The Luke and Pete Show - Do you believe in ghosts?
Episode Date: August 24, 2023Pete recently went on a ghost hunt. Although it sounds like he spent more time playing with tech than he did hunting ghosts, as you’d expect.In yet more predictable news, Luke’s fuming because his... neighbour is once again using a traffic cone to save their parking space and a listener tells us about a bar in Madrid that is quite literally nuts.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's the Luke and Pete show
I'm Pete Donaldson
and I'm joined by
Mr. Lukey Moore
and it's a Thursday
so that means
Battery Brands Boys
and Braziers
I'm sorry I didn't read
I didn't get that
Did you not read that
in the briefs as well?
Batteries Boys Bras bras and briefs.
Should we do an episode only talking about things that are bee?
Yes.
Start with bees.
They're delicious.
No, they're not delicious.
Don't eat bees.
Do not eat the bees.
The things they make are delicious.
Yeah.
The things they make.
Yeah.
I mean, I would say that if you discovered bees,
obviously the human versus bee
sort of interaction
has stuck.
Could you not bend that,
make that headphone thing?
Cable,
I'll just chew on it.
I know,
you can't chew it
like a little rat boy.
I won't get an electric shock
from it,
will I?
Yes.
Okay,
I'll stop there.
My bank account
will get a shock
because I've got to buy them.
If people had to answer
a poll,
either you or me,
that was eating cables in the studio
that's definitely me
and to be honest
if I'm going to eat it
I really eat it
you just give it
a little bend
a little twist
otherwise the devil
makes work for these
arduous hands.
I'm going to give you
a little stress toy.
I love those little
executive stress toys
you can buy here and there.
You don't get them
anymore do you?
No you do
but they've become
incredibly expensive
like £100 fidget spinners and stuff for executive yeah all this kind of like slidey stuff. You used to give them away for free they're like no you do but they've become incredibly expensive like a hundred pound
fidget spinners
and stuff
what
yeah all this
kind of like
slidey stuff
you used to give them
away for free
in like little
goof bags
before
people would make
you sound like
you were drunk then
you used to give them
away in goof bags
before
before times
you'd have to sit
for a terrible
training day
presentation
from some terrible
company
at the end you'd get like a stress ball terrible training day presentation from some terrible company.
At the end, you'd get like a stress ball.
Squitchy.
So why are they so expensive now? Do you remember those ones that were like an upturned top hat and a pink ball with like nodules coming out of it, like tits?
No.
Do you remember?
No.
They were like, they looked like a torso and an upturned...
With a dimpled head.
Kind of, yeah.
But you don't see them around anymore,
but they were very,
I think just sand and water,
innit,
in a latex bag or something.
Delicious.
Anyway,
um,
looky me,
um,
I went on a ghost hunt,
on Friday.
Who with?
Uh,
my partner,
I have access to,
and her ghosts,
and my ghosts,
and, uh, her friend who introduced
us to the very idea.
It was, it was in.
I can't be, I couldn't be happier about this.
Can I tell you what?
I'm absolutely delighted to hear how this went.
It was.
There's no way before you say anything, I don't know anything about this.
You just sprung this on me.
Yeah.
Can I just say say there's no way
that any of this
is going to end well
for one reason or another
this is going to be a disaster
so please carry on
it was
brilliant in some ways
quite dull
in other ways
and long
in every way
yeah because my friend did one
he said it went on for like
8 hours
why does it need to be 6
it was
we got that nine,
didn't leave the
Kelvedon nuclear bunker
until three in the morning.
And who was the,
who was the leader
of the hunt?
It was three people
from Essex.
Out of work actors?
I wish there was
some acting involved
to be honest.
They were very much
down the Derek Acora
common man in a bomber jacket kind of vibe
rather than who, I mean...
Did they sincerely believe?
I think they sincerely believed.
Okay.
In between all of the presumably jiggery-pockery
that they're inventing themselves.
The reason I ask that, Pete,
is just because I get quite a lot of stick from you
on and off the record
about my interest in UFOs.
Yeah.
And now you're doing ghost hunts
and expecting me not to give you shit for it.
Yeah.
Well, it was just a...
I very much enjoyed it, right?
I thought it was a great night.
It didn't need to be 3am
because the thing about a bunker is
you can't see outside.
You could do it at 2 in the afternoon
if you wanted to.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah, just turn the lights off.
Ghosts are more likely to come out at night.
Ghosts are more likely to come out at night
ghosts are more likely
to come out at night
why?
who knows
because you know
people are more likely
to be inebriated
aren't they
to see them
but it was a lot of fun
and I basically
got to walk around
some absolutely
primor
dumb terminal
commodore action
in the
nuclear bunker
by myself
nobody's watching what I'm doing
and I'm just fucking pressing stuff.
This is Jack Five for them.
He's just looking at the tech.
So we got
taken to four or five
different rooms, right? And they did all the
usual kind of Ouija boards, spinner table
kind of stuff. You sort of see it
ghost on screen. But is it made clear that it's just an
entertainment thing?
No, no, no, no.
It's very much like... Are there a lot of women
that are of a certain age?
Men and women quite young,
to be honest.
Oh, right.
And to be honest,
and I would say that,
you know,
because I don't necessarily believe,
it's hard for me to...
I can't criticise
because a lot of people...
You don't necessarily...
You don't believe.
A lot of people
got a hell of a lot out of it
and like, fuck me, like's that's worth it right but i my needs have to be respected as well
so if uh so i have a different opinion no um but like it was just really good and and so they took
us out four or five different rooms right and they did hold your hands
and then somebody
will talk to a ghost
and I'm like
I'm tired
it's 12 o'clock
and I'm tired
I just want to go to sleep
and a bottle of whiskey
and a bottle of whiskey
you weren't allowed
to drink
Dad!
Dad!
Pete your dad's still alive
he's still alive
but
so all the ghost hunting
side of the thing
it wasn't really for me
and I knew it wasn't going to be.
But they did just let you do what you want.
Yeah, it was great.
And so I just wonder, at one point,
everyone's doing a seance or whatever,
and I just go next door,
and because it was an old nuclear bunker,
there's a lot of beds around in the sickbay.
So I'm just lying down next to these.
Is it a disused thing?
Yeah, it's a museum now
right
but it's one of those
museums that's not
really kept up with
modern museum
kind of stuff
so it is just
it's kind of been left
what it was left like
in like the early 80s
or whenever it closed down
like it's proper
like rough stuff
yeah
and it's not really been
it's not really a
sort of modernised
museum facility which is really nice there's not really a sort of modernised museum facility
which is really nice
there's no security cameras
and I just went to sleep
for ten minutes
in a bed
that's not been
slept in presumably
since like
you know
some Cub Scouts
well I thought
it was going to be
but tiredness
took over me
could I just be clear
the Cub Scouts
weren't still
the Cub Scouts
were not there
and as you left
did you have a little
whisper in the organiser's ear
and go
when you go in there
in a minute
just want you to know
ghost did that
it was ectoplasm
it wasn't me
it was ectoplasm
so how many buttons
did you press
that's how you judge
a good night
yeah yeah
how many buttons
I got to press
I walked around
so many
because there was
stuff like
kind of like
velvet roped off
so I said
don't go down
this computer bit
and I'm just
fucking going down
because there's no
security cameras
and I'm just
walking around
I went in the
generator room
two big fucking
Rolls Royce
turbine motherfuckers
I went to like
the operations room
with all the maps
on the clear
perspex walls
and stuff like that
it was brilliant
it was so much fun
and I just sort of
walked around
and just
like pulling out papers and stuff.
And this seance,
they found someone with a certain name.
So I went next door
and there was all these telephone books.
I went, right, let's see
if he's in the fucking phone book then.
And I'm reading it.
It was brilliant.
If I was running a night like that
and you showed up,
I'd be absolutely crestfallen.
Because it's organised fun that has to be done a certain way,
and that's just a red rag to a ball to you.
Yeah, but as I get older, like the way that I'm describing
how much fun everybody else had,
I like to think that I am a little bit more reserved
and a little bit less, I want to do what I want to do.
Well, it doesn't sound like it, based on what you just said there.
Yeah, but I'm sneaking up.
I'm not going, guys, this is all a load of shit.
I'm going to go
and have a sleep next door.
I'm not.
I'm just lying.
I'm just going.
No, but you are doing that.
You're not saying it,
but you are doing that.
But I'm just private.
Like, they sort of say,
if you want to go in
any of the rooms
and just have a private,
I can't remember what the word is,
a seance or something,
go and do it.
I was like, brilliant.
Donnie's having a sleep.
I'm having a private seance of my own. Make sure the door's locked. Private seance or something go and do it I was like brilliant Donny's having a sleep I'm having a private seance of my own
make sure the door's locked
private seance
seancing for money
so
did you come away
from the whole experience
thinking
more or less
believing in ghosts
er
probably not the same
I would say
which is like
non-existent
you can
pretty much
but it
but it
but it
I was just
I just had
the best time
it sounds amazing
didn't need to be 3am
didn't need to be 3am
did not need to be getting back
to the house at 4am
I was so tired
that's what Sarah normally says to you
isn't it
but yeah
great stuff
there's a
well I'm pleased you had a good time
I had no idea you were doing that
and that sounds
whose idea was it
Sarah's friend
yes yeah yeah
the best thing was
one of the best things was,
the fucking,
they just had the gift shop, right?
And the cafe.
And it was all on the honour system.
Like, it was all,
and it made me spend more money.
Because I was like,
Guilty.
Guilty conscience.
What have you done?
I bought a balaclava,
like proper IRA balaclava.
I bought a tea towel with horrible mushroom clouds all overava. I bought a tea towel
with horrible mushroom clouds all over it.
I bought some shandy bass.
I bought loads of stuff
and an old leaflet
and you were just going up the card machine
and just banging a bit more money
into the honesty jar.
And there was a brick-a-brack.
Can I just say,
I can see your weekly shopping list being
a balaclava,
a tea towel,
eight cans of shandy bass.
I've got all the essentials.
What are you doing?
I'm going fishing.
Ah yeah.
Ah yeah.
What you've got to understand,
everyone listening,
is that Pete does genuinely tend to judge a night out
on whether A,
he's pushed a load of buttons,
and B,
he's bought a balaclava.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's come home with a balaclava.
Imagine that.
Imagine there was a,
like,
imagine you'd done that,
you bought those things,
you bought a balaclava
and say you bought,
like,
a load of rope
from the...
Yeah,
and then that's in the back of the car.
Because you genuinely
would have been like,
oh,
I could probably do with some ropes.
Yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
And then on the way home
there's like a police blockade
because someone's been kidnapped.
Oh,
if I was around at like the Yorkshire Repertimes,
I'd be in big trouble, I reckon.
I think that that sounds
like an amazing night out.
It was great.
Do you think that Sarah
and her friend actually
wanted you to come
or were they just being polite,
do you think?
I think if they had any sense
in their head,
just to be polite, yeah.
He won't accept.
It's like here
with the younger members
of staff here.
If you're having a party,
invite me out of politeness so I don't feel like I won't accept it's like here with the younger members of staff here if you're having a party yeah right
invite me
out of politeness
I'm never going to come
I promise you I won't come
but if you do a party
I don't know about
I feel a little bit put out
invite me
I promise you I'll say no
but then everyone
kind of gets on with their life
right
it's like that with this I think
invite Pete
he won't want to come
he doesn't believe in ghosts anyway
right
he's got a load of stuff
he's actually pulling apart on another computer.
But you've said yes there.
And you've ruined it for everyone. I've not ruined it
for everyone. I was just stomping around. How many people are there
in total? Probably
about
25 to 30, I think. How many
of them did you directly or
indirectly impinge upon their evening?
None. I got
involved in everything. I held everyone's hand when hands needed to be held.
I got involved with pushing the glass around the table and stuff.
Were you not even a little bit freaked out?
I thought I would be freaked out because it's quite late
and it is quite spooky down there.
Yeah.
That's how they get you, isn't it?
Yeah.
Because it's like,
even in your own house,
if you wake up,
so I remember once in the middle of the night, it was like 3am, long before my son was born.
There's just this unbelievable crash in the living room.
Right.
And we're on the first floor.
There's no reason to be scared, really.
I was fucking shitting myself.
It took me about 10 minutes to get the courage to go in there.
And what happened is the mirror had come off the wall and smashed onto the mantelpiece.
Nothing was broken.
It just made a really big noise.
My point is that even in that environment at night
when you're disorientated in your own house,
it's frightening.
So clearly you're suggestible in that kind of thing,
which is why more people have that experience.
But I remember, it might have been Professor Brian Cox,
but a famous TV scientist did something quite good
on the radio about how he talked about how ghosts contravene the laws of physics.
And so he can't believe in them, and no one can believe in them, because actually, whatever you like it or not, the laws of the universe, which are basically unimpeachable, mean that ghosts can't exist.
Well, quantum stuff's quite spooky, isn't it?
It is, yeah.
Isn't that a similar kind of vibe?
Well, I don't think it's like your old Aunt Agatha.
It's not quantum physics.
No.
Oh, Pete, why didn't you?
There's a bit of that
kicking around.
But, you know,
it seemed to work for people.
People love it.
It's fine.
Absolutely fine.
Here's the problem.
Where's your cut off?
Because if you're having
a nice time, that's fine.
The problem is when you get
people who pretend
to be talking to the dead
and are basically preying
on other people's grief.
Yeah, well, that is
the other side of it. I think to to enjoy it to run something like that i think
but um but uh to to enjoy it i think is uh it's fine um and changing the subject slightly
you never guess what happened in our street i'm gonna show you the video right right not another
uh did they use it did he use your road as a bit of a rat run because wasn't there a guy
who flipped his car
yeah
like one time
has that happened again
or did the
did the woman get her
bollard out again
she fucking did
can you believe it
can you believe that
what possible reason
was it this time
so
here's a video
Mimi took it
so on a previous
so on a previous
Lugapete show
there's a woman
who lives
over the road
where's she getting
all the bollards from
over the road
she must have
stolen them from somewhere
over the road
a lady will come out
and just put a bollard
so that nobody will
park in front of her house
because she needs her
car in front of her house
but
like
it happens too often
to be just an occasional thing
I've got people
other people involved
with removing them
right okay
I could not
fucking believe it
on Saturday. I thought it was done.
I got a couple of neighbours involved.
My mum was a really good mate
and she said to me in the pub,
my wife's about to have a baby,
I don't know if I can get involved in this.
Anyway,
we thought as a road
we had to stop it.
It's about 300 houses, about two of us did.
And I thought it was done.
I thought the message, in a properly passive-aggressive way,
in many ways the same energy is inviting you to a party
that you're not going to turn up to.
I thought, she's understood it's unacceptable,
because we're all in the same boat here.
And then on Saturday I was at the Spurs-Main United game,
and I got a video from the Wi-Fi I have access to,
and it was just a video of the bollard
being put back out again.
It's just incredible to me.
Endless bollards.
There was a house
next door to her
who've got two young kids
who would probably
really benefit from
having been able to
park outside their own
fucking house.
She's just a woman
who just doesn't want to walk.
Yeah.
Interesting.
I know I've turned into
that kind of person
but I mean, jeez.
Well, our neighbour went away
a couple of days ago
and he said,
Pete,
if you want to put your car
on my drive,
that's absolutely fine.
Ooh.
Swingers.
Pampas grass.
Absolute dream.
You've not got a drive,
no?
No,
no.
Absolute dream.
That's why it's like,
I'm never going to be able
to have an electric car.
Everyone talks about electric cars.
How am I supposed to charge
an electric car? It's difficult, yeah. It's insane. What I was going never going to be in an electric car everyone talks about electric cars how am I supposed to charge an electric car
it's difficult
it's insane
what I was going to
say to you
oh yeah
this cracked me up
so the defence team
for Donald Trump
said
oh
it's going to take us
years to put together
our defence
to fight this case
you need to
the district judge
or whatever district attorney needs to understand this is a I mean, you need to be a judge, the district judge or whatever district attorney
needs to understand this is a massive case.
It's going to take ages to compile the evidence,
speak to the people you need to speak to,
and obviously pre-promoting the idea
that they'd quite like to map the case
after the election, right?
And then Donald Trump came out and said,
I could do this by Monday.
I can find evidence that exonerates me by Monday.
I'll do a video on Monday.
What I like about this
is that we're all
getting excited.
What's that fucking
Sopranos fucking trial
thing that's special
about the last one?
The RICO trial.
They've built it
into a RICO case,
which is the
racketeering influence
corporation organisation.
So, I mean,
a lot of lawyers
are probably quite rightly up in arms saying that
i i don't think lawyers should be going down for things that their clients have done because that
kind of contravenes the whole kind of like privilege of of you know working as a lawyer
isn't it yeah but very much depends on what type of lawyer you are yeah exactly and and also um
they sort of said i mean it's gonna it's
I mean there's a lot
of people involved
so like
how is this
all of these kind of
trials that are similar
the RICO trials
take so long anyway
and
there's like
20
like defendants
20
20
people who might be
prosecuted by them
so how
is this going to be done
in the next 20 years
but they're all flipping aren't they
yeah but like
they're going to have to flip
pretty quick for it to happen
anywhere near the elect
this is going to be like
two years minimum
surely
they're trying to put it in
for the new year
wild
absolutely wild
talking about the lawyers there
reminds me of that scene
in Breaking Bad
where Jesse Pinkman
says to Walter White
who's obviously still
quite naive about this stuff
he says
he takes him to
Saul Goodman's strip mall.
And he says, that's the guy you want.
What are you talking about? Why do you want that guy
in a strip mall? He goes, because at some point you need
to move from a criminal lawyer to a
criminal lawyer.
And finally,
before we go to the break,
the latest Musketeer news.
Is that the blocking?
No, he's done better than that
he's done better than that
he's saying that now
if you want to maintain
your ex account
your Twitter account
you have to take
a photo of yourself
with some government
approved ID
and upload it to the website
yeah I never do that
no one is
he's like he's trying
to run it into the ground
does he not have to
give the money back
to the Saudis
if he really fucks it
if he sort of goes
yeah you can't
you can't, you can't
chop my arms off
because I have.
Here's the thing.
I could give you
the money back
or I could have
a punch up
with Mark Zuckerberg.
Don't answer now.
Don't answer now.
We can do it in Riyadh.
It's absolutely fine.
Not too bad.
Anyway.
All right.
Shall we chip off
and then come up
with some battery brands
and also some emails?
Nice.
Hey, welcome back to the Luke and Pete show.
One thing I neglected to mention was this man at the ghost hunt who turned up with a friend
and he refused to go in because there was too many people.
Right.
He said, I've been in one of these before.
There's too many people.
And he sort of flipped out and left
and his mate
do you reckon he was just frightened
yeah I think he was
his mate came back
and said
yeah
he promised me
he wasn't going to have a drink
but he's definitely
got the chance
and he's got
terrible anxiety
I was like
don't go on a fucking ghost hunt then
I thought you were going to say
sorry about him
he was in the war
well
I don't know
he had a Green Goblin t-shirt on Green Goblin is that a guy yeah I thought you were going to say sorry about him. He was in the war. Well, I don't know.
He had a Green Goblin T-shirt on.
Green Goblin?
Is that a guy?
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a bad guy. It's Spider-Man.
Played by Willem Dafoe.
Yeah.
Brilliantly, by the way.
Brilliant.
How good is Willem Dafoe?
He's good, isn't he?
And I think you get that so...
Sometimes you get so ugly, you're sexy.
Do you know what I mean?
He's very distinctive looking. you know what I mean? It's very distinctive looking.
That's what I mean.
Like,
I just wish I could have
pushed the boat out a bit more.
You know what I mean?
And become sexy.
Yeah, you don't want to be
apologetically kind of unattractive.
Yeah, you want to be
jagged,
weirdly distinct,
bug-eyed,
pointy nose,
weirdo.
It opens you up
to a whole swathe of the population that like that kind of thing.
Yeah, exactly.
At the moment, you're just a grey man.
I'm just a grey man.
I can't think of any
films I've seen,
even if it's a bad film,
that Willem Dafoe's not brilliant in.
Do you know what I mean?
No, I can't remember a lot of films he's seen.
He's brilliant in Body of Evidence with Madonna,
which is like his courtroom drama.
Where's that come from?
It's a big movie.
It was a big movie because it was sexy
and we were in our teens.
I don't think Body of Evidence was that big of a film.
What's your point?
It was a massive movie, Pete.
He's in Born on the Fourth of July.
He's amazing in Platoon.
Amazing.
He's in The English Patient as well.
Kraken.
Spider-Man.
Yeah.
He's also in the old Life Aquatic with Steve Zizou,
the Wes Anderson.
I don't really like the Wes Anderson films that much,
but he's in that.
He's also in, lest we forget, Mr. Bean's Holiday.
Right.
Battery Brands.
Noah Roth, our friend Noah,
the godfather of the battery daddy, Pete.
He's up first, isn't he?
He is.
Hey there, lads.
I have a battery submission.
We all know about Pete's experience
with street chocolate and street breads.
But has Pete ever encountered a street battery?
I found this guy in the streets of NYC, baby!
Thank you for that, Noah.
I have.
I mean, you do see them,
and they're always crushed.
Stamped upon, yeah.
Yeah, why?
So Noah is now officially, I suppose, the owner of this battery,
because he's picked it up.
Yes.
Looks like there's a child in the background of the photo as well,
so I'm not sure about the quality of the parenting on display there.
Right, okay.
You shouldn't be teaching your kid to pick up batteries off the floor.
To pick up batteries, no.
But yeah, what's the brand name?
O-S-D-V.
O-S-D-V.
I wonder what that stands for.
Ocular Service Distinction Vehicle.
Distinction Vault.
Distinction Vault.
It's a new player.
Good stuff.
First time we've ever seen an OSDV.
No one just knows how to do it.
He's just absolutely, he's like Messi in the MLS.
He's just slamming them in for fun.
Well done, Noah.
Moving on to Rich.
Hi, guys.
I've been listening since the start
and at long last
I'm hoping to have
finally found
what might potentially
be a new play
for the Battery Daddies
it was in a handheld fan
bought for me
last Father's Day
which was a thoughtful gift
but it will become
one of the greatest
if it leads me
to the promised land
where I might lord it
over my brother Steve
also a long time
since the show
hello Steve
keeping everything
crossed for
legation
extra power alkaline legation legation a word that I'm not at the shore. Hello, Steve. Keeping everything cross for legation. Extra power alkaline.
Legation?
Legation.
A word that I'm not that familiar with.
Reminds me of ligature, though.
And I don't know why.
Oh, a diplomatic minister.
Is that what legation means?
Yeah.
So, Rich, you are, I'm afraid,
the second person to send in legation.
Our friend Tyler sent those in on the 28th of May of
last year.
Right.
He's all the way
from Blacksburg,
Virginia is Tyler.
So if you're still
listening, Tyler, you
had a new player
there.
So congratulations to
you.
But it was obviously
missed in the mix-up
the first time around.
But Rich, you are the
second person to send
those in I'm afraid.
So unlucky darts,
mate.
Look at this.
A legation was a
diplomatic representative
office of lower rank
than an embassy. Oh, right.
Where an embassy... So what does that look like?
Like an even shitter townhouse, if you're from
one of the smaller countries. Where an embassy
was headed by an ambassador, a legation
was headed by a minister.
Ambassadors outrank ministers and
had precedence at official events.
Did we have them then? I don't know.
Apparently the last remaining ones were upgraded in 1966 to full embassy.
To full ambassadorships.
Right.
Okay.
Interesting.
All right then.
Right.
Finally for now.
Oh, I already know this one's a stinker.
Here, Luke and Pete, try my luck with this battery brand Winmax.
The battery is found in the old classic and aircon remote of a room at a remote mine site
in the middle of nowhere in the northern outback
of Western Australia.
That started badly
because I saw the brand
and then a story
about an abandoned mine.
Yeah, I love it.
Or a remote mine, rather.
You got kicked out of a mine once,
didn't you,
for licking the wall?
Oh, yeah, in Poland.
In Poland, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I got kicked out
of a chamber of it.
Previously contributed...
Sorry.
Sorry, Pete.
That's on me.
Previously contributed a new player to the game.
We're back, so hoping this is a second.
Josh.
Thanks for getting in touch.
Winmax.
Not a new player, I'm afraid.
Not a new player.
I've seen that a few times.
Most recently, Jack sent those in.
Jack.
Jack.
His name is Jack.
Jack.
Jack Woodcocks.
Jack Woodcocks sent them in.
So not new players, I'm afraid, but thank you for getting involved anyway.
One new player this week,
the OSDV from the godfather of the battery,
Noah Roth,
who is the originator of the battery.
Daddy that I cut my hand open on
opening it on the show live
a number of months ago.
Never mind, but well done to Noah.
Commiserations to Rich and to Josh.
Peter.
Hello.
Should we do an email to round off? Let's do a quick email. Let's do a quick email to round us off. Hello. Should we do an email
to round off?
Let's do a quick email
to round us off.
What do you want to do?
Let's do Mike.
Greg?
Yeah, let's do Greg.
Let's do Greg.
Okay, Greg.
Sorry, Mike.
Sorry, Mike.
We'll move on to us
next time.
Greg says,
highly compete
just a quick one
in the same vein
as Japanese gambling
and the Ali Pali beer tokens.
That is a reference
to me saying that
Alexandra Palace in North London
didn't, as far as I remember, have a liquor
license or an alcohol license, as
we say here. So you used to have to buy tokens
to get your beer and pizza. It's similar in
Japanese gambling in Porio. Is that fair?
Yeah, the old
little bowls, the little bagatelle
bowls in the pachinko
parlours. That's right. And Greg says,
I used to live in an area of Spain
and there were a place called San Miguel de Salinas,
nothing to do with the beer of the same name.
In San Miguel, there was a bar
known locally as the Nut House.
The bar itself didn't have an official name.
It was actually just a house
with an open front and tables and chairs
on the street out the front of the house.
The bar had one toilet, the owner's toilet,
and a living room where you'd normally find the owner's elderly mother sat on the couch watching tv i like
it what's the draw of a place like that you may think well the name itself was actually a double
meaning firstly the owner was a bit of a nut himself and would perform various impromptu shows
on the terrace with a wardrobe full of costumes and props good all of these shows would be fairly
nonsensical and seemingly unrehearsed.
Secondly, and more relevant to this topic,
was the way he dispensed the beer.
As it wasn't a licensed premise,
he wasn't actually allowed to sell beer,
so he would sell you a small dish of monkey nuts for, say, two euros,
and then give you a beer to go with them for free.
This all went on for many, many years,
and members of the Guardia Civil were frequently seen sat
out there drinking. Sadly, he was eventually
brought down by the local council, but
at that point, he had made enough of a name for himself
and money, of course, to make the
necessary conversions to his home, like an extra
toilet, an actual bar, and an alcohol
license. He does, however, still give out dishes of
monkey nuts, but now it's for every
beer sold. I've attached a link
where you can Google the Nuthouse,
San Miguel de Salinas, if you're interested in seeing the place in all its glory.
All the best, Greg.
I think many of our listeners would like to visit that place.
I think so.
Do you think that it's still better than Pret-a-Manger?
Because they don't have toilets,
and I don't know how they get away with not having toilets.
They do have toilets, you just missed it.
No.
They do.
No.
You just need to get a code.
No.
Some of them don't have toilets.
The one there's got a toilet.
Which one?
The one right near our office.
Oh yeah,
but that's got a back bit
and they're very rare.
I reckon 10% of them
have toilets
and I think it's a disgrace
that they're every...
But the little takeaway ones,
you don't need a toilet
and a takeaway.
Why?
Well, you're not going
to be staying there.
No, no, that's the weird thing.
If you go to Stratford,
it is a mini little takeaway one
but they've got tables
and they go,
are you eating in it's like
it's just on the concourse
of the fucking train station
they just want to pay you
more money
they're a disgrace
absolute disgrace
VAT
I don't know how
like nine times out of ten
they don't have toilets
I think it's terrible
absolutely awful
cord or no cord
I thought you were a
pret guy
I am a pret guy
but I'm like
I need a
I have a real issue
with toilets
I go from here and i travel
what is this the ghost i give me the willies i i travel on three different trains and none of the
toilets are ever working like stratford stratford doesn't have toilets like that's got about 10
different lines coming in and out of it no No toilets. Not even a disabled toilet, not even an accessible toilet. Nothing
on the overground from here at
Canterbury to Stratford.
And if you get on the C2C,
maybe one in every ten
trains has a working toilet.
There's none at Barking.
There's no train, there's
no toilet at Barking. There's no
toilet at Upminster.
What are people supposed to do? What are people supposed to do?
What are people supposed to do?
Feel better?
I'm just drinking a lot more water these days.
Yeah, I know.
I thought that.
Fuming.
Absolutely fuming.
Would you,
so I think we can all agree
the train system in this country is a joke.
The toilet system is.
The toilet system is.
What about,
how do you rate Pret
alongside the other high street
kind of casual eateries?
Do you rate it above a Leon?
I don't really F.
Leon can take a little bit too long for a fish finger sandwich.
Good, though.
Have the fish fingers ready.
I don't care whether they're dry.
Just slather it in mayonnaise.
It's good, though, isn't it?
Slather it in aioli sauce.
Yeah, I like the fries, little webbed fries.
Beautiful.
Leon aioli is good.
Leon aioli is good.
Very nice.
And so is their kind of chicken thigh sandwich.
I'm a Pret. I like their jerk chicken. I don't is good. Very nice. And so is their kind of chicken thigh sandwich. I'm a prep.
I don't mind their
jerk chicken sandwich.
I lazily go to prep
because it's like the
easiest thing.
I've got to think
about it.
I just get the same
thing.
Chicken Caesar salad
baguette, fruit salad
and some of those
chocolate rice cake
things.
Oh yeah.
Surprisingly long
calories I find.
Yeah very nice.
Anyway that's probably
about as much time.
But no pissing.
No pissing. As you've already established. I've got my probably about as much time. But no pissing. No pissing.
No, as you've already
established.
I've got my cable all
caught up here.
Anyway, let's get out
of here, Peter.
We'll be back on
Monday, won't we?
We've got to get a few
episodes squeezed in,
actually.
We are going to
pre-record a few
because Pete's going
to Japan.
When are you going
to Japan?
Well, Friday,
Friday night.
So tomorrow night?
Yeah, Friday night,
yeah.
And you fly what
time?
At 30. Heathrow? Yeah. Are you going premium? Yeah. so tomorrow night yeah Friday night yeah and you fly what time at 30
Heathrow
yeah
are you going premium
yeah
good for you
good for me
I've earned it
why not
I've earned it
and presumably the part
that you've got access to
still in
economy
coach
yeah
you've got to make
that a bit of separation
yeah a bit James Corden style
we'll look forward to
hearing from you
about that
but we're going to do
some pre-rec stuff
when you come back
from Japan of course
we will cover that
in its entirety
but thank you very much
for listening to the show
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Neil
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Neil
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that's it from us
we'll see you on Monday
have a lovely weekend
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