The Luke and Pete Show - Peruvian Power Hour
Episode Date: October 6, 2025Behold! 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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It's the Luke and Pete Shore for a Monday.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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?
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
and he
and you would never
get that in
in Britain
because of the
massive
like Indian
Pakistani kind
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
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
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.
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?
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?
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...
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.
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,
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
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?
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...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
now, Ridley Scott,
isn't he?
Well,
you've been watching
one of his shows
recently?
I don't think
he's involved
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
of kind of films
over the years.
So the...
He does work
bloody hard.
Alien Earth
is directed by Noah Hawley
though,
who did Fargo.
Right,
okay.
Ridley Scott's definitely
not directing it.
I mean,
he's probably got
ownership
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.
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
disbelief on
but the plot holes
and stuff
are quite obvious
I think
the three or four
of the most recent
alien products
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
was he a basketball player
or something
who H.R. Geiger
who had really
long pen
right
the fellow who played
the alien
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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,
it's bad,
isn't it?
Yeah.
But...
We've had a good run.
To an extent.
Anyway,
yeah,
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
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.
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
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
for them
to call it that
wouldn't it
and I've had blood tests
as well
in the worst
hospital
it's it
orcett
the hospital in Orsett
the hospital in Orsett
that does
phlebotomy
is disgusting
just blood everywhere
oh well
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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
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.
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
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
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...
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
Bye.
Tata.
