The Luke and Pete Show - Rubbery Eggs

Episode Date: April 13, 2020

The boys are back in their barracks and Pete is fresh to the party with some wicked whispers about MailOnline and a certain pop star. Ooooh, who could it be? Tune in to find out. Elsewhere we discuss ...what certain movie characters should be doing to help the world during this pandemic, our general problems with photography, and Pete dishes out some much-needed cable advice. A proper public service.To get in touch, and we'd love you to, it's: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Luke and the Pete show. It's Monday, so of course we are in your ears. We're not talking about your coronavirus. We're not talking about your COVID-19, 20 or any other derivatives. We are talking about living life to the fullest with our heads in collective boxes, recording each other's voices. How can you live your life to the max while you can't leave your spare room? Because all you do is make audio programs on your own, talking to mostly other men down a microphone. This is how I imagineill would have been uh operating affairs uh while he was um while we were under under the threat of bombing actually no he didn't do it he used
Starting point is 00:00:52 to go up the roof didn't he show off so he's right off was our churchill so he did he used to go obviously if you've been to the churchill war rooms he used to address the nation from there um and yeah everything he needed down there i think but yeah apparently in fact according to historians in fact according to a book i'm in the middle of reading right now he used to go against advice and to the to the the detriment of all of his dearest and dearest mental health he would go up onto the roof and watch the bombings as soon as the air raid siren started so um weird but obviously he wanted to be a part of it. Did he think he could probably wave his umbrella and knock a,
Starting point is 00:01:30 I don't know the name of any German, Messerschmitt? Is that a German plane? Yes, get in there. He was going to knock one of them out of the sky. With his umbrella? Yeah, just throw his lit cigar into the gas tank. Yeah. That would happen in the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie, wouldn't it?
Starting point is 00:01:45 Definitely. My granddad remembers seeing Spitfires and stuff flying overhead, fighting against German planes as a nine-year-old boy. He said it was tremendously exciting at the time. Tremendously exciting. Well, I guess it was to a certain extent. If you're nine, you'd be loving it, wouldn't you? Your parents would probably just tell you everything will be fine. I think his dad was at war.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Well, I think the word exciting, it's only ever used in one way, like in a kind of like a gleeful way, but I don't think it should be. I think it should be used. I commented, and this comment wasn't taken, certainly in the spirit it was intended as to kind of contribute, that I said that being assaulted physically would be exciting, sensorially. Sensorially?
Starting point is 00:02:30 Yeah, I know what you mean. You know, it would be exciting. It would be awful, but it would also be exciting. Are we allowed to use that? I mean, we shouldn't use the word like that because it's generally accepted that, yes, I'm excited. But if you are getting attacked or being in a fight it's exciting isn't it yeah but if i were to say to someone please excuse pete he's getting a little
Starting point is 00:02:50 bit overexcited that's not a good thing is it so it can be used in both ways yeah that's never a good thing yeah that's never a good thing there are a load of um words that have been co-opted to mean positive things when the traditional etymology of them wouldn't be like for example incredible normally means oh that was incredible but it can also mean that's not realistic or or yes something else so but on the point about the uh the second world war and my granddad like i mean i know that my granddad found it tremendously exciting because he was there and he told me so yeah it's up to him isn't it really as a nine-year-old boy you found it tremendously exciting and lots of people could get in touch and go well the thing is a war is bad and people died i know that but i'm just telling you from a primary source that that
Starting point is 00:03:34 is what he thought as a nine-year-old boy because when you're a nine-year-old boy all you care about is playing war games and cops and robbers and stuff anyway isn't't it? Yeah. So I guess, I mean, so they had dogfights above them, explosions and downed planes and crazy stuff. And we had boglins. Yeah, not as good. So another thing my granddad said to me was that he remembers being encouraged to go out onto the street with the rest of the residents that weren't away fighting the war.
Starting point is 00:04:05 And as German prisoners of war were being marched through the street, shouting at them. Right, okay. What were they shouting? Boo. Yeah, like, ah, German bastards or whatever. You think you're all special in Vaden, Jersey. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:04:18 Picking on the little guys. Unbelievable. But that book I was referencing there is called The Splendid and the Vile by Eric Larson. I've probably mentioned it. But all the days sort of merge into one now. So I can't remember what I've said and what I haven't, even more than usual. But it's a very, very good book anyway. How's your walking?
Starting point is 00:04:34 You do do a little bit of running around, don't you? You like a little run around, don't you? Yeah, I've been keeping my distance, but running. I did a 10K on Saturday, which is good. It's bloody warm though I had a really good plan to get up about 7
Starting point is 00:04:49 half an hour in the house then hit the pavement for an hour so I'll be back by half 8 or whatever didn't know I'd do that didn't wake up
Starting point is 00:05:00 until like quarter to 9 on Saturday so I ended up going the last by the time I got myself going the last sort of 10-15 minutes of my run were very warm because it was very, very clement on Saturday, wasn't it? It was very warm, yeah.
Starting point is 00:05:11 I did walk around. I did the lap, went over to South Bank, walked to Westminster and then back again, had a cup of tea, just walking around with a cup of tea. And I ended up in Leicester Square. And they've got these new statues out. I think they're going to be there for the next year, I end up in Leicester Square, and they've got these new statues out. I think they're going to be there for the next year, I think. On top of the audience, they've got a big bronze, which is also, I guess, a brand, Batman.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Big Batman looking down on Leicester Square like a crime fighter. You've got a Mary Poppins. You've also got Mr. Bean is sitting on one of the benches, which is quite cool. And I enjoyed the fact that one of the cyclists that was sat next to Mr. Bean had used Mr. Bean's head to put his helmet on while he ate a sandwich. And that was a very humorous image for me. I mean, the thing is, Pete, I mean, I've got a few things to come back on that.
Starting point is 00:06:00 I mean, Mr. Bean, fine. Keep him away from the pandemic as much as possible. He's hapless. He's made of bronze. Mary Poppins should be doing some kind of address the nation on TV to how to look after kids better, how to keep them occupied. And frankly, Bruce Wayne should be putting his considerable resources
Starting point is 00:06:15 towards fighting this virus. Yeah, you'd think he'd be in the Batcave making some bat ventilators, wouldn't you? Because there's nothing that... I mean, to me, my problem with the Batman sort of story arc is that... The Batman. That's what Joker calls him, the Batman. That might be what Big Commissioner Gordon calls him as well.
Starting point is 00:06:35 But anyway, all the stuff he's doing where he's sort of going out, doing low-level street busts, that's just ego stuff for Batman. He really needs to be focused at the very top level on organized crime on stuff like um white collar crime the stuff the really big big ones because he's got the resources he's got the resources and also he's a businessman so he can follow paper trails he should be working on white collar fraud uh you know, take a more holistic approach to crime fighting. Oh well. Master Bruce.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Master Bruce. Master Bruce. Master Bruce. Did you see one of the many things that I peppered the cigar of WhatsApp with last week was that pop-bitch story about Mylon Klass. I'm obsessed.
Starting point is 00:07:22 Speaking of Leicester Square. I did see it. I have a very, very slight piece of history of Mylin Class in that she used to work in the same building as me and I was found tremendously pleasant. What's the beef? There's no beef. If no one's familiar with Pop Bitch or Mylin Class,
Starting point is 00:07:42 let's explain those two concepts, entities. Which one do you want to do? Mylene, I will do Pop Bitch. Pop Bitch was a weekly newsletter containing tittle-tattle and celebrity gossip, not necessarily to the depths of TMZ, but certainly would get a little bit spicy at times. But they always did it with a wry smile and a respect
Starting point is 00:08:05 and a love for the celebrity, the naff celebrity, so to speak, of British media. Mile in Class, Luke, please. Yes, Mile in Class first came to prominence in 2001 as part of the ITV show Popstars. She won a place on the band and became a member of hearsay did a very underrated uh single called pure and simple which i bloody enjoyed and i still spin very rarely but occasionally now they didn't have much success they um they broke up but plot twist alert mining
Starting point is 00:08:40 class turned out to be a classically trained pianist and actually a very good presenter. So she now does some presenting, I think, on Classic FM. She does a bit of piano playing as well. I think she might be a contracted model to Marks & Spencers as well, perhaps. So good on her. More power to her. Unless she's done something unspeakable that I'm unaware of, in which case I would distance myself from her instantly.
Starting point is 00:09:05 You would cancel her instantly. Well, she's not done anything abhorrent. But Popitch, the weekly mail-out, has kind of been doing, in the lockdown, a daily digest of little bits of celebrity tittle-tattle and consumer-slash-reader stories about when they'd met a celebrity. But one of the stories that they made it clear is that she, or her PR people, but let's face it, probably her, points out basically lets photographers for the Daily Mail
Starting point is 00:09:37 and probably some other contributors as well, some other vessels, organs, lets them know when she's going to be walking into work. She works in Leicester Square. Global Radio is one of the few radio stations that don't have the facilities to record remotely, even though they should really, to be honest, because you wouldn't exactly say that playing Capital Radio bangers is really a key working situation. But she clearly tips off paparazzi when she's walking into work
Starting point is 00:10:09 because if you've got the Daily Mail, type in Mylan Class, K-L-A-S-S, you get what can only be described as a torrent of identical stories served up every single day where Mylin Class is just walking through Leicester Square, walking into work, and some poor, and I am saying poor in this case, poor Daily Mail celebrity staffer has to write a story about Mylin Class entering the building in which she works every day to do her classic FM show. It is amazing.
Starting point is 00:10:45 Type in Mylin Class to the Daily Mail sidebar of shame. There is a story every single day where Mylene Klass is walking into Global Radio, 29 Leicester Square, whatever it is, and it is incredible that a photographer every single day under lockdown has to go to Leicester Square to take a picture of Mylene Klass. I mean, you say some poor Daily Mail celebrity staffer, that's just a copy and paste job if it's the same every day. It's the same every day, but they've got to vary it up, haven't they?
Starting point is 00:11:16 Otherwise people will notice the Klass clan will be all over it. But somebody has to take a picture of bloody Mylene Klass every morning or every afternoon or whenever she does a show. Incredible. Is that what the Mylene Klaas fans call themselves? The Klaas clan? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:11:33 I'm thinking if I was going to make a group of followers, that's why I'd call them. And that's why I'm unpalatable. You know that a lot of pop stars have like their own um sort of gang don't they name gangs so for example taylor swift taylor swift are called swifties uh carly ray jepson fans are called jepsies um i am yeah uh lady gaga's fans are called little monsters uh there's loads of them so maybe what would yours be donnie's duds donnie's duds donnie's duds yeah be? Donnie's Duds. Donnie's Duds. Donnie's Duds. Yeah. No, no. Donnie's Dudes.
Starting point is 00:12:09 Donnie's Dudes. Yeah. Hi, dude. Donnie's Dudes. So what's your beef here? Is your beef with, is Mylene, so Mylene is essentially seeding this out and purporting this coverage. Listen, it's either Mylene, it's Mylene's PR. Either way, my beef is not with Mylene.
Starting point is 00:12:24 Mylene has a profile she needs to maintain. I am just questioning why even someone who visits the Daily Mail website every day needs to see a picture of Mylene clad in different clothes, entering the same building every time. I don't know. Why don't they just do one day where they've got a dressy-up box and she just gets changed and cut and reappears with different clothes every time that's what instagrammers do isn't it what they just put
Starting point is 00:12:51 on what they just get so they'll go so they'll go for example so they'll go to for example said the grand canyon that'll be one trip and what they'll do is they'll take photos at lots of different angles lots of different spots within said canyon at different times of the day across maybe two or three days with different weather and different clothes and then make out that it's just part of their lifestyle and they're at the grand canyon all the time so then they can see those photos maybe five six seven times a year well that's the hustle back at the old back C. I mean, yeah, that is completely different. That's cancer. I'll consider.
Starting point is 00:13:28 The grand cancer. Got the old big cancer. Oh, God. Great news. Oh, we had a lovely time at the big C. Yeah. Oh, it was brilliant. Looking down into the abyss.
Starting point is 00:13:39 Brilliant. Ah! What was that? I dropped the little F on the big T. Oh, dear. A big flask on the little toe. Nice. Peter, I concede in retrospect that the Grand Canyon in this was a poor example.
Starting point is 00:13:57 I should probably say something like, on the terrace of a nice restaurant or something like that. Thank you. Better. I'm having the starter. I'm taking a photo of the starter. I'm now popping to the bathroom to change into some new clothes. Now I'm taking a photo of the main.
Starting point is 00:14:12 Now I'm going to go and change again. It's that, but it's all the same meal. That's the trick. That's how they get you. Right. Okay. I see. So think about doing it yourself, mate, because I'll tell you what.
Starting point is 00:14:22 I've actually really hit a complete brick wall on my Instagram followers. that i i don't check it that often well this is the thing i'm not someone who who um who looks at the amount of followers i've got on stuff too often but we did an instagram live ramble meets with the lovely laura woods last week and it absolutely exploded the um the of Football Rehabble Daily. And I looked at my – and it just gave me cause to look at my own. And I was like, God, I've been on that amount of followers for ages. I just don't think unless you're very attractive, I don't think you can really excel on that medium.
Starting point is 00:14:56 Yeah. Yeah, I don't know what my followers are. I don't post a lot. I only post when I've been on holiday and I've taken some pictures and I've farted about with them on the computer. But, yeah, I like watching people's stories, but, I mean, it's kind of – Yeah, same. At this point, under lockdown, and I said we weren't going to talk about lockdown that much, but, like, it's very samey-samey, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:15:18 People are either just, you know, walking around their house. An incredibly rich viewpoint from one half of the luke and pete show there um it's a bit it's a bit so um on the on the um instagram vibe pete are you so so on the on the photographs you mentioned there you alluded to the idea of some kind of post-production of your photos is that fair right uh yeah so so there's a there's a tv show called master photographer master of photography right yeah it's a european show um it's interesting my wife absolutely loves it it's like a favorite show and i i fell out of love with it after the first season because i've got a huge amount of beef in principle with the idea that half of the show is them touching up their photos at the end
Starting point is 00:16:02 and making them different changing the colors of things and the exposure what should happen in my humble opinion is they should be given a film camera and that's it and get out there and do your thing and once you once you get back to the studio afterwards say you get three reels of film your best shot is what you go with because that's what photography should be in my opinion yeah well that's the great debate in uh certainly most uh photographic disciplines but then you would sort of argue that what if you want to use a leica camera what if you want to use a sony camera what if you want to use it you know there's different lens um situations there's different uh what's your policy on reflectors what's your policy on flash what's
Starting point is 00:16:40 your policy on you know there's a million different variables that can change from second to second. So what exactly are you judging? There was one very, very good example of a, what do you call it? A photograph competition where a man won a photograph competition. It was a picture of some kind of like industrial equipment or just maybe just a building. And the camera lens was pointing upwards and it sort of made a very tidy sort of circle of sky. And just at the moment that the guy pressed the shutter, a big Boeing 747 happened to fly past.
Starting point is 00:17:21 So it was this beautifully framed photo where this Boeing 747 just happened to be in the it was just beautifully framed photo where this boeing 747 just happened to be in the hall uh that framed the picture the whole uh the whole thing and um and it turned out uh and he after a while admitted it that he just put the boeing 747 in therefore it was just a picture of a building and it was a pretty shitty picture of a building at that and it was kind of like well yeah that is technically allowed but it's a big you know that's bullshit man that's a slippery slope i'm not having that i'm not having it so master photography the show itself is sponsored by canon it used to be sponsored by leica so yeah
Starting point is 00:18:02 look you have to i mean i know people are particular about their photography equipment and everything you have to use what you have to use everyone has to agree at the start for me it feels like at the start of the show let's get a consensus about the equipment we're using it's not perfect for everyone but you've got to use it and then you just take the best photos you can because like that example there you've used to me it's completely ridiculous I remember someone who used to take photos I used to use i i used to know somebody took photos all the time well into it and they would be literally taking a photo of say like a forest and then just removing stuff out of the photo they didn't like i mean that's not what photography is composition is a huge part of it right so it shouldn't be i don't think it should be allowed you shouldn't you shouldn't be
Starting point is 00:18:41 photoshopping things out of it or coloring things in i mean you great i mean you're basically just grading vignetting uh adjusting the natural warping of how the lens works because obviously every different every lens has a different warping effect you know every lens has a different kind of way it processes the image are you using a full frame camera are you using like a i i don't know anything about cameras at all but oh i've watched a lot of youtube videos about them good lord i've watched a lot of YouTube videos about them. Good Lord, I've watched a lot of YouTube videos about them. People taking cameras apart. You're the man for that. Never take your camera apart.
Starting point is 00:19:11 No, but you've watched videos of people doing it. Oh, yeah, hugely. But, yeah, it's very, very interesting. But you can, there are certain forensic things you can do to a camera file that can prove that a picture has been highly modified or just slightly modified. Oh, there you're talking. Love that.
Starting point is 00:19:31 You should be allowed to reframe. You should be allowed to adjust, not focal distance, but the natural warping of whatever lens, whatever camera you're using, because everyone uses different uh different frames of different lenses but i i do find it very i do find it very therapeutic uh but yes stupid people do take the absolute piss but it is regarded as if you've taken the if you've if you've taken a picture you're allowed to do with it whatever you fucking want apparently yeah i don't like that and on that note peter just give i don't like that i don't fucking like it give me a chance me... I don't like that. I don't fucking like it.
Starting point is 00:20:05 Give me a chance to compose myself. We'll take a little break and when we come back, we'll talk about some of the things that our listeners want to talk about. And click. We're back. Every second of this podcast, a picture. This is the Luke and Pete show and we're back with your emails
Starting point is 00:20:27 are you going to kick off Luke with one of the dispatches from the front line of the Luke and Pete show or laps laps laps I am before I do that specifically I will give the email address which is hello at lukeandpeatshow.com you're very welcome to contact us there and before I get into the emails proper I've got a tweet
Starting point is 00:20:44 for you, Peter. Are you still there? I've got a tweet for you. Did you momentarily step outside the box? I did step outside the box. There was a... It's a bit windy here, and there was a brown paper bag rolling down the road,
Starting point is 00:21:00 and it looked like a dog doing forward rolls, and I wanted to double-check that it wasn't that. Excellent. Okay. So on Twitter, Peter, which is at Luke and Pete show, Nathan Gisby tweeted us earlier this weekend and he said, I need your help. My partner wants me to throw away my box of cables that I haven't even looked at for two years.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Pete, how do I convince her I need them? even looked at for two years. Pete, how do I convince her I need them? Maybe explain the history of some of the connectors, how they could come back into fashion, for example. Give you the example of the animated GIF. Nobody thought that that would come back into vogue, but it did, and possibly consider investing in a £60 a month big yellow box
Starting point is 00:21:46 storage solution. So you can either keep them in that, my dear, and spend £60 a month on them, or we can keep them in the house where it's free. Yeah, or would you be interested in giving them a good home, Peter? I don't think I've got room. It ain't my first rodeo. I'm covered in the stuff. I don't think that it's the right use of a storage space, is it? What do you mean? 60 quid a month, just chuck a lot of cables into
Starting point is 00:22:13 a fucking storage space. Honestly, Mark Haynes, who doesn't live in the biggest house in the world, because he does an iGate and it's iGate, Mark Haynes does the WrestleMe podcast. He has got a storage facility mainly wrestling memorabilia. It's ridiculous. Yeah, butzer does the WrestleMe podcast. He has got a storage facility mainly wrestling memorabilia. It's ridiculous. Yeah, but that's what it's for to me.
Starting point is 00:22:30 That makes me feel fine. I'm comfortable with that. I can pigeonhole that. What do you mean? Because it's art. Yeah, it's an interest. Cables are not an interest. Cables are something that facilitate something else. Cables are not an interest. No. And this is where the looking p
Starting point is 00:22:46 joins this will be the final show i like the way that you made an emotional you started that um plan with an emotional appeal to this uh lady who you've never met by saying think about all the different types of connectors yeah exactly we've uh again, we have never been more disparate. We've never been more disconnected. And if leads and wires and cables can teach us anything, it's that we just need a bit more connectivity to each other right now. The very fact that you would criticize wires and cables when this very morning or last night we did a video call
Starting point is 00:23:28 where I connected your network cable from your Mac to your router. The very hypocrisy from LiveMirror today. That's partly true. The FaceTime call we had, you definitely did help me with that and it's very much appreciated. And the other portion of the FaceTime call
Starting point is 00:23:42 was you watching one of my cats drink from the tap. Was, yeah. I mean, I didn't ask for that. You offered that up. It's great, though, isn't it? I had things on. Nothing will be more entertaining than that. Don't cats just do that?
Starting point is 00:23:55 They like water? I mean, they should have their own access to water. Look, you're a terrible dad. No, we've got a fountain. Look at this cat! Look at this cat eating fish! Look at this cat eating food! Ha ha! look at this cat eating fish look at this cat eating food ha ha look at this cat go through the bins he looks really hungry um all right let's do some
Starting point is 00:24:12 emails hello at luke and pete show.com i've got one here from the lovely joe he just says uh hi luke and pete first time emailer not so long-term listener brackets i've always feared of what you two would be like without marcus and jim's influence uh well now you know joe um he said i've been binged listening today so i'm not sure if you've moved on from this topic but two of the worst things i've done to impress a girl are as follows as a cocky 14 year old i tried to impress a group of girls from my tutor group during a male PE lesson. While running laps of the field as a warm-up, the group of boys noticed that a few girls from our year were watching from the adjacent computer rooms. This is classic stuff.
Starting point is 00:24:55 As a hormonal teenager, I was desperate to impress and decided to 360 one of the large black bins which was scattered across the field as the group of us still running approached the bin i sprinted forward and tried to jump and spin 360 degrees over it and continue running towards the watching girls the spin worked rather well but to my eternal shame as my right leg landed on the grass my left leg was caught inside the three feet bin and i felt ungraciously on my face with the warm contents of a day's food waste surrounding me it's safe to say my mates were extremely unhelpful and the group of lads all joined in with the girl's laughter crushing my ideas of a celebratory makeout before next lesson that's number one um and i like this about joe because he didn't learn his lesson like the best of us he has not learned his lesson like the guy a week or two ago who jumped off a cliff twice
Starting point is 00:25:49 um uh or jumped into some water to impress girls and hurt himself both times joe would like to also tell us that as an even cockier 17 year old at a house party his mates and him he said we were pretty far gone by this time spotted the new girl walking into our mate's front room this girl had recently switched colleges and like the cliche teenagers we were we all felt instantly in love with the new blonde girl and started competing against one another again classic stuff as she walked into the room we were all in the garden and could see her through a pair of full height french doors we instantly looked across at each other and the five to eight guys started running and pushing each other to get inside and talk to her all very undignified unfortunately in an attempt to
Starting point is 00:26:35 overtake my rivals i sprinted around them and left towards the left hand window looking to land confidently in the room and impress the new girl however what i hadn't noticed or even remembered was that the left door was in fact closed and i sprint i sprinted into a locked french door i cannot remember how much this hurt i assume the 10 cans of warm carlsberg had numbed my senses but i do remember the noise which was enough to penetrate the loud music and cause everyone in the room to stare at the crumpled idiot on the patio outside. I never managed to even speak to the new girl, and I withdrew myself from the imaginary competition in embarrassment.
Starting point is 00:27:14 I am still just as clumsy as I was as a teenager, but I've thankfully matured slightly and now have a fiancé, which saves me from any further humiliation in this particular field. All the best, Joe. I would very much like to know how he uh gained a fiance if that's the idea of uh she's probably the paramedic i mean never i mean on the first one with the tutor group uh girls the tutor group should be out of bounds uh if we if to the younger listeners. Out of bounds. They see you at your worst. They see you every single morning.
Starting point is 00:27:52 So you can't put on a brave, decent face every single morning because there's going to be variables. You're going to be, they're going to see you when you're at your worst, when you're at your tiredest. It's not worth, just don't try and get with anyone from your tutor group. They're too familiar with your shit. Yeah, I couldn't make any meaningful relationships with pretty with anyone from your tutor group. They're too familiar with your shit. Yeah, I couldn't go and make any meaningful relationships with pretty much anyone in my tutor group because I used to spend the morning in tutor group doing my homework.
Starting point is 00:28:12 Oh, yes, I remember doing that. That was a race against time, wasn't it? Yeah, exactly. I've written the first page and the fifth page, but where is the rest of the history homework, Mr. Lee? I don't know. I don't know, I said. It must have gone missing somehow.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Aye, aye, aye. Anything else? Yeah, go on, Peter. Go on, sir. Alexander, Alexander Leonard, rubbery eggs. Hi, lads. Been connoisseurs of egg chat. I thought you two were the right people to send this to.
Starting point is 00:28:43 The lockdown has come the undeniable rise in Zoom chats. During one of these the other night, a group of mates and I got on the topic of how to scramble eggs. The consensus was largely that they should be fluffy and creamy, in inverted commas. However, one individual, a dear friend by the name of Paul, claimed his scrambled eggs were very good and even went as far as saying he had perfected the art of the egg scramble.
Starting point is 00:29:06 He sent through the attached picture. Naturally, it sent a wave of disgust and outrage through the Zoom chat. Essentially, Paul needs to know how bad his scrambled eggs are and I feel he would listen to your opinion and potential advice on this matter. We feel his current scrambled eggs look that bad. They resemble rubbery chicken tikka. Love the show as always, Alex. And he has an attached picture.
Starting point is 00:29:31 You don't have access to this email. I probably should have. I have. I'm looking at the picture right now. Right, right. I'm going with the Flintstones Fruity Pebble cereal, the John Cena cereal. So what he's also done, he's obscured it quite a lot by putting
Starting point is 00:29:45 quite a lot of hp sauce on it as well yeah exactly those those so-called fluffy i mean it's not fluffy no they don't look like they've come from the same animal no uh each each individual they look like the sort of thing that gets mined in outback opal hunters uh when they're trying to find opals but they've just come run into a lot of limestone so it looks like that remind me of they remind me of when i used to go on holiday to somerset with my family you used to be able to get um a presentation jar of um confectionery pebbles so they were made to look like pebbles but they're actually sweets and you get a yellow colored one that was a lemon-flavored one.
Starting point is 00:30:26 And it looks like what he's done is he has put a load of those over some poorly toasted wholemeal bread. Let's be absolutely clear about that. Covered it with HP sauce. Put it on a fairly nice presentation plate. It's a nice plate, yeah. That looks like the kind of plate. He's definitely paid more attention to the plate.
Starting point is 00:30:43 It looks like it's been taken straight out of um one of those display cases that mums in the 80s used to be very fond of yeah it's not yeah absolutely the kind of plate that your mum would buy that you were never allowed to use yeah um yeah so i mean it's a poor effort but having said that i've not i mean for me scrambled eggs are to one's own personal taste and the the slower you cook them, the creamier they are. But I don't really like them that creamy. I like to bash them out pretty quick, to be honest. But I will take very good care to fold and to season and all that good stuff.
Starting point is 00:31:16 I certainly wouldn't overcook them to that extent. So I'm very sorry of that guy's friend if Alex's friend feels like his scrambled eggs are great. Maybe they're great for him but i ain't going near them give me a bowl of cereal when i'm standing over at his house any day of the week it looks like cereal it does a bit actually very much so thank you very much for um letting alex um show us your eggs paul yeah i've got a quick email here to round off with peter um um what have we got here oh yeah it's from jasper who says hi guys i currently live in barcelona i've been in isolation slash lockdown for 20 days and counting
Starting point is 00:31:50 it is safe to say pete strap yourself in for this i wear jeans inside every day uh okay did i have a policy on this i forget we both said that wearing jeans in the house was an abomination didn't we i certainly think that oh yeah yeah needlessly uncomfortable i would say yeah yeah exactly so yeah i'm back on board yeah good um i like it that sometimes you're so forgetful you will forget your own sincerely held opinions um as i'm currently locked down by the spanish government and we aren't even allowed to exercise like everyone back in the uk uh getting showered and dressed as if i was going to the office every day is the only way i can save my own sanity and not descend into a jack nicholson in the shining style madness as
Starting point is 00:32:34 i'm working from home every day with multiple video calls to my colleagues it's also nicer on them that we don't sit in some form of pajamas anyway jeans indoors best jasper that is probably an exceptional circumstance, but generally speaking, everyday life, you shouldn't really be sitting around with jeans on
Starting point is 00:32:50 with the big light on. That's poor. It's the summertime. Maybe think about wearing linen. Hmm. I mean, it's not the summertime. Caught your flask in,
Starting point is 00:33:00 did we? You thought I was going to speak for longer. Red-handed on the old water outrageous oh you caught me narrow greening again right let's get out
Starting point is 00:33:09 of here hydration station this has been the Pete show for Monday I've been Pete Donaldson he's been Luke Moore he's disgusting we'll be back on Thursday
Starting point is 00:33:16 bye This was a Stakhanov production.

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