The Luke and Pete Show - You’re fired

Episode Date: March 27, 2023

Has anyone watched The Apprentice recently? No? Good. Unfortunately, Luke has and he doesn’t hold back when giving his thoughts on today’s show.After that, Pete’s discovered an unbelievable stor...y that he is bursting to tell Luke and we get an anonymous email from one of our listeners who writes the law in the UK. We have more power than we realise…Want to contact 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. 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's the 27th of March, you've done very well to get this far in March, it's been a slow stumble towards springtime, but certainly in the UK, it's feeling a little bit warmer, I'm feeling a little bit more positive about things, Lucky Moore. It was very clement yesterday when I was out for a cycle and I was cycling into the office and I was it yesterday? I'm not talking about Friday. I stuck my jacket in my bag after about five minutes. Don't need it.
Starting point is 00:00:39 Yeah, too warm. Don't need a jacket these days. Yeah, it's interesting. Well, the jacket is a perfect piece of clothing for spring because you are going to get a bit of breeze. You are probably going to get a little bit of rain and a jacket will provide a basic barrier against light rain. It'll keep you warm in a breeze. It'll also keep you warm as soon as the sun goes down.
Starting point is 00:00:59 So it's an ideal spring and autumn piece of clothing, although I have now moved more towards the kind of three-quarter fleece now. Yeah, the thing with me over wintertime and getting recently a brand new little pup pup, a lot of my shackets now absolutely reek of puppy piss. So I can't wait for the summer. I can't wait for him to stop peeing everywhere. I can't wait for the courts to not smell of pee anymore.
Starting point is 00:01:31 So, yeah, I'm looking forward to it. And are you conscious of the fact that, I don't know because I've never been invited or visited any of your houses. Are you conscious or paranoid that your house smells of dog? Yes, yeah, I am. But, but I mean I am powerless to stop really I would say the dog breed that you particularly are fond of
Starting point is 00:01:52 are they smelly dogs no they're not big they're not slobbery they're not particularly ill behaved but in a dog where does the smell emanate from I presumed it was the coat or the fur or something well big old bums, big old poopies. A dog house doesn't smell of shit, does it?
Starting point is 00:02:12 It smells of a dog. Yeah, I don't know. It's just wet, meaty. I guess the bigger dogs just eat more, don't they? And they're more slavery and they get slather everywhere and that's the thing that sort of stinks because they're just eating rotten old meat and stuff. I didn't know there was a hot there's hot debate uh about um uh uh raw food versus cooked food uh in the in the in the pet space i i've never had a puppy before
Starting point is 00:02:38 um we asked what the puppy had been eating when they came to us. And so it turns out they lived on a farm, so presumably they had access to a lot of chickens, and he was just eating a lot of raw chicken mince. But you mean an actual farm, not a puppy farm? Not a puppy farm. Sorry, a farm farm, yeah. Again, another taboo that I had no idea existed. But yeah, a farm farm.
Starting point is 00:02:58 And yeah, he was just eating a lot of chicken mince, uncooked chicken mince. And I was like, right, okay, where the hell are we going to get that? So to transition him out of that, we were buying this kind of frozen sort of raw food. And I was just like, I'll just keep on doing that then, I guess. And then you read up on it and apparently a lot of doctors, dog doctors, beast doctors, vets,
Starting point is 00:03:20 they sort of say you shouldn't do that because they'll, you know, unless you're very, very, very, very, very careful all of the time about how you feed it, you'll get worms. You'll get worms and salmonella or something like that. You have to get worm in tablets for pets and stuff anyway, don't you? Yeah, yeah. It's interesting. I had no idea there was such a raging debate. And there doesn't seem to be a lot of research
Starting point is 00:03:42 into how good raw food is over cooked food. To wit I say, I think that probably the cooked food variants are probably funded, those researches are presumably funded by the big dog food manufacturers. Yeah, in the pocket of big dog food. That's what I'm thinking.
Starting point is 00:04:05 So, I mean, I guess we'll have to go into cooked food at some point because we'll have to transition out. But at the moment, it just seems to be quite stressful. There was a... Do you watch The Apprentice? No, no. Very wise. Very wise.
Starting point is 00:04:20 There was an episode of this series, The Apprentice, which, by the way, is the absolute pits now. It is a disgrace how bad it is. It's basically descended from however many seasons ago, fucking 15 seasons ago or whatever it was, a quite interesting idea with genuinely motivated people who were a bit boring because they love business and they're young and those types of people in my view can be a bit boring.
Starting point is 00:04:48 But they actually were at it for the right reasons if you know what I mean. It's now descended into essentially Love Island in suits. It is so bad. I don't want to cast aspersions over young people who are just finding their way in the world and I know it can be tough and all the rest of it. And Love Island
Starting point is 00:05:04 is fraught with its own problems so I don't mean to be offensive but it's astonishingly bad how thick they are. It's really bad. I mean to the point where you could probably grab however many contestants
Starting point is 00:05:16 there are, say 18, you could probably grab 18 people at random from any high street in the country and they would probably be better overall
Starting point is 00:05:24 than this fucking mob, right? Well, as in, like, more good at their kind of roles? They can't do anything. Or just less bellendery? The challenge is... So it's both. So the challenge is they get given, they can't do any of them.
Starting point is 00:05:38 Right. What kind of challenge is... Because I've not seen an episode for, like, 15 years. The challenge of it, which is the conversation you were just having, is they had a challenge where they had to produce um a new brand of dog food right okay so they have to produce the recipe make it you know they have to brand it up name it and then they have to try and sell it to manufacture to um what's it called um like shops right and everything's done for them so it's like they get they get put in a lab a food lab to make the food they get given all the ingredients laid out
Starting point is 00:06:09 in front of them then they get put sat down with like a top london branding agency to make the brand and give it the name and they get put in front of all these massive retailers to sell it they haven't really got to do anything i've only just have one good idea put one recipe together and then fucking get a designer to design it. Right? Right, yeah. It's the sort of thing that anyone in our office,
Starting point is 00:06:28 no matter how junior, could probably do pretty well in a day. Right? Right. And there's like nine of them. Mm. And they are so bad. Every single episode seems to end with,
Starting point is 00:06:38 and yeah, and then none of the retailers made, yeah, made any orders for your product. So unlucky. But isn't it all but isn't it all about like isn't isn't isn't all reality tv shows these days just all about getting you kind of just just getting like memes and silliness and yeah well i guess so but this one particularly fine and i get that and that's probably a lot of big part of the calculation but this is a BBC show which the whole point of it
Starting point is 00:07:06 is to is to have you know whatever you think of him and I happen to think he's a complete fucking clown but yeah Alan Shuler gives you the money
Starting point is 00:07:14 to go into business with him and he has been a successful businessman so there's a point to it it's not like oh you get crowned the winner of The Apprentice you get to put a crown on the throne
Starting point is 00:07:21 like I'm a celebrity and you're off it's like there's a point to it so just a very, it's become so unbelievable now. The very idea that anyone would get into business
Starting point is 00:07:30 with any of these people is a farce. Having said that, I have seen Alan Sugar's Twitter output in recent years and maybe they're quite well suited. But it's honestly, mate, it is,
Starting point is 00:07:40 I'll tell you another example very quickly. They had one where they all went to Dubai and that had to do a company away day for a company, so they got matched up with a company and they had to provide an away day for that company, right? One of the teams didn't provide any water
Starting point is 00:07:55 for a desert away day. It's so bad. It's so bad. Let them actually die. That would be fine. It's just kind of like um yeah i mean he does he still give away like jobs and stuff because that was always historically the the prize at the end of the day didn't it you got you got a guaranteed job for a year or something but i mean now you get 250 grand to start your own business with him, basically. Right, okay, fine. And does he get any of the... Does he get, like, a decent cut of business?
Starting point is 00:08:30 I presume he gets a fucking gigantic cut. I presume his whole point is doing it, to get, like, 90% of the business, probably. It's probably a sham. I don't know. I mean, what have they been doing? Because I, quite recently, have kind of indulged in kind of, like... Growing up, I had an Amstrad,
Starting point is 00:08:44 and that was kind of my computer and all that stuff. And Amstrad CPC 6strad, and that was my computer and all that stuff. An Amstrad CPC-6128, and that was my first computer, and I loved it, and it was all brilliant, blah, blah, blah. They had a video game figurehead, like your Sonic the Hedgehog or your Mario for Nintendo and Sega. Amstrad had a figurehead, and it was called Roland, basically. His name was Roland. He was a bit like Horace on the Spectrum
Starting point is 00:09:09 or Zool on the Amiga, if you remember that guy. Every system around at the time, seeing how successful Sonic and Mario were, every system wanted this figurehead to kind of put a load of games out under that name and character and make a load of money
Starting point is 00:09:25 and make it the must-get toy at Christmas for kids. One of them was Roland on the Ropes, right? I remember that. Roland on the Ropes was a platformer. Roland in time. Roland goes square bashing. Roland in the caves. But the thing about these games were,
Starting point is 00:09:45 they were just random games. They just put the word Roland on the front cover. Like, there was one that was like this Spanish... I think Amsoft bought, or Amstrad bought, a stake in a Spanish company. And one of the programmers, I think, was employed by that Spanish computer company. And he'd made a game about a jumping kind of mosquito or
Starting point is 00:10:07 something and all they did was just take that game convert it to the amstrad and write roland in the caves in it it was an absolute piece of shit from start to finish and this is my kind of nostalgia this is what i grew up playing going oh well you know you know i'm starting to got roland and it's just shit looking are you confused as to how you ever made loads of money then? Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I am really. Because every, there was a, I think I spoke about before on the show,
Starting point is 00:10:31 like there was this computer that they sold to the Spanish and they wanted to get the Amstrad 664 thing in the Spanish market. But they would only give you a tax break if it was technically a 16-bit machine. So they shipped it with a memory chip that was inaccessible to the rest of the computer. So they just jammed a memory chip,
Starting point is 00:10:51 glued it to the motherboard and went, it's technically a 64-bit machine because if you look at how many RAM chips there are or whatever, it's a 64-bit machine. But the computer literally could not access that data, access that bit of the machine. It was a silo. It didn't do anything.
Starting point is 00:11:07 But because it was technically a 16-bit machine as shipped, it got the tax breaks. And Amstrad was just this historic company who just found what the Japanese were doing, putting it in people's homes at a much reduced rate, but doing an absolute shoddy job of it. A piece of shit absolute bottom of the barrel crappy products and that was alan sugar that was alan sugar's complete uh um hasn't he
Starting point is 00:11:30 sold the whole company to sky now it only really exists in name it's not a trading company now is it no okay well they'll be back i mean we get like there's there's brands that are like zombie brands all over the world you know we've worked with a few who who basically just you know resell bits of technology and they license a name and they go hey it's a you know insert name from the 80s but but it's kind of like no but that's actually that actually goes against my point that's good that that's actually quite good stuff but like we've worked like there's other ones in in the space that'll just license a name and go i remember remember that name, but it's not the same people making it and not to that level of quality.
Starting point is 00:12:08 So it's an interesting thing. So what we should do is wait until like a really popular podcast have a big falling out and just steal their name. Buy their name off them. Give them a couple of grand. Go, yeah, we'll do Dad Wrote a Porno. And it's just me and you just talking. But I mean, that is really, I mean, apart from changing the people, that really is what Dad Wrote a Porno and it's just me and you just talking but i mean that is really i mean
Starting point is 00:12:25 apart from changing the people that really is what my dad wrote a porno did isn't it or you're not going to say that pete because you get squeamish about me being slagging the people off hey look who's got bigger pockets those are them it's them no way what of course they have they've got bigger pockets there's only three of them and one of them's quite tall so his pockets are probably literally big. I'm tall. I'm tall. Yeah. Alright, fine. I don't understand why you get so screamish about slagging the people off.
Starting point is 00:12:52 I don't. I just think Slag someone off now. We're great. Slag someone off now. In podcasting. Oh, right. Not me. Broker works in the DIY shop down the road. I just think that you've got to be honest in this game.
Starting point is 00:13:11 Media industry is terrible for honesty, and I like to be honest. You're terrible for honesty? It's not honesty. You just want to shout at people. No, it's not. It's because people don't think about it this way. If someone's really good, and I really like it,
Starting point is 00:13:23 and I think they're fucking great, I'll say that as well. It's balanced. It's balanced. Everything's good. Yeah, but there's got to be some middle ground. There's got to be people who are just okay. Yeah, I'm talking to one of them. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:38 No, I'm only joking. Luke, I found out something hilarious last night. I mean, it's hilarious to me. I don't know how hilarious it would be to you or the listeners. Will I understand it? in the uk uh there was a comedy duo called the chuckle brothers um two two men with i think mustaches very much like my own this is why you messaged rory earlier saying can you please remind me of the remind me about chuckle vision can you put the runner uh yeah uh two two men who have a mustacheoustache and are quite difficult, like really ugly men. And just like me, proper ugly,
Starting point is 00:14:08 like proper difficult to look at men. But they had a longstanding celebrated comedy career in the children's entertainment space for about 20 years between the 80s and the 90s. And they were so successful. Possibly even longer than that maybe, yeah. Possibly even longer than that, maybe, yeah. Possibly even longer than that. And they went on to be cult heroes after that
Starting point is 00:14:29 and getting paid shitloads of money to advertise daft stuff. They wanted a hitman playthrough, my mate paid them to do, which is really funny. They'll do anything? Yeah, they'll do anything because they are part of nostalgia. And if you were on the BBC in the 80s for a couple of years, that's you set for life. You could be doing appearances in nightclubs
Starting point is 00:14:49 to students who don't even remember you for the next 10 years because the people who are employing you from the student council who are in their mid-20s will remember you. Unless you did some of that stuff that those BBC people... Unless, yeah, and that's where it all starts to fall apart when the handy-handies come out. But anyway, uh the with the uh the chuckle brothers they had a tv show they actually had two older brothers that nobody
Starting point is 00:15:13 ever talked about and nobody ever remembers they used to appear every now and again in chuckle vision as um you know auxiliary characters you know npcs you, a park ranger, or a manager of a bank, et cetera, et cetera, a driving instructor. They would appear and do a bit of helping out. So anyway, the older pair, one's dead, one I believe is still alive, and the one I believe who's dead married a 24 year old fan of chuckle
Starting point is 00:15:46 vision when he was 87 is that good stuff that is amazing how did you find that out is that good stuff or is that good stuff absolutely she was a fan of chuckle vision on the uh facebook page the Facebook page. What? In 2015, Jimmy Elliott, born in 1931, became engaged to 25-year-old Chucklevision fan who he met via Facebook. The couple married in 2017 and Jimmy died in July 2019. It's quite surprising news. I'm not sure it should be. Should we be judgmental about that?
Starting point is 00:16:25 Or is it just that it's surprising? Oh, I think it's a bit dodged, wouldn't you reckon? On a Chucklevision Facebook group. And he's 80. Well, he's not even 87, actually. He's younger. But he's still in his 80s
Starting point is 00:16:37 and he's copping off with a 24-year-old Chucklevision fan. Come on. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Come on now. I don't care how okay it is because it's not it ain't right it's a surprising piece of news and i have to say that um i'm very very
Starting point is 00:16:58 kind of entertained by how excited you were to deliver that news it's great i mean so sometimes you get you get into a zone where you're actually really coherent and it's when you're really excited about something. And that really... You delivered that story really well, mate. Yeah, thanks, mate. He was with his partner.
Starting point is 00:17:15 I don't know what the situation is, whether she died or whatever. But Jimmy was with Valerie from 1964 to 2010. 46 years. 46 years. 46 years. And then suddenly, Amy's on the scene. They don't look anything... The older fellas don't look anything like the Chuckle Brothers either.
Starting point is 00:17:36 No, no. Because they've not gone for the moustaches. And they're a bit fuller in the face. And they look a bit like... I don't know. They look a bit more American. A bit more... Like they've spent a bit more time on their on their appearance maybe yeah there's definitely a bit of that so so one of them looks like a a like super mega church like prosperity
Starting point is 00:17:55 gospel preacher yeah and he looks like he's had a facelift though it looks like you know i don't think he had done it but um but yeah he looks really... He's looked after himself. He looks well-fed. Because the Chuckle Brothers, love them or hate them, they don't look well. They never look well. There's also an undercurrent of tragedy
Starting point is 00:18:15 about that generation of entertainers who essentially were killed off by the alternative comedy scene in the 80s. So they would do family stuff it would be like it would be like opportunity knocks mostly 1970s stuff like and a lot of it would be a little bit edgy but it would be you know i would do a family set at the holiday camp then in the evening we'll do a blue set which is basically racist and a load of horrible stuff like basically jim
Starting point is 00:18:40 davidson right and they all got killed off by alternative comedy like Alexei Sayle and Rick Mayall and all those kind of types. And they're all really bitter about it. Jim Davidson, his whole thing these days is essentially just fueled by bitterness that the world's left him behind, right? And what's interesting is the subculture of all that
Starting point is 00:19:00 because it's the same in principle where if you go to say hollywood and you spend some time in hollywood everywhere you go there are like and it's always men of a certain age probably because our age or a bit older who are still holding on to the dream of being like a really big rock star right okay i mean i mean again this is i mean you are in a very confined space swinging samurai swords you're gonna cut one of us i'm just saying just be careful i just i just think we're i'm just saying that like when you stay in like a hotel or go to a bar in hollywood there's blokes there who are dressed like glam oh yeah musicians when we still think they're
Starting point is 00:19:43 going to become massively successful like guns and N' Roses types, but they're never going to be. It's the same energy is what I'm saying. When we were watching Battle of Hell, the musical, it was like a press night. Never say that again. We agreed you'd never say that again. So there was a lot of people turning up at
Starting point is 00:20:00 these... It was one of the Choco Brothers, wasn't it? Well, there was a lot of people who were like who seemed to be like men like cracking over 40 and then cracking on the 50 and then cracking on 60 who was like wearing leather pants and they were yeah you know rocking the tight t and all that stuff and looking like you know a bit of a suntan and long hair and stuff like that and because we're not living in a great age of rock and certainly not cock rock like or ballads you know you know we're not we're not in the age of a good you know rock isn't in a great um health at the moment so like these people really do come
Starting point is 00:20:37 up the woodwork and you sort of saw it quite a lot i used to do quite a lot of work down at the the hard rock cafe and they'd be turning up for stuff like that as well people were too many fucking rings with skulls on them and like where have you come from like you look like somebody who drinks with lemmy in hollywood like you like you look like it's just bizarre sorry not lemmy lenny lemmy you know lenny you know you're telling me i'm swigging the samurai sword i'm going to cut one of us you're being quite judgmental there Peter I am yeah but I'm just saying I don't know where these people come from
Starting point is 00:21:08 I don't know what they all do like radio shows on some kind of rock FM that no one's ever heard of online and they all come out the woodwork and they're all big swingers and they all like give you know give it the big one
Starting point is 00:21:18 that like you know that they're hard to drink they're all drinking jack and coke as well definitely whether they like it or not. There's no real classic rock radio scene in the UK, which is surprising, because in the US it's fucking gigantic.
Starting point is 00:21:31 Everywhere you go, if you tune your radio when you drive through a new town, there's another classic rock station. Well, it is... I mean, it's big enough in the UK that XFM started a new classic rock station. Only one DJ. It's really... really what DAB
Starting point is 00:21:47 yes I think it is on DAB yeah XFM classic rock or something but it's not part of the culture is what I mean
Starting point is 00:21:53 it's going to be on DAB you get anything you get catered for everything you know that's just how part of it's
Starting point is 00:21:58 it's oeuvre but like generally speaking like classic rock is a big part of the culture in the US so you basically you can tune to quite a mainstream radio station in a big part of the culture in the US. You can tune to quite a mainstream radio station
Starting point is 00:22:08 in a big city in the US and they'll be playing during the day Guns N' Roses songs. It's just a big deal. It's what you want though, isn't it? There's no one doing that, huh? It's what you want though, isn't it? Yeah, I think it should be there.
Starting point is 00:22:23 I don't understand why, given that Britain has produced some of the best classic rock acts ever there's no it's not really being catered for Because the 1975 turned up and made music better Right we're going to take a short ad break we'll be back with, we'll do a couple of emails
Starting point is 00:22:37 before we chip off We're back with Luke Pichot on a Monday, Luke have you prepared an email? I jumped to a break very quickly there, and I feel like I may have jumped the gun too quickly. You blindsided me with a 1975 shout. Yeah, you wanted to get a retort in.
Starting point is 00:22:55 You wanted to get a jab back in. Why are they so controversial, though? Because I quite like some of their songs. The guy, the lead singer, seems like a bit of a prat, but there's no point chucking that around. In rock music, that's like dishing out speeding tickets at the Formula One, seems like a bit of a prat, but I mean, there's no point chucking that around. That's like, you know, in rock music, that's like dishing out speeding tickets at the Formula One, isn't it? I mean, there's...
Starting point is 00:23:08 Yeah. Why does he attract particular ire? Yeah, I mean, especially the amount of people I've interviewed, and he wasn't even in top, you know, top 50% of dickheads, but I don't know enough about their oeuvre. I think lyrically they're a bit more interesting than most bands, I suppose, in that sphere. I quite like some of their stuff.
Starting point is 00:23:28 Maybe that's the problem because we're 240-something and that's crude. Exactly, exactly. I've got an email here. It's anonymous, though. We're going to keep it anonymous, but it is an interesting one. Okay. And it's literally signed anonymous, so I can't even get you to accidentally say their name.
Starting point is 00:23:42 They say, Hi, Bo, on a recent episode you were discussing pete's interest in writing legal letters um i thought you two would be interested to know that a law hopefully soon passed will include text that was drafted by one of your listeners me i'm currently working on a uk parliamentary bill one of the three controversial ones constantly on the front page of the daily mail which required a very rapid drafting and writing this required the policy lead aka me to write the legal text that would go into the bill and then run it by the lawyers for approval and editing brackets normally you would have a
Starting point is 00:24:14 discussion and then lawyers would just draft it in a much more collaborative and less hectic fashion not to brag as the part i was in charge it was very uncontroversial and is pretty much agreed upon by everyone but the lawyers made almost no amendments to the text, which can now be found in the draft bill at bills.parliament.uk. All the best, Anon. P.S. I'm not a fascist. I'm an apolitical civil servant who just designs the policy as instructed. Let's hope the next election brings me more sane and humane work.
Starting point is 00:24:44 That's really exciting stuff that's we've got this is the very corridors of power peter yeah i think do you think and i presume this person probably experiences quite a lot and i i know quite a few um civil service people civil servants uh and some civil servants uh they um i i think they probably get like people don't really have a good handle on where the civil service separates from government. You know what I mean? It's because they're regularly chucked under the bus these days.
Starting point is 00:25:12 Exactly, yeah. They're always fighting. But I think people just genuinely... I think most people on the streets sort of understand... don't understand that they're completely separate to any kind of right, left, right, left, you know, Labour. Yeah, so they're vital for... The best ones should be.
Starting point is 00:25:28 They're vital for the administration delivery of laws that are passed, in theory, of course, by people who are elected by the people. So, I mean, they've got to be there to do the dirty work effectively because it's almost a bit like it's not a judge's role to decide what the law is, you know, or what the sentences are.
Starting point is 00:25:48 The judge has a guideline. He has to do it and just administer it effectively. Civil servants, I guess, are a bit like that. But, I mean, yeah, there is an argument to say, I think, that, you know, everyone's got a limit as to what they would accept. You know, I mean, you are still doing the job. So if you don't agree with it on principle, you don't have to to do it I don't think they should be blamed for just doing their job but ultimately that is a bit of a slippery slope as well I mean yeah you know if you're free to not do that job
Starting point is 00:26:13 I mean presumably if you're that well qualified you can find a job somewhere else but I mean it's not for me to judge I can't even judge the person because they haven't even left their name but I just I just think for me if I if if i was really a really good efficient civil servant which i think many of our listeners has probably just really think of me as anyway um i probably wouldn't be happy facilitating the current shit i mean if we're reading between the lines if it's the current shit about all this refugee stuff i wouldn't i wouldn't want to be a part of that personally right um yeah we don't know that do we are you reading through the lines hence me saying that if that's what it is that wouldn't be something i would personally do but
Starting point is 00:26:52 i'm not judging other people i mean i suppose i am judging i mean i'm always constantly judging other people i suppose so i probably am judging but that's my that's my opinion would you be happy with that um uh you used to work for a government department? I did, but I mean, it was housing. I mean, it's hard to... You're the one who sold off all the council houses, aren't you? I don't think that was... That was Thatcher. I think you're not remembering.
Starting point is 00:27:16 That was bloody Thatcher. She's been tweeting away. She's subscribed to Twitter Blue and is tweeting away. Who is facilitating that fucking account? I don't know. I don't know. I find it odd when famous people die,
Starting point is 00:27:31 yet someone takes over their Twitter account. Who's reading the DMs? Yeah, exactly. Oh, lordy. Yeah, I think that's a bit weird. One more email to squeeze in just before we go, because it's funny. This is from our friend Abirahoop
Starting point is 00:27:46 who said, hi guys, listeners, it's 2020. Thought you might be interested in this news clipping I got from the Times of India Gurgaon edition. And I'll just read the transcript of the article and the headline. Curiosity kills man who poked tiger with stick. Taking a
Starting point is 00:28:02 tiger by the tail has cost a farmer his life in a village in mp's cargon district santosh 35 tapped a wandering tiger's tail with a stick to quote see how it would react forest officers said on thursday the tiger took a swipe at him cutting a deep gash in the back of his neck and he died in hospital on thursday the tiger is yet to be located the forest department has urged villagers not to go into the forest or disturb the tiger. Foresters say it strayed from Yawal Wildlife Sanctuary to the Chiria Forest Range,
Starting point is 00:28:31 a distance of about 100 kilometres. I mean, it's regrettable that, isn't it? It's regrettable. But I do think there's a certain amount of admiration I've got for someone who sees a gigantic fucking tiger and doesn't complete shit themselves. Because that's what I would do. I think if you're seeing like big, I remember sort of, I was in, was it Kenya?
Starting point is 00:28:52 I think it was in Kenya. And a man, and elephants just come in and wreck people's houses. They just knock them over and be dickheads about it. And this guy had made this massive fucking whip. and being dickheads about it. And this guy had made this massive fucking whip. Like, just the... It was just a bit of wire that was like... It was like the length of his whole house.
Starting point is 00:29:11 And he... And this villager came over and went, hey, Pete, come and have a look at this. And this guy just got his whip out and went... Pow! Like that. And it made the loudest noise I've ever heard in my life. But, like, people who, like, live around, like, big fucking scary made the loudest noise I've ever heard in my life. But people who live around big fucking scary animals,
Starting point is 00:29:28 just get on with it. They're just like, yeah. I mean, that guy would not have been expecting that animal to attack like that because he probably sees those monstrosities every fucking day of his life. It's sad. I don't think he sees a tiger every day. You could see a tiger every day. I think they're quite rare now, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:29:44 Aren't they? I don't know. Well, I know that farmers in that part of the world, they put masks on the back of their head, don't they, when a tiger every day. You could see a tiger every day. I think they're quite rare now, aren't they? Aren't they? I don't know. Well, I know that farmers in that part of the world, they put masks on the back of their head, don't they, when they're tending their crops? Oh, like you're looking... Yeah, because tigers generally attack people from behind. That's pretty cool.
Starting point is 00:29:55 Yeah, it's fucking frightening. If you've got to do that, that's where I check out. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing that. You've got two in your house. Bring them back, mouse guts. One of them is a little... He thinks he's a little tiger, actually, yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:04 But, I mean, he's not going to... Hopefully thinks he's a little tiger actually yeah but I mean he's not gonna hopefully he's not gonna fucking expose my jugular vein at any point well imagine that would be a bit embarrassing way to die with it Luke's dead what
Starting point is 00:30:15 happened he got his fucking throat ripped open by a cat what a fucking tiger no a domestic house cat terrible oh lordy well anyone on that note, we should go. Thank you very much to the anonymous emailer
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Starting point is 00:31:13 take a few seconds out of your day to do so. That's it from us. We'll be back later in the week, of course. Pete, you're off to WrestleMania, aren't you, for a wee bit, so we'll have to see what happens there. Be looking forward to hearing about that in due course. Yeah, and that's it. We'll see you soon. We're off to WrestleMania, aren't you, for a wee bit, so we'll have to see what happens there, be looking forward to hearing about that, in due course,
Starting point is 00:31:27 yeah, and that's it, and we'll see you soon. We're off to see, just briefly, we're off to see, Effie's Big Brunch, which was one of the best shows last year,
Starting point is 00:31:33 but, Kendo Nagasaki is appearing, because he's gay. Great, good to know. Fascinating. It's a great little taste, from the 80s, we look forward to hearing about that.
Starting point is 00:31:43 Alright then, ta-ta. See you. See you. The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack Production and part of the ACAST Creator Network.

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