The Luke and Pete Show - Why do these kids look like ostriches?
Episode Date: January 24, 2022It’s Monday, on today’s show Pete is very upset after hearing Logan Paul has been having issues with his rare Pokémon cards. Before we know it we're discussing deep state conspiracies and QAnon, ...obviously. Luke then brings us back down to earth by telling us about ostriches that escaped from a zoo and in the emails we discuss acceptable bus etiquette.Do you need us to solve any other social dilemmas? Let us know, email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com 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.
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As your father. because we are here for you. It's on demand, isn't it? On demand. Do people still say on demand?
I like when they say VOD,
video on demand.
We used to talk about VOD quite a lot when I worked at Sky.
That was like the buzz phrase.
Right.
I mean, that's just everything now,
isn't it?
Everything's on demand.
Yeah, I don't think you need to say it anymore.
There's very few live channels anymore.
What's new with you, Peter?
Oh, Luke, I'm gutted.
I'm gutted for one of the most
moneyed YouTubers in town.
Oh, who?
Logan Paul.
He's a boxer now, isn't he?
Or is that his brother?
I can forget.
Jake Paul's a boxer, I think.
Logan did do a bit of boxing,
but I think it's all Jake's thing now.
It's all Jake's thing now, right, okay.
Logan Paul has...
He's fought in the boxing ring, hasn't he?
Yeah, he fought to start with it.
Jake Paul's the younger guy, isn't he?
That's right, yeah.
Both obnoxious. Both obnoxious.
Both obnoxious.
So, he bought a lot of Pokemon cards.
Now, are you familiar with Pokemon cards?
Kind of.
In as much as anyone can be?
I'm familiar with Pokemon.
Yeah.
Was the cards just like a trading thing, is it?
Yeah.
Like Pro Set cards back in the day.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And these are very much vintage cards from back in the day.
What era are we talking about?
80s?
90s?
It's got to be 90s, late 90s, surely, hasn't it?
Right, right.
So the YouTube star has been a collector of the cards,
and I think his brother is kind of into it as well, really.
But he caused a lot of problems, I think,
one of the polls.
He made a resin table,
which looked like a piece of shit when he finished.
But he basically buried all of it.
What, old dig?
Piece of shit resin table. Can't do DIY, that guy. Piece of shit when he finished. But he basically buried all of it. What, Ozdig? Piece of shit, Resident Evil.
Can't do DIY, that guy.
Piece of shit, Resident Evil.
He's got all of the funds, all of the resources in the world.
How wealthy do you reckon he is?
Yeah, he'll be pretty minted.
It's like rock star money, like proper rock star money.
But he got a load of Game Boys, vintage Game Boys,
and put them all in a row.
You know what you see on on facebook marketplace
or etsy people take apart these iconic bits of machinery like an ipod or a fucking game boy
advance or whatever and they sort of stick it on a wall they make it literally unable to use it to
be used anymore and they put it on a wall but this this this guy he put um put one of the poles put
five or six um game Boys on a desk,
filled a vessel with resin,
and basically encased these Game Boys in resin.
And the effect was underwhelming, massively underwhelming.
Why did he do it?
To upset a load of people who really like Game Boys.
So he's basically just trolling, right?
No, he's just sort of saying, look what I've created.
But you're not really creating anything.
You've just made it hard for someone to play a vintage game.
So what's he done now?
He's bought a lot of Pokemon cards.
Well, Logan Paul has bought a lot of Pokemon cards.
Big Pokemon card guy.
And he traveled to Chicago to have this box,
this sealed box of Pokemon cards checked for authenticity.
Much like I got my trainers checked
by eBay's authenticity people.
A company
called BBCE checked
for a second time and he discovered they were
fake. He opened the
box of collectibles and it was just
full of, I think, G.I. Joe cards.
How much did he pay for it?
$3.5 million.
$3.5 million dollars 3.5
That's why I'm scared of eBay
Million dollars
I told you on Thursday
I'm scared of eBay
Why?
I just don't trust anything about it
What do you mean?
I just think
When it
Before it kind of rehabilitated itself
To be actually a place
Where you can sell shit
Yeah
Legitimately
It used to be a bit
Like the wild west
Yeah
I was just
I told you I bought that
Lego Home Alone house
Yes
For my family for Christmas
And you were going to be counterfeit.
It was fine.
It turned out perfect.
Lego's so expensive.
I know, it's mad.
And presumably easy to make.
Why isn't there more counterfeit Legos kicking around?
There probably is.
Probably a real issue.
Very generous supporters of this show, Pete.
I know.
To be fair to them.
Imagine our next sponsor, fake Lego.
It's a bit cheaper and looks shit.
No, but you're right.
It is dear. Lego. It's a bit cheaper and looks shit. No, but you're right.
It is dear.
So what had happened was that Lego Home Alone house
was really popular
and it just got snapped up, right?
I guess they were going to
make a snap out of them
and it got snapped up.
And what I did is
I went onto the Lego website,
couldn't find it
and they have this service
where they say,
put your email address in
so that it comes back
and stop will let you know.
Fine, so we did that.
It was becoming clear
that I wasn't going to get one
before Christmas.
I really wanted one for my niece.
She loves Home Alone
and the family would really enjoy
building it with her.
And so I ended up going on eBay
where they had loads of them for sale.
And I just thought,
okay, I might...
Scalpers.
Yeah, they are.
I'll just risk it.
So what I had to do
was pay like a 50 quid,
what's it called,
premium to get it.
And they made 50 quid
and that's their thing.
Look, we can have our own discussions about that. It's essentially just
capitalism, I suppose.
But it turned up perfectly
in order. It was prompt. It was
great. And I couldn't
relax until it turned up.
But you could just check the seller's rating.
I was going, look at this. What do you think?
As long as it's over 10,
if they're usually good,
you usually get away with it.
But I started to build my confidence
with things like eBay.
Right.
And then you tell me a story
about someone dropping
three and a half million dollars
on something that's not real.
Are you realistically going to be
dropping three and a half million on it?
I'd like to be in the position
to be able to do that.
But I doubt it.
But the Pokemon community
who are obsessed with this
kind of tedious wank,
they, as soon as he showed the box, they were like,
this sounds iffy.
This looks iffy.
They didn't trust the people who he bought it off.
I think the person who they bought it off in the end refunded Paul the 3.5 million.
He got his money back.
He got his money back, but then he needs to be made right by the people he bought it off.
And they were mistrusted by the pokemon community in the first instance so it's just
there is a uh again we talked about um uh the entire of the western world just kind of crumbling
it it does make me feel a little bit uneasy about the whole thing where you've got um retro video
games you know your super marios and stuff like that these original box copies that are worth a
certain amount of money,
they're suddenly going for half a million pounds, right?
And they were never worth that before.
And you get the feeling that there's a lot of fraudulent retro stuff going on.
There's a lot of dodgy stuff, dodgy valuing of the market.
I fully agree that, and I don't know enough about this particular area
to know whether this is a symptom of it.
You would know more about it than me.
But I fully feel like we are living through the first chapter
in the story of the collapse of the currency.
But I think it's kind of like collectors and kind of retro collectors.
They're the same people who have invested in crypto and NFT and stuff like that.
And I get the feeling that they are expecting a much bigger return
on their investment of time.
And unless they get their 10 times what they put in
or their 100 times what they put in, they're not really interested.
So there's a lot of people.
And that's never been what investing's been.
No.
Investing's never really been about margins that high.
It's been about scale.
It's been about scale and a 1% here and a 2% here.
It always has been.
Buffett's not looking for a 1,000% return in a year.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, no, exactly.
That's not what it's been all about.
It's been about patient,
kind of sensible decisions, right?
And another example
would probably be that thing
you sent me the other day
about that Dune book.
Yes.
Where these guys paid
two and a half million
for a copy of Dune
because they thought
it would get them the copyright
and they were going to NFT
the pages and whatnot.
So I think it was a copy,
so it was a,
so it was a book
that was created,
it was HR Geeks that was involved, It was HR Geeks involved, the writer.
I can't remember the writer of Dune.
Frank Herbert?
Frank Herbert, yeah.
And a couple of other people.
And they were kind of all involved in.
And I think it was a diagram of the original film or something.
Basically, it was this guide to how to make a film about Dune.
And there was only 10 or 11 copies made,
or maybe a little bit more.
So it was super, super valuable.
It got digitized a couple of years ago
in almost complete form.
So you could read it if you wanted to really read it.
And Dune weirdly has ridiculous amounts of weird fans.
Oh yeah, it's really popular.
It's a big part of the culture.
And so this book was so incredibly valuable.
Now these crypto bros have decided to buy a copy of this book.
And they seemed to think that by buying a copy of this book,
a snapshot in time,
They would own it.
They would own the residual rights to the ip of june
even though that's just not the case it's quite a basic error if you don't mind me saying it's a
very basic error and then i think they're trying to sort of pedal back a little bit and sort of
listen we knew that uh we didn't have the rights to create you know an anime based on it to sell
to netflix or whatever we knew we didn't have the rights,
but we were going to make something
a little bit different to it.
Like, well, just do that anyway.
You'd have to pay.
And they paid like 2.5 million.
But then people are sort of saying
that this amount of money has been inflated
and it just all sounds,
this whole thing just sounds
a little bit fraudulent,
a little bit strange.
My issue with the whole thing is that like,
it feels like one,
not many people understand
the processes here and two huge amounts of money have been exchanged despite that and it's all very
opaque and all very confusing for a lot of people and that might be because i'm old but a lot of
stuff happening in in the west where someone much cleverer than me will be able to knit it all together. And it'll be things like the capital riot
in January of last year,
that linked through to essentially online culture,
of which this is also a part of.
Almost like an undercurrent of what to me feels like anarchy
being fueled by online behavior.
So if you, because if you try, I'm reaching a little bit here because I don't really know an awful lot anarchy being fueled by online behavior.
I'm reaching a little bit here because I don't really know an awful
lot about the crypto culture and
NFTs and stuff, apart from what we
learned a week or two ago.
But if you look at how the capital
riots happened,
it's directly traceable through things
like 4chan, 8chan,
QAnon, all
that kind of stuff. It's essentially like
cosplay,
LARPing,
but in the real world,
in real time.
And I find it's quite terrifying, really,
because the people
who are QAnon, for example,
it's easy for general
members of the public,
like you and I,
or people who consider themselves
to be ultra-Western liberals or whatever,
European liberals,
to write those people off as crazy.
Oh, it's just a symptom of them, whatever.
They're not crazy.
They're otherwise quite very, very normal people.
Listening to Donald Trump's latest speech,
I don't know why,
I mean, he's on the campaign trail effectively
even this early. Yes, yes. It's on the campaign trail effectively even this early
yes
and
it's because the midterms
are in November
yeah I kind of forgot
that
I kind of forgot
I listened to it
and I was like
good god
I mean like
I've not missed that
I've not missed his
how relaxing is it
black people
are getting
more vaccines
than white people
you know
I've not missed his particular brand of unhinged,
because I don't really lift the rock up that much with QAnon
and all that business.
Every now and again, you'll hear that there was a man at that speech
who genuinely believed that Donald Trump,
that John F. Kennedy was at the speech dressed as Donald Trump.
It was very weird.
But this guy was a senator, I believe.
Some of the
QAnon conspiracies are around a lot of things that JFK
didn't actually die and he was actually helping
Trump on the campaign.
But the issue is, though, that
people who buy into all that kind of stuff,
I think the worrying thing is
if you went at a QAnon or a Trump rally
and you met them in the street,
you probably wouldn't know. If that subject didn in the street, you probably wouldn't know.
If that subject didn't come up,
you probably wouldn't know.
And that's uncomfortable for people
because they think it's easy to write them off.
Yeah.
But actually, there's a huge amount of them.
A huge amount of them.
It's crazy.
There's a really good podcast series about it
called The Coming Storm,
presented by Gabriel Gatehouse on BBC Sounds.
So once you finish listening to this
and all the other stack shows,
you must do that.
That's one of the rules about it. Do you find BBC Sounds, the app you finish listening to this and all the other stack shows, you must do that. That's one of the rules about it.
Do you find BBC Sounds,
the app,
quite difficult to navigate?
Like, you type something in
and you want,
and it's in there,
but it just doesn't come up
as a search key.
It's not as bad as the Apple one.
Yeah, I mean,
they're all pretty shoddy,
I guess.
I find Gmail search crap.
Right, okay.
Try and search for an email in Gmail.
And they say this thing about
how there's no point
finding, getting folders or labels.
The reason they fucking, the reason they deprioritize on Gmail and they say this thing about how there's no point finding getting folders or labels the reason they fucking
the reason they
deprioritize on Gmail
like
folders
into quote labels
is because they said
actually
you're better off
just having one big inbox
and just using our search function
our search function's brilliant
I search by
I search by
dit
or unique word
a lot of the time
otherwise it doesn't
fucking work
anyway
anyway Peter
for those who kind of I wonder if the chat we've just had about that kind of stuff is a bit esoteric a lot of the time. Otherwise it doesn't fucking work. Anyway, anyway, Peter,
for those who kind of,
I wonder if the chat we've just had about that
kind of stuff
is a bit esoteric.
So let me bring it back
down to earth
and let you know
that in China
last week,
China,
China,
China,
China,
Puerto Rico,
China,
Puerto Rico.
We don't talk enough
about him being camp.
He's very camp.
It's really camp, isn't it?
And I find that interesting as well,
because the disconnect is so apparent with people who seem,
they do the old facts don't care about your feelings, bro.
Yeah.
You know, fuck you kind of thing.
Fuck you and your feelings.
Yet they also are really happy to carry around.
They're basically kind of positioned themselves as really big alpha males.
And then they carry around a flag
with another man's name on it
and wear a red hat
and not
and not acknowledge the fact
that
he is the
campest man
in the world
and
Puerto Rico
China
China
China
anyway in China
in China
China
80
ostriches escaped from a zoo
come on
ran through
were seen running through the streets of a neighbouring town.
And it is...
Amazing.
It's incredible.
It just looks like any sort of...
It just looks like any sort of city scene out there.
A lot of neon lights.
Now they seem to be going down about it.
And their legs look so pink.
They look like human legs.
Do you know what it reminds me of?
You know you watch those...
I'm an absolute sucker
for these programs,
possibly because I'm a snob.
I hope not.
I like to think it's because
I'm interested in just
human beings generally.
But those kind of
club reps type shows.
Oh, right, yeah.
You know, where they follow
a load of club reps
on a season in Majorca
or whatever
and all the stuff
they get up to.
And there's a series that came out recently
called
it's about Zante
because you know
all the kids are all
about Zante now
so Zante is the place
Zante is the Ibiza
of this generation
so they all go to Zante
and there was a show
on Channel 4
a three part doc
it's actually really interesting
but you always see
groups of
boys
and groups of girls
get on these pub crawls.
It massively looks like there's ostriches.
Because they're all together.
They look like ostriches by their nature
because they've got naked necks and legs
and they've got hardly any clothes on.
It looks like they're on a big pub crawl
and they're running to the next one to do some kind of challenge.
Get him on one of those little cycles.
You know, those bike pubs.
Oh, bike bars, yeah.
You see them more and more in London, which upsets me slightly.
Don't need that in our lives.
It feels to me like it should be a German thing.
It's very European, isn't it?
Or those ones that go up really high.
Is it a balloon?
Yeah, it's a balloon.
It's like a hot air balloon.
Oh, you sit on it in the bar.
You sit on it and it floats around and you have a drink or whatever.
Your worst nightmare?
What do you mean?
Can't go anywhere else.
Can't go anywhere else.
You can't go to the next bar
because you are
300 feet in the air.
Can you get just at least
to play pulp on the speaker?
But Donny,
do you know what's interesting
about this?
There's a really
very palpable difference
isn't there
between having a few beers
out on a Friday night
in London,
having a few beers out
on a Friday night in a small town in England and having a few beers out on a Friday night in London, having a few beers out on a Friday night in a small town in England,
and having a few beers out in a European city.
Yeah.
What do you mean?
You just drink two?
Three very different things.
Yeah.
Okay.
London's very kind of different to being out somewhere else
outside of London in England,
but it's also still quite overbearing and kind of regulated.
Yeah.
Whereas in Europe, it does feel a little bit more like,
just chill out.
Just put that chair on that iced over canal, have a beer.
Yeah.
What time does it close?
We don't close.
We don't close.
And you can have some frites if you want.
Yeah.
Everywhere sells frites.
And if they don't, you just ask someone,
yeah, we'll sort you out a pizza or something.
Find you something.
A lot of the attitude towards booze and in London and in England
is because
people at the back
of their mind
know that shit's
going to close early
yeah
so they've got to
pack as much
as they can
European
when we were in Kiev
at 6am
a new shift of people
just came in
they weren't closing
yeah
that's your weekend
someone did a quick
mop up
sweep up
mop up
new shift in
right what are you having
it's dangerous obviously but it's different if you know how to stop mop up, sweep up, mop up, new shift in. Right, what are you having?
It's dangerous, obviously,
but it's different. Well, if you know how to stop, you can just stop,
can't you? But it just means that alcoholics can drink with
other people. Yeah. Which is
nice. And that's all you're after. Makes you
less likely to end up on the fringes of society.
And you're far less likely to have to drink on your own.
Anyway, let's have a break.
When we come back, we'll do some emails. I want to talk a bit about
Hell's Angels as well, after the email we had on thursday from our friend in eastney about
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We're back with the Luke and Pete show.
My name is Pete.
That guy is Luke.
And every single afternoon, evening, morning, whenever you
might be listening to this show, we do our thing.
And we do it hard. Absolutely.
Until it's down to the bone.
How hard would you say we do it? It depends on
what week it is, I think. Pre-Christmas
we were doing it hard because we had to do
a lot of shows. January's been a little
later, which is good. We're both very busy.
So yeah, I've enjoyed it. I'm enjoying
it. I agree. So
before we get into emails, hello at LukeandPeteShow.com
and get through some that our friends have already
sent in, I wanted to talk a bit about Hells Angels.
And I'll tell you why. On Thursday,
our friend in Eastney, whose
name escapes me, Kia,
he had an experience with some bikers
in a pub, and it was quite a funny story. If you haven't heard
that, go back and listen to it. But it got me thinking
about the Hells Angels and I forgot to say
that I was doing some reading
for something else
doing some research
into something a while back
and I stumbled upon
the history of the Hells Angels
and I knew nothing
I didn't know this
and I'm sure
it's a pretty underserved
you know
tale
so I thought I'd share it with you
about how the Hells Angels
were formed
and the reason I know about this
is because I was doing some research into what we talked
about earlier about the January 6th thing and all the kind of Trumpism and all that
rest of it.
Where to buy speed.
Well, that definitely comes into it.
But the Hells Angels were actually formed by a load of World War II veterans in about
1947, 1948.
Oh, they came back with their bikes.
You could buy your own bike, couldn't you?
No, there's nothing to do with that.
No?
Okay, cool. But it does come into it their bikes. You could get by on a bike, couldn't you? No, nothing to do with that. No? Okay, cool.
But it does come into it in a way.
Okay.
Bear with me.
So it originally started off being called the Pissed Off Bastards Motorcycle Club
because a lot of these World War II veterans
had come back from wherever they were fighting
and had been lauded for all the things they had done.
But they got to a point,
particularly the ones who didn't take advantage of the GI Bill,
which was passed around that time saying that anyone
who served in the military for the U S can go to university for free.
And people still take advantage of that.
Now the people who didn't have that available to them and didn't take advantage of that.
And the people who still found themselves in the same socioeconomic position they found
before the war, but they were now quote heroes because of what they'd done.
They started to get really pissed off because they felt like
they weren't being valued
that jobs were moving
all that usual stuff
about people
of social economic
disadvantage
there was a huge amount
of economic prosperity
in America around that time
but these people
didn't feel a part of it
so there's a lot of
similarities between
what people perceive
as happening now
per se
what they did
is they started
this biker gang
to show how annoyed they were and the
reason that the motorcycles come into it because they're all motorcyclists they all rode harley
davidson's as a statement of um defiance behind towards the fact that all these japanese bikes
which were objectively better motorbikes yeah flooding the US market after what had happened
between the US and Japan.
And that's why Harley-Davidson
is synonymous with Hells Angels
and that's where they all come from.
That's where they start from.
So it's quite an interesting way
to consider them as a kind of
social phenomenon in the United States.
That's how they came out of,
that's how they came into existence.
I just thought that was interesting.
Yeah.
And it wasn't the Harley-Davidson things that, did they came into existence. I just thought that was interesting. Yeah, and wasn't the Harley Davidson things that
did they
drive Harley Davidsons in the war or
something? Wasn't there a lot of Harley Davidsons
kicking around? Maybe Harley Davidson made the motorbikes for
the US military or something. And you would bring your bike back
in bits and stuff and then reassemble it on
American shores. So that still happens now. I think if you
serve overseas in the US military, you get all your stuff
sent back. Right. So my brother-in-law
still got like a European car that the
US paid for him to
ship back from when
he was serving in
Germany.
I see right.
Interesting.
I think that still
happens.
But anyway one of the
things that reminded
me of it as well is
I watched a show I
watched a documentary
the other night on
Sky Arts called
Crossfire Hurricane.
It's one of the
stories about the
Rolling Stones and
all the stuff that
happened at Altamont
with the Hells Angels
where they it was a
complete I mean people call it culturally the end of the 60s. You had Woodstock then you had Altamont with the Hells Angels. Okay. Where they, it was a complete, I mean, people call it culturally the end of the 60s.
Because you had Woodstock,
then you had Altamont on the West Coast.
And it was completely unregulated, unpoliced.
And I think the Rolling Stones
or someone associated with the Rolling Stones
agreed to let the Hells Angels, quote, police it.
And the whole shit, it just went to shit.
And someone got killed, someone got stabbed to death.
The Stones were in a position.
If you watch the footage, it's crazy.
It's like 300,000 people watch the footage, it's crazy.
There's like 300,000 people there.
They know it's all gone wrong,
but they also know that they can't stop playing
because it'll make it worse.
So they've got to give this performance
because if they don't give
a brilliant performance,
people are just going to be
even more pissed off.
But obviously,
someone's just been killed.
It's a crazy time.
68, 69 around,
there's a crazy time in America.
So well worth checking out
if you get a second. Anyway, helloatlukeandpetech.com is the email address. Pete, 69 around there. It's a crazy time in America. So well worth checking out if you get a second.
Anyway, helloatlukeandpetech.com is the email address.
Pete, I believe you have an email for us.
I do.
Kyle Watson.
Hi, Kyle.
He wants to talk about a bus etiquette.
Okay.
On his communion commute.
Chaps are in need of a second and third opinion
on whether a social faux pas has been committed or not.
The facts are as follows.
My morning commute takes me to the Lake District
from Barrow to Kendal.
What a commute.
That has got to be.
So we talked about the longest commutes on the show before.
The most beautiful.
That's got to be the most beautiful commute
I can think of, actually.
What an amazing...
I mean, how long does that take, by the way?
I don't remember.
That's an hour, apparently.
I just checked.
My morning commute takes me through the Lake District
from Barrow to Kendal.
About five minutes after I get on the bus,
there's a fairly large bus stop
and a colossal bus-filling number of students get on.
They are dropped off at a college 20 minutes down the road
before the bus continues another hour onto Grange
and eventually Kendal.
Imagine that, Pete, all those students getting on.
Giffing their TikToks.
Giffing their TikToks.
Making their noise.
With their little speakers, listening to Stormzy.
Throwing their Hubba bubba around.
On the morning question, all started well.
The students packed up the bus as per usual,
and I was sat in my familiar top deck window seat.
At the very next stop, a clear newcomer to the bus route enters the game.
Ooh, newcomer.
How did you know?
They walk upstairs and are visibly taken aback by the swirly students before them.
They choose to sit in the seat directly next to me
in order to avoid sitting awkwardly next to a loud and chatty student.
Completely fair enough.
When the bus reaches the college, the students unload, as usual,
from the bus, presumably.
Shouting or pissing.
Leaving me and my new stranger the only two people on the top deck.
They don't move.
For the next hour, they remain in the seat directly next to me
with no other passengers choosing to come upstairs at any point.
This left me uncomfortable to the point where I couldn't even casually browse my phone
for a fear of a potential over-the-shoulder read from my new best mate.
My question is, should they have had the awareness to move away
or am I getting all worked up about absolutely nothing Kyle?
For me, Luke, I think I sit in,
I'm a real fence sitter on this one, to be honest,
because you don't want to, before COVID,
I sort of think you don't want people to,
I wouldn't move away because I would hate this
for the people to think that I, you know,
didn't, that I found their company objectionable.
Yeah.
But during COVID, like you have to,
you have to, haven't you?
Well, yeah, I think,
first of all,
they've not asked for your company.
This is not a social event.
This speaks to the very difference,
I think,
the very core difference
between you and I.
You get up,
announce that you are moving.
I'm just,
there's lots of room on this bus.
I'm going to go over here.
But I'm still going to talk at you.
No, I wouldn't talk at them.
I think,
I think with COVID,
that complicates it
because really
it's a COVID complication.
They should be following
the protocol, right?
And keeping distance
whenever they can.
And if they couldn't before,
fair enough,
but now they can
so they should.
The social aspect of it,
I think for me
you've got to move.
Yeah.
I agree.
And look,
what you've done there
is given a caricature of me
which is fine
but what I think
I would actually do is say,
I'll just give you a bit of space
and move.
And if they had headphones,
I just wouldn't say anything.
On the tube into the office,
if you,
so this is a boring London-centric point,
but Pete,
just for the sake of conversation,
Victoria to Oxford Circus is Rammo,
right?
Two stops,
Victoria, Green Park, Oxford Circus.
Those two stops,
it's Rammo's.
I get on at Victoria,
so I'll just get on wherever I can. And if I can get a seat, I'll get one. Yeah. You get to Green Park Oxford Circus those two stops it's rammers I get on at Victoria so I'll just get on
wherever I can
and if I can get a seat
I'll get one
you get to Green Park
some people get off
so you can get a seat
if I'm sat next to
loads of people
Oxford Circus
90% of people get off
if I'm then sat
next to someone
who's not got off
I will instantly move
instantly
because otherwise
you're just causing
yourself grief
and causing that other
person grief
because you've not got
the space you need
and in London no one gives a shit because not got the space you need and in London
no one gives a shit
because no one talks
to anyone anyway
so in London
in that situation
on the tube
would you move
yes
and you wouldn't say anything
I wouldn't say anything
it's the tube
tube's different though
isn't it
tube's different
it's the same principle
tube's different
I'm with Carl
I'm not offensive on this
all day long
but here's one for you though
here's the crux of the question
if you're in Carl's position do you ask the guy to the crux of the question. If you're in Carl's position,
do you ask the guy to move
or do you move yourself
even though you're on the inside seat?
Oh, that's a good point actually, yeah.
No, I'd stay.
I'd stay.
If I were at the window seat,
I'd stay.
What you would probably do
is look at some really objectionable
contacts on the fire
until they move.
Mmm, this is good.
This is all good stuff.
Munch, munch, munch.
If I was on the inside seat I probably would say
excuse me
and I would get out
and I'd go sit somewhere else
yeah
I think that's fair
is that awkward though
you said you wouldn't do that
because you'd be awkward
I'm awkward
whatever I do
it doesn't really matter
exactly
so you should just
set fire to the whole thing
it's going to be awkward anyway
great conundrum for us
maybe people listening
have got their own ideas.
I mean hello
Luke and Peach
dot com if you
can think of a
tactic for Kyle
because this
might happen
again for all
we know.
True.
And it
sounds to me
like on a
commute of
that quality
you probably
want a
window seat
as well.
That's true
as well.
Yeah.
Completely agree.
Do you think
Kyle gets
blasé about the
commute the same
way we get
blasé about
walking past
Buckingham
Palace or
whatever?
Because we
lived in
London for
so long
yeah he probably does
to be honest
but I hope it's
a double decker
yeah
I think he said
he said it
top deck window seat
he says that
beautiful
what a commute
I imagine it has
its disadvantages
but
well it's an hour
and five minutes
to drive it in a car
so with a bus
it's going to be
an hour and a half
minimum
so I mean
it's a long old hop
I wonder what job he does
car there's so many
questions yeah follow up
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Peter, anything to add from you?
Literally not a thing.
Great stuff, in which case we'll duck out of here
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Bye-bye.
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