The Luke and Pete Show - One Benny Hill to rule them all

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

Did you know that Benny Hill gets a mention in The Lord of the Rings movies? It’s not in the way you might think, however.Luke tells Pete all about that on today’s episode and we also discuss his newfound TikTok fame after one of his “hot takes” went viral. Plus, we also hear all about Pete’s latest DIY project as he attempts to prepare his Fiat Punto so that it is fit for sale.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the remix to Ignition Hot and spout the kitchen And I'm a-rollin' that party Got every man in there wishin' Get him wishin' now! Can't sing that anymore You can Can you still sing that?

I don't know I mean you hear it quite a lot Around the clubs and hostelries of this fair nation. I don't know what's up on our down, to be quite frank. It's probably just them. I was listening to it. I have, in recent memory, had a little flirtation with listening to the Lost Prophets because I don't think it's fair that the rest of the band are thrown in with... So they need their one penny from Spotify I think

let's make it very clear I did listen to it on Spotify because people could see what I'm doing I DJ'd with you once and it was an indie night obviously because you were there wall to wall Gary Glett

bangers it was all to bangers but I said I can't be asked to bring all my CDs in Peter can you do it you said yes because you're a good egg

about that kind of thing so we were using your CDs. I've got enough songs in there to enjoy that I want to play out. And we're doing it one song each back to back. So bearing in mind that the actual booth is dark,

there's a lot going on. I've had a drink. It's boozy. It's lights are dark and flashing. You've left a little hand grenade in that CD box, haven't you? Right, okay. You've left a little hand grenade in that CD box, haven't you? Right, okay.

You've left a little hand grenade in there, copied, by the way, not even the purchase. No. Copied and written on a marker pen, just as I'm flipping through them all, what's that? Oh, 99 Problems, I'll play it a bit later. What's this?

Oh, it's great. What's that? Oh, Lost Prophets, the whole album. Last Train Home. Why have you left that little landmine in there for me to step on? Well, at least I've labelled it correctly. I could have put it

in as 99 Problems. You could have been hearing... Wow, that would be a proper musical landmine. Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja or

something. I think that was one of their songs, wasn't it? I don't know. It's a good name for a song. It's good.

I just, I think, I've never spoken to the wrong one, but the other lads from Lost Prophets always seem quite nice. This is the Luke and Pete show, everyone. I'm Luke, he's Pete.

I would love to distance myself from somebody's comments, but at this point, really, what's the point? What is the point? We call on the company, Luke. Yeah, people are listening going, well, you're still doing it.

We're going down. We're going down together, baby. It's Thelma and Louise. We're going down, down in an early round. Different band. Don't take them with that. They're on my wives' playlist that I have in the car

always got on with Pete Wentz because I didn't talk to him about who did Pete Wentz go out with quite famous one of the

sisters blonde one out of the sisters or maybe the brown haired one out of the sisters you know the sisters you still find them

Daisy Duke from Dukes of Hazzard what do you want from me here Margaret Atwood what's her name it is actually Margaret At me here? Margaret Atwood. What's her name? It is actually Margaret Atwood.

It is Margaret Atwood, yeah. I would love that. I would absolutely love it to have been Margaret Atwood. I think we all would. I think it would have made for a very different Handmaid's Tale. It would have made for a very different album. Some would say better. I wouldn't say necessarily better or worse. She's very, very different.

Ashley Simpson right I think you're talking about who's Jessica Simpson's younger daughter oh is she also daughter sister

very clear younger sister is she the founder of the Griffin Pottery Prize and the Writers Trust of Canada I don't think so right okay it's just good to know

what I would say about Ashley Simpson and I am very much freestyling here is she had a brilliant single. Can't remember what it's called now. But so did her older sister. Did her older sister have the song?

Something called Nick. She got a song called Nick. Stop that just for a second. Just give me a sec. Let the listeners breathe. Did Ashley Simpson's older sister, Jessica, have a song called I Think I'm In Love? If so, it's fucking brilliant. Right. Well, Ashley Simpson's oldest sister, Jessica, have a song called I Think I'm In Love? If so, it's fucking brilliant.

Right. Well, Ashley Simpson went on SNL and fucked up the miming, I seem to recall. Right. And they had to start again

and she fucked it. Was it live or not? I think it was live, yeah. So she thought it was pre-recorded or something like that. I don't know how you sort of, like, surely they must tell you this is live.

Don't say fuck or bother. I'm quite cynical about that. I feel like if you are a performer, they need to be making it very clear that it's live if it's live. And you're not going to forget that as a performer. It's going to lodge in your brain. We've done this. We've done live radio, both of us.

We've done SNL. We've done podcasting, right? You know it's a very different energy. It's a very different vibe. You ain't forgetting that. So I wonder whether they're just going, you know what, it's Ashley energy. It's a very different vibe. You ain't forgetting that. So I wonder whether they're just going, do you know what? It's Ashley Simpson.

She's a bit whack. We're going to stitch her up. Yeah, what? Do you reckon the musician sticks her up? I reckon the fucking director could have. Why? Why tank your own career? Stick around.

When I get to 100,000 followers, I'll tell you all the secrets. Get your Tim Four hats on and join us. Surely, just emotionally, you've got 100,000 followers right now. I've been enjoying a great renaissance in my social media presence over the last week.

Just as Twitter tanks. Because of that TikTok thing. Oh, because of the TikTok thing, yes. Okay, right. The amount of people I had in my Instagram DMs saying oh, you just appeared on my son slash daughter's TikTok to watch list. Yeah. And now you're on a watch list. Yeah, I didn't even know it was on.

It could be the new Andrew Tate. This is how this works. I deliver a white hot take. Right. And then some of the lovely... Was it a white hot take or was it something, a story you heard from someone else? Yeah, you were. Well, one man's meat's another man's poison.

But the actual hardworking members of Stat go and think, oh, that'll be a good clip to put up online. Even though it was on TikTok. I'm not on TikTok. What, two and a half million views? Thank you very much indeed. Have you ever been... That interview I did with fucking Richard Ashcroft, that got clipped up, put on TikTok. That bad interview I did with BDI,

that got clipped, put on TikTok. Why don't they put the good ones up? Do the good ones. Do the one where I interview that do the good ones do the man where one where I interview that bloke from Mad Men do that one where I interview in my defence John Cena

in my defence defence Pete and I think even in the listeners and viewers defence in that interview where you interviewed that man from Mad Men

in the interview itself you did interview him and introduce him as that man from Mad Men yeah hello that man from Mad Men hello that man from Mad Men yeah hello that man from Mad Men

are you mad and Chernobyl are you still mad how mad are you have you watched any of this no I'm busy

the wife I have access to says that Mad Men is in her view one of the great TV series I think it's the best TV series

right I can't get my partner to watch it I don't know why well because just Donner is a bellend in it yeah

he's not he's not the hero is there a Peaky Blinders type feel where the men who like get into it want to be like Don Draper yes

yeah they buy very expensive whiskey glasses it's so cool yeah can't necessarily do the day drinking because of the job but

I love you I tell you I do it this is this is this is their impression of Don Draper

after drinking all the whiskey that he drinks in Mad Men. Do you think I'm cool? Do you like this suit? My mate, right, his daughter. Oh, shut up. Weird perv.

Will you sit outside and rather than sitting here with me, will you sit outside and pretend to be my secretary and come and ask me to do stuff and I'll say no. That's what's happening. Lucky strike. Fucking

have a lucky strike in your mouth. It tastes real nice. Oh, Don. Don. He's done it again. D squared. That is great stuff. He's done it again. I will say this, at the risk of making myself out to be a terrible human being, I'm a huge fan of January Jones' work,

and an absolutely insatiable follower on Instagram. Her content on Instagram is fantastic. Has she ever been in anything where she's been good, though? I was about to say, I suspect she might not be that good an actor. Yeah, I don't think she is, Luke. So then why are you judging her? I'm not judging her. She's good on Instagram. I'll tell you who else is good on Instagram. Kate Beckinsale is brilliant

on Instagram. So funny. I mean, yeah. Again, not great actors here. You're not great on Instagram. Don't do it. You're not consistent enough. You've still got more followers than me. That's annoying. Brilliant. Lovely. I say I try. You've still got more followers than me. That's annoying. Brilliant. Yeah, because I do.

Lovely. I say I try hard. I might just screenshot your content and just put it out. Yeah, and your followers will go down. Yeah. Absolute follower fucking kryptonite. My Instagram name isn't even Pete Donaldson, so stick that in the net or something.

That's because you think you're cool. I am cool. You're trying to be cool, that's why. I want everybody to be cool. Anyway, Pete, listen, we're well into the show now. I've done a brief intro, but why don't we do a proper one? All right, then.

How are you? I'm fine. You don't ask me? No. How are you? What have you been up to? I'm pretty good. Not been up to too much,

just the usual chutney, to be honest. What's been floating your boat, Reece? I like your pink jumper, by the way. I'd say that's probably a strawberry milkshake jumper, that. Strawberry milkshake? I do like a strawberry milkshake. Oh, you know what I had when floating your boat, Rhys. I like your pink jumper, by the way. I'd say that's probably a strawberry milkshake jumper, that.

Strawberry milkshake. I do like a strawberry milkshake. Oh, you know what I had when I was in... A what? A root beer float. Where was that? Los Angeles.

A root beer float. That was about fucking three months ago. I know. Why are you only bringing the root beer float? I'm still a root beer flute. So I can throw a flute.

You weirdo. That would... would yeah I just think root beer floats just need to be a bigger part of our life why have we adopted

McDonald's and all of that Americana and we've not taken on the root beer float delicious I follow an Instagram account

which does all the great products that McDonald's used to sell back in like the 80s okay right and one of them check this out right so McDonald's have fame I mean I say famouslys. Okay, right, yeah. And one of them, check this out, right?

So McDonald's have, I mean, I say famously, maybe you didn't know this, I think it's quite a well-known fact that McDonald's have never sold onion rings. Okay, yeah, fair. Never done it. But what they have done, available in the mid-80s, only between the hours of 4 and 9pm,

onion nuggets. Shredded onions mixed with potato I don't know because they're obviously not available to purchase anymore but they looked like almost like mini hash browns

yeah with the onion nuggets I could have that I could take that but I thought it was quite an odd product for them to be selling well especially

because they're not flattered with onion rings an odd act an odd act yeah and what I would say finally about your jumper Peter is that he's a brave and confident man who can rock a quite nice woolen jumper like that yeah at this time of year yeah with absolutely nothing

underneath well i've got i've got my coat but like it is that kind of weird you're not gonna wear your coat under your jumper right this is the point you're not gonna wear your coat this is about the nipples no i'm well used to seeing your nipples but my this is the point you're not going to wear your coat under your jumper is this about the nipples no I'm well used to seeing your nipples but my point is if you wear a jumper with a t-shirt you've got options

okay right take off take right just roll up the sleeves like a real chap you have done that yeah

are you quite hot constantly just sweating I mean we're obviously McSpicy boys here on the Lucan Beach show and the football ramblings

obviously we advertised them about two years ago and they live long in the memory. Steakhouse Stack. I would like to recommend everyone get involved with the Steakhouse Stack vibes. The problem with the McDonald's near where I live, and I may have mentioned this to you before. They're slow, inaccurate.

So incompetent. You can't get anything fucking done. You cannot get anything. You do a delivery from McDonald's it doesn't turn up literally doesn't turn up

so the wife you have access to says drive to McDonald's for me and get McDonald's fine I'll do that there's something in that for me

because I'll buy myself some I drive there it's chaos it's four deep at the fucking counter no one knows

what's happening there's no one even working in there three people working in there you may get the steakhouse

stack do you know what I get really wound up at it's the only shop in the entirety of my locale that I go in and I regularly get annoyed

Halfords fucking Halfords this is on brand they've only got one person working at the till and they're always doing some kind of

reconvoluted order for some part of a I don't know Austin Allegro from the 60s that they've got to order in. And every time I got there, and I'm just buying a funnel or some acid or something. I don't know.

Acid? I've killed a person. I've bought like... They're stalling before the police come. You're asking about a funnel and some acid. There's a protocol involved it just takes such a long time because i'm trying to sort of upgrade my car i've realized that my car is in a shit old state it scratches all down i told you that i saw it it scratches all down the side so i've uh got

some buying like sandpaper and primer and body filler and spray paint for my Fiat and so like to fix it and they just take such a bloody long time and I'm back and forth because there's a new thing I realised the headlights got a bit of a scrape on there so I'm trying to find something that's going to recover that so it's just all a big. How far is the Halfords from where you live? It's about 10 minutes away

But walk? No driving It's just a it's just a pain in the arse selling your car, isn't it? How did you sell your car? I trade it for a new one. But do you have to tidy it up, though, isn't it? No. No?

I literally said to him when I was going to... I got a new car March the 1st. Right. And I said to the guy the week before, I'm coming in March 1st, yeah. I said, do you need me to clean it before I come in? I'll go to the car wash. He's like, no, don't bother.

We'll do it ourselves. Nice. Okay. And the good thing about doing it on the lease like that. Scratch and scripts. I don't care. Right. You do it on the lease. So the thing about that is, you're selling it privately,

so I understand why you have to do it. But I had a scrape on one of the alloys on my car. And I've seen that as part of the service you get, they send someone out and they'll buff it for you. Mate, it takes them about fucking 15 seconds to fix it. Yeah. With the tools they've got. With the machinery they've got.

And the thing I like about the lease is that also, if something goes wrong, it's sorted. You don't have to worry about it. Now, you do pay a bit more. You pay per month, and you almost treat it like a utility, essentially. But that suits me, because I can't even muck it about with stuff. And Halfords, I'm not going into Halfords. I'm simply not going in one.

The two takes I've got on Halfords, one is I used to go in there quite a lot because I used to be quite into mountain biking as a kid. And I used to do a lot of bike stuff. I used to bike bits from there. And secondly, every single person that worked in there was a student. And not bothered. Is that still the case?

No, no, this would be older people, I guess. Second, can someone let me know how I road tax a scooter that I don't have a logbook for? If someone can get into it, that would be fantastic. So that happened to me as well. Yeah, right. But it's for a car. Right.

You just go on. So basically you find the chassis number of the moped. Right. And the registration number, obviously. The scooter. And you go onto the government website and you pay £25 and they send you a new one. Right.

Even if they've got a new address and I forgot to upgrade the address on it. Don't know. So I sent it to my old house. I'm only responding to the challenge I was originally offered.

I think did you commit a crime on it? No. Well, I don't know. It's about all the writs have been sent to my old house. Yeah, you might have done loads.

So the scooter's not been used for a while now, no? I've scooted around and then I realised that it's completely untaxed and uninsured. So I scooter's not been used for a while now, no? I've scooted around, and then I realised that it's completely untaxed and uninsured. So I was like, can't do that no more. So, yeah, so I'm trying to get it back on the road.

I'm trying to get it roadworthy again for the sweet summer vibes. Tops off down Southend Pier, lovely. It'd be like Gomorrah, but really fucking uncool. Gonorrhoea. That man who looks like he's got gonorrhoea is circling around Southend Amusements. It'd be like Gomorrah if the main people in Gomorrah were cannon and ball. Did you see the...

Benny Hill. Did you see the Napoli fans following the bus down the tunnel? That looks so like Gomorrah today. It was, and when you were in Naples, it was a bit like Gamora. Well, if you're a Naples resident you must get quite annoyed

that people say, oh, that's just like the TV show Gamora. Well, stop fucking doing stuff like that then. Stop scooting around dangerously on your fucking, on your scooters.

Didn't you hear, didn't you hear and see a lot of those guys when we were there? I did. Yeah. All dressed in black with their tattoos

and their white pants. Speaking of Benny Hill, have I ever played you the horse saying Benny Hill on Lord of the Rings the horse saying Benny Hill

on Lord of the Rings it's quite a famous thing right well the horse says Benny Hill I'll explain to you I presume the horse is ringing me up

and instead of going nay he goes Benny Hill plug me in alright and I'll explain to you the situation and I hope we haven't

done this before for our listeners but you don't seem to remember it so hopefully we haven't so basically there's a scene in the Fellowship of the Ring where the

I can't remember what they're called now the Ringwraiths they're called the Ringwraiths do you know them? and they're like these guys in hoods and they're all dressed in black

in hoods and they're chasing Frodo because he's got the ring, right? And Frodo, I think, if people can remember the scene, and I might be getting this slightly wrong, but I think what happens is Frodo jumps onto a raft and they all paddle out into the water so the ringwraiths can't get them.

And the horses are galloping down the pontoon and they get to the end and they start going, like whinnying and start going like that and for some reason it's left in the film, one of the noises the horse makes really sounds like he's saying Benny Hill

I'll play it out, let me know what you think wait for it. Benny Hill. That was worth that. That was worth it. Benny Hill. Benny Hill. So good. So there you go. You don't it. Benny Hill. Benny Hill. So good.

So there you go. You don't always hear a horse playing Benny Hill. That is solid work. Benny Hill, but you do in that film. And it's quite interesting that it's such a big budget production they can not notice that. But I suppose it's quite arch, I suppose, isn't it? It's not like a Starbucks cup, is it? I know, so have you ever heard of Benny Hill?

Like, I mean... Everyone in America's heard of Benny Hill. Everyone in America's heard of Benny Hill. Everyone in America's heard of Benny Hill. No, they haven't. They have. Trust me. It is mad how popular Benny Hill is in America. Fine.

Still, generationally, if you've got a young editor... Also, the film was made in New Zealand as well, so it might not cross over into New Zealand quite as much. Can you imagine, if the film's like three hours long, each one, and there's three of them, and there's more Hobbit on top of that. Can you imagine how much footage they fucking filmed? And how expensive that would be to film even just a day of B-roll

in a fantasy world. Good God. That was the famous tagline for The Hobbit, wasn't it? What? That Peter Jackson said. Here, have some more Hobbit on top of that. Have some more. Pile some more Hobbit on top.

I'm pretty sure, I used to be obsessed with... On the Tolkien buffet. Yeah. In the, also in The Hobbit, they had to write a female character in there.

Right. Because they were like, there's no, literally not a single female character in this. We need to write one. Any ethnic diversity? Nah, it's fantasy, isn't it?

Yeah. Fantasy. Well, there's quite interesting, there's some interesting takes. You know, the Tolkien fandom is quite rich. There's some interesting takes. You know, the Tolkien fandom is quite rich. There's some interesting takes around the idea of ethnicity in that world.

But anyway, in Lord of the Rings, I've completely forgot what I was going to say, actually. But anyway, in the whole bit, they had to write a female character in. But I don't know how much footage they filmed, but I do know, because as a terribly stereotypically embarrassing student i was obsessed with the film apocalypse now right right i used to watch it all

the time and um anyway i read a book about it and i think i have to double check but i think i'm right in saying that because that was during the era of holly Coppola, where he could do every fucking one thing. He shot a million metres of 35mm film. So imagine the expense of that. A million metres on 35mm. Yeah, but I mean, even then, you would imagine that even for that world, that was probably less than what, you know, some of the cast were hoovering up in

Colombian products. Well, yeah, and if you look at the production of that film, it's fucking insane. At one point, I think the production company, which I think is Coppola's company, Omni Zoetrope, so he's running point on the whole thing.

I think at some point they're like negotiating directly with the Filipino government, who at the time were hostile to the United States and using their helicopters in a completely rogue deal between the Filipino government and Francis Ford Coppola's production company. And just some of the stuff that went on, it'll just never happen again.

You know people talk about things like health and safety and all the rest of it. I'm pretty sure one of the actors had a heart attack at one point and had to go home, so he had to be replaced. And then they were filming through monsoons. They went there in monsoon season.

It was all sorts went on. Yeah, incredible situation. It'll never happen again. I like Romy Mars, the daughter of Sofia Coppola, who she's... Did you see that TikTok she put out quite recently? I like Romy Mars, the daughter of Sophia Coppola, who... Did you see that TikTok she put out quite recently? Because obviously people talk about Nepal babies quite a lot,

but this TikTok made a lot of people laugh because it was literally her just in her kitchen going, hi, guys, I'm making a vodka sauce pasta because I'm grounded. How old is this person? I don't actually know, to be honest. She is... No, not a't actually know, to be honest. She is... No, not a clue. Young, though, young.

I was grounded because I tried to charter a helicopter from New York to Maryland on my dad's credit card because I wanted to have dinner with my friend. It's relatable.

It's relatable. Who among us, Pete? It's good stuff. Who among us hasn't done that? On the Apocalypse Now thing... She also goes on to say that she didn't know the difference between a garlic and an onion.

So there's that as well. They're probably biologically similar. We're talking about the kind of animal kingdom. They're probably fairly similar. They look very different though, don't they? A very small dry onion. Both give you excellent breath. They do.

Apparently, Francis Ford Coppola raised a load of money by telling everyone that Steve McQueen would be in it. And Steve McQueen was like, what? I'm not doing it.

I imagine that happened a lot in Hollywood. So yeah, Francis Ford Coppola, when he found out Steve McQueen said, because I think Steve McQueen said,

oh yeah, all right, that sounds all right. But never fully confirmed. Then just obviously immediately dropped out. Like a guy said, he'd come to your party, but definitely isn't going to.

And then copped out to find $5 million of the money that he'd raised, most of which he'd already spent, to give back. Right. Because no one wanted it. Because no one wanted it, right.

Interesting. And then he went after Al Pacino, trying to say, oh, but you know what, don't worry about it, because I've got Al Pacino. He was like,

no, I went to... Al Pacino did something ridiculous. I'm paraphrasing here, but it was something like, no, I went on holiday to the Dominican Republic once and there was a jungle and I got really fucking sick.

So I'm not doing it. Because he was basically asking to be three months in the fucking jungle. In the Filipino jungle because that's where he filmed it. Anyway, it's a fascinating story the production of that movie

and it is also a brilliant fucking film Heart of Darkness is that the book it's based on Conrad's Heart of Darkness but Conrad's Heart of Darkness is based in Africa

it's just it's transposed across essentially anyway we should have a quick break Peter shouldn't we because when we come back we've got to do batteries

and I'm pleased to say our friend Gabby McKay did eventually attach some photos to his battery. Lovely. We can tidy up that bit of admin, the other side of this. It's the Luke and Pete show.

It's a Thursday, so we're doing battery brands. Gabby, who got in touch earlier in our run, he submitted two new players last week, but he forgot to send the photo. He's now sent a photo of both with the message, the shame of forgetting to attach the pictures will live with me forever. Skymax Alkaline, S-Budget Power Alkaline,

both in situ in our email box in full Technicolour, and that means that it goes into the pantheon of the greatest battery bands ever. The Battery Daddy. The Battery Daddy, yeah. I haven't got to re-check them because we've done it before. No, and also I don't know how he's done it,

but he's managed to have the Skymax look like it's floating. Probably a bit of glass, Pete. You reckon? Must be, right? Glass on what looks like wallpaper. Looks like wood chip, doesn't it? Yeah. We'll never know.

Why don't we ask him? The plot thickens with Gabby. He's quite a mysterious character. Yeah. Not attaching photos. Then attaching photos that don't look like they make any worldly sense. No, yeah. Maybe AI'd it worldly sense no yeah maybe AI'd it

AI'd it so it looks a bit like it looks a bit like what my friend calls painted air have I told you that story painted air yeah

so a friend of mine has got a theory and it is basically fuelled by drug intake as a young man my friend Jimmy you know Jimmy

the fruitarian yeah he said he swears, like he absolutely swears blind that one day, one day he was walking along in the morning,

quite early in the morning and there was, it was quite near the coast and there were seagulls flying around and he didn't think much of it but he looked up at one point and a seagull

just stopped in midair, dead stopped, like froze for like five seconds and then carried on again. Yeah. And his read on that was like, it was like a glitch in the simulation or something. Right, yeah. He had been exposed to the secrets of the universe and everything else was just paint.

It was all just painted air. And he kind of extrapolated that out to say, you know, ultimately we're all made up of the same atoms. Some of the atoms are painted in a different way, hence painted air. That Skymax photo there of the batteries floating does kind of remind me of that principle. Do you give him such a hard time

that you give me when I say something weird? Yes. Okay, good. The thing about Jimmy is that he told that story and I said, what time is it? He's about six in the morning. Oh, are you on your way to work? No.

Right. No more questions. So the UFO guys in America, always pissed. Oh, the UFO guys in America, that's true, but also they massively undermine themselves. I follow a load of their accounts on Instagram and I bloody enjoy the content, I'll be honest with you. Put a suit on and talk nice.

Yeah, David Cameron, do up your tie and sing the National Anthem. Every five or six posts, possibly because they're pissed, they go, oh, what about, oh yeah, what about this then? Just a bird.

It's just an eagle in a weird shape. Fucking in an animal sanctuary. Some of the stuff's interesting. Some of it is... Antisemitic. Yes. And some of it is immediately explainable.

Yeah, exactly. Right, John in Vietnam, possibly in a jungle, lost, you know, looking after... What happens in that film? He's just a big fat mess, isn't he? And he's gone rogue. He's gone wild.

So Captain Willard, played by Martin Sheen heads up the Mekong to find Colonel Kurtz who's played by Marlon Brando that's right yeah I think he's like

some kind of head of some kind of lerp operation but he's gone he's basically gone native and they don't know what's happened to him and so

Martin Sheen has to go after him and sort him out and it's basically a descent into madness, isn't it? But the problem, I think you're referring to, is when Marlon Brando turned up to film the part of Colonel Kurtz, he was about 25 stone.

And everyone was like, well, you can't be a general in Special Forces and be 25 stone. Well, he has gone mad, though, hasn't he? Yeah, that's true. He has gone crazy. Famously, a lot of fast food in the jungle, isn't he? There's a lot of, what was I watching? Val Kilmer's documentary that he...ously, a lot of fast food in the jungle, isn't it? There's a lot of... What was I watching?

Val Kilmer's documentary that he... Oh, I've heard that's good. He spent a lot of time... Lost his voice, didn't he? Yes, he did. He had throat cancer, I think. And he was, right throughout his career, sort of filmed everything backstage, you know...

Oh, did he? Since his first start in theatre in Broadway he just filmed everything so he's got quite a nice little documentary together about his journey, it's very pro Val Kilmer as you would imagine he's done the hard graft, it's only fair

there's a lovely shot of him on a film with Marlon Brando's final or maybe second, what's a sophomore final? Second penultimate. Penultimate. Penultimate role. And he's just in a big hammock.

Really? And he goes, give me a push. And so Val Kilmer gives him a push in this hammock. Right, and so apparently, was that film, per chance, The Ghost in the Darkness? Oh, probably, yeah. Or was it The Island of Dr. Moreau?

I think it was The Island of Dr. Moreau. Okay, so I've also heard on that movie, or one of those two, that he's being fed lines. He's got a piece in it. Is there anyone in Hollywood these days who could get away with that level of laziness? There's just no one that would.

Maybe like Jack Nicholson, because he's old. The guy telling the story said that he thought initially it was an amazing hack, but then when he tried to do it, it was impossible. It just looked like he was reading it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, I know that Val Kilmer had a reputation, hadn't he, for being, there was some rumour went around that when Val Kilmer was really successful, he would try and put it in his terms of contract

that he wouldn't have to start filming any of his scenes until everyone else was finished so it'd be a lot quicker for him right okay fair I think after a while

people were just like nah I'm not doing it you're not that good Val yeah exactly anyway John of Vietnam says I'm currently living in Vietnam residing in a hotel

provided by my employer much like the Colonel for what is likely to be six months until they find me a more permanent residence. Unexpected life turn on my part. A while ago, I found these little guys in the hotel TV remote. The Eagle AAAs I made a mental

note, took photographic evidence, and then, as I am proud to procrastinate on sending them your way for a good few months. That was until a few days ago when, in need of more AAA batteries, I purchased these. Pinconos. Clearly the battery powered gods are compelling me to get in touch.

With kind regards, hoping for a new player. John in Vietnam. And thanks for yourselves and the rest of your stack of power just for keeping my ears company over the last 10 years. Thank you for listening John. Yes, we've got two there. We've got Eagle AAAs and also Pinconos. So the good news is I'm going to cut to the chase.

They're both new players. Congratulations. The Eagle ones look very Nazi. Yes. Eagles, when the wings are spread out like that and it's very triangular, it speaks to the Reich. Can be problematic. Speaks the Reichian.

And Pinc Conos are definitely new players. We've simply just never had Vietnamese. I mean, so obviously a Vietnamese battery

battery. Bat Nang Long Ket Yu Thong. That's what it says on the front. Does it? God knows. There's a lot of

little kind of marks on top of the letters. So God knows what they, God knows where that goes. Two new players though.

Congratulations to you, John. All the best in Vietnam. It's a country I'd love to visit. Kirt. Kirt. You. Thorn.

Just let me know when you're done. Would you like to visit Vietnam, Peter? I would, yes. I would like to visit Vietnam. All around that way. Yeah. As I said, now I've got a partner, I can kind of do it.

I think a lad's holiday to Thailand. Yeah. Looks bad. Just looks bad for a man of advancing years as opposed to what 15 lads holidays to Japan that you've done yeah

but there's such a different vibe in it why because it's not necessarily noted for sex tourism all right I said it but there's weeboing and stuff like that people who weebo

go over there and it's a bit of an undertone isn't there yeah but they're ultimately unsuccessful, because they're Weebo's, little nerdy kids, aren't they? Right, okay. I thought a Weebo was just someone who fetishised Japanese culture.

Yeah, they are. Yeah. Little nerdy kids, you say? Little nerdy kids. Yeah, they all look like me. Don't worry about it. They all look like me. I didn't say that.

I didn't say that. They all look like me. Anyway, I would love to go to... Pete, what about if you and I go to Vietnam together as a Luke and Pete show trip? Fine. That's fine, isn't it? Again, not good, but yeah, fine. Yeah. Fuck, I would love to go to... Pete, what about if you and I go to Vietnam together as a Luke and Pete show trip? Fine. That's fine, isn't it? Again, not good, but yeah, fine.

Yeah. I'll probably see you. I'll tell you the listeners right now. I'm telling them right now. If you and I went to Vietnam for a couple of weeks, just you and I, I reckon I'd probably see you three times maximum. Yeah, cool.

I'd be off. Yeah. I'd be in the jungle. And as you can tell by his reaction, everyone, he doesn't see a problem with that he thinks that's absolutely fine

Hi Luke and Pete currently on holiday in Japan and notice the toilet in my hotel room is remote controlled the first time I've emailed in

despite having listened to you guys from the very beginning of the show felt now was the time to end the game despite these problems

being submitted before as the application of these batteries surely takes many Luke and Pete show boxes Askel Alkaline Battery four in a triple threat configuration i've sent a pic of the control side to for your rumination cheers michael yeah so that's a three three triple a's in one you think somehow pete i mean now listen i'm a very much a layman on this stuff would it not

be more efficient for them just to have a little gap for two double a's there they're gonna give you the same power? Oh, I don't know, actually. Yeah. I mean, I guess. Yeah. It depends on what. I don't actually know what voltage they put out the old triple A's versus double A's.

That's fair. But the kind of, the way they're sold is in even number packs. It's just my point. So you buy four or eight or whatever. You put three in a slot there, you've got one spare. It's a bit of a pain in the ass, isn't it? Yeah, completely agree. Anyway, the good news is for our friend is that Askel Alkaline Battery 4 is another

new player. So congratulations to you, Mike. Well done for sending those in. First of all, well found, well spotted, well submitted and very, very good stuff. Before, yeah, I mean this message is from producer Rory's dad or mum. Morning, chaps.

Just replaced some AA's in my boy Rory's toy impact driver. Part of a set to dismantle and rebuild a robot velociraptor. Anyway, take a look at these South House beauties. And fingers crossed, they are a new player. This is, sorry, Luke from Desperate. So, yeah, Rory's dad. South House, which a wonderful title. I am, I could not be more confident

that this is a new player. South House. How do you get into a position where you're naming a battery after that? South House. Is that a kind of people who are, it's a country where they don't have English as a first language.

They're picking a couple of English words because they think it makes it sound more authoritative and they go, right, that'll do. Is that what's happening? Yeah, I don't have English as a first language. They're picking a couple of English words because they think it makes it sound more authoritative and they go, right, that'll do. Is that what's happening? Yeah, I don't know. I mean, South House battery, I don't know who would... Yeah, nothing really, nothing's coming up on Google. So I don't know where they're from.

Certainly the warnings are all in English, but maybe they have to be. Yeah, it's an interesting, classy little look. It is interesting, and it's also a new player. So congratulations to you, Luke. And Luke, by the way, before we leave, because we probably should get out of here, Luke also mentioned in his email,

got a talking point for you regarding weird interest among kids. My seven-year-old Joseph, who spent a good 18 months obsessed with dinosaurs, hence the robot raptor, has now become obsessed with the construction and immediate demise of the Titanic I've learnt a lot from his YouTube research

into the vessel but what we all find odd is why a seven year old lives and breathes all things Titanic I've not met any other kids with such strange obsessions at such a young age

but I can't help but feel that Pete might have had similar strange interests as a nipper all the best Luke I've got something on that anything from you

to add on that Peter? No, I'm a big fan of Egypt You were a big fan of Egypt. You were a big fan of Egypt. Big fan of having my own pyramid with fake chambers in to trick people.

When you were seven? Yeah. Okay. I wanted to live in a pyramid and I wanted a fake chamber that people would try and get

in my house but they'd go in the wrong bit. Okay. And they'd be like, oh, spikes. It's quite specific.

Specific, yeah. It must have been because you watched indiana jones or something yeah no that somebody for some reason at school uh some i don't know what i don't know where it'd come from they made like a kind of uh you know like what do you what would you call it in inside chambers of a of a an egyptian pyramid anyway i don't know that somebody came around and they'd made this kind of reproduction of what one of the passages would be like and it sat in our

assembly hall for ages and you're only allowed like 10 minutes in at a time. I must have gone on like 10 times just to experience what it was like to be in a 2x4 box.

A 2x4 metre box. And that was entertainment in the North East in the 1980s. If anything, it's got worse as well. Since Brexit. I haven't got a box.

There's a kid at my school who was obsessed with the Titanic. Nice kid, but he was just well into it. And he would never stop talking about it. Well, imagine

his kind of interest cooling and then the Titanic film coming in. That would be annoying, wouldn't it? That would be upsetting. I think I vaguely remember him having some takes

on that because I think we were about 16 when that came out so we were still at school. But I think it's, I think I can imagine if you're seven and you see that kind of

epically sized vessel sinking in such a dramatic way, I can kind of see why a kid would be obsessed with it. Yeah, I think so, yeah. When we started Ancient Egypt as kids at school, looking back on it,

I don't think they should have been telling us all the gruesome stuff. I mean, that was the main story, wasn't it? How did they prepare the body for... They put their brain out the nose. It's like, why are you telling us that? Because that's the thing that I remember. That's the thing that everybody remembers.

But it's not going to help you in later life. Everyone's 2D and they pull the brain out with a hook. Yeah. To prepare the body. Yeah. We all got told that didn't we? Yeah.

And what I would say as well is that maybe it's a way of them getting it to lodge in our minds so we can learn the other stuff but I don't remember

anything else. You know what I mean? The only thing else I know about Ancient Egypt is from the film The Mummy with Brendan Fraser Rachel Weisz

and John Hanna. Yeah. Have you seen The Whale, by the way? Is it good? Eh. It's alright. People liked it, didn't they? They did like it. Have we spoken about that air film? No, before you move on, can I just ask

if the girl in The Whale is the girl from Stranger Things? I could not tell you. I think it is. Anyway, carry on. We're well over running. I'm sorry, you I think it is could not tell you anyway carry on we're well over running okay well you just started talking about I'm sorry

you distracted me with Egypt and I was thinking about the hook through the nose you started talking about Air Bud is that what you meant we'll be back on Monday with more Luke and Pete show

but in the meantime time in the meantime do get in touch hello at lukepete.com bye oh sorry you opened so good

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