The Luke and Pete Show - Another million lost
Episode Date: June 20, 2022What do the people who go on Love Island and Question Time have in common? That is the question Pete is answering on today’s show and the fact he doesn’t respect them is only one part of it…Else...where, Luke FINALLY reads the email about motorcycle greetings and a listener tells us about an interesting meeting he had with Paul Daniels in a toilet.Want to contact the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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One thing I would say about you, Peter, is that you always smell very nice.
Okay.
And you're going to take this the wrong way.
Yeah.
So try and limit your reaction to it.
I don't know if people would necessarily expect that.
That's fair.
But you do always smell really nice.
I look like Pigpen of Snoopy.
I just don't think you look like someone who gives a shit about that kind of thing.
Right.
And then when you do,
it's a really pleasant surprise,
which I think in many ways
is helping to elevate
the pleasure.
Elevate the product.
And how nice you smell.
And also,
the lasering off of the
sweat glands
and all that kind of stuff,
because you used to get
a good old sweat patch going on.
Yeah, but I never,
well, so I looked smelly,
but I didn't smell smelly.
That's what I'm saying.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
So I think people
would say the same about me.
Like, quite unkempt. Well, you're wearing a
t-shirt and a shirt on the top to protect you.
Yeah, but I don't sweat, do I? Famously, I don't really sweat.
Famously, you don't sweat. I'm not quite
cricketer Alistair Cook, who
never sweats, apparently. Good celebrity
shoes. Yeah, exactly.
But I'm
not really much of a sweater.
So there's not as much chance for the sweat to dry
and therefore smell,
particularly in the orifices and crevices of my body.
Rory, shut the studio door.
Let's make a hot box.
Salute and Pete Shaw.
Sweet beans.
Sweet beans.
Pete Donaldson and Luke Moore with you doing what we do kind of best.
It's the third best thing we do. For me, it's very difficult for me to be honest with myself about what I do do best.
Yeah.
You'd be writing a very short list
and then sort of...
Yeah.
And I'm down on it at the moment
because we're having the bathroom done,
which makes me feel beyond useless, right?
Hocky-toe.
So I'm like,
I'll look at the Bulgarian builder
and I'll think to myself,
how on earth is he going to do that?
How on earth is he going to turn this bathroom
into something beautiful?
It's just a tile.
It's just a tile.
He just mixes up some adhesive,
puts it down, gets his spirit level out, and sticks it down. Sticks the tile it's just a tile he just mixes up some adhesive puts it down
gets his spirit level
out and sticks it
down
sticks the tile
and I go oh yeah
well you can put
one down
I reckon we could
both do one
it's just fitting
them in with all
of the others
when you get to
the edges it's
the problem
isn't it
definitely
get yourself a
little tile cutter
yeah I'm also
asking like really
shit questions
the tile cutters
are amazing by the
way because you
think they're going
to be a lot more
involved than they are. It's just
a blade brother. But it just
does like a crease in the tile and they
just snap it. I think that's
to me that's really exciting because it's like
dangerous. Right. It could snap anywhere.
Do you not spend ages
in like B&Q just
wandering around the different tools that you can buy?
Imagine what it's like Pete. No I don't do that
because I can't use any of them.
But imagine what it's like doing some kind of refurbishment
to my house when I'm in.
Right, okay.
Because you're quite chatty, aren't you?
Yeah.
You never get anything done.
Mimi told me off last week for being too overbearing.
Because I'm just genuinely interested.
Yeah.
If someone said there was a problem with your overbearings
in your house, I'd be like, oh, trouble.
Exactly.
I panicked.
I was like, can't do that
but the thing
that's particularly
frustrating for those
guys working
is that
I want to talk
about everything
but then they'll
just say
okay mate
and then they'll
think oh
he's into this
and good on him
it's great to have
him around
because he knows
his stuff
and then they'll go
do me a favour
he just popped down and turned the water off and I'll go, do me a favour, mate. You just go and pop down
and turn the water off.
And I'll go, no.
I don't even know
what that looks like.
So I can't do that.
Turn the tap on
and turn the tap off.
It's off.
Yeah.
Is it?
I can't do it.
Do you know where
your stopcock is?
Yeah, I do now.
I don't think I know
where mine is,
which is a terrible bit
of oversight from me.
But I think most people
are the same.
I think it's under the stairs.
Ours is outside.
Where the mice are.
Oh.
Yeah, you have to go downstairs,
put up the cover
and put it around
with a little tool.
I just need to know
everything about my house.
I've spent most of Saturday
drilling and re-screwing in
some decking.
Some of my decking is kind of a bit wonk.
It gets very wet, obviously, and then it dries,
and then the wood starts to warp a little bit.
So I'm just sort of constantly just going...
Who did it the first time, then?
Oh, I don't know.
Whoever was in the house before.
Was it a bit of a shit job?
I don't think it was a shit job.
They'd just been kicking around for a while.
And it's just one of those things where it's like,
I cannot afford new decking.
I just can't.
What is it, really?
It's only about 10
planks of wood
isn't it
some screws
yeah but I just
think the joists
that they're screwed
into are a bit rotten
I've got an idea
what
what room in your
house do you use
the least
well just
get the floorboards
up
that's what I was
doing with the
picket fence outside
because some of
the slats there
are rotten
so I'm pulling
off the slats
from around the
corner
and repositioning them in the front.
Like a green grosser.
Do you live in a haunted house?
A little bit, yeah.
Do you live in that house with Stranger Things, season four?
You don't know because you haven't only watched a couple of episodes.
I saw the Kate Bush song and I was like,
oh, I have to go and buy that.
I saw a brilliant, I'm going to say,
contribution online from someone the other day about that.
Saying like, I can't remember the exact details, but it was along the lines of they were doing the usual thing that probably we used to be like when we were kids as well.
About how you love a certain type of music, but then you get a little bit insecure when other people start liking it.
Yeah, okay.
When it becomes popular or whatever.
It's quite a common trope, as I'm sure you know.
And this person was kicking off about how people
start to get into Kate Bush because of Stranger Things.
Right.
But then they accidentally included the detail
that they'd been listening to Kate Bush since, quote,
at least 2004.
But I think there, they're just trying to make sure
that everyone knows that they're young.
You know what I mean?
Oh, it's a double hit.
I'm cool, but I'm also still young. You know what I mean? Oh, they go, it's a double hit. Yeah, so they can't.
I'm cool, but I'm also still young.
Yeah, they cannot get,
they need everyone to know that they're still young
and that they're working really hard
to educate themselves musically.
I remember at Cape Bush,
do you remember when she came back
and did those couple of gigs?
Yes, I do.
About the town.
It was Hammersmith Apollo, I think.
Yes.
And I remember I was on air at the time
and Danny Baker was doing jokey tweets.
Right. On Twitter. Don't get into too Danny Baker was doing jokey tweets on Twitter.
Don't get into too much detail about his jokey tweets.
He loves a jokey tweet.
That went awry, we should say.
He was saying that he was at the gig and he kept on telling lies about what was happening.
Oh, David Bowie's just turned up.
And I was on the radio going, David Bowie's just turned up.
You've got to suck it in.
Absolutely.
A reputable news source.
I'm in sync, just reading out stuff.
I'll say anything.
You know that back in the day,
and that's part of the reason why I think the BBC
don't really break that many stories still now,
although maybe that's a bit out of date.
Back in the day, it was like the common practice.
You had to get another source to stand the story up.
But now, because of the internet and stuff,
people are just rushing to break stuff.
Because I think what happens is people think a lot of misinformation is about the algorithms a source to stand the story up. Yeah. But now, because of the internet and stuff, people are just rushing to break stuff. That's how, that's part,
because I think what happens is
people think a lot of misinformation
is about the algorithms of social media,
which it is,
but also at the root of that,
no one does what we were taught
back in the day.
Yeah.
About how to responsibly stand up a story, right?
Or not we,
because I don't really do journalism,
but a lot of people I know did.
And so now you've got people rushing for stuff.
And what you've explained there
is fucking completely irrelevant
because it's only a Kate Bush thing,
but that is what actually
fucking happens.
Yeah.
Exactly that is what happens
all the time on the internet
and the internet now.
Yeah, and people,
reputable people,
just simply think that
if they tweet,
it's not really announcing anything.
It's just kind of...
Do you think there's an element
that older people just don't think
the internet's real,
so they don't give a shit about it?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And that's why people get caught
that's why that TV doctor
was embarrassing bodies
he got in trouble
for just randomly tweeting about
Dr Christian Jessop
I think it was him wasn't it
strange looking chap
I mean aren't we all
I'm not complaining
he's quite good looking isn't he
in a kind of robot-y way
I think he's got quite an odd manner
I think
odd manner
if you were
if he was your doctor
yeah and I think you he was your doctor,
and I think you would be like,
okay, he's a bit odd.
I guess they're all really good people that things are odd, maybe.
Yeah, I guess so, yeah.
Well, yes, he was facing bankruptcy.
Dr. Christian Jessen.
Jessen, that's it, not Jessup, yeah.
He had to pay a libel fee to Arlene Phillips
for some fucking reason.
He basically said that he tweeted
false allegations that Northern Ireland's First Minister
was having an extramarital affair.
That's Arlene Foster, isn't it?
Sorry?
Did I say Phillips?
Yeah, Arlene Phillips is the judge on Strictly Come Dancing.
I was like, this is fucking confusing.
Oh God, I've got one on my head now.
I've got one on my head now.
Yeah, but why is he getting involved in that?
I don't know why he's getting involved in any of it.
I don't know why he's getting involved in any of it.
So he was ordered to pay £125,000 in libel damages.
That's one spicy tweet, baby.
After having an extra...
Would you say that's a spicy meatball?
Legally, that's a spicy meatball.
Yeah.
If you are on the defence, you're going...
You're probably within your rights to go,
oh, come on, my lad.
One tweet, 125 bags on my lad one tweet
125 bags
it was one tweet
can you negotiate
is there a negotiation
probably not
probably not
that surely gets
broken down after all
are you really getting
120
mind you
he's a doctor
and he's on the telly
out of all the people
who could probably
afford it
in his defence
you're following a doctor
and I'm on the telly
and back in the 80s
that used to mean a lot.
Well he started to go fund me
to get some money.
I don't know why anybody
would pay him that money.
Because he broke the law.
Because he broke the law.
Why is he getting involved?
Why is he tweeting about
the First Minister of
Northern Ireland for crying out loud?
He's absolutely mad.
He won't be doing it again
for crying out loud.
Do you think he will do it again?
He might do it again.
I do want to talk about Kate Bush
because I think she's
an interesting character
but before we do
is it important to stress
and I kind of feel like it is
that for people our age
growing up
say when you're
old enough to know
a bit about the world
but not old enough
to know how it really works
say about 12 or whatever
how big a deal it was
to be on the telly
yeah
now everyone's on the telly
now you're probably really
technically you could argue,
I think,
in a kind of holistic way,
that because of mobile phones
and cameras
and the internet
and the platforms
that you've got access to,
everyone is on the telly.
I think it's harder
to get on the telly
as a person
who's going to get paid for it.
Now?
Yeah.
Because people would just do it.
Because people,
well,
you kind of,
to get a career in television,
you kind of have to have a bit of heat that you've built yourself.
So you've got to spend years and years curating a brand,
getting the numbers up, and then getting your spot on the telly, I think.
Yeah, I understand your point.
I don't necessarily even disagree with it.
But on the other hand, I think, I mean,
I caught a bit of question time on Thursday of last week.
That's not something I watch generally. Rory Stewart was on it, who I think I mean I caught a bit of question time on Thursday of last week that's not something I watch generally
Rory Stewart was on it
who I quite like
and find it quite interesting
so I caught a bit of it
was that the one
in Newcastle
yes
I think so
there was a kid on it
called Tom Harwood
who's this kind of
self-styled
almost like
is he the GB News kid
yeah
almost like
unfathomably arrogant
young parody
of a young
conservative yeah because they were good it was it was that little almost like unfathomably arrogant young parody of a young conservative
yeah because
they were good
it was
who's that little
twerp from
Sunderland Durham
sort of area
that's him isn't it
no no no
he's not from Durham
okay
you're thinking
oh you're Darren Grimes
Darren Grimes
I'm thinking Darren Grimes
so he's like Darren Grimes
but not as odd
more handsome
from public school
yeah yeah
so everyone thought
that Darren Grimes
was going to get a role on GB News.
That lad got the young fascist spot.
Crypto fascist spot, yeah.
And so he's on there,
and Grimesy was left behind.
Grimesy?
Grimesy was left behind.
Was he fuming?
Because apparently,
according to the GB News website,
Grimesy is a...
So he is now.
Oh, okay, right.
But I think a few people left.
So he had a tantrum, did he?
Yes.
I don't think he had a tantrum, but I think he just...
He thought that he was going to be on there.
They've gone down the list.
Yeah, exactly.
Anyway...
I think that...
The point I was going to make, yeah, the point I was going to make with young Tom Hartwood,
and I'm saying that because, not that you'll ever listen to this, but I think he hates being
called young.
I think, I thought to myself, I'm not saying I'm saying that because not that he'll ever listen to this but I think he hates being called young. I think,
I thought to myself,
I'm not saying I'm clever,
I'm not saying I,
you know,
I'm the barometer for this
but it's,
you know,
this is our show,
this is my opinion.
I was thinking to myself,
this to me is absolutely stunning
how clearly unintelligent this boy is
but he's still able to do this
on a flagship BBC show
and in the words of Bunk Morland from The Wire
it makes me sad
how far we've done Phil
do you know what I mean
so on one hand
you're right
but on the other hand
I suppose what then
rises to the top
are the people who will
just do anything
to be on telly
and whether they get
paid for it or not
and the BBC has a long
especially on Question Time
has a long sort of history
well recent history
of just platforming
any kook
who would just sort of
say something outrageous
for the sake of
eyes on
eyes on tweets
there's definitely
a school of thought
I know there's a lot of people
who
who are very angry
and they have been
for some time
about the BBC's role
in promoting
someone like Farage
like
and then there's
like a genuine
I've spoken to some interesting people about that
who are still, even now, very angry about it,
even though it was, what, seven, realistically,
what, eight years ago?
Because the Twitter tale is wagging the dog.
We think that tweets, popularity, retweets,
quote tweets, anger, gnashing, et cetera,
is good for the show.
It's good for people getting excited and wanting to watch the show.
It's not the case.
People will just sort of...
There'll be more people complaining about somebody being on a show
than actually watching it because of that person being on the show, I think.
You still enjoying Love Island, by the way?
Who's your favourite character in Love Island?
Oh, Bonkey.
Bonkey, he's good.
He's always bonking, that lad.
I can see why they call him Bonkey.
Weird about those swimming trunks he wears, though, isn't it?
I know, yeah.
It does not conceal his erection.
Completely made of elephant skin.
It's weird.
It's bizarre.
And the lesson about his fungal foot infection.
Oh, don't go swimming in that pool after him.
Did you think he was going to get with Bunty or not?
I just found it very bizarre that he managed to eat a whole telephone pole.
It was a weird challenge.
I thought he was never going to do it.
He's never going to do it, but he got to the end of it, didn't he?
Yeah, he did.
Darren Grimes
look at his picture
that's a picture he signed off
and I'm someone
you know what
and I know how this works
because as part of the ramble
as part of stack
I regularly get photos of me
that I don't even remember
being taken
put online
and I'm not happy with them
none as bad as that
I mean
I would never run out
of punches
it'd be a pleasure
to put my punches
on that little face,
to be honest.
No.
The disgusting left.
Isn't it?
And the disgusting violent.
Violent left.
Because your punches
are very weak.
They are very weak.
Oh dear.
Yeah.
Would you like Darren Grimes
in Love Island?
I think he'd get on
with everyone.
I know someone.
There are little Tories
in Bloody Love Island.
I know someone
who I'm not going to name
who was, had in theory the opportunity to go into Love Island
but was told that if he wanted to do it,
so he's a he, so he gives you a little bit of a clue,
he had to buff up.
Buff up, right.
And he couldn't be bothered.
And so he didn't do it.
And I find that interesting
because there's no normal people on it,
as far as I can see.
Well, it's almost like
Oscar season, isn't it?
You've got to campaign for it.
Have you really?
Is that how they do it now?
Yeah.
In what way?
They're all influencers, aren't they?
They've all got a bit of a following.
I thought they were like
just handsome firemen or something.
Handsome firemen!
No, they're all influencers, aren't they?
They've all got like, you know,
40,000 Instagram followers minimum.
I used to like it
when the internet was kind of nascent
and its relationship with television,
which was seen as the far more senior medium at the time,
was so kind of uneasy that it would be like,
I don't know, you'd get like, say Rylan, right?
Rylan, who was like really talented and really charismatic
and in my view, like a great presenter
and very self-aware as well.
He would be discovered just by turning up at Pop Idol or whatever.
Whatever the fuck it was.
But then people would say,
oh, no, actually, what happened was he had an agent,
and he'd do all this other stuff,
and he was on the short list for TOWIE and all the rest of it.
But back in the day, way before that,
people did used to get discovered, right?
Yeah.
Like the criminal with the mugshot was really handsome.
Remember him?
Well, I mean, he went through a different way, didn't he, I suppose.
I mean, the thing about
him is like, you hear
that story and you go,
oh, that's morally kind
of a little bit
questionable.
Fucking hell, he's
handsome.
Do you know what I
mean?
He is one of the most
handsome I've ever
seen.
And the lighting in
those booths is not
favourable either, is
it?
No, this is the mugshot
designed to make him
look like a criminal.
And he looks like
probably the most
handsome man I've ever seen
absolute bewer
yeah
what an absolute bewer
so yeah
I don't know what point
I'm trying to make
but anyway
he's horny
he's just horny on a Monday
would you like to see him
in a prison cell
with Darren Grimes
yes I would
yes I would
do you feel
Pete do you
what part of it here
let me ask you this question
because I think our listeners
will want to hear this
you'll say about people like Darren Grimes oh um you know you'll call him what you call him Pete, what part of it here? Let me ask you this question, because I think our listeners will want to hear this.
You'll say about people like Darren Grimes,
you'll call him what you call him,
and you'll use the word, for example,
to be a Tory as an insult, right?
And there might be some people listening to this show... Unrepentantly.
Yeah, but I'm going to ask you about that.
There might be some people listening to this show
who go, you know what?
I voted Conservative back in the day.
I'm not an unreasonable person.
I don't want people to be turned away
and drown in boats in another terrain. I vote Conservative back in the day. I'm not an unreasonable person. I don't want people to be turned away and drown in boats in the Mediterranean Sea.
I vote Conservative for whatever reason.
What do you say to those people?
What do I say to those people?
Well, the party's changed.
Catch up.
So you're unrepentant about saying
that you'd like Darren Grimes
to befall some kind of misfortune?
I'd let him hurt his ankle
because of the things he says.
Ankle's a big thing for you, isn't it?
It's the worst of the worst.
Yeah.
Speaking of like bad pictures
that you were talking about
a little bit earlier on
and Grimes' little face,
I was in a school...
It was weird that he was married
to Elon Musk as well,
by the way.
What?
Grimes.
Grimes, yeah, good stuff.
It's solid stuff.
Grimesy.
I saw Grimes DJ
at Primaveritive Sound last weekend
and it was a
fucking bismal
carry on
now
which one
it wasn't
Darren Grimes
it wasn't
Darren Grimes
I think if
Darren Grimes
it was Darren Grimes
he'd probably
play some bangers
he'd probably
play some Abba
some fucking
party stuff
you don't want it
why
because he's gay
no because
he's been dancing
you can imagine
he's very uncool
right
I could see him
I could see him I could see him
being like a
yeah like a cheesy
I don't even know
if I knew he was gay
disco DJ
anyway carry on
I'm just thinking
about Darren Graham's
DJ
you wouldn't want
to use those decks
after him
that's all I'm saying
he's not an absolute
is he
no he's not
is that a joke
about him having a wank
yeah
so on Friday
I was in a
in a school.
A friend of ours
needed a bit of help
with the careers day
at their school.
Yeah, I heard about this.
So I took a mic in
and basically,
there was me,
Jeff Banks,
the fashion designer,
a fireman,
a policeman,
an insurance underwriter,
weirdly.
Or walking to a bar.
Or walking to a bar. Or walk into a bar.
They were all in the school of the career stage,
basically telling the kids what they do for work
and what they might want to do when they get older.
Nice.
I is...
What the fuck were you doing there?
I know.
A podcast creator.
Is that...
People are so into podcasts now,
they want schools to...
No, they just run out of people to begin, didn't they?
Right, fair enough.
Use the story, yeah.
So I went down, got me like...
So I said, instead of explaining what I'll do,
I'll just come down with a microphone,
we'll make our own little podcast in the hour that we've got
with the two classes, and we'll create a little podcast.
I said it all about.
That's really nice.
It was a fun, really, really fun afternoon.
It really was.
But these are the pictures that they've,
they've taken some screenshots of me,
of me clapping,
of me doing some teaching in the classroom.
You look great.
That's not so great.
I look like I'm having an aneurysm or something.
Was it an enjoyable experience?
It was enjoyable.
At one point, I got the kiss. Were they naughty boys?
It was like a...
He was just being brilliantly disruptive.
Was he behavioural problems or something? No. How did you deal with it? No, he didn't have behavioural problems. He was just being brilliantly disruptive was he behavioural problems or something
no
how did you deal with it
no he didn't
he was just being
a little shit
and I was like
good
every class needs
a little shit
yeah
I loved it
give an example
of the names
he called you
he didn't
direct his ire at me
but he kicked
a couple of bags
threw a couple of bags
against the wall
he was very angry
oh I'm sad
I missed it
that sounds great
Rory bleep his name, mate.
Yeah.
But the funny thing that made me laugh was
the...
I could tell a story.
I had one section, I got the kids
to interview their teacher.
And come up with some questions
for the teacher.
A lot of them was
trying to out the teacher. A lot of the kids were just trying to out the teacher. And of them was trying to out
the teacher
a lot of the kids
were just trying to
out the teacher
and I was like
yeah
they're not going in there
they're not going in the show
so they've got to edit it out
it's the most offensive
podcast I've recorded
in five years
in a school
you've got a lot of experience
editing out shit
I know right
Peter
let's have a quick break
when we come back
I really
I think our listeners
based on the response to our, I think our listeners,
based on the response to our shows last week,
our listeners really want an update on one or two things.
So we'll get to that after this break. Lovely.
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Welcome back to the Luke and Pete show
with myself, Luke, and that man
there, that gentleman there who's caressing
a bottle of
room temperature diet coke,
which is allowed in the studio because, of course, it contains no sugar.
I didn't think there was a
I mean, people don't seem to listen to the rules anyway,
so mine's got a top on it.
I think that's the important thing.
I was here when the studio was built,
and I was given a very stern talking to by the chap
who signed the whole thing off,
saying do not allow any sugar in the studio.
I've stuck to it.
If other people haven't, that's their problem.
What about your sweetness in your body?
You can't...
I said to him,
we are going to be having quite a lot of sweet beans,
but we'll try and replace the sugar with aspartame or some kind of other
sweetener.
Um,
Peter,
um,
the lady whose hand famously fell off.
Right.
Okay.
Any updates?
Not seen her since,
to be honest.
I think it's,
you've,
you've made a little bit too much out of this.
I haven't,
I haven't made enough of it.
People emailed in about it
someone emailed in
saying
someone tweeted
saying
what's your issue Luke
you can clearly
lose a hand
just because it's
contained within the skin
it's fine
someone said
it was
Adam Walker said
it's called degloving
but it's not called
degloving
that's when the skin
comes off
if anything
it's gloved too well
yeah that's what Dan over gloved if anything Dan replied saying degloving. It's not called de-gloving. Because that's when the skin comes off, isn't it? If anything, it's gloved too well. Yeah, that's what Dan...
Over-gloved, if anything.
Dan replied saying de-gloving is when the skin is removed like a glove.
Yeah, weirdly enough.
It sounds like a full wrist dislocation, but don't Google image it.
I think I haven't made enough of it.
I think that a woman fell over and broke her wrist,
and you decide to frame that in a strange, strange way.
That's how she described it to me.
I think...
So if...
Didn't Lars Votten,
didn't he do
his Tib and Fib?
Yes.
Isn't that technically
he's lost a foot?
I think he'd be very surprised
to know that.
I've seen the photos of Lars
in the hospital bed
and he's just got a broken leg.
Oh.
I haven't actually heard from him since.
I hope he's okay.
Oh God.
He called me,
he called me on the Saturday,
I think,
on morphine,
saying,
quote,
he wasn't sure if he'd be in on Monday.
And I've literally not heard from him since.
I said, don't come in on Monday.
Do not come in on Monday.
Right?
And I haven't heard from him since.
I hope he's okay.
Earlier on, Peter, we were talking about Kate Bush.
I really like Kate Bush.
Do you like her?
Okay, is that controversial?
Do you like her?
Yeah, I'm not...
I mean, I've only heard a few songs, to be honest.
I think she's really, really good,
and I think people should give her more respect.
Right.
And she's not helped herself by being a recluse,
a total recluse.
Didn't Alan Park, didn't Steve Coogan,
when he sang the, did he sing a Kate Bush medley?
He did.
No, me, no, you are one of them.
Kate Bush phoned him, I think, and said,
thank you, I met for coffee.
And sort of said, so I don't think she's a full recluse.
I think she met Stephen King for a coffee and thanked him for singing her music so well.
And he was like, I was taking the piss.
Are you suggesting that Kate Bush isn't a recluse
because not enough people are remembering to ring her?
Yeah, give her a ring.
I'm not a recluse.
She's the phone never rings.
No one asks me to do anything. Give her a ring for crying out ring. I'm not a recluse. She used to phone, never ring. No one asked me to do anything.
Give her a ring for crying out loud.
I did hear that story, yeah.
And I think she's quite eccentric.
I think she's probably not someone who's massively,
or she certainly wasn't at the time,
massively plugged into the Matrix,
the popular stuff.
Yeah.
So I think maybe she just thought
he was some kind of light entertainer or something.
But anyway, I think she's great.
I think it's good that they used
that music
that Run Up The Hill
song to kind of
open her music up
to a whole new
generation of fans
and it's a measure
of how sad
my life is now
that when I heard
and you'll be a bit
like this as well
when I heard the music
Run Up The Hill
and Stranger Things
I use it so much
I wonder how much
it cost to get
the sync on that
yeah
I think with...
Nowadays, though, you can...
Chris Broughton,
he licensed, I think, Wild Boys from...
Not Spandau, Bali.
Who sang Wild Boys?
Duran Duran.
Duran Duran.
You can license tracks now for...
It's a good chunk.
It's 150 quid,
but it's still quite affordable for YouTube videos.
For YouTube videos, yeah.
But obviously for telly.
Do you know who's got
the best YouTube channel?
Who?
Justin Hawkins from The Darkness.
Mate, I've already said,
mate, I'm all over it.
It's so good.
I recommended that like five months ago, man.
It's great.
Get on the,
get on the dog pile.
I'm on it now, it's great.
He just,
he has a pull short these days
for reviewing like old hands,
old singers
like you know
Jon Bon Jovi
yeah yeah
and David Coverdale
and stuff and
reviewing their
terrible performances
he could not bring
himself to criticise
Axl Rose
did you see that
at any point
he dressed like Axl Rose
for the video
and could not bring
him to criticise him
at any point
which I actually
really like
the thing I like
about his channel
is it's so positive
and he's so
knowledgeable
he'll do this thing for those of you who don't know who he is,
he's the lead singer of The Darkness,
who were a big band about 20 years ago,
like a glam rock kind of metal band.
And he will, his thing,
he's got a lot of different things he does on his channel,
but one thing he does that I particularly like
is he will play a song, a new song, for the first time,
and then he'll break it down.
Yes.
But he's so good at it.
He's honestly so good at it.
I can't believe that he hasn't done a load more prep than he clearly hasn't, because
I saw him review a Red Hot Chili Peppers song, and he just was able just to play it in about
10 seconds and work out what it was and the key it was in and all the rest of it.
I just thought it was very good.
Yeah.
It's very enjoyable watching proper musicians
do proper music
he's got a lot of charisma
as well hasn't he
he's naturally very charismatic
and up until that
YouTube channel
the last time I saw him
and I think I mentioned
this to you at the time
was when he got
he lost out on
the Eurovision entry
oh that's right
and he stormed off the stage
he had a real tantrum about it
which I fucking thought
was funny
and I didn't judge him
for it at all
but anyway
apparently he's coming in
to do Jack's show at some point.
Oh, lovely.
Hopefully I can meet him.
That'd be really nice.
I've met Nikolas before.
Have you really?
What's he like?
He said,
he should come and play
for our football team.
Why didn't you then?
Never did.
Because I cannot
bring myself to
base myself on
trying to make new friends.
Yeah, okay.
I find it very difficult.
At all or just in that environment? Just in. Yeah, okay. I find it very difficult. At all, or just in that environment?
Just in that environment,
anywhere, really.
You've got a lot of neighbourhood friends
in your new place now.
I'm forced into that, I suppose.
But yeah,
I cannot turn
a casual interviewee relationship
into something more.
That's how the media industry works,
though, isn't it?
Well, some people manage it.
Some people happily manage it.
I think there was a time in my life
as if he had said that to me,
I would have been there.
I would have fucking gone. Yeah, turned up at he had said that to me I would have been there I would have fucking gone turned up
with soccer head
hello
I would have loved it
I also noticed Pete
that you're wearing
kind of the shoes
that old people wear now
because they can't bend over
and do their shoelaces up
is that a kind of
common
boat shoes
sort of boat-ish
kind of shoes
I guess
no
they're not boat shoes
they're slip-on loafers
I thought boat shoes were slip-on loafers. Are boat shoes
a slip-on loafers?
Did you get them
in the back of a catalogue?
They look like,
I'm not being rude,
I mean,
you're one of those people
who can get away
with wearing pretty much anything,
but they look like
you got them
in the back of a catalogue.
If I was wearing no socks,
would it be okay?
I think it would be.
I think it would be,
you know.
It's hard to picture.
I think if they were
boat shoes with no socks,
I think it would be
2016 called
they wouldn't know
if I can look back
but look
I'm wearing the classic
Vans pumps mate
yeah
I mean the problem
with that kind of colour
as well though
is that you're just
constantly worried about
just constantly throwing them
in the washing machine
with a lot of bleach
to get the dirt out
I've never once done that
you've never once done that
do people put bleach
in the washing machine
yeah you've never lived mate
you've never lived
fuck you now
alright let's do an email
I really want to catch up
on this email
because it's been a long time
coming
do it
and it's from Jason in Missouri
he was emailed
hello at lukeandpeacher.com
you are also welcome to do so
we'd love to hear from you
perhaps you've got an opinion
on Kate Bush
or Justin Hawkins
or Grimesy
or
Grimesy
what do you reckon Grimesy's
up to right now
well
wanking
10.30
not that what do you think he's up to right now I Well, 10.30. Not that.
What do you think he's up to right now?
I don't know,
probably...
What kind of character do you think
he is away from all the politics stuff?
I think he's probably just having a cup,
I think he's probably just having
a cup of tea,
three sugars,
and just staring at the little distance
in his bed set.
Yeah.
I think he's...
Do you think,
if you,
so say for example,
you just moved to a new...
Aye,
what terrible shit am I going to say today?
Do you think it's that calculated, though?
You've got to be, surely.
Yeah.
What can I have an issue with now?
What can I take umbrage with?
If you moved to where you move to now,
and you were doing your thing,
and the partner you had access to,
which I'm sure did happen,
forced you into speaking to the neighbours,
and you knocked on the door of the next door neighbour
immediately next to you... It was grimezy. Yeah. How do you think you'd react? I'd be like, well, I'm better at happen, forced you into speaking to the neighbours. Yeah. And you knocked on the door of the next door neighbour immediately next to you.
It was grimezy.
Yeah.
How do you think you'd react?
I'd be like,
well, I'm better at DIY than you, probably.
Opening down there.
Your big wet blanket.
Because it's a bit of a Tory hotbed
where you live, isn't it?
Yeah, a little bit, yeah.
So it could happen.
It could happen.
Anyway, Jason from Missouri,
you've been very patient,
even though you're not actually on the line.
Just an old radio thing to say.
He said,
apparently according to the very passive-aggressive producer Rory,
in brackets,
Luke has mentioned this email a couple of times on the show,
implying that I've never actually got around to reading it out.
So I am going to read it out now.
Jason says, hello, Luke and Pete.
Long-time listener, first-time emailer.
I've been listening to the backlog of your shows at work,
starting from episode one, and it's only taken about two months.
Now, I'm not sure if that is a dig at us.
Probably is. It's so easy to listen.
Or that it's just Jason saying how much he loves the show,
which we're very grateful for.
Recently, you were discussing with Vish
about whether Honda Jazz owners had a jazz hands greeting.
They were due to each other.
You also mentioned that motorcyclists would nod to each other as a greeting.
Here in the US, and I do believe also some places overseas,
the universal motorcyclist greeting is to make a peace sign inverted.
So with two fingers pointing down towards the ground.
So do you want to have a go at doing that, Pete?
Okay, yeah.
Like that, yeah.
Little yellow pages fingers.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Which apparently means keep two wheels down.
Right, why is that then?
Keep up the good work and I hope to be completely caught up very soon Jason
from Missouri.
Don't do wheelies.
There's no further
explanation provided.
I saw a guy doing
a big wheelie on a
motorbike all the way
down.
I was thinking
they call people
who work in triage
and casually they
call motorcycles
like organ donations
and stuff.
Do that fuck.
But this guy was
being very dangerous.
I think that it's
this is not an opinion
I ever had when I was a kid and's this is not an opinion I've ever
had when I was a
kid and it certainly
isn't an opinion I
would have had when
I had my little
moped that I was
scooting around on
but as I'm older
now and I haven't
even got kids but I
think that the
using of motorbikes
and like built up
areas in the middle
of the night is
quite poor form.
Yeah but nobody
I've not heard one
in a very very long
time.
So I'd let him do it,
but only if it was a wheelie, baby.
If you had two wheels down,
like Jason says,
and you're doing that
in an inner city built up area
in the mid-day after 10 o'clock,
I'd be dishing out fines.
I was sat in a restaurant
in town.
It wasn't even,
it was like,
it was a pedestrianised area as well,
so I don't really understand
what he was doing. But I was in, it was a pedestrianised area as well, so I don't really understand what he was doing.
But I was in, just off Carnaby Street, this restaurant,
and this guy decided to put his back wheel on the front step of the restaurant
and just fucking start burning rubber.
What restaurant was this?
It was just near, oh, Zabrano's, you know, the bar,
like club sort of thing, just off Carnaby Street.
There's a restaurant next door.
And this guy, Spanish guy, just started revving and burning rubber.
And it filled the restaurant with smoke.
I don't know what he was trying to achieve.
Was it called Zabranos?
Yeah.
I think I've got a feeling that might even be the restaurant that young Amy just started working at.
Really? Zabranos?
She might have been there.
There's two of them.
There's Soho and then there's one
in Carnaby Street.
So it's probably Carnaby Street
because that's more
of a restaurant-y place.
I'm going to ask her
after this.
She mentioned it to me
the other day.
Anyway,
another email here
that we are going to squeeze in.
It's entitled
Celebrity Toilet Meetings,
which of course
has piqued my interest.
It's from Luke who says,
Hi guys, several years ago while working as a runner
for a small production company in East London,
I was taking a waz and a freshly painted urinal
when none other than Mr. Magic himself,
Paul Daniels, strides in.
You know Paul Daniels Peter, remember him?
And this has piqued my interest because
obviously sometimes we're a bit controversial.
But the great thing is,
as you've mentioned there,
you can do a load of euphemisms
about his magic wand.
He's also, he's dead.
We can't get in trouble for it, can we?
We cannot get in trouble for it.
Not that we would be disrespectful
about the dead, of course.
Anyway, Paul Daniels walks in.
Confrontedly taking the uranus next to me,
the long dead conjurer now
turns his head slightly towards mine.
The eyes remain focused on the painted wall ahead
and took in a long, slow breath of air.
He then said, another million lost?
The sound of piss running against the white porcelain filled the room
and I said, hmm, sorry?
He turned around, fully making eye contact,
and said, that's another million lost?
And I said, oh yeah?
What's that then?
Millions lost?
Okay.
Now shaking his head disappointment,
Paul Damon says,
could have made millions with a business painting walls.
And I said, oh yeah, you're right.
You could have made loads.
Move quickly to wash my hand.
He continued, the millions lost having a business painting walls
that was never meant to be.
To which I said, okay, see you later.
To make things more awkward,
I had to greet Paul and the lovely Debbie McGee
at the office reception
and offer them a hot beverage
soon afterwards
be interested to know
if any listeners
have had a more rubbish encounter
with a famous celebrity
now is Paul Daniels
trying to make a joke there
so Paul Daniels
what thought of doing a
what
he's basically going on
the old pull back reveal joke
where he goes
another million lost
to get your interest
and he's trying to say
something funny
yeah
by saying I should have
made millions painting walls because what he's saying is there something funny by saying I should have made millions
painting walls
because what he's saying
is there are walls everywhere
so there's so many to paint
I could have made loads of money
it's like a dad joke
very metal
meta isn't it
it's a 10.30pm
at a wedding uncle joke
isn't it
with the young'uns
you've got a few beers
inside you
to get the confidence
and the thing
that disappoints me
about this email
is that
he could have used one of his Paul... He could have used one of his...
Paul Daniels could have used
one of his catchphrases.
I'm going to piss,
but not a lot.
Yeah.
Paul Daniels' catchphrase,
I think,
is actually very good,
which is,
you'll like this,
and people go,
all right,
and then you go,
not a lot,
but you'll like it.
I think that's quite self-explicating.
It's quite fun.
Yeah.
And he's got a lot about him,
Daniels.
If you watch back
of the old Devolt videos,
he's very good.
He's obviously odd,
which plays into it,
and he's quite funny. So he's let himself down there. Paul Daniels used to have these watched back of the old Devolt videos he's very good he's obviously odd which plays into it and he's quite funny
he's let himself
down there
Paul Daniels used to
have like these mad
kind of magicians
and puppet masters
from all around the
world every single
Saturday
it was prime time
Saturday night
the biggest show
on television
back when Saturday
night on telly
everyone used to
watch it
it used to be a
proper country
and then sometimes
you'd just have
these really spooky
French puppeteers
on for like
five minutes of just dour, fucking black and white avant-garde puppetry.
So that stuff is a really, really big deal in France.
I've got a friend of mine who goes, he's really into it.
And he goes with his family.
They have once a year around the South Bank somewhere, they have all these French guys that have been doing this for generations and generations
come over and they have a little festival.
My mate goes every year.
And it's seen as a really respected art thing in France.
As it should be.
But over here on Paul Daniel's show,
you're not expecting it.
You're not expecting it.
People have grown up on Bill and Ben.
I remember when he started one show by singing
Thank goodness for little girls.
What, Paul Daniels did?
Paul Daniels did.
He just did a whole song.
Was it on the BBC?
Yes.
Yeah.
Troubling, isn't it?
It's very, very, very troubling indeed.
Anyway, let's get out of here.
Let's wrap up just by saying that Paul Daniels used to have a quiz show
called Every Second Counts.
What, it didn't do Countdown as well?
No, one more time.
Yeah, one called Every Second Counts. With the a countdown as well no one more time yeah one called Every Second Counts
with the little
yellow pyramids
on the front
and that was the
first time in my life
that I realised
what anxiety was
that is the first
thing in life
that gave me anxiety
it was awful
I was only a young boy
as well
anyway let's get out of here
we'll be back on Thursday
for more of this
we'll do some of your
battery brands as well
have a lovely week
been great talking to you
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