The Luke and Pete Show - The Ice Have It

Episode Date: February 19, 2026

On today’s episode, Luke and Pete contend with some of the grim realities of the ruling classes on both sides of the pond. In unfortunate news for Peter, a truly dreadful man shares his passion for the Toyota Century.There’s also some ice bath chat, a big battery submission and a brief look back at Pete’s dating history.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [e-mail]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey Joe. I'm joined by Mr. Lucie Moore. You're the only person that calls me Lucie Moore anymore and you're also the only person who puts Mr in front of my name. I know, me, but it's just

when you're sort of starting something up you just sort of, you lay on your... It's my goodness, me. Is it? Is it? Is it? Is it? Is it?

That's cute. My goodness. That's really cute. My son started saying, what did you say? What did you say? Yeah, like a proper Londoner. We've both got cockney kids, haven't we?

I think he gets it from nurse. Cookneys. So he used to say pardon and now he just goes What did you say? It's funny. What did you say,

I got in trouble this morning because I saw in the office this morning I got a WhatsApp from the Wi-Fi of access to and it was a video and it was of her opening the freezer pulling a drawer out

and the ice cube tray being totally empty and she said Oh, as an American Americans do tent to like ice. Throw ice coffee throw ice coffee.

She replied, on the little caption she put straight to jail, right? I kind of agree with that because if your day revolves around or is definitely involved,

you can't make ice quickly. Yeah, but let me, exactly, and I have sympathy for it. Can I please give you the context that I go with her? Right, this was this morning. Yeah.

Last night, my, I gave my snow bath. Right. He's in the bath. No, well, training. Is he in training?

He's obsessed with ice. Right. Ice cubes. Yeah. He loves him. Ah. So you make a moat. It's water bottle.

Yeah. He wants ice cubes in him. And what he's recently started saying is. You are in so much trouble. I want ice in the bath, right? Right. So I go and get the ice cube tray, and I put the ice cubes from the tray into like a little jug,

little plastic jug, and I use to wash his hair and stuff. And... Does he make you fill up with that blue bottle of water? Like that man gets up for... Orr. Ashton Hall. Yeah.

Yeah. And I give him the jug of ice cubes, and what he likes to do, it's quite cool. I quite like it. The science behind it's interesting because he's like... He's starting to work out now. If I put this ice cube in the warm water... it disappeared.

Yeah. And he's like, Daddy, where's it gone? Yeah. It's a teachable moment, right? Yeah. And it's fun for him. And yeah,

is it tedious after 30 of them? Yes. But that's what a two-year-old's like. So we're doing all that stuff. And then, because he's two, and I'm sure you'll have this with your daughter, he has to do everything himself.

Right? So he, I say, but now we've got to put the ice tray back in the freezer. Yeah. And we need to fill up. Yeah,

yeah, I should have done that. But we need to fill out with water first. So we get the little ladder out for him to get up to the sink. we put the cold tap on and we start to fill it up and then he says no daddy we can't fill the ice tray up because I don't want to get water on my pyjamas I'm like, should I fill it up?

No no you don't fill it up just put it back in there as it is right and you think I'll do this later yeah and I was like okay I don't want to have a meltdown before bed so I just do that and obviously having the fact that I've got a brain that's like a sieve now

because I've never getting any sleep I just left it in there so it looks like a dig at my wife's routine it looks of lots of Enjoy your ice coffee. I've not said to it at any point we haven't got any ice. I've not left the I tray out.

I've just put it in there empty. The ice have it. Yeah. The ice have it. Think of an ice pun. So that's the context. So I replied with that, explaining myself,

and she didn't reply. So, there we go. Maybe it needed PowerPoint. I can't use PowerPoint. We talked about Adobe software on... Everyone's Canva now, isn't it? Yeah, I can get an email about it? Do you want to use Canva a bit more from Canva?

Can I make... You're like, we all do you use it? Don't worry about it? Can I make a confession? Right. The only software of that type that I've ever used competently is Word slash Google Docs

and Excel slash Google Sheets. Right. I've never used Photoshop. Never used After Effects. Never used PowerPoint. None of that stuff. Right. So you've never...

Are you like a paintbrush? That's another thing that's got... Microsoft Paint. I suppose as an AI assistant on it. Fucking Microsoft Paint. Mind Sweeper, yes. Yeah. Solitaire.

Yes. pinball on Windows 2000 machines. Don't think I had Windows 2000. What? It was the best way. It was such a good... I had 98 and XP. God, I loved Windows 2000.

XP was a bit of a baby out with the bath bottle, what a situation. But Windows apparently has never been worse. Like the performances... What are we on now? What's the model? I don't know. I think it's called it Windows.

I don't know. That's Windows 12? Windows 11? I think it might be Windows 11. What Apple software iOS system are we using? I'm on Ventura. Is that the most recent?

Yeah, I don't know. I can never keep track of those. They just kind of pop up when they fancy it. Yeah, Windows 11 launching in... Oh, version 26H1, launching in 2020. Yeah, I think we're on in Windows 11, but it's awful apparently. Everyone hates it. Huh. I've not used Windows for so long. I'm a Macbook guy. Well, I do think, because Windows is so bad and people are kind of used to max, I think a good Linux distraaw would probably turn a few heads these days. Because everything uses browsers nowadays. You do most of your stuff on like Google Docs or whatever. You never need anything more than Google Chrome.

No, exactly. And obviously the thing I use, the thing about Google Docs is it's wherever you want it to be. It's obvious. It's so much easier. Yeah. And so... Unless you're, unless you're on a train, there's a bit of pain.

What's Linux? Linux is like Windows or your Mac OS. It's an operating system. But it's public domain. People can change it, modify it. It's like Wikipedia. Well, yeah. But it's kind of like a...

It's a toolbox that people can modify. It's been around for decades, and people, if you want something that's more focused towards, I don't know, sound creation, you can do that. If you want the thing that runs a server, you can run it. Most of the like the servers will run on Linux. That sounds good.

It is good. It's good. Fiddly, though. Fiddley. While I fully appreciate this isn't the major... Steam deck runs on it. Does it really? Okay, that makes sense. They're massive, though, steamedks. Yeah, huge. I want a steam deck, but small. It's not comparable.

Wait on you. If I'm lying in bed It's because American guys I've big cargo pants It's true But if I'm lying in bed on my back playing Zelda on the switch Yeah

Even after a while my arms get tired Yeah And that's a swing deck Yeah I'll be out of four arms like Popeye Anyway What I appreciate this Isn't the main takeaway

From the Epstein file story Right Did you see that one that came out About how they were Some of his like cronies Or his staff or whatever Were reputation washing his Wikipedia page Oh right, okay

They were modifying that's at For a convicted sex trafficker, that's got to be while he's still alive. It's really funny, the matter of fact email. I don't know who it was who was sending it, but who was in charge of this thing, but obviously he's letting him know that this is what we've done. So just so you know, Jeffrey,

up until last week, your name on Wikipedia was being searched for X amount of million times more or whatever because there's stuff. And it was saying, financier, philanthropist, sex offender. But what we've done is we've changed it

to now it just says financier philanthropist and but the thing was the real good stuff. We did have to write money fucker. No, we get into the real good stuff.

They were basically claiming I don't know you'd have to tell me more about this because I don't really know. They were claiming that they put like blocks and hacks on the regular Wikipedia

users that were kept updating it back to stop them doing it. Well, I don't think they'd be able to do that but they'd certainly be able to report them as sort of saying

you know, you could keep reporting them couldn't you? to slow them down a little bit, but someone else has always got to come along to... Let me find out what they were saying. Well, the worst thing for me is, Luke, that the financier, Jeffrey Epstein,

seemed to be obsessed with the Toyota Century, the car. I know. That was sad, wasn't it? He was constantly requesting an elongated version of the Toyota Century that I have, which it seems weird because that car is already too long. So basically... He probably has a drive. Toyota Century, Peptobismo.

And beef jerky. Chuck is so dors. It's unbelievable. So I've got it here. So one of the files that was released was an email in 2010 from a guy called Al Sekel. I don't know who he is. And I'll just read it to you. They have all sorts of protection around your mugshot picture on Wiki.

And so we are hacking Wiki now to remove it and replace it with the photo that you sent, which will have the headline, Jeffrey Epstein, businessman, philanthropist. Right. By the way, we also took you out of the sex offender category and removed the headline in beginning sentence from Wiki that also stated sex offender.

So now it just reads Businessman Philanthropist. We recorded the IP addresses for the people who were going in and changing our edits back, and we hacked the site to block them back in. That's why the site is now stable. Yeah, he didn't. Is he talking shit? I think he's talking shit there. You know, nobody hacks Wikipedia. Well, they'd certainly don't anymore.

So you actually just show it off to his boss? Just telling, yeah, telling a granddad. Yeah, yeah, we fixed it, definitely, yeah. Oh, you're probably looking at an old version. You probably, you internet's probably cashed the old version. Isn't that funny though, isn't it? Absolutely. We've taken you out this sex offender's category now.

Cheers. I didn't sell for the other to do that. Oh, it's just mad. Like I said, I know it's not the main takeaway.

No. But I'll tell you what is, I'll tell you what is bad though. Did you see the, there's no reason why you would have seen this, but I saw it because I walked past the newsagent, well, I started actually a newsaget's a petrol station on the way to the station.

And the front page of the sun this morning on the day of recording was all this stuff about Andrew Matt, back on Windsor again. Right. And about how... Back up and running, is he? Well, the son are reporting that

3 million pounds of the 12 million pounds he paid off Virginia, Geoffrey, or Jafray, to... for her silence, basically, came from... A loan from now King Charles and 9 million pounds came from

the estate of Queen Elizabeth II as a loan, and he's paid not a penny of it back. So basically, the public purse is... for the royal family to silence a victim of rape. A victim of rape, yeah. Look, I mean, but it's weird, isn't it?

When you put it like that, it's really, really bad, though, isn't it? Yeah, massively. And you would probably say that Britain, it has been one of the more motivated partners in this sorry affair in the same way that, like... How do you mean? Well, like, most of Trump's cronies are involved in all of this. Yeah. And no heads has rolled because it would affect Trump.

But in Britain, we've obviously, you know, Mountbatten Windsors have obviously been Mountbatten Winters and rather than his previous title. And it looks like Marlinson and Starram might lose a job. It looks like Starram might lose his job over it and stuff. I mean, it's stark, isn't it? And we're still on the hook for however million pounds to silence a rape victim. It's astonishing. It's bad.

And the congressional hearing with Pam Bondi the other day was wild. It's absolutely wild. She's mean girl. Oh my God. I don't believe it. Can you believe it? But what I mean is, like, if you watch those hearings that have been going on for such a long time, I'm an integral part of American democracy.

The Dow! But it's just, it's like, how can you watch that and not think this is not for the purpose? No. I know there's a certain amount of grandstanding and driving. 70 seconds. Yeah, yeah. I want 17 seconds. Yeah.

You've not answered the question. Let me start on. I think you've perjured yourself. There was a situation back in the day. I think it might have been, this is how long of these stuff has been going on and I might not have the details right here, but just to give you some perspective, I'm definitely on nodding terms of the detail from what I can remember.

Like when the camera was first invented, there was a bit of a scandal because a guy snuck into a congressional hearing and took some photos with this very like primitive, camera. And it became a scandal. It was like, fuck it, you shouldn't be taking photos of this. This is crazy. You know, what you're doing? This new technology is going to steal all our souls and hell and a handcuff, all that kind of stuff. Yeah.

I appreciate that was a long time ago. But it does show you at least at one point in the past, it was seen as actually quite serious business. Yeah. You think about some of the some of the stuff around, I don't know, Nixon and Watergate and the Vietnam War and even stuff a bit further back than that. Like, there's always an element of theatre to it. And America is, everything is an extension of the entertainment industry in America. We know that. But this is like something else entirely.

And you wait for that Clinton one. That Clinton one's going to be wild. Yeah, explosive. Right. That's going to cross the threshold, that Clinton one, whenever it happens. It will be the TV event of the year. But they're too, but they're both too clever, aren't they? To give the people what they want. They're too clever to give

a sorry display. My read on it, as primitive as it is, is that James Comer, who is a complete fucking wanker and a massive grand stander and a complete died-in-the-wall fucking weirdo Maga guy has made a lot of hay of digging out the Clintons in some cases rightly so because they've not carried himself on the amazing amount of credit to say the least right they're not where they shouldn't be seen as the good guys here i don't think no but the clinters have turned around and said sure all right

well they've massively called called his bluff eventually sort of say yeah but they've called this bluff by saying we're not scared of anything yeah you shouldn't be scared of anything we'll do it but we'll do it publicly but then what but what have they realistic got. I get the sense that Clinton is just one of those, Bill, this time. It's one of those guys that, like people who sort of leave politics, they sort of float around rich people, just trying to

scrabble a bit of money away. And he's obviously got interests outside of that. He's in a bloc who just likes fucking women and stuff. But there's certain stuff in there, mate, that is... What's he realistically going to say? At the very least, given that half the committee will be

political enemies of his, and there are no standards left, as we just discussed, at the very least, best day, on the best day, it's going to be hugely embarrassing for him. And that's just... Oh, yeah, yeah. For him. But then, but then you sort of look at the way that

the, the, the Republicans are sort of dealing with, it's sort of saying, oh yeah, you, well, you know, you don't, you don't want Clinton to get in trouble. It's like, yeah, the Democrats, to their credit, are saying, no, absolutely fine, we don't care. If he's, if he's involved in any of this, he needs to be fucking roster, he needs to be behind bars,

etc., etc. But they're sort of treating it as it's like a fucking team sport, isn't it? That's exactly what it's like. When one side is massively saturated by Maga Epstein fans and problematic men.

But have you heard of, and I'm not saying there's any kind of credence in this or that's true or anything like that. I'm not saying any of this stuff. But we have to understand the playing field as it currently is, which is that it's mad, right? Have you heard of the Clinton Body Count conspiracy?

God, they've got so many conspiracies. Yeah, where there's like, there's like, oh yeah, like a lot of people, a lot of, um, helpers and kind of, kind of a bit of, the people who believe in that conspiracy theory, which by the way, all populate the fucking public and part at the moment,

attribute like 50 suspicious deaths to the Clintons, right? You tell them me, chefs and stuff. Is that not going to come up? Obama lost a chef, I think, at one point. You're not serious and telling him that's not going to come up. It's going to be mad. It's going to be totally mad.

But what they're going to do is they're going to, like someone who is a genuinely very problematic character. in the case of Donald Trump, who's also the current president, they're going to dish. They're going to dish, mate. But I don't think they've got, they haven't got anything to dish, though, have they?

Trump was funded the Clintons for years before he turned heel. He used to fund them. It's all grouped together, mate. It's going to be massive. And the point being that it's going to cross the threshold into the TV event at a year when it's not even a TV issue, or it shouldn't be.

So it's going to be fascinating. Yeah. That's all I'm saying. Anyway, I did say on the Monday show that I've been a couple of good TV shows I wanted to talk to you about. You got unexcited about it so we didn't do it on that day.

I didn't. It's just a weird thing to promise. Let's do a break. Let's come back and do a battery because we've got a battery and then we'll do a bit of TV. This is how we ended the first half of the last show.

You promised. I'm going to make it happen. We'll see, won't we? Not going to let you get away with it. The battery thing's really delicious. In the words of Jesse Pinkman in Breaking Baddy, he can't keep getting away with this.

All right, we'll be back in a second. I'm about with Luke Pete's your battery. Yes, tell me. They could power a television. You could watch a show on. Maybe we'll get to it. Maybe we want. Yes.

Philip Riley has got in touch. He got in touch on the 4th of February. Nice little dating there of the email. Thank you very much, producer Bruno. Hi, lads. Not sure if this is allowed to rechargeable phone in my daughter's torch. It is allowed. It is allowed.

My last submission was closed with only one other one, so fingers crossed. Nice one. Let's go. Is that a quote from somewhere? Nice one. Let's go. kind regards. It's like that meme.

Okay, let's go. Go. Go. Go. It's a lithium ion battery. Electric. E-L-E-D-T-Tric. Instead of electric, they've done a little play on L-D-D-D-Rick.

So it's like a pun on LED and electric. Yeah. Well. What do you think of the battery? Do you like it? I like the LED light little design. I like the blue and silver. I think it looks futuristic.

in the 80s kind of way. So, yeah, I'm fond. It's a new player. Yes. We're back. Do it. Yes. Yeah.

We're back, baby. Yeah. I'm going to use the Jackson's like, The Bebeadia beep. Do some other ones. Show some fucking respect. Yeah, nice.

Biddy, biddy, nice. Battery, battery, battery. Yeah. Get what I said, battery battery battery. Great news for the battery robot. No,

no. No, no. No, no. Good news for the battery robot. Who isn't here today, is he? No, he's not. What's he doing?

Get his oil. Get his oil. getting a service. Well, maybe we'll get a take from him next time we see him. Getting a tire rod end fixed. Great stuff from Philip. Thank you very much, Philip.

Good work. Philip C. Riley. We are back. Yes. That'll piss off the Luke and Pete show Reditors who don't like the battery feature. Are they Redditists? I thought they're just on me.

Fucking hell. It's just, balls deep in there. There's a real anti-Pete Donaldson Geordie stuff going on on the YouTube, I've noticed. Yeah, because I'm a plastic Geordie fan. You invited that to yourself?

What, by having opinions about a football club. How dare I? Well, have slag him off, Bruno. I didn't slag him off. I just said that, I'd said that a club, I'll reiterate it, a club should be entertaining offers of Newcastle's side and ambition. Did you see that someone pointed out Newcastle's record with Bruno and the team and without it?

Yeah, but he plays every match. I think he missed seven matches since he started. That's amazing. Yeah. There's not enough of a data set. You want rid of him, though, yeah? I don't want rid of him. I just said, yeah, fuck it, yeah. I don't care. I'm a busted flat.

I don't have only, tell you don't care, by the way you still go on the about it three months later, yeah. I don't think this been a week. You talked about the Brunner thing? I didn't talk about the Brunner thing. No, but there's not been a week that's gone past. I just say, whatever I say, the Jordy's ever got me.

Yeah, because you're not a proper Geordie. Not a proper Geordie. I don't have a problem with that side of things. Won't you, from Billingham like the man from Maximal Park? What you called Geordie Pete before? Yeah, because Southerners don't know where things are from. Yeah. Yeah. And then you were cheeky Pete.

Cheeky Pete. That was Lauren who gave with that name, right? Yeah. Yeah. Lauren Levin, who's living her best life now. All right.

The life she's got. All right. I tell you what. What? I know it comes up a lot. Right. But let me just say something without being disrespectful to you,

right? Right. You were going out with Lauren. Yeah. I was like Lauren. I knew Lauren before I knew you. Obviously, I met you through her

because she was a colleague of mine and a friend. Yeah. She has leveled up. Fine. She has, mate. Fine, but. You can't deny that.

I'm not saying you haven't as well because I'm the partner. Hugh of Axis too is also lovely, but she has leveled up. Right. Fine. But she will have memories of me, which is the worst. That's like taking a horrible secret to the grave, isn't it? Yeah.

That's like server in the First World War. Yeah, exactly. You know, if other ex-partists... You know, if other ex-partists... But First World War Vecher has been interviewed in the 60s. Yeah. And they really don't want to talk about it. Yeah.

It's like that. But when they get together on Armistice Day... Yeah. When they get together and talk about their times of Pete Donaldson in their little groups I imagine they have.

Do you and Lauren the aforementioned Lauren ever meet together and shake hands in some kind of part of Belgian, Flanders? Have a bit of,

have a game of football? In November. Share a cigarette. Say a cigarette have a game of football. Share some chocolate I've got being sent from home. Oh, what's that?

Is that Lauren walking towards you slowly with a candle singing silent night Christmas day? Emerging from the mist. Do you To give people a little bit more evidence

I'm glad we did Bruno and my ex-girlfriend Lauren Instead of your TV review She's got a I don't know him But he seems like a lovely partner Right She's got two wonderful children She's a million dollars

She's living in Bermuda Fine Honestly What I'll admit It's hard to dress up As a sideways move From woodstockware She would

In uh Heybury She used to live in a flat In Highgate Yeah With you Highbury's last mom. Yeah, leaving crockery and dirty cutlery everywhere.

Right. That's where she came from. Yeah. And look at her now. She's flying. She's flying. She's like pink in a stadium show where she floats around. There may be miracles if you believe.

That's what she's singing. Every day. Good. Look, I completely agree. And I'm not saying you're slamming it. You've got a lovely family life. But I think, I think, possibly, for the soft. There are no direct flights to, um,

Bermuda from South End. She's happy to hear that. Another bonus for her that. But I think philosophically, you might still be slumming it compared to her. Right. I, I, yeah, yeah, fine. I don't know we got on to this.

I'm in a room with you. You're part of the problem. I am. You're part of the rock. You're the dry rot that's bothering my asthma. I'll keeping you down. Should we just do a quick one on TV shows then? All right, then.

It's two I've started watching. I've enjoyed them both a great deal. You may or may not be aware of them. One of them is a comedy called Small Profits. You heard of that? No. New McKenzie Crook, written and directed. You love a bit of crook.

You love a bit of gentle chuckling, not you? It is gentle comedy. Gentle comedy. Did you enjoy the texterists? I saw a couple on a flight and... Bruno's nod and he likes it. Then I watched... Man of taste.

There's a Greek guy, the Greek one. The one about the Greek man who was the estate agent. Oh, Stafflitz flat? That's brilliant. And then I was like, well... Are you from Mark's in that? Yes, he is briefly, yes. I forgot about that.

First episode. Very good, isn't it? Yeah, it's very good. Do you like The Tectorists? I thought it was, I think it was a little too gentle for my tastes. It is gentle. I'm an Eric Andre, man. True, actually, yeah, that's true, yeah.

So it's pretty, very different Eric Andre. I like people shouting. Have you seen that Key and Peel sketch where it's, so who's the other guy, not Jordan Peel? Who's the other guy? What's his first name? I remember his first name. Doesn't matter. Him, anyway.

Richard Keyes. He's playing, sorry, batsman, Robert Key. He's playing a senator and he's talking to a town hall and he's saying about how he's a democratic senator and how tolerant he is and all the rest of it and it's being filmed obviously for a TV spot and he starts talking about different types of people so he starts going if you're black or white

you know if you're young or old if you're rich or you're poor and it starts cutting to different people that says if you're gay or straight or it just gets to Jordan Peel who isn't gay And it keeps cutting to me every time he mentions. And honestly, I was fucking cracking. Honestly, the creativity of that short.

When you watch, like, I know SNL have to write and put it out, you know, really quickly and stuff. And they have to... New UK one coming, by the way. I'm worried for it. Jim Campbell was fighting the good fight with me yesterday. There's some good people. There's some good people in there, and I've met a couple and they're nice.

But I just... It's going to be flat, in it. It's just going to be a lot of Kirstama stuff. I think our... Our entire, even political, sort of base, the sort of problematic people online are very, the right wing people have kind of, they're obsessed for like American stuff now

and the American way of being fascist. So all of our, all of our kind of like historically important satirical sort of points have been co-opted by America to a certain extent. All of our, we don't have any sensations anymore. Let me tell you. It's going to be, 10, over like three weeks,

there'll be 10 fucking sketches about the traitors. Do you know what I mean? A bit of Brexit stuff in there, 10 years on. Yeah. A bit of Brexit stuff in there. Here's the problem with it,

and this is an unpalatable truth, and I think I'm going to take a bit of flack for saying this. We don't even have cap in ladies anymore. No, that's true. But here's the issue. I think you've hit on something there. You alluded to it at least, which is that. If you look at all the kind of...

edgy comedy that comes from America, you have really good people like John Stewart on the left, and you have people like Shane Gillis and Theo Vaughn and Andrew Schultz, some of those are varying different levels of problematic, but you know, you get the point. And they're pretty,

I mean, whatever you think of their politics, they're pretty good, they're like solid, right, they're funny, and with, I think the UK politics stuff always feels, And this is why I'm getting to the point. The reason the American stuff is good is because it's fucking harsh and it's really kind of bombastic.

And whenever you get political comedy recently in the UK, forget brass eye, the day-to-day, all that fucking stuff that was properly challenging. It's all now like Andy Parsons on Mock the Week or someone guest presenting, have I got news for you? No one, it's not, none of it's going to be hard hitting. And on the UK version of Saturday Night Live, none of it is going to be anything other

than soaking wet blanket liberal observational comedy. It's... And you have a problem to be saying that because you think that's the kind of comedy you think you like. No, no, you know what, I have no interest in Radio 4. Nah, but that's what it'll be. It will be Radio 4.

What I will say is, I don't know who the writing people are, but I presume they are slightly... There's less money involved compared to the American version. version and I just worry that. Lord Michaels is involved in it though, isn't he? He is, yeah.

It sounds like they're giving it a good old goal and the cast is challenging I think. The castes, you know, I don't know all of them, but enough to sort of go, oh, they're not doing, the James A Castor is involved, you know what I mean? So at least they're trying. You know, there's a couple of people who've done, you know, some sports on stack stuff, not that long ago. Yeah. And you have to assume that the writing staff are also interesting.

But fundamentally, I think you got to remember. we're in our mid-20s now. It's not for us. It will be... Why not, though? It will because... Saturday night live audiences for us. But I would say that that kind of...

If they're bringing in sort of challenging writers, you know, challenging youth writers, I just think that if we find it crap, I just feel like we may have just aged out of... No, but I think that's a cop-out, Pete. I think that people say that a lot. But it's a mass market... Sure.

I just feel the way they're going to go. I think they're going to give a good old fist But I think they're the right angle. I want it to be good. I love watching comedy programs. We just don't have any touchstones anymore. No, fine. Yeah, that's fine.

But I have a problem when people say, not always, but so there's obvious examples of it. So, for example, if you and I sit down, say we're going to do a fucking mini series of watching TV companion show or whatever here, and we sit down and we go

and we're going to watch Love Islands, right? That's not for us, obviously. I get that that's not for us. So if you did a mainstream ITVX fucking program, that's not going to be for us. So there is hyper-specific focus stuff on certain audiences. It is for our edge though, isn't it?

People are edge watching. I just think that people cop out a lot by saying if you don't like something or you... No, I'm not saying that. It's not for you, so don't worry about it. Well, I think we work in entertainment. We do comedy stuff.

So we should be able to say that shit should be better if indeed it isn't very good. Well, it might be good, but I'm saying if it isn't very good, we should be better to say, actually, that could be for us. I like Saturday Night Live.

Some of the best stuff I've ever seen growing up watching comedy has come from Saturday Night Live We grew up fucking watching like John Candy and fucking Wayne's World and shit like that Right I don't think we did though did we Did we never had access to it?

No I mean the products It came off the back of it Oh yeah massively yeah You know like Belushi and Blues Brothers and Cherry Chase that kind of shit right So if that's gonna live up It's not gonna live up to that But if it has intentions of living up to that

There's no reason we shouldn't like it Yeah I just feel sorry I feel sorry for them not hiding to nothing They're getting dough, though. Are they? You reckon they must get dough. I don't think anybody. Honestly, I just don't, I think all of our stuff has been caught by America and we have

nothing left and it's the last tiny amount of money kicking around. That's an interesting point as well, isn't it? Because what that means in real terms is that actually there doesn't really these days need to be a UK-specific Saturday Night Live because if I decide my favourite comedian Shane Gillis, I can watch them whenever I want. Yeah. And also, you're so who's the... Who's the celebrities are going to bring in?

That woman who's on this morning. Do you know what I mean? Like, the loose women. Like, there's your cultural touchstones and they're just, it's just, it's not, it's not razzle, is it? You might get an odd American star who's in the UK for stuff in town

or maybe a band or something. But then... Could they get, what's his name? What's the Gieser's name who did the Raster gig? Raster. He did that Raster impression on Saturday Night Live.

Oh, yeah. The French blog. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, Virginia Brody. I always get Adrian Brody mixed up with the fellow who was in Lahain, for some reason. Oh, that's, uh, Mezreene. Yeah, what's his name? Yeah, what's his name?

Vincent, Cassel. Vincent Cazel, yeah. You know, you know, speaking, I am going to get back to the Cosell? We could get a Cassell. But you know when Brody did that Rasta thing? Mm-hmm. And people, it was, it was, like, obviously terrible. It's the, it's the fellow who did the Robona on,

the Everton plough, who fucked it up. No, Birmingham, it's David done. David done. It's the David done, I'm going, I'm going to do it. Like, he's just sat in his room and going, I'm going to lose their fucking minds. I've heard people, I've heard people talk about that. You thick bastard.

Yeah, but the thing is, I've heard people talk about that and like hushed tones about how disgraceful it is and stuff, right? Whereas actually, for me, it's obviously so ridiculous. And for America that, you know, I watch the office every night. There's stuff like that happening. And that was like, that died in 2012, 2013. You fall asleep to the office. I fall asleep at the office all the time.

Anyway, small profits. It's made by the McKenzie, grit the Detectarist. He's in it as well. The main character that is Pierce Quigley who's in the textress in a minor role, but he's brilliant. He's the beardy, older beardy guy. And the whole premise is that he, his long-term girlfriend has disappeared. And he's living a kind of small town

kind of unsatisfied life because he's never quite got past how it happened many years ago and why it happened. And then his dad is played by Michael Palin, who lives in an old people's home and talks to him about how back when he was working in Egypt in the 50s he met this alchemist guy and if he did this and did that you could get these um little hermunculi prophets to tell him where his girlfriend is and it's about him setting about trying to make that happen all the time but all the other kind of detectorists small like gentle comedy stuff

happens alongside it kind of suburban kind of comedy a lot of symbolism in it as well which the texterous also had really really good like yeah but four episodes in it's excellent and the other one is very quickly is I started watching Under Salt Marsh You would have seen that advertised all over Sky Right It's got Kelly Riley in it from Yellowstone And Rafe Spall

Who I think is one of the best actors in the world actually Such an underrated actor I just go she's a British isn't she? She is right And it's set in Wales on the salt marshes Of a kid who turns up dead And it's a murder mystery thing But it's also set against the background

Of a dying out way of life and a big flood that's coming and the race to kind of solve the crime this is the sort of stuff we should be concentrating on it's great depressing we're good at that Britain's brilliant at that we look great it looks inhospitable

a lot of Britain just fucking you know we could be the new Scandy drama place but it is very much like a Scandy drama I would recommend both of them for different reasons love to hear from everyone listening if they've enjoyed them as well and those are my two TV tips for the week

all right well there you go one of the bit is not sat there Live UK. When does that launch? It feels like a million years away, even though they've got to record and write stuff everywhere. The one guy I like on it, who I know, I don't know his name,

is the guy who does those Instagram videos where he's, I don't want to be rude about him, he's a kind of overweight kind of bigger guy. He did a really funny when they went viral about he was trying to be a fashionable guy and he said, I've run out of I've run out of energy for this. I can't do this.

He's involved, isn't he? Yeah. What's his name? I forget there's no, but he's in, he's on spot on. That's not George Four Acres, no? Oh, God, I don't know. Who knows? Doesn't matter.

Yeah. Anyway, we hope for the best, but we, do we fear the worst? Yeah, I think so. But I hope they make a good fist of it. I'm sure they will. Six episodes starting 21st of March on Sky One, the relaunched Sky One. Are they relaunching? Wow. Which, do you know what?

Where are these, why Sky always spending money? Save your penny. We are all pirating football. Just save your money, Sky, for crying out loud. Sky 1 closed in 2021. I didn't even know. No. I heard it was relaunched and I was like, what?

It's not there anymore. Yeah. Weird. I guess it's a brand. If it's a brand, I mean, if you're going to sort of, can I have Sky 1? You know what I mean? If you're not using it, can I have Sky 1? I think it was around the time they went more specific, didn't they?

Because they did Sky Sports Football, Sky Sports, Sky Sports, Sky Rux, Sky Rewks, all that kind of, Sky Comedy, all that kind of stuff. Well, that muck. there we go well watch with interest why we'll probably want actually the way

everyone will slate it whether they've watched it or not no doubt alright then we will be back on Monday that's all right with you and look after shelves

and Luke what are you doing this weekend what am I doing this weekend I'm going to see all my sons the Brian Cranston Arthur Miller play very nice so I'll let you know

what that's like as well lovely I'll take my daughter dancing oh nice Dancing. They get into the dancing bit and then they just go upstairs,

disappear and then come back down again. I don't know what they're up to up there. I don't know what you're talking about. The Luke and Pete show is a Stack production and part of the Acast Creator Network.