The Luke and Pete Show - Would you like to shoot my gun?

Episode Date: July 17, 2023

Indie Pete has deserted his former life of gigs and Indie Sleeze nights to go and watch some AI-inspired stand-up comedy. Still quite on-brand for Pete, to be fair.We then discuss our favourite anti-h...eroes from the world of American TV box sets - let us know who yours are! Also, a listener seeks our advice on whether he should have lent his gun to a random German he met in the American wilderness…Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 It's the Luke and Pete show it is Monday the 17th of July in the last show Luke expressed his interest in the new Oppenheimer film I'm very much a Barbie girl we also spoke about white chocolate
Starting point is 00:00:23 kinder bueno monstrosities and I executed a load of maggots in a bin. So, lovely stuff all round. It's great, standard, but very interesting Luke and Pete show fare. Before we get into this show properly, as it's a Monday, here's a quick reminder that we released some exclusive bonus content on our YouTube channel last week. In that bonus episode, we discussed Elon Musk. We discussed a jellyfish. We discussed some other things as well. I think Pete attempting to speak 10 languages in one episode.
Starting point is 00:00:53 I'm failing in probably 60 or 70% of cases. I'm like that man who goes into Chinese restaurants and talks Mandarin to them. I've never seen that happen. Have you never seen this guy he's like a little worm boy uh polyglot guy who learns um the nuts and bolts of a language and he's very good at um picking up languages and then he'll film himself going into uh like a nigerian restaurant or he'll go to um some far-off German Amish community and speak their language
Starting point is 00:01:27 and surprise that pants off them. That's good to know. It's really good to know. There's something in my soul that makes it, for me, feel a little exploitative. I'm contractually mandated, Peter, to finish this read and say
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Starting point is 00:01:55 repent at all costs repent at all costs anyway Peter what's what you've been up to what gigs have you been to this last weekend? You're like a proper, do you remember back in the day on MySpace,
Starting point is 00:02:09 there were these guys who would style themselves as Indie someone, Indie John, Indie Dave, and they would go to gigs every night. And they'd have the same hair
Starting point is 00:02:18 and they'd just be like, Oh, we have the same hair? You're turning into Indie Pete with different hair. I went to see Connor O'Malley at the Soho Theatre. Oh, yeah, you were looking forward to that, weren't you?
Starting point is 00:02:27 I was looking forward to that, and he did not disappoint. He basically did an AI cyberspace stand-up set. Yeah, that's a stand-up comedy and not a recording artist, we should make clear. Yeah, Conor O'Malley, he's the guy who's really horny and I think he should leave. He's a shouting man who likes to shout, a contributor to Tim Robinson's stuff,
Starting point is 00:02:49 which obviously we're very keen on. Yeah, he was like proper good and he basically had a new style of stand-up where it was completely AI-based and it basically was perfectly appointed in the direction of different people so to speak. So it was like a tailor made stand up experience that he'd made
Starting point is 00:03:12 and it was very funny and very silly. I don't understand what you're talking about. He just basically. Just explain it better. I don't know how to explain it better. He comes on stage and he says guys there'll be a lot of people. If I just came up and says, guys, there'll be a lot of people. If I just came up and do a stand-up,
Starting point is 00:03:26 there'll be a lot of people who I'm disappointing because it kind of wouldn't be up their street. But I've created this industry, so-and-so industries, I've created this new kind of stand-up that is AI generated. And it's all just a bit of a joke, but, and it's just really funny.
Starting point is 00:03:42 But he has to deliver it. And he's helping deliver it, basically. He's basically looking for investment for his AI stand-up company and he goes on, he talks about the car, the RAV4, for about 10 minutes about how nice his RAV4 is and how much fuel economy it's got and stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:03 It's really funny. He's wonderfully aggressive. And he didn't do that thing that I think American stand-ups, or very American stand-ups, or people who've got their set down pat. It didn't pander to British audiences. Like, it literally talked about little towns in Illinois for about 20 minutes, and he didn't seem to care.
Starting point is 00:04:24 And I like that because sometimes when you come to Britain, they get so kind of like torn up, sort of going, oh, I can't use the word trunk. I've got to use boot
Starting point is 00:04:32 and stuff like that. And they fuck it up. So he's just like, bang, I'm doing my show. I'm only here for four days. Why should I bother learning some new stuff?
Starting point is 00:04:40 I'm out of here. I'm back in the lab. What venue was it? Soho Theatre. How much did it cost? Oh, I don't know. I think it was 20 quid with a couple of cans of'm back in the Rav4 What venue was it? Soho Theatre How much did it cost? Oh I don't know I think it was 20 quid With a couple of cans of lager
Starting point is 00:04:48 On the chair Were you happy with that? That was alright yeah Fine And who did you go with? Mark Haynes from Wrestle Me Did he like it? He very much enjoyed it
Starting point is 00:04:57 Yeah Yeah we had a Well I would respect Mark Haynes' comedy opinion Because he's done loads of stuff Well yeah I mean I'm kind of I was apologising
Starting point is 00:05:04 For the fact that he's got tickets for AEW that I can't make later in August. AEW are coming to Wembley. They've managed to fill Wembley, Luke. That's incredible, isn't it? That's not even WWE. I'm a layman here,
Starting point is 00:05:19 but on the old night feed circuit, when I'm watching telly, and sometimes, in fact, like quite regularly, AEW is on TV late at night. And, um, honestly,
Starting point is 00:05:32 it's, it's, it, to me, just in terms of the charisma of the wrestlers involved, it looks much better than WWE. They're certainly purer wrestlers. I would say they're not going through an amazing,
Starting point is 00:05:43 um, uh, kind of their life forces drained a little bit. Um, they're certainly purer wrestlers, I would say. They don't go through an amazing... Their life force has drained a little bit. WWE seems to fall into pretty good storylines and pretty good situations, and AEW are kind of the purists, the nerds wrestling company. They don't have an amazing time,
Starting point is 00:05:58 but you watch them and you sort of go, I mean, these are proper wrestlers. There's no really titting about here. There was a guy that I saw who was really fucking annoying because I wasn't planning on talking about this today, so I can't actually remember his name. But he was fucking brilliant. He was so charismatic.
Starting point is 00:06:16 I can't remember who he was now. I'll have to remember it for next time. It's a terrible story. But anyway, I just thought to myself, this looks quite fun. And I'm not really someone who watches. I mean, essentially, sometimes you're just looking for anything to watch that you haven't really got to concentrate on. And I watched all of The Sopranos.
Starting point is 00:06:32 I've done that now. And now I've almost done the entirety of Game of Thrones as well. Right. Do you want to get into Mad Men? Have you watched the whole of Mad Men? So I watched Mad Men. I got about three seasons in and I got a little bit bored. Pick it up again.
Starting point is 00:06:46 But this is the thing. Crucially, I need to be watching shit that either I don't have to concentrate on or that I've seen before. Well, it's very relaxing. Like, it's very ASMR. Nothing really happens. So that when something big happens,
Starting point is 00:06:58 it's just Don Dripper smashing up his personal life and shouting at people at work, really. It's not really well get that home my wife actually really loves when we talk about like our favorite shows ever my my holy triumvirate would be sopranos the wire and breaking bad the wife i have access to would have mad men up up in there she's not into the wire but um she um she loves her mad men so i should at some point i should get stuck in i just found that I think the reason I lost interest in it,
Starting point is 00:07:29 and this is potentially a couple of controversial opinions here, but I do sincerely hold them. So if you want to get in touch and take me to task, then please do. Although I like January Jones, I don't think she's that good an actor. And I also found that there weren't enough likable characters in mad men it kind of turned me off a bit so so here's what i mean without getting too beardy about it like who are the redeemable characters in in breaking bad well that's what i'm going to say so so what this the skill of say a tony soprano the writing of a tony soprano or the writing of
Starting point is 00:08:01 a jesse pinkman is they're capable of doing incredibly awful things but yet you still kind of pull for them. So like they're a proper anti-hero kind of energy to them. So Jesse Pinkman who is essentially you know, a serial murderer, drug dealer, etc, etc. Does these amazing, horrible
Starting point is 00:08:20 things. But it's so carefully written and so brilliantly performed by Aaron Paul there's a vulnerability there that means you find yourself liking him or i did anyway and with tony soprano it's the same like what david chase does is he he drops things in where it seduces you into having opinions that in real life you would never have like you would never defend the guy who does what t Soprano does by saying things like, oh, yeah, but he never hits his kids or his wife.
Starting point is 00:08:49 Right. But Tony, it's a big key plot point of Tony Soprano's character that while all the other mafiosi around him are, like, abusive people, he is arguably, obviously, emotionally manipulative, but he never strikes his family. There's a big plot point where he hits aj once
Starting point is 00:09:05 and it kind of dogs him for a long time and it's a really big thing and so but at the same time obviously in real life that's like well so fucking what you shouldn't be doing that anyway but it's the beautiful part of how gandalfini plays soprano and how david chase or whoever it was who was writing the specific episodes writes him that you'll find that kind of pulling for him. And I found like Don Draper as a character just kind of turns me off a bit. I don't really care about him. But he's a man who obviously very gifted
Starting point is 00:09:33 and people respect him, but his private life just keeps on getting in the way. And the reasons why you pull from him is because it's a company that is trying to grow where there are bigger players and these I understand the idea of I mean all of these men are toxic men
Starting point is 00:09:54 to varying degrees they're all awful men anyway but like his kind of elevation of certain women he's not fucking in his business is interesting i think the uh the refreshing nature he approaches he's got a bit more stuff like that so yeah it's and and and and and also it's just a lovely there's a lovely scene that i always hark back to um when in they are um
Starting point is 00:10:18 having a family picnic oh january jones and don draper and and that um they're after a family picnic and they're have they've got a load of like disposable plastic and at the end of the picnic they just pull back the picnic blanket and fuck off and just leave all the trash on the floor because that was that and you said oh shit yeah people used to do that that's what people were like people were like that so there's enough around him and there's enough interesting characters who are also shitting where they ate um that that makes it really interesting and there's enough interesting characters who are also shitting where they ate that makes it really interesting and it's just perfect. I'm not for one second trying to denigrate it
Starting point is 00:10:51 or say that it's not good. Loads of people whose opinion I massively respect love it. So it's obviously a disconnect with me and I think that's a fair comment by you. But when I did my Masters, I wrote my dissertation on 20th and 21st century masculinity in the United States. And so stuff like Don Draper would be a really interesting, I didn't actually cover Don Draper,
Starting point is 00:11:12 but it'd be a very interesting case study because what a lot of gender stuff around, uh, masculinity stuff and gender theory about men in the late 20th century is about, is about how they find a role for themselves in the post-world war ii environment so where they go from what what people would talk about this is all very beardy but very briefly what what kind of academics talk about is the idea that men post 1945 in the u.s went from
Starting point is 00:11:37 um a role of what they call utility i.e being really important having a great utility in terms of how they work how they fight a war and all the rest of it to one of what they call an ornamental position where all the manufacturing jobs all the kind of traditional male roles started to disappear and there was no real important role not as important a role for men in the latter 20th century in the 21st century in a post-war environment for those reasons. And then you start to talk about how they claim that back. So the idea about Don Draper being what he is and how you kind of articulately describe him
Starting point is 00:12:12 is interesting because ultimately you could argue he's trying to find some way of reclaiming his masculinity and he's doing it by fucking loads of women and trying to accentuate his business, trying to be successful, trying to get money. And it's true across the board. Like Walter White would be the same. And it's true across the board. Like, Walter White would be the same. Walter White's an emasculated character at the start of Breaking Bad.
Starting point is 00:12:30 And he goes to, you know, criminal means to try and reclaim his masculinity. And it's the same in, say, season two of The Wire, when the doc's working is disappearing and people have no place in the world. So they try and claim their masculinity back by hard drinking and womanising and showing how tough they are physically.
Starting point is 00:12:45 All that kind of stuff. So all this golden age of TV thing that we're witnessing and experiencing now, all really the big players, the big shows, they all come from that kind of idea. And Tony Soprano is obviously the same as well. I watched the film with the guy who is the lawyer in Better Call Saul. I forget that actor's name. Oh, Bob Odenkirk. Bob Odenkirk. There was basically, you know, like a lot of films from... There's kind of a resurgence of 80s action films at the moment
Starting point is 00:13:19 just simply because we all remember them, it's comfortable, it's nostalgia. But all of those 80s films were aging male uh aging male wank fantasies yeah again you must be a male trying to sort of go yeah top gun um and uh bob odenkirk does a film i forget what it's called now but it's like uh like he's like an invisible man who used to be this hardcore fbi um hand to handhand combat specialist and stuff. And I think it was made by the John Wick guy. And it doesn't really work because Bob Odenkirk doesn't necessarily look like he's...
Starting point is 00:13:53 Is this this actual movie that you put out fairly recently? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just before his heart attack, I think. That's right. And it's just... I mean, it is atrocious. It was a fun watch, but it was all just like... Why has he done it then, do you think?
Starting point is 00:14:10 Well, I mean, it's something different, I suppose, isn't it? Like, you know, I guess if you're an actor that does that sort of thing, I think having a little action movie is a nice little curio, isn't it? But I think it was so overtly a 50-year-old man, male wank fantasy. My dad would love that film. Because this guy is just taking control of his life.
Starting point is 00:14:33 Do you think about your dad's wank fantasies a lot? I'm thinking about my dad's wank fantasies. God knows what they are. God knows. But yeah. Bob Odenkirk. Surprising. It's a lot of breaking bad memes memes yeah but you know what a lot of people think
Starting point is 00:14:47 this is getting a bit nerdy now based on what i just said earlier but a lot of a lot of um theorists would would would hypothesize that the rise in like what they call those hard body action movies of the 80s yeah was um america via hollywood's attempt to to reclaim America's dominance in the world after Vietnam. Like the fact that the US reputation on the global stage was really poor and they looked emasculated as a nation. They looked like they're defeated and on their knees. But has there ever been a financial link between the US government and these TV...
Starting point is 00:15:23 Well, yeah, because Hollywood was completely co-opted for propaganda purposes during all the things like the Second World War and that kind of stuff. Hollywood's always been... Certain studios have worked hand in glove with the US to try and advance the US's interests overseas. I mean, John Ford, I think, was the big director who did a load of american
Starting point is 00:15:45 propaganda stuff for world war ii and so it is they are intertwined for sure and so and it's not just that it isn't necessarily about the government it's about the things like say a director of a big action movie in the 80s i mean look at look at rambo for example rambo is a great example like yeah look at look at what sylvester stallone looks like he's like a proper embodiment of like a tough american man and um and you all those kind of movies top gun's a really good example as well a lot of people say there's like a like a really homosexual subtext the top gun yeah as well yeah but i don't really know how that manifests i know how it manifests i don't really know whether that's like a deliberate thing by Tony Scott. I'm not really sure.
Starting point is 00:16:25 But you can see it when you watch it back. But cultural exports are really important to America, as they are to all nations. And so if America wants to find its standing back in the world and really get this kind of diplomatic soft power out there, what better way than Hollywood? It's the most famous thing America has. I would say that massively, kind ofly um masculine stuff is by its very nature quite homoerotic so like if you dial up that if you dial up that the other dial is going to go up as well because yeah i think i think a lot of people who aren't capable of thinking at any depth about this kind of fall foul of that they end up doing the opposite of what they intend
Starting point is 00:17:00 rightly or wrongly i mean yeah happened to ron desantis last week didn't it happened to sesame street fascist ronSantis last week. He put like a promo video out of him, how tough he was. It was so sexy. It was just like a montage with all these different muscly bodybuilders and stuff. It was so odd. It was a very interesting promo video.
Starting point is 00:17:18 Oh, Buttigieg was just like, I'm ignoring the fact that this is so gay. He was like, I don't really know what to say, but that was really gay. I don't know what to say, but that was really gay. Yeah, yeah. And it's like, it's kind of, you feel like, you feel like with the policies he's pursuing, right, this kind of authoritarian, some would say fascistic,
Starting point is 00:17:36 idea of what they would call alternative lifestyles or non-traditional lifestyles. He starts to try and outlaw those in a very kind of personal kind of passion project type way. Then releases that video. You kind of think, okay. All right, what's going on here, mate? Why is Mickey Mouse fucking Pluto?
Starting point is 00:17:52 What's going on? What's going on? Why are you obsessed? Like when a 90s sales rep does that kind of presentation, there's like a bikini lady in this. Oh, how did that get in there? Yeah, anyway.
Starting point is 00:18:03 Anyway, let's have a break because that's heavy. That's heavy, man. That's heavy that's heavy man that's heavy man normally we just do knob gags spunking cocks we'll be back it's getting dressed
Starting point is 00:18:14 Luke and Pete show two guys in a room just going at it it's we're having a lovely time we've got emails to read out though sometimes close on sometimes close off
Starting point is 00:18:22 sometimes close on sometimes close off you'll have to look at the YouTube channel to find out. You certainly will. Can I read this email from Phil, our friend Phil? Phil, yeah. Who's emailed in... Phil my listeners in.
Starting point is 00:18:33 There was a couple of guys in the town we grew up in called Phil Hiscock and Paul Hiscock. That's good stuff. That's just a fact. Paul Hiscock. Phil has emailed in to hello at lukeandpetecher.com and he's got the following story following up
Starting point is 00:18:48 on our chat about you know when people used to knock on the door and run away it's that kind of flavour he says morning chaps great email on Monday last week about the evolution of what we used to call simply door knocking it reminded me of an occasion the Grimmshound of Gould in the late 90s
Starting point is 00:19:04 do you know Gould, Peter? I don't, no. It's in Yorkshire, I think. Is it Gould? Yeah, I briefly googled it and it did look fairly grim, with the greatest respect to people who are there or are from there. But I'll allow Phil to pick up the story. He says, a few of my mates
Starting point is 00:19:20 lived in a ramshackle old terraced house while working at a local power station on a gap year before university. It was hilariously located next door to a fish and chip shop called Chippy Dick's. Chippy Dick's, nice. The local Scullies would regularly knock on the front door before fleeing on foot or a stolen mountain bike.
Starting point is 00:19:38 One day, one of the more unpredictable housemates who was highly strung at the best of times finally snapped and gave chase as was the way no one really gave it a second thought and carried on playing goldeneye a short time later the housemate in question returned dragging one of the knockers with him in what can
Starting point is 00:19:55 only be described as a literal act of kidnapping he locked the assailant in the dining room threatening to get the Ben the Ben was a strapping terrifying looking lad who was as was customary taking his afternoon nap due to ben's size and somewhat grumpy nature no one wanted to wake him so the terrified child was in prison for several hours until ben awoke and came downstairs despite his physical presence ben was in fact a lovely bloke and was horrified
Starting point is 00:20:22 gentle ben and he was horrified to discover he had been weaponised. He opened the door to the dining room to find a crying child, and after a muted, don't do it again, the child was released. While at the time hilarious, in retrospect, this might have caused some lasting psychological damage to an impressionable youth and could have resulted in a major police search. Yeah. Although somewhat excessive, this course of action did prove successful
Starting point is 00:20:46 and the front door went unknocked for the rest of the year. All the best, lads. Thanks for the entertainment. Cheers, Phil. It's good that people on B-Wing are allowed to email, isn't it, and listen to podcasts. Were the 90s a different time, though, Pete? Well, I think the idea of sort of, because Ben in my mind resembles the big muscle man
Starting point is 00:21:08 who breaks out of the wall in Double Dragon, like the big guy, you know, send in Ben. And Ben, I think is like, because you could be the Ben of our little parish. People aren't intimidated by me though. I am big, but people just aren't intimidated by me. Just stop talking for a bit. I know, that is the problem.
Starting point is 00:21:24 That is actually the problem. I've never really in recent years had to try and be intimidating, but I know that if I try it, it doesn't work. Right, okay, yeah. But you're right. It's because I talk too much. It's because I've always got a comment. You know what they say about it's better to be assumed a fool
Starting point is 00:21:40 than open one's mouth and remove all doubt? I always do that. I can't help it. You're the doubt remover. It's not going to can't help it. You're the doubt remover. It's not going to work with me. The mouth is the doubt remover. I am definitely the doubt remover. That would be my nickname if I was a darts player.
Starting point is 00:21:52 Cute little name, I think. Yeah, it's pretty good. We got a message from Ethan from Oregon. Hello, Luke and Pete. Seeing as you two are both in long-term relationships, I figured you might be able to settle a minor disagreement between my partner and I. Last July, I took a week of vacation to go fishing at a remote mountain lake in Oregon.
Starting point is 00:22:08 While I was fishing, a stranger approached me to barter for some fishing hooks. After some conversation, I learned that he and his partner had travelled all the way from Germany to hike the Pacific Crest Trail along the west coast of the United States. I tried to give him the fishing hooks for free, but he insisted on giving me a granola bar as payment. Seeing that he was a good person, I decided to let him blast off a few shots with my gun just it's a different world isn't it it really is a different world oh my god yeah um in order to give him a memorable American cultural experience, I was elated by the experience
Starting point is 00:22:46 and I regret not exchanging some contact info so that I could keep in touch. But when I relayed the story to my partner, she insisted that it was dangerous and irresponsible to give a strange German man my gun. Was I wrong here? Anyways, I'll be back later this month and I'll be packing some extra ammo
Starting point is 00:23:01 in case I run into so many more Germans. I think my answer to this is going to be quite short. Unequivocal, yeah, yeah. I mean, this is a joke, because you know this is a joke. It reminds me of when I went to a gun range in Texas and the man asked me, when I told, I just told him that I've never shot a gun before in my life. He said, have you ever shot a Magnum?
Starting point is 00:23:23 I was like, I've only told you I've never shot a gun. He my life he said have you ever shot a magnum i was like i've only told you i've never shot a gun he went i'll go and get mine from the car and he just he went to get his magnum from his car it's just it's just being excited of like you wouldn't let someone drive your car would you and you're just handing a killing machine the thought process is mad yeah ethan from the Oregon Trail. You just met him. You just met the man. For all you know, that story might be nonsense. He might turn the gun on you and try and rob you. Steal all your fishing hooks and your fish.
Starting point is 00:23:53 And also, I do like the quite innocent... Would you like to buy some maggots? The innocent explanation of, I'll be packing some extra ammo in case I run into any more Germans. I'm not going to kill them. I just want them to have a chance to fire my gun. Yeah, exactly my answer is that you i don't think you should be doing i don't think any responsible gun owner would say that that is the good thing someone but if someone asked me if i wanted to shoot their gun i would not shoot their gun no i'd be like
Starting point is 00:24:18 right he's got a gun i've got to get away from this man immediately yeah imagine if i just gave you the gun and they they just drove off. Yeah. Your problem now. And you'd look down and he's filed a follow number on it. Yeah. Oh, God.
Starting point is 00:24:31 I think, I mean, I think I'm, and I'm going to take a guess here and say that she may well be long-suffering. I think Ian's, sorry, Ethan's wife is in the right here. Yeah, Ethan. I like the idea of her rolling her eyes and being like, oh, he's done it again.
Starting point is 00:24:45 He's hopped up on granola. You're giving a German man hopped up on granola the honey, the oats. He's off his head and you're giving him a firearm?
Starting point is 00:24:54 Outrageous. I also think that like, you've given him fishing hooks and he's given you a granola bar. The transaction's complete. Don't put danger into it.
Starting point is 00:25:04 I decided to let him blast off a few shots with my gun in order to give him a memorable American cultural experience. You're already hiking the west coast of the US, a beautiful part of the world, an amazing cultural experience straight away. The hospitality from American people is amazing. Generally, people are very nice there. He's having a great old time.
Starting point is 00:25:23 He doesn't need to take it to the fucking trenches he doesn't need to be fucking you know it's it's sure it's surely surely you should not be discharging your firearm unless you need to anyway i don't know man i think you get away with it in the out in the sticks oh you'll get away with it shoot a fish that's not my point you know you get away with you i don't think you should be doing it. I appreciate Ethan getting in touch. I love the fact that he's a passionate listener of the Roo Compete Show. I just feel like you shouldn't be doing that. Well, look, it's three on one, unfortunately. How?
Starting point is 00:25:58 It's three on one. Oh, yes, in our favour. Yeah, exactly, yeah. You fucking calm down a lot if you're not endorsing this. It's a lovely story. Thank you, exactly, yeah. You fucking calm down a lot if you're not endorsing this. It's a lovely story. Thank you very much, Ethan. And do get in touch with us again, if you would. Yeah, I mean, please do calm down a bit, though.
Starting point is 00:26:14 Yeah, we don't want to shoot your gun. We just don't want to shoot your gun. Yeah, going back to the email before that with Phil about the people kind of knocking on the door and either running away or cycling off i can remember this reminded me of a story there used to be a little um row of shops near where i grew up called called the broadway um and i don't know what it's called that but i mean it was and there was it was back in the day where all the shops were basically independent shops right
Starting point is 00:26:41 and there was a local family-run butcher shop like a butcher's and um one of the i think that maybe the father of the family that ran it was really grumpy yeah really fucking grumpy and he wouldn't always be working but if he was it was like red rag to a bull stuff we used to go up there on our bikes four or five of us and pull massive skids outside his shop. And he used to get fucking properly pissed off. And he got to the point where you'd pull a skid, it would make a loud noise and leave a mark on the pavement outside his shop, which is presumably why he didn't like it. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:16 Don't you dare mark my floor. Yeah, and then cycle off. But if he caught you, he would just take your bike and say, if you want it back, go and get your dad. Right. So you'd have to get your dad up there it's an interesting it's an interesting game because then the day you've got angry men coming like why have you got my kid's bike give me my back but like yeah he must think he's the big dog but the thing about it i find interesting is that i am now
Starting point is 00:27:37 a father myself right yeah i just don't i can't, I cannot imagine confiscating a kid's bike. I just couldn't be bothered. Yeah. The admin of that, keep the aggro. Like you're just bringing aggro into your life that you don't need. That's going to raise your level of anger needlessly. And then you're going to have to have a confrontation with another dad. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:00 Yeah. Who also just want, you know, who caught me arsty. The small mind mentality of it all. Down our back, in our street when we were kids, like down the back street of where we lived, there would be a guy down there. Every single other dad would be like, oh, if the football goes in the garden,
Starting point is 00:28:16 just jump over and grab it and go back, right? Do you know what I mean? Or sometimes they'd say, yeah, please don't kick the ball in the fucking tomato plants or whatever. You know, I get all that. There was one guy, he wasn't even that older guy, who just used to, if a ball went into his garden, bang, knife out, pop it. Yeah, that's the rules. At the time, it was just like, oh, that's a guy down the road.
Starting point is 00:28:37 It's demented. What mindset are you in? What mindset are you in when you're doing that? Yeah, it's not good. Do people do that now no no i'd love to hear a story of that happening now well i the the politics of getting a ball in the back in your backyard is actually quite troubling because you like you get a ball in your backyard you know i and i know it's come from the right hand side but i don't know whether
Starting point is 00:28:58 to throw it into the next garden or more likely the garden above that but i don't know if i'm throwing a ball as high and as hard as I can or booting it over back. Like, that's going to hit someone. Yeah. What would you do then? Just leave it? No, but I'd just try and make sure there's no one in the garden
Starting point is 00:29:15 and give it a big old throw. So we'll see. Okay. You could just throw it in the next garden with the understanding that if it's not them, they can throw it on. Yeah, they'll put it on. Pass it along. at the next garden with the understanding
Starting point is 00:29:21 that if it's not them they can throw it on pass it along I want to hear from anyone who's had a ball in their back garden
Starting point is 00:29:30 that can justify destroying the football yeah no we won't hear from anyone yeah anyway
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