The Luke and Pete Show - Not much of a sweater

Episode Date: August 20, 2020

It’s a Thursday, which means another serving of nonsense from the Luke and Pete Show! This week, Pete’s playing with fire by recording semi-nude and Luke’s giving some love to Ronnie O’Sulliva...n. Strap in folks, it’s going to be a weird one.Also on this episode, we hear from a concussed pilot, Pete’s squaring up to Alison Hammond and Luke reveals what he has in common with er…. Prince Andrew…?Get stuck in at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com!***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Pumpin! This is the unloved members of the Black Eyed Peas, Pete Donaldson and Luke Moore. Luke and Pete Shaw, we were thrown out after Where Is The Love? But before, let's get it started. We were proud members of the Black Eyed Peas, but just Fergie, we just could not deal with her. She threw us out. And now we're doing a podcast together. So pleasure to speak to you once again, Luke. Are you enjoying it?
Starting point is 00:00:40 Are you thinking of joining any chart-topping beat combos in the future? Well, what people don't fully realise, I don't think, is that the P in Black Eyed Peas actually stands for Pete Donaldson. Yeah, Black Eyed Pete. Yeah, Black Eyed Pete. Which is what happened when we left. We had a big fist fight. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:58 I've been in the same room as Fergie, by the way. Yeah? Good. Did she wet herself or am I thinking of someone else that was on stage I wasn't there then I've got an alibi for that
Starting point is 00:01:09 no it was it was in the it was in the office I was in I was working in the music business at the time and she was on
Starting point is 00:01:17 the label that I worked at and she came in and I don't really have anything interesting to say that wouldn't be unnecessarily cruel so I won't okay but we were only ever I mean what I'm interesting to say that wouldn't be unnecessarily cruel, so I won't. Okay.
Starting point is 00:01:29 But we were only ever, I mean, what I'm trying to say, Peter, to our listeners, is that we were only ever really part-time touring members, weren't we? Yeah. Sometimes I will take a phone call occasionally from Will.i.am just to find out what he's up to. Yeah. He's still massively into his vaping. Really enjoys gardening as well. He's doing alright actually. He's not as tall as what you'd expect. Well I heard him being interviewed by Alison Hammond
Starting point is 00:01:52 in the world's most tedious interview over the weekend on Radio 2. And you've done a few, let's be fair. And I've done a few but none as quite as asinine as the one she managed to bring to the table, I have to say. I mean look, she's very charismatic and obviously they're going for a...
Starting point is 00:02:08 They've obviously gave a job to Ryland, who's a very vivacious, exciting kind of character, charismatic guy. And he could definitely do the job. I think Alison Hammond, I shouldn't have to listen to her doing a two-hour radio show, quite frankly, because
Starting point is 00:02:24 she's very much charismatic when she's doing the Blade Runner interviews and stuff. Have you ever seen him interview the cast of the new Blade Runner film? Very, very funny. But do I need her doing links? Do I need her linking an entire
Starting point is 00:02:40 show together? Not really. Not for me, Clive. And I speak from a little bit of experience and a little bit of, I think I might be pound for pound the better radio DJ than Alison Hammond. I'm going to say it. Guys, I'm going to say it. I reckon I've got more to my game than Alison Hammond. And you may laugh at me and go, Pete, there's a reason why she's on telly.
Starting point is 00:03:06 There's a reason why she's on radio too. I go, fine, fine. I can be as unprofessional as she is. I can just, you know, just laugh my way through the interview. Giggle my way through the interview. Finally, I'm on board. Oi, oi, oi. I'm sure she'll get better.
Starting point is 00:03:21 We all get better. Don't row back from it, you coward. Stick at it. Fucking pathetic by you. Stick at it. If this show is in, Alison Hammond should not be on the radio. I should not be paying that licence fee.
Starting point is 00:03:37 Listen, you've said that. Stick with it now. People will respect you if you row back on it. And I would say that I didn't know she was on Radio 2. I don't think I've picked on Radio 2 for a long time. Well, I think Rylan's excellent. Yeah, no, I completely agree. But I think they're trying to just kind of throw the...
Starting point is 00:03:53 When you see sort of DJs getting thrown in at the deep end, you sort of go, that's not your fault. Because you're always going to say yes to work, aren't you? You're always going to say yes to a better job. Or a bigger job or a more stable job. And she's been throwing the lines there. Oi, oi, oi. But just the Will.i.am interview was just very basic.
Starting point is 00:04:14 What was wrong with it? It was just like, what have you been doing during lockdown? And then he'd say the answer. And then she'd ask the same question again. What have you been eating during lockdown? And then he'd say that again. goes i've i write three songs i write three songs a day i write three songs a day and then i walk out for two hours every day that's what he says so he's that's how he talks so he sounds how does he talk so that again i walk out for two hours a day and i release three it sounds like mitch hedberg i release three i read three songs a day and I release three. It sounds like Mitch Hedberg.
Starting point is 00:04:45 I release three. I write three songs a day and I'm living in a castle. And he kept on going on about a joke and that he lived in an English castle. It was just so tedious. Why were you listening to this? I don't know. I was just, it was just, I don't even want a radio show anymore. I was just going, come on now.
Starting point is 00:05:01 Come on. Come on. Basically, you don't want a radio show anymore, but you also don't want anyone else to have one? I don't want Alison Hammond to have one. Who else don't you want to have one? You. And I've succeeded.
Starting point is 00:05:15 Well, that wish has been granted. You left talk sports, so I'm happy now. If I can't have one, nobody can have one. Yeah. I think these are the ramblings of a genuinely unhinged man. I know. I'm hot as well. I'm in the Stakhanov studio, and it's obviously during the summer months,
Starting point is 00:05:32 which we've kind of been, thanks to COVID and lockdown, we've kind of missed a lot of the body heat that would usually be present in the studio. So I think we've done pretty well not to melt. But yeah, it's just been raining in London. Speaking of that, Peter. And just as I was slagging off Alison Hammond, the sun comes up.
Starting point is 00:05:52 Yeah, just as you were slagging off Alison Hammond, you've literally got five minutes into the show and you're now doing a weather update. Traffic and travel next. Mate, speaking of the temperature, did you see something that broke earlier this week about Death Valley in California?
Starting point is 00:06:08 Did it reach record temperatures or record low temperatures for this time? Because Death Valley's awful. Well, what happened was, right, it's a part of Death Valley called Furnace Creek. Isn't that hot? Probably is. And apparently at 3.41 on Sunday just gone 341 p.m the temperature hit 129.9 fahrenheit or 54.4 celsius which could be the hottest reading ever reliably recorded on this planet. Now, the complication is that in 1913,
Starting point is 00:06:48 there was talk of a slightly hotter bit of data, which I think came in at 100 and... What did I say? Yes, apparently 134 Fahrenheit has been clocked, but it was in 1913. So the 54s, right? Yeah, I don't know if people are happy with yeah yeah i don't know if people are happy with the reliability of the data either way it's definitely the hottest day ever in um
Starting point is 00:07:12 in august in death valley and i just wanted to bring it to the table because i did some interviews for some people who want to come work with us last week and i had to do in my spare room on it when it was the hottest day of the year and because of the fact that they were done over zoom i couldn't really have the fan on and had to have the window closed and it got to 34 degrees in my spare room now this is 20 degrees hotter than that and my brain can't even process how hot that would be luke's dying hot cars i like the idea that um any new recruits would be seeing your beautiful glistening face. My new boss is very shiny. Well, I'm not much of a sweater, am I, famously?
Starting point is 00:07:50 No, no. So I'm all right. You're like Prince Andrew. Yeah. In many, in many different ways. I try to get in there and say, a bit like Alistair Cook, who's a famously an English cricketer who doesn't sweat, but you got right in there with the Prince Andrew.
Starting point is 00:08:03 Yes. Couldn't stop it. Well, as you know, look's it's too it's too obvious mate because i you you you we'd be talking the same language if we're talking about cricket because i'm just so across it the bat and the ball the smell of the cedar i know we found out on monday cedar we found out on monday but i just i just wanted to carry on very very quickly with this death valley thing because i think that some people out there will be confused as i was about why it gets so hot there because you know you've got you know people understand that the equator is warm and the earth is a certain shape but there's a certain
Starting point is 00:08:35 amount of it's like a confluence of like different factors which makes death valley very very hot and the other only other place i believe that is equivalently hot is a place in libya um which roughly equivalent in terms of temperature but you could you expect if i said to you if you didn't know you'd think well where's the hottest place you'd probably say something like the middle east right like yeah yeah but it's apparently to do with the fact that um in death valley particularly there's four main things one is that um because it's low it's apparently to do with the fact that in Death Valley particularly, there's four main things. One is that because it's mostly rocks, it experiences what's known as solar heating,
Starting point is 00:09:15 which I think is roughly equivalent to why London is a few degrees hotter than elsewhere outside the big city because there's loads of rocks and loads of concrete which heats up. And the sun basically just warms the rocks and they then respond by releasing heat then um the the um the the the warm air gets trapped because of the high um steep kind of valley walls if you like the mountains around the valley so it can't escape um and then there's migration of warm air from other areas and then the mountain winds come from other hot areas, which are really very hot as well. So you've essentially got the perfect topographic conditions
Starting point is 00:09:52 for what is essentially a natural oven, basically. Yeah, yeah. Would you like to go there? I don't know if you can go there. I think they might stop you certain times. Really? Do you reckon? Because it's like, isn't it Las Vegas?
Starting point is 00:10:04 Because Las Vegas is just like a bit of a, it's a bit of a ball. It's a bit of like a nail in just a big desert. It was just kind of like created by man. Like this come here and gamble in the middle of nowhere. I remember the drive from San Francisco across through like Modesto and a place like that to be, there's just nothing there in Modesto and places like that to be... Right. There's just nothing there in between there and the coast. Well, it's quite interesting because, as ever,
Starting point is 00:10:31 these kind of things are politicised as well. So Libya do actually claim a 58 degree Celsius temperature recorded in 1922, but there was an investigation seven years ago by the World Meteorological Organization who dismissed it and said it was completely unreliable and couldn't be claimed, which they got pissed off about. So it's like a bit of a claim to fame. I don't really know why.
Starting point is 00:10:54 It's a weird one, isn't it? Yeah, we will need humanitarian aid pretty soon because this is fucking ridiculous. All I'm saying, Pete, is if the World Meteorological Organization want to come and investigate the circumstances around my flat last Wednesday, they are welcome to do so. I've got witnesses, I've got evidence. I took a photo of the thermostat in the house and everything, so I can't really dismiss it.
Starting point is 00:11:15 What do you reckon? I wouldn't bring in independent scientific research and thought and measurements. I would bring in Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas. Man, it's a hot one. Like seven inches from the midday sun. I'd bring them in. Give me a hot, very real, or else forget about it.
Starting point is 00:11:36 Not that one, the other one. No, no. The other one. There's a guy on Twitter who just keeps on tweeting Rob Thomas with the phrase, man, it's a hot one. Hot one here, Rob. Hot one. Every day.
Starting point is 00:11:49 Is it like Limmy who tweets every single day? Yeah. Limmy tweets, check out Get Lucky by Da Funk if you can, Sound of the Summer. Sound of the Summer, yeah. He's done that every day since like three years. I admire it. I mean, Gav from Regular Features is a very, very good podcast.
Starting point is 00:12:07 He's part of the RKG lot. And he, every time, I think he's got it set up to, I think at the start of the month, he checks out when Jurassic Park is on the television. And when it starts, it'll automatically post on Twitter. There's a film called Jurassic Park on Channel 4 at the moment. Sounds a bit fair-fetched, but I'll stick with it. And every time it's on, I'll watch the channel.
Starting point is 00:12:32 It's always on ITV2. It's always on ITV2. It really, really is. But look, it works because I think it's like the same thing of putting Friends on every day on Channel 4 and beyond. It's just something that people will watch, and it's quite cheap programming. You put on Jurassic Park, you're going to get eyes. Yeah, I believe that when Netflix acquired Friends,
Starting point is 00:12:52 everyone was like, what are they doing that for? And it's the most viewed show on there by miles, basically. That's why they're doing it. Very easily. Obviously. I'd say the resurgence and the rebirth of interest in the US office has been similar. You know, it's on Amazon Prime.
Starting point is 00:13:08 Anyone who's got a Prime account can watch it. I think it's on Netflix as well. And so kids are watching it because it's just really easy. You know, it's 20 quid, road-tested, slightly edgy humour, slightly dated humour in 2020. But it's, you know, 20 minutes of fun and then out, all the characters are there. It's cracking.
Starting point is 00:13:23 And there are infinite amounts of them. And I've watched, I'm finishing off my fourth run at it, incredibly and inexplicably. Despite what people on Twitter who've got like 400 followers and put in their bio that they only watch Mongolian art house movies think, most people aren't like that, are they? No, they're really not. They're really, really.
Starting point is 00:13:42 Can I mention something, Pete, that I forgot to mention on Monday? I know you'll have zero interest in it, but I'm quite passionate about it, so I want to mention it anyway. I really enjoyed watching Ronnie O'Sullivan win his sixth world title in the World Snooker on Sunday. And what he has been able to achieve in the sport is actually
Starting point is 00:13:59 quite ridiculous. He's been at the very top of the game without even really trying for the most part for now 27 years he won his first triple crown title at 17 he's now 44 and he's just won the world title again right he is when people talk about the last dance and michael jordan being the best at any sportsman's ever been at anything ever ronald sullivan is right up there with the most naturally talented sportsman that's ever lived, not just in this country, but around the world. And to put it in perspective, in 2012, he won the world title, right?
Starting point is 00:14:33 He then took the whole of 2013 and 2012 and 13 off, came back for the following world title without playing any snooker and won it again. It's not even fair it's it's funny and i guess snooker probably isn't uh regarded as being the you know because i guess physical more physical sports um you have a much more limited um kind of lifespan uh but you spoke very eloquently about him last week and how incredible he's he's he's able to do what he does and and and he's quite funny and chippy about it. He's in good nick as well.
Starting point is 00:15:07 He does lots of running, doesn't he, Ronnie O'Sullivan? He's a bit of a runner. Yeah, he's very, I sent, I sent a,
Starting point is 00:15:12 he's got a publicly, I think he's got a public Strava for his running. So you can look at his times and stuff. And I sent his 10K PB to my mate Lee, who's a really big runner. And he wouldn't, he wouldn't have it. He's like,
Starting point is 00:15:24 no fucking way. I'm not having it. No way has has he done that that's seven minutes faster than my pb he can't do that but apparently he's a very naturally talented runner as well yeah brilliant i love that i like those kind of it's just it's just a genius right yeah it's just like the the general consensus around something like snooker is you have to have a bit of talent of course but it's just practice practice practice and it's one of those really kind of mentally draining pursuits because you spend a lot of time on your own in a dark room. Some of them spend seven, eight hours a day just potting balls. And Ronnie, although I'm sure he does practice,
Starting point is 00:15:56 doesn't really do that. And yet it's still better than all of them. Even Stephen Hendry, who's widely regarded as being the best ever, who's had seven world titles to Ronnie O'Sullivan's six. Stephen Hendry even says he's the best player ever. You know, it's not even like a closely run thing. So it's just incredible what he's been able to do naturally with, you know, he's essentially just a genius.
Starting point is 00:16:19 I know you've got to take that kind of phrase, a term under caution, because it means different things to different people. And some will say that, you know, there's no such thing as genius. It's all about practice. I mean, I don't really see how you can explain the phenomenon of Ronnie O'Sullivan
Starting point is 00:16:30 without acknowledging the idea that he is just supremely talented way over and above everyone else. It's kind of interesting how he said his own mental health problems as well, by the way, which have manifested themselves in different, different respects. But what he's been able to do i think has been it's astonishing really and he and he should be what what more widely regarded for it i mean i know that um someone piped up the other day saying that there's no way he shouldn't have been sports person out of the year by now i mean like some of the people who've won it you they've walked past
Starting point is 00:17:02 you bought past him in the street and you wouldn't know who they were. O'Sullivan's been at the top of his game for 27 years. Stephen Henry's the best player in terms of winning the most world titles. I think he won his last world title at 30 and Ronald O'Sullivan's just done it at 44 years old. I mean, it just doesn't happen. It's incredible what he's been able to do. Well, look, study his brain.
Starting point is 00:17:21 There must be something going on there that's not going on anywhere else in humankind. What do you reckon it is? Big hippocampus. That's the only bit that I remember. They're big. The hippocampus is just massive. Just a big, fat, greasy hippocampus.
Starting point is 00:17:38 I don't know. I'm not a bloody expert, am I? Did you see that in that show, that film Free Solo, with the guy who free climbs El Capitan and he goes for a... Have you seen the movie? No, no, you have. Okay, at one point he goes into a hospital and gets an MRI. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:17:56 And they find out that the bit of his brain that kind of manages fear is just like completely non-existent. He just doesn't want to have it. He can't process it it would they find that would they find it would they find that i mean that seems like that's overreaching what the hospital should be doing what do you mean he's asked to do it he's been asked to go in there all right oh so this okay so it's right okay so so so then pin him down i thought it sounded like you just went in for an unrelated you know cardiogram or something and just they just went no no your fear gland is
Starting point is 00:18:25 so small what's wrong with you yeah it sounds like a simpson sketch when you're when you're 3 000 meters up in the air or whatever it is with no ropes on and you're still climbing and you're not getting sweaty palms you're so focused it doesn't affect you they want as part of the movie they wanted to find out why he was able to do that right okay i see every every kind of natural reaction or inclination of most human beings would be to get the sensations that you would get which which attribute themselves to fear so it could be for any reason but you know what it's like you'll get a dry mouth you'll get sweaty palms you'll start to be a bit twitchy and he doesn't get any of that so they went to try and find out why that was basically very interesting uh we're gonna hit
Starting point is 00:19:04 that brick we're back very very very soon with uh more of your emails before we do though pete i just want to let you know if you haven't seen the film what happens is they scan his brain why is he so good at rock climbing it comes back and his brain is just a gigantic rock cliff it's a bit hot hot death valley cliff that's all that's all it is yeah um we'll be back in a second and we're back luke i do not mind admitting I've taken my top off in the Stakhanov studio. Is that allowed? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:19:29 We'll find out if any of our colleagues walk in and shout at me. I can't stop you. You can't stop me. I can't stop you, mate. Yes. And nor would I want to. No, exactly. It's just, it's got too hot and I'm wearing,
Starting point is 00:19:39 I'm not wearing the dad jeans that I'm famous for, but I have got my top on. I've literally got, I'm looking at the reflection of the door. If I hear the door go, I've got a second and a half before people can see my nip nips. So I'm on tenterhooks. I'm excited. I'm exhilarated.
Starting point is 00:19:59 You shouldn't be excited. You should be focused. Well, I'm laser focused on the show, but also not scaring katie or charlie who is who are our colleagues with my given that you have played several nude pranks on me in that studio over the years no i've not i've not got my bits out in this studio mate i don't think so anyway i've got photos i can share it i'll share them if you want there's 4k footage if there's 4k footage of my wanger, that's out of order, Luke.
Starting point is 00:20:28 4K makes it sound really impressive. Four kilograms. It's actually 4K footage. Yeah, four centimeters. Chris has got in touch with the show. Huge thanks for the podcast and making the last few months more bearable. Mate, Chris, thank you for listening. Firstly, just picking up something from last Thursday's episode where Luke said that there was a coffee that went through
Starting point is 00:20:49 and came out of the digestive system of an ocelot. Unfortunately, the ocelot is a small carnivorous cat from Central and South America who are carnivores and they snack mainly on iguanas, rodents, rabbits, etc. I presume you wouldn't want what comes out of them after a big session on the iguanas. The mammal famously digested the coffee beans to create Kopi Luwak, or Luwak maybe.
Starting point is 00:21:10 It's from Southeast Asia and it's called a civet. There are 12 species of civet. Oh, yeah, that's right. They're a nocturnal mammal. They're found across the tropical rainforests of Asia and Africa. So there you go. Anyway, after the civet ocelot debate, I wanted to pick you up
Starting point is 00:21:25 on the bizarre funeral habits of people around the world following Pete chatting about stripper funerals. In Sulawesi, Indonesia, there is a region called Tana Toraja. Yeah, a few years ago,
Starting point is 00:21:40 I found myself there and ended up attending a funeral. When someone dies, they keep the body semi-mummified in the bedroom of the family home until they've saved enough money for and ended up attending a funeral. When someone dies, they keep the body semi-mummified in the bedroom of the family home until they've saved enough money for a suitably lavish funeral. This can take up to two years and the family sleep in the communal areas
Starting point is 00:21:52 while the body lies in the rest of the bedroom. Part of the funeral ceremony then is to sacrifice over 20 buffaloes by hacking their throats with machetes in front of the funeral attendees. That's too many. That's too many. Each buffalo and its meat then gets given to different people in the local community. A bizarre funeral experience indeed.
Starting point is 00:22:09 Yeah, just like a shriveled up mummified body. What part of the world is that in, Pete? Indonesia, I believe. Yeah, because I think what he's referencing there, he's referenced in the film Apocalypse Now at the end when they do whatever they do. I don't want to spoil it, even though it was made in the 70s. But they interspersed shots of what's happening
Starting point is 00:22:35 with the ritual sacrificing of a buffalo. And I think that movie was shot in the Philippines. So I think that might be exactly what he's talking about, that kind of didn't they try and touch uh argue that um no buffaloes were harmed or something in in that movie just obviously i mean come on yeah i mean yeah there's a lot of controversy around that movie because i'm pretty sure that um the director ended up like loaning a lot of helicopters from a government that was actually listed on a banned government list. Lovely. Doing business with the United States.
Starting point is 00:23:07 So he can provide all sorts of kind of sanctions. He was basically mad. He was mad what he was getting up to. It shits on Apple and... I've seen Apple and Epic are having a fight about Fortnite, the video game that every kid in the world is playing. Yeah, I've also seen that if the US go ahead with this thing about banning WeChat,
Starting point is 00:23:27 that Apple are going to have to say goodbye to $45 billion worth of revenue in China. Oh, it will be... There's no way they can do that because WeChat is like everything. It's a payment processing thing as well, right? Payment processing, you can book cabs, you can get food, you can get your friends.
Starting point is 00:23:43 It's your whole life. It's an incredible piece of work. You can gift people money with the red envelope systems. It's like, it's a fully fun, it's what, if you had a government who just allow you to just do whatever the fuck you want, that is the product that you get out of it. A lot of the products are obviously disabled in the West,
Starting point is 00:24:02 but yeah, it's everything. Obviously, I think Japan's got Line, the Chinese have got WeChat, and it's just a whole suite of... It's your social media, it's your cabs, it's your food, it's your everything. Excuse you! It's your cab.
Starting point is 00:24:18 Did you order a cab on WeChat? Yeah. So yeah, it will be incredible but the idea that Fortnite has got so big the Epic think that they can just sort of go fucking
Starting point is 00:24:29 come out as Apple we're gonna we're gonna do our own little we're gonna do our own we're Epic based they're American I think yeah
Starting point is 00:24:36 but I mean they've got they've got studios all around the world but they literally Fortnite has gotten to such a size that they think they can take on Apple and say look
Starting point is 00:24:44 you're not taking 30% of all of our money because even though it's pretty flat all over, they take 30% off everybody apart from the film side of things. But yeah, they think they can go toe-to-toe with Apple and the only winner will be Apple. What's the fallout going to be? Well, they were clearly preparing. They clearly were prepared for Apple to take them off the store and the google play store as well
Starting point is 00:25:08 um because they prepared a fully um cgi'd animation of like a parody of an old apple advert that nobody fucking remembers um like a 1984 free fortnight hashtag bollocks and basically people have talked about a lot over the weekend but weaponising gamers which is never a good idea because gamers are incredibly insane yeah but how
Starting point is 00:25:31 why would it affect the Google why would it affect the Google Play Store as well well similar so I think Google Google take
Starting point is 00:25:36 if you're on the same rate they take the same rate so so Epic took basically added an extra bit of coin into their system and said
Starting point is 00:25:43 look you can get these points and you know you can get these points and you can get this in-game currency a little bit cheaper if you go through us. Because obviously Apple and Google aren't taking their 30% if you go straight through Epic. But yeah, obviously it was not checked by Apple. If this precedent is set, Peter,
Starting point is 00:25:59 if this precedent is set, will you stop taking 30% of my income? Look, you make... Look, this is the reason why Blondie is still touring. You make decisions when you are younger in your career that you live to regret for the rest of it. And if you can't... Like in... I was going to say, like in this country,
Starting point is 00:26:16 when she doesn't get... Her mum won't celebrate her birthday because she says that she sold her birthday five years ago for 200 quid. Nice. Lovely old job. So I'm not celebrating now. You knew what you were doing five years ago when you sold ago for 200 quid. Nice, lovely old job. So I'm not celebrating now. You knew what you were doing five years ago
Starting point is 00:26:28 when you sold it for 200 quid. You're not having a birthday present this year. You know what you've done. 200 quid is such a good line. It's such a good amount of money. It's such a good amount. It's because it's a decent amount of money that you would sell your birthday for.
Starting point is 00:26:39 But obviously the idea that a parent would do that is such a good game. She spends it all on in-app purchases on the game anyway yeah listen we've let's do one more email because we've got an email from another pilot and it's pilot claude who i don't think before so very hello a very uh warm welcome and hello to you claude he says uh hi guys hope you're well thanks again for all the pods keeping us entertained definitely made lockdown easier just thought i'd get in touch because you mentioned us pilots sitting around doing nothing at the minute
Starting point is 00:27:08 which is mostly true i wasn't flying for three months over lockdown and then was luckily one of the first pilots to be called back around mid-june it's been strange going back to work with a lot of new procedures mainly revolving around masks more and more people seem to be kicking off about them and giving the cabin crew a hard time hopefully people understand it will just be the rule for some time and we have to get used to it that's another story though there are quite a lot of pilots obviously still on furlough and practically all airlines are proposing big pilot cuts sadly our union has been taught in talks for ages with the company to reduce the redundancies but it's not a lot not looking great for a lot of folk,
Starting point is 00:27:46 but hopefully they can save as many jobs as possible. Back to your point about pilots sitting around twiddling their thumbs, I managed to get a concussion and whiplash last weekend playing Gaelic football. I fell backwards with a lot of force and smacked my head on the ground. So I've been grounded since then
Starting point is 00:28:01 because I have to take some rest and get some rest and take some painkillers. I can't go back until I get signed off by various doctors. So, yeah, it's back to sitting around playing FIFA and dossing around for the time being. All the best, Claude. Claude, can I just say, you sound like one of the more hapless pilots we've heard from, and I wouldn't like to fly with you.
Starting point is 00:28:18 I would not like to fly with you. He's clearly got a concussion enjoying something, you know, something a little less systemic and, you know, a little less kind of stressful. And look where it's got him. I mean, I would abhor playing a pilot on FIFA. They'd be so precise. They would know that they have to have very kind of organized minds.
Starting point is 00:28:41 Good angles, probably. Good angles. Yeah, great angles. Judgment, flight of the ball you know the ball dynamics would be all up in their up in their heads it'd be a nightmare oh and the language from the muse yeah but in claude's case yeah in claude's case he's actually got a serious battle concussion so you probably fancy a chance of speaking him yeah but i mean he'd be he'd be on the he'd be on the xbox live headset because obviously they're used to wearing headsets and
Starting point is 00:29:03 they'd be like true good afternoon, everyone. Can I just say, Pete? You're playing Pilot Claude here. You probably have to, yeah. The altitude we're playing at is approximately zero feet. You must really hurt yourself to get whiplash from hitting your head on the floor. Whiplash?
Starting point is 00:29:18 Yeah, like forward whiplash, presumably. Yeah. I didn't realise you could get whiplash like that. He's had the sets knocked out of him. No. Anyway, on that bombshell on that whiplashy bombshell we're gonna get out of here that's it for the luke and pete show this week we will of course be back on monday as we always are do keep your emails your missives your messages your comments coming in hello at luke and pete show.com we are at luke and pShow on Twitter. Leave us a nice review on Apple
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