The Luke and Pete Show - The McRib comeback tour

Episode Date: October 28, 2024

Pete's gone on a pilgrimage to savour a McRib but is stopped in his tracks by a man who not only calls him an "old boy" but invites him to join his classic car club. Pete’s less than chuffed…meanw...hile, the wife he has access to finds it hilarious. Elsewhere, the lads tackle a “kindness gone wrong” moment at the corner shop, breaking down the awkwardness of British politeness after a listener generously offers to cover a stranger’s chocolate bar - only for the bloke to cheekily upgrade his freebie with some chewing gum.Also on the docket: Luke’s rant about politicians cosplaying as “normal people,” and Pete’s ambitious plan to 3D-print a hip for his mum. Could it actually work?Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:02:18 you probably know it, the day after my mum's birthday so happy birthday. How is your lovely mum? Is she okay? My lovely mum's fine. She does need to understand that she needs to get that hip looked at and sorted out. Is she still going up and down the stairs like a snake? Yeah she's... You've never explained it have you? She's got a bad hip so she goes up and down on all fours but she sort of slithers it's very disconcerting. Snakes don't have all fours do they? That's what I'm getting
Starting point is 00:02:42 at snakes don't have limbs. She refuses to get it sorted out. She's getting her cataract sorted out, but it's just, it's all... Older people get funny about it, don't they? I got a friend who's, I think it was either his grandfather or his wife's grandfather, who essentially laid on the floor in their house where they lived alone for something like two and a half days because they fell and couldn't get up, but they didn't want to make a fuss, so they didn't call anyone. Jesus. I mean, that is wild, isn't it? That is wild. I mean, that makes more problems. Do you know what I mean? Those decisions make more problems. Like my mom will be like, she's always going on about,
Starting point is 00:03:27 just forget about us, pretend we're dead, like do not worry about us, we are forgotten to you, do not, you do not have to worry about us. But like by her deling and you know, chining off a new hip, she's making her life worse,
Starting point is 00:03:43 her quality of life and in turn, making our life worse. And they really need to, they really need to buck up and understand that some things are bigger than themselves. But they won't. Have you played your part in this though? What do you mean? I was in like, what, the way I buffed, destroyed her pelvis? No, I just think the way that you are. The way that you are? What? The way that I am? I've rubbed off on her a little bit.
Starting point is 00:04:09 I'm a little weirdo. She's become a little bit weird by association. Yeah. I think it will be, and I mean this with love and respect, a huge amount of respect, but I think people who've listened to your output over the years might just think sometimes when you're doing your latest hair brained scheme, there may just be a roll of the eyes here and there.
Starting point is 00:04:36 Right, okay. Where it's like, oh, Pete's making me do stuff again, kind of thing. So Luke, I mean, you are, so what you're saying is basically that I need to 3D print my mum's hip. That sounds- For her. That's exactly what I'm saying. That's a presenter it and go look mum, I've bought a 3D printer, I've made you a new hip,
Starting point is 00:04:56 let's get it in you. Let's get it in you mum. Yeah. By hook or by crook. There was a singer-songwriter who I can't actually remember who it is, but they're a famous enough singer-songwriter, I think, I want to say they're American, who've put a record out fairly recently about her parents who were super reclusive to the point where they wouldn't let anyone in the house, even their own daughter, who was a very famous singer-songwriter. And they died. And they
Starting point is 00:05:32 both died, I think, through something like exposure because they didn't have the heating on. They wouldn't put it on. They wouldn't warm the house or whatever. And it got to the point where they died. I mean, they actually died. They only found out afterwards. So check on your loved ones, I guess is what I'm saying. It was a far more complicated story than that. I mean, there was reasons behind it and all the rest of it. I can't exactly remember the detail. We'll try and find a link to it and share it on the socials because it's someone who's got a brilliant career as a singer-songwriter. I think as people get older, they can get a lot more set in their ways, of course, and they can get like a loss of perspective, maybe.
Starting point is 00:06:07 Yeah. Yeah. Completely agree. Don't you think? Oh yeah, definitely. Like they just, I just don't know when routine gets so hard baked into stuff that you can't even see the bigger picture, I suppose. But yeah. What are you doing to make it better Peter? What am I doing to make it better? I don't know. What, my parents life or just my own life? Or just the world in general? The world?
Starting point is 00:06:33 The world. A poor 3D printer. Oh, speaking of my ill-gotten purchases. Why is it ill-gotten? Because I shouldn't have, well I make podcasts for a living so I think the money that went into it is terrible. Terrible way, terrible way to service the tax in this country. An amazing insight into how much respect you've got for yourself, carry on. I knew. I know you don't respect me, I knew. It's a, I think probably like a Saturday night and it's a been a lovely beautiful day in the town that I live and me and my partner and the doggies
Starting point is 00:07:15 we decide to drive to McDonald's. Very nice. Very nice because, primarily because the McRib is back and I wanted a McRib, a McRib, and so we decided to drive the McRib and the associated Bits and Bobs to basically like a hill near the sea in... I don't know where this is going. And we sat there and we ate our dinner. Did you have a McRib? Say again? Did you have the McRib? And we sat there and we ate our dinner. Did you have a McRib? Say again?
Starting point is 00:07:47 Did you have the McRib? I had the McRib, it was delicious. I'm a big fan of the old McRib. So we sat on the hill and we're watching the sea, the estuary recede into the mud flats. And a man knocks on the window of the car, the Toyota Sentry, and says, All right, mate, what's this all about? And wants to know about the car, which happens quite a lot.
Starting point is 00:08:12 Sarah hates it. I frequently don't have the answers that they need and nobody's happy. And anyway, this bloke's going, you remember the Essex Classic Car Club? I love this. Now I do like where this is going. And I'm like, no, we saw some guys, I said, we saw some guys in a Shoeberry who would... This is small talk as well, so how are you getting on with this? I said there were some guys at Shoeberry and I think they're part of it. And he went, no,
Starting point is 00:08:42 they're the Essex petrolheads. I was like, okay, right, okay, good, good. Right, I mean, I cannot think of anything more boring than turning up with your car and going, here's my car. And they're going, here's my car. Do you wanna look at my car? Yeah, I love your car. Shall we have a chat about cars?
Starting point is 00:08:54 My God. Even someone who's recently adopted an interest in the engineering of cars, I cannot think of anything worse. Can I respectfully suggest that that is no way any more boring than what you're normally doing? No I agree. You do that on your own anyway. I agree I'm just watching youtubers talk about it. So you're hanging out with him again? So he's trying to get me to go to this Essex, he's trying to explain about the Essex car
Starting point is 00:09:19 classic car people. Was it a dog in car park? Is this a coat? Maybe it might be, yeah. How's you, you got a V12, have you? Anyway, he goes, he said, no, it's really inform. It's nothing like, it's nothing like a strange one. He said, it's just, it's just like some old boys like us, you know, yacking on about their cars. And I was like, and he started to walk away and I was like,
Starting point is 00:09:44 Sarah, he just called me an old boy. He just called me a fucking old... And she could not... Because he hates to chat anyway with him. And she could not have been more satisfied with how that had gone. She was laughing her head off. How old was he, do you reckon? Mid-sixties easily.
Starting point is 00:10:01 Oh, that's lovely stuff. Delicious. Delicious, innit? So, yeah, just some old boys. I've only got a Persia or something or other. I'm not a fucking Donald. I've got my face. I'm trying to eat a McRib. I'm a young person.
Starting point is 00:10:11 I'm eating them fucking McDonald's, mate. Fucking few. Are you going to go along to this invited to event or not? No, I'm not. Because what would be worse? And then so I used my 3D printer to print a little bracket for the car that helps me mount a, it's very boring, but mounted Android screen. You said this before yeah. So I did a bit of that. And I was like well I mean I've made it now and it might be useful for someone else. So on
Starting point is 00:10:41 the car Facebook page I put it up there and I've got I've made this thing you might find it useful you know give a little back the community what do I get back from somebody I mean yeah do you mind if I like improve the design a bit oh yeah that's the good stuff you're dealing the people you're dealing with you expect them not to be like that you expect them to knock be like that. None of them have ever spoken to anyone in real life. You are basically designing something for a 3D printer, giving it to that community and expecting that community to not behave like that community.
Starting point is 00:11:18 That's what you're doing. It's just, he said no promises though. I mean, I don't care if you fucking shut up your ass mate. Sideways. Unbelievable. Where did these men come from? And they're always car guys. You are one of those men. I'm one of those men. It's happened. It's happened. Can I give you a couple of facts about the McRib, which I wanted to get off my chest earlier when you mentioned it? Yes please. The Wi-Fi I've access to is a big fan of the McRib and I've never had one. Why are they so kind of cockettish about making them available to people? Yeah, they rotate stuff around, don't they? So I think they keep, they hold it back a
Starting point is 00:11:49 lot. But there's, apparently the guy who was overseeing the menu for the McDonald's in the 80s, he developed the McRib because essentially a couple of years before that chicken McNuggets were so popular that every franchise around the world wanted them and they couldn't turn the chicken out quick enough. They had to come up with an alternative product. He then started looking around and spoke to a few people. Then someone else, I think it McDonald's or a contractor that worked with McDonald's, found out that under certain US laws, the federal government either isn't allowed to or doesn't ever patent their intellectual property. They had developed a way of getting meat to their troops in the field in a super efficient, cheap way by restructuring
Starting point is 00:12:45 the meat, reconstituting it, all that kind of stuff. Mason Everson Absolutely chilling. Toby Perkins Yeah. And so this McDonald's guy just nicked it and used that patented technology that couldn't be patented, so I guess unpatented technology to develop the McRib. And they were able to save so much money doing that, they were able to shape the McRib like a rack of ribs rather than just like a burger because that would have been cheaper just to give it a little USP and that's how it came about. I mean. And the result is good apparently according to you.
Starting point is 00:13:14 That's very good. Yeah, I wish it was available more to be honest because that would be my go-to order. Like a double McRib would be amazing. My nervousness about the McRib is that I don't know McDonald's as a pork product company. Right, okay. What else they do in this pork? Tell me. Oh, that's a good point actually. I mean, yeah, they don't really do a lot of, they put bacon in everything, don't they? That's not the same thing though, is it? And you know it's not. I mean, technically, yes. It's the same animal, but it's not the same is it? Yeah. I just think... It's far, far away. They've got a lot of time under their belt when it comes to beef burgers, hamburgers, chicken. Yeah. I'm fine with that. I'm comfortable. I'm on solid ground with that. I think you start bringing a pork product to mind.
Starting point is 00:13:56 I need to be won over. Yeah. You don't want to see Donald Trump putting a lot of salt on an uncooked pork rib, I suppose, do you? Everything Donald Trump does, right, somehow, either a day later, a week later, or a month later, ends up to somehow be not real. What do you mean? I mean, like I said. Well, it's just, he went to McDonald's unannounced. McDonald's had to do a big press release afterwards, which I thought was actually a brilliant press release by the way. I don't know if you saw it. Let me rewind. So basically- We're not blue. We're not red. We're congealed pork.
Starting point is 00:14:40 It was a really good release though. It was like a really fucking good, like, I mean, without being too nerdy and cringe about it, their comms department was fucking good on that. Because that is a fucking time bomb. A nightmare. Yeah, absolute nightmare. For those who haven't seen it, Donald Trump turned up at McDonald's in Pennsylvania, because everything's happening in Pennsylvania at the moment, because it's the Keystone kind of swing state.
Starting point is 00:15:01 But they're all franchises and presumably the boss of the McDonald's is just a dribbling maga block. I mean that has to be part of it. It didn't just turn up. No, the guy who runs that particular franchise did say, I got like two hours notice. Right, okay. And I think the way that the Trump campaign tends to do stuff is like, this is fucking happening.
Starting point is 00:15:21 Right. But he didn't seem like outwardly pissed off about it. Anyway, I don't know if it's two hours notice or a little bit more notice or whatever, but then it turns out like I think I'm right in saying they ended up, the people that he was quote unquote serving their McDonald's to were like just basically Republican staffers that they got posing as. But the thing is, my point is that when, what he's trying to do, and this isn't even really a political point, I'm a massively anti-Trump guy, as I'm sure we all are, but this isn't the political point I'm making. When, say, Obama in 08 would
Starting point is 00:15:57 turn up at a place and roll his sleeves up and start serving ice cream to people, he was actually doing that. The problem with Trump is that he's so weird and so germaphobic and so out of touch with the real world that I don't think he feels comfortable in any environment that isn't completely surrounded by this trusted circle of Republican operatives. The whole thing ends up being like a big Potomkin village anyway. The way the media is now, everyone fucking finds out about it it just seems very very weird that why we'd bother doing it. Yeah well I mean it's it I guess it was it was just the terminally online Donald Trump trying to do the Kamala Harris didn't work and McDonald's bullshit and so like that's that's the that's the that's the
Starting point is 00:16:37 tenor of a very thin argument but I think the most telling thing is that he's he's not only thick but he's got no common sense at all and he doesn't really think things through. Obviously, you know, he's a man with declining faculties. But you do sort of think, when he's saying stuff like – because he obviously is germaphobe, he doesn't want anyone touching his food. He's sort of saying, I'm so happy that when you guys take the food and put them in the plastic in the cardboard, you take the chips, take the fries and put them in the cardboard sleeves. You don't use your hands, you use a little scoop and I didn't realise
Starting point is 00:17:13 that and that's really good because I don't want anyone touching my food. And it's like, hang on, you thought they would put the fresh from the hot oil fryer? People would pick them up and put them in the cardboard sleeves and you're like, are you fucking demented or something? It doesn't matter how well orchestrated these things are, and they are pretty well orchestrated. It's a sort of thing that presents have done for generations, but it's just so funny that watching a man try and cosplay as a normal person tells us more about him because he says stuff like that, because he tries to be
Starting point is 00:17:52 conversational and he ends up just talking absolute weird bollocks. Are you saying that it was just all completely fucking staged from start to finish? Yeah, of course it will be. I mean, you know, it wasn't even open to the public. It was just a lot of, you know, a lot of staffers. He's just doing his shit. And then he did a little all points interview out of the drive-through window, which, you know, I don't mind. It's all just, it's all par for the course when it comes to a
Starting point is 00:18:19 when it comes to a presidential election. But it's just really fucking funny stuff, man. Like, he's a fucking idiot. Mason- Yeah, I think, I think I find it strange. It used to happen in this country a lot. Do you remember when like you would have, before the Tories went like properly weird, where they were just out of touch, kind of rich people, but like pretty common or garden out of touch rich people, right? They weren't like, they weren't like, I mean, a lot of people say they were problematic, but it was just a different vibe, I guess is what I'm getting at. And then you'd have, they'd always, for some reason,
Starting point is 00:18:50 they would always do, let's get George Osborne to pull a pint in a pub. It's like, George Osborne doesn't know how to pull a pint in a pub. He doesn't know how to do it. So, why are we doing this? But it's immensely disrespectful to see politicians cosplaying as quote unquote, the working classes, normal people. It's just, I don't know, it's, it's, it's, it's immensely disrespectful to see politicians cosplaying as quote-unquote the working classes, normal people. It's just, I don't know, it's awful in many ways and probably people should have more of an issue with it. Take more of an issue with it. I think people would have an issue with you saying that given that you basically cosplay as a normal person every time you leave the house.
Starting point is 00:19:23 It's a good point actually. But I have worked in a fast food environment. You worked in McDonalds? No, Leicester City. It's not fast food is it? It's hospitality, it's different. What's the difference? I'm cutting off, I was allowed to near the park. I'm cutting off big bits of park. I'm warming in a warming bath some hot dogs. I'm applying mustard, onions, all kinds of stuff. It's great.
Starting point is 00:19:47 You're not calling the hot dogs water a warming bath to customers, were you? A warming, a lovely warming bath. Do you know who was the, I don't know if he still is, but who was at the time the youngest ever on record, manager of a McDonald's in the UK? No. Your friend and mine, Sam Matterface.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Oh right, okay. That was his thing. Is it the same situation as over there? Is it like all franchises and stuff? You just kind of think that you want to start a McDonald's and then they turn up with a load of flat pack furniture and go, there you go, there's your McDonald's. I actually think a McDonald's job for a young person is a really good thing.
Starting point is 00:20:27 Yeah, well. Because it teaches you to work under pressure, high impact, you know, very, very, with the public, et cetera. So people who go to McDonald's and work there and thrive, I reckon are probably pretty good. Yeah, I'd agree with that. I don't think you can throw anything at someone who works
Starting point is 00:20:44 in a really busy McDonald's. Anything without. Especially those ones that are like motorway ones where they just never stops. Right the way, 24 hours, just never fucking stops. Or train station ones where people are waiting for their trains. Gotta be quick. Oh my god. Pisters afart as well. Oh. Normally. Awful. Awful stuff. That's basically the only experience I ever have, my interaction with McDonald's staff at Victoria Station in London.
Starting point is 00:21:02 Yeah. Right, I have got eight minutes to my train and I am drunk. So can you just do this quick? Because it's going to take me longer than it should to walk to the train. And I'd love you to turn this around as quickly as possible really. I think sometimes it annoys me when you see, what I do find annoying about McDonald's these days is like sometimes, not always, but sometimes I don't see people who work there moving around with a sense of urgency that I need. Yeah, because you're at a train station and I would say I would always go for, I would always try and figure out what burgers they've got on the trays, what burgers are coming
Starting point is 00:21:41 out. What's already there, good point, that's a great tip. Same with Leon, just look at what, like if you can see something that looks different to everything else, what's that? A filo fish, I'll have it, I don't care. I'll have anything that's ready because I'm a few sheets to the wind and I'm in Fenchurch Street, I'm the Burger King and I always want something. I know your ice cream machine isn't going to work, I know your red milkshake machine isn't going to work, I do not require anything special. I need salt, I need fat and I want to go to sleep on the train. So let me do it, please
Starting point is 00:22:09 Let me do it. I think that's a really good tip for people if they look what's already cooked I never go to Burger King. I'm not a Burger King guy. Right, okay. A friend of mine the other day started touting That Burger King's better than McDonald's and he's a vegetarian. It is. I agree. I agree I think the burgers are much better the flame grilled. Really? They're not flame grilled are they? Burger King's better than McDonald's and he's a vegetarian. It is. I agree, I agree. I think the burgers are much better. The flame grilled. Really? They're not flame grilled are they?
Starting point is 00:22:29 There's just a little bit of flavour in there to make it seem like that. I don't know. I reckon they're probably pre-flame grilled before when they get put in the freezer and then they get defrosted and cooked or whatever. That's what I reckon happens. That's what I reckon happens. I'd love to know. Let's have a break.
Starting point is 00:22:43 When we come back, I want to deliver an email to you guys from one of our listeners. It's a bit of a moral quandary that I think people will find very interesting. So let's have a break. When we come back, we'll do that. Yes, please. Acast powers the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. After dark. And with that, the curtain falls on the story of Anne Boleyn. The Red Room. Exploring Irish ghost stories and haunted Irish history. Listen to these Acast shows wherever you get your podcasts.
Starting point is 00:23:43 Acast helps creators launch, grow and monetize their podcasts everywhere. ACAST.com It's the Luke and Pete show and we're back and Luke's promised us a big, what can only be described as an uncommon moral quandary that he wants to get out there. Just reading it through again, I don't know if it is a moral quandary, but it's interesting anyway. We'll see. It's from Johnny. Hello to you, Johnny. Thanks for emailing in.
Starting point is 00:24:10 He says, guys, I'm keen to see how you would react to this. Recently, I walked into a corner shop to purchase some breakfast items for the following day. Use your stuff, bread, eggs, orange juice, etc. When I arrived at the till, the customer in front of me was buying a single boost chocolate bar. Solid choice. I like a boost. Do you like a boost? I like a boost. Cup of tea. Lovely biscuit boost. Beautiful. Beautiful.
Starting point is 00:24:32 He said, as he tried to pay on this card, the cashier told him there was a two pound minimum and he had no cash on him. Right. I did the honorable thing, told him to add it to my items as a good deed for the day. Would you do that? You'd probably do that, wouldn't you? I'd do that yeah. I bought batteries for a boy once. Okay we're going to put a pin in that. We'll come back to that in a minute. As the cashier was scanning all my items as well as his now free chocolate bar he reached for some chewing gum and added it to the combined shop.
Starting point is 00:25:01 Oh yes please. Oh, that's wonderfully awkward, but you just gotta go with it unless you are- Well, let me finish- If people think you're a tool. Johnny says, a polite English force field was thrown over my being as I saw him reach for the minty packet. I jokingly said, yeah, go and pick up a bottle
Starting point is 00:25:16 of champagne if you want, mate. Which he sniggered in amusement while we both stood for an awkward 15 seconds until the transaction was over. As he walked out, I said in my best passive aggressive tone, enjoy the chocolate bar and the chewing gum. And he walked off. I wouldn't have got involved.
Starting point is 00:25:31 I would have bought him a bottle of champagne just to not get involved, to be honest. Oh, that's wild. Johnny says, how would you have handled it? How would you have handled it, Peter? I would have snapped the bar of chewing gum in half and popped a few in my mouth and sort of go, there's the tithe. Oh, I like that, thanks on takes on the lawn you take the control back. That's the tithe
Starting point is 00:25:48 We've both enjoyed a minty chew. Haven't we we'll both have fresh fresh breath. Let's kiss Yeah, what would you actually have done though? What would I actually have done? I would have let him get on with it I would have been I would have been telling the story and I would thought anything bad that any when any Anytime anyone's rude to me. I mean just get, I know like, you know, white guys podcast, ha ha, like get a podcast because anything bad that happens to you, that's five minutes, you know, that's content. That's five minutes further towards your weekly obligations for work. Weekly work obligations, and like you don't need to go to therapy.
Starting point is 00:26:26 Just get a podcast and just understand. I think I would say you can have a chocolate bar. Oh, you would actually stop him from buying the chewing gum. Wow. Especially if it's over £2. You're going to get it back on your card, big boy. It feels a bit like, you know, when you're playing a game show on ITV and you've got something and you might gamble for the next thing.
Starting point is 00:26:49 If you gamble for the next thing, you might lose. Yeah, that's true, actually. Yeah. That's how it goes. I thought it was outrageous, actually. I thought that is a piss take. That is a massive piss take. But it will never stop being funny.
Starting point is 00:27:02 I'll be thinking about this awkwardness for years to come. So yeah, what about you? Fantastic. Johnny Hounder in the most British way possible, I would say. I'm piping up about that. I'm not having that. I actually had a guy,
Starting point is 00:27:17 I was cycling to work the other day. I was cycling down, I cycled back through Brixton Market just to cut through behind the main road because it's a bit dangerous, the main road. And it's not pedestrianized, it's all water, it's all fucking traffic. And I said, all water. Anyway.
Starting point is 00:27:37 Tems water, innit? Yeah, that's on my mind. Anyway, so I was cycling along and a guy, builder type. A builder type, right? Eating a Gregg's. He builder type, eating a Greggs. He was actually shoving a Greggs into his mouth at the time. It was about eight in the morning. He was probably having a pastry or something. He walked out in front of me.
Starting point is 00:27:56 Now I find the bell on the line bike occasionally a bit passive aggressive. It goes off in your hand sometimes. I don't mean to. It does do that. So I didn't ding the bell. I just said, oh mate, like that. But the thing was I should have just dinged the bell, you know why? Because when I said, oh mate, he assumed that I hadn't seen him, that I wasn't paying attention. Right, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:18 So he said to me, by the way, he was standing in the middle of the fucking road when he said this, right? He goes, watch where you're going, mate. I was like, it's a road, mate. Is that not ironic though? Are they not just like a little kind of like, I'm clearly in the wrong very sort of world? No, he was properly angry. He started shouting after me and all sorts.
Starting point is 00:28:41 I just cycled off thinking, the good thing about London is you never see these people again, so that's fine. But at the time I was thinking, that's a bit of a liberty. Till you book a build if you're out. Then oh dear, oh dear. I can quite simply never have any house improvements done ever again. Never, just done enough times that guy comes in. Yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:28:58 And he remembers me. So what I've done immediately is I've completely burned the outfit I was wearing and I've shaved my head. So he will never recognise me again. I've varied my roots so I do four different routes per commute now so that he'll never see me again. But I just thought, I was fully expecting him just to go, I'm sorry about that, but he got properly vexed about it and told me it was my fault.
Starting point is 00:29:19 Oh, I love that. I've got a lot of time for that. If I was on a bike, I would have been frightened. Yes. Oh dear. But you've always been quite... You've always had trouble with people getting in your way while you're driving around town, haven't you? Where's that come from?
Starting point is 00:29:36 Three or four stories from the last month. A little boy ran in front of you. That's mostly not being cautioned by a police officer. Oh, yeah. Yeah, okay, yeah, fair, fair. And you got a ticket for doing a U-turn in front of a temporary traffic light. Yeah, it sounds like you're in the wrong here. Yeah, you know what they say,
Starting point is 00:29:56 if every single interaction ends up in an argument or a police caution, maybe you're the dickhead. Maybe you're the incarcerated dickhead on B wing. Totally. But anyway, I think if I was to get into that situation that Johnny was in, where you're there paying for my thing, that's my fucking lucky day. I'll be just clearing the shelves out. Be like fucking Dale Winton's supermarket sweep. Grabbing like, just like really concentrated on the high value items as well. Battery packs, like USB cables and stuff.
Starting point is 00:30:28 I'd be walking straight up to you, never, never breaking gaze staring right into your eyes and just dropping a 24 pack of condoms right in the trolley. Yeah, and just going, mmm delicious. Are we having fun tonight? Oh dear. Anyway, let's get out of here. Hello at LukePetriot.com If you've ever found yourself
Starting point is 00:30:50 buying something for someone in a supermarket a complete and total stranger I want to hear from you as well That would be a delicious situation. This is off the back of the guy who accidentally stole a load of chicken goujons last week, isn't it? That's true. He did, yes. He did accidentally steal a load of chicken goujons. Fair! We'll be back on Thursday with your battery brands keep them coming in
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