The Luke and Pete Show - Voltage Fraud
Episode Date: May 20, 2021On today’s show, Luke takes us down memory lane for a disastrous story about a very awkward bucket of chicken, while Pete records from his man shell as he recovers from Monday’s brutal breakdown.&...nbsp;Elsewhere, a NEW PLAYER ENTERS THE GAME before one of the boys gets caught out in some battery fraud. We also hear directly from the dogs Pete has access to..you don’t want to miss this!GET INVOLVED! Drop us an email with your latest nonsense story over at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com, or get in touch on our Twitter/Instagram pages @lukeandpeteshow. We LOVE hearing from you!If you're enjoying the show, go and drop us a review over on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. 5 stars will do. You don't want to see Pete having another breakdown. Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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it's the luke and pete show it's the is it how the devil are you are you all hugged out
have you spent most of this week in that pub if indeed you uh enjoy that sort of thing uh let us
know hello and pete show.com i'm pete donaldson i'm joined by luke moore and we are back once
again to talk absolute rubbish how you doing lu doing, Luke? You all right? Pretty good, thanks. Yeah, not too bad.
I'm just pleased to see you've calmed down since Monday's escapades.
I could always ramp it up.
I could always ramp it back up again, so to speak,
but I had to push the ramp at a low speed.
I was thinking that, you know, we were talking on Monday
about how you failed your driving test.
Well, you don't say that.
Say again?
You don't fail it, as the as the man was appears to say he
said i can't pass you i couldn't pass my driving test okay so you failed to pass your driving test
yeah um and i was wondering how many other bad things will have to happen to you this week to
make it the worst week of your life well i mean i don't like the fact that you're looking down at your computer like you've got something for me because i was spoken
to your family i just wondered because some people get affected by it some people think
ah whatever it is what it is you know just get on with it i'm just wondering if you're dwelling on
it still you know what it was a good weekend of football last weekend.
Alisson's header, Leicester City,
Newcastle put in a performance against Man City.
It's not all bad.
Football's back.
Football's picking up where my life is kind of at.
The week starts on Monday,
so you can't count that.
I just wondered if you are going to bounce back
or whether you're going to disappear into your shell over all this.
That's all I'm wondering.
I don't know.
I mean, I'd love access to a shell, to be quite frank.
I mean, look, I've got a house move on the horizon.
I've got to be thinking about that, to be quite frank.
I've got to think about disassembling a massive wardrobe
that costs nearly a grand.
It's all...
My sort of tumble, stumble into domesticity uh it obviously it's
not going particularly well i can't trust pass my driving lesson driving test but um you know
i'm thinking about moving house i'm thinking about disassembling a wardrobe that's 10 times bigger
than i am it's it's it's all going off it's fun i don't think i would ever move house again without
getting professional people to help me did Did you not the first time?
No, and it was a mistake.
What did you do?
Just get a van?
It's just, yeah.
Wow.
That's an undertaking.
It's too much.
Yeah, it's too much.
I think, because the worst thing about it was that I was moving from a first floor flat to another first floor flat and so
and it's just like the house i live in now is really quite old it's like i think it was built
in 1900 so the dimensions are odd and it's sunk a bit and like there's different bits going on and
so couldn't get the um sofa upstairs for example you know um and it's just there's no there's like it comes a point where
you can have people helping you but i do think i'm a big believer like um you know that it's
fair enough it's not counted as a profession like the tories would say oh it's an unskilled piece
of labor or whatever but moving house if you've done a 500 of them because it's your job you're
going to be good at it you're going to know the tricks of the trade you're going to know what to do in different situations you know you're going to know
what order to move stuff in you know how to label things you know all these things that come along
we do a terrible job in this country of really beefing up and really supporting and helping
or respecting people who do really important jobs that for some reason society is deemed not skilled
like moving a
fucking house to another house is a skilled
job, I don't care what you say.
That's what I learned when I moved, and it
was in February of 2014, and I'm still not
over it.
I had to, I mean, I only moved a
one bedroom flat into, and I've got
a lot of town, but I've not got that much, so there wasn't even
a room in my sort of
grief hall, but two Iraqi lads, I think there's a father and son kind of team and and
and they just they they were like it was like mad kind of heavy tetris it was amazing what they did
like and and they know what to you know with a big flat screen they know where to put that thing
you know where to where to sort of protect it so it doesn't get smashed it's a it's a it's a massive skill set and and and to be honest they had two
or three more drops after they finished with me so they had to fit in two other drops with with
my stuff as well it's it's it's incredible i mean they're not gonna they're not gonna face uh it's
not gonna be like this kind of they're gonna have a big sisyphean sort of cry at the bottom of a stairwell when they can't get a sofa up the bloody thing, are they?
They're not going to go, well, this can't go.
Well, you watch it a bit, don't you?
Well, at some point, when you're trying to get that sofa up the stairs, you must have
been going, this isn't going to get through that door, this isn't going to get up the
stairs, I'm just going to have to burn this, I'll just leave it outside, like the sofa
in Friends or something.
Like I say, were you there?
Because describing it is pretty accurate.
I just downed a bit of a breakdown.
Listen, one of the worst things about the whole thing was that a mate of mine had moved house like a month before.
So he had a spare sofa, and I didn't have anything
because we had moved from a furnished flat to an unfurnished one, right?
So I was on the mission.
I was like, yeah, I'll take that.
I'll take that.
Anything free, I'll take.
And my mate gave me this big corner sofa.
And he said, look, this is how it gets ridiculous, right?
He said, it's there for you.
At the time, he was living outside London.
He had a big old place.
He was like, look, the sofa's there for you.
It's in the garage.
Whenever you want it, you come and get it.
So on the same day, I drove down to Godalming in Surrey.
And for those who don't know UK geography very well,
I mean, it's like an hour away from where I live.
I drove down there, picked it up in the back of the van,
which, by the way, I'd already used to move my other stuff.
Then I had to go down to my parents' house on the south coast
to pick up some more stuff.
Then I had to drive back up to the house, and the sofa didn't fit in the fucking house. So I literally had to go down to my parents house in the south coast to pick up some more stuff Then I had to drive back up to the house and the sofa didn't fit in the fucking house
So I literally had to leave it outside anyway, it's a complete waste of time
It's so stressful moving house. I'm telling you. I think it's the most stressful thing you can do and that's even before you talk about
All the machinations of actually buying the thing in the first place, which is just a complete saga always
Well, I'm so so what happened to
so you just have to take it to the tip or whatever no because in our neighborhood people
just take stuff you just put three on there people just take it okay fair do your dogs are
going mad i know yeah that's probably the boss from some of that what can i do okay look i i
can only i can mirror i can signal i can maneuver but if the dogs start barking, I can't help it.
They're crying.
It's sad.
They're upset about you moving house.
Not passing my test.
Peter.
They were like, these are the basics, Pete.
You know, you mentioned on an earlier show where you were moving to,
and we had an email from someone saying, just literally just saying,
oh, by the way, when you turn up, Pete,
let me know if you need any help with this
and I'll give you, you know, give me a shout.
You want to go for a beer?
I saw that.
I forwarded that to my partner.
He was very sweet with that person.
So thank you very much.
I'm going to take you up on that offer.
Because that is the thing about, like,
kind of moving to an area.
You don't know, like, who the best, like,
sparkies are, who the best, you know,
kitchen fitters are,
all that stuff.
It's just a bit of a nightmare.
I don't think he's going to
fill the kitchen for you.
I just think he wants to
beat you to a pint.
He might do.
You know who else
lives in Southend, Peter?
Uh-oh.
Is it the Southend Strangler?
Almost.
Big Pav.
Oh, does he?
Right, okay.
Friend of the show, Big Pav. Lovely. What does he get up to in Southend? What business does he have okay from the show Big Pav
lovely
where's he going
up to in Southend
what business
does he have out there
I think he's
I think he's from there
ah okay
right
interesting
oh well
I'll get on his
PUBG
if he wants to
come around
and insult you
I'm sure
if you want someone
to come around
and give you shit
I'm sure he'll be
happy to do it
shout in your face
tell you what
you're doing wrong
yeah so good luck with it Pete one thing I would say is that speaking of I'm sure he'll be happy to do it. Shout in your face. Tell you what you're doing wrong.
Yeah, so good luck with it, Pete.
One thing I would say is that,
speaking of, I mean, the reason earlier I was asking you if you had a bad week or not,
did you read about this farmer in Belgium
who calls himself a local history enthusiast, right?
Saw a, this local, sorry, they're two separate people. This local history enthusiast right saw a this local
this local
sorry
they're two different people
this local history
enthusiast
was out walking
the forest
when he noticed
Dogging
local dogger
what's going on there
it sounds like
a starter one
doesn't it
not the guy
you
not the guy
the virgin broadband
not the guy
who saw
two men
caught in flagrante and argued that it gave his dog a limp.
Do you remember?
Yeah, was that a Tarian B?
I can't remember.
He said that seeing two men in the countryside naked gave his dog a limp.
Anyway, it's a different...
I just don't really understand where that comes from.
Confusing.
Listen, a male dog will
fuck anything won't it
it's not going to be shocked by anything a male dog is it
no it isn't
so I don't understand why
I don't understand why that's the case
by the way when I was a kid I remember
I'm going to get on this Belgian farmer in a minute
when I was a kid my parents took me
for a KFC because one opened up in gosport right
like a big deal this is in like the 80s yeah i remember when the burger king first opened there
as well and it was like everyone was like losing their shit about it i remember the first mcdonald's
mate harley put his first mcdonald's brilliant near the tesco fantastic burger king came along
a bit later though didn't it it? We never had a Burger King
except we did.
There's a McDonald's
in Gosport as well
but I can't remember
that opening.
I think that might have
been there before
I realised.
Anyway,
there's a KFC
that opened up,
right?
I was about seven,
I think.
My mum and dad said,
let's go to KFC.
It's like a new thing.
We went down there
and it was so busy
that you couldn't eat in there. Mum and dad said, don't worry about it. What we new thing so we went down there and it was so busy that he couldn't eat in
there and uh so mum dad said don't worry about it what we'll do is we'll get the bucket or whatever
it is whatever we had and we'll take it drive down the coast to the coast which isn't far obviously
because that's where we where we live and we'll sit in the car and we'll eat it right and you see
like old people doing that all the time they're going to get fish and chips it's nice because you
want to go to the beach but I guess if you're old
maybe you feel the cold
a little bit more
you don't want to
you just sit in the car
and you watch the sea
it's nice
you see a lot of people
doing it
anyway
family of us
KFC
in the car
down to the ferry bit
the harbour
sat there
eating our food
and a bloke
just walks along
there's a bench
by the bus station
anyone who's familiar
with gospel
will know exactly
where I am talking about
there's a bus station
right
this is probably
about 5pm
right
dinner time
for a kid
I'm 7
I ain't eating my dinner
any later than 7 o'clock
latest am I
at 7
so
down there
bloke walks along
looks around
quite furtively
just looking around.
A girl comes along, right?
They sit on the bench and just start having sex on the bench.
My parents had to, my mum had to drive us away.
Drive you away?
Like we're doing William Shepard's Croc?
No, as in like drive the car away.
It's a scatter.
Right.
It's not finger licking. This is terrible.
But no one, because we're like a, I guess a socially awkward,
normal British family.
No one said anything.
Just drove off.
Yeah.
Let's go somewhere else.
We just went somewhere else.
I'll never forget it.
It's like 33 years ago.
I'll never forget it.
It's like when a friend of my dad's was on um some kind of safari
uh and they sort of drove past a village and a man came out and he had um giganticism of the
testicles uh lifted up his lifted up his smock and and asked for some coins um and nobody said
a word about it just gave him some coins, never discussed it again until later on.
So I said,
I've got to get this
off my chest, Stewie.
I saw a man with gigantic
to the floor testicles
and I've just,
I've already just
come to terms with it.
Why is money changing hands?
Well, because he's a beggar,
isn't he?
So I don't think
he was like a freak show.
I think he just got a guy
and look at the state
of my testicles. Can I have some money, some money please what are you gonna do with the money
is it for a fund i don't bloody know is it for a fun maybe for some wheels on it
i don't know i feel like you know like um when you're a kid so
you used to see porno mags in like bushes and stuff right why was that a thing when when i was
in weymouth a couple weeks ago um i was walking through this kind of little little hedge and i
was thinking god this would be prime pornography spots so if you were gonna look for pornography
in the 80s 90s i don't know it's like a well-worn comedic path but yeah i was thinking there's gotta be
something but the thing is somewhere it is a well-worn comedic cliche right i get it right
a stand-up for a reason there's five million stand-ups in the uk now you're never more than
three foot from a stand-up right most of them are absolutely fucking shit and they all talk
about this kind of stuff i get it right but this genuinely did used to happen and i fear that
younger listeners to this show
won't fully appreciate or understand what we're saying.
For no reason at all,
there were pornographic magazines in bushes when we were kids,
and I don't know why.
Was it because a man would go to the shop, buy one, read it,
and then leave it in the bush
because he didn't want to take it home or something?
Yeah, transient masturbators.
I think that's the transient masturbatory community
would leave magazines in in hedges but also you know i guess kids would buy i don't really know
kids but i remember sort of seeing stashes quite a lot like people would there'd be like
lots of magazines in one place just dumped and that is clearly uh they're moving house so dad's
gotta go into the cupboard under the floorboards,
pull them out, get rid.
You can't just put them in a bin, can you?
You can't really just put them, you have to litter.
You have to put them in somewhere.
Can I just say, they were always in air raid shelters when I was a kid.
I like the fact that for a lot of kids,
you're going to have to explain air raid shelters.
Probably you're going to have to explain the war,
and also paper pornography.
But back in the day, imagine printing, like, I'm not pretty good,
imagine a paper-based iPad.
But it's in the hedge, and it's got Linda Lusardi on it.
They're not going to know who Linda Lusardi is, are they?
All right, fine.
But the, and I don't, to be fair to Linda, I don't think she ever did full pornographic magazines. She's a page-free girl. Alright, fine. But the, and I don't, to be fair to Linda,
I don't think she ever did
full pornographic magazines.
She's a page three girl.
Okay, fine.
Certainly not
European strength.
Which,
when my wife
moved to the UK
in 2016,
she had never heard of
nor seen
page three of the Sun before
and thought it was
the weirdest thing
she'd ever experienced like
in her life she was like right so yeah because basically this is the world this is the country's
most popular newspaper yeah and when you open the front page you just see a random woman topless
yeah why yeah i don't know it's always been like that what's the point of it no idea but it's like it is like it's it's so basically so sexless
it's so there's no kind of like there's not it's not interesting it's just this inert kind of
asinine kind of display of flesh for no reason it was never sexy it was never hot it was never sexy. It was never hot. It was never really interesting unless you were like a bit
educationally subnormal
and sat in a van.
It was interesting then
to go, look at this, mate.
Look at this, Steve.
It's a girl without any top.
See you tomorrow
and we'll do this again.
Or if you were like...
Can I just say,
that is the weirdest conversation
I've ever heard.
Look at this, Steve. It's a is the weirdest conversation I've ever heard.
Look at this Steve,
it's a woman without any top, see you tomorrow.
But it's,
but it's,
but I think it was like our kind of version of trying to be a little bit
European maybe because in Europe and mainland Europe,
you'd sort of see advertising,
like high fashion advertising for perfumes and underwear and stuff like that.
And you'd see women, you'd see nipples effectively. And that was kind of like, advertising, high fashion advertising for perfumes and underwear and stuff like that.
And you'd see women, you'd see nipples effectively.
And that was kind of like, and when you went to the mainland for a trip to Belgium or Holland
or whatever, you'd be like,.
Oh my,.
That is a very exciting, I've seen a lady who was at the top, a tiny skinny lady who
was at the top.
And it makes, I think, think american i think certainly americans when
for example when wwe i do a podcast called wrestle me with a guy called mark and and when uh
it's sort of attitude area era uh when that kind of wrestling setup came over to london
they did like a house show where they or a film show um for television like a pay-per-view um where um a woman just got
her top off but they just assumed because of things like the sun newspaper because of the
advertising uh in in mainland europe they thought it was acceptable to have one of the wrestlers
lose her top in front of a load of kids i never knew that happened judged so yeah and and they
don't really talk about it.
It was, you know, in the pantheon of shameful things,
that company of Pappertrade, it was one of the more shameful things.
But I think Europeans have a reputation of being, like,
needlessly sexual at the weirdest times.
I'm going to enjoy a biscotti and a booboo.
Well, that is true.
I assumed that page three came from carry-on films or something.
Yeah, but it's too revealing.
It's not suggestive, is it?
It's just insane.
It is mad.
It's just very hard. what it is is the classic example
of one of those things that once it's been stopped and yeah you look back and go that was a bit of a
weird time wasn't it you know what i mean i'm not suggesting that i didn't think it was terrible or
weird or sexist at the time i'm sure i probably did but it just of course it's sexist and
unacceptable but it's just also odd it's sexist and unacceptable, but it's just also odd.
It's like, it's completely pointless.
Yeah, the primary sort of thing is that it's just fucking weird.
Yeah, basically, yeah.
I was going to say, anyway, there's a Belgian farmer, right?
And he's found some pornos.
He probably found some pornos in his fields. But anyway, he was ploughing his field on a tractor, right?
And he found a stone in his path,
which was in the way of what he was trying to do.
And it was quite a big stone.
So he picked it up and he moved it a few meters out the way.
But what he didn't realize was that that was the boundary between France and Belgium.
And so ultimately he made Belgium two metres bigger and France smaller.
Or as the mayor of the Belgian village said, this is not a good idea.
And I think, and it's an interesting story, right?
And, you know, fine, it's quite funny.
I think if you are a farmer who lives off the land
and you live that close to the French border,
you know what you're doing.
You know what you're doing.
What, do you reckon he just did it and just went,
and just sort of like, sort of thought,
I wonder how long
this is going to take
before I get in trouble
I think it's almost like
the Shawshank Redemption
where every day you go back
and you steal a little bit more
dig a bit more of a tunnel
oh do you reckon he's just
do you reckon this has been
like the work of like
years and years and years
he's just moved a couple
of centimetres every year
before you know it
France no longer exists
I mean you'd have to go some
I mean I would probably
move the French border more
than the Belgian border
well they're the same thing aren't they
yeah but like I would
sorry I would move it towards Belgium
rather than towards France
because you're going to take
it's going to take a long time
that's going to be your life's work
but he's Belgian
he doesn't want to make Belgium tiny does he
it's already small
well you could just
there's absolutely no precedent
for any there's no I mean's absolutely no precedent for any um there's
no i mean there's no precedent for belgium's um borders to have been compromised at any point
during the 20th century so i don't know what he's worried about anyway i don't know what um
i don't know how like why we need those stones because i don't know you know like how they would
measure what's belgium what's france what's you know france what's spain awesome like i don't know how granular
the data actually goes like you know how it actually we just assume and accept it are we
talking centimeter yeah we assume that like this meter or 10 meters square is france this 10 meter
square is belgium i wonder how granular it gets, how small it gets.
Can it go down centimeters, millimeters even?
I mean, if you go down centimeters, presumably,
you could go down millimeters.
Presumably, it could go even smaller than that.
That's why the Planck length is so interesting in science
because I think I'm right in saying that there was always
this philosophical problem that you could always
technically half the distance.
So I think it was some Greek philosopher
who said that philosophically speaking,
in theory, you could never actually cross a river
because if you went half a distance each time,
you'd never quite get there.
But actually, that's not true
because when you get down to a very small length,
like the plank length,
reality becomes a bit weird.
Subatomically, it becomes all foamy and odd, and it's a bit all over the place,
and you can no longer make the measurements.
So you can only get down so far, I think, is the answer to that question.
But I'll leave the final word on this to the Belgian mayor, who said,
I was happy my town was bigger, but the French mayor did not agree.
Never upset a French mayor.
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Have we got some new battery brands, Luke Moore?
Yes, we have.
We've got Tom Monk's suggestion,
which is all-key batteries.
All-key.
I think they're new players.
Yeah, it sounds like the sort of batteries
you'd put inside a sousaphone or a piano.
Yeah, I think you can have a new player there, Tom Monk.
I clicked on his tweet, and it said, you know, hi, Luke and Pete Show. Found these batteries. can have a new player there tom monk i clicked on his tweet and um it
said this is you know hi luke and pete show found these batteries are they a new player fair enough
they are his next tweet says i'm up to it i'm optimistic there won't be but if there is another
severe peak of infections with covid that delay stage four will be solely the fault of the
government's border strategy so i think what's there, Tom is showing us he is capable of the frivolous and the serious.
The serious, I care.
On one Twitter feed.
So well done to him.
Thank you, Tom.
He's got a new player entering the game there.
Has sent in new leaders.
New leaders are not new players.
We've seen loads of new leaders over the years, haven't we, Peter?
Yes, certainly in this cabinet, this government.
And the final one for now is Sean,
who's found he looked into his Portuguese nasal hair trimmer,
which I presume isn't a euphemism,
and said, what about these new batteries?
D-M-E-G-C.
D-M-E-G-C.
I don't think they are new players.
I think I've seen them before.
Yeah, D-M-E-G-C. It sounds like something they are new players. I think I've seen them before. Yeah. I mean, D-M-E-G-C.
It sounds like something we've seen before,
but I don't recall to be honest.
I do have, actually, a VAL wet and dry,
rinses clean, nose trimmer.
So, could pop mine open, see what's in there.
Oh.
They get older.
They just never stop growing, do they?
Let me just...
What battery is it in?
It's got max power.
Max power.
A classic of the Luke and Pete show.
It is a classic.
There was a tweet, Peter, that you shared on Twitter last week.
All right.
Or I think it might have been the lady you have access to shared it.
And it was a drawer full of nothing but Duracell batteries.
And the Luke and Pete show community were outraged.
I mean, there was no other brand apart from Duracell.
So do you want,
do you want to kind of explain that?
Well,
yeah,
the,
the,
um,
partner I have access to,
um,
saw fit to expose my,
uh,
own battery drawer,
even though she enjoys access to D cells,
uh,
triple A,
double A,
uh,
C,
C's as well,
a bigger,
uh,
do you make sure you've got a certain amount of all the different types of cell?
Got one of each.
Got one, at least one of each at any one time.
I bought some electronic bins, Luke.
And when you go wave your hand in front of them, they open.
And then when you go away.
And they take two big, chunky cell batteries.
And I thought I'd be going through them at quite a whacking rate,
but unfortunately, no, they last quite a long time.
So I've got a drawer full of batteries, and yes, they are all Duracell
because I bought them from your friend and mine at Tesco's,
and they don't seem to sell any others.
That's the key, though.
If I could have got all of a D-Mag,
if I could have got all of a D-Mag,
I would have done, but I couldn't.
But that's the thing.
I think people missed the point when they were outraged about this.
And I wanted to address this now by saying that these rogue different
battery brands, you can't buy them, right?
That's the thing.
With the exception of like Varta, which we've seen,
I've seen Varta shops in Europe and I'm sure there are similar ones in the Far East.
Generally speaking, you know,
good luck going to the shop and asking them for,
you know, an all-key battery.
You're not going to find it.
So in some ways, Donaldson's got no choice
but to go down Duracell Drive and hoover up what he can.
The paucity, the lack of kinds of battery batteries.
You don't even see an EverReady anymore.
What happened to them?
Yeah.
Are they made by another company, though?
Do you think they got bought out by Duracell?
Big D?
I don't know.
It's possible.
I mean, there's a lot of consolidation
in the cell community these days.
The thing that kicked us off was the Samsung brand.
What was the Samsung brand again?
I can't remember back in the day,
but they just exclusively came in Samsung remote controls
for the television and the DVDs and stuff.
But you do occasionally see those brands in shops.
But yeah, very, very little choice, unfortunately.
Great, great range of asparagus tips and blueberries.
There are three different kinds, inexplicably.
But yeah, the battery brands, we need more variety.
We do.
I completely agree.
We've got time for a quick email before we go.
We are overrunning today, but we'll squeeze one in.
And this is a callback to when Jim was on the show
and he talked to us about the 80s and 90s model
and heartthrob Fabio,
who killed a goose with his face on a, or a bird with his face on a ride at Busch Gardens.
Well, interestingly enough, Michael, listener Michael, friend of the show Michael,
has got in touch saying, I was at Busch Gardens on the fated day of Fabio's bird battle.
Imagine that.
I knew someone would have been.
I knew our tentacles would reach this far.
And he says, my friend David and I had queued at 6 a.m.
to stand in line to be some of the first people to ride Apollo's chariot.
And as soon as the gates opened,
we sprinted as fast as we could to get in the line.
The park is quite big, and by the time we made it there,
there were already maybe a hundred others in front of us.
Little did we know that it didn't matter when we got there
because some romance novel goon was slated to ride that chariot before all of us.
It was clear that something had happened after the first coaster took off though
as promptly stopped and the media took off running for the ride.
Joke's on you, Fabio.
You might have had to wait three hours
for them to clean the ride of your blood and bird gore.
My nose didn't get busted.
They didn't do a great job of hiding the carnage, though,
because a fleet of golf carts hurried him away.
All in all, a good day, says Michael.
I had a big Renaissance Fair-sized turkey leg
and frozen lemonade.
Lots of love from San Francisco.
Michael.
So Michael's had a good day.
Yeah, what about turkey legs you get?
A solid, solid Americana day of fun.
A romance novel goon on a roller coaster.
I like the fact that it was called Apollo's Chariot as well,
because I guess it would be, wouldn't it? Because that's why they chose him to ride the first one,
because he's like a good guy.
Yeah, all the other people yeah all the other
people around him
were women dressed
in like togas
yeah
which really does
show off the blood
you would say
so Unlucky Fabio
it's a great story
and great to be
reminded of it as well
absolutely right
that's about it
for this time
another week
of Luke and Pete shows
we've bloody enjoyed
talking to you
thank you very much
for your company today.
It's been a lot of fun. We'll be back on
Monday with more of this.
If you want to get in touch in the meantime, hello at
lukeandpeatshow.com. You're welcome to get
in touch with us about anything you've heard
on today or Monday's show or anything you'd
like us to talk about in the future or if
anything interesting has happened to you.
Before I go, I must just say that um a while
back we were sponsored by lego right is that right pete i believe so yeah and i got sent a big lego
um ghostbusters car and my wife and i finally completed it this week it is honestly it is
brilliant i was i was you know you know i approached these things with a degree of cynicism.
The detail and the enjoyment of building that car
was so good that I feel like I have to say it.
I'm not being paid to say this.
I've not been told to endorse it for any particular reason,
but genuinely, it was brilliant.
And so I had a lot of time, a lot of fun,
spent a lot of time putting it together with my wife.
It's fantastic.
I wanted to say that before we go,
but we'll be back on Monday.
If you have had a chance to get stuck into some Lego,
great stuff.
It is great stuff.
I completely forgot how much fun it was.
Look, I've literally got the Ferrari,
because I chose the Ferrari,
like some cruel, sick joke in the week
that I don't pass my test.
I'm still, I'm looking right now at the Ferrari.
It's in the corner of the room.
I need to sit down
and build it.
Gosh darn it.
Mate, it was brilliant.
It was such good fun.
It was a real blast from the past.
Anyway, thank you very much to them
and to you for listening,
more importantly.
We'll see you again on Monday.
Have a lovely weekend
and stay out of trouble
and look after yourselves.
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