The Luke and Pete Show - Peruvian Power Hour

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

Behold! Because the lads are back with the usual nonsense, including but not limited to, Old El Paso, Uncle Ben's rice, writing the quiz questions for a DVD extra of Little Britain (speaking of w...hich, how have those lads not been cancelled? And while we're on the subject, when are *we* going to be cancelled?), the video game Darkseed and, if that isn't enough, what's it like trying to do exercise at altitude in Peru?To contribute to this entirely foul jamboree, get in touch: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com. You can also get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram if character-restricted messaging takes your fancy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:02:37 I'm Pete Donaldson. Job by Mr. Lucie Miller. Hello. How you doing? How's it going, mate? I'm all right. What's new? What's new?
Starting point is 00:02:43 The Lucan, Pete Shore universe is a beautiful, colourful place. It's like when Roger Rabbit, is it Roger Rabbit, where they're going to the cartoon world? Yes, he's in the normal world, isn't he? He's in the real world, and then he hot-futs it into... I wonder what that looks like now, because it... the time it felt extraordinary to watch. Magical. Didn't it? I wanted to put a little shoe, a little talking shoe
Starting point is 00:03:04 in some acid. I wanted to spend more time with Jessica Rabbit. The, um, the... As we all did. Who's the baddie out of it? It was not Robert Zemeckis. It's Bob Hoskins, didn't it? No, he's the goody. Oh, is it? Okay, he's a detective. He's a detective, he's a detective, he's a
Starting point is 00:03:19 guy, he's a gun shoe detective. He's friends. He, it was the fellow who's in about the future. Robert's, it's not Rob, is it? Oh, Christopher Lloyd. Christopher Lloyd. Yeah. He did a video game that was pretty much the same similar plot called Toonstruck where he was a human in a cartoon world and I remember second
Starting point is 00:03:36 days to try and get it to work on my my PC the animations are just too rich just too rich Well it's a really interesting game where the animations are really rich and way ahead of their time Is it Dragon's Lair or something? Dragon something Yeah yeah it features in stranger things Right and it looks an amazing game
Starting point is 00:03:52 and I watched a playthrough on YouTube Horrible to play Yeah I felt to me it must be terrible to play, because it looks amazing, but there doesn't seem to be any real gameplay around. It seemed to be, it was for, it was basically for Lizardisks. It was an arcade, lizardisk
Starting point is 00:04:08 sort of thing, that allowed you to sort of, because Lizards, you could stream a lot of video very quickly. But it was Disney animated, was it not? It was Don Bluth, I think, who was a Disney animator, but I think he might be Hanna-Bavara, maybe, I don't know, but... What's it called the game again? The game's called Dragon's Lair. Dragon's Lair, that's it. It was also another one
Starting point is 00:04:24 that I can't remember the bloody name of, but it was, yeah, Dragonss Layer, one and two. Oh, so apparently Don Bluth, yeah, he's the ex-Disney guy. Excellent, excellent animator, Don Blu. Is he still with us? He's still kicking a ball. But... Let's have a look.
Starting point is 00:04:36 He is. At the ripe old age of 88. Lovely. He's from El Paso in Texas. Beautiful. Who else is from El Paso that you can think of? I can think of one very, very, very, very kind of impactful bunch of people on my life. And that is the post-hicle band at the driving.
Starting point is 00:04:53 Oh, they're from El Paso, right? They've got an EP called Helpaso. Right. I've been to El Paso. It's nice. Have you? Really nice people. Is it good there?
Starting point is 00:05:00 Really good. Border Town, isn't it? Yeah. Border Town, baby. Uncle Ben? Uncle Ben? He doesn't... Don't they do an El Paso?
Starting point is 00:05:07 That's Old El Paso. I'm thinking Uncle Ben is Old El Paso. Is there not a figurehead for Old El Paso? No, I think it's just a Mexican landscape, isn't it? Oh, right, okay. Oh, well, never mind. Uncle Ben. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:05:20 He's probably from, like, Louisiana or something, isn't he? Uncle Ben is probably, probably on freestyle here, but probably some kind of racist stereotype these days. Oh, yeah, but he still exists. I don't know, I think it's like, Aunt Jemima, is she, is she still, is she problematic? I think Aunt Jemima's accepted as being problematic, but Uncle Ben isn't. But I don't think Uncle Ben's a big brand in America, where it would connect longer. Well, it's changed, I'm just looking at, it's changed its name to Ben's originals.
Starting point is 00:05:45 Ah. Ben's original. Now, the reason that Uncle Ben may be seen as being racist, just to give you a very kind of amateurish and brief history lesson is because there were certain enslaved people, African-Americans, in the South in that period that did have some kind of authority and people were deferential
Starting point is 00:06:06 to them. They'd be older people in the plantation or whatever but it was never permitted for the younger white folk children to call them anything other than slaves, right? So they settled on the name, the word uncle because it was a kind of fig leaf
Starting point is 00:06:22 because they would never be able to call them mister because it would be too authoritative and they wouldn't be treated as it was a white supremacist world so uncle was not the figlies they used to use that following through to being a product is obviously hugely problematic the same with I guess the same with Aunt Jemima
Starting point is 00:06:39 I haven't looked that up that's like an educated guess but it's now called Ben's original probably for that reason it's nothing to do with Old El Paso is that why Uncle Tom got reminded of Mr Tom was peanut bars maybe maybe it's very I don't think it was
Starting point is 00:06:52 probably wasn't now and Old El Paso Peter is a Mexican meal kit Right, yes, it is, yeah. Which I've, so when... Very basic. Yeah, well, when... Very basic stuff. Great, great meals, though.
Starting point is 00:07:04 When the Wi-Fi have access to first sort old El Paso product, she was pretty mortified, yeah. Because I think, I suppose in one way, though, it's no different to say getting... I mean, I would never make a curry out of a jar, because I would just get a takeaway, which would be better, or I'd try and make it from scratch, because I'm pompous about it. Right. And I'd probably fail at it.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Just a lot of, like, collecting cardamon ponds and stuff in it. But I think a lot of American... think of Mexican food as their kind of Indian food. Yeah, it massively is. So, like, and conversely, I think... So they wouldn't want to have shit stuff. And conversely, I think the acceptance and of quite racist tropes, for example,
Starting point is 00:07:42 talked about, you know, the 1990s in the last show, but in films and stuff, short circuit. And that would never be a thing. It's the guy who's in succession now. Yeah, and the guy who did the David Beckham documentary, that fella. So he browned. up for that
Starting point is 00:07:58 and he and you would never get that in in Britain because of the massive like Indian Pakistani kind
Starting point is 00:08:06 of diaspora isn't it I suppose so yeah but I think you say that but we could get away with a sombrero but the two blokes
Starting point is 00:08:14 from Little Britain did it yeah I mean they did a lot of stuff in the Skata they did a lot of stuff they browned up in like 2015 or something
Starting point is 00:08:23 I mean it's absolutely ridiculous I find it fascinating I've got no particular beef with either of those people. I don't know them. I think a lot of Matt Lucas' stuff is good. Like, his early stuff is amazing. It's really funny.
Starting point is 00:08:34 But they get away of a lot, basically from the virtue of the fact being quite middle-class, Oxbridge types. Are they though? Are they those things? I don't think they're Oxbridge, are they? I think they probably are, right?
Starting point is 00:08:45 That's what I assume. I think, I think they get away with a lot because one's very camp and one's gay. I do think there is a convenience to being a minority that you can get away with some things that other people But David Williams is not on my own or two at all, is it?
Starting point is 00:09:01 No, no. Okay. It's a bit of a creepy character in my life. Okay, well, let me put another way then. Why do they get away with so much? Why have they not been kind of... Because they were not... Because they did a lot of...
Starting point is 00:09:12 Because Little Britain wasn't quite as strong as something like Come Fly Out with me. And I think they just... It was such a runaway success. I once wrote quiz questions for the Little Britain DVD. Did you? What a claim to find that is. I had to find a lot of trivia.
Starting point is 00:09:26 about notable gay men, I seem to recall. What did that even entail? It was just a, it was a CD-ROM. It was a DVD-ROM. How did you get that job? It was a, my ex's brother worked on it. And were you a fan of the programme? No, I just, I wasn't a fan doing the job, to be honest,
Starting point is 00:09:45 but the money was pretty good. The reason, the reason I think that Little Britain is maybe perhaps not just as bad, but he's bad, is because Little Britain is a real, like, punch-down fest. Yeah. It's a real, like, kind of, this is. what's funny about fat people this is what's funny about poor people yeah this is what do you know i mean and and and we're very blithely accepting of that as as brits aren't we and and i find the whole council culture thing around that very curious in a way because council culture
Starting point is 00:10:11 which is a terrible phrase but i can't think of what else to say to describe it is is by its nature very inconsistent but it doesn't seem to have any rules about who actually gets council and who doesn't so so the example would be like if you see someone like Jeremy Clarkson. Just uncancellable. But it doesn't care. He just doesn't care. He doesn't play the game, right?
Starting point is 00:10:31 But it's like too big to fail, isn't it? Little Britain, too big to fail. Too important to the BBC to fail. But they just quietly moved it off eyeblower and don't speak about it anymore. Yeah. Yeah, because it's obscene a lot of it. But Little Britain less so, but Comflare with me was pretty...
Starting point is 00:10:46 In Come Fly with me, you've got browning up. Yeah. Blacking up. You've got... Chinese characters. Yeah, yeah, yeah. and if that kind of thing was unveiled to someone else
Starting point is 00:11:00 or about someone else 30 years hence they could easily be cancelled for that if you saw that yeah but I think if you saw that as like you know when you say like sort of Spanish stars in their eyes and everyone's blacking up
Starting point is 00:11:15 yeah everyone's blacking blinding up I think that was the Greek one the Stevie Wonder one and you do go no that's racist Europeans we're just as bad in our own way I guess in our own delicious way
Starting point is 00:11:27 I remember when there was there was some Spanish F1 fans who blacked up when Lewis Hamilton came to the Spanish Grand Prix and they seemed to be like absolutely baffled as to why it was offensive
Starting point is 00:11:40 they were like we love Lewis Hamilton yeah we're doing it because we really want to support him stuff they were quite a taking aback that it was that offensive yeah but it's that it's that it's that
Starting point is 00:11:50 it's that reluctant to take a step back and sort of because you sort of cherry pick why you've done something and why that person shouldn't be offended why it shouldn't be a problem because in microcosm it's you are trying to support them
Starting point is 00:12:03 but the weight of history it's misguided it's misguided you have to sort of think about the way you have to be aware of these things to be slightly sensitive you've not been cancelled I've never blacked up no I don't mean just for that
Starting point is 00:12:15 but what I'm saying is you've always been quite right on right haven't you so you probably haven't done anything that bad I think I have I will have done some stuff I reckon that is I can't think of anything now But you get quite wistful
Starting point is 00:12:31 Yeah, quite wistful there I'm not trying I'm not suggesting you can't cancel yourself I can't write I had one I can't remember what it was But it was like it wasn't like It was no Yeah when I was 17 I think
Starting point is 00:12:45 I was at like a car boot or something This would be good 17 at a car boot Where's this gonna go? Well I had Well, I was fucking from Hartlepool. Like, and we didn't really talk about a lot of this stuff. You won't do any fucking in Hartlepool.
Starting point is 00:12:57 I wasn't doing any fucking Hamilton. Did you lose your virginity in Hartlepool? Yes, yes. Was Hartlepool the destination of you ejaculating for the first time of a hero quest? Yes, yes, it was a spectacularly. I still look back and with great fondness. But I remember, I had, when I was a child, I had a gollywog.
Starting point is 00:13:16 Yeah. So it was like it was just part of every kid that I knew. sort of had one. But you're a child, that's not your... There's a child. Yeah, but I mean, but when I was 17, I bought, it was just this, it was like a collection of like... So this was a bit 1998-ish? Yeah, funky shirts. And one of them was like, had a, like, a golly-wog on it. And I was like,
Starting point is 00:13:33 that's a bit weird, because I'm fairly certain, like, you don't sort of see the golly-wock anymore. And I was like, and I bought it for, like, a retro reason. And then... You're knocking about town with it, were you? No, I never wore it. Good God. Can you imagine? Why did you buy it then? I don't know. I think, I presume I had some intention to buy it to wear it, but like, yeah, I'm like mad.
Starting point is 00:13:49 Yeah. But when you look about that, you saw that that's fucking mad. I mean, it was the 90s. Do you know what I think about? Do you know what? The one I think about is I've always been very right on.
Starting point is 00:13:59 My family upbringing was very right on. So I'm not going to fall foul that. Blind, but race blindness is a thing. Oh, of course. I'm totally, I'm totally aware that I would have been unintentionally,
Starting point is 00:14:09 you know, you know, unacceptable at different occasions growing up. Of course. I mean, that goes about saying. We should all be honest about that and unintentionally and all the rest of it. But the one thing I do have a, I do think when I look back at the 90s and when I first started
Starting point is 00:14:24 going to pubs and stuff, I honestly don't remember, probably because I was ignorant of it and I just don't have it, obviously don't have any direct experience of it. And I'm not excusing the stuff that obviously did happen. But I don't have an overpowering memory of racism in my friendship group of stuff like that. But what I do definitely have memory of is the way that women were treated in pubs in the 90s was like extraordinarily bad right it was really bad like I didn't hang out with any women so I didn't either but I just mean when I think back of how women were treated like gaupped at leered at oh right ass grabbing all that kind of stuff used to go out all the time in the 90s and the way it's completely unthinkable now
Starting point is 00:15:03 I don't remember any of that to be honest like yeah well maybe it's different than heart maybe we're just absolutely sexless probably the power station pumping out all that radiation is absolutely sexless I thought the power station was middles bro on it yeah it's Still drifts off. The Ridley Scott Blade run at Power Station. Yeah. He's a character
Starting point is 00:15:21 now, Ridley Scott, isn't he? Well, you've been watching one of his shows recently? I don't think he's involved
Starting point is 00:15:26 in that much, is he? He's one of the few kind of autur directors who like get through a lot of get through a lot
Starting point is 00:15:34 of kind of films over the years. So the... He does work bloody hard. Alien Earth is directed by Noah Hawley though,
Starting point is 00:15:40 who did Fargo. Right, okay. Ridley Scott's definitely not directing it. I mean, he's probably got ownership
Starting point is 00:15:45 over some of the IP and stuff, but I don't think he's involved that much. A lot of the IP is H.R. Geiger, isn't it? Well, he's certainly the imagery, yeah. The Swiss. It's Swiss, yeah. It's absolutely iconic.
Starting point is 00:15:59 Like, what's massive about that alien... So what Peaks referring to is Alien Earth, right? And I thought about it a couple weeks ago. And I'm still really enjoying it. But what's fascinating about it is, as a kind of universe, as a cinematic universe, there's so much in it that you have to suspect your
Starting point is 00:16:17 disbelief on but the plot holes and stuff are quite obvious I think the three or four of the most recent alien products
Starting point is 00:16:24 the plot holes are gaping but the moment you see that alien you don't fucking care it's just it's just so iconic yeah wasn't it a very tall
Starting point is 00:16:33 was he a basketball player or something who H.R. Geiger who had really long pen right the fellow who played the alien
Starting point is 00:16:42 are you thinking of Predator am I think of Predator you always do this the French guy was that predator? No, I don't think that... I don't know how they model the alien I think the alien was a very thin French
Starting point is 00:16:53 I want to say Eritrean fella I think who was very tall and thin he had a very unique physicality Manuk Ball Was it Manut Ball? Who's Manuk Ball? He was the tallest ever NBA player
Starting point is 00:17:07 No, it wasn't him, it wasn't him No but yeah it was The A Chagaga art A big fan out as a kid There's a video game called Darkseed that came out that Hitchard, they basically spent all the budget on, it was like a digitised
Starting point is 00:17:19 sort of full motion video sort of game, a bit like Monkey Island, but set in the horrific world of Hitchard Giga. Is it Giga or Giga? I don't know, I think it's I think it might be Giga. Okay. I mean, I think it might be. But he would,
Starting point is 00:17:38 they basically spent all the money on the art, basically feathering Giga's nest for all this great art videos and stuff. and they just ran out of money and so they got like the main sort of programmer to be like the main like art the main actor in the video game
Starting point is 00:17:52 so just this fella who looks like like the most like 70s dad with a big moustache and he just sort of like just can't act and he's just walking around and going like and what's the premise of the game man wakes up
Starting point is 00:18:07 he's got an eddick takes a paracetamil and he's all right for a while when he sleeps he realizes that he is being infected in the... His front of his head's getting opened up in the night and they're putting... They're spurting dark seed inside his brain
Starting point is 00:18:25 and making his head hurt. And it's just a sort of dissent in the madness. He jumps through a mirror to the dark world and dark sea just a very scary, horrible game. I really should revisit one time. It sounds horrific. It's horrific. And the artwork is horrific.
Starting point is 00:18:41 So it's the mixture of like just a conventional kind of like, you know, American house and then you jump through a mirror and it's fucking horrible sort of... But that's strange of things. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:51 A bit of Stranger Things vibe. It was lovely but the man was hilariously he just looked like an 80s kind of synth player in a donkey jacket. Coming back to it again, the 80s is just dark.
Starting point is 00:19:03 It's just a dark hero. I didn't mind it. Look, let's have a break, Peter. When we come back, we've got an email and we've got some other stuff to talk about as well. So yeah, stick around. Welcome back to
Starting point is 00:19:14 at the Look at Pete show with confirmed historical races Pete Donaldson and Lukey Moore. Yeah. I thought I was going to get a much better lead up with that.
Starting point is 00:19:24 Well, I think in comparison you've got a great one. I've probably done some terrible things, Pete, don't worry about it. I don't worry about it because it's, you know,
Starting point is 00:19:30 it's bad, isn't it? Yeah. But... We've had a good run. To an extent. Anyway, yeah,
Starting point is 00:19:39 email here from Patrick that is from a little while back, but I wanted to read it. I didn't want it to go without being commented on. And it's about the stuff we were talking about before, about the Century Club, the Power Hour, people who
Starting point is 00:19:50 listen regularly won't remember that stuff. Right. But it'll come back to you as soon as I read it. He says, Jens, congrats to Pete on the new addition to his family. I'm of a similar age to both of you in it dismayed when Pete has become a child man before I did. Childman. Yeah, you are a childman. You seem to be a lungman as well.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Yeah. Do you want to talk about that? Not really? I don't know. By the time this show comes out, I may have had the prognosis for my lungs. so you're seeing a specific lung specialist a lungman a lungman a lung fish a lungfish he's uh he's he's I basically gave him the data blast of what's been going on in Donnie's life since April yeah and he basically did what you do
Starting point is 00:20:28 stop let's start let's start where I guess yeah you understand let's take this method method uh methodically and medically um and he uh sent me for a CT scan I've had a lung uh you blow into a big robot cock like a few times I can't believe they call it that that was a real mistake
Starting point is 00:20:47 for them to call it that wouldn't it and I've had blood tests as well in the worst hospital it's it
Starting point is 00:20:52 orcett the hospital in Orsett the hospital in Orsett that does phlebotomy is disgusting just blood everywhere oh well
Starting point is 00:20:58 they may as well have it might have improved the decor might make a bit more colourful yeah the nurse who was taking my blood
Starting point is 00:21:04 a spanner fell out my top pocket a big a big spanner for some reason it clanked on the floor and I was just getting my
Starting point is 00:21:12 fall ready and she picked up with the with her glove she picked up the spanner off the floor and I'm like that's that's a dirty spanner yeah and then she's just putting she's putting her hands all over all over my veins yeah with the same gloves it was my spanner but he went on the floor yeah and it was her gloves yeah why he's taking a spanner to the hospital
Starting point is 00:21:31 I don't know thought they might need it have you ever been in the hospital where they hit the button the security turn up no why what did you do well I'm just saying in King's College Hospital right I went there once to have a scan on my knee and um i'm i shouldn't be joking about really because it's what happens is there are people who have mental health issues yes clearly have nowhere else to go so sometimes they just end up in a and he sitting there yeah yeah and there was one guy in there
Starting point is 00:21:57 who was you know having an issue i i think he was probably drunk but right he was having an issue and um the nurses and their and their duty care staff or whatever deal well they're amazing they're amazingly patient and stuff and they obviously see it all the time. Yeah. And I think it just comes a threshold. And one of them just, um, called security. I can't remember if they pressed a button or whatever.
Starting point is 00:22:19 And like from nowhere, these three massive lads just turned up. Oh, the hospital, massive lads. Yeah. I'd love to hang out in the room with the massive lads. Behind the scenes. But sadly, when I was, um, I had to go back to the child A&E, nothing, nothing serious with my son a while back. And, um.
Starting point is 00:22:34 To inherit the look more knee. He hasn't. Who knows? Who knows? Babies aren't born knee caps, are they? That's true. It's the one bone, I think they're not born men. but no I don't think so
Starting point is 00:22:44 but I actually noticed in the in the normal A&E, the adult A&E there was security there the whole time then they must have got worse right yeah anyway so anyway good luck to you and specifically your lungs yes we're praying for a positive
Starting point is 00:22:58 result on that front Patrick picks up the story again I mentioned lungfish earlier lungfish are fascinating because do you know much about the lung fish I don't actually long fish it's like a proper throwback in the evolutionary cycle And I think they're called lungfish
Starting point is 00:23:13 because they are one of the few fish species perhaps even the only fish species that can actually breathe air as well Right, okay So I think when the tie goes out They can have a little wriggle around and they're all right So they just what? Just flub around on the floor
Starting point is 00:23:24 They can survive out of water for four years Mad? Mad, isn't it? Fuck, like, oh my God During this process The lungfish borrows into mud and forms a protective mucus cocoon leaving a small opening for debris there
Starting point is 00:23:37 with its lungs works That sounds fucking great, isn't it? I'd love to go into a reduced metabolic metabolic rate. Yeah. Just for a bit. Imagine. Describe that cocoon again?
Starting point is 00:23:47 It's just, see, they burrow into mud. What's it called? They form a protective mucous cocoon. Imagine if I just said to you, I'm not going to come in this week. A gob bag.
Starting point is 00:23:58 Mucous cacoon sounds like a band. It does cool band. Not cool. Anyway, Patrick says, I've spent the past few weeks binging about six months of Luke and Pete an attempt to catch up on the old episodes and I've been holding off emailing
Starting point is 00:24:11 I know that another email hasn't already covered this ground but here's what I've got to add. Now, regarding the McNugget Power Hour, just as a reminder, a couple of friends of the Luke and Pete Show got in touch for us to say they were eating. Was it as many McNugners as you can eat in an hour? That's right, yes, yeah, same them off.
Starting point is 00:24:27 He says, it sounds terrible, I'm appalled at this, but I do have a lot of experience with the beer versions of the Power Hour and the Century Club, as do I actually. We stood a century in all the time back of the day. One of the main issues is keeping time, of course, to make that much easier
Starting point is 00:24:41 someone in my fraternity back in college had the clever idea of making a cassette tape with 61-minute cuts of popular songs on it. It made things much easier knowing that all you need to do
Starting point is 00:24:52 was take a shot of beer every time the song changed instead of watching a clock which I guess could be quite boring or making a pledge to do it. That's a really good idea. Oh yeah. So it's like, it's got an...
Starting point is 00:25:02 Bit of entertainment. Almost like a kind of... I'm some karaoke in there as well. ADHD kind of DJ. Just playing out some music for you every time you're drinking. I can remember, we used to go back to makes houses after the pub
Starting point is 00:25:15 and obviously being the music nerds that we are, put records on stuff. We had to, but there's about six or seven of us used to do it and we actually end up put on a ruling saying once a song's been agreed to be on, it's got to stay on.
Starting point is 00:25:28 You can't stop it. You can't fucking stop it. Because you get excited because you want to put another song on. Yeah, right. Was it in rotations? Yeah, yeah. Do you take sense?
Starting point is 00:25:34 Right. Oh, sometimes someone would be like, oh, I'm DJing tonight. You'd be like, fine. I remember once, So I think I might have told you this But it's always worth a reminder And I'll get on to the rest of Patrick's email in the minute
Starting point is 00:25:46 Because it's about Peru Is that my friend, he doesn't anymore But he used to live above One of the original acid casualties of the 60s Right And he's the guy who wrote the book Literally on tree panning your own head Oh right, yeah, okay, nice
Starting point is 00:26:01 And a lot of the acid generation Did it, did it release the Yeah, because apparently you could really Your acid high could go on for like weeks for some reason so does blood is it the adrenaline I don't know
Starting point is 00:26:14 but the book he wrote is literally called something like why I drilled a hole in my own head to achieve a permanent high and he's this old like Oxford professor academic type guy
Starting point is 00:26:22 and he lived in the basement yeah and so as a result he was like I mean he's mad quite mad but he was like chill so if we went back
Starting point is 00:26:31 to my mate's house who lived above him yeah he'd party or night and he never complained he probably thought he was in his own head he's probably into it
Starting point is 00:26:38 yeah probably up for it where downstairs, getting the old cocks grow out. Yeah, man. He was. But I remember once we went on a massive one listening to the coral, early choral stuff. Right. Were they better then?
Starting point is 00:26:52 Right, I'll tear up. The first choral album's amazing. Very much the initial returns after that. But the first one's brilliant. We just shouting and screaming every single word, and that stayed on for the whole album. But that was rare. Anyway, Patrick says, Patrick talks about the altitude in Peru.
Starting point is 00:27:05 He says, the Wi-Fi have access to and travel to Machu Picchu with this past November. I can tell you the altitude is absolutely no joke. The journey to Machu Picou starts in the city called Cusco that is situated approximately 11,200 feet or 3,400 meters if you're using commie measurements above sea level. Now, I've been in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado to ski with a base of the mountains 8,000 feet, and that was a walk in the park compared to 11,200.
Starting point is 00:27:32 I would see locals in Cusco jogging to get somewhere and I could only wonder if I was just an absolute joke to them. See you, Longman. So apparently you walk down to Machu Picchu from Cusco. Good God. Machu Pitchu itself is at 7,500 Pete. I know that shopping as well. I know.
Starting point is 00:27:48 So, yeah, who knows? They built a Costco at Machu Picchu. There was a guy I heard on the radio yesterday who has just broken the world record for the highest altitude marathon. Right. And he did it for charity, of course. He did it in Bolivia.
Starting point is 00:28:04 Right. Around some volcano in Bolivia. And he had to train for like, months and months in like a simulated altitude chamber to do it. Hyperbaric tremor. And he said like he said when he first went, would it be hyperbaric?
Starting point is 00:28:16 I don't know. That's just a word that always. Yeah. But what's that thing? Maybe it's the same thing. Maybe it's the same thing. Maybe it's the same thing. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:28:24 But he was saying that like when he first got to this place in Bolivia, he was like, oh my fucking God. Like they played a, they played a video of him because he's video diaried it. They played a video of him when he first got there. doing a piece to camera
Starting point is 00:28:39 and he's literally like out of breath during the piece of camera and it weird like how long does it take for you to sort of long as to I don't know acclimatize I know that when the footballers
Starting point is 00:28:47 have to go and play World Cup qualifiers in Bolivia yeah they got time well because what used to happen was they used to go there two weeks before but the schedule doesn't allow for that now so what they've started doing when they play
Starting point is 00:28:58 because FIFA have flip flopped surprisingly on whether it's legal to play up in La Paz or wherever it is in Bolivia and the times when it has been legitimate according to their rules what was happening was these teams were basically literally flying up
Starting point is 00:29:12 their last minute, literally flying up, kickoff, game, back down again. Is that, does that work? Would that not be a massive culture shock? Or maybe it just takes some time for your lungs to go, I ain't got enough, they ain't going to have gone on here. I mean, I would suggest that looking at the World Cup qualifying record of Bolivia at home
Starting point is 00:29:30 could probably say that... A lot of the footballers probably don't even play in their league around La Paz anyway, so... They seem to win a lot of games at home are broadly terrible on the road I'm looking at it now in the World Cup qualifying they've scored two goals away from home and the whole qualifying thing which goes on for years
Starting point is 00:29:45 yeah you think they should be really good because surely when they come down they've got lords of oxygen yeah but maybe they send up the skills brother good point good point thanks for the email though much appreciate it good work um is there anything actually want to do before we go peter let's go out of here all right I want to tell everyone about the email address hello at look pittshoot dot com that's how you get in touch with this show
Starting point is 00:30:03 we'll be back on Thursday for batteries and stuff so look after yourselves and look after each other. Yeah, I think we should look into doing doing like patron specials where we do stuff that comes up on the show like the Nugget Power Hour. Right. I'd smash you at that.
Starting point is 00:30:20 I don't know, I'm quite, I think I'd probably do you on the old, if it's Fish Fingers, I'd probably won't. Fish Fingers would be a really good one. I mean, my brother-in-law did the Power Hour Nuggets thing said that, I think, stimulated at the original discussion just said the worst thing about it
Starting point is 00:30:33 wasn't actually the food, it's the fact that you stank of nuggets for days off. I couldn't get the stick off you. Can never get on your skin. You can never get clean. Yeah, anyway, on that delicate note, we'll see you on Thursday. All right, darling.
Starting point is 00:30:44 Bye. Tata.

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