The Luke and Pete Show - The Desalination of Edwina Currie

Episode Date: September 12, 2022

Desalination - why don't we do more of it? Maybe we do, and Luke and Pete are just unaware of it. Maybe let us know, if you're a water expert. On today's episode the chaps take the time to talk about ...Pete's trip to Cardiff which resulted in some remarkable medical advice concerning Pepto-Bismol, before despairing at the latest government nonsense and giving the entirely unnecessary Edwina Currie a dressing down. Give us a spin, the subscribe button's just over there!  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 it's the look of pete shaw it is monday the 12th of september i'm pete don Donaldson, and I'm joined by Luke Moore. It's as simple as that, really. We sit here for half an hour every Monday, every Thursday, and we do the Luke and Pete show, and it's just about Luke's life. It's about my life. It's about your life, listeners. So if you want to get to the show, hello.lukeandpete.com is the way to do it. Do not crash the email, you C-word. I'm trying to do my best with the ad.
Starting point is 00:00:45 All life. Do-do-do-do-do-do. Do the email address again, because I did sing Desiree over it. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. I also want to say, at the top of the show, rather than at the end of the show, because I think our listeners to this show won't be as bad as some out there,
Starting point is 00:01:03 but I think as soon as you start making those movements towards wrapping up the show people you know what people are like the bastards they'll be like what's next they'll turn it off so they get their bags they get their bags on their shoulders they're walking out don't go don't go don't go until you're dismissed we'll shout yeah that bells for me not for you um as the teacher would say so i want to set the top of the show today um if you have enjoyed the show we've had some lovely emails recently um actually um and it's been really nice to hear i want to try and find one specifically it's from tom actually hope he doesn't mind me reading his name out tom uh i'll just use his first name in case he does well you just emailed in saying look i've got nothing to contribute to the show but i really
Starting point is 00:01:42 enjoy listening to it and thank you very much for making it for us and that kind of stuff is lovely get a fuck Tom you fucking simp you look a piece of your simp get off yourself but I would like to say that if you do want to appreciate the show we always love hearing from you in whatever capacity
Starting point is 00:01:59 but if you do really want to show us some real appreciation it's a 5 star review wherever you get your pods so please do that because it's not only an endorsement for us, but it's a ringing endorsement for producer Rory and our other colleagues as well, all of whom work really hard and don't get the credit. They don't get to swan around in leather waistcoats or get all the plaudit.
Starting point is 00:02:18 So we should try and appreciate them as well if we can. The thing about this leather waistcoat, which I'm still wearing, because we haven't just recorded two shows together honest uh governor um are they um this was on from ebay so this has been taken from someone's body uh not not like they're dead hopefully not we don't know you leather waistcoat 60s um they yeah, like this was on somebody. This was worn unironically by somebody. I'm wearing it ironically until I'm not.
Starting point is 00:02:50 Yeah, but you know, who is it who said that we are, we become what we pretend to be, right? Yes, okay. I think it was, I'm going to hazard a guess that it's probably a Kurt Vonnegut or a Mark Twain. We are, we become what we pretend to be right yeah you've pretended to be an arse for a while now yeah ironically i've become an arse as as the as the line been as the line been blurred the tall blood the arse line the
Starting point is 00:03:20 arse crack has the arse crack been blurred between arse and and no no yeah no i i completely uh i completely agree i have become an arse because i played an arse so many times and so often no i don't think you are an arse i think you're a lovely pair of nuts thanks thanks mate so on thursday we talked about the idea that today on monday happy monday everyone by the way lovely to have you with us i hope of another great week, we hope. Yeah baby. You talked about the fact that you went to Wales, to Cardiff, to watch Clash at the Castle, a WWE event.
Starting point is 00:03:55 Yes. With Mark Haynes, your pal from WrestleMe. I think, for the avoidance of any doubt, if you wanted to hear a proper deep dive on that event and on wrestling generally, For the avoidance of any doubt, if you wanted to hear a proper deep dive on that event and on wrestling generally, Peter Mark's show, Wrestle Me, is over there and available to listen if you want to part with a little bit of cash. Is that right, Peter? That's correct, yeah. Mark's very good.
Starting point is 00:04:18 We are, by the time you've heard this, we've just done a live show in King's Place, and we had a bloody lovely time, no doubt. We're currently sort of dealing with the launch of the Attitude Era which is actually quite interesting because we watched a documentary about Woodstock 99 or whatever it was
Starting point is 00:04:29 quite recently and similar sort of vibe similar sort of time similar sort of men shouting fucking yeah fucking up yours from the middle finger
Starting point is 00:04:40 yeah all that shit so it's quite interesting to see how weird the male Igor was so head over there for that I couldn't agree more
Starting point is 00:04:48 but Peter you did say that you wanted to talk a little bit about it on this show as well now without duplicating some of the excellent content over there
Starting point is 00:04:55 so you haven't talked about Clash of the Castle and the rest of me yet but you can talk about it here now done a little bit done a little review in the hotel room
Starting point is 00:05:03 oh good two men because I watched a bit of it on TV I knew you'd want to I knew you'd want to talk about it I thought
Starting point is 00:05:09 Pete's going to want to talk about this it's the first wrestling event in the UK since like 1992 or whatever it's free to watch if you've got a
Starting point is 00:05:16 BT subscription which I had and the wifi I have access to it was away for the weekend so could the stars have aligned any better
Starting point is 00:05:23 well what was your highlight then because you're not a man who watches a lot of wrestling what was your for the weekend. So could the stars have aligned any better? Well, what was your highlight then? Because you're not a man who watches a lot of wrestling. What was your favourite bit? Well, I'm not a man who watches any wrestling, in fact. My highlights were... So... So... My experience and memory of watching WWF, as it was then,
Starting point is 00:05:41 was mostly on VHS videotape. Yeah. Recorded off the telly or bought for us for Christmas or birthdays or whatever. WrestleMania 7, you know, I think 7 was, I think Hogan versus Sergeant Slaughter. That kind of stuff, right? Yeah. One thing I massively wasn't prepared for watching it last weekend, whenever it was, watching it last weekend whenever it was was the hd coverage is so almost i want to say intimate that it's quite unsettling what do you mean you can see um back
Starting point is 00:06:14 acne so you can really hear the slaps they slap each other yes you can really hear them smashing into the canvas. You can really see how much they're sweating, how tight their pants are. The blokes will just wear little tiny pairs of pants, obviously. And so I watched the fights I watched, or the bouts, whatever they call them in parlance, were Seamus versus Gunther. Yeah. And after that, there was a blonde lady
Starting point is 00:06:47 who won some kind of belt whose name I can't remember. Yeah. I wonder if it's called Liv Masters or something. Is that her name? Liv Morgan. Liv Morgan. Okay, right, yeah. They're the ones I watched.
Starting point is 00:06:56 Yeah. So you saw Gunther, who was called Walter forever, and then he goes up a division a little bit, and now he's called Gunter. Nobody knows why. They just have a real penchant for just changing everyone's names until they own every part of their kind of IP, effectively. Right.
Starting point is 00:07:17 But Gunter has a real love of doing big slaps. Big fucking slaps. Yeah, there were a lot of slapping going more slapping than i thought there would be yeah he's not he's known for being having big hands and there's a famous picture of him do if you type in like walter slap wrestling uh you'll just see a man hitting another man's chest so hard that it ripples uh in the most disgusting way you've ever seen in your life. But he just knows how to absolutely slam his hands on a man's chest until there's a disgusting ripple kind of effect on it. Well, that's a great claim to fame.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Not one I expected to hear about today. But that's why Seamus' chest was all fucked up. So one of the things I found quite interesting was the fact that, so Seamus, who I did know, who's been around for a long time, he must have been around for like 20 years. I vaguely remember his kind of because I think he's Irish isn't he like and and so um not the traditional kind of all-american kind of wrestler type and one thing I wasn't really prepared for either was how much the front rows of the crowd were into it they're like so into into it. Yeah. It was, it was,
Starting point is 00:08:26 it was, I think with, especially at that sort of rate, if you're, to be fair, if you're paying, there are people who were in the, because obviously it was at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff,
Starting point is 00:08:37 whatever the fuck they call it now. And we were at the very back. We couldn't have been any further back. We were at 60 quid tickets each. And we had an atrocious view of... Did you get people recognising you as being the WrestleMe boys? A couple of times, yeah, a few times, yeah. And hello, anyone, WrestleManiacs.
Starting point is 00:08:56 Hello, Pat Patronsons, et cetera, who came up and said hello. But we were right at the back, so we couldn't see fuck all. So the screens were very useful to us. But then there's that midpoint where, if you're at the back, so we couldn't see fuck all. So the screens were very useful to us. But then there's like that midpoint where if you're at the football, you would be at the front of the crowd. You know what I mean? Because you've got the floor people, and then behind them, you've got the people who, if, would be behind the advertising hoardings
Starting point is 00:09:16 at a football match. Yeah, I'm not even going to do it. And they were paying something like 200 quid for tickets still. And yet they couldn't see anything either they were miles away from everything so it's such a big money spinner and they they call capacity like 60 000 63 000 um the woe have um it's it's not libelous to say they frequently do bullshitty things on on the attendance they they they count people They count people who work in the... in the...
Starting point is 00:09:47 selling beer. They count people like staff. They count people who rig the joint and stuff as people who've watched the show. How many people are they climbing with them? So they said it was 62. Bless you! Bless you again! Oh, lordy.
Starting point is 00:10:03 Someone think of the common man. Yeah, he... it was probably a lot less than that and to be honest half of the or a good third of the stadium was out of bounds because they didn't put seats there because it's behind the camera so there's no people there. So those
Starting point is 00:10:20 listening who listen to the Football Rambler as well will know of the legend that is Big Pav and he took his those listening who listen to the Football Rambler as well will know of the legend that is Big Pav. And he took his wife and his three kids to that event and he told me it cost 1,800 quid. I mean, good fucking Lord. How do you even square that away? That's amazing.
Starting point is 00:10:40 Absolutely amazing. Yeah, he's got loads of money, but he was still moaning about it. Well, actually... That's not even to do with that's not even transport and hotels and everything no and the hotel
Starting point is 00:10:50 we got lucky because I met Gav he bought tickets because he's he's a seasoned Welshman who knows what Cardiff's like
Starting point is 00:10:59 on a night like that and he bought tickets he bought a hotel room he rented a hotel room what do you do fucking get a hotel room he rented a hotel room what did you do fucking get a hotel room yeah
Starting point is 00:11:06 got a hotel room for the night everyone else was like 500 quid minimum 500 fucking notes and everyone was like all the Airbnbs like an Ibis or something
Starting point is 00:11:14 500 notes they were all at least 300 quid like and a normal hotel room and that was just hostels did you make some
Starting point is 00:11:22 beautiful memories we did make some beautiful memories we had a good time I drank half a bottle of Gaviscon never done that and that was just hostels. Did you make some beautiful memories? We did make some beautiful memories. We had a good time. I drank half a bottle of Gaviscon. Never done that before. That was brilliant.
Starting point is 00:11:29 That was fucking brilliant. Why did you do that? Well, the night before I went out for a drink with my mate Al who's for some reason in Southend and we went for a drink
Starting point is 00:11:36 and I had one of those you know those like in an IPA place that you have like sours and stuff and I was like let's try one of these
Starting point is 00:11:44 sour things and I had a couple of sours and I was like they're not too bad actually they're like you know they're pretty interesting and i like something i like the tart uh tartar end of stuff uh and then the next night i was like yeah i'll have one of them actually i'll have a couple of sours before we go in and i'll have a i'll have a cider and i was feeling full of the joy of spring and then oh body doesn't like it uh And so as soon as we left the wrestling, I had to go and drink an entire half bottle of Gaviscon.
Starting point is 00:12:11 Just an amazing amount of Gaviscon. I'm not sure you should be doing that. Can you overdose on it? I don't know, because Americans drink Pepto-Bismol, don't they? They just fucking slam it down. You can drink a whole bottle of Pepto-Bismol.
Starting point is 00:12:23 I mean, you'd be shitting through the eye of a needle. I don't know if you should be saying that on a podcast. You can drink a whole bottle of Pepto-Bismol? I saw Gordon Ramsay on Hot Ones, you know, when he ate the hot wings. Yeah, that's a really good episode of Hot Ones, that one. Yeah, and he's just constantly burping and slamming Pepto-Bismol.
Starting point is 00:12:40 So he must know what he's talking about. He's a big man. He's a big man on campus. But yes, in summary, it was a lot of fun. Got to tick off a few people, like Burley and Asker, who I'd never seen wrestle.
Starting point is 00:12:56 And then it got to the end, and the hometown kind of hero, even though it wasn't really his hometown, Drew McIntyre. Drew McIntyre, Scottish. And he basically, he's been wanting this pay-per-view to happen in the United Kingdom for years.
Starting point is 00:13:14 Like, you know, that was kind of his mission. And he's been, you know, plugging away at it. So, come on, let's do a pay-per-view. And it's the first one since SummerSlam 92 or 93 or whatever it was. And so, like, it's not on for a very long time. And he gets it and he loses against... Sorry, yeah, he does a good fight against Roman Reigns
Starting point is 00:13:36 and Roman Reigns defeats him thanks to help by... What's his name? The boxer, the big boxer. Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury. So Tyson Fury helps him, shakes his name, the boxer, the big boxer. Tyson Fury. Tyson Fury. So Tyson Fury helps him, shakes his hand in the ring. Roman Reigns leaves with the belt and wears it, everyone. Goodbye, everyone. Acknowledge me.
Starting point is 00:13:55 Daddy eats first. All that stuff. All that bollocks. I'm the biggest dog in the yard. Bollocks. And he leaves. And then Drew McIntyre kind of sort of has a little sing-song with Tyson Fury. Yes, that's like Tyson Fury's thing.
Starting point is 00:14:12 I know, but why is... Tyson Fury's just helped his opposition win the belt. Wrestling's not real, though, is it? It's a theatre, isn't it? It is theatre but even for wrestling and I am pretty across it at the moment the old wrestling
Starting point is 00:14:30 that's a bit mad that was a bit of a mad decision what does Big Vince think about all this I don't know he's probably he's probably just
Starting point is 00:14:36 keeping his head down I imagine I would be if I was him but all in all it was a fun show saw a lot of slaps everyone was very
Starting point is 00:14:43 excited to see Edge and we were right at the back. Mark was talking and a lady in front told him, be quiet. Be quiet. She sounds like a Poacher subscriber. The best thing was that I think at the time, Mark was saying how much he thinks he should be a wrestler,
Starting point is 00:15:03 which is funny. Oh, my goodness me which is funny it's funny let's have a break Peter when we come back we'll reward our listeners who
Starting point is 00:15:11 don't give a shit about wrestling for sticking with us by not talking about wrestling in the second half how about that okay if anything
Starting point is 00:15:17 should be rewarded we're back and it's the Luke and Pete show Luke did you see that clip from this morning with Phil and what's our chops Holly Pete show. Luke, did you see that clip from this morning with Phil and... What's our chops?
Starting point is 00:15:27 Holly. They're doing a spin to win. Holly, they're doing a spin to win to win the energy, Phil. It made me feel really, really sad. Tell people what it was. So it was basically, they were doing a bit of a wheel of fortune
Starting point is 00:15:39 and I think they had collars on and the collars get the opportunity to spin to win and you can either win one grand, three grand or, which is probably more these days, your energy bills. And it's just a bit depressing, isn't it? Yeah, the guy who was playing on the phone, like, I mean, by his own admission said,
Starting point is 00:16:01 you know, he's on the bones of his arse and he was really hoping for the energy bill prize and then that's what he did get on the wheel of fortune on the uk's premier uh daytime tv program and um so he was delighted that he got i think they they said they'll pay the energy bills for four months for him and that is now a prize on a daytime tv show in the uk it's it's a bit uh you know you see like videos like north korea and you go wow that is what kind of video well just like well literally a tv show giving away fucking energy bills or giving you uh i don't know it's giving you like a new wall for your
Starting point is 00:16:45 house or something just something i'm pleased they made it clear on this morning because it just said energy bill i'm pleased they weren't just going to hand you another bill congratulations you want an energy bill i don't want that ah nuts never mind i don't even have gas in my house you do now yeah it's Absolutely atrocious. It's all very kind of depressing. I think also it's so odd because, you know, we're having a moan up about water and the water companies, that kind of stuff the other week.
Starting point is 00:17:19 I was down at my parents' last weekend. Loads of water down there. Say again? Loads of water down there. I know. And I'm going to come on to that in a minute. Not to drop to drink. I'm going to come on to that in a minute. So anyway, I'm water down there say again loads of water down there I know and I'm gonna come on to that in a minute not to drop to drink I'm gonna come on to that
Starting point is 00:17:26 in a minute so anyway I'm driving down there and there's a massive load of um traffic and the reason is surprisingly
Starting point is 00:17:33 yet another fucking water main is burst and there's just water pissing out everywhere and no one there fixing it and and it made me
Starting point is 00:17:41 um it made me um double down on my act of civil disobedience, i.e. using the garden hose still whenever I want, because if they're not going to sort their act out, then fuck them. But this might be a particularly stupid question. So, I mean, fear for the laugh at me, both you, Pete, and anyone listening. But two-thirds of the world is covered by water, right?
Starting point is 00:18:03 I don't understand why there's not been huge amounts of progress in the idea of desalination and stuff like that, because clearly that could be an answer to this. What do you mean? As in you just think pump a load of water out of the... Yeah, but it just takes a lot of energy, doesn't it? Wouldn't it take less energy to purify the water we should already have in the reservoirs?
Starting point is 00:18:23 Well, I know that there are desalination plants in the UK, but what I'm talking about is more the technology of it, that why it isn't kind of a lot more effective or why we don't use it an awful lot more than we do, if you know what I mean. Because there's a desalination plant run by Thames Water in London, right? But it only started construction in 2008 um oh right okay and it can only produce i think 140 million liters of water a day or so which
Starting point is 00:18:53 sounds like a lot but i guess in the grand scheme of things perhaps isn't i wondered why it's taken so long for this stuff to happen particularly when you talk about like places that are genuinely in drought or all the rest of it proper droughts that are affecting the economies and all the rest of it it just seems to me like a little bit remiss of us as a species and i'll be totally honest with you i've done nothing towards this right so i'm as much to blame as anyone else but it just seems crazy to me that like the whole world is covered by so much water that it can't be that hard to desalinate or and you know what this you know what things are like the more technology progresses the more it's invested in the better it gets the more efficient it gets etc etc but it doesn't really seem to have happened no one really talks about it that much
Starting point is 00:19:33 no well maybe it's just it's just not um it's not workable i don't know i mean is the water too far away from us i don't know like i mean i guess we're an island for fuck's sake but wouldn't they sort of go... So basically, the water companies, they're losing all the water from their shitty pipes that they've not bothered to pay for the infrastructure for. So instead of paying that money and slicing the bonuses, what we can do is get some tax breaks from the government
Starting point is 00:20:04 to build new facilities and get loans from the government to build new facilities and get loans from the bank to build new facilities. It's all sexy and that. And then we can cream a little bit of money off the top, yeah? Well, it sounds like it might be a bit like that, but sea levels are rising. That's a problem. Take the excess sea levels and desalinate them and use them for water.
Starting point is 00:20:24 Like Edwina Curry on the breakfast television. That was amazing as well. What the fuck is she doing? With the foil. Let's just evolve to drink salty water. Do you know what the thing about Edwina Curry and those listening from outside the UK, you will be blissfully unaware of the existence of Edwina Curry.
Starting point is 00:20:41 She's like an ex-conservative member of parliament in the UK. And this is the thing I've got beef with, right? I can probably just about stretch myself to understanding the logic that if you are currently a serving MP and you are awful, fine, right? You're awful. You sometimes have to go out there and do your job, right? So you have to just stand in a bucket of shit
Starting point is 00:21:03 on behalf of what you consider to be the greater good and talk about shit on TV that makes you embarrassed, right? No, I wouldn't do it, and I'm sure you wouldn't, Peter, and many of our listeners wouldn't, but people do do that, and I understand why they do it, even though I wouldn't do it. Edwina Couric's made her dough, right? She is
Starting point is 00:21:20 older, she doesn't need this, she doesn't need to be doing it, she's not an MP anymore. She hasn't been for a long time. She's made her dough. Why is she going on this TV show and talking about poor people in her words, quote, unquote, poor people
Starting point is 00:21:34 just need to learn how to live without central heating and learn how to put foil behind their... You don't need to be doing this. Just say no. You're making an absolute cunt of yourself. But where does that... how does that kind of how do you get from the point of view
Starting point is 00:21:50 of the TV show on ITV like what how does it how do they get all the why do they ask Edwina Curry
Starting point is 00:21:57 why do they ask where's the agents is it an agent do they just call the agency and go have you got anyone who's got any kind of air of authority a recognisable face come on the telly and say something fucking batshit agents is it an age do they just call the agency or have you got anyone who's got any kind of air
Starting point is 00:22:05 of authority a recognizable face come on the telly and say something fucking batshit is that kind of the way so if it's replicate if it's replicable like when i was on talk radio like talk sport yeah in the production meeting you would have these issues that you were going to cover on the show and you say right who knows someone to come on and talk about this yeah and so one of the producers will say oh um i'll call edwina sure she might do it and they'll call her and say do you want to do it i need you on at five past or whatever can you come on yeah and that happens all the time now particularly in post-covid because people don't come in so they have to organize it so that's what we would do we'd say look um i would say like oh yeah there's been an announcement i'll send the champions league
Starting point is 00:22:44 draws coming up or whatever. Yeah. We need to cover it today. Can anyone find someone? And I would call Andy Brassel or Horncastle or Lars or someone and say, do you want to come on? And they would sort the fee out and then they would come on. So it basically just works like that,
Starting point is 00:22:57 I think. So she's obviously so out of touch that she's got nothing on that morning. She's probably, you know, the Bridge Club's not fucking, you know, not in season or, you know, there's no fucking cake competition to be judging down the fucking
Starting point is 00:23:08 local village hall or something she's just doing it like yeah to me it's baffling because i saw something i found really interesting which is funny it's like all these like brexit types mostly got older older kind of conservative voters you know it's fine up to them um but they're there i saw someone tweet saying all these older got people pensioners who are starting to um all these people in their 60s who were kicking off about the fact that they didn't have central heating when they were growing up so young people should just get on with it are about to find out the differences between a teenager's immune system and a 60 year old's because if it happens to you it might be very different at that age you know and these are these are these older people like you shouldn't
Starting point is 00:23:51 become that type of person who is like what i perceive to have had it hard so you should as well or you should have it worse like sometimes you hear these kind of and they're normally right wing conservative type people and and you hear them talking about how if young people just stopped eating avocados or buying expensive coffees or you know they would be able to do all the things that that person was able to do with no idea and it's just complete fucking nonsense it's bullshit but it's just economy doesn't work for young people now that's the problem but it's the same kind of like you know i did we talk about the the the the's the same kind of like you know we talk about the the the the culture war being kind of um imported wholesale from the us and and it doesn't really
Starting point is 00:24:31 fit it's a bit of a square peg in a round hole for us i think sometimes so right that's why it's it's dying a little bit and that's why you know i think the second generation of this absolute fucking disaster of a government will probably find it a lot more difficult than even Boris Johnson did. And so I think with... So I think... What do you mean? Generating like an imaginary enemy and getting people hit up about shit? Yeah, I just think some of Liz's trust in particular,
Starting point is 00:24:59 who is, you know, I've been... I've got a record on this fucking podcast. I am fucking... I cannot wait for it all to get started properly because she is a wonderful maniac like just about
Starting point is 00:25:10 as bad as it's ever been I think I would agree with that for she's a unique maniac in a in a
Starting point is 00:25:18 in a front bench of unique maniacs if anyone can comment on that I think you are well over your rights mate finally your tickets have come home I don't I don't even say these things out loud.
Starting point is 00:25:26 And so, like, I find my mum and dad kind of texting the same kind of talking points, just the same fucking talking points that the Daily Mail, in particular, have sort of picked up and have kind of run with. So it's kind of it's it's that generation it's it's not about anything they've come up by themselves it's just fucking the daily mail it's just it's not it's not their own there's not and there's not there's not there's never been any sort of independent thought so like they're not coming up with this stuff they're just repeating because they're tired yeah and i think those kind of soundbites it's a replacement
Starting point is 00:26:05 for charisma these days they're generating what the daily mail's there they're generated on purpose for people to repeat them aren't they that's what that's why like um that's why political parties have slogans for example and that's why newspapers do that kind of thing but i'll tell you why this to me why this is relevant and i you know i know people don't want us to be preaching forever and i understand that but like the reason this is important for all of us and the reason this is relevant and i know people don't want us to be preaching forever and i understand that but like the reason this is important for all of us and the reason this is relevant i believe is because you cannot keep squeezing and squeezing and squeezing particularly young people and expect it to go on forever and be okay and what i mean by that is you are going to get a generation of young people now we know because we work with we you know we employ we're very proud to employ and work with a lot of young people like relatively
Starting point is 00:26:48 speaking we you know we employ a good a good you know handful of them and they're all amazing and i'm a great admirer of them for lots of different reasons but one of the main reasons we have to admire them i think is because they are entering into what is you know implicitly a social contract with society. Yeah. It says if they invest themselves and they work hard and they do this, these are the returns they're going to get. And for our generation, the returns are things like, you know,
Starting point is 00:27:13 you own your own house, I own my own house. Everyone older than us, generally speaking, has an opportunity to own their own house. It's not going to be long before the generation currently, the young generation coming out of university now, or perhaps the generation behind them, are going to look at this society and go it's not fucking worth it why the fuck would i bother why am i going to bother moving to london moving to manchester moving to birmingham moving to glasgow edinburgh and work really hard in my chosen field for a
Starting point is 00:27:38 pittance knowing i'm never going to be able to own a home i'm never realistically going to be able to support a family without government help. The social contract isn't worth it. So I don't accept it. And if that happens, the whole economy will collapse because the most productive people in this economy are fucking hardworking young people. And of course, there's always going to be a certain section of them
Starting point is 00:28:01 who are going to be okay because they've got parental income or family wealth to rely on, or they go into certain trades that are still protected in terms of their salaries but at the moment it's embarrassing for for young people because you know we have to walk around our office and we know that they're never going to be able to afford these things even though we pay them as much as we possibly can so like people have to be very very careful endlessly slating young people as lazy and feckless and making poor decisions when the economy does not work for them. Sooner or later, they are going to say, thanks, but no thanks. I'm going somewhere else.
Starting point is 00:28:33 Or I'm going to embark on a completely non-traditional lifestyle because it's not worth it for me. So we have to be careful on that stuff. And people like Edwina Curry doing that stupid shit. Yes, on the surface, it's just some old Tory tory being an idiot right but it actually means something more if we carry on doing this and it's something we've got to be very careful about i believe do you remember debbie curry's uh single though do you remember her daughter's you're being serious really no remember i don't remember this at all. Yeah, she was... She just looked like Edwina Curry.
Starting point is 00:29:08 It was in, like, the 90s. OK, I'm starting to get a couple of bells rung. Now, looking at her, yeah. It's not her fault what her mum does, though, is it? No. I don't know. I think she's quite vocal in the same way she was quite vocal to him well if she's got
Starting point is 00:29:26 some dreadful opinions then they are very much her own fault but I'm just saying you can't blame the daughter for the perceived sins of the mother
Starting point is 00:29:32 is what I'm saying yeah true true she's got she did her best I don't think Edwina Curry is currently doing
Starting point is 00:29:39 her best no put some foil over your daughter put some foil behind your daughter's career and you'll find the warmth
Starting point is 00:29:47 will radiate around the music industry alright then we'll be back on Thursday for more battery brands and great stories
Starting point is 00:29:59 from the world of I'm trying to think what I've got for next show car rental not my own and other stuff battery brands the world of car... I'm trying to think what I've got for next show. Car rental. Not my own.
Starting point is 00:30:08 And other stuff. Battery brands. Doll cards and stuff. I'm actually in a bit of a car rental dispute and feud with a well-known car rental company at the moment, so maybe I can lend a voice on that as well. Bring it on, baby. Bring it on.
Starting point is 00:30:19 See you later, guys. Enjoy. Have a great week. See you Thursday. you later guys enjoy have a great week see you thursday The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack production and part of the Acast Creator Network.

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