The Luke and Pete Show - A legacy act without a legacy
Episode Date: April 18, 2024This week the lads give a full Coachella review and ultimately conclude that Blur's really not for them. Elsewhere, Luke reminisces on his wild surf-style upbringing fuelled by twisted jeans and Red O...r Dead t-shirts and Pete gets a lesson in broadcasting 101.Plus, Donny has the ultimate care update!Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's the Luke and Pete Show.
A very good morning to you.
This is Thursday, 8th of April, and we are cracking on through April.
The weather's getting cold,
then it's getting hot,
then it's getting rainy.
We've had hailstones today.
But the most important weather stroking
is the weather stroking that's going on
with my car outside.
Lukey Moore, I'm proud to announce
my Toyota Century is on the road with Reg Plates.
It is absolutely fantastic news.
It's been a long journey.
It's been a long road.
Did you feel like it was worth it?
Probably not.
When I get into that car
and I can smell the dirty old,
fag-ridden sort of floor mats and and the slight i bet you feel like don henley
don't you kind of egg on when i'm bouncing down that road with a light on my dashboard that says
no traction control i feel like a real winner lukey it's definitely worth it then. I think it is. I think I've already spent way too much money on it.
So I'm, I fare,
I think I should be drawing a line sooner rather than later
on this sorry project.
It's one of those ones where you go in,
in for a penny and you can't stop.
Exactly.
You're chasing your losses
when the fun stop stops and all that.
It's like waiting for a bus, isn't it?
Like you've waited 10 minutes.
Yeah, may as well.
I live here now.
Yeah.
I went to, speaking of i went for
buses uh couldn't for some reason the the overground wasn't working today so i went
via climb house which was a new journey for me why don't you drive the century in um because i
got it road i got it roadworthy i got the reg plates on at 11 o'clock last night i got it off
that man's poor that poor man's driveway at about 11 o'clock last night because i had other things on and then um i sort of i sort of cruised
around the local area in my bouncy little car you'll get on a register if you will get on a
register if i kick car like that and i thought you know what i've not had enough sleep this isn't the
time i'm not 100 that if this car stops it's going to start again so because of the
battery so um i thought i'll uh i'll leave it for maybe i'll pop in on friday you're on the you're
on the ramble on friday maybe you'll see it on friday i think i am yeah so i'll see you then
i am i love the idea of you breaking down in the in the big century yeah on like regent street
yeah it wouldn't be it wouldn't be ideal. It would be confusing. Just on the mobile phone
standing outside
looking flustered
with smoke coming out the bonnet.
That would be amazing.
I have like a wire
coming out of the centre console.
Hello?
I've travelled here from the 80s.
But you're pleased with the purchase
and you think it's a pretty worthy investment.
I think it's a banger.
I can't get the writing
they've written on the window off.
But I think it's a banger.
I don't know what they've...
I think they might have used some kind of bonnet marker.
Is it like the windscreen?
Yeah, they've written, like, goo net,
which sounds, like, a bit sexual.
But it is, I assure you, it's a Japanese car auction site.
Yeah, goo net they've written on the front.
And I've tried wiping it off.
It won't come off.
Is the partner you've got access to still frustrated by it?
Or has she accepted it now?
I don't know.
I think there's a part of her heart that sort of goes,
you know what?
That isn't the worst looking car you've ever seen.
It's got weird little wing mirrors on the bonnet,
for crying out loud.
It smells of fags.
My favourite smell, she says, in my mind.
You've got to send a video for the Luke and Pete show family
to view driving it.
Bouncing around. Have you had any people...
It's like Flat Eric. Do you like the video of Flat Eric?
Yes, I do. Do I know
Flat Eric? Who are you talking to?
Are you a man of Eric?
I used to love Levi's twisted jeans.
I used to wear them all the time.
I remember twisted jeans. That's what it was for, wasn't it?
Oh, God. Wasn't there there high waistband jeans as well?
Wasn't that a thing for a little while?
Not for boys.
The twisted ones, I used to have about four pairs of them.
I used to love them.
I love that you were part of this.
It's like suddenly finding out that you're...
What are those headphones you buy at the airport?
Jelly something.
Oh, skull candy.
Skull candy. headphones you buy at the airport jelly something you know like skull candy skull candy and uh it
just like mark bought some skull mark hens and wrestle me bought some skull candy um uh headphones
a couple of years ago for wrestlemania uh at the airport and i was like mark i had no idea you were
part of the skull candy universe i had no idea you're a skull candy man but i had no idea look
that you're a you're a twisted gene twisted pairs i used to be, back in the late 90s, I used to be slim.
Twisted pairs, I think, might be something to do with Cat5 Ethernet cable.
Apologies.
Twisted jeans.
I used to be slim, Levi's twisted jeans, really skin tight, like Red or Dead t-shirt.
Red or Dead?
Yeah.
Didn't they make shoes for ladies?
Wasn't that Red or Dead
they probably do a lot of it
I think it would be
a surfing brand maybe
right okay
because I'm from the south coast
aren't I
so it was all part of that
is that because
oh god
did you have beads
in your hair and stuff
no
did you play the acoustic guitar
did you play some
Jason Mraz
on your acoustic guitar
in front of a bonfire
on the beach
no
I would definitely
have been present
in that kind of scenario right okay um interesting were you mad into the sweet ganja well i mean it was the
90s what can i say 90s what can i say if you remember i can i can remember um that we used
to have like bonfires down the beach quite a lot right right and um particularly obviously in the
summer where say if it was cows week the big
sailing week over in the isle of wight you could see that from where i grew up right because i
because the the seafront near where i grew up was overlooking the isle of wight through a fog of
weed smoke well and we used to i can remember once right we used to go down there get a fire going
and that's that and um i remember being it's in the evening i was about to go out
head out there and my old man stopped me before i left the house i was a couple of mates we're
just gonna walk down there because by that point i was about 18 and we'd moved to a nicer house
and it was quite near the beach and um my old man was like oh are you going down the beach are you
gonna have a fire and i was like yeah and he's like right your mom's gonna be back home from
work in like an hour i just need you to do something with me i was like, right, your mum's going to be back home from work in like an hour. I just need you to do something with me. I was like, okay, what's that?
He took me into the garage and he made me, he made me, um,
saw up a bed that my mum had told him to get rid of.
Right.
Right.
And then he told me to take it down the beach and set fire to it.
Nice.
Okay.
And use that as the firewood, but don't tell my mum.
Okay.
So anyway, I did that.
Took it down there.
How did you take an entire
bed i just put in the back of the car it was so you're driving a little bit and um drove it down
there right and um it was all fine it was like the perfect crime and i don't know if it was illegal
to have bought fires down the beach at that point blood stains on it blood stains on it no no what
happened was are you an accomplice to a murder that your dad perpetrated? That's the question.
I haven't asked.
I could ask.
Yeah.
But anyway, this is the thing, it was a perfect crime, right?
Until my friend Penny was trying to show off to some girls down there.
Right.
And he started trying to...
He set fire to one of the bedsteads.
So he had like a torch.
Right.
And he was balancing it on his chin.
Right.
Right.
And a firelighter and piece of wood fell off the torch and landed on his face okay i gave him a big burn on his cheek
right yeah and um then a long story short one thing led to another he had to go to the a and
e and get it all patched up he's fine he was fine i mean it's only about two inches from his eye, so it wasn't ideal, but he was fine. But then what happened was
his mum mentioned to my mum
that it had been balancing like a bed frame on his chin.
My mum starts putting two of them together.
It's like Kaiser Sosa at the end of Usual Suspect.
Me and my old man get an absolute bollocking
for basically illegally setting fires to the bed
when we were both just supposed to take it to the tip
and we never got around to it. So's what that's what that reminded me of
peter we used to fires down the beach all the time and that's where the song what do you do
when your beds are burning exactly what was that terrible band do you know what is the most
depressing thing about it is that um i think the the kind of soundtrack to those kind of days not
my decision yeah but the soundtrack to those days.
The Blind Melon.
Not even that cool.
It was like Californication era.
Yeah, it was that kind of thing.
Do you know what?
Do you know what I was thinking about?
I was watching The Dog earlier,
and I was coming back,
and I was like,
do you remember the Confrontation of the Days
did that song,
Hump De Bump?
Did they?
And they were about, each must have been key this must have been cracking
it was 50s and he's doing a song called hump de bump yeah he looks it up it's on the stadium
arcade in 2006 so he would have been a lot older yeah fucking atrocious uh title atrocious sentiment
um i mean wow robbins anyway aren't they uh i don't think they are um are you confusing him with tyler one of them is a wrong
one as per his own autobiography okay fair fair so take it up with him yeah i mean you write some
stuff in the 90s don't you and then you then you're in big trouble um there's there was i i i
don't necessarily share the snobbiness around the red hot chili Peppers generally. I think, you know, people like what they like
and that's fine.
I don't really get exorcised about it.
But I did catch something on the radio
not that long ago and it was like,
because you know that famous Nick Cave quote?
Oh yeah, every time I turn on the radio
there's this fucking music playing
and it's always...
No, I'm forever saying to myself,
what the fuck is that?
And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
But I'm not going to be snobby.
I mean, if you're Nick Cave
and you're an amazing songwriter, I suppose you can get away with saying that. So I'm not going to kind of jump on board that. But what'm not going to be i mean if you're nick cave and you're an amazing songwriter
i suppose you can get away with saying that so i'm not going to kind of jump on board that what
i am going to say is i did catch something on the radio not that long ago which was billed as a new
red hot chili pepper single and it was within a year less than a year ago yeah and i caught a bit
of it and it was remarkable yeah like the bit i caught was just anthony keeler's going
the sights the smells the sounds it's like what was it the sights the sounds the smells
so what is he talking it's like a fucking dr zeus like a bad dr zeus fucking song loke hump
de bump duper bodu hump de bump dupe bop hump de bump duper bodu oh no and then just goes into the Hoopabodoo, hump-de-bump, doop-bop. Hump-de-bump, doopabodoo.
Oh, no.
And then it just goes into the same chorus again.
Hump-de-bump, doopabodoo.
Did you see the Blur doing Coachella this week?
I did see that.
I could not find this more delicious.
As someone who quite aggressively dislikes Blur, I enjoyed it. Yeah, I liked them
back in the day,
but he gets away
with murder,
that absolute prick.
Albon.
Have you interviewed him?
Have I?
You must have.
No.
No, I've not.
There's people in music
of that generation
and they fall into
two categories, Pete.
The ones you've interviewed
and the ones you don't
remember interviewing. Because you've definitely and the ones you don't remember interviewing
because you've definitely
interviewed all of them
no he's got
a terrible reputation
anyone who's ever
interviewed that bloke
in the last 15 years
he's got a terrible
reputation with him
because he's not very nice
let's put that that way
and has frequently
been quite difficult
in interviews
and he had a bad time
at Coachella
because A Coachella because A
Coachella is not necessarily
for music fans
B
they're fucking ancient
and C
it was Girls and Boys
which is very much
you know
the sentiment
if there is any sentiment
in Girls and Boys
the song that he got upset in
it's very British isn't it
it's very British
it would be like
Jarvis Cocker
getting very upset
that people didn't know
you know
that dogs were everywhere
in Sheffield
or Sheffield is a city
etc
you know
you can totally see
how it was a strange booking
yeah I think
but I couldn't even see
them on the line
they're third down
before no doubt
and Tyler the Creator
on a Saturday
but after Sublime
that's a weird
sublime still out and about okay apparently as a yeah i know that obviously the lead singer died
um but do you care that i didn't i didn't actually know that but do you care that
sorry if you're blur do you care about that though you're just like okay i've done a million
gigs i don't know why yeah but it is a testament to bearing in mind like you know fubbler i think their highest
charting single somebody pointed out to it is it got 58 in the billboard charts back in the 90s
they're the biggest performing single from them so in the us they're nobody really yeah and so
for them to i like i kind of like like it that British people can never break through.
British bands, anyway, of the Britpop generation forwards,
they find it very, very difficult to break through.
Mumford & Sons managed it.
That's about it.
You know what I mean?
Arctic Monkeys?
Really, though?
Kind of.
You know what I mean?
Mumford & Sons, because they've got a bit of a country lilt,
they probably sashayed it in that a little bit.
But Arctic Monkeys probably can't fill a stadium out there can they
I don't know
I'm not really sure
I get that sense
anyway
but yeah
I do like the fact
that it is really
hard to do
and it is really
hard to conquer
America
and I do
find it amusing
that Damon Albom
would let his
kind of mask
slip a little bit
he's there
he's put a suit
on for the occasion
because it's clearly
quite a big gig even for Blur even's there. He's put a suit on for the occasion because it's clearly quite a big gig,
even for Blur,
even in this situation.
He's had a terrible time.
He started admonishing the crowd,
which is never a winner.
Oh, it depends on your perspective.
It's always a winner for me.
I love it.
Oh, it's lovely stuff.
He did look like...
The thing I thought about it
when I saw it,
and it's available widely online, obviously,
is that he just looked like a legacy actor
that clearly didn't have a legacy.
It's almost like in the US, I mean,
because you can kind of do what you want if you're older
and you've sold a million, billion records.
Oh, Dylan's not sang one of his own songs for about 20 years.
You don't even know what songs he sings.
Hump the Bump.
When you see him live.
He does a great cover of Hump the Bump.
He does a very good version of Hump the Bump
by the Religious Lippebs.
It was a really interesting clip.
I think, I don't really like Blair.
I think if you break them down to their component parts,
every single one of them's a dickhead.
So that tells you its own story.
Whether it's cheese or,
I mean, I think I said this to you before.
There's a Graham Coxon single,
a solo single about 15 years ago, which is genuinely one of the worst pieces of music i've ever heard it's like a school band right got fucking mainstream play because it's graham coxson
right dreadful on his own like really poor you know um damon albans damon albans alex james
is possibly
the biggest embarrassment
in like British music history
and I am including
all the paedophiles
and perverts in that
and the final one
was a fucking
Labour councillor
how uncool can you get
he ran for
he's been trying
to knock on that door
for such a long time
I think he might even
be a candidate
for an MP
in the next election now
yeah
he went for Mayor
a few years ago
I remember that
also
what happened
at Coachella?
Let's look at a little
Coachella review of this.
Grimes just absolutely
stacked her DJ set
and just said,
sorry, I can't mix these songs,
they're too quick.
Something went
catastrophically wrong.
She just stopped the set
and went,
oh, sorry,
I can't do the maths here,
I'm confused.
Just absolutely like late you're talking
to someone who has been in the dubious position of actually seeing a grimes dj set live okay right
yeah and it was terrible right it was genuinely i mean not that bad she didn't own up to being
shit in the middle of it but um it was it was really really almost like confusingly poor
yeah yeah and i think she's got she got like a reputation as being quite a fairly interesting
artist yeah i think so i always get grimes mixed up with churches mixed up with idols mixed up with
the woman who married elon musk i get all of these kind of poppy kind of dance acts that have cool logos.
You know, Grimes did.
Grimes was with Elon Musk
for years.
They've got kids together
and stuff.
Okay, okay, right.
Yeah, I get everyone
sort of mixed up a little bit.
I don't think that's anything
to do,
that's nothing to do
with churches, mate.
No, nothing to do
with idols either.
Do you regularly find yourself
just getting a series
of random things,
animal, vegetables and minerals mixed up with each other?
Well, I think this podcast stands a testament to that.
A testimony to my failures.
The man who confused his wife for a hat.
Is that you?
What's that from?
It's like a book, isn't it?
It's a book about strange psychological conditions.
Right.
And there's a guy, I'm paraphrasing it because I haven't actually read the book and it was years ago I heard about it
he kind of had this psychological issue
where he couldn't distinguish
between people and inanimate objects
right okay
it did remind me of you a great deal actually
yeah okay
shall we take a break and when we come back we'll do some batteries
because we've got some good ones this week
battery daddy on the way, see you in a bit
and we're back
it's the looking picture
I'm Pete Donaldson
John but Mr. Looky Moore
and every single Thursday
we talk about all things
batteries
have you found a battery
inside some computers
or a vibrating device
we've had before
we've had calculators
we've had a lot of
children's toys
a lot of parents
sort of just sat in a
in like a playpen
just replacing the
replacing the batteries in a little toy
and sort of going
oh maybe the little picture might like this
and they forget
it's kind of them to think of us
they drop the battery into the playpen
the child eats the battery
and then you're in all kinds of trouble
Daniel
Daniel I spent this weekend clearing
out my childhood bedroom after moving out 11 years ago whilst going through the cupboards
i came across a camera and inside were these national hyper batteries for your consideration
keep up the great work daniel now i'm loving this design i think it has all the hallmarks of a 1970s kind of...
Ordered from the CPC catalogue.
It's the Mazda Electric Company, presumably.
It's like a Japan import, very much like my car.
It's got real kind of like East German design energy
and I'm a big fan
of those
they look about
50 years old
yeah it's good stuff
so 11 years ago
apparently
if not more
this camera was
filled with batteries
but we're very
very thankful
for Daniel
chucking them over
but are
the National Hypers
a new entry Luke
they are a new entry
congratulations
Daniel
it's a brand new player
you know what
if we had like
should we take in the whole
kind of like
battery daddy
I'm moving all of the other
batteries to the back
and I'm putting the
National Hypers
right in the front
because I think
it's a good
it's a good DJ name
for you that
what National Hyper
yeah
I'd like it
yeah
or a really bad
National cover band
T.O. Borman
has come in with
an email
it says
hello Luke's
and gentle Pete's
I have for you today
the most promising
battery submission
from a road trip
vacation in Taos
New Mexico
the wife I have
access to
and I
are celebrating
our 12 year
anniversary on Sunday
and we'd also
love to celebrate
a new player
in the Battery Daddy
hope you're both well
and come on you
rip-roaring high drain
Piscels
or Piscel rather
P-I-S-C-E-L-L
if a fish was
crossed by
crossed with a battery
presumably
yeah presumably Peter
although the plot
is about to thicken
so strap yourself in
kind of looks like
P-I-ZAP
energy bolt
C-E-L-L
doesn't it?
I think if they were piss cells, they would be a new player.
Right.
But my experience tells me, based on a pretty decent deep dive into the inbox... Pi cell.
...is that these are PK cells, which you've had a million times before,
and the branding is just confusing because people in the battery industry are making this up.
What do PK cell batteries look like, though?
Let me have a look.
Oh, yes, I do believe you.
You are right, Luke.
You've got that absolutely cock on.
The K.
Sometimes they don't use the lightning bolt logo.
They just use the K.
He's had a stinker.
He's had a stinker,'s had a stinker T.O. Borman but
is there any
kind of solace
in the fact that
Towers in New Mexico
is one of the few places
I've actually been
you have
does that help
yeah
and what was it like
checked into a hotel
it was like kind of a
a Mexican sort of domicile
and a full
geisha face painted
goth
was playing a harp.
And I didn't need that because I'd bought some edibles.
It absolutely threw me through a fucking loop.
So there we go.
So you've got poor memories of it.
I've got poor memories of it.
Went over the road to the burger shack and giggled my way through lunch.
Sorry, supper, not lunch.
Supper?
Supper.
You're in Downton Abbey.
Right.
Darby is coming.
That's not a new player, Pete.
We officially said
that's not a new player.
Sorry, not a new player, yeah.
Because you went to
Towson, New Mexico
and saw a geisha
painted as a goth
and you were high.
So therefore,
our friend,
what was his name?
T.O. Bowman.
T.O. Bowman.
Sounds like a detective, a dog, or a dog that's? T.O. Bowman. T.O. Bowman. Sounds like a detective, a dog,
or a dog that's a detective.
It's T.O. Bowman.
I am imagining like a quite spiffy dog detective
with a bow tie.
Mustache and bow tie.
A terrier, one of those kind of like a schnauzer
or a border terrier with a big moustache
and possibly a monocle.
I would call it a bad guy
in a Scooby-Doo episode.
What?
P.O. Bowman?
T.O. Bowman.
Yeah, T.O.
What does the T and O stand for?
That is the question.
Yeah.
The only Bowman.
Hi, Looker Pete.
I'm guessing this is not a new player,
but I did want to send this G...
Oh, fuck it.
What are you doing?
What is it?
Darby, I feel sick.
I can't even say it. I did want to send this g oh fuck it what are you doing darby darby i feel sick i can't even say it i do want to send this gp soup oh gp super alkaline get out of here i've got wet mouth i'm gonna be sick
an old carbon monoxide detector says to get to it use a screwdriver to cut through the paint
and seal the battery in right next to the notice that says do not paint love the show guys Darby
Darby
I'd love to hear from people
actually who don't have
a fucking
smoke detector
with a super GP
alkaline in it
because it's every single
person in the fucking
world's got one
mine's Duracell
thank you very much
you probably changed it
I did change it
I probably took out
a GP Ultra
yeah
since the turn of the year alone, 31 people have sent this in.
And they shouldn't have.
No.
They shouldn't have.
I mean, they should have been told.
They're getting nothing back out of that.
They're getting nothing back out of that.
List their names.
Just bash out a few names.
The GP Ultra, right?
George Quinlan, David Foley.
Twat.
Getham Barden, Carl Hunter.
Bastard.
Carl Hunter twice actually
Paul
Double bastard
Darren Sloan
Fool
Nicholas Kobe
James Harmer
Scum
Pete Donaldson
Deport them
Oh
Shit
Deport them in their Japanese car
Deport them in their Japanese car
So anyway
We've got two out of three
No one out of three
Because one of them was a mistake
And the other one was a complete joke it's not it's not ideal is it
no should we finish with an email oh let's do that then there's an email here from david who says um
hi you got he actually calls us venerable podcasting royalty but i'm not going to
acknowledge that i'm just going to say hi guys if you became a member of the royal family by just
doing it sorry that i i didn't i couldn't
figure out what to say at the end of that sentence yeah don't start right don't start
um for just doing something for a long time broadcasting 101 do you know what i mean
yeah if you can't think of how to finish the sentence we've been probably don't start what
i'm saying is we've been podcasting for such a long time since the very beginning you know i
didn't fucking show back in like sort of ipod times right oh yeah you don't start what I'm saying is we've been podcasting for such a long time since the very beginning you know I didn't fucking show back in
like sort of iPod times
right
you don't have to
mention it do you
I do like to mention it
because it gives us
it gives us
it gives us the right
to tell people off
I think
you keep telling me
never to mention
how long we've been
doing podcasts
because everyone
will think we're
old and boring
we are old and boring
yeah but then
I mean we're sorry
to say it on air
because people know
we're old and boring true actually we just did boring. Yeah, but then, I mean, we're sorry to say it on air because people know we're old and boring.
True, actually.
We just did a 10-minute feature about batteries, for crying out loud.
And then we had a go at Blur for being three years older than us.
I would say that, like, I would say that with that,
we've been doing it for such a long time,
that we should be knighted, at least.
Podcast knighting.
Why doesn't the old British podcast award do knightings?
Why aren't we put into some kind of hall of fame, the hoff?
Can I just set the record straight and say
I wasn't having a go at Blur
merely for being three years older than us.
I was having a go at them for having the temerity
to be more successful than me.
That's the main reason I wasn't.
And getting upset because people weren't respecting them.
And if the British podcast awards
were dishing out knighthoods, I don't think they really even know who we are so i don't know
i mean how can you can unite a dad dad wrote a nighty like can you night yeah the first people
would be my dad can you night the the big guy from uh dad wrote a porno for the fifth time i'd
just be like him getting knighted.
He'd be getting bigger and bigger suits of armour.
And yes, I do believe how the
knights work. That's what it'd be like.
He'd be getting his 15th knighthood
and he'd be talking about how much he's not interested in it
while simultaneously updating his LinkedIn.
His shoulder would be down
to the bone, the amount of sword strikes
he's received. It would.
And his back would be breaking from the flowers he's received. It would. And his back would be breaking from the flowers
he's received. It would.
I think you're right. I think that's absolutely spot on.
But yeah, there you go.
Yeah, alright. Can I
wrestle this back to this email?
Oh yeah, did we even do the email? Sorry.
No, we didn't do it. Did my dad write a point
to do emails and do they forget halfway through?
I don't know. Not sure. Dad wrote the email.
Anyway, Davidid he calls
us venerable podcast in royalty it's his decision that's his yeah that's up to him yeah absolutely
up to him he said i thought i might be so bold as to try and compose a missive to tie together
some disparate threads from recent episodes when you were discussing fencing and segued seamlessly
into hobgoblin and then Iron Maiden. You mentioned
Bruce Dickinson for Trooper Ale
and talked about him being a qualified
pilot. What shocked me to the very core
though was that you didn't also talk about
him being an international standard fencer.
I did know
that. I thought we had mentioned that.
I definitely didn't know it because I've read his
memoir and I was actually really
disappointed by his memoir. I was looking forward to it. I really like Iron memoir. And I was actually really disappointed by his memoir.
I was looking forward to it.
I really like Iron Maiden and he's an interesting guy.
But the book isn't that good.
Every single chapter ends with go figure, which is disappointing.
It's a really bad way of putting it. It's a good payoff, I think.
Yeah, go figure.
It's like needless to say, I had the last laugh.
You had to get the word count down.
Now, tying the fencing
into the most recent episode,
says David,
when you were talking
about the development of planes
and the ones with the big disc on them,
the name you were actually looking for
was AWACS,
Airborne Warning and Control System.
This was the American system
that superseded the UK NIMROD,
which is a plane
with a sticking out nose and big bum.
Pete, you'd be very jealous.
Yes.
My father was in the RAF,
and we were based up in North Scotland
where he supervised the flight simulators up there.
On leaving the RAF after 25 years service,
he moved to the civilian side of the RAF flight simulation world,
and his boss at the time was also an international fencer.
So there you have fencing, iron maiden, development planes,
job done, David.
Nice.
Okay.
So good stuff.
I mean, I'm pleased that that happened.
I'm pleased that we got the plane title correct in the end.
I'd love to see one of those AWACS planes in real life just flying around.
They just look too...
Top heavy.
Yeah, too top heavy, really.
I mean, the amount of drag that gets added to a plane
when you just put the old wheels down.
You don't know what you're talking about.
I do. I've watched so many
episodes of the Mentor Pilot. It
increases drag. It's a real pain in the arse.
Yeah, but the way you started that... And also, the
air brakes and the engine reversers,
they don't even work if the
fucking wheels aren't down and there's a bit of pressure on them.
They don't work. So you can't reverse
the fucking engines in
flight and explode your engines to bits.
You can say whatever you want about planes,
you would still be the very last person
I'd want flying when I was in.
I'll say, Luke,
I have watched so many videos
about everything going wrong
that I'm bound to not make it go wrong.
That's just the least convincing pitch
I've ever heard in my life.
COVID era Air Pakistan.
So negative.
There was a real issue with the
captain being an arrogant shit.
And he killed everyone. So I'm not
going to do that. I'm not going to be an arrogant shit.
I read something in a
Malcolm Gladwell book where there was two Japanese pilots
and one of them was junior to the other one.
And the senior one was about to
pilot into the sea because he had the readings
wrong. And the junior pilot was trying to tell him
and the senior one kept clipping around tell him and the chap for the CD
kept clipping him
around the back of the head
and then they all died
yeah
and then they all died
yeah I'll just say that
I say Luke
as I'm flying along
I say Luke
you may not respect me
but I've
why are you doing that
out of your hands
I've been doing
it's a storm
it's my hand on the york
it's a storm
by the look of it
it's a storm
we're going through
a lot of turbulence
for people who can't see this he looks like he's masturbating two gentlemen i said luke you may
not respect me as a pilot but god damn it i've been doing podcasts on since the ipod times and
i've been fucking it's 10 episodes of a podcast in the in the nearly the 90s, all right? So respect me. No, I don't want to use the ILS approach.
I am going to do it manually.
Why are you sweating so much?
You did come across a bit Arthur Shelby then,
if you don't mind me saying.
Which one's Arthur Shelby?
Is he the...
The really angry one.
He used to be a ticket tout, didn't he?
Yeah.
I think he might be a troubled man in real life, you know.
I think if you've been a ticket...
I think ticket tout is like one of those jobs
that are about the same as selling car batteries in the pub.
You know what I mean?
It's this summing, it's something,
it's the nighttime economy,
even if they don't do it at night.
You know what I mean?
I once saw the greatest.
The sort of people who kind of have those little kind of bicycles
that take drunk men to strip clubs.
You know what I mean?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nighttime economy. I once saw, and this is actually, weirdly enough, those little kind of bicycles that take drunk men to strip clubs you know what I mean yeah yeah yeah there's that kind of thing night time economy
yeah I once saw and
this is actually
weirdly enough this
was outside an Iron
Maiden gig at
Twickenham Stadium
I once saw the
greatest fist fight
between two normal
people I'd ever seen
right it was two
ticket touts
what and they were
like what they were
connecting they were
doing oh it was
unbelievable it went
on for about five
minutes great quality
yeah yeah over the top of a car
Right
One chinned the other
Couple of good clean shots
Ironically some
Ironically people were
Selling tickets for it
They should have been
Yeah
It was because one of them
Was annoyed because the other one
Kept selling
Trying to tout
In his little
Zone
His little area
And he's like
I've got
This is my area
Interesting
Yeah
I guess you got
When you are
part of that um ticket ticket reselling economy that uh the big companies have decided they want
to slice off um thank you very much i think i think you have to be a bit tasty don't you you
have to sort of defend your area yeah they're like proper i think they're i mean with the
greatest respect proper ruffians they're yeah they are wrong and so yeah anyway all i remember
is one of them shouting at the other,
get off Witton Road!
Get off Witton Road!
Get off Witton Road!
And the other one's going,
hump to bump!
Yeah.
Exactly.
Right, on that note,
we've got to go.
We'll be back on Monday though.
Actually, we've got an email
from Pilot Neil.
Yes!
Which I'll do on Monday.
He knows about ALS Approaches
and Yorks.
I'm not sure he mentions it
in his email
because I haven't read it yet
but I saw it drop
in the inbox and
I'm bloody excited
for it
talk to us about
Vector's pilot
Neil
alright we'll be
back on Monday
where we'll be
humping and
bumping da bump
I will be
spending my
weekend thinking
about what I've
done
Luke is going to
be thinking about
what I've done as
well
we'll see you on
Monday
always
see you then
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