The Luke and Pete Show - Only Foods and Sauces

Episode Date: March 14, 2022

Happy Birthday Albert Einstein! We celebrate this special occasion by hearing about how Wayne Rooney was knocked out by fellow footballer Phil Bardsley during an after hours boxing match…Plus, we read a couple of emails relating to Only Fools and Horses-themed outlets and Luke reveals that Pete’s got a deep dark secret concerning Peaky Blinders.Do you want to share your deep dark secrets? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Feel free to give us a follow while you're there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Happy birthday Albert Einstein it's the Luke and Pete show my name is Pete Donaldson I'm joined by Luke Merle Luke what have you got to say about one of the most celebrated scientists on the earth well he's no longer on the earth he is on the is on the earth. His energy is everywhere, mate. Did you not listen to a word he fucking said? That's true, actually. I like all these internet quotes that he did that people cite. You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. Yeah.

Is it actually his birthday today? It is his birthday today. Happy birthday, Alms. Well done for finding that out. Did you research that? I just typed, I panicked. I panicked. I wrote famous birthdays.

It's also Quincy Jones' birthday as well. Okay. Michael Caine as well. Okay. I'm Mr. Batman. Yeah. I'm Mr. Batman. Did he say that?

I'm Mr. Batman? He says, I'm Mr. Batman. I do enjoy working in the Batcave, Mr. Batman. One of the things that Albert Einstein did actually say was that if you can't explain it to a six-year-old, you don't understand it yourself. And that has haunted me my entire life. My entire life has been haunted by that quote.

I'm not really thinking about explaining anything to six-year-olds, not 16-year-olds. Well, my niece is literally six. Yeah. She asks a lot of questions, is all I'm going to say. Okay, I'm going to ask, I'm going to imagine me with a little worry pop

and a big head. I'm 6 years old. Lukey, what's a mum and dad special cuddle? Nothing's changed Pete. This is exactly the same as a normal episode, just a slightly different voice and you mimicked holding a lollipop. Like Wayne Rooney.

Do you remember Wayne Rooney's big lollipop? That was a special cuddle. Yes. And it was like, the thing that shocked me wasn't that Wayne Rooney was wearing like little,

little shorts and a vest and looking like the side of a house as a professional footballer licking a massive chupa chup. It was that, you know like you buy those chopper chops in the airport

and it looks like a big lolly and you think it's going to be a big lolly but then you open it and it's not. It's just loads of little lollies in the shape of a big lolly. He somewhere got that big fucking lolly from somewhere and I don't think that product exists. I think he had that made specifically because he's a rich man.

Or he was just licking the plastic of the outside of all the little lollies case uh that would be even more demented that would be that that would prove that he was a bit of a silly sausage wouldn't it i quite i quite like the i i quite like that he has personally embraced that photo so because he sent he sent that photo to colleen on valent Day on his Instagram. Right, okay. Which I think shows great self-awareness. Yeah, it's hard to paper over. I mean, he'd be putting Instagram posts out until bloody Tuesday.

Well, listen. Trying to paper over some cracks that he's made himself in that relationship. Good God. I think that you woke lot. I'm going to include you in that, Pete. Me woke lot. You're too um you're too um judgmental i think right okay i think he's a flawed he's just a flawed human being right i said

it on the ramble a week or two ago i i like and respect him i don't necessarily like or respect the things that he's done or some of the things that he's done but as a human being he seems like pretty self-aware pretty you know pretty happy to apologise for his mistakes. I watched that documentary where I thought he came across very well. He said that the things I've done, I'm not proud of, but I hope not to do them again. And I think that's, for me at least, and it's personal, of course it's a subjective thing.

Maybe people prefer their public figures to be perfect or as perfect as possible. But I personally find it a very endearing trait that to people that acknowledge their mistakes and try and improve on them and i think actually it's a really important part of the liberal tradition to try and acknowledge that so i i like his big lollipop i liked his vest i like the fact that he looks i'm saying that everyone's been taken in by a documentary that was released at exactly the same time that his wife happened to be in court with Jamie Vardy's wife, etc, etc.

I like that as well. I like that as well. It's straight out of the David Beckham rulebook. It's straight out of the David Beckham tactic book, isn't it? Big personalities have to have big PR. And good God, we fall for it every time. But you can't just make a documentary in a day, though, can you? No, but you know when the court date's coming up.

What do you need? Some archive footage about him calling a goal for Man United, lobbing the keeper, and then... So you come in and Wynreed gets knocked out in his living room. See, I love that. You cannot criticise that. That was absolutely amazing. Now, I really want to talk about that.

So to our international listeners who maybe aren't as au fait with football Wayne Rooney went back to his house after a booze up with his pal

Phil Barsley also a footballer played for Sunderland for a long time played for United as well and they got the thing I love

about it is that like there are types of men normally working class men and we you and i certainly know a few of them i'm sure who are exactly the type to go back to someone's house after a pub session yeah and you've been kicked out the pub so you go back to someone's house and they say that's how a person will say let's get the boxing gloves out and have a bit of a spa and it always ends badly it always ends badly it always ends with a cut hand through a coffee table

doesn't it I hugely respect in a kind of terrifying way the people who are capable of just turning the atmosphere in a room

to something very very dangerous straight away and there's definitely no better way of doing it than saying

who wants to have a boxing match so Wayne Rooney and Phil Barty did that during the season while they were both playing football. And then they got into a spa and Phil Bartley

it seems from the video footage available at the time knocked Wayne Rooney out cold in his own kitchen. Now, that's the kind of thing that's happening with professional footballers. But the thing that makes it even better, Pete, is that if you remember, Rooney scored a goal for United not far after that and mimicked what happened in a celebration.

Yeah. He threw a few punches and pretended to be knocked out flat on his back. It was amazing. You are talking me round. I've suddenly decided this is actually quite brilliant. Yeah, you're quite right. I think what makes me laugh is because he's such a talented footballer,

playing for one of the biggest clubs in the world, possibly the biggest club in the world, and he's getting sparked out by his friend after a couple of drinks in his front room. I think it was his kitchen. He could have really hit his head on the hard floor. But you've sort of got, there are concussion protocols. There's no concussion protocols for what you do after a night out, do you?

No, it's in your own time. Yeah, that's in your own time. It doesn't count. It's in your own time yeah that's in your own time it doesn't count it's in your own time that we can't do anything about that no no no we're not doing that so funny anyway um you're quite right pete donaldson what have you been up to what's been going on like your blue jumper that color really suits you actually thanks mate yeah i found that at the back of the cupboard it's one of my uh one of the jumpers one of the many jumpers i own that has the potential to make me rather ill. Why have you not let you listen? I washed them.

I washed them, mate. Don't worry about that. And that's sorted it out, is it? Give them a little wash. Yeah, it seems to be. My face hasn't gone massive this time around. But no, yeah, I'm feeling good. Over the weekend, I helped my neighbour with a broken wall. His wall fell down, so I helped.

I tell you what. You know what's really heavy, Luke? Bricks. Bricks are really bloody heavy. Famous for bloody famous aren't they they are famously very heavy uh and uh yeah it's it's it's quite quite uh quite heavy you know i lifted about five bricks and i was like i'm i'm done here to be honest i'm done i can remember um so my old man always my my old man his friends always came from background like manual labor so he worked in always came from a background of manual labour. So he worked in a factory, but a couple of his mates were builders. And I remember as a young-ish guy, I did some painting and decorating during the summer.

I did a little bit of, not much, a little bit of labouring work. And I remember, I probably would have been 15, maybe. Cash and hand stuff, you know, it wasn't like legit. But anyway, I remember, mate, I remember being at a building site, not far from where my parents lived, or where I lived at the time. And they're building this, I think it was a new school. And I can't remember. The hod, they carry the bricks on.

I can't remember how many bricks it's got on it, but it's a lot. Yeah. the hod they carry the bricks on i can't remember how many bricks it's got on it but it's a lot yeah and i remember almost basically not even being able to get that off the ground and these guys were carrying it up ladders like four or five ladders and they were doing it like a hundred times a day at the time i remember thinking this is fucking sorcery yeah i have no idea obviously i didn't have my man strength then some would say i still don't but i definitely i definitely didn't then and it was it was absolutely baffling to me yeah and and i guess it's um it's a lot of it presumably is technique as well but you do sort of look at jobs like that and if your knees if it wasn't such long hours if it wasn't uh if you were if your knees weren't fucked uh when you get to 35 um i think that that i as i get older

i sort of go there's something to be said for a job that you finish a certain amount of time and because you're not in that space because you're at home you can't do anything you can you are you switch off you get on with the rest of your life and then you start again at like what seems like six o'clock in the morning the next day. So it's an horrible job. It's really hard. But there is something you said for a job that you just leave behind. Yeah, I know what you mean.

You're having a tough week, are you? There's always something you're doing. There's always bloody work to do. There's always the tendrils of one job ending and another one starting, and you never really stop. And I feel that pain, and I feel that kind of stress, but we have chosen to do this. Yeah, I know, I'm not saying,

but I'm just saying there's something to be said for jobs that you can leave behind. Because I don't think many people have those jobs anymore. I think builders and tradesmen are the only people who have that job nowadays, because you are always contactable. People will always contact you whatever you're doing or whatever however and whatever level you're at also also on this day's work like an honest like decent day's work which is almost tangible and you can say you know what i started off here and i've made this progress today and now i'm gonna go and have a beer or

whatever i definitely think that's um that's a really rewarding thing and something that should be admired um you know on the other hand i am not capable of that kind of work my brain doesn't work in that way so for example i think it's i think you know ostensibly people will say yeah you're just lazy kind of thing but it's not that i feel like i can really push myself when it comes to the actual work i feel like i'm tired at and i can work and work and work i don't think anyone really necessarily very often outworks me but when it comes to manual physical labor i'm just not i just can't do it just i can't do it it feels like a massive thing in my mind like even if it's just changing a light bulb it just it really weighs on my mind it's crazy and i also think that um you know, maybe that sort of stuff isn't valued enough, I reckon. Yeah, and I think people get quite upset

that they can't get things fixed these days because builders, you know, there's a massive timber shortage and stuff, and builders can choose their work here and there. And people are sort of going, oh, how dare they? It's like, mate, this is how much they should be paid, and this is how picky they should be. You know, you want

the work doing, get on YouTube, watch someone do it, and do it yourself, dickhead. Yeah, when you say, how dare they in that voice, whose voice were you doing then? How dare they? Did I say, how dare they? No, you kind of said almost like a quite posh, upper-middle-class woman. How dare they yeah did i say i dare they you kind of said like a almost like a quite posh upper middle class how dare they yeah yeah i'm thinking russell hearty remember russell hearty yeah i do a little bit quite i'll do a little bit yeah he was like a really soft soapy

kind of talk show host right yeah yeah yeah but but pete yeah you said there's a timber shortage i wasn't aware of that um but that storm we had a while back a lot of trees came down a tree came down in my fucking street. They can have the timber from that if they want. They can have that timber, yeah. Nothing else is going to be useful. Primo timber. Yeah, it's one of the... I think if you're a dog

and you like chasing sticks, good God, can you imagine? Can you imagine the weeks they've had? So many more sticks in the street. Don't chase sticks, do they? What do you mean? Chase sticks? Yeah.

You don't have to chase them. They're not moving, are they? Well, you pick them up and throw them for them, don't you? Oh, true. Sorry, that's poor by me. I thought you just meant they're just walking along and finding them. Do your dogs get sticks that are far too big for them? Yeah, it's never not funny.

Like, Lola's absolutely tiny, and she'll try and pick up most of a tree. But what's happening in the dog's mind? At what point do they think that's too big? I think they can just see the bit of stick in front of them and if they can get their mouth around it, they're just like, right, this is my stick now. And then you've got, mate, it's connected to a big tree, you big idiot.

Right, that's funny. Oh, by the way, speaking of something that's weighing on my mind, I've got an eye test later. Oh, Lukey. Well, you've started wearing the spectacles lately. Here they are. So why have you... I kind of think you've put the cart before the horse.

You're having your eye test after you've got the specs. What's wrong with you? No, but these are glare. These are anti-glare. Right, okay. So what do you mean? As in just... It has no prescription on it?

Not to improve my vision, no. It's just for the, what's it called, certain type of light. Because I found that I was staring at, particularly during lockdown, I was staring at a screen for so much, for so long, it was starting to make my eyes go fuzzy

and my head hurt. So I was recommended those. And what happened was, my head is so big, they didn't do a size big enough. And so the glasses just pinch at the sides of my head and give me a headache in different ways. So that didn't really work. Oh, no.

But I had an eye test this time last year and I was fine. Yeah. But obviously, you know, age doesn't come by itself, as they say. So I imagine at some point I'm going to need to wear glasses. Both my parents do. The wife I have access to does as well, so we'll have to see. You've worn them ever since I've known you.

I got my specs when I was about six, I think, and I remember sort of turning up to school and very loudly announcing that I got a new pencil case. It wasn't a pencil case. It was a pair of specs. What, were you showing off? Were you lying on purpose? No, I just wanted...

I don't know what I thought the end result was going to be because, I mean, at some point I would have to wear the glasses but I just thought I was so embarrassed about having glasses that I pretended that I had a new pencil case but in fact it was actually just a glasses case

and I remember having that in my little tray. You know what I miss? I miss having a little tray. Oh yeah, I remember the trays. I wish at Stack we should get a little tray. You could have one. We should have trays for everyone

and then we keep our little, our sweets and our catapults in there and stuff. Catapult? You grew up on an episode of the fucking Simpsons. It's been a catapult. You didn't have a catapult, did you? Did you have a catapult? I was very much a David and Goliath sling. Oh, that was brilliant.

There was a beautiful Bible argument on the Ramble that may or may not have... Yeah, I heard it. Was it on the Ramble? Good. Yeah, I heard it, yeah. It actually made the edit, right, OK. You, Marcus and Vish. Marcus got upset because Vish said

it was the sling that defeated Goliath and Marcus said it was God. It was a wonderful little kind of debate that went on. Well, it's a metaphor, isn't it? I say debate. Marcus just went a bit quiet and got angry at me. Yeah. I love it.

Which makes the change of him getting angry at you for being immensely disrespectful. I know. I know, right? It's good to see fish take off. Yeah, because he's got to spread the load. Yeah, exactly. My understanding of that story is it's a metaphor, right?

So he did it, but he was given the faith to do it by God. But we don't use it like that, do we, in that story is it's a metaphor right so he did it but he obviously he was he was given the faith to do it by god and then we don't use it like that do we in that story we use like kind of like a you know it's an underdog story underdog story we we don't sort of go because marcus is retelling that tale is that god gave him the strength fine but that that goes completely against what david and goli represents now. It is someone, despite all of the odds, defeating something that's bigger than them. And if you read the Bible, it's obviously a story about God helping out. If you investigate any of it, Pete,

I mean, spoiler alert, it turns out God did all of it. It's very confusing in a way because... Funny God was one of us. He could, you know, make his way home. Bit of Joan, you don't hear much from her anymore, do you? You don't. She used to be a DJ on Absolute called John Osborne.

And every time I saw him, I was like, it's John Osborne. Funny God was one of us. So apparently she's still knocking about, or Joan Osborne and every time I saw him I was like it's John Osborne funny card words so apparently she's still knocking about old Joan Osborne did you just figure that out in your mind or did you very quickly google it

she didn't even write that one of us song did she not who wrote that a man called Eric Bazillion which is a brilliant name oh I'd like to very much

find out what other songs Eric Bazillion that's his actual name it sounds like an amount of money that's unimaginable but it's actually his name. Please tell me all of his other songs are like, What If God Was A Car, What If God Was A Car,

What If God Was A Show. You're obsessed, Bazillion. That's not what made you successful, mate. You think it is, but it's not. Cool, I like the record label. All right, Eric, I haven't heard from you for a while. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've got a new album.

No, wait, wait, wait. It's What If God Was a Sock. He's actually called Eric Bazillion. Eric Bazillion. How many Erics have you got? How many copies did you sell? Eric Bazillion. Brilliant.

Well, great stuff. All right, let's have a break. When we come back, we're going to do some Only Fools and Horses themed emails. It's taken weeks to get Pete to agree to it, but it's in there now and it's happening. Just get it over like Pete. It's like ripping a plaster off, mate.

Yeah, got to get them done. Got to get them done. Speak to you in a minute. It's time for emails on the Luke and Pete show. Luke, are you ready to hit me up with some tedious Only Fools and Horses shite? Yeah, I am. You've got a moral

responsibility and a professional responsibility to at least try to react and give an opinion on these, yeah? Alright, fine. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email address. Jack and Matthew have both emailed in

on Only Fools and Horses themed content so we are going to get through them right Pete do you want to just actually we haven't done this for a while

very very quickly before I read these do you want to give us in a couple of sentences why your position current position on Only Fools and Horses it on Only Fools and Horses

It's Only Fools and Horses is a sitcom that is treated like a sacred cow. To criticise Only Fools and Horses is to criticise everything it is to be British and I think we have done better

we continue to do better and yeah, and I've moved to essex recently there's a lot of people like when he feels like people who are well um versed in your uvra though will say yeah but is this like another thing when you said that like childish gambino is better bigger than robbie williams and stuff sometimes your takes can be a little bit ill thought out right so you're basically saying that the nation have taken Only Fools and Horses as a sitcom to their hearts and that annoys you because you think it's mediocre.

I think it's a poor sitcom. It's not poor. It's a shitcom. It's a shitcom. I've had a lot of people in my life who have had a surprising amount of Only Fools and Horses VHS box sets and these are people from the North West,

and you'd think they'd go for something else. It doesn't make any sense. Alfouz is his own pet? Alfouz is his own pet. Well, I just don't think Only Fools and Horses really speaks to me. I never knew anyone who was like a wheeler dealer. I never really knew anyone who was like a sort of flat-capped entrepreneur. See, if it was about miners miners all who had asthma you'd like

it if it was all about men who worked in a chemical it's the simpsons i like the simpsons because homer simpson is my dad and he worked in a chemical plant so you were definitely bart as a kid dude yeah okay right anyway so let's let's let's um let's get let's get through these um not in a disrespectful way jack and matthew i mean let's get through these. Not in a disrespectful way, Jack and Matthew. I mean, let's just read them out. So Jack says, Hi, fellas, listening to the chat about the Only Fools and Horses themed cafe. That's the one that's opened up near my parents called Only Rolls and Sources.

Funnily enough, Jack said, I was on my commute driving past another such eatery, which I think has got an even better name. It's called Only Foods and Sources. I don't know why the people near my parents didn't call it that, but they called it Only Rolls and Sources. I don't know why.

Complete with a presumably unauthorised use of the show's logo. It's definitely unauthorised. We can all agree on that. He's attached a picture. He says, I've Googled this and there seems to be quite a few places that have gone for this name with the same logo.

P.S. I'm with Pete. I don't like the show. I don't find it funny. Good on you, Jack. Jack is creating content for the show and he also agrees with everything I say. I've decided. But Pete, isn't it funny how like, because by the way, I've got a bone to pick with you, which I'm going to come on to. But isn't it funny how certain shows seem to just permeate the culture

we've talked about this in different ways in the past but you know everyone loves so i would say like you know realistically i can make a claim that the sopranos is brilliant right i don't want to get to the boring side of how great it is but it's brilliant but it's not really permeated the culture here people in london don't walk around like tony soprano or fucking you know big pussy or or you know fucking Silvio Dante right but people no one would name a fucking restaurant or a cafe after

Sopranos right but they do about Peaky Blinders they do about Only Fools and Horses they do about some of these shows and I've heard that despite your regular position being taken on this show about Peaky Blinders I've heard on the grapevine you just started watching it. I don't know what you're talking about, Luke.

I don't know what you're talking about. Luke, I don't know what you're talking about. Peaky what? By order of the Peaky Blinders. I've not watched the first season recently. I've enjoyed it. I've not watched it. I don't know what you're talking about, Luke.

I don't know what you're talking about. Front up. Did you actually like it? Yes, very good. You're an embarrassment, embarrassment love you're an absolute embarrassment you know what you know what really uh surprises me um that on the peaky blinders how did they manage to make it's a bbc show right yeah how did they manage to use so much money to make it and i realized with later episodes and series it's celebrated and

everyone loves it so that's why you get your tom hardy's and your you know different characters sort of appearing stuff but um from the get-go it looks like a really expensive production with our tax dollars i can't figure it out you change your tune what oh you're talking about how good the production values are now. I think it's beautifully done, but I don't know how they managed to do it. I will say one thing. As a man of diminutive stature myself, I think it is astonishing

how many tricks they managed to sort of do by making, like, they managed to sort of perform feats of engineering to make the lead, They managed to sort of perform feats of engineering to make the lead. Cillian Murphy looked in any way commanding as a man who I've seen myself is about five foot six. Is he really? I thought he'd be really tall.

He's a good two inches shorter than me. We were in a bar, me and my mate Al, you know Al, he's very small. And yeah, he was, I said, that's Cillian Murphy. I probably said Cillian Murphy. Or Cillian Murphy, probably said Cillian Murphy or Cillian Murphy however you say it yeah and he's he's quite

he's a man of diminutive stature but he looks great in the sort of like a boiled man can look he's but he is very short

and you don't really sort of notice it in the scenes yeah but forget all that forget that you're fucking you're getting stuck into it

have you started season 2 yet? we'll probably start season 2 tonight it's a really easy watch there's a lot of fun in the first season there is a character who's an Irish a young Irish lass

who is an undercover police police woman police person police woman and she is and she joins the pub. I think the pub is like the main hub. I've only seen the first season,

so I presume everyone's watched it who's interested. She comes in and she's got a reputation of being a great singer. And she sort of goes, I'd like Friday to be singing day. And I'd like to sing on Fridays. It sounds like you wrote it. I'd like to always sing on Fridays. It sounds like you wrote it. I'd like to do a sing on Fridays

and she sings and she can sing but she's not like an amazing singer. She's an orchestra singer where she goes, diddly-doo-dee-doo-dee-doo, sings like some kind of Irish song but she's not that good a singer. She's kind of like,

she makes this big thing of going, I'd like Friday to be singing day. Any way you want it, that's the way you need it. Any way you want it. It's very underwhelming for a person who's a whole rep and everyone's entranced by this woman's very average singing. They're going, oh, I bloody love this singing. I love the things that you notice in TV shows, Donaldson.

To be fair to you, I'm going to be completely even-handed about it, from memory, you more had a problem with the people who were really into Peaky Blinders than the show itself, right? Oh, to be honest, I sort of see the tie pins and the collar pins and stuff like that. I think it probably annoyed me because that,

I mean, this was like 10 years ago that it started, or maybe eight years ago. They very much dressed like I was trying to dress, but I just didn't realise there was some parallel dressing going on. So people would have thought you were a Peaky Blinders fan as well. That's what I'm thinking. A lot of tweed, a lot of tie pins, a lot of collar bars, stuff like that. Yeah, very upsetting.

Never mind. All right, anyway, it's a great kind of reveal. It's a great plot twist in the world of Luke and Pete that you'll now get stuck into a Peaky Blinders. Anyway, Matthew, on the theme of Only Fools and Horses again,

Matthew says, Hi guys, hope you're both well. I wanted to share with you the ideal location for a provincial town live tour after Luke and Pete show. During the Christmas break, I was visiting a family,

not a family, visiting family in Cambridgeshire, not just a random family. And whilst on the whistle-stop tour of Catch and that with some old friends, I was required to venture out into the fens. While idly driving through the couple of villages you pass to reach my friend's place, I noticed a bright yellow beacon up ahead. It was a working replica of the Trotters' independent trade as Reliant Robin from Pete's favourite TV sitcom. I was very, very confused. head it was a working replica of the trotters independent traders reliant robin from pete's

favorite tv sitcom i was very very confused i did a full swoop on the next roundabout turned back the way i came and there it was the nags head pub a fully decked out public house styled on the pub frequented by dell and the gang in only fools and horses and parked outside was the reliant robin i'd seen a few minutes earlier I pop my head in the door to take a look around, and it was every bit as depressing as you would imagine. See you there? Question mark. He's added a link.

He said, what's the worst theme pub or bar you've been to? Surely it can't be worse than this. Take care. Keep up the great work. All the best, Matt. And just an example for those who aren't fully versed in the world of Only Fools and Horses, Trotters Independent Traders, that spells tit, doesn't it? Yeah, it does, yeah.

And it's something you sort of pointed out quite recently, and I only just got it, really. Great. It's very, very sophisticated humour, though, right? It is, yeah. Would you like to go to the Nags Head in near Peterborough, Peter? Well, I'm looking at the picture, and's mainly just uh their whole kind of thing is like it looks like an outside sort of bar uh it looks like a converted packing crate an outside bar that's outside language that's

outside language so they've got so it's basically it's only for us but it's mainly stuff they've printed out so it's only for us in that they've got a printer and they've printed a big Nelson Mandela house, Peckham, London, SE15 sign, some kind of like nags heads kind of posters they've printed out. I mean, out of all of the effort you could actually make, they've bought a Reliant Robin. That's pretty much... It's about as depressing...

It's about as depressing it's about as depressing there was this uh new story about this uh pub in los angeles i think uh irish pub uh that is a arsenal themed pub but literally will not allow thierry henry to enter because of obviously the handball uh against ireland oh right And so like, it looked, and I was like, I don't think anyone wants to go in that bar. You may as well ban everyone

because no one wants to be in that bar. It looks disgusting. So yeah, so there you go. So it looks like that. I would probably venture that themed pubs

generally are a depressing concept. Yeah, but if you are like a queen-based pub, I remember being in Tallinn in Estonia and going to a Depeche Mode bar. And that was nicely done. A lot of posts,

just constant Depeche Mode videos on the telly and stuff. And yeah. Do you remember there was that metalers-themed bar in town called the Snooty Fox or something? The Intrepid Fox. The Intrepid Fox, that's it.

Near Tottenham Court Road. It was like a coal bar though, wasn't it? Like, you know, red walls, black floors and just a general smell of bleach and sand. It's quite funny because the one thing I always used to think about those kind of bars, there was one on Holloway Road as well, Pete, wasn't there? What was that called?

Big Red. Big Red. And all the kind of chat and the idea of heavy metal and the idea of like heavy metalers or rockers or goths or whatever yeah it would be like an intimidating thing but actually like they are the friendliest pubs yeah oh yeah compared to like a provincial weatherspoons like it's absolutely nothing sinister about them it's like really laid back and relaxed and everyone's really friendly i always find that quite an interesting juxtaposition because yeah people would expect the opposite wrongly.

But they present themselves as being slightly scary. So I've got tattoos. They post things on Facebook like people think that people with tattoos are bad boys. But I want to tell you

that the real bad boys are the people who don't have tattoos. No one gives a shit about your tattoos. Don't worry about it. Tattoos used to be a thing.

When I was a kid tattoos used to be because obviously I grew up in a naval town. Tattoos used to be a thing. Tattoos, when I was a kid, tattoos used to be, because obviously I grew up in a naval town, tattoos used to be sailors and criminals. Criminals, yeah. Imagine having a neck tattoo. Who then became bus drivers.

Say again? Imagine having a neck tattoo back then. That's like proper prison tattoo stuff, isn't it? My old man's got, I've told you this before, my old man's got a tattoo that he did himself. Yeah, nice. And my grandad's got one

that his mate did for him when he was in the army. It actually, I mean, it's green now because he's old, but it looks good. It's actually done quite well. The guy was obviously had a bit of an artistic talent. Yeah, decent, fun. Yeah.

Anyway, on that note, let's get out of here. On Thursday, we, of course, will be back doing some of your battery brands, more of this kind of chat. I'm sure we'll have plenty of emails into hello at lucanpitcher.com about the stuff we've talked about today

I imagine there'll be some strident defenders of Wayne Rooney Only Fools and Horses and Peaky Blinders we expect nothing less and I hope you have a nice week

and we'll speak to you soon let's do it The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack Production and part of the Acast Creator Network.