The Luke and Pete Show - Pete Logie Baird

Episode Date: August 8, 2022

Pete's been fiddling with the tech in his apology cabin and - believe it or not - it's actually gone well! Just don't ask about his first attempt trying to use cement...Elsewhere, Luke reads quite a s...trange email about grave robbery and Pete has a story about someone losing their legs.Want to contact the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 and it's the luke and peach show i'm sort of doing a little voice like um rhubarb and custard yeah a little bit before our time but it's still a reference that really endured yeah i think it was but it was it was something that endured i think old Rhubarb and Custard. It made shockwaves in the cultural community, though. What? It was just a cat. Yeah, it was 1974. Was it a dog or a cat or something? Way before our time.
Starting point is 00:00:31 Was it a dog or a cat or something? Rhubarb was a dog and Custard was a cat, I think, and they just hung out. Yeah, so Rhubarb is a green dog. Yeah. And Custard, it was a pink cat. Okay, yeah. And according to the Wikipedia page,
Starting point is 00:00:44 Rhubarb was always involved in some kind of misadventure, which he approached with enthusiasm as Custard was cynical and set out to sabotage Rhubarb's fun. Right. Okay. Is that kind of similar to the... Well, not really, but it's a little bit of a crossover between Wiley Coyote and the Roadrunner there?
Starting point is 00:01:00 I guess so. I think some cartoons are quite fucking route one, aren't they, really? It's basic stuff. Yeah. It needs to be relatable. Yeah. And the great Richard Breyers, sadly no longer with us, provided the voices, didn't he? Or did he do the voiceover?
Starting point is 00:01:13 Richard Breyers. Richard Breyers. Richard Breyers, the thing that perhaps did the narration? Yeah. There was a really good TV show with Richard Breyers. He did The Good Life or something, didn't he? Yes, correct, yeah. And it was about a senile old man.
Starting point is 00:01:31 He played a senile old man who was just losing it. But it was the sweetest TV show. And I seem to remember him blowing up the toilet because he put the wrong bleach in. He put too much bleach in or he mixed the bleach or something like that. And it was just it was really really sweet and I'd never really sort of
Starting point is 00:01:47 and it didn't really sort of make any sort of impact I love those kind of like lost forgotten sitcoms that you feel like you feel like you're the only person who actually
Starting point is 00:01:55 who actually watched them there's a few that I really liked that no one really liked Chickens I thought was really funny which has been a couple of guys that was ITV wasn't it
Starting point is 00:02:03 no Chickens was Sky 1 Sky 1 it felt ITV wasn't it no our chickens were Sky 1 Sky 1 it felt ITV didn't it yeah maybe yeah Saxondale criminally overlooked Saxondale's the root
Starting point is 00:02:12 of all the modern Partridge stuff you can see him checking out trying out stuff that would later become the modern iteration
Starting point is 00:02:19 of Alan Partridge yeah fair brilliant to watch so rewatchable so good luck to Richard Bryars God rest him but I should also point out that he was also in the 2012 Danny Dyer Yeah, fair, fair, fair. It's actually brilliant to watch. So rewatchable. So good luck to Richard Bryars. God rest him.
Starting point is 00:02:26 But I should also point out that he was also in the 2012 Danny Dyer vehicle, Run For Your Wife. Run For Your Wife with Neil Morrissey? Yeah, I think so, yeah. Famous for grossing just £602. Sex Life of the Potato Men. Remember those? All those kind of films that would just like,
Starting point is 00:02:42 would come out. Do you know, Sex Life of the Potato Men is a weird one because... It's got Corden in it, isn't it? Corden and Simon Pegg. No. It's got Gareth from The Office. I don't, I've not seen it.
Starting point is 00:02:53 You're right. And I'm going to come on to that point. I haven't seen it. And I should probably watch it, although it's quite difficult to find on streaming services. The cast is absolutely incredible. How can it be so bad right
Starting point is 00:03:05 Johnny Vegas is capable can we agree with that oh Johnny Vegas right yes yeah Mackenzie Crook is amazing like multiple BAFTA winner Mark Gatiss is in it
Starting point is 00:03:14 yeah who created Sherlock and does that stuff Julia Davis is also in it who is a brilliant comedy actor Adrian Charles is weirdly in it I don't know why because there's a race
Starting point is 00:03:24 and he'll be the commentator or something won't he he plays Adrian Charles is weirdly in it, I don't know why. Because there's a race and he'll be the commentator or something, won't he? He plays, Adrian Charles apparently plays a towel man. A towel man. I don't know what that means. So anyway,
Starting point is 00:03:33 critics apparently dislike the film intensely and it's one of the only films to have a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. I've no idea why. What are we talking about? Rhubarb and Custard.
Starting point is 00:03:41 Rhubarb and... Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Na-na-na-na. Way before our time, but still managed to puncture the cultural zeitgeist. Well, you sort of, I guess, I mean, it's a lovely guitar sound.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I saw this, you know, like you have like MIDI guitars. So like, you know, they convert analog picking and notes to digital information. But there was these mad fucking ones in the, I think, 60s, the late 60s that came out, like astonishingly early. These guitars that were just, they looked so heavy, so heavy, because they had so much tech in there. And they were like proper organs, but it was played with,
Starting point is 00:04:27 it was played like a normal kind of midi keyboard guitar thing but instead of when you would press on the strings it would complete a circuit to each individual fret and that would play like a kind of
Starting point is 00:04:38 an organ kind of sound effectively but it was incredibly analogue and incredibly old school What's the point of it when you can just play a piano or keyboard? Well what's the point of it when you can just play a piano or keyboard well what's the point of any midi guitar
Starting point is 00:04:48 nobody plays them because they sound terrible looks fucking sweet no it's not keytar it's a proper guitar that converts the journey of the sound begins
Starting point is 00:04:57 when plectrum is picked against a string and the finger is pressed against the it's just a guitar then it is just a guitar but it I don't understand what you're talking about so say you play an A on the E string and the finger is pressed against the... It's just a guitar then? It is just a guitar, but it... I don't understand what you're talking about.
Starting point is 00:05:06 So say you play an A on the E string, right? The low E. It says, what's that then? The computer in the guitar nowadays, where the MIDI guitar goes, what's that then? Oh, I know what that is. It's an A played on the E string. It's an A, it's an A, right?
Starting point is 00:05:21 I know what that's going to... It's a supercomputer. Oh, I know what that is. I'm going to tell the computer that an A has just been played, and then the computer can either internally or externally can basically, you've got that as information and basically play a dog on roof. But in, so you go, roof, roof, roof, roof, roof, roof, roof, roof, roof, roof. Like when you used to get like your weird settings on your keyboard. Exactly, yeah. So you go, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof, woof. Like when you used to get your weird settings on your keyboard.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Exactly, yeah. So it turns analogue data into... A wingdings of sound. Into digital data. And you can do all kinds of stuff. You could have drum beats. So they could have done that back in the 60s, but it would have been completely analogue.
Starting point is 00:05:59 How would they have been able to do that? So back then, it was all analogue. It never went digital. It wasn't a MIDI output. It was just an amazing organ sound that basically was an electronic organ, like a rudimentary electronic organ. But instead of converting to digital data
Starting point is 00:06:15 and then producing the audio, it was a completely analogue system. But it was an organ, and they're like four grand, and I love it. I love it. Did you ever pick it up? It seems like there's just so many dials and stuff on it. If you know what Pete's talking about
Starting point is 00:06:27 can you email hello at lukeandpetech.com and explain it to me? Before we move on can we also talk a little bit about something we mentioned last week. Right. These weird TV radio cassette players you've been buying. Okay yeah. From Shoeberry Ness. Shoeberry Ness. Jumping in the car
Starting point is 00:06:43 popping on down to Shoeberry Ness, paying, what, a one-er for this old piece of 70s tech? What's a one-er? 100 quid. No, 20 quid. Oh, so that's good. For two?
Starting point is 00:06:53 Yeah. 10 a reach. Yeah. A 10% of the price, I thought. And you got one of them working. I did get one of them working. I managed to figure out an RF, an issue mitre RF kind of input sort of thing. That's crazy. So now I can get... I spoke to LC about these and I managed to figure out a an RF an issue mitre RF
Starting point is 00:07:05 kind of input sort of thing that's crazy so now I can get I spoke to LC about these and I showed them the video and they'd never seen one before right they'd never even heard of one before
Starting point is 00:07:12 what like a TV a TV radio thing before there was like a little TV inside a radio cassette because they're built to be portable they've got handles on them yeah so if they're built to be portable
Starting point is 00:07:22 what was the idea behind them you just put them on a table and or put them wherever you want plug them in I could imagine a builder on a site watching the world cup so what have you actually watched
Starting point is 00:07:35 through it at the moment I watched one of those sad old c words on twitter drinking did you? you actually managed to run that through that's brilliant from my computer that's really cool it was a real drinking. Did you? Yeah. Well, you actually managed to run that through... Yeah. That's brilliant.
Starting point is 00:07:46 From my computer, yeah. That's really cool. It was a real... I felt like John Logie bad. So basically, let me just sum this up. You've gone online, you found them, you got in the car,
Starting point is 00:07:57 you drove to Shoebury Nest, you paid 20 quid, you lumped them in the car, drove all the way back, spent a few hours sorting them out. And then you were able to watch something that you could have just watched on your phone in like five seconds. lumped them in the car drove all the way back spent a few hours sorting them out dicking about and then you were able
Starting point is 00:08:05 to watch something that you could have just watched on your phone in like five seconds should we do batteries it's the platform you're interested in it's the platform
Starting point is 00:08:12 I think it's very interesting to see well actually there's a bit of a vogue at the moment it's been very tech heavy already but like there's a bit of a vogue
Starting point is 00:08:19 at the moment that retro video game enthusiasts will not play video games on flat screens anymore. They insist on playing them on big, fat CRTs. So people are grabbing all stock of these massive behemoth fucking CRTs. They're massive fucking things.
Starting point is 00:08:40 And they're ridiculously heavy. They take three men to lift them, three people to lift them. They take, they're like, they're so massive, these things. But people swear by them. Because video games, if you're into retro video games, these games were created for cathode ray tubes. They were created for old, big, 3D, big, fat tellies. Well, if you watch something on a plasma screen or LCD or lcd screen it just looks a bit too
Starting point is 00:09:07 precise or a bit washed out or a bit these games were designed for the very quick refresh rates of a of a very quick response rates of a of a crt and all telly basically and so they just look better the gradients look better they look less uh precise. Is it more playable? Yes, it is. Yeah, the response rate is ridiculous. And if you're a speed runner or a person who relies on that, you can't pixel count as well because the pixels are a bit smeary.
Starting point is 00:09:34 But the response is so much better on those old school tellies because they didn't do so much processing to get the signal on the telly. So by some measures then, the new TVs are actually worse. Yeah, for certain things. But there's a real vogue for finding these old on the telly. So by some measures then, the new TVs are actually worse. Yeah, for certain things. But there's a real vogue for finding these old fucking big tellies.
Starting point is 00:09:49 How many of them are left? Well, very few. And obviously the skills of fixing televisions, which, you know, will be lost at some point because, you know, they're quite difficult. And fucking dangerous as well. Very, very high voltage. Yeah, it's not great for you.
Starting point is 00:10:03 And also it's not great for the environment because they take ten times as much energy to get them running. Yeah, but you'd have to run that against the balance of just disposable tech. People just chuck it
Starting point is 00:10:11 I guess so, yeah, I suppose. So maybe it would balance it out. Yeah. That's kind of interesting and this is for people who want to play video games as quickly as possible. Well, like retro enthusiasts
Starting point is 00:10:21 and stuff, yeah. Are you talking about yourself here? I don't play any video games at night and I sort of read about don't play any video games at night. I sort of read about more video games than I play. Come and play some PUBG with me. We need someone else in our squad. We need someone else in our squad, mate.
Starting point is 00:10:32 Let's talk about the Stack Sports Day. Oh, yeah, cool. We were on opposing teams, weren't we? They kept us apart. They kept us apart. The two big swingers. The two MVPs. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:44 How did you feel it went for you? Happy? Not great, to be honest. Why? Won the rounders. I was terrible at football. We won the rounders, but I didn't hit a single ball
Starting point is 00:10:52 or catch a single ball. I think I was as trawshed as it possibly could be. I was the worst. Do you have a feeling like, say, you know, if, say, your team won a big tournament but you didn't play
Starting point is 00:11:05 a single minute do you feel like that? Yeah I feel a little bit like that do you? Yeah I feel like I let everyone down have you stepped up to the plate in rounders? you didn't connect
Starting point is 00:11:11 bat on ball? no not once who was pitching? I think everyone who was pitching? I think it was you Luke you didn't hit any of my balls either and John was complaining
Starting point is 00:11:22 the third the third of the triforce of stack. You were not rounders pitching in the spirit of the event. You were pitching really low and really fast. I was pitching
Starting point is 00:11:31 the right height and really fast because I didn't want you to hit it. I didn't want you people to hit it. I got a home run but we still lost.
Starting point is 00:11:40 But then we won the five-a-side football so I was happy with that. You certainly did, yeah. I mean, what do you think? We were down a player to be fair because Temi Buster,, so I was happy with that. You certainly did, yeah. Yeah. I mean, what do you think? We were down a player, to be fair, because Temi bust a ankle. I was kind of a little bit annoyed
Starting point is 00:11:48 that you weren't annoyed with me for being too competitive. Because normally you get really annoyed with me for that. I think you've... I think you've... I think you... I think we both... We're two boys with bad knees.
Starting point is 00:11:57 Yeah. We weren't enjoying ourselves. Bad knees still saw that. We weren't enjoying ourselves at all. Yeah. So I think we... I think we both... We both understood our limitations. You're making out that I've chilled out a little bit. I think we I think we both we both understood
Starting point is 00:12:05 our limitations you're making I've chilled out a little bit I've fucking had a noise with shit you've lost
Starting point is 00:12:11 your fire mate absolutely a noise with shit it's absolutely outrageous but it was really a day for the
Starting point is 00:12:17 young'uns wasn't it it was they were like come on grandad you come on and absolutely pick up the bill
Starting point is 00:12:23 in the pub after but it ain't about you. We did all right in the darts. We played a bit of darts as well. Oh, last time we told our Luke and Pete show family that we came last in the darts last time. I actually came fourth this time. Well, there you go.
Starting point is 00:12:34 Well done. You're very happy with it. Top half. I upset my darts partner by throwing my darts from the other side of the room. Yeah, you always have to do something different. You always have to try and make things, make it so that the rules don't apply to you. Yeah, but if it happens, something different. You always have to try and make it so
Starting point is 00:12:45 that the rules don't apply to you. Yeah, but if it happens, fuck me, it's going to be good. Why are you covered in paint today, by the way?
Starting point is 00:12:50 What are you talking about? You're covered in white paint. Stay away from my shed. I pick a fence, like the Forth
Starting point is 00:12:57 Bridge. I've built... I think regular listeners of this show will feel like you've been painting that fence for quite a long time now.
Starting point is 00:13:04 Because I did one court and then it bloody rained all bloody week. So then I had to... And also, I had to cut up a load of wood. I had to find the wood to replace the slats that are broken. And I had to make it look exactly the same as the other slats. I had to paint them up. I've done an alright job. I tell you what.
Starting point is 00:13:21 I tell you what other particular thing I flirted with over the weekend, bit of cement. I mixed cement for the first time, Luke. Okay. Talk us through the process. Oh, that hardens very quickly, doesn't it? On a warm day. So what did you do?
Starting point is 00:13:34 I had like two seconds and it was hard. I was like, oh, fuck! I've fucked another bucket. So basically I had this bucket, I was mixing it in and it would just harden and I go, oh, fuck! I fucked it again.
Starting point is 00:13:44 How do you stop cement hardening? You keep it mixed, that's what cement mixers are for, aren't they? You just keep it, the cement just keeps mixing it and it never solidifies. But yeah,
Starting point is 00:13:53 you've got to keep that shit moving otherwise that cement ain't fucking going anywhere. It was amazing. I was like, I've never dicked around with cement before. It was really fun.
Starting point is 00:14:03 What were you doing it for? I was fixing a paving slab you killed a man I've done a Beth Jordash yeah I've er I was
Starting point is 00:14:11 the paving outside the back was erm it was buggered so er it kept lifting up because the fucking ants have been at it bloody ants have been at it Luke
Starting point is 00:14:20 that's some ants I've been digging around I've been digging around in there I swear so that went up so I glued glued that down I've been digging around in there I swear so that went up so I glued glued that down with cement
Starting point is 00:14:28 and also I fixed a fence post to the floor and it just all went it all went as expected but I'm just very surprised how quick and how
Starting point is 00:14:35 how burning I forget it's quite strong alkali isn't it yeah it's a little good for you burn your hand no
Starting point is 00:14:41 it was all over my hands so you've you've stepped up the DIY to cement now. Cement boy. Did you go to the harbour store and buy all the powder and all the stuff you need? No, I literally just bought one for the boys who don't know what they're doing that costs ten times the amount of normal cement.
Starting point is 00:14:59 Because you need sand and stuff. Basically, it's just a cement that's in a big bucket. You've got these two bags, and you just sling them on. A bigger boy would never use that, would they? No. God, no, they'd mix their own. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Maybe that's the next step for you. So, fair enough, you've been painting a fence. Why is the paint still all over you? I tried rubbing it off with white spirit, whatever. I hit a little burpy there. Whenever I say white spirit, the white spirit comes out of you. It's those fucking pink pickled onions. When did you actually paint the fence?
Starting point is 00:15:32 I did a bit of touching up, so to speak, yesterday. So you just thought to yourself, fuck it, I'll just go out covered in paint. What do you want me to do? Get in the shower? I tried. It doesn't look cool. I want me to do? Get in the shower? I ate a film. I tried. It didn't come off.
Starting point is 00:15:45 It's not flexing your bicep. It doesn't look cool. You flexed your bicep. I'm trying to break the paint off. Break the paint off your bicep by flexing. I ate a film with Finn earlier, and he didn't have an end for the video. I went, I've got an end for your video.
Starting point is 00:16:00 I'm clearly covered in paint. I'll explain why I'm covered in paint. Do you know how much of a grafter Finn is, by the way? Yeah, he is. 3 a.m., wasn't it? Sunday night he worked till 3 a.m. because of the lionesses. And he was back in the office at 8 on Monday morning.
Starting point is 00:16:13 Well, he got me in early and he didn't have stuff ready. I was like, I've got stuff ready. But I didn't realise he'd finished at 3 in the morning. I mean, Finn, that is ridiculous, mate. I'm so sorry I had a little pop it in first thing as well
Starting point is 00:16:26 and then he kind of mumbled something and I was like oh what time did you finish up last night three oh sorry mate I didn't realise
Starting point is 00:16:34 Finn's a bit of me yeah he's a bit of a silly boy and it's very unsatisfying he's just he's quite hapless you tell him off
Starting point is 00:16:42 for being late for stuff I don't tell him off for being late for stuff. I tell him off for being... He's not here to defend himself. Right, okay, fine. But he isn't... Let me just put this away. He's a brilliant, brilliant person.
Starting point is 00:16:53 He's the best. But he's not the most organised. Right. And you tell him off last week before the sports day. I was like, Oh, my boy. I was like, Yes, my boy. Listen, Finn, you keep keep this up we'll get him in that early grave
Starting point is 00:17:08 no because there's a running there's a running trope where he's always he always got a catchphrase which is yeah yeah you go ahead i'll catch you up he's never quite finished anyway let's take a break when we come back we're gonna do an email about grave robbery and it's nothing to do with Finn. I'll be right with you. Oh, we're back with the Luke and Pete show and it's about this time on the old Luke and Pete show we do a couple of emails here and there.
Starting point is 00:17:34 When can we bother? We don't always do it. And I think a lot of the charm, a lot of the quote unquote charm about this show is that people listening generally just don't know what's going to happen
Starting point is 00:17:44 and where we're going to do stuff. Sometimes we'll say an email, we'll think of something else, and we won't ever go back to it. And then you get to stick online for it. And it's like, just enjoy it, guys. That's true. Why does everything have to be so regulated?
Starting point is 00:17:56 Why does everything have to be so traditional? Chill out, dude. You're talking to two people who were told they'd never have a career in broadcasting because they weren't good enough. When they were broadcasting. Yeah, this is after we were actually doing it.
Starting point is 00:18:05 So anyway, do you want to read the email or do I want to? You get it out, yeah. I'll react. Did you read up the email address or not bother? Yeah, hello at lucanpeachshow.com. You can also get in touch at lucanpeachshow on the Twitter.
Starting point is 00:18:15 Yeah. And Instagram. Yeah. So this is about grave robbery and it's from Chris who says, Hello, Luke and Pete. Hello, the Luke and the Pete.
Starting point is 00:18:25 Your recent email from a police officer got me thinking about the weirdest case I've been involved with. Whenever a police officer emails in, we always get a load of follow-ups. People are interested in that. That's true, yeah. Do you remember the bread toilet thing, for example?
Starting point is 00:18:36 Oh, yeah. Wiping the toilet with the bread. Yeah. So Chris says, I'm a detective working for the Victoria Police in Melbourne, Australia. Or as they call it over there, Stryer. And I've been on the force for a little over a decade.
Starting point is 00:18:50 The standard of crimes we investigate are things like burglaries, robberies and assaults. Earlier this year, however, we had a series of grave robberies from the local cemetery in which the offender broke into a number of crypts, forced open the coffin. Crypt in the crypts. and stole human heads. Oh, we don't like that. For what purpose, I have no idea. Even the most experienced officers on the force
Starting point is 00:19:12 had never heard of such a crime being committed in living memory. The case is still before the court, so I can't go into too much detail beyond what's already been released to the media. But thankfully, we were able to solve the case and recover their heads I'd love to know what other weird
Starting point is 00:19:27 and wonderful crimes your listeners have been involved in also I found a pair of full wind batteries in my baby's portable white noise maker doubt they're a new player
Starting point is 00:19:34 but I don't recall hearing about them before well you're not going to hear about that today Chris because we did it on a Thursday so if you want to re-email in
Starting point is 00:19:39 you're welcome to otherwise we will not be checking them Pete what do you think inspires someone to go into a crypt and go after those sweet heads? Yeah. You've got to really want a head, haven't you?
Starting point is 00:19:53 You've got to really want them heads. It reminds me of, what was that? Was it a journalist or something who died in the 80s and he had his legs stolen and they got replaced with pipes? Do you remember? No! Because I don't remember because that never happened.
Starting point is 00:20:08 It did. They got replaced by pipes. Do you remember the journalist in the 80s who died, got his legs stolen and they replaced him with pipes? Oh my God, I'm trying to remember.
Starting point is 00:20:16 It doesn't even make any fucking sense. It does make sense. There's no point to the story. It does make sense. Oh, nuts. I can't remember the bloody... Oh, never mind. So what I'd be interested to know,
Starting point is 00:20:27 to the extent that I am actually interested in this story, is that if you're going into a crib... Alistair Cooke. Right. Captain of England Cricket. No. He's a British-American writer. Right.
Starting point is 00:20:38 He did Letters from America. I want to hear the story because almost certainly the actual story is going to be ever so slightly different and it's going to make sense to be ever so slightly different. They're going to make sense. All right. To what you remember.
Starting point is 00:20:47 Yeah. Go on. In 2005, the New York Daily News reported that the first of all, in the 80s, you said, well, that was what it was reported. When did he die? 2004. All right. He died in 1995. That's decent.
Starting point is 00:21:00 Yeah. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah. Decent. Decent. Decent. Good. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:21:00 That's decent. Oh, no, yeah. Decent, decent, decent. Good. Yeah. The New York Daily News reported that the bones of Cook and many other people, I mean, this guy's super famous. Right. Many of the people have been surgically removed before cremation
Starting point is 00:21:15 by employees of Biomedical Tissue Services of Fort Lee, New Jersey, a tissue recovery firm. The thieves sold the bones for use as medical grade bone grafts. And, I mean, it's a high risk player because the cancer from which Cook actually died from had spread through his bones. So, like, there's no shit. Just my luck. But they got replaced with pipes.
Starting point is 00:21:42 I can only apologise, Peter. You've remembered the story properly and it's actually proven to have happened. You were 25 years out? Modern day grave robbery. Yeah. Amazing. That's basically how a lot of surgical developments and improvements were made, isn't it? Back in the day, yeah. I mean, back in the day, though.
Starting point is 00:21:57 1800s and stuff. Yeah, 1800s. I mean, it's still part... People have donated their body for science. Yeah. Or basically robbed graves and given them away well my mum and dad were they said they were
Starting point is 00:22:09 down on the list for to be given to like Newcastle University and then they they took themselves off because it would be too much of a pain
Starting point is 00:22:18 for me and my sister they're just constantly they're worried about how much stuff is in the loft because when they die it's like to be honest I'm not mum I'm not you about how much stuff is in the loft. It's like, to be honest, I'm not, mum, I'm not, you're not going to be in the back of the Fiat.
Starting point is 00:22:29 Someone will come and pick you up from the place to where they're supposed to be picked up from. Well, it's just a normal conversation with your mum, isn't it? Just a normal Donaldson family conversation. So you're in a row because your mum wants to donate her body to medical science. And you said, I'm happy with that. It's no problem. And she said, no, it'd probably. It's no problem. And she said,
Starting point is 00:22:45 no, it'd probably be a hassle for you. Yeah. And what did you do then? Sit down and have your dinner? Yeah, just had me born. Is that a conversation normal families have?
Starting point is 00:22:52 Well, it's just, it would have been a nice thing for them to do, but they just, it's too much fucking, too much fucking admin. I was like, you'll be dead.
Starting point is 00:22:59 Don't worry about it. You know what? I'll probably need somebody to distract myself. They are demented. What, you're going to drive your dead mother? I think probably need somebody to distract myself. They are demented, those two. Are you going to drive your dead mother to the... I think they need to go home. I think we need to have a conversation.
Starting point is 00:23:11 I think they need to go. I think they need to go. Because they just rub themselves up the wrong... They spend their days just rubbing themselves up the wrong way. So you responded by saying, presumably because you'll be grief stricken because your mother's passed away Yeah.
Starting point is 00:23:26 It would be better to have something to do but what you mean stick your mum in the back of the Fiat 500 and drive her to Newcastle University. Who knows if Wordle's
Starting point is 00:23:33 still going to be there. It doesn't work like that. You can't just walk into the reception of a dead person and go they wanted to be here. That's my point.
Starting point is 00:23:39 I'm not going to be doing the admin are they? I'll just sign a form someone will come round the clipboard and they'll have them in the van. They'll have them in the refrigerated van. And you'll go, right, all I've got to do now is sort out the attic.
Starting point is 00:23:51 I'll just do this. I'll just go, sort out the attic. Right, that's done. But what would you do for the service? What? What would you do about the service? I'll go, oh, I've gone in the wrong order. She's already gone.
Starting point is 00:24:02 I don't know. What do you mean for the service? Use some pipes. Sing a song. Sing a song sing a song I'll make I'll make my own papier-mâché mum I don't feel comfortable
Starting point is 00:24:10 talking about this because I really like your mum she's really lovely and I feel like you've got the room which to comment on this because she's your mum but I don't feel like
Starting point is 00:24:17 I have the permission the floor is open for you to criticise my mum for some reason what's in her attic what's in the attic I don't know because you know what
Starting point is 00:24:24 my mum does as a tactic really attic. Right. Because hers is exactly the same. And what happens is when she knows I'm coming for the weekend
Starting point is 00:24:31 she'll get some shit down from the attic. But you know what's worse than that? She'll just put it in my car. She'll put it in the boot of the car.
Starting point is 00:24:38 Yeah. So I won't know until I've got back. I'll just put this stuff in. By the way, it'll be done like this last time you came you left a t-shirt here okay so i've washed it for you and i've put it in that bag all right i'll go and
Starting point is 00:24:52 put it in the car for you the bag is like one of those fucking hippo bags right outside of your house when you're having the building work done and it's full of shit absolutely full of stuff and then if that doesn't work she'll do the old I'm probably just going to chuck all this away I'm like mum don't do that because it might be some memories in there and I haven't got time to look at it now it's in the attic that's what the attic's for
Starting point is 00:25:11 copies of Razzle yeah could be you never know could be anyway Peter anyway that's it
Starting point is 00:25:17 Peter anyway let's get out of here let's just get going because I don't really like the idea of you talking about your parents passing away and all that kind of stuff I don't like it either but it's something we'll
Starting point is 00:25:25 have to deal with. Yeah. We'll all have to deal with it at some point. Me and you. We're going to have to deal with the bodies. Which of us do you
Starting point is 00:25:31 think will die first? It's going to be me isn't it? Why? Asthma. You've seen that? What? That's fine though isn't
Starting point is 00:25:39 it? Put pressure on that isn't it? I'm older than you as well. That's true yeah. Why don't we do a Twitter poll? We're both older than you as well that's true yeah why don't we do a Twitter poll we're both from very
Starting point is 00:25:47 shitty areas it's true so that you know life expectancy and all that yeah you have more ailments than me though
Starting point is 00:25:53 I do I have more things to I think yours deaf by a thousand cuts I've clearly I was I was doing it
Starting point is 00:26:02 I can't sing certain notes I think we were talking about this before yeah every body by by Backstreet's back Backstreet Boys clearly I was sort of doing I can't sing certain notes I think we were talking about this before Every Bardi by Backstreet Boys Oh the rock your body Yeah there's a certain
Starting point is 00:26:11 note that I can never hit Did you used to be able to hit it? Yeah So you've got a bit of a raw plant going on I've got a polyp It's clearly I've got a polyp
Starting point is 00:26:18 No it's just because your vocal cords change as you get older No no no I can do the note above I can do the note below It's a polyp Show us this then I can't You can't above I can do the nought below it's a polyp show us this then
Starting point is 00:26:25 I can't you can't just say that you can't tell I'm not sure it's that little ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
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Starting point is 00:26:44 ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha you're fucking starting you've got emphysema what are you doing I've definitely so there's definitely something wrong with my vocal cords you know I make my money but I do use my voice
Starting point is 00:26:49 a lot of the time so I should really look into it and Sarah's like you should look into it like I had a polyp you know I got treated for it
Starting point is 00:26:56 it was fixed all good lovely stuff that sounds like a polyp I was like Sarah I've got a very long list and that is that's very much in there that would be be nice, wouldn't it, Colin?
Starting point is 00:27:07 Sorry, you just said you make your money from your voice a lot of the time. How else are you making money? There's nothing else you do. I was going to do a very erotic little... Building fences. DIY, yeah. Reselling IPTV on the internet. No, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:24 You make all your money from that beautiful voice yeah I know that beautiful northeastern little it's not quite Newcastle is it I wish
Starting point is 00:27:31 I wish it was just that though wasn't it it's not just a Geordie meetings and stuff what I'm saying is if you had a proper Geordie accent right
Starting point is 00:27:38 I think you'd make more money I think you'd have made more money from voiceovers because of the Big Brother thing he's from Billingham you said also with him you said no one actually talks like that. He puts a silly voice on. So do you when you're doing your voiceovers.
Starting point is 00:27:51 No, I don't. I just express myself. I don't sort of up my accent, do I? I just sort of go, hello, here's the information. I'm not embarrassed by me giving you that information because a lot of people when they do voiceovers, they mumble through because they're a bit scared to emote. Okay, say in your normal voice,
Starting point is 00:28:10 hello, here's some information. Hello, here's some information. Now do it as your voiceover voice. Hello, here's some information. Yeah, exactly. But I'm not upping my accent, am I? I don't think people listening know there's so much difference between voiceover stuff and normal stuff.
Starting point is 00:28:25 Yeah, because some people are just embarrassed at selling information, and I don't think you should be. We're literally in the information business. We're literally in the information business. Fucking Tony Robbins. I'm Alistair Cook. We legs are pipes. We legs are pipes.
Starting point is 00:28:39 Right, let's get out of here. We'll be back on Thursday for more of this nonsense. If you've got any interesting information you want to share with us, it's hello at lukeandpetecher.com if you've got any interesting information you want to share with us it's hello at lukeandpetecher.com you've got a strong opinion negative or
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Starting point is 00:28:57 look forward to seeing you over there too have a lovely what it'll be three days between now and Thursday we'll see you next time we're looking forward to that Peter Peter, say goodbye.
Starting point is 00:29:06 Goodbye, Peter. It's goodbye from me too. The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack Production and part of the Acast Creator Network.

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