested me in a shoehorn in Sweden one time, but he... Sorin is... Sorin is in... Yeah, he's on Facebook. You just find it. You just find stuff, yeah? Sorin... He's using it, isn, he's on Facebook. You just find it. You just find stuff, yeah?

Soren Sloth. So you're saying that he is tall. You accept that he is a very tall man. Yeah, I'm checking that. So he's not provided a picture. So, yeah, I think he is quite tall, actually, yes. Okay, all right. And then what about this for an email from Martin?

Hello, Luke and Pete. Just listening to your Instagram questions episode, and I heard your question about what's the most you've ever eaten. My first birthday after I started going out with my then girlfriend and now wife, we went to TGI Fridays. I basically

ordered everything. Loaded potato skins, garlic bread, some ridiculous burger that had mozzarella sticks on it, and a milkshake. I then had a dessert, possibly a cheesecake, but I can't remember as my memory gets a bit sketchy at that point. My girlfriend went to the toilet,

and when she came back, I was pretty much green. Now, I'm a teetotaler, and she most definitely isn't. She had a couple-ish, and I told her she was going to have to drive because I had no chance of concentrating on the road and needed to get home quick. I haven't learnt my lesson 14 years later and she will always give me a warning about that night at TGI's

if she thinks there's a chance of a little overeating. Keep up the good work, Martin. Good stuff. Well, is that... I mean, mozzarella sticks. Ridiculous burger that had... I mean... Yeah, I mean, TGI Fridays,

they cater to a certain person who wants quite a lot of food, I would say. Snob. But it's expensive. But it's expensive. So, well done, Martin. What's the most you have eaten? 40... Yeah, that night.

And it's good that even 14 years later, that big old dinner, big old dinner, has resonated so hard that you can't be trusted to not order as many as the time you did at TGI Friday.

So well done. Well done. I mean, it doesn't seem like that much though. That's what I'm thinking. Garlic bread and a ridiculous burger. It depends how much of it though.

I mean, if you're doing four loaded potato skins and there's a whole garlic bread and the TGI Friday is kind of kind of like you know

gimmicky burger which is going to be big mozzarella sticks a milkshake is a killer because that's a really dense fucking thing and then you're having a dessert

yeah I mean that's pretty bad that's probably your weak calories in one fucking go it's the milkshake probably did it to be honest

I had yesterday I had two separate takeaway sandwiches from, like, you know, an off-lice, a garage. I had two garage lunches, and I had a latte and a Twix and a bag of crisps twice in a day. And I think I'm still under 2,500 calories.

Did you do it in the same shop? Yes, I did. So the person working there on shift probably thought they were fucking time traveling or something. On the A13, on the way out, and then back again. Bloody hell. Just the usual. You're the only person who's walked into a garage

and gone, the usual, please. That's funny. The usual. What about this email from Alexandra, who who says just an idea while i was at work and i had to say luke and you you and the neighbor who's also in on taking these cones away yeah you guys need to start stashing them all until you have a large enough amount where you can collectively dump all of them on the neighbor's front garden at night and make sure to see her reaction come morning uh thanks for the alphabet. A big tower of corns

on the lawn. I like that, Alexandra, because you've basically taken that and made it sinister. It is sinister! Get off that woman's corns, for crying out loud. I think if she puts them in the road, that's a public place I can take them. Do you reckon that, like, because, I mean,

to do that is, you've got to be a bit of a sociopath, in my opinion. And I do not mince my words on this um you've got to be weird do you think a few more if if you don't put the cones take the cones away from the front of our house you're gonna have a sycamore tree getting felled in the middle of uh in the middle of a mountain range do you do you think that's gonna do you think that's going to... Because this guy's like the new cat bin lady. Like a crime that will shock the nation. I don't like...

Have we heard anything about the tree? Can we like sort of nail it back together? You can't fix trees, can you? You can't do that. I mean, there'll be another one that'll grow probably. A sycamore tree will grow again because obviously they drop a load of seeds and stuff but that's the thing isn't it

so I find that stuff really interesting as a phenomenon as well because there's loads of shit happening all the time in the country people can't pay their fucking bills I just read this morning the biggest killer of people now for the first time isn't smoking it's poor housing right right yeah so we're basically living in like a fucking you know

victorian throwback nightmare where no one can get anything done people can't get a roof over their heads they can't get treatment yeah all this fucking shit right and we're kind of deadened and kind of dulled to that and then someone comes along and does something, which actually, I'm not fucking, let me finish the point before I fucking get, get handled out of town, which in the grand scheme of things is just a tree, right? It's just a tree.

It's just a tree. And I'm not saying it's a good thing. It's a terrible thing. And so part of me wants to go, let's get some perspective here. It's just a tree. But on an emotional level, I also feel really strongly about it,

even though I try and consider myself to be quite intelligent and above this kind of stuff whenever I can be, because I think it doesn't pay to be part of the mob, right? It's not a great place to be. But emotionally, I was really fucking pissed off that happened. Yeah. I mean, pound for pound, vandalism-wise, it's a banger though, isn't it? It's very impactful.

It's two minutes work and you will not be able to be employed for the rest of your life. It's brilliant. I would have negotiated with him and compromised and said, could you just spray a pack of cock and balls on it? Yeah, exactly, yeah. Because what you've done is atrocious. It's so bad. But it's so...

But, Pete, there will be people... It's so Jebediah Springfield's head, though, isn't it? It's so, like, old school. It's so good on them. And it's one of those things, Pete... You say kids aren't into the outdoorsy life. There will be people in conservative clubs, mostly in the places like Kent and Surrey,

genuinely and sincerely asking for the death penalty. Yes, they will. Won't they? Yeah. Because people forget themselves about this kind of stuff. They fucking go mad for it. So I knew it would grow. It'll all be fine in the end.

It's a terrible thing for a beautiful piece of nature. I genuinely think it's an appalling thing. But it's just kind of strange how, and this is a cliche thing to say, but it remains the case, and some cliches are cliches because they're true. There will be more coverage of that than there will be about the flooding

and deaths of tens of thousands of people in Libya and stuff like that. You know what I mean? It's kind of insane how... Priorities are topsy-turvy. Exactly. I'm just confused. Just very confused.

Very confused. Anyway, Peter, on that delicate note... On that delicate. Good versus evil. We should wrap up. It works, that story, because it's so simple, I think. And there's an aggressor, there's a victim, and there's a sadness in our soul.

A helpless tree victim. And I wonder if that's going to be the thing, because wasn't that just by Hadrian's Wall? Yeah. I wonder if that's the thing that finally tips Scotland over the edge and off they go. Into the moonlight, yeah. Take us out of here, Peter.

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