The Luke and Pete Show - On top of a great white shark

Episode Date: August 17, 2020

On today’s show we’re talking about wildlings, the woeful ending of Game of Thrones and cannibalism. Also on this episode, Pete goes through some of the drunk texts he sent over the weekend a...nd we hear an incredible story about an Australian man who jumped off his surf board, onto a shark.We then read an email from a listener who’s had an unfortunate mishap with the mute button during a work meeting. Also, we hear from Hasan, whose PE teacher was a Premier League linesman.Get involved 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 Welcome to the Luke and the Pete show. It is a Monday. I do hope you are keeping well. I'm the Pete Donaldson from north of the wall. Do they call them groundlings or wildlings? Wildlings in Game of Thrones, don't they? Yeah. Wildlings, but I don't think you are really north of the wall. Wildlings, I really love you. I want to know for sure. Did they ever do that?
Starting point is 00:00:35 Yeah. Do you want to do a parody of that? Sounds tedious, and that's exactly what Game of Thrones fans would be. Would that have broken the fourth wall during the show if they just started doing that? Wildlings! Do-do,do-do! No, but done on a ukulele
Starting point is 00:00:50 by a young hipster. No, but the ukulele's made of bones. And the guitar strings are made of ligaments. And the bones are the skeleton's money. Up here, bones equals money. Equals dollars. Half as much food as this.
Starting point is 00:01:05 So I don't think you are a wildling. I think that you, so in Game of Thrones, man, you started this dance, and so you know exactly what you're getting yourself into. I think, you know, north of the wall would have to be Scotland. I think you'd be one of those. You'd be a northerner, but you wouldn't be quite that far north. You wouldn't be a wildling. I'd be the man on the wall.
Starting point is 00:01:24 I'd be a part of the Night's Watch, wouldn't I? Just lads hanging out with lads talking about lasses that they've slept with. Yeah. It's not unlike the north, really. You would be completely unsurprised
Starting point is 00:01:39 to know that people listening to this show who have seen Game of Thrones, which I know you haven't, you do actually look like one of the characters at the wall, Dolores Ed. You look really like him. So it would work.
Starting point is 00:01:49 Is that the bloke with the big forehead and the long nose? Yeah. Yeah, he's a good lad. He's a good lad. He's a right giggle. It's not all bad. It could be worse for you. I shan't get into whether he is deceased
Starting point is 00:02:02 or he retains his head or whatever. I can't really remember, to be honest. It's been a long time since Game of Thrones ended and it ended with a bit of a fart by everyone's markings. A whimper.
Starting point is 00:02:14 A whimper, yeah. Nobody really liked that. There's a lot of videos doing the rounds of the stars on the red carpet obviously turning up at events and functions to promote the final season.
Starting point is 00:02:26 And in retrospect, not looking very enthusiastic. Oh, I love it. I spoke to someone when I was over in the US, when you and I were in the US late last year, and I met a friend of mine for lunch who's, I'm not going to say well-connected, because that makes me sound like a twat, but he's in that game. And I said said to him why was the final season so bad
Starting point is 00:02:49 and his exact words were because they're both fucking hacks the people the two writers right okay oh fair deuce well did they did they write the whole thing i can't remember now i think the i think the insinuation pete was that they converted the books for television and then when they run out of books they did no no i mean what was it didn't uh the writer george rr martin say that you could i think you could like hurt him if he doesn't finish it by 2020 like you could hurt him and obviously he didn't finish it by 2020 so i think you're you're illegal to um attack him with a crossbow or sheath. I don't think that's got any legal basis.
Starting point is 00:03:28 I don't think it's a criminal defence to say in the court, he said I could hurt him. Yeah. Wasn't that the cannibals defence? A man who wanted to be eaten in Germany about 10 years ago. This guy gave the blow cut blanch to eat him. And the defence was the guy wanted to be eaten. I'm going to say chop off his penis,
Starting point is 00:03:51 which I think is what happened. I'm fairly certain that, yeah. I mean, look, that's good eating, isn't it? If you're into that kind of caper, that's a nice sausage, isn't it? Is it? I'm not sure it is. If you're into kinky stuff and you want to eat something, you're going to start with the fingers, aren't it? Is it? If you're into kinky stuff
Starting point is 00:04:05 and you want to eat something, you're going to start with the fingers, aren't you? Actually, fingers are quite kinky, aren't they? I think the least kinkiest part of your body is probably your ears.
Starting point is 00:04:14 No, they're quite kinky too. Feet? Fingers or bone, isn't it? Yeah, you're not getting much eating out of that. It's like a chicken claw. Yeah, not much fun. I think generally,
Starting point is 00:04:23 as far as i'm aware which isn't very far but in these kind of situations survival situations isn't the general consensus that it's a thigh or a forearm yeah yeah yeah they're the meatiest part aren't they yeah definitely definitely not in my case i've got very spindly legs big fat body skin spindly legs there's legs. There's a guy I know who is on Instagram and he I saw a picture of him over the weekend and genuinely like the way the picture had been taken, it was taken
Starting point is 00:04:51 from like a low angle. His legs look like some absolutely magnificent legs. I'm not, I'm sure he's got fantastic legs, but I was just like, wow, you've got some big lovely legs. Name and shame. Name and shame. I'm not naming and shaming people with big legs.
Starting point is 00:05:09 They should be rewarded, if anything. They should be equal. They should be equal. Pete, what have you been up to the weekend? What's been going on? Oh, I got a little bit drunk. I got a little bit drunk in a pub, which was fun. I was with a person,
Starting point is 00:05:25 like some people I didn't really know. And this guy... Were you invited? Yes, I was invited. But this guy was like absolutely sinking pints. And I was like, I didn't realise I was in a drink off until quite late. And I was like, I'm not getting defeated.
Starting point is 00:05:41 So I started piling back more Amstels than my body could carry. So Sunday was very interesting, just rolling around bed going, why have I done this to myself? But it's a rare treat, obviously, this year to be allowed in a pub, to be allowed to sink loads of Amstels
Starting point is 00:05:57 and eat macaroni cheese with crab on it. So it was a lovely weekend, really. It was nice. It was a bit miserable weather-wise, so sort of stayed indoors. Watched a lot of... I've seen Dirty John has got a second season. Yeah, someone was recommending that to me yesterday,
Starting point is 00:06:12 but I haven't bothered with it yet. It's very good. Christian Slater and... Oh, I can't remember her name now, but she's very good. And, yeah, Christian Slater and her, and it's quite good. And it's a similar sort of story,
Starting point is 00:06:24 a problematic kind of person pushed to the edge of sanity, effectively, thanks to a partner. But I just like the fact that they've gone with the title Dirty John. Dirty John, call on Betty, rather than Dirty Bay. Yeah. Yeah, just call it something else. It has to sound really convoluted. But it's a brand though isn't
Starting point is 00:06:45 it dirty john was obviously very popular on netflix and and and this person uh it's based on a true story like the dirty john documentary uh sorry uh docufiction whatever that dirty john that dirty john podcast series the original one was so good yeah because um i don't want to spoil it for people and i'll try not to he's's really dying. But the ending was actually very satisfying. Yeah, it's very rare that you get in a situation where you have a TV show that actually resolves itself quite well, especially when it's based on real life. Because
Starting point is 00:07:13 I've watched a lot of true crime docos and listened to a lot of true crime documentaries recently. By gum, it's never satisfying. There's never any twists in the tale. They just have a finite amount of resources and they just spread it out over three or four hours needlessly. Absolutely needlessly, in my opinion.
Starting point is 00:07:31 Yeah, and I find some of the podcast series, they don't know where they're going with the story. So it can turn out any kind of way. And if you think about the old gold standard, the old serial thing, it doesn't really have a conclusion, which I can imagine some people find it quite unsatisfying but dirty john has a really really satisfying conclusion yeah which is why it kind of sticks in my memory is one of the better ones i've i've listened to so it kind of depends what you're after but it's a it's a magnificently
Starting point is 00:07:57 put together piece of work anyway it's just it had a nice conclusion so i haven't bothered with the tv version of it nor have i seen anything to do with the second season. So I wouldn't be able to comment on that. Yeah. I think it's very good. I'm on the last episode and I'm very excited
Starting point is 00:08:12 to finish it off. Although it is very depressing, just relentlessly inevitable and depressing, just the way that, you know, men and women conduct themselves later in life. It just kind of screeches to a...
Starting point is 00:08:25 Is that a dig at me? I've just noticed you're wearing a lot of shorts, trying to impress me with your big legs. My legs are tiny. Tiny little legs. I'm wearing lots of shorts because it's been 35 degrees. I think that's reasonable. It has been ridiculous, to be fair.
Starting point is 00:08:40 I'm not like one of those dads who gets to a certain age and just wears shorts every day, no matter what the weather is. I used to have uh my uh one of my first girlfriends had uh a um slightly racist dad um and he was a mechanic and he would just wear and i'm not kidding you um jean short shorts every single fucking day it is yeah and was magnificent everyone knows someone who wears shorts every day no matter what the weather yeah and so it can't just it's just a thing but speaking of you getting drunk at the weekend the reason i know you were drunk at the weekend is because on the football ramble whatsapp group i woke up to a load of messages between you and vish who were both
Starting point is 00:09:21 obviously drunk separately and the messages went on till like 2, 3, 4 in the morning. Yeah. And they were absolute nonsense. Total nonsense. In the cold light of day, even you must realise they were nonsense. I think people from the Foot Ramble, like Marvel Universe, people who listen, they draw assumptions of places that they shouldn't really, because they think that me and Jim
Starting point is 00:09:52 hate each other and stuff. Oh yeah, I wonder why that is. And I think there's a definite bromance brewing between me and Vish, because I've noticed Vish, a bit like we're quite similar in some ways I started to go he's a little naughty boy we both cricket experts
Starting point is 00:10:09 we both love our cricket oh the the the the the IPL is that a thing
Starting point is 00:10:15 PPA IPA the IPA I love the IPA me I love love the one day test cricket the
Starting point is 00:10:21 the the the super sevens is that a thing stop now. Because you're going to put off a lot of listeners. But, yeah, I can tell.
Starting point is 00:10:29 What have you and Vish got in common then? He's a naughty little boy. He's a naughty little boy. I know, listen, I know you well. So I know why you think that you've got a lot in common with Vish. I'm not sure if the universe agrees. Right, okay.
Starting point is 00:10:42 What do you mean? You look at Vish and you go, he's quite ripped. He's quite funny. He's quite funny. He's got a lot of areas of expertise. He says he isn't ripped. He's quite cool. Yeah, he's got a decent job.
Starting point is 00:10:53 He's, for ridiculous reasons, anchored his butt to this shit show. And obviously, everyone's very happy to have him. But yeah, he clearly makes bad decisions in his life. So there's another one. Do you know when you did? Yeah, that's true. Do you know when you did the worst ever insult,
Starting point is 00:11:10 the wounding of me more than anything else, where you looked at a really handsome Swedish guy in the same room as once and said, that's what you think you look like? Right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Vish is what you think you are like. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, Vish is very well, he can explain stuff.
Starting point is 00:11:26 He's intelligent. He's funny. He's erudite. He's very kind of like witty and very kind of like he delivers his material in a relaxed fashion. But if I've got a joke, I scream it. I fucking scream it on the ramble. And so, yeah. So obviously, yeah, I do look at Vish.
Starting point is 00:11:44 You could run up in there normally. I do look at Vish and go, cat is the guy i want to be i've got there's a bit of a bronze x i actually he's brilliant um so yeah there's there's there's there's that as well where do how do we get onto this yeah me and vish were pissed on saturday uh entertaining the troops entertaining the troops separately uh he's made that very clear. Entertaining the troops on the WhatsApp group about the best Chinese restaurants in Soho. He sounds like he knows his stuff, so he's passed that test for me.
Starting point is 00:12:14 But yeah, and then we moved on to other kinds of subjects. He did a little Photoshop of Tom Cruise, which was fun. And yeah, we all had a bloody good time until I woke up the next day at past 11 going, that was all right. That's not even in my top 100 bad WhatsApp exchanges on a public forum. Oh, I didn't say it was bad. Like I said, it was just nonsense.
Starting point is 00:12:38 It was just, I've got to get through this to get a little red bubble that says 84 off my WhatsApp icon on my phone. And there wasn't much in there for me to be honest but but i i do encourage the uh the blossoming bromance between you both um i think it's very very uh encouraging we shall can i change it we shall change the subject complete completely yeah you almost certainly will let me change the subject completely because you know a week ago we talked about that um the flight that my mate took where it was an Australian pilot and it sounded really two-bit. Do you remember that story? Yes.
Starting point is 00:13:12 Well, coincidentally, I found a story this weekend based in Australia. And it's actually a really interesting story, but the reason I'm bringing it to the table is because the quotes are just on that theme of just being really australianly funny um so a a guy uh off port macquarie on the east coast of australia and was able to jump off his surfboard onto the top of a great white shark that was attacking his wife right repeatedly punched it in the head and said let go of his wife and was able to save her life right it's an amazing story i mean imagine that it's crazy yeah it's crazy and so what happened
Starting point is 00:13:52 he got her to shore she had really bad injuries to her right leg but she's going to be i think based on what i've read she's going to be absolutely fine but she's had some serious injuries but he's basically saved her life right and um it's an incredible thing and he's going to win every argument he's going gonna win every argument in the household from there on in you didn't put the bins out i fucking punched a fucking shark yeah she'll be like i've lost my leg you gotta do it um anyway but the reason i brought to the table is because there's a there's an organization called surf life saving new southales um which obviously are invited to comment on these kind of things and the chief executive is a guy called stephen pierce so you think right okay so he's a chief executive of a
Starting point is 00:14:34 big organization an important organization that's being asked to be to speak to the bbc right his quote is as followed okay but? But this is his quote. And I'm going to do it in an Australian accent, and I'll make no apologies for that. Do it. The fella paddled over, jumped off his board onto the shark, and hit it. He then got her back to the beach.
Starting point is 00:14:55 It was pretty full on. Really heroic. Pretty full on. I'd love to see his definition of anything stronger than that. He literally pushed a shark to stop him eating his wife. Amazing. What was it like? What was it like, Chief Executive of Lifesaver? Pretty full on, mate.
Starting point is 00:15:11 It was pretty full on. It certainly tipped the TPS needle. No, wait. Totally full on. Pretty full on. PFS. Oh, yeah, yeah. Oh, that's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Whatever. Amazing. It just further adds weight to my theory and it is a long-held theory that you never find someone who's just a little bit australian they're always a hundred percent australian maybe yeah but like australian stars always uh flop flop over hollywood away um with a fully formed american accent i mean i mean as in they do really well as They flop like a beach shark. But that's not what flop means, though, is it?
Starting point is 00:15:47 No, I said they flop over. That means the opposite, isn't it? No, I didn't say they flopped. I said they flopped over. Very, very different. Like they land with weight and sand displacement. They flop into Hollywood with a fully formed... Fully formed, yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:01 Yeah, like a baby flopping onto a mat. That's how i was delivered um yeah it's just it's just just with the perfect american accent um speaking of planes actually um as we i want to do occasionally on this show uh check out tech morn's new uh uh episode um that dropped over the weekend he's done two two episodes of uh from a boeing 757 uh plane which i believe was retired back in 2010 uh the playout system for the music when you go into the um onto the plane um still on magnetic tape i mean these obviously if a system's still working it doesn't need to be replaced it doesn't need to
Starting point is 00:16:38 go digital but these kind of like tape playout systems will probably be still in use in a lot of places around the world it's just kind of like you know if it's still working why defeat it sometimes you're like sort of you'll hear a uh you'll hear like a if you ring like a like a telephone service uh like a like a bank or something you'll hear like uh obviously telephone music that's usually on tape doesn't need to be on in any other way uh nowadays even in 2020 But yeah, on a plane, it's this big module that he takes out with its own playout system, and it's got its own voltage that's really weird. It's like 53 DC voltage or something.
Starting point is 00:17:14 And yeah, these tapes just go round and round. And they're on multitrack, so these tapes can be selected to play out warnings in Japanese or Chinese or chinese or or greek or french you know we're gonna we're about to land on water and hearing them are just it's like hearing the um the peter donaldson um uh the the announcer radio 4 announcer doing the end of the world speech just kind of like we're about um we're going to be landing on water soon um when the pilot says brace uh do the following stuff it's very calm very calm, but there's a chilliness to it because obviously, you know, you're about to land on water
Starting point is 00:17:49 and almost nobody survives that. Yeah. And the interesting thing about it as well is that, you know, these are, I mean, just look at the 757. It was started to be built in the late 70s, right? And apparently they're still in service so um it's i mean i understand that you don't want to be like continually updating every single plane in your fleet because of technology but it does make you feel a little bit queasy that
Starting point is 00:18:17 you might be flying on the plane that's like you know 45 years old or whatever yeah yeah i mean i guess um you just you just i just i would like a plane to be regularly x-rayed. I don't think they'd probably do that, just to check for cracks. Yeah. And also... It's not ideal. Yeah, but I mean, the engines won't be old,
Starting point is 00:18:34 so you never know. Would you reckon they replace the engines really every so often? Well, I guess so. They must be a finite life. I know they remove them and mess about with them loads. Well, don't mess about with them.
Starting point is 00:18:46 That's the last thing I want you to be doing. Throwing birds at them. Frozen chickens in there. The people who work on those Rolls Royce engines that says the worst noise in their life
Starting point is 00:18:57 is the sound of a nut being dropped into a turbine. Because obviously it's such a complex engine. Imagine, Peteete if you were waiting to go on the plane and there's a lot of kids around then the pilot came into the little waiting area by the gate and said everyone i'm the pilot um get the kids over you've got kids yeah they're bored first with um with your kids yeah and the kids go over and as they walk in he
Starting point is 00:19:21 goes who wants to throw a frozen chicken in the engine and he's got a big box of frozen chicken yeah would that that would probably be pretty cool but you don't really want to see it being done before you take off it'd be worse if it was like organ transplants that they got okay we said we spoke about this before contraband who wants to throw um 15 kilos of cocaine into the engine also imagine imagine also i'm not doing cocaine into the engine. Boom. Also, imagine the frozen chicken ones. Also, I've not been doing cocaine. Imagine the frozen chicken ones where the pilot has to explain the bird strike in the inquiry afterwards.
Starting point is 00:19:54 And what, in your opinion, was the source of the bird strike, First Officer? Finder's. Probably Mark's dispensers. Yeah. But imagine if someone accidentally drops. Because remember we had Pilot Neil on the show once and he told us that he had, I think it was Pilot Neil,
Starting point is 00:20:11 one of our pilot listeners was transporting a load of cocaine from one country to another. Yeah. Imagine if they just dusted that into the air conditioning bit by accident. Oh, can you imagine? Just everybody. It was, didn't that what they did in the Foo Fighters video,
Starting point is 00:20:23 learn to fly? Everyone just talking really loudly about their own career. Love it. Don't have a go at it. Right, we're going to take
Starting point is 00:20:34 a short hand break. We'll be back with some emails, what you have written. Thank you very much. And we're back. It's the Luke and Pete show. I'm Pete Donaldson.
Starting point is 00:20:45 I'm joined by Luke Moore. Hope you enjoyed that little advertorial. So, John, I use the word so John way too much. Look, I'm so sorry. I've let you down. Departure from the from the old routine. Couple of ads chucked in there. Yeah, we know you probably find them annoying, but don't skip them because it keeps us with roofs over our heads.
Starting point is 00:21:02 And that is important because we haven't got a roof over our head. We can't make the show. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email address to get in touch. Many of you have done so this week. I'm going to start with an email from a chap called Bryce. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:21:18 Yeah, and he says, Hi, Luke and Pete. Been listening to you all on The Ramble for years, and I've recently started listening to The Luke and Pete Show. I listened to the August 3rd episode where you talk about the movie Aliens. It was the same night my wife and I started to watch it for the first time by complete coincidence.
Starting point is 00:21:34 I said I listened to the episode just after watching the film itself and your talk of 80s version future technology was spot on. Case in point, when they enter the colonists space station, Bill Paxton, who plays Hudson, the Marine in the movie, connects his personal computer to the door via some cables. You'd think they would have figured out why there's technology by this point, but it seems not. Keep up the good work, Bryce. Interesting. Yeah. I mean, we've been through this before. I've not watched a lot of science fiction movies. I've not watched a lot of that, but I kind of agree with him on that one.
Starting point is 00:22:11 Yeah. Look, wireless technology is something that wasn't really foreseen, presumably, at this point. But the other thing is that I wonder if that's a more production-type problem to be solved by the director and the producer. Because in the 80s, even if they knew about wireless technology, even if they got a consultant for the film and said, what's going to happen in a thousand years' time?
Starting point is 00:22:35 And these futurist guys who are out there, who do exist. I actually had a lecture once by a futurist at a job I had. About the, yeah, he had a big white lab coat on there with writing all over it no but at a job i had and it was talking about the future of entertainment and media and tv and stuff anyway my point was just going to be they probably could have had those consultants on that movie but you've got to think about the practicalities of the audience watching if bill paxton's character just pulls out a box, presses a button, the door's open, no one's going to know what's happened there.
Starting point is 00:23:07 Yeah, exactly. No one's going to make that connection because they haven't got the technology education to know. So in some cases, they have to make things really deliberate so people who are watching the film know what's going on, surely. Unless he's pointing it at the door like a zapper, like a remote control, I guess. A zapper. A zapper.
Starting point is 00:23:25 A zapper. It's just what the people called them in the 70s. Little zap zap. Little zap zap. Little zap zaps. But yeah, I completely agree. You have to have a little one foot in the present, otherwise it just looks a little bit too bizarre.
Starting point is 00:23:40 And if no one's explaining anything, if you do something that's completely revolutionary that doesn't exist yet, you're got to do, if you do something that's completely revolutionary that doesn't exist yet, you're going to have to spend half the time giving the exposition for the piece of technology that you're using,
Starting point is 00:23:51 which isn't, you know, I've got no doubt in my mind that every sci-fi show I think is talking about quantum computing and, you know, wireless. I mean, wireless power will be the next thing.
Starting point is 00:24:01 I mean, there's a, I've seen this system, it system a couple of years ago now. It sits in your ceiling and you put your phone down anywhere in the room and it just fires power at it. But it does it by running a camera on the actual room itself and figuring out where your phone is and only firing the radiation towards the phone itself. It's got to have a little adapter and stuff on the phone.
Starting point is 00:24:26 But yeah, it fires this kind of... Can I just say, I'm not interested. I'm not putting something in the ceiling of my house that's going to randomly fire radiation at stuff. Yeah, but as soon as you get close to it, it turns off. So if you cover it with your hand or whatever, it stops. It stops firing out the radiation because it knows that it shouldn't be doing that.
Starting point is 00:24:44 But there are plenty of horror stories from back in the day hand or whatever, it stops. It stops firing out the radiation because it knows that it shouldn't be doing that. But there are plenty of horror stories from back in the day where chefs would be cooking their meals and be standing next to a misfiring microwave and having their insides cooked. The old apocryphal tales on that particular account.
Starting point is 00:24:59 Got an email from Hassan. Hi Luke and Pete, long time listener, first time. Email, I feel I have something to contribute following in from your conversations about PE teachers and other jobs. In high school, our PE teacher, Mr. Matadar, was a Premier League referee. Well, a linesman. It was great because he was an Indian referee and coming from a school that had a high proportion of South Asian students. It was a big deal. There was someone who we knew sharing the field with world class players.
Starting point is 00:25:24 He was a big deal. There was someone who we knew sharing the field with world-class players. He was a hero. Each week we would eagerly anticipate which match he would be refereeing and watch the match of the day to get a glimpse of him. This is so wholesome, Hassan. Thank you very much. Until one game, Chelsea versus Liverpool back in 2004.
Starting point is 00:25:38 The infamous stamp by Bosingua on Benayoun was missed by the linesman, our PE teacher. That then became the whole talk of the school and an excuse to make comments and laugh at our PE teacher. But looking back now, I really feel for him. Unfortunately, he was then demoted to the lower leagues and I think he retired pretty soon after.
Starting point is 00:25:55 He was the centre of attention for the good and the bad, but wow, did he miss that. I have attached the clip if you don't remember, but we all remember that. Keep the good work, you're most defiantly, or definitely keeping me sane, Hasan. Mate, that was a wonderfully wholesome email, and I just love that
Starting point is 00:26:12 kind of thing. More of that, please. Well, it ended in tragedy. Did it? Oh, yeah, I guess so, but you know, every person has to have an arc, I suppose, story, why isn't there? It sounds a bit like a superhero or supervillain origin story.
Starting point is 00:26:29 But, Pete, what I would say is that, you know, to get to that level as an official in the world's most popular sport, you have to be pretty good, so you definitely deserve some credit. Exactly, exactly. Completely agree. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email address.
Starting point is 00:26:44 We've probably got time for just one more email what about this one from simon who says hi luke and pete luke's story about how he didn't mute during a meeting that is for people who haven't heard last week's shows i talked about script screaming about a delicious lickable treat in a meeting when I thought I was on mute. He said, Simon says it reminds him of something that happened to him a while ago. And he said, I can't believe I've never written to you about it before, as it seems like a rich vein. I work in London, but I live about an hour north,
Starting point is 00:27:17 and I often commute by car rather than the train. As we have a large US office, I often find myself doing voice meetings from my car on the commute home. One day I was on such a call trying to negotiate the North Circular during rush hour. I'd been trying to get into the left-hand lane to take my exit, but there was a van there for some reason who kept matching my speed so I couldn't get over. As my exit was approaching, I was getting annoyed and I shouted out in my car, give me some fucking space to get over you little fucker
Starting point is 00:27:45 that is a moment of silence followed before someone said simon you're not on mute this meeting was a daily sync up with representatives from about 20 groups and departments and we were doing a large integration which meant everyone went back to their groups and told the story luckily for for me, everyone thought it was funny. Cheers, lads. Simon. It says at the end of his email, currently unemployed. So it doesn't really.
Starting point is 00:28:13 It doesn't really. Killed a man in a van. That's hilarious. Very enjoyable. Could it have been worse? It probably could have been worse. Well, if it was like a non-integration situation, I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:28:27 I mean, the words he used, to me, don't seem that bad. No. It's obvious what he was trying to do. No. Yeah, if he'd said anything, if he'd been relentlessly aggressive and used sexual or even worse language, I think, I mean, fuck, it's pretty sexual, I guess.
Starting point is 00:28:42 What's worse than sexual language, Pete? So top, what do you call it? Top shelf badinage. Top shelf badinage. I think the worst scenario would be like something that made it clear that you were interested in like another job or that you hated your current job. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:59 That would be the worst thing. Well, you find that a lot. I guess I can sort of tell uh sort of sorry no there used to be a shared drive um on the absolute radio uh dry on the drives where all the presenters put all of their files and interviews and stuff a lot of djs not really thinking that anybody else can see their files just put in you know demos for other radio stations oh really and so you used to go through i bet you used to go through them. Of course I bloody did. Of course I bloody did.
Starting point is 00:29:26 I was having a lovely listen to people's six music demos. Outrageous behaviour. Love it. Very enjoyable. Anyone successful? Nope. Not as yet.
Starting point is 00:29:35 Still on the station. They'd not been there for that long, bless them. They were already, you know, seeking a way out. But you look. The stories you could tell you could lift a lid
Starting point is 00:29:46 couldn't you I could blow London radio wide open you could you could blow one day part of specifically
Starting point is 00:29:54 Absolute Radio wide open if you wanted to enjoyable alright let's get out of here yeah we'll be back on Thursday
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