The Luke and Pete Show - The sweetest beans

Episode Date: November 22, 2021

Welcome to the Luke and Pete Show Beans Special. We’re talking sweet beans, baked beans, useless butter beans - not the boxer, although he also gets a mention. We then swap our magic beans for a cow going down a waterslide and an email about Harry Styles. Come and have a listen, you cowards.Want to talk to us about beans? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Feel free to give us a follow while you're there! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Especially for you It is the Luke and Pete Show I'm Pete Donaldson joined by Luke Moore This is the show with the sweetest beans Sweetest beans Luke, I didn't know this because I probably wasn't aware as a youngster but because Stock Ick and Waterman's record company was like an indie,

you'd find really shit pop music on the indie charts and stuff. They were a complete indie. They absolutely destroyed the indie charts because they'd always be on top of the indie charts back in the day. That's interesting. Because they were technically an indie. I didn't know they were indie. I know that they sold millions and millions

and millions of records and made loads of money. But that makes sense because, listen, if it's the indie chart, it's an independent company, it is what it is. There should be an independent podcast chart. I think there should be two. We still wouldn't be on it. I think there should be two.

They, because I was talking, I was talking i was reading about um a company called devolver digital uh a company that releases indie games so you know indie developers small little kind of mom and pop shops make the video games and they're released uh marketed through this sort of parent company devolver um and by virtue of the fact that they really sue that a lot of these games are put on like the, whenever there's like a video game show, they're the ones that kind of win the indie games. So they're allowed to be entered in the indie things,

even though Devolver, I think last week, went public for like 1 billion pounds. Wow. So they've obviously got a lot. So what's your cut off? What's your cut off? So what makes an indie? Is it just a company that hasn't existed

for longer than 20 years? I don't know how it works. It's got to have Ian Brown in it. Yeah, Brown. With his nunchuckers. Yeah, yeah. Flinging them around. It's a good question because I do think,

not that anyone really cares about the podcasting industry who listens to podcasts. They just want to listen to shows, and I get that. But it is disheartening when you see things completely, award ceremonies, charts, everything, just completely dominated by the BBC or the other big companies. Guardian. What's the point of this?

What is the point? What's the point of any of this? Where's the point? I do listen to a lot of podcasts and think, what is the point of any of this? Yeah, mostly your own ones. Pete, can you just confirm to me, are you currently in possession of the sweetest beans?

They're relatively sweet. They've got a slight... A bitterness? If you fall asleep on a sofa and your moccasins just by your head and you accidentally roll over and you get a bit in your mouth, it's happened to me once. What are you talking about? And it tastes sweet but spicy at the same time.

I accidentally licked the bottom of my moccasin when I was lying down on a sofa a few weeks ago and it tasted sweet but it also tasted spicy and I thought that's going to make me ill

that's what idiots do when they go to Torremolinos they lick their flip flops and they spend two days puking and then they just feel incredibly thin

for the rest of the holiday is that true? I think so I've never heard of that licking your flip flop that's a thing that people do I've never heard of that. Licking your flip-flop, that's a thing that people do. I've never heard of that. We've demented people, but yeah. But other than that, your beans are sweet?

Yeah, they're relatively sweet, yeah. Good, I'm pleased to hear that. I was thinking when we were talking about baked beans last week, I was thinking about, I do like baked beans. I'm a big fan of them. I'm a beansman. You're a beansman. But the other beans, I'm kind of ambivalent about.

So your kidney bean, I'll take that and a chilli, but nothing else. I can't think of a place for a kidney bean anywhere else. I can't think of a single place for butter beans. Remember, butter beans were big in the 80s. Well, I'll tell you what butter beans are all for. Butter beans are actually now exclusively used to make stews that no one else eats on TV cooking programmes. Right, okay.

Butter beans. Yeah, cassoulet bean stew, all that kind of crap. Butter beans, your cassoulet beans. Tasteless and they look bad. And they give you pumps. And they give you pumps. I imagine they're very healthy, but ugh. Pulses. It just seems to be like that we're calming food down a bit lately. We're sort of

going, right, I can't buy for love nor money a can of full fat cork in the supermarket. It's all sugar free. Yes. Mulch. And everything's kind of calming down. Everything's got to be protein filled. Everything's got to be inert, effectively, and tastes like absolute

shite because of the sugar tax and stuff. So, yeah. I just think butter beans are our future, and we've just got to get used to it. They're probably really easy to farm. Do you remember the box of butter bean? I do, yeah. I just think butter beans are our future, and we've just got to get used to it. They're probably really easy to farm. Do you remember the boxer Butter Bean? I do, yeah. He knocked out Bart Gunn,

who we spoke about on Monday, weirdly. That's weird. He did a bit of wrestling as well, didn't he? Yeah, he was in WWE for a while. So they had this kind of legitimate shoot boxing match, tournament in WWE. It was Vince McMahon's idea. So actually it like legitimate shoot boxing match tournament in WWE. It was Vince McMahon's idea. So actually it was a proper boxing match. Yeah, so they got all of these.

I'll go out to fight Butterbean. Terrible draw. So they got all of these wrestlers to actually legitimately have a boxing match. I forget what it was called. King of the Ring. No, it wasn't King of the Ring. It was something like that. Anyway, and they legitimately fight each other.

So you had people like Marc Merleau doing quite well. But the people that Vince McMahon had brought into the organization to win this legitimate boxing tournament, they fell at the hurdle or they got injured or they couldn't go through or whatever. But weirdly, Bart Gunn, and I think it was Bart Gunn they fell at the hurdle or they got injured or they couldn't go through or whatever but weirdly Bart Gunn and I think it was

Bart Gunn rather than the other Gunn he was Brian Gunn he was Brian Kidd he was he was legitimately

quite hard and so he knocked everyone out he just actually sparked everyone out but he was the most unloved wrestler on the roster

and Vincent McMahon didn't want to give him a push so to punish him in the main event in one of the events at Wrestlemania I donon didn't want to give him a push so to punish him in the main event in one of the events at Wrestlemania I don't know

12 or something he got a legitimate boxer Butterbean to knock him spark out and he does knock him spark out that is outrageous as punishment

that's terrible that's outrageous punishment not one of the it's probably not even in the top 100 outrageous things that man's done which tells you a lot

which tells you a lot but Butterbean's a funny didn't he do it? Wasn't he in Jackass when he knocked Johnny Knoxville out? I mean, I have to say, I imagine Jackass as a concept has aged terribly

and I've not watched it in a while. No, it's still good. Right, okay. Still good. It's back. Is it problematic now, though? I mean, some of it probably is, but everything on MTV

back then was, to be honest. Yeah, and Johnny Knoxville volunteers to go into, I think it's some kind of sports shop, isn't it? Yeah. And Butterbean's in there. And Butterbean, for those who aren't knowing about boxing,

even if you know a little bit about boxing, you may not have heard of him because he was like this super heavy fat guy. Big fat guy, yeah. But he was good at boxing. His build weight was 378 pounds. What's that in stones? 27 stone.

That's not 27 stone. It is, it's 27 stone. Jesus Christ. 171 kilos. How is he that heavy? He doesn't look that big. So what he would do is just labour around the ring. He used to call himself the king of the four rounders, right?

So he couldn't really have the fuel to go longer than that. And Joey Knoxville squares up to him and Butterbean gives him some digs. And it looks horrific. It just looks horrific. So, I mean, the reason that Butterbean never really did anything in a big level

is because super heavyweight is not really a kind of properly acknowledged, you know, what's it called, weight category. Oh, so you have to, so super heavyweight

is not really a thing. So all the heavyweights are your Joshua's and stuff. Yeah, because there's no top end on heavyweight. Right, so you could be a big fan. So he could still fight heavyweight. There's no upper limit. Ah, okay. It's not another weight category where you have to, so you could be a big fan. So he could still fight heavyweight. There's no upper limit.

It's not another weight category where if you're over a certain weight, you go to the next one. I see, right. Apart from an amateur boxer, with super heavyweight, it is a different thing. Right. Because Anthony Joshua, I think he won gold at the Olympics in super heavyweight, but he's a heavyweight now.

So Butterbean, I mean, he's still alive, Butterbean. He's still knocking about. I mean, he's a big old unit but on the on the jackass thing because we talked about Steve-O

haven't you worked with Steve-O a couple of times no he came in for an interview and his bag was filled with Monster Munch and Red Bull that's right he's on a big

come down and you thought game recognises game because that is you you were fucking smashing the Red Bull yesterday anyway so Knoxville does the Butterbean thing he also doesn't he get into thought game recognises game now because that is you. You were fucking smashing the Red Bull yesterday. Anyway, so

Knoxville does the Butterbean thing. He also, doesn't he get into a cage with a bear? Which is absolutely astonishing. One of them does. One of them gets into a cage with a bear. And I get the impression I think it probably was Knoxville because his thing in Jackass, when he was obviously

the handsome one, but he also had no skills did he yeah so he had to be more kind of daring yeah he couldn't do anything so yeah incredible incredible time wasn't it the old jackass i look i think it stands up i think it was good um again yeah probably problematic but looking back i don't think there was a huge amount wrong you know yeah ever ever yourself quite it was an equal opportunities employer. You had people with limited stature. You had big fat guys. It was brilliant.

That's all the main groups, isn't it? All white. That's all the main groups. All very white. Small fellas and big fat fellas. Exactly. I'm just thinking of wrestling, really. Yeah.

So it was an incredible time. I remember I used to be really into Jackass back in the day. I think we mentioned this before, but very, very quickly, wasn't, didn't MTV used to do a disclaimer before every episode?

Don't send us new tapes. We ain't going to watch them. They are going to fucking watch them. Because they fucking watch them. The Welsh, those Welsh guys came out and they had done it, it turned out they had done

exactly that, sent in a tape. Anyway, Pete Donaldson. Never mind. What else is new? What's going on? Not a lot, really. We're recording this

on a different day than what we usually record. So usually you get a kind of prissy of my entire weekend. But this time around we're recording in the middle of the week

which is quite interesting. I'm just kind of between podcasts, it seems. I want to talk about an escaped cow. What? An escaped cow. What? An escaped cow in Brazil. Right.

That went viral because it escaped a slaughterhouse. And you think, okay, that's fairly interesting. And it was perhaps part of a stampede and a load of cows bolted out of some kind of open gate and legged it. And that's kind of a nice thing because I know everyone likes to eat steaks and everyone likes the idea

of a Disney-type story where a load of animals escape an abattoir. But the great thing about this particular cow was that it took sanctuary in a neighbouring water park. And that included, and I don't really know why, and I can't get to the

bottom of this, and maybe some of our listeners can help us, it took a ride down the water slide. There we go. I don't really know why, and I can't get to the bottom of this, and maybe some of our listeners can help us. It took a ride down the water slide. It got... There we go. It doesn't sound like it's having the best time, Luke. No, I don't know why that's funny, but it universally is. Yeah. How did it get to the top of the water slide?

I don't know. I think the, but it universally is. Yeah. How did it get to the top of the water slide? I don't know. I think the water slide might have to be recessed. And the water slide's on the ground level. That's the only way I can think of it. I've thought about this a lot. And crucially, I'm not sure why that's funny, but it is. Part of the reason it's funny is because that's exactly how you'd imagine a cow on the water slide to sound.

Yes. And secondly, there's no water on that slide, so it sounds very dry. Santa's on the roof. Yeah. Santa's on the roof. Yeah. Santa's on the roof. It does sound a bit like that, doesn't it? It does sound a bit like that. And I just thought to myself, you know what?

That's exactly how a cow going down a water slide would sound. Would sound like, yeah. I'm enjoying that that's happened. The water slide seems to be abandoned. The water park seems to be abandoned, which... Always spooky. Yeah. Why is that?

I was going to say exactly that. Why is that? Because, like, I guess... I think water... Because there's these massive constructions that are just built for fun and people and crowds. And when they're empty, there's just kind of like an absent... It's like an apocalypse has taken place.

Chris Broad, who does Broad Japan, he went to an abandoned kind of Pripyat level, you know, that kind of carnival kind of, you know, we used to call them the shores when we were kids. The shores, all abandoned and stuff with everything, you know, nature taking over. It happens in the United States. Yes, yeah.

Everything just starts to grow through. Life finds a way and all that stuff. Spooky. I was up in the Lake District a couple of months ago and went for this walk. I ended up in the town of, I can't remember what it's called now, maybe Grange-over-Sands, one of those types of towns. And there's an abandoned Lido right next to the pier.

So it's just empty? How do Lidos, I thought L's were like an actual body of water. I thought it was... Well, no. Well, so, I mean, I don't fully know, but so Brockwell Park Lido, which is my local Lido, is basically just an outdoor swimming pool. Right.

So it's not like a... I think some of them are traditionally filled with seawater... Right. ...next to the sea. Right. And they're almost like a kind of saltwater next to the sea swimming pool. Right, yeah, yeah a kind of saltwater next to the sea swimming pool. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm not really sure. But anyway, it's called the Lido anyway. It's basically just an outdoor swimming pool. To be honest, I can't really imagine it's an awful lot of use even when it was open back in the day because it's in the Lake District, which is the rainiest place in the world.

Anyway, it's boarded up. I think they're going to develop it, but they haven't done it yet. But you can look through the slats. Yeah. And it's completely green, covered in moss, and it's got a really weirdly sinister air of faded seaside glamour about it,

where you think, if I was walking along here on my own at night, this would be awful. This is basically like an episode of Resident Evil. Yes, yes, yes, yes. When I went to Cluj in Romania, there was an abandoned Soviet outdoor swimming pool with the high diving boards and stuff.

You climb up if you wanted to. Don't jump off. Don't stop me doing anything like that around there, do I? Yeah, you do. There was also an abandoned Soviet film archive. It was just this big room, you know, about the size of a gymnasium,

filled, filled with rolls and rolls of tape, like movie tape, you know. What, you used one in there? Yeah. Well, that was what was in the guidebook. This house where there's just loads of like... It was all porno. Well, it was...

We turned up there. We saw it. We went to go in, but there were just some absolute wrong-uns just kind of guarding the entrance with a big barrel on fire and a nasty dog. Really? So we went,

I'll probably skip that, to be honest. We're on the outskirts of town. You could have charmed your way in there. I could have fitted in, I think. Help yourself with a couple of reels i didn't see any reels i was just a bit we were just a bit absolutely we weed out ourselves and run off speaking of um the old um the old 10 meter diving board i went to a friend of mine lives in geneva it sounds like a rhyming slang for a wife it doesn't help time a diving board inside we went to uh to Geneva to visit our friend,

a few of us. And in Lake Geneva, they block some of the bits off and they have like an outdoor swimming pool. So basically it's like they put like, you know those nets you get on Australian beaches for sharks?

Yes. They have those in Lake Geneva and it's kind of, this is a sectioned off bit of swimming, so people can swim. Outdoor kind of leisure type thing. And they had a 10-meter diving board there.

And we climbed up to the top of it. And I have to say, I consider myself to be a strong swimmer. I go swimming fairly regularly, and I'm all right at it. I can knock out. Backstroke, front stroke. Front stroke, famously. I'm a famous front stroker, yeah. I swim like your dog when you hold him over the sea. Yeah, yeah, famously. I'm a famous frontstroker, yeah. I swim like your dog when you hold him over the sea.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But anyway, when you get up to the top, it is quite fucking frightening. To even jump off feet first is frightening. Yes. I don't know how you do it. Yeah, I don't know how you face that and go, yeah, I need to be hurtling towards the ground

as quickly as possible. Because your brain tells you. That's going to hurt. Your brain doesn't say, oh, that's okay because it's not land, it's water. It just says you're fucking high here and your evolutionary instincts kick in and you go, if you jump off here, you're going to fucking really hurt yourself

and you shouldn't be doing it. And I think when people train to dive off the old 10 metre, you know they bubble the water up. So if you get it wrong, it's not as heavy an impact. Oh, interesting. So part of the training of diving from a 10 metre diving board is it'll, it'll be like a jacuzzi jet.

Does that actually work? Yeah, because it breaks the surface. Right. The surface. Is the thing that does all the damage. Well, if you slap onto

the surface with your back from 10 metres, it's fucking bad news. Yeah. You're going to hurt yourself. Yeah. If it's bubbling under, it's a softer landing.

Interesting. Did you not know that? I didn't know that. Now you're making me think I've made it up. I'm pretty sure I haven't. I'm pretty sure that is what they do. So would you be comfortable jumping off a 10 metre? I think I't know that. Now you're making me think I've made it up. I'm pretty sure I haven't. I'm pretty sure that is what they do.

So would you be comfortable jumping off a 10 metre? Harder for you because you're shorter as well. Yeah, I think I've done 10. Yeah, but wouldn't I be... Are you because of the ground? There'd be less terminal... The terminal velocity would not be reached. You might.

Depends on the weight, isn't it? Yeah, exactly. Yeah, no, I think I've done 10. I've not done any higher than that. I don't think there is any higher than that, is there? Oh, it's 10, the top one? Yeah. Oh, what's the middle one then? Five. Yeah think I've done 10. I've not done any higher than that. But yeah, you're right. I don't think there is any higher than that, is there? Oh, is 10 the top one? Yeah. Oh, what's the middle one then?

Five. Yeah, I've done five. If that. There's no higher than 10. Wait, are there any diving boards in London? I wouldn't mind doing it. There probably are. I've done a bungee jump since I washed out on it.

It's a global capital. I'm sure there's a diving board to be found somewhere. But you know what? I'm actually wrong because that Red Bull diving competition they do it from really high off cliffs but they go feet first. What's the one where it's like it looks like a kind of municipal pool

like a small body of water and then you've got the ladder that goes up for miles. Miles and miles and miles and miles. That's a Disney film. It's not a Disney film. It's Dumbo, isn't it? Yeah. It's Dumbo.

No, it's definitely a... Because that's how he starts to fly. But it's that circus kind of attraction where the ladder is literally 200 feet high and they jump down and they land in this very small... Yeah, no one does this in real life. They do do it in real life. I promise you they do.

How are they putting it up there? 200 metres. How are they getting it up there? What do you mean? They're a travelling circus. How are they putting it up there? 200 metres. How are they getting it up there? What do you mean? They're a travelling circus. How have they brought that? Right. World's highest shallow dive.

What is that? Guinness World Records 60th anniversary. Professor Splash takes... Oh, that can't be his real name. That's a coincidence. It's 37 feet. All right. Into just 12 inches of water.

He executes the highest shallow dive from 11.56 metres, 37 foot 11 inches, into just 12 inches of water. That executes the highest shallow dive from 11.56 metres, 37 foot 11 inches, into just 12 inches of water. That's like that? Yeah, tiny. I don't think he's well. I don't even know if that's possible. He looks quite old. Look at him. Oh my god, it's just a paddling pool.

It's just a paddling pool. He's dead. It's got an inflatable bouncy castle under it. No, well, yeah, it has. Yeah, but it's still He's got a... He's dead. He's dead. It's got an inflatable bouncy castle under it. No. Well, yeah, it has. It has. Yeah, but it's still, you still just, it's still, like, not great.

Is it? Look at it. Yeah, but he's got a bouncy castle under him. Say the noise. Yeah. The crowd fall silent. Professor Splash. An old man.

Professor Splash. His PhD. About 70. What was that sound just before he landed I'd like to hear from our listeners and how high they've jumped

into a body of water I wouldn't like them to do it on our behalf but if it's something that's happened in their past I'd like to know about it highest ladder dive

I guess unless you're James Bond it's not something that comes up that often really is it no and he's usually doing it off the side of a dam. But the highest dive, Swiss diver of Brazilian descent,

Lazaro La Sochala, in 2015, dived from 58.8 metres, higher than the Tower of Pisa, exceeding a speed of 120 kilometres per hour at his entry into the water. Wow. Bloody hell. That is full on. That is tall. I was reading a book this weekend a speed of 120 kilometres per hour at his entry into the water. Wow. Bloody hell. That is full on.

That is tall. I was reading a book this weekend called The Education of Corporal John Musgrave. Very interesting guy. He was... Sorry. Fucking hell. I was just showing you the really high dive that the man did.

Look how high that is. How have they even got that structure like that? What do you mean? It's a really weird structure. There'd probably be a sort of ropes that are, ropes or wires. I mean, look, this is the 80s. He looks like, who's the man

who always gets angry at Paul Pogba? Graham Sunez. Look at that. Fuck you now. It's making my palms go sweaty. Oh, look, he's got a bit of bubbling going on. I told you he would have. An astonishing feat. It's incredible. Rick winners. Corporal John musgrave

was a marine in the vietnam war yeah and the reason he is he had a really bad injury in the vietnam war he survived it and he joined the anti-vietnam war movement yes and so a lot of veterans did it was kind of a big deal it's one of the tipping points of why the vietnam war um while america stopped being present in the Vietnam War because the veterans joined the movement against it. Anyway, that's the build up. In the book, he talks about how the Marines were taught how to stay alive floating in water for like days at a time by like hanging in the water like that with their face down

and then using so little energy that every kind of 10 seconds they lift their face up and breathe and go back down again. Apparently you can survive for absolutely ages doing that. Oh, right. Just kind of like just relaxed, kind of just...

So you can face down in the water and every 10 seconds turn your head to one side, take a breath, go back again and just do that for as long as you can.

You don't use any energy doing it and it just relaxes you and all the rest of it. But you would presumably have to keep a lot of air in your lungs because you're not

flapping about, are you? Because I'm not naturally buoyant, see. No, everyone is. People say that everyone is. Sarah is very buoyant. She just sits there. She just lies there

and she just floats. She doesn't have to worry about exhaling or inhaling. I have to inhale. If I'm in the sea and it's salty, I can float. It's because you don't

commit to anything. That's why. You don't. I don't trust it. I don't trust the sea and it's salty, I can float. It's because you don't commit to anything. That's why. You don't. I don't trust it. I don't trust the bodies of water. It's like the Matrix. You're Neo in the Matrix. You've got to believe.

You've got to believe. Some of the rules can be bent. Some of them can be broken. You've got to believe it. All right, let's go and float for a bit and come back. And when we come back, we'll do some emails from our lovely listeners. And I did promise everyone last week we'd do one about Harry Styles.

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Football Ramble Presents is a Stack production. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. I am pleased to announce that we are finally going to be reading out an email about Harry Styles

from One Direction. Oh, he likes, does he get oral sex to watermelons or something? I can't remember what it is. Where's that come from? Watermelon sweet... What is it? Watermelon sugar. Sugar. That was one of his songs. It's a reference to oral sex, apparently. Oh, is it really? Yes. Okay. I didn't know that.

I do quite like the way he presents himself. Right, okay. What, subverts the idea of masculinity? I think so. I mean, it's quite a cool thing. Yeah. It's quite interesting. Anyway, this is not a complimentary email about him. So, I mean, to adjust the balance. Sorry, Harry, turn it off now.

This is from Nate from Bournemouth. Hello to you, Nate. He says, on Monday's episode, you briefed me. I love the way some of our listeners are like, right, I don't want you to read my name out because I once stole a Post-it note from my job in 1994. And some people are like, here's a great email about one of the world's most famous men.

I was there. My name is Nate. So Nate says, on Monday's episode, you briefly discussed Harry Styles' cameo in the Eternals film and how he wasn't necessarily suitable for film. Well, he's going to be in a lot more Marvel movie acetate, if we're to be believed, because he's going to play a main role

in the next generation of Marvel movies. Would it be fair to say that Marvel movies are not the pinnacle of acting? So he probably finds it quite comfortable. But they are big. Yeah.

I mean, it's like, if you're going to fail, you're going to fail in quite a big way. You can just be silly though, can't you? Nobody's going to go,

stop being so bloody silly. I don't think it's as easy as that. Is it? And anyway, so yeah, I'll let Nate pick up the story. He says, I'm here to pick up the story. He says, I'm here to back up the claim

that he isn't great on camera. As a student in the sleepy coastal town of Weymouth, lovely part of the world, you can imagine our surprise and excitement when the news broke that Christopher Nolan had decided to film some scenes of Dunkirk, the movie Dunkirk,

in our humble quayside and nearby town of Swanage. We were even more shocked to learn that the production company had come to our college on the lookout for people to play the role of extras, presumably because hiring a bunch of 18-year-olds was cheaper than real actors. Naturally, of course, me and my mates all applied,

and several awkward photos and measurements later, I got given the news that I'd been chosen to be a soldier. Oh, hello. Great stuff. This is dream scenario. Fast forward to the day of filming, donning our itchy woolen uniforms and standing in front of one of the assistant directors.

A group of about 15 of us were singled out and named Alpha Team. We were all taken aside and got told that we had been chosen to be around the main talent of the movie, Harry Styles and Cillian Murphy. My young mind was blown apart to be so close to such famous people. This was quickly shattered, however,

as Killian pointedly blanked all of us peasants and Harry sadly seemed incapable of delivering his lines. It's his first role. I feel sympathetic here. Yeah. There's a scene at the end of the film, apparently, where we're in a train and Harry had to ask a paperboy where we were as it pulls into the station.

In the film, this scene lasts roughly 15 seconds. This took close to. In the film, this scene lasts roughly 15 seconds. This took close to eight hours to film as Harry either messed up his lines or said them in a way that displeased Christopher Nolan.

What was the question he had to ask? He has to say, ask a paper boy what station they're pulling into. What station are you pulling into,

little boy? Take it down a bit, Harry. Yeah, okay, yeah. What station are you pulling into? No one boy! Take it down a bit, Harry. Yeah, OK, yeah. No one can hear you, Harry. What station is this, please? This meant the old steam train that we were on had to keep reversing about half a mile back so we could then pull up to the next to the paperboy again

for Harry to stumble over his words. Acting chops aside, Harry was a really down-to-earth and nice bloke who happily chatted to us lads through the whole four days filming and in fairness seemed almost as nervous as the rest of us about the whole situation. I hope this has shed some light. This is the thing, Nate does take a bit more of a sympathetic turn

in this email before slapping it back again by going, I hope this has shed some light on why we shouldn't hire pop stars as actors. All the best, Nate from Bournemouth. So I have some sympathy for Harry here because if you can imagine the whole production around him, his first film role, he's in quite a difficult situation anyway,

because everyone knows who he is. Yeah, and everyone expects more from him than he can actually deliver. Yeah, and I think Christopher Nolan... Where's the station? What station am I at? Christopher Nolan's also a noted... Ekiwadokadesuka.

That's Japanese. Is it? You said it again? Ekiwadokadesuka. What's that? Where's the station? Where's the station? Where's the train station?

Where is this train station? Very good. Cheers, mate. It's Harry Styles. Could have stepped in. And Nolan's known for his high demands, right? Yeah. He's like an auteur, isn't he?

He makes these crazy movies. He's probably obsessed with sound design. It means he's got to really shout his lines to get over the weird mixing that he's chosen. Dunkirk was weird for that. There's hardly any dialogue in it. It's a good movie. I enjoyed it.

I like it when Tom Hardy's got his little plane and it runs out of petrol. He goes, of petrol. It's the land of the beach. He only lands on it and it's just really

very sort of still and you just hear the wind on the wings. I love the idea. Yeah, it's nice. It's really well done. And then he blows it up with a grenade.

Spoiler in it. The film only came out six years ago. Tom Hardy blowing up his own plane with a grenade. I like the idea of me escaping from some kind of situation by getting in a little plane and being able to fly it

and then landing it on a beach somewhere. That sounds like it'd be quite cool. And then, like, shooting the enemies with a gun. Yeah. And then just... I wouldn't land on a beach. I'd just fly it into a sea. I'd float face down.

I could do this for years, honestly. Oh, my day. Right, that's about it for us for another Luke and Pete show. We'll be back on Thursday for more fun, games, hand grenades and planes up in the sky. And Pete on Thursday

is going to review the whole entirety of the new Adele album while eating as many baked beans as he can. Certainly am. It's for children in need. Look forward to that. We'll be back soon. Give us an email.

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