The Luke and Pete Show - Quest to find the strangest person

Episode Date: May 7, 2020

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Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running. Welcome back to the Luke and the Pete show. I am the Pete part of the Luke and Pete show. I'm joined by the Luke part of the Luke and Pete show, and he sounds like this. Good day. Good day, everyone. There's a video game journalist I listen to quite a lot by virtue of the fact

she just does a lot of work, and I quite like the company she works for. to the fact she just does a lot of work and I quite like the company she works for. And she has a really quite well-rounded kind of like fancy accent, like a fancy kind of London accent. Her diction is excellent. She speaks very well. But then I heard her on a podcast recently, and she just switched like that into the broadest Geordie accent I've ever heard in my life.

It was amazing. Wow. I was like, how have you managed to disguise a Geordie accent so well? And it's something that I find myself doing in the South because you just literally can't get a lot of stuff done talking with the Hartlepool accent. Did you, and obviously I'm well-versed in listening to you, so I can probably understand you really easily now,

but do you think that if someone said to you, you've got to do an episode of a show and we're going to get someone to listen to it and they can't be able to tell whether you're from the South or not, do you reckon you could do it? No, I don't think I could. That's why I think it's incredible. Yeah, I don't think you could either because you can only say there's nothing wrong with that and sound like a South Indian.

There's nothing wrong with that. Yeah. Do you reckon your accent softened though? It must have done, right? Yeah, by kind of hook or by crook. I think just by living in London, people find it occasionally hard to understand what you're saying. And especially non-native English speakers as well. If English is a second language, you kind of have to meet people

halfway sometimes so you do find yourself kind of work like modifying your accent a little bit but then when i'm back on when i used to do like a show on absolute i used to not ham it up a little bit but i used to return to how i would probably speak in hartlepool because it's just i it's a slightly friendlier accent i would say it absolutely does my head in when people have um radio radio voices like whether it's yeah but like or what it's just so annoying but no but like i think you you you're on i think more than anything else so you relax into like an accent you use every day because you're forced into a particular accent but i think when you're speaking to nobody i think there's a mixture of feeling very comfortable uh and also accentuating a bit of yourself a little bit more and feeling like you have to give a little bit more of yourself.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I understand that. You've got like a reading voice. When you have to read something, I can definitely tell when you're reading something simply because you kind of enunciate and your accent changes a little bit. Yeah, because when I first started out doing this, I was at no training at all. And if I listen back to myself for like 10 years ago, my God, it sounds so bad. But now...

I always sounded very depressed. Oh, really? It's funny how our own perception of ourselves changes because I feel now that I have to concentrate to not speak too fast, particularly if I'm trying to make a point I'm passionate about, because I'm naturally a very fast speaker. And I don't know if people, as you say,

particularly people who don't have English as a first language, would even be able to understand me. And when I listen, it's quite interesting when we work on other podcasts or we develop new podcasts. Like when I did stuff with the Revisiting Girls, like Laura Kirk and that particularly, who people would have heard on this show um she had never done any broadcasting before but her voice is

absolutely brilliant like from right she's just naturally very very talented at broadcasting her voice her diction her elocution is amazing and um it kind of depressed me a little bit because it took me about eight or nine years to do anything that people could even understand if she comes out with this perfectly formed like way of like speaking so it does vary from person to person but i the reason i i really rally against um this radio voice type thing is purely because when i was at university and i did media and there were a lot of local radio types on my course they were just all gatekeeping weirdos about local radio and they always spoke completely differently on air than they did off air and they were to be honest they

were just twats and it really put me off it and i thought and what it made me think was there is no future for me in this industry because i can't do that and i don't ever want to do that and so it was really it was really annoying and so i think i've probably got a bit of prejudice from from that i understand that most people in radio and local radio great and really lovely but at that point i had a bit of a chip on my shoulder about it well if you if you look at like television and certainly radio like 20 25 years ago um it was all either people speaking in that weird kind of cod transatlantic kind of yeah hey how's it going guys kind of cod, transatlantic kind of. Yeah. Hey, how's it going, guys? Splitting. Splitting the hairs there. Talking like that. Dave Clifton.

Yeah, you're Dave Clifton's. Are you smashing nice and stuff like that? Or just massive RP on Radio 4. And then you look at, and then regional voices started coming in, your Lauren Laverne's and stuff like that. And when I was watching Gogglebox, Celebrity Gogglebox over the weekend, Ryland was on. Now, that's an accent you, as a presenter,

he's probably one of the first presenters who has that kind of accent. The Essex, the real broad Essex one. Russell Brand kind of like, kind of those kind of accents where you just never heard them before, people like Russell. I think Russell Brand and him are the only two people who, certainly on the male side of things, are allowed to kind of be presenters but talk like that, if that makes any sense.

I wouldn't even put Russell Brand in that category purely because he's so idiosyncratic that I don't think there's much. I don't think many people would, unless they took a real interest, would even know he's from Essex. But Ryland, absolutely. And that is obviously a symptom of everyone being introduced to those wildly popular

The Only Way Is Essex type shows where you see a whole generation of those people who come through to prominence through those reality shows. And I find that really interesting actually because The Only Way Is Essex, I'm not overly familiar with it, but a lot of my uh watch it and i kind of know a little bit about it and the reason that's interesting to me is because i might be wrong on this and people will get in

touch if i am i'm sure there are people out there who know a lot more about it than me but what it seems like it is to me is that we have a whole load of snobbery about that show and about those people on it because they are the first generation of people who've come up through a background of their parents being self-made wealthy people, right? So they've moved. Right. Invariably. Who moved out from the East End.

Yeah, they've made their money in London, they've moved to Essex, and they've made so much money that their children effectively haven't had to work traditional jobs. So it's actually no different at all to the aristocracy. But because it's seen as nouveau riche, in quotes, and because it's seen as being a little bit common, people are a lot more prejudiced about it. And I find that a really interesting insight into the British mentality. Do you understand what I mean? Yeah, yeah, hugely. But you see that sort of everywhere. You saw that when,

I've got that myself. If I hear like somebody from Newcastle who's got a very posh accent, they live out in the, you know, sticks and they've never had to adopt like a really rich kind of Geordie twang. I always sort of feel a bit like, oh, you're not a real,

you're not a real Newcastle supporter or something. When I'm not in from bloody Newcastle, I live down the road, you know. And my accent, every time I listen back to like a football ramble or something I'm on, I sort of go, God, my accent has changed so much since I left the North East. It really has.

For reasons outside my control, but also reasons very much inside my control. Being understood, being one of them. Because there's some of the things that you've done and you have to try and disguise yourself from them. Yeah, exactly. That's why I've got a false nose on. Yeah, the only way is Essex, the point I was just making there,

and the class system in the UK is fascinating to me in a way because obviously my in-laws are all American and I've got a very large American, basically a very large American family now, which I've inherited which is amazing and i find it fascinating and really uh rewarding and enriching to learn about different cultures which people will snigger out because they go it's only american but actually american culture is very very different to british culture if you get inside it and the one thing that's

fascinating to me and and and that they find in my experience they find very interesting is the british class system because there's just not really any class system at all in that way in the US. Now, there are clearly very, very difficult situations socially in the US which are defined largely across things like race and that kind of thing. But in terms of an old-fashioned class system, they just don't have it.

It's not on their radar. I mean, they do do but they're not cognizant of it because they seem to think because it's all built into um you know the american dream the capitalist you know a capitalist construct effectively of it people you know working themselves out of poverty which you know by and large doesn't necessarily happen so people don't in america resent wealth like we do. Yeah, absolutely. That's absolutely true. Speaking of wealth, have you seen the news story that broke the other day?

I love this. I don't know anything about it really, but it's absolutely brilliant to me because he's a character that I find endlessly fascinating. I know you do too. Did you see that Elon Musk wiped $14 billion off Tesla's share price, off their value, total value, with one tweet? He tweeted the other day, just simply saying, Tesla stock price too high, in my opinion.

$14 billion came off it. Well, I'm fairly certain. I mean, he's going to, well, he might get in trouble. He might not get in trouble. He seems to get away with a lot. I mean, that accusation of that minor. he might get in trouble. He might not get in trouble. He seems to get away with a lot. I mean, that accusation of, you know, that minor. Yeah, I didn't see too much about that. But I was really surprised.

Based on the very, very threadbare news I saw of it, admittedly, I was very surprised when that came out. Yeah, I said minor pedophile guy. I mean, a man who was accused of being a pedophile by the billionaire. Is he a billionaire? Yeah. A very rich man, Elon Musk. He managed to call a man with no proof a sex offender

and then somehow get away with it. Now, I'm not a legal expert, but how the minor, I think he's from the Northeast, actually, how that man managed it, I don't know who represented him, but it must have been some kind of better call Saul kind of situation. How he managed to lose that case, I do not know. Incredible, incredible. Elon Musk is worth $40 billion, by the way, $40 billion.

Jesus Christ. It's not even narrow. He's a massive, massive billionaire. Len Kanye a couple, will you? Just me saying that is an insult to Kanye West. But he's been told before, I think, he's not allowed to tweet or speak in any public forum about the share price or about the company financially.

Well, you'd think that would be a no-brainer. That's why it's surprising. Without speaking to shareholders first. And, yeah, I don't really know enough about money or finance or the markets obviously i don't but i think he might actually get into trouble for doing that he's definitely not allowed to do that now i think i think he might be in the top 10 wealthiest people in the world musk he's got to be right up there it certainly tops and he is and he is worshipped by some of the strangest men I know.

And that's saying something. People listening, imagine you listen to Pete. Imagine the strangest people that Pete knows. That's the thing. That's a mind-blowing statement, that. Yeah, when I get together with the weirdest people I know, we sort of sit around an old wooden table, Knights of the Round Table kind of situation.

We talk about it. Some of my dress is very evil situation. We talk about it. So have my dressers been evil knights? Exactly, yeah. And then we go out and do some cosplay. I'm dressed as a witcher. Pete, you know what we should do? That's a great idea for a podcast series, right? So you are the strangest person I know.

You've described yourself as a pathologically strange man. We should call it the strange quest. And you basically tell us the strangest person you know we go and find them then they tell us the strangest person they know and i reckon we come all the way back around to normal again eight episodes spotify exclusives they'll take it i just second episode it would just go racist yeah it would it would to be fair yeah that's a shame it'd be very anti-Semitic almost immediately. Yeah. Not that I hang out with any anti-Semites.

No, six degrees of separation. Not quite enough. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Another story that I... I don't know, they're the party, I guess. Stop it. Another story that I found that broke on the same day

as Elon Musk having another meltdown was, and Pete, this is as a former employee of a zoo yourself, this is going to hit home to you. So just sit down, steel yourself for this. A number of zoos apparently around the world are reporting that their animals are becoming lonely because of a lack of visitors. Oh, no. becoming lonely because of a lack of visitors oh no so apparently uh and i'll tell you that the the the um the killer absolute awful uh statement quote i'll save for the end so so steel yourself

for that there's a load of zoos that have obviously um regular feeding times like a meet the public time feeding time where they you know we can have a debate expect to see people yeah and so they come out at a certain time of the day and they expect to be fed and see people and they don't and it's really upsetting for them i know zoos have some questions to answer around ethics and stuff but i'm not proposing we get into that now but um a couple of zookeepers and and zoologists are saying that you know the um they're used to visitors they always come up and have a look and they like to interact. And particularly giraffes have found it very difficult in a certain wildlife park in New Zealand. But the worst part of this story was a zoologist from Dublin Zoo

simply said, the animals are wondering what's happened to everyone. Isn't that really sad? I think that's a very definition of the unreliable narrator, I would say, in any story. A zookeeper who's watching the animals and wondering what's happening. How does he know? How does he know? But there's a particular bird called a minor bird

that I think famously mimics noises that it hears and it's been proven or shown to mimic chainsaws and all sorts. And it's been shown as a bit, I think in the past, it's been held up as a kind I think in the past it's been held up as a kind of symbol in the fight against deforestation because certain minor birds will obviously mimic other birds' calls traditionally, but they've been witnessed mimicking chainsaws

and car engines because of the deforestation. But anyway, they're very social birds. And Dinah the minor in Phoenix Zoo has been very, very upset. Steady, Elon, steady. But apparently, yeah. Apparently, they're having to come up with solutions to curb loneliness in some of these animals because it's very, very difficult for their mental state,

which, of course, can affect their physical health. So it's a really sad and probably unpredicted aspect of lockdown all over the world. This is happening to animals. So very, very sad. Well, two things there. There is a unlovable bar in Kobe in Japan that has live penguins in a little tank.

Yeah, don't go there. Don't give them money. Don't go there. It was called Happy Feet. And I thought, oh, that's a cute name for a bar. Oh, my God. Is that why you only stayed there for eight hours? Well, the best thing, I preface every story with,

I've probably told you about this on the podcast before, but a particularly, I'm not going to say arrogant, certainly full of himself chap that I went out there with. He walked into the bar and just did like a big circle of the bar, looking around what's going on, pressing things, touching things. Completely missed the fact that there were live penguins basically just cavorting around behind where he was sitting. It was very, very enjoyable.

But also, what was my other point? It was about the animals, wasn't it? That gif that somebody sent around this morning of a monkey trying to steal a child. Yeah, that was chilling. Right. I saw that in the morning. I thought, right, it's just a little family,

little family, they're just a family hanging out. And then a little monkey runs into frame, just grabs a toddler. And a couple of them go, ha-ha, he's trying to grab the toddler. And then the monkey really goes to grab this, kidnap this toddler, basically. What I missed from that scene was that the monkey roared in on a fucking motorbike.

Yeah. There's so many questions. Incredible. So many questions. You could write a book on that. The thing was, Pete, it was, and people who haven't seen this will try and share it on Twitter, but it was probably, I would say, a small monkey, like a macaque or something, right? Yeah. And it was on a I would say, a small monkey, like a macaque or something, right?

Yeah. And it was on a monkey-sized motorbike. It wasn't on a massive motorbike that he's learnt how to ride. It was specifically built for the size of animal that it was riding it. Where are they making monkey-sized motorbikes specifically for monkeys? Oh, it was very angular, though. It could have been one of Elon Musk's. That's all I'm saying.

How can it... It might get its tail caught in their chain. It's a good point, actually. Be careful. You've got to be careful, guys. I think the toddler was fine. It was a bit shaken up, but it was fine. Yes, I'm sure it's fine.

But just an incredible scene I never thought I'd see, quite frankly. I don't think any of us did. No. But, I mean, they are... In certain parts of the world, they're full-on aren't they monkeys i mean there's that carl pilkington oh he gets all his all his food stolen and they just he goes i remember being in malaysia and having a banana in the back pocket of my jeans and a monkey coming off and stealing it and to be honest in the grand scheme of things that's

monkey 101 in it that is that is they love bananas so i shouldn't have had it in my back pocket but the thing with carl pilker did one where he went in quite an adorable way he went into this little place in india i think it was and he thought or thailand or whatever and he's like i'm gonna feed these monkeys because they're wild and they like being fed and he had the best intentions and he went in there um with an of a packet of monster munch i mean don't feed monkeys monster m, but I'm sure they eat all sorts of stuff. Why is he exporting Monster Munch for crying out loud? But he opens a packet of Monster Munch.

I think he's preparing to take a crisp out and feed them one by one. Within about three seconds, the monkey's stolen the packet and another monkey's stolen the second packet. He's got this pocket and that's it. That's the end of it. They saw him coming quite literally. I've told you before, when Steve-O came into XFM, all he had in his pocket and that's it. That's the end of it. They saw him coming quite literally.

I've told you before when Steve-O came into XFM all he had in his bag was Red Bull and Monster Munch. Incredible. Steve-O from Jackass. Steve-O from Jackass. Or as my friend repeatedly calls it annoyingly, Jackass. It's not Jackass is it? It's the name of the title and you've got to

go with it. Let's have a little break Pete. When we come back I've got a couple of tweets to round up and then we'll do some emails, mate. All right. We could call it Pete and Mark's Colossal Tassel. But we didn't. We called it Wrestle Me. Wrestle Me, Mark.

Wrestle Me, Pete. A celebration of all things WrestleMania and beyond. And you may be thinking, I'm not really into wrestling. Well, don't worry. There's something for everyone. To be honest, it's mainly about stuff like this. So hang on, Easy Lover was the original theme on WrestleMania. It was.

Someone heard it on the radio and went, that sums up everything about WrestleMania to me. And this. You can really see the old back acne on test. Yes. And this. Is it worth reminding people of back acne on test. Yes. And this. Is it worth reminding people of what earthquake John Tenter looked like at 23 years old? Yeah, I think so.

And this. For the record, Marty has made it very clear, and I agree and believe him, that he has never, A, had sex with his daughter, or B, wanted to have sex with his daughter. And the people behind the face paint doing the most unique job in the entire world. Get it wherever you get your podcasts. That's Wrestle Me. Wrestle Me, Mark. Wrestle Me, Pete.

And we're back with a little Pete show. I've still not told Luke about the floating hotel, the Hotel Hegumgang. We'll get to it next week. I promised it last week, but I'll do it next week. I forgot about that. That's all right. I told you to remind me, but why should it be your problem?

I've got my own stuff to remember. Peter, we've got a tweet first. All right, cool. We've got a tweet from WordSOS on Twitter. I don't know their real name, but they say, if you woke up and Luke was Pete and Pete was Luke, what would you both do? Obviously, no one believes you in this situation.

Only the two of you know. What would you do? Right, hang on. You need to run that by me again. So it's like a body swap comedy type thing. You wake up and you're me and I wake up and I'm you and no one knows apart from us and no one believes us. I mean, I'd have to get better at, well, organisation, cooking, running.

You've not gone for a run for a while there, Luke. I'd love to be tall, though. Oh, I'd be brilliant at that. I'd just be walking around the streets going, fuck the social distancing. I'd be like, look how tall I am, everybody. I can see over this hedge. I'd probably spend a lot of time looking at my own tattoos.

You've got one as well We're both inked I'd be looking forward That's the thing, I don't really like Chinese food But I think I'd have to Get involved with it to show that I'm you You'd have MSG You'd have terrible MSG come down So you'd have to maintain a level of monosodium glutamate.

Terrible something come downs, Peter. You would know any of my passwords. Also, but if I wake up and I'm you, do I wake up in my own house, but I'm you? Or do I wake up and I'm you in your house? No, I'd wake up in your house. Oh um oh that is chilling i don't want to talk about that the right yeah i mean the ram i mean you can write your own stories but the ramifications uh you know very different situations i live alone um yeah so yeah uh so yeah thanks for your email

one more tweet from Brian who says, sadly, my grandfather passed away recently, but upon beginning sorting through his belongings, we discovered some incredible items. He had two national awards for decoding Morse code, and he appears to have been a spy or some kind of operative in Africa at some point. He also had shares in a number of big companies.

We knew none of this this and neither did his wife my grandmother what are the discoveries others have made about someone they thought they knew we're not going to answer that because that could get a bit depressing but that is a fascinating story well that's the thing we saw this generation i mean we do a podcast every week there is nothing you guys who are listening right now know everything about me there's nothing off the table i've spoken about everything it's just one of those things like you you will know everything about me so we're so kind of used to sharing and oversharing and being you know you'd probably say slightly conceited about how we present that information so like men and women back in the

day just had secrets and they took them to the grave and they never spoke about them because they just either didn't think they were interesting or they just thought it was the right thing to do so yeah nowadays it would be you know the five-part podcast series or instagram page yeah i mean i mean that is a large part of the reason why the male suicide rate is was is it was and is through the roof yes i do i do take the point absolutely what you're saying is completely correct like there's a generation of a whole generation of particularly men more than one generation for years and years who never really spoke about anything you know i know people now who i find

fascinating and they've had amazing lives but they don't really spend too much time talking about it and you and i are the opposite of that we've not had interesting lives and we never shut up exactly well veteran veterans always say that they'll only ever speak about what went on during their work abroad, let's say, or even at home with other veterans because they just don't feel comfortable talking about it with anyone who hadn't experienced similar situations.

Yeah. But those people are no good to us. They're not going to email us, are they? No, they're probably not, to be honest. No. They're not going to help us win the ratings war, are they? Oh, is there probably not, to be honest. No. They're not going to help us win the ratings war, are they? Oh,

is there a war? Oh God. Are we, are we ratings veterans? Yeah. Hello at lucanpeach.com is the email address to get in touch. I mean, for every man who sits there not speaking about his problems,

you have a man like James, who we heard about on Monday, who sent us a four paragraph email about Nike tennis socks and they're the kind of people we like so do keep your emails coming in I've got an email here from just deciding which one to do I'm going to do this one from Nathan who says hi guys I was listening to a recent episode where Luke mentioned proposing to his wife at the top of the old man of store in sky um okay i enjoyed the story because it was far more successful than the journey i had to the same place last winter i drove the north coast 500 in a camper van on my own and that's the big

road that goes all the way around the top of scotland for those who don't know and on the way back down i visited sky after climbing the little mountain route to see Storm, I got back to the van and it had broken down. Now, I want to put in perspective for those who haven't visited that part of the world what that means. What that actually means is you are completely fucked because unless someone else comes along. So the Old Man of Storm, which is an amazing place

on an amazing island, they're very understated, or they certainly have been traditionally, about their sightseeing bits, particularly on Sky. There is nothing other than just a wooden sign saying the Old Man of Storr on an arrow. There's no gift shop. There's no car park. There's no nothing to let you know beyond a sign

to the point of if that sign blew away or got pulled down, I don't know how many people would be able to find it. So the point is, he's not broken down in the car park of some national park in the Lake District or whatever. And he can just get back on the road. Yeah, no. I mean, the Old Man's Store, I think, is about a 15-minute drive away from Portree,

which is the biggest town on Skye and isn't very big. And that itself is about an hour away from the mainland, probably. Anyway, he said, yeah, so I broke down. No problem, I thought. I'll call my breakdown people. And they put me through to my hometown branch of my bank because my breakdown insurance came through my bank. My hometown branch is on the Isle of Wight.

After explaining my situation to the lady on the phone, she proceeded to piss herself laughing that I was 800 miles away from home and up Shit Creek. Overall, it took two weeks for my van to be towed all the way back from the Scottish Highlands back to the Isle of Wight. I mean, I'm hoping that he managed to escape that particular situation himself.

Like, he wasn't still in the van when they found him two weeks later. Well, he's just sending an email to us via satellite phone. Yeah, I'm worried. I wonder what Adelaide stops in it. I got back in two weeks' time. Stop. I'm okay. Stop.

Oh, mate, that sounds bloody dreadful. what do you need your van in two weeks so what a terrible service i think that um yeah he hasn't named the company so we can't shame them i think no it is interesting because of course in the uk it's very small and it's not really that far away from anywhere but up in the highlands there are signs that when you drive into a certain part of the highlands it will say get your fuel now last chance to get petrol for like 100 miles or whatever right and i think if you went at a certain time of the year and you made some poor decisions it could go wrong pretty quickly i mean i think some a couple of people might sadly passed away on ben nevis maybe a year or two ago because the weather can close

in very quickly and if you've not got the right precautions you're in big trouble so it can go wrong and that's part of the reason people like to go there right because it's so remote and so beautiful but of course with that comes the uh the danger you could you might find yourself camping in a bothy i do find bothies fascinating yeah lovely floor this is sometimes like when you're in scotland i know i'm born about this but i do love it there's a place i think it might be in glencoe which isn't actually that remote, but it's beautiful. And you can do a walkthrough there, maybe through a bit of a valley.

And at one point, I think I took a photo of it, there's just a house. And I'm not being funny. I can't exaggerate to you enough how isolated it is. It's just one building, tiny. And someone obviously lives there, because there's a car outside, and there's a washing on the line.

It's the same in Iceland, by the way. Iceland's like that. You'll just drive through what looks like Mars and you'll just see a house. Listen, you're talking to a guy who announces several TV shows on DMAX all about being off-grid in Alaska. Well, ice road truckers have a job to do, but these people live off-grid in homesteads

and they've got to move their toilets because it's flooding. Every time spring comes, the flood comes. I've spoken out of the way far, but my God, why people live in such remote locations? They must really hate people. But it's the ultimate idea, isn't it? It's the ultimate thing where the idea of it is probably so much better than the reality of it

because when reality sets in, you need to drive 15 minutes minimum to just get a pint of milk. I mean, it's just like where – I mean, I'm looking at the things around me. A SanDisk Ultra SD card, a little thingy of Sudafed. Tell that with you, mate. Where am I going to get my Sudafed? Where am I going to get my Sudafed? Where am I going to get my Sudafedrine? I'm addicted like Donald Trump.

You and Donald Trump keeping Sudafed in business. Well, he does European strength, so he knows what's what. I find that fascinating that the European strength is stronger than the American because I thought that the Europeans were much more regulated on that kind of thing. I think the US are more regulated because you can make crank out of it. Oh, that's right, yeah.

There's some really interesting socioeconomic reasons as to why methamphetamine has never really taken off in Europe. I don't know what they are, but I read about it before and I've forgotten all of them, but it was fascinating at the time. Big in North Korea, apparently. Oh, but mate, I i mean come on that's what one of the things one of the things this kind of this kind of um this kind of pseudo appreciation because of the bantering quotes of of uh kim young-un i find horrendous as someone who's i've been a late i'm a layman but i've read a couple

of books about north korea i find that hugely distasteful. Hugely distasteful. Yeah, but you'd probably say like memefulness to a lesser degree. Putin, Trump. I mean, you know, anybody who is ridiculous in modern times who, I mean, it's an achievement that they've managed to run North Korea like they've managed to run them during the last, you know, the internet age, effectively. Trying to run a closed country in such a time is weird. But the difference, the key difference is that...

Very weird. But the key difference is Donald Trump was, like, was, like, democratically elected as a leader. And so... Yeah, but... It's a completely different situation, though. Yeah, yeah, I guess. But my point, I guess I'm getting to the point, Pete,

which is basically that I don't think that enough people, particularly in the West, know anywhere near enough about that regime. And if they did, they probably wouldn't be quite so quick to laugh about it as they are. Yeah, but why isn't, you know know why isn't why we could talk about xi jinping and you know the imprisonment of the yeah of the muslims and stuff and why isn't you know the arab world uh shocked and talking about that all the time it's it's a weird time it's everything's moving very very quickly and it seems that money is very much uh the thing that talks

and before before we we disappear up our ownseholes and before we finish the show, can I just please say that I'm really very much enjoying The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt now. I've kind of got with it. Oh, good. You've kind of broken through a little bit. It's a bit wordy at times, but it's a very enjoyable, characterful,

Lord of the Rings-y kind of experience. I think what it does really well as a game is it, and obviously I know I'm a basic bitch on this but but stay with me what what it does really well is it um it it kind of makes you learn the ropes so there's loads of things you can't do until you get to a certain level and initially that's quite frustrating but as you slowly get through it and you get up the levels it becomes more and more interesting and more and more rewarding. And I think what I needed was just a bit of patience. And because I was playing on a switch light,

which is quite a bit smaller, I needed to immerse myself in it by putting headphones in, maybe dimming the lights a bit to get into the world. And I found it tremendously rewarding ever since. I'm really enjoying it. Are you enjoying hanging out? I can't remember the name of the horse. What's the name of the horse? Roach.

Roach. Are you enjoying hanging out? I can't remember the name of the horse. What's the name of the horse? Roach. Roach. Are you enjoying hanging out with him? The thing that gut-punched me was that I love Roach. He's a great horse. And obviously, Gerald relies on him a great deal. He's just a great horse. And you can put a good saddle on him and put little trophies on him and stuff. But then I found out halfway through, spoiler alert,

if you don't want to know spoilers about The Witcher, then don't listen to this bit. Just just by saying spoiler alert we know exactly what happens no no no no no no no gerald it's not no no it's not it's much more it's much more complicated than that it turns out that gerald apparently goes through horses like nobody's business it just calls every single one of them roach like james bond so he doesn't get attached to them no yeah sad very sad i'm very sad to hear that it cut against my sensibilities you're my roach oh thanks mate you can ride me all day long i'm a professional sidekick after all yeah you are that's not my doing that's your own doing i feel like i'm the sidekick to you on this show though anyway um let's get out of here that's

luke and pete show done for another week we will be of course back on monday for more of this inanity thank you very much for sticking with us we love having listeners it's very kind of you to get in touch and if you want to do so hello at luke and pete show.com if you've got nothing to email about drop us a review on itunes apple podcast wherever you get your pods pete's just snapped his femur. That was me dropping a review slash my Sudafed. Very nice. And you can follow us on Twitter at Luke and Pete Show as well.

Have a lovely weekend. Stick together. Enjoy whatever stuff you can get up to at home. Maybe watch The Last Dance on Netflix. Very, very good. I'm not the first person to recommend that, but it's a fantastic series. Give that a go. Let us know what you think. Thank you very much, to at home. Maybe watch The Last Dance on Netflix. Very, very good. I'm not the first person to recommend that, but it's a fantastic series. Give that a go.

Let us know what you think. Thank you very much, Pete Donaldson. Goodbye, everyone. That's goodbye from me as well. This was a Stakhanov production.