The Luke and Pete Show - Flight of Doom

Episode Date: March 27, 2025

Pete’s gearing up for a deeply inconvenient 5 a.m. Jet2 flight, and Luke isn’t holding back on how much of a terrible idea that is. This sends the lads down memory lane as they relive their school trip adventures — leading to Luke’s tale of a hellish coach trip to Switzerland.Elsewhere, they weigh in on Tesla’s latest embarrassment, Musk’s ongoing public meltdown, and why some people just don’t seem to grasp the consequences of their own actions.Plus, Pete fully succumbs to AI madness as he uses deepfake technology to prank his mates in the worst possible way.Email us at [e-mail] or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram if character-restricted messaging takes your fancy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Luke and the Pete Shaw! We are nearly at the end of March. How the hell did that happen? I think I'm technically on a little week's holiday right now, if you are interested in my whereabouts and what not-ery. Why you going? You just got back from Kosovo. I was one day of a working week I took off. And the weekends are my own. I've said that before and I'll say it again. I don't care how many days you have off.

I just wondered where you're going next. You've only just been, you've only just got home. I'm off to Andalusia sort of area I think. With the family. With the family, with the family Lee. The family, that'd be great. With the family, yeah. Just dancing to songs you hate.

And bathing in those places. Yeah, looking forward to seeing how stressed out The family, that'd be great. Just dancing to songs you hate. And looking forward to seeing how stressed out I can get getting a child to Stansted Airport at five o'clock in the morning. Looking forward to all that. Listen, let me just tell you something now and I can't do it you can't do anything about it because when the time comes out you're already on holiday so it's for next time. You need to get, and this is strange coming from you because you are normally someone who does pay through the nose for things. When it comes to having a toddler and doing things like holidays, you've got to throw money at it. If you can afford to do it, you've

got to pay. You can't be doing stand-in at 5am, you're mad. Pay her off to go somewhere else and while we enjoy our holiday. No, do a mid-day flight from a convenient airport. Oh, a mid-day flight, no, yeah, that's less than ideal. They were the only flights that were available from the old Jet 2. Jet, and you're flying Jet 2. Come on, man. It's a package holiday.

It's a package holiday, Luke. British Airways do a package holiday, amazing value. Free booze. Free booze in a buffet. I did a package holiday, amazing value. Three booze. Three booze and a buffet. Listen, I did the package holiday with British Airways to a five-star all-inclusive in Lanzarote, the three of us, including flights and hotel and all-inclusive, it was like 1700 quid, including transfers as well. What is this an advert for British Airways? What's going on here? I'm just saying think about it man. How much are you paying for your holiday?

A lot of money like a ridiculous amount of money. Exactly. A grotesque amount of money. To fly jet 2 from Stansted at 5am. I want to hear the music. I like the music. Not the advert. I like the music. I like the advert for crying out loud. I like that they play a bit of Jess Glynn before you get on. I think that £17-£1800 in the New Year sale from British Airways for all that was really really good value and it was a lovely holiday as well. You've got to shop around mate. Well you'd think that with this kind of promotion you'd expect British Airways to be beating

a path to our door for advertising one by chest. I wouldn't do British Airways at this service of asking for a discount from them but you know I wouldn't be one to ask either. If one is offered I will accept. Yeah absolutely and you're gonna lose your patience how many times you reckon you'll lose your patience on holiday? Every hour I think I'll do, I'll do like a town crier every hour. Good luck, good luck. 12 o'clock and pizza night. Alan Partridge does a good bit on that where he talks about what I can't remember what show it is or one of those books or something where he says, it's basically on the lines of when you can't hold out with your family,

all you do is spend your time dreaming about how much of a better holiday you'd be on if you didn't have kids. It's funny, it is funny. But. I just think that like, my days on holiday, you know, I might think about things that might never happen. Newcastle United winning something. Now I've think about things that might never happen. You're Castaway United winning something.

Now I've not even got that. I've got to concentrate on what I'm doing now. Now they've won something. I don't have to worry about that anymore. I've basically got a child to concentrate on as well. And she's not really that all fair with swimming. So that'll be stressful. Because my son loves a bath

and he loved swimming for me on holiday. so I reckon he'll be really into it. But I mean, you've got to really bear in mind, I don't want to be the bearer of bad news, but it is worth reminding you and our listeners that last time you went on a holiday and you went swimming, you almost died. That's a good point actually. Don't worry too much about your toddler, worry more about yourself. Yeah, that's a very good point actually. I think if I can teach her to not try and swim against the riptides instead of go with them, maybe... Lucky Abraham was there, wasn't he?

Abraham won't always be there. Are you taking Abraham with you? Well, yeah, like an angel boy's assistant, I'm going to pay him ridiculous amounts of money to follow me and my family around. To monitor you in any kind of water environment? I imagine Sarah will be fine with that. Showers too. I'll bet.

Showers. Yeah. She was talking of him replacing you actually. Good point actually. How long are they? He's IP tested. He's ISO tested. He's dust resistant and water resistant as well.

What time are you going to leave the house? Listen, tell me the good stuff. What time are you going to leave the house? He's ISO tested, he's dust resistant and water resistant as well. What time are you going to leave the house? I think it's going to be quite early. I think we might have to do a Stansted hotel. Oh, it gets worse. It gets even worse. This is a grisly holiday for me. Life's difficult, even when you're doing a nice thing, life is quite difficult, I think. They say that on surveys and stuff,

family holidays are among the most stressful things you can do, along with moving house and stuff like that. Yeah, and Sarah won't thank me for saying this, but on one of her family holidays when she was little, they had a real penchant for getting on a bus for what feels like two days down to the south of Spain. Just, I mean, good god. I'm glad I first went abroad. Well I'm glad I first went to Jersey on a plane when I was 26.

Oh, because your girlfriend was from there? Yeah, the first time I went. So your first time you went on a plane? 26? I went on like a little sort of two, three man plane that my dad took me up in York one time when we were on holiday. Scarborough and they flew us around and then put us back down again. That was a rickety plane. He shouldn't have done that. He's a silly sausage. Did you enjoy it at the time? He's a silly sausage. Yeah, it was exciting, but it was

still scary because it was just a tiny little World War II plane. It was very, but it was still scary. Cause it was just a tiny little World War II plane. It was just very, very big. That's such an 80s story. Yeah. Was your sister in it as well? No, just me, just me. But where was I going with that? I can't remember.

So those kind of coach trip type holidays, we did one of those at school, but we were in like year nine. And it was a bus journey from Portsmouth to a place called Interlaken in Switzerland. And we all went on the bus together, like obviously students and teachers and all that stuff. And it was honestly an absolutely ridiculous journey

because that is a fucking long way, right? I'm just looking it up now. It's like with no stops at all, it's like a 14 hour drive. Wow. And then obviously you have to stop because it's a coach and you've got kids and it's probably slower than a coach anyway.

So it's basically a long, long hop. And I can remember for the first couple hours for all the kids working out, you're sitting next to and all this kind of stuff, it was exciting. And I think we ended up leaving really early in the morning. I remember leaving when it was dark. But about four hours in, it's just carnage. Like fights, people throwing food, like proper cats.

And I understand that if you're 14, it's kind of all part of it. Imagine being a teacher on that. In my role now as a mid-40s man, right, you could not pay me enough to do that. No, I mean like, but imagine if you will, living at the top of the country, and I forget I did go abroad a couple of times

to Holland and to, I think we went to Antwerp, I think. But you just said it, you were the first time on a the plane so you didn't go on the plane right? No we went on a bus and a ferry but going all the way down the country just to get to Dover just to get on a four-hour you know quite nippy ferry and then driving even more to where we needed to be. I mean, that's a weird one. It probably only cost us 30 quid or something. Yeah. Yeah, crazy. That's not, I mean, for me,

I remember having a good time and stuff, but it was pretty full on. Like really full on. I think the story I was trying to get to was that, I think Sarah the baby had, she'd either sort of gone missing or she'd climbed under one of the one of the pillows in the train and her mum thought that she'd fallen through the bottom of the train. So she was running around saying the baby's fallen through the bottom of the train which isn't a feature most people would be familiar with on a train.

I imagine that would probably elevate the stress to even more. So what I'm going to basically tell myself... Well, thinking your baby's dead probably is more stressful, yeah. I'd say that's definitely more stressful. So I think I'm not going to... We're not going to go on any train, so baby's not going to fall through the bottom of the train. No. So yeah, that's...

It won't be a train, it'll be one of those things that in old silent movies, they have to push the pedal up and down. Do you see those anymore? No. When we flew back from Boston late last year, rather than do the overnight flight, we did the 7.30 from Boston to the UK, gets you back about 7pm local time here. So we had to get up at four, but we were staying in the hotel by the airport. And that was kind of okay, because we were already on holiday. And coming back during

the day was fine, because my son had his nap as normal and he was pretty good. He's pretty low maintenance as toddlers go. And so it was actually fine. But I think the very idea of getting, because the one thing that is stressful about traveling with my son is that he gets really car sick. So on the way there, I might have mentioned it to you, on the way there, it's about a 50, five zero minute drive to Heathrow from where we live. And he vomited four times. Yeah, that's, that's, On the way to the

airport so we had already gone through both his changes to close by the time we got onto the plane. I mean I'm going I'm gonna go on out on a limb here was it your driving were you sort of doing some of your drifting that you like to do around corners? Yeah it was like I was like the last thing I said to him before he puked everywhere was look at me me son, look at me, I'm Vinnie Diesel. Is what I said. Watch me, we're family, watch me take off son over this speed bump. Listen to me my son, this car has got so much torque it's twisted the chassis.

That's what I said. Did you see that? There's a guy called Jerry Riggert, everything who I enjoy, this kind of bald, handsome man who basically he takes every major kind of flagship mobile phone and he's got and he just damages them. He just he just he applies heat to them. He scratches them with different hardness of kind of sticks. He just smashes them up and sort of says which mobile phones are more resistant to damaging and stuff. So it's quite a good little kind of test for anyone who's a bit clumsy with their mobile phones. It's

quite good to sort of look what he's reviewing. And he took a cyber truck and basically used a bit of like farming machinery sort of thing to pull on the back of it, like the back of the aluminium frame itself, not the bumper, nothing plastic, nothing steel, you know the thing that actually, the aluminium frame of the actual car itself, the chassis, and he put and he pulls down on it and it's just, it's like chocolate. It's like really bad stuff. So... You don't get a safety certificate for the UK and stuff. I guess I think it's more to do with the old sharp corners because that's like, it's like something out of a freaking Carmageddon. You may as well have big spikes in the front of

your car really. I saw one of them in, the first time I've ever seen one in real life, I saw on the Cape again, like just before Christmas. Yeah out in Wellfleet, near the tip of the Cape, Cape Cod. Honestly, the first thing you think of when you see it, have you seen one driving in real life? I've not seen it. I mean, they are gigantic things, aren't they? First of all, it is fucking massive. massive and secondly it's like a joke car. It's like someone, do you know what it reminded me of? It reminded me of when I went to Dragon Con and everyone was doing cosplay and someone cosplayed Wally. Right yeah, like the biggest

Wally you've ever seen. It's painted to look like it's metal but it's metal, but it's cardboard, whereas obviously in this case it is metal, but it looks like a joke car. I find it the most, honestly, the most baffling status symbol I can think of. Proper late stage capitalism stuff. Yeah, but I mean, it's the one on the Libs, mate. It's got on the Libs somehow, hasn't it?

It's got on a funny car. But they- I don't feel like I've been owned though by him having it. No I don't feel owned to be honest, because sometimes you just go down, you know you keep owning the libs until you forget who the libs are and you just end up making a silly car. Apparently it was all based on an Apple II video game from back in the day, I think he admitted he played, where like the default car looked like a cyber truck basically from the side and apparently that's where that all comes from. Have you seen how much has been knocked off the Tesla share prize? Yeah, I mean even like the course correction that was going to happen from the massive leap that happened when Trump

got in with him. Even that correction is way wide of where they should be right now. People just aren't buying. I think people who have Teslas are probably thinking, do I look like a piece right now? Do I look like a piece right now? Do I look like a silly sausage? Yeah, because the majority of... So what's kind of lost in a lot of discourse... It's quite a liberal thing to do, having an electric car, isn't it? Do you know what I mean? That's what I was going to say. So there's two things at play. That's a very confusing element of it. But also, the other thing that is forgotten a lot in our kind of polarised discourse is that, you know,

go outside. Most people are just basically normal. They don't, they don't feel that strongly either way about stuff. And so to go fully all in and like, to me, it's to put it, to put it mildly, you have to have a pretty brass neck to go into the Oval Office in front of the world's media. Say you're going to cut everyone's fucking benefits and then complain that they don't like you very much.

Yeah, and then flip that into some kind of I'm being targeted just for the brave work I'm doing. It's like, mate, you've been a complete cunt to everyone. Everyone and the universe has decided because you've been acting like a cunt for ages, you're now a cunt. Yeah, so that's the payoff. Plenty falling out of the sky and you're, you know, rinsing the FAA, you know, you're now a cunt. So that's the payoff. Plants are falling out of the sky and you're rinsing the FAA. You're putting your little boxes in the FAA for their main communication systems that you can literally turn off whenever you fancy doing that.

You are gonna be called, you are gonna be labeled a prat. You are gonna be labeled a prat. Can't cut to that one. It's just the consequences that anyone would have to deal with by acting like a complete prick for months on end. I don't understand why you think you are, but I do understand it because he's completely ridiculous in how he lives his life and he's obviously in a completely different world to the rest of us. But that has really been the case ever since civilisation has been around. Yeah

You get you fuck around find out. It's the very definition of trash it get banged in it Exactly the whole means they love to fucking stick out there. I'll do meet me sewing hell. Yeah. Hell. Yeah me reaping Oh fucking out this sucks I also read an amazing story The other day about I can't find the detail of it so apologies if I get this wrong, but an amazing story about a guy, Elon Musk and his guys got another guy to climb up on top of, it was either the White House or one of the buildings in the White House complex, to climb up on top of the roof to put a Starlink

thing up there, but didn't tell anyone. So the Secret Service were like there's a fucking guy on the roof I think long story short he's very lucky to escape but his fucking life so I get sniped but see what kind of chaotic thing is happening here you know you just check him up on the roof it just yeah absolutely fine absolutely absolutely insane anyway Peter let's have a quick break when we come back we've got batteries to get through mate I reckon we might have a good one here get your batteries in yourlink, we'll be back in a minute.

It's the look of Pete's show. It's time for batteries. Ian's got in touch from Victoria. BC before cheese. Hello gents. We've got a lot of Canadian listeners before cheese. We do, exactly. And after cheese they used them as little, fried the cheese, wouldn't you? Oh yeah, those little glasses glasses of like fortified wine. Is that Malort or Chicago? Fortified wine is like a sherry or port or whatever. Yeah okay, is Malort not an old ladies kind of, it was like an old ladies wine wasn't it? Malort is like a, it's like a, isn't it, I've made it some kind of wood.

Oh, I don't know then. I like that even in its own literature, Malort calls itself a polarizing taste. I think it was originally like an old lady sort of German tipple or something and then I think some hipsters got hold of it and made it the national drink of Chicago Whatever, but the other people in Chicago making us drink it when we're there not ideal Anyway, and Ian says I was really waking awakened at 5 a.m. My so so noisy When he's a little smoke alarm boy, isn't he I was really awakened at 5m by smoke alarm informing that battery is low on Opening the fire alarm my frustration turned excitement as a potential new player revealed

itself. Is there anything better than a 5am battery daddy nomination? Is there anything better than a 5.05am email to the Hello Luke Pitcher email box? I present to you the GP Powercell, modelled by Cedar the Cat. Please confirm it is a new player to make my early wake-up call worthwhile. Much obliged, Ian and Victoria BC. Oh, GP. It's not a new player.

Not a new player. GP Power Cell is a lot rarer than GP Ultra, but it's still not a new player. And our friend Kent Wagenschutz has sent it in before, so I'm afraid you're not first to the punch there, Ian, even though you've got an extra I in your name. Yes we do have a few of those kicking around. All right let's move on to the next one, Joy in Berlin, greetings again, I replaced the battery cinema with miniature nutrition scales that I call my drug dealer scale to annoy my girlfriend. I think these can't be a new player but I don't remember them being read out. My girlfriend, French, doesn't understand why I'm

now sending photos of batteries to men in the UK but however here she was genuinely happy for me that I am twice entered into the battery daddy even though she thinks in Berlin where we live that might have no other meanings maybe a regular at KitKat. Have a good one, Joe in Berlin. I don't remember what we were talking about KitKat's style is that some kind of like Berlin sex club? The KitKat club isn Is that some kind of like Berlin sex club? The KitKat club isn't that like, yeah I think it is, yeah. Should I look it up? I'm sure there are plenty of things at the KitKat club in Berlin that would require,

well two double A's, I think that's pretty standard stuff for most of your sexual devices. I'll read you the first sentence, the Wikipedia page of the Kit Kat Club in Berlin okay and you can judge it what you what you think yeah the Kit Kat Club is a night club in Berlin opened in March 1994 by Austrian pornographic filmmaker Simon Thor. Simon Thor, what a great name. Yeah. Patrons are diverse including heterosexuals and members of the LGBT plus community. Guests are allowed to engage in sexual intercourse openly at the venue. Good stuff. Okay, right. I think, I think the last, I was reading that... It's not where you're flying from a jet too, is it?

No, no, I think in Camden there was one that was, I think, I can't remember what venue it was. It wasn't like the torture garden, but I think it was like Slime Light with a club night somewhere that like a friend of a friend always posts about Instagram like won't stop talking about it. But apparently it's, it's stopped any sort of sexual contact in its clubs and there falls the last sort of slightly more informal sort of nightclub sex club, which is very exciting. No, just because of, uh, I think just possibly consent issues, I suppose. But, just because of, I think, just possibly consent issues, I suppose. But, yeah.

Well, still, apparently Kit Kat Club still going strong in Berlin, everyone. Well, there you go. And what was the name of the battery? Sorry, yeah, the name of the battery is Freagore, Super Heavy Duty. Yeah, you're the 12th person to send those in. Oh, that's a shame. I'm afraid. Never mind, never mind Joe in Berlin. Joe, yeah, so not quite a new player, but... What, the rest of person to send those in. Oh, that's a shame. I'm afraid. Never mind John Berlin.

Joe, yeah, so not quite a new player, but... What are the rest of your albums as well? The first person to send those in was Gary in August of 2018. So it's been a while. That's a shame. Dan has got in touch. Hi, Dan. Hello, Luke the Pete.

I recently caved into the technology world and bought myself a MetaQuest 3. We were talking about inflation either at the start of this show or the one before and turns out you know the old VR goggles, big in Dan's world, MetaQuest 3. Upon opening the controller I saw these hair bright alkalines. If these are new players it'll be worth the constant photos Mark Zuckerberg is probably storing at the inside of my house. Thank you Dan. Great email. Well, Daniel, I'm really sorry to say these aren't new players, but you're so close. The first time

we received one of these was a couple of weeks ago based on my search. Obviously didn't make it into the shortlist of three that particular week, but you sent these in on March 13th. We had someone else send them in on February 26th. It was the second time we've had them. We're very close, but I'm afraid it's not quite a new player. So commiserations to you, Dan. A massive, massive shame. But look, maybe there'll be a battery daddy in virtual reality that you can enjoy in the near future. Before we go, should we just squeeze this email in from our friend Mark? Yes, please.

Who is emailing in from the Bay Area in the US. He says, hearing your blood type and donation chat prompted me to chime in with an interesting fact I learned about myself while doing a blood donation. So do you remember, Peter, a couple of weeks ago we talked about a guy who saved like 2.4 million babies lives with his donation of quite rare blood. What a guy. Yeah, absolutely. Mark says, back when I was in high school,

our school would hold a blood donation twice a year where any student over the age of 16 was allowed to sign up. Having just turned 16, I took this opportunity to sign up, do something charitable. It definitely wasn't just to get out of two classes and get free snacks. Skip ahead to a few weeks later and I receive a letter in the mail

from the blood drive company saying, thanks for my donation, but they had to throw it away. Oh, bad blood. This was because unbeknownst to me, my blood was infected by cytomegalovirus or CMV for short. CMV is a lifelong infection that a healthy individual can remain dormant and cause no harm. However, it can reactivate in individuals with weakened immune systems and can be passed on by pregnant women to their children. This was news to me, there's none of my doctors that ever mentioned this to me, however it's a nice thing to know for the future. I have no scientific basis for this but I always tell people the bugs don't bite me

because my blood tastes nasty due to this virus. Love the pod, cue up the great work Mark from the Bay Area. That's crazy. Well, I didn't realise they would sort of test your blood to that degree. I guess they have to, right? Yeah, yeah. They've got to know what they've got to know. Because they do say when you do blood donations, they say, don't they, do not use this service as a blood test because it wastes a load of our fucking time. They have to check it.

Oh, right. But they still test it anyway. That sounds like it should be used as a blood to test them because you got to test that blood anyway. It's happening whether you like it or not. Wasn't there, it's been a big scandal. The infected blood scandal in the UK was when for 20 years like HIV and hepatitis and stuff were being given to people through blood products because they were testing them properly. There's loads of people waiting for compensation about it aren't there? Yeah, yeah. That was, that's got a test them properly. There's loads of people waiting for compensation about it, aren't there?

Yeah, yeah. That's got a cost in it. There were so many people affected. It's crazy. It's got to a point where I don't think they can afford to do it because I think some kind of tribunal said that every single person that was a victim of it should get like two million quid. Yeah, and you would literally bankrupt the entire world if you did that. Yeah, wow. Not great. Not great. All. Alright Pete, take us out of here please. Alright darling, we'll be back on Monday. Look after yourselves. If you are choosing to go and watch a football match, just don't shout so much. Don't do, do not shout so much because you will sound like me. Why aren't there Luke? You know you get like when you take a picture on your phone you can get like AI to make your face look a bit hotter. Why isn't

that for like the old speech? Why can't it sound like I'm absolutely fixed? You probably can get it for your speech. I saw an AI tool that example thing that converted three or four minutes of the rambling to perfect Spanish. Yeah mad that ain't it. I think YouTube does it for a few accounts now, the Bronze Japan podcast on video does it. A brave new world. And they always choose a very deep-voiced Italian man for my voice, which is very sexy. I bet you that's not the most difficult wank you've had, is it? No, exactly. And I, over the weekend, saw a couple of mates, I took a picture of them, used AI to make them kiss, sent that video to one of their partners and they thought it was real and were a bit put out by it all.

Dreadful friend. Just the most appalling friend. Goodbye all. Have a lovely weekend. Bye. The Luke and Pete show is a stack production and part of the A-Cast creator network.