The Luke and Pete Show - Oh, Mark Ruffalo

Episode Date: August 31, 2023

Pete reveals that he’s met the man who voiced Mario on today’s show. Should we be surprised by this news?We also hear all about the first time that Pete met Luke’s dad and Luke tells us about the rather entertaining colleague he used to work with. His catchphrase is particularly enjoyable.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.

It's the Luke of Pete show and I am Pete Donaldson. I've still got that kind of like frog in my throat from my flirtation with COVID a couple of weeks ago. It's weird isn't it? You had not a COVID? I had a COVID a couple of weeks ago, yeah. No one talks about it now. Did you test? Did you test? Did you test? Yeah, I tested. It was fine.

Yeah, I mean, it was fine, as in I had COVID. Not fine. It wasn't fine then. The other side of fine. Back in the day, like, obviously, it was the biggest thing in the world to get COVID. Now it's like, what do I do? What do I do? Yeah, there's no protocols in place now, and there's no kind of law either.

So, I mean, you don't really technically have to do anything. No. It's confusing does that seem weird to you it seems massively weird bearing in mind it stole about a year and a half all in from us

I would say if not longer we can't get that back I knew you were poorly I just didn't know you had Covid weird yeah anyway

no one cares I'm Luke by the way Pete doesn't always introduce me I mean if I'm introducing myself as Pete I reckon unless you're

particularly thick you're probably across it on Monday's show we ended by saying that the voice of Mario Charles Martinet

is it Charles Martinet or Charles Martinet I think it's I thought it was Charles Martinet to be honest but I'm willing to be proved wrong

he looks depressingly like a bit like Jimmy Savile I thought it was Charles Martin here, to be honest, but I'm willing to be proved wrong. He looks depressingly a bit like Jimmy Savile. I've met him before. He's a nice lad. I'm sure he's lovely. But he does break into doing the Super Mario voice a little too easily for me. It's a bit John Coleshaw. Imagine what Phil Cool would be.

Why are you doing Phil Cool? He's an impressionist yeah I'm doing a Russian doll impression I've actually spent unfortunately I've actually spent

a considerable amount of time in the company of John Coleshaw and he is exactly like that wouldn't it be weird if if Sean Connery

just walked in now guys what are you fucking doing? We're talking about the weather. There's like six people here and we're talking about the weather. Yeah. Wouldn't it be weird if I invited someone Pete knew to his birthday, except he didn't really know that person, so it was a bit weird.

Wouldn't that be weird? Wouldn't that be a weird thing to do? Yeah. Isn't that, that's also what you know, it's my 50th birthday, do you want to come? I don't know you. I wasn't saying that.

The person I'm talking about was saying that. What did you say instead? I wasn't invited, I wasn't part of it. I'm not attractive enough. This is the most confusing conversation. I think you can join the dots.

Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, impressionists, liars, cheats, magicians, liars cheats magicians liars

can't be trusted can't be trusted I find that's what when we talked on Monday about comedians I find I've unfortunately there are plenty

of very nice people of course people we know well that are comedians or have been they're all fine but a lot of comedians that I've unfortunately

been in the company of they try and conceive of and confect situations and conversations so they can then tell a joke they've been working on. Right, okay, yeah, yeah. And that is by far the most annoying thing of their company. They should be better. Which is why they all flock together. Are we starting another show slating comedians

or is this just purely impressionists? Well, the impressionistist thing i have been in the company of john coleshaw i didn't enjoy it enough no i don't think he was nice enough and um you're not nice enough and um it was a charity event that i was volunteering at yeah and he was there you know admittedly i think giving up his time to also do the same thing although obviously he was performing i was just helping out yeah and he did also just try to do impressions all the time and i'll tell you what annoyed me about it at the time actually there were several people there and he didn't kind of attempt to do an impression of any of them because which would have been funny yeah but i mean i think it's a bit great to start doing an

impression of something because you've got to really work you've got to really work on your impressions and it does take a lot of time i suppose you can't just sort of go because effectively you're just meeting someone and going no no no this is what i think you uh sound like but i think they've all got a um a kind of tick where they that's the best that's the only way they can really properly communicate, right? Right, yeah. So it's not they can't just be normal. If I see someone who likes one of our shows in the supermarket, I don't just start doing a bit about football or a topic from the Luke and Paul.

I mean, basically, people only ever ask me about you anyway. Batteries. If you're standing next to the battery where the people drop off the batteries. I sometimes do that. I sometimes go there all day this is a real treasure trove, what are you talking about I wait for people to recognise me from like Colmar Garden, like battery brands

and then talk to them about it no I don't do that what we were actually talking about Pete was Charles Martinet and you've met him so tell me about why you met him and what he was like it will not surprise you I think it was Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games it will not uh surprise you i think it was marion sonic at the olympic games we did not meet them the uh they went out the olympic games i mean there

was an event around the marion sonic at the olympic games uh game and i think he was there for a reason and i think that he um we didn't meet the the um bloke who does sonic's voice i don't even know what he sounds like so So we just got Mario. But he's been phased out, hasn't he, this week? He's been told that he's persona via non grata, not required. Why is that, though? Are they getting a new person in to do his voice, or what?

I don't know. Maybe, I mean, I guess as you get older, your voice changes a little bit, so maybe it doesn't sound... I mean, maybe they're kind of sashing into the Chris Pratt version of what Mario sounds like sort of yeah that was a bit of a shame because chris pratt did the voice for the movie right yeah yes because i guess it was above charles martinet's kind of ability level because he just does soundbites i guess yeah i guess so i mean him

i mean i think he's he's he's quite old now charles martinet and he you know props maybe he's quite old now, Charles Martinet, and, you know, props. Maybe he's in ill health, I don't know. But I think Charles Martinet was very much the voice of Mario when he was just shouting woo-hoo and stuff. So further than that, I think he's, yeah, he's not got much else in the tank, I would say. He's not got another level. To be fair, he also did say, though, Charles Martinet, I want to voice Marioio until i drop dead

oh someday i think i'm no longer capable of doing it i will tell nintendo to look into finding someone else so that tells you everything you need to know about his opinion on the decision peter right okay yeah well i mean how does a man i mean i guess because obviously um nintendo are very uh japanese company and it's interesting that man because he's only been doing it for Obviously, Nintendo are a very Japanese company. And it's interesting that that man, because he's only been doing it for 20 years, which isn't long enough, but obviously Mario's been around for a lot longer than that.

Do you not think that like... I think it's 27 years, isn't it? 27 years. Oh, well, fair do. That's probably the entire run of his speaking life. But it's weird that they would sort of go for a... Is he British? I guess for a... Is he British? I guess he's... Is he British?

I can't bloody remember now. Or American? I can't remember where he's from. I have met him, but I can't remember. He was just doing fucking hoots and stuff. He's American, apparently. Right, okay. Yeah, just interesting that he's managed to sort of maintain that gig for such a long time.

He also did... Apparently, he also voiced one of the main people in Skyrim. Oh, right. Okay, yeah. So he's keeping one of the main people in Skyrim. Oh, right, okay, yeah. So he's keeping busy. Blocking the moustache. Yeah, and he's also in some TV stuff as well. He's a midnight caller.

Do you want to join the Thieves Guild? Woo-hoo! Imagine that. Imagine if he turned up for a session and every time he just couldn't help but do it. Here we go! Starfield's out very, very soon indeed. Yeah, well, talk to me about that I've heard a lot about it

Skyrim in the sky man Skyrim in space do you know when I really got into No Man's Sky for a while yes yeah yeah it's a little bit like that

really I guess yeah and is it is it a multiplayer what's it all about it's single player I think yeah single player just cutting around

the universe boldly going nowhere because we can't find reverse what was the player, I think. Yeah, single player. Just cutting around the universe. Baldly going nowhere because we can't find reverse. What was the form? Star Trekking across the universe. It's not available on the PS5. Apparently it's only available on the Xbox and PC. What? Is it not available on the

PS5? Oh. It's on platforms Windows, Xbox, Series X. That is a surprise. I didn't know that. I should have known that because Bethesda are literally a Microsoft company. So, yeah, that kind of scans. That makes sense. So, yeah, all right, cool. All right, well, I'll have to play it on the old PC then.

No PS5 for me. I've started playing Fall Guys, did I tell you that? All right, yeah, that's a fun knockabout affair. Really difficult. Really bloody difficult. I got a little bit bored of PUBG not bored of PUBG

but like the problem with PUBG is that I'm the best which is obviously a sad thing to admit but I don't really have that many

say again I'm just the best no I don't really have that many I was going to say I don't really have that many friends people don't really

want to play it with me yeah but why do you need to have the intensity of playing with someone that you know why don't you just play with i've never played with anyone i know the only place i've ever played is with you that time it's fun when you can play as a team and you're you're chatting to each other and planning stuff and got tactics and stuff you don't really know that you can do that at randoms but you know i don't want to play with a 15 year old algerian bloke who just tells me go suck my mum all the time sometimes you need to be told to suck your mum, all right?

I understand that, but not in the heat of battle. I try to concentrate. I try to get the four-time scope on my fucking SLR. I don't really want to be hearing that. That's my main problem. My mum is just completely not sucked. I wouldn't have minded it, but my mum was also playing. She was driving the car at the time.

So no, I just wanted to find... What I want to do is find another couple of games that I can just jump on and kind of... Yeah, Fall Guys is very much that, isn't it? You just run down a track or try and stay on an elevator and it's very frantic. And the wife I have access to likes Fall Guys as well so we can actually play as a duo, which is a lot of fun.

That's nice. The couple who games together stays together. I need to find a game that me and Sarah can play. And I would just... I don't think it's the game, mate. And I think I'll probably continue my tradition of getting into video games five years later so I'll probably get into Starfield at about 20, 20.

Well, modern AAA game releases dictates that in about five years after release, the patches will just have nailed all of the problems. Or they'll have withdrawn the fucking game entirely. Yeah, exactly. What I do find absolutely astonishing, going down these kind of Wikipedia pages, I did it for skyrim

actually because i think it's the same creation engine as starfield right yeah it's just how they are able to do it i know it sounds like a really basic thing to say but i think if you're someone who just likes video games doesn't know much about them like i am and that's most of public right you don't really spend that much time if if any time at all, thinking about how they actually fucking do this. And it's amazing how they do it. What, put together a game? A creation engine. What does that even mean?

Oh yeah, it's just a creation engine too. Yeah, but what is that? So creation engine is just the engine, the middleware that they put stuff in. The engine. So like Unreal Engine, Creation Engine, Frostbbite engine they're all just kind of um proprietary well yeah i mean that's that's how you really earn your money in it that's you know i've made um a bridge or a man in um like a video game before so you know i i know that side of thing but that i was very much sliding a bridge that I'd made in 3D

in 3D Studio and put it into a video game, textured it, put it in a video game and it's very impressive and I was like wow cool this looks cool this is really satisfying but how, who puts together who puts together the system that allows a 3D object

to be displayed, lit animate, interact with, raycast, all that good stuff, all of the shades and stuff. Yeah, it's astonishing. It's like proper NASA-level computer science. It's like absolutely brilliant stuff. It's all written in a programming language, right? Yeah, so it'll all be written in C, or assembly, or whatever.

It'll all be written in C, or assembly, or, you know, whatever. It'll all be written in very low-level data just to minimise the amount of data that is going back and forth to the CPU to make it as efficient as possible, really. And there are pros and cons to different systems, and there are, you know, there was a big... FIFA has just released on... Oh, it's basically been put out on a switch uh very soon um now nintendo switch um

famously um refused to put um new versions of fifa on them they did one version about three years ago and they've just been rebadging it every year updating the rosters and just rebadging it and not really upgrading it it's like an absolute disgrace but this year because they've had to change the fifa license to fc they've changed to a different engine so like now um the the engine that they said couldn't be translated to switch has now been translated to switch um and apparently it's it's pretty good and so they could have done this years ago but instead ea wanted to spend as little money as possible and make as much money as possible when you drill it down to its component parts it's based as a series of binaries, ones and zeros, right?

Everything. Yeah. Which is fucking amazing to think of. Absolutely mind-blowing, isn't it? Absolutely insane. The building blocks of modern video game design, and anything design, was kind of forged 25 years ago.

It's just insane stuff. So if you're the lead designer or lead programmer on one of these games, are you pulling down like serious bank? Yeah, I think you probably... I mean, but you're worked to within an inch of your life. Like you are... I mean, because like the blokes who really make, and it mainly is blokes, who make the real money is the studio leads leads you know the showrunners you know

the directors effectively and they're the ones that make all the money they're the ones who will have um shares they're the ones who um do all the pr these are the ones who um make all the promises that their team have to enact uh and work really hard on enacting because that person like you know your peter molyneux's of this world, of this world, have made, have written checks that their arses can't cash. So they're spending, like, you know, 36-hour days, 36-hour, two-day periods trying to make this happen. Sounds like you're doing podcasts.

What? Like, I just say something. No, you just do 36-hour straight records. Yeah, exactly. Pretty much, yeah. That's been a heavy couple of days. That's been a heavy couple of days. That's been a heavy couple of days. Anyway, I will play Starfield.

Presumably it's going to cost about 100 quid, is it? No doubt. No doubt. And I'll give it a bash. I'll probably play it for about an hour. Then my son will not let me play anymore. And that'll be the end of that. Yeah.

I think I played the most recent FIFA once. Yeah, I didn't even play last year. That's the first time I've done that in about 15 years, which is incredible. I think there's definitely a market out there for a super popular, so there's enough people to play against, really simple football game.

Because football's appeal, its very essence is its simplicity, right? The reason it's so popular is because young kids fall in love with it and the reason young kids fall in love with it is because they can just put a couple of jumpers down kick a ball around right that's genuinely really the the kind of genesis of all of it and i think fifa becomes so it's so complicated yeah and and but i mean they've tried sort of different uh bits and bits and bobs i mean everyone's tried to resurrect your

sensible world of soccer and your kickoffs and stuff like a million times every year somebody's trying to re-make a new sensible soccer but um that's kind of where we are we're in the kind of um as the brands as brand identities become very important in football um authenticity and simulation has become a lot more um popular and a lot more important to football fans. But my favourite football game was always Virtua Striker, where if you kick the ball hard enough, a rainbow would come out of the ball

and it would tell you that you've scored a good goal. And if you scored a volley and they'd score you, they'd basically say, right, out of 500 points, that was a 450-point shot, like a bicycle kick from outside the area. It was just a lot of fun. And, you know, the people felt like they had weight,

you know, and now it's just, you're right, it's too complicated. If you've got it on an emulator now, do you play it still? Does it still stand up? No, yeah,

it probably wouldn't stand up, to be honest. Because I played GoldenEye on an emulator when I had COVID a year and a half ago. Absolutely shit. I was so disappointed. Yeah, yeah. I thought it'd Absolutely shit. I was so disappointed. Yeah, yeah. I thought it'd be brilliant.

It was absolutely terrible. Anyway, my favourite soccer games or football games when I was a kid were Sensible World of Soccer and Kick Off and Kick Off 2. Yeah, they're the big ones. They're the main two 16-bit food groups. I like the Kevin Keegan ones

and the 8-bit era. Yeah, we know you're talking. Chris Kamara is soccer manager. You've mentioned Kevin Keegan, so we have to go for a break. When we come back the other side, we will pick up on the battery brands that have been submitted this week.

We've got three more people lined up. Lovely. Don't go anywhere. It's going to be exciting. All right, then. Hey, we're back with Luke and Pete Shaw. We've got a battery brand. Every single Thursday, we select... Well, we're back with the Luke and Pete show. We've got a battery brand. Every single Thursday we select, well we don't select, you guys select batteries that you've found in your lives.

Send us a picture, let us know what brand they are and we'll see if they're going to make our Hall of Fame. Only unique batteries allowed. Hi guys, long time listener, first time emailer from Bangor in Northern Ireland I work a lot with industrial and commercial metering And happened across this one the other day When replacing batteries in a gas chatterbox Hopefully it's a new player Keep up the good work Is a gas chatterbox like some kind of gas detector that will not stop bleeping? Yeah, I'm not really sure what it is

I've never heard of one before Oh, to be fair, I'm looking at Is a chatterbox actually a thing? I'm not really sure what it is. I've never heard of one before. Oh, to be fair, I'm looking at... A chatterbox is actually a thing. A chatterbox isolation unit. Yeah, I'm looking at it as well. Volt-free isolation between meters, generating pulsed... Does it kind of level out the gas supply

so it can be listened to how much gas is going through on the meter, maybe? The mind does boggle. Safety, isolation... Interesting. I want one. I don't know what I'll do with it, but I want one. The battery is Tadaran, right? Tadaran. Which reminds me of the song...

I'll tell you what, it reminds me of the song on the Neon Neon album, Stainless Style, called I Told It on Alderaan, which is a brilliant song and a brilliant record. Yeah. But anyway, do you know, it's the guy, what's his name, Boom Bip and Gruff Rees from Superfair Animals.

It's a brilliant record. That's right. He was in a football game, Actors Soccer. There you go. It's a whole concept album about the development of the DeLorean car. Nice. Massive tax breaks, wasn't it? It was an absolute joke what they did in Britain. Under a Labour government, if I remember rightly

as well. Bloody hell. Disgraceful. Disgusting. Anyway, Tadaran. Disgusting! Tadaran. Patrick, you are, I am afraid to say, the third person to send Tadaran batteries in. Our friend Alan sent them in in June of last year,

and our friend David sent them in in July of last year. What's quite interesting is when you look at these batteries that have been sent in before and you go through the emails and you see when they've been sent, it's almost like they're in batches. It's almost like, say, a load of Tadaran batteries were sold at that time or put into that piece of kind of electronica at that time and so

people discover them at the same time it's really interesting um aspect it's like when it's like when there's a um a massive like salmonella scare and they manage to figure out what dare the salmonella managed to get onto the shells effectively It's like I find that the people who must chart the journey of a disease or something, some kind of food tent, I find that very fascinating how they managed to do that and how they managed to sort of track everything down and everything I presume really has to be corded, that this was produced on a certain day.

It's really good stuff are you saying that people should send in their eggs old eggs send in your old eggs any old eggs will tick I told you about

the guy in KFC in Portsmouth once I've probably told this story before I was there he was eating an egg no it was late doors in KFC

after a club kicked out it was like 2.30 in the morning he was demanding an egg to be deep fried and the bloke just walked into the KFC in front of everyone, slammed his hands on the table

and said to one of the employees, I haven't got any money. Have you got any old meat? Old meat. Suck your feet. Brilliant. Love that. What's next?

We've got a message from Sid. Kia Ora, Luke and Pete. My parents have recently decided to sell their home, requiring a trip to clear out my childhood bedroom. As with Luke's parents, they had taken to bringing over boxes of assorted items that they thought you might want each time they visited over the past few years.

So thankfully, there wasn't too much left to sort through. After sifting through match magazines and binos from the mid-90s, the highlight of the day was unearthing the following batteries in old electronics, a remote control car and a Game Boy Color. It was Max Life and Dorsey MasterCell Heavy Duty, both AA's. Yeah, Max Life have got a great tagline on them, Expect More. Expect More!

Which should be my tagline. That's nice, yeah. I mean, like, is that expect more from expect more from us do you not like expect more from your life expect expect less expect more power in the battery yeah because like my um because i think is uh i think my mate Al's mum told Al's girlfriend when they first started courting expect less court it like

and it's always stuck with me but like expect more I think sounds bad too yeah yeah I've never I've never I've always been really well supported

by my parents and my significant other's parents when it comes to relationships right yeah I've never had anyone kind of batter me about that, which I think is quite,

I'm quite grateful for that, I suppose. Yeah, I mean, the first time I met your dad, he did call me an idiot. Who did? Your dad called me an idiot. Yeah, but we're not courting, are we, Peter? No, but I'm just saying that you've always been quite supported by your parents.

I'm making the point that I've not been supported by your dad. When did my dad say that it was after a live show it just really made me laugh because he was just really cutting

and I was like whoa I wasn't expecting both barrels from Papa Moore at Sheppard's Bush when we played there I remember my dad

got really pissed and then Alex Zane ended up speaking to him the whole night to be fair he was really pissed as well that was a good show your friend Alex

is really nice really floppy really floppy man I think my old man had a severe hangover the next day anyway good stuff so Max Life

our friend Sid Max Life they're not new players they've been sent in once before but Dorsey, Mastercell, Heavy Duty are brand new players thank you very much indeed Sid for sending those in But Dorsey Mastercell Heavy Duty are brand new players. Thank you very much indeed, Sid, for sending those in.

You've got very nicely defined fingerprints on your fingers as well and very clean fingernails, which we respect. You seem to be wearing a pair of red pointy shoes in the photo, though, so I'd love an explanation for that. But overall, the most important things are that Max Life is not a new player, but Dorsey Mastercell is. It's great to have someone emailing in from Auckland as well. Spent many a happy time over in Auckland when I lived there. It's a place that's got a very special piece of real estate in my heart.

Ah, lovely stuff. That's very sweet. We got one from Brad. All right, boys. I found this on the floor in Malawi. I'll keep them coming. Well, no explanation. Say again?

No explanation. Just I'm in Malawi. Here's a battery. I found this on the floor in Malawi. It's now on some kind of, I guess, table now. Durata Extra. Yeah, it's solid. Solid design.

I like the AA configuration. It's good stuff. Would you venture to guess whether you think that's a new player or not, Peter? I'm going to say it's not a new player. I'm going to say it's not a new player though. It bloody is. Oh, Durata! Well done, Brad.

Thank you very much, Brad. Durata, Brad. Fantastic stuff. Sort of thing you would say when you're annoyed. Durata! Durata. I used to work with a guy at Sky who used to, when he was pissed off, he used to go, Mark Ruffalo. Which is really well suited to... Yeah.

And like you were at Sky before Mark Ruffalo was really probably that well known. Is that fair? Maybe, yeah. It just does tell my age. Interesting. He was also an absolute character. I'll try and think of some stories about him from the next time we record because he was fucking funny

he did a whole Sky was such a big company at the time that they were hiring people for departments they were expecting to need because they were a tech company

basically and one so basically I started working for them I know Sky goes like And one, so basically, I started working for them on, I know SkyGo is like a massive deal now, but when I started working for them, it was like a non-existent team. It's like, at some point, we're going to do video on demand,

and iPlayer is starting to do it, so we need to do it, so we need to put a team together. And I was part of that team, and there wasn't really anything to do. They put us out in this office down the road. We're completely forgotten about, and we just sat around watching movies and watching tv shows and synopsizing them and stuff get this right it was so early in the process of video on demand they i was part of the editorial team that manually synopsized like movies and stuff yeah yeah that's fair so you used to watch them and then synopsize them you think that that data i mean i guess it was that about around about the time that data just did not exist and like you'd think nowadays that will be someone will have that

data um ready to go and so it's all it's all optimized and all done automatically now but anyway so we had nothing to do so this guy the mark ruffalo guy um he would just develop these schemes to do stuff where he was like right um my next project is i'm going to try and take a shit in every toilet sky so he would like pull the plans for the buildings and stuff right and like put a spreadsheet together and he called it you know and it just so happened that it was around the time of the super bowl so he called it super bowel nice but you know but you don't think that like know, you're not getting in Keir Burley's private shitter, are you? Well, I don't know if she had one, is the short answer.

She must have had one, surely. But bearing in mind, Peter, this is a place that 15,000 people worked at, he was never going to get around to all of them. No, that's a good point, actually. There's about 1,000 toilets there. The only thing is, because I used to work in Sky quite a lot as well, and just a lot of...

There was a lot of schemes to make people happy. You know what I mean? A lot of gym stuff. They would have... At Christmas, they would have a big... What do you call it? A big ice rink they'd set up. Yeah.

And it was just this kind of enrichment. Like a little town. Yeah, Cyan Lane, kind of like a little town. And they tried to sort of like have the enrichment because it was so difficult to get to. And it was basically at the end of Heathrow, wasn't it? It was just under the Heathrow flood. Yeah, they had to work really hard

to get people to work there geographically. So I remember when I was there, I got a free bus to work, free gym, free TV, broadband and mobile phone yeah um you got a um there was a post office there free yeah um there was a massively subsidized canteen that served meals like decent meals 24 hours it's actually you know for the canteen was great yeah it was a really good place to work they were really they were really nice about the conditions and stuff they were honestly really good um to work. They were really nice about the conditions and stuff.

They were honestly really good. You got stuff like, you got given like a certain amount of money a year to kind of pursue extracurricular stuff as well. A certain amount of money a year to sponsor your quest to shit in every toilet in the building. Anyway, so he would send these updates around, man. He also did this thing where he was also a bit of a film nerd. And he did this thing where he did like a properly,

this will date it because this is what a lot of people were into at the time. He did like a properly comprehensive plan, like a Max Brooks style plan of how he would tackle like a zombie invasion in that building. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fair, fair. He had pulled the plans. Honestly, he was a full-on guy. Anyway,

I don't know how I got to talk onto that. He used to say Mark Ruffalo, which used to make me laugh. And he used to... What else did he used to do? Mark Ruffalo. They've locked the toilet. He used to eat a whole tub of Marks and Spencers mini bites every Friday. Okay,

they're just fried. I mean, that's just, you're going into the weekend and you're blocking yourself off. That's a lot, isn't it? With that really acrid kind of like, it's not really chocolate, is it? It's just this kind of greasy, greasy I hope he listens to this, because I think he's a chance he might listen to this.

He's still quite a good friend of mine. I'm not going to name him because I don't want to embarrass him, but there's a chance he lives in the US now. I think he might listen to this, and if he does, I hope he gets in touch, because he's a chance he might listen to this. He's still quite a good friend of mine. I'm not going to name him because I don't want to embarrass him. There's a chance he lives in the US now. I think he might listen to this. And if he does, I hope he gets in touch because he's a fucking funny guy. Anyway, let's get out of here. We've got to go. Pete, have you got any final words, Jerry Springer style, for our listenership? I mean, if you do have more than one toilet in your house, mix it up.

Have some fun. That's a good tip, actually. Mix up and have some fun. What I find is that the downstairs toilets in a lot of houses tend to be restrictively small.

Yeah, for a taller man as well. We've got one under the stairs and I mean obviously it's under the stairs for crying out loud. It's where Harry Potter lived.

Yeah. Speaking of it being too small I got a really helpful email from the NHS the other day saying, our record shows that you're obese. I was like, all right, thanks. I think I'm on the cusp.

You have to do it like when you get over 40, they give you these health checks, don't they? Right. And they're like, yeah, our record shows you're obese. Do you want to come in? All right. I would. Maybe I will. I would say that,

I think they sort of say that not obese, but overweight, statistically, gives you a longer life. Hmm. Which makes sense, doesn't it? You've just got more resources. So I'm definitely cracking on to it.

We haven't got time to go into this now, but think that might be a quite a bold claim yeah all right is it like when i said that um running somewhere is the same amount of calories as walking somewhere yeah yeah you just do it that time when you said that everyone should get type 2 diabetes and not drink any water yeah i mean yeah this year just. Big shots. Just big shots. Just big shots. You would be seen as like a bit of a quack in medical circles. All right then, team. We'll be back

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