The Luke and Pete Show - Gentleman Thief

Episode Date: August 22, 2024

The lads trade horror stories about nature’s weapons of destruction after Alicia Silverstone has a run in with a toxic Jerusalem cherry. Then, talk turns to fake dog turd antics…naturally!Plus, the lads pour one out for the man behind the Democracy Manifest meme.Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. It's the Luke and Pete Shaw. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Lukey Moore. Lukey Moore, how the devil are you? I already kind of know that you're a little under the weather, but how's it hanging? Yeah, it's all right.

I'm sure people don't want to hear me go into great detail about me being sick, but it's interesting to listen to, because it's a bit of a role reversal, isn't it? Yeah, usually I've got the poorly tom tom and the puke pukes and the boop poops. You have booked that trend. And you know, you- I haven't really got any of that.

I haven't really got any of that. I thought I was going to have the puke pukes last night, but I didn't. And then then I just Absolutely knackered banging headache and no energy whatsoever So I think it is a form of food poisoning, but not one I've encountered before What so you like, you know your problem you keep it all in it's all Your fingers down get your fingers up, let's get the party started shall we?

In one particular order though right? Oh yeah good point actually, well it could only make the top bit quicker. I'm not going to be doing anything with those things, and if you're listening to this, nor should you be. Ha ha ha, Dr Donaldson strikes again, well Lukey. How was work without me there, must have been terrible. Work was without you, erm, I don't know which bit I suppose. I've been podding for 12 hours, my first show was 6am which is rapidly becoming a bit of a habit for me. But the ramble was fine. Lars! I don't see enough of Lars. I mean I didn't see anything of Lars really

today because he was down the line. But lovely to see Lars. We did a bit of ramble extra. Actually is it called ramble extra? What's the Patreon thing? Ramble More. Ramble Uncut. That's the one. Ramble More. Ramble More, More, More. How do you like it?

I talked about a thing I'm basically going to double up on, to be honest. So for those of you who aren't part of the Football Ramble Patreon, first things first, naughty boy or girl or other, you should be getting involved because it's great. But I would like to give a little bit of information about the actor activist Alicia Silverstone Okay, I think I'm gonna sit next to her on the plane once right was she eating berries Difficult to know this is about 25 years ago. I have to go back and ask him I'm not sure if he would even remember.

No, okie dokie. Well she's been, I was obsessed with the story yesterday and I was like this is absolute primor Luke and Pete Shaw kind of stuff really. She was in London and she was on her TikTok and she basically filmed herself grabbing from like a normal London townhouse street, you know, you know, it could be in Camden could be in I don't know Green wherever it was she'd walk past the she'd walk past House and in the front of the garden there was a big sort of

Big bush and she grabbed one of these colorful sort of berries off it and started munching on it on tick-tock sort of saying What is it like? Is this a pepper? Is there's a tomato? What is it? And it turned out to be a toxic Jerusalem cherry Yeah, so and then she just went dark for two days. She didn't post again on TikTok, so... What the hell? Absolutely fantastic. But she did finally post an update late Tuesday,

assuring her 4.3 million followers that she was fine. But the fact that she ate the berry, didn't post anything else on TikTok, is an absolute vibe for me. I love this. What, um, what on earth are you thinking? I don't know. Do you just think it's because you're in the UK, everything's all pleasant and safe? Everything's fine. Yeah, because we don't have dangerous spiders or things.

You can just pick up any sort of berry that happens to be growing in the... I can't believe you haven't done that in the past. Oh, I've had my share of laburnum or deadly nightshade. I've sort of jammed it down my throat. Beautiful. Did you ever used to have those little kind of rose hip things I've had my share of laburnum or deadly night shade. I've sort of jammed it down my throat. Beautiful. Did you ever used to have those little kind of rose hip things when you were growing up? And so I think they're called rose hips.

It's like a little, I don't know what it looks like. It's hard to explain, but it's just type. Is that the things they put in, oh no, it's clothes they put into oranges, isn't it? A rose hip is like, it's red. It looks a bit like a small radish, but angrier. Right. And if you pull it off the tree and stamp on it, and so it breaks it open and put it down someone's shirt, it's really, really rich.

Oh, yes. It's like free itching powder, isn't it? Yes, I remember that. Yeah, horrible that. So, I mean, that was one of the finest childhood traditions that we had. Yeah. I'm not sure. I mean, that would be probably a very 2024 way for quite a famous actor to die. Well yeah, just having a bit.

Well so they can make jam out of rose hips. You can make pie, you can make jam, jelly, marmalade, syrup, soup, tea, wine and other beverages. So you can eat them if you avoid the hairs inside the fruit. Why? Oh, so these hairs are actually made, so itching powder is made from the hairs out of rose hip. So it's not even like- Yeah, I kind of feel that makes sense because it's basically like natural itching powder. But I mean, they shouldn't be calling that fruit that Alicia Silverstein got Jerusalem cherry because that makes it genuinely sound quite nice.

Yeah, it's good price. Cherries you can eat, Jerusalem artichoke you can eat. If someone said to me, that's the Jerusalem cherries, you want to try one? I wouldn't question it. Yeah, I'm going to put a picture of a, a Brier rose seed opened up that is used for, for the old itching powder.

Check that out on the WhatsApp. It's absolutely grotesque. It looks like a big mouth with teeth in it. Oh, that's horrible, yeah. And hair, ugh. That's what's making you itch big time. Inside the raw set. Also, did you used to get involved

with the old flea darts as well? Now, what's a flea dart? So flea dart, I'm gonna put that in the WhatsApp group for you too. We used to be able to throw them. I don't think we still get them anymore. But I don't know what they're actually genu- properly called, we used to go on flea darts, you pick them off the tree or the bush and you could throw them. And they're sticking people's hair, sticking their clothes in.

Oh yeah, yeah. There's like, those kind of things, those kind of like seed spreaders are, they're very dangerous to dogs because they can actually get behind their eyes, which is absolutely grotesque. Oh right. Yeah, I heard the grass seed can really cut a bad dog's paw as well. Hmm, yeah. I don't know why we don't get, why sort of sneezing powder and itching powder isn't like a bigger thing these days, But I don't hear of anybody getting pranked with some hot chewing gum or snapping chewing gum or sweets, boiled sweets that turn your mouth blue,

all that stuff. If people don't really do that anymore, I mean, there was a great store in Portsmouth called You Need Us, which had all this stuff in it. We used to go over there all the way to Portsmouth on purpose just to go there. and it had all that stuff. It had pepper chewing gum, blue mouth sweets, it had those fake dog turds that looked really realistic as well. Yeah, little chattering teeth that you wind up.

Yeah, exactly. That's not really a joke thing though, is it? That's just a bit of a kind of fun thing to look at. Whoopi cushions with the original 1920s Bronx chair imagery. Classic. I remember those dog turds that looked really realistic and you'd throw them on the floor and they'd sit there just like a proper turd. They're amazing. Yeah, but I remember once being in a shopping centre and we'd try and drop one right outside

the shop front of a door of a shop. So people would have to lean, walk around it or go over it to go in the shop and when my mate dropped it, it stuck to someone's foot. What? Are you sure it wasn't just dog poo? No it was from the, it was from your knee does. He dropped it as he dropped it down a guy was walking past and it stuck to his shoe. On the top of his shoe he's carried on walking. These things are, the thick poo I had was made of some kind of clay, like a hard clay. No, this was like a squee... Squeechy thing?

Yeah, squeechy and sticky. It's hard to explain, but you know that really sticky material you used to get as a kid? It was like that, but shaped like a toe. I think it was about three weeks pocket money to get it, so I was absolutely fucking pissed off and the guy walked off with it stuck to his shoe Did you buy did you did you buy like some kind of deluxe version that? Must have consistency of a poo. Yeah, but I like I remember having a I remember a poo that I used to I Guess the aesthetics pretty rank, but I used to sit playing on my Amiga 500 and I used to bite into the poo Because it was like it was like a kind of it was a sort of chewy sort of plastic

ceramic sort of thing that it's clearly been done in a mould but the texturing was absolutely spotless it really was spotless it really did look like poo well done i mean the the i think with stuff like that there's never going to be needing to maybe like the design on the front of a whoopee cushion you never need to do anything different because that's the best you're ever going to do you know you're never going to be needing to, maybe like the design on the front of a whoopee cushion, you never need to do anything different because that's the best you're ever going to do, you know. You're never going to make whoopee cushions cool, you're never going to make turds better than looking like exactly like a turd. So you just stopped, you made,

and you just kept churning them out from the same design. There's, you know, they've not changed in centuries, fake boos. Yeah. I'm not worried about that so much, it's more just why your first instinct is to put it in your mouth. Well I think idle work, no, idle hands, no work. What was it? Something about the devil making work for idle hands or something like that. If there's something on my desk that's gone at the time moment... What console were you playing at the time? I would have been playing Robocod on the Amiga 1200 with GTA backgrounds. What a game!

What a game! He could stretch his stomach, which is not something even Robocop could do to be quite frank. That was the James Pond sequel, right? Yeah, I think it was... Was it sponsored by Chuppa Chups? I think it might have been sponsored by Chuppa Chups. No, Penguin. It was sponsored by Penguin. Zool was sponsored by Chopper Chops. I loved like shit tie-ins, Colin Quaver, Push Over, all those games that would be sponsored by UK brands, you'd never see the like of them again, they wouldn't have the money. When I was younger, a mate of mine, James Peacy his name is, his, genuinely, his mum and dad broke up and his mum married a guy called something pond

Right, okay, and he could have been James Pond refused to and Understand that was a loyalty to it out of loyalty to his dad fair enough at the time. I was furious They I mean what an opportunity I would say that like you are If you make like that was a great video game and video games like that are really good But like you've got an opportunity to make a really really cool video game character. Like you can make a video game that everyone wants to play, that everyone thinks is the coolest thing in the world. I think at the last minute deciding that you're gonna make a fish as your main character, it just seems like a bit of a cop out, do you know what

I mean? Like you've got the chance to make an epoch defining, genre defining video game and it was really good and it was up there with one of the best platformers on the Amiga and they didn't have many and yet they decide to just make it a fish at the last minute for a laugh. Very British. I feel like also whenever I read about these old games, which I do quite a lot because I loved playing video games when I was a kid, I feel like they've always got the reviews posted up of the games. And I always think that would have been the easiest job in the world back then to be a video game reviewer.

The stakes are pretty low, not how many people play video games. The games are really simple and you can have an awful lot of fun. These days, the industry is massive. There's loads of pressure. The games are gigantic. You've got to be quite good at video games to be a reviewer now Yeah, and you never you would put out reviews in the ether and magazines or whatever and you'd never hear anything back And that's that must be so

Satisfying to never hear any feedback Ever about anything you've ever done you can have a 20-year career and not even know anyone who's read any of your stuff Probably what I'll given up Twitter. Exactly. Peter, you have to be good at video games to be a video game reviewer now, right? Not necessarily. I think most people. You're not going to get through them, are you? They're really complicated. I think the toughness of video games have kind of, you know, gone down a little bit. And I think that's why games like Dark Souls and stuff and all those kind of genres, they stick out because they're actually quite

difficult but the rest of them, and also if they're particularly difficult or it's a point in the game that everyone seems to sort of be falling over and they have this data, they'll just send you like save games or codes or whatever to get past that bit as reviewers and stuff. But like most, talking like Jordan and Chris from VGC an excellent video game podcast at stack do They have to get through all of the game before they feel comfortable reviewing it which is obviously You know the correct thing to do but it's when it comes to stuff like, you know

MMM MMORPG's, you know, like when there's just, you know, thousands of hours of content. I mean, it must be quite difficult, I suppose, to review that, sanely, because your experiences are so sort of variable. I mean, you could play PUBG for half an hour. I'd play that same game in 30 seconds because I'd get shot in the head immediately. Yeah, I mean, I actually had a bit of a win last night on the old PUBG, I'm still playing.

Oh, burping away. I do feel like I need another game now though. I feel like I could do something else to mix it up a wee bit but for now I'm still playing. There's a new Indiana Jones game coming out, you've got to play that. Is there? Apparently it's made by the same people who did Hitman, I think. No. Right.

No it's not. I think they're making the James Bond game. But weirdly, John said that the new Indian Jones games feels a little bit like Hitman, which I am massively into. Have you played much Hitman? I've never played it. Oh, make that your next game. You'll have a lovely bloody time.

Is it on the PS5? It's on everything, baby. It's brilliant. Absolutely cracking it is. Pete, just to change the subject before we go to a break, I do really need to point out something that every single one of our listeners has probably told us about and what's our take on is that Jack Carlson, the man behind the Democracy Manifest succulent Chinese meal meme passed away.

Yeah, he did. I mean, I think he, every few months he'd sort of rear his head much like the grifter that he clearly has been all of his life. He'd find some news organisation that'd pay for a Chinese meal, give him a bit of money in his back pot and give him an interview. There was a lovely meme that went round of two Paddington bears stuffing him into a paddy wagon to go to heaven. How am I doing boss? Which I very much enjoyed. How am I doing boss? Yeah, very sad. A real Luca Peetshaw trope and one we've had from the very beginning I think.

He's a character. I was reading about his life story and he's basically essentially a lifelong petty criminal. Yeah, just a grifty drifter just floating around. And if you've crossed his path and he's got something that you want, you probably have a much dimmer view of his antics. But I think there's something to be said for the gentleman thief in 2024. We don't need to worry about the consequences do we? Because he's just an internet meme to us.

Exactly, yeah. On the other side of the world. No, no. He looks like he's travelled though. He looks like he's stolen things in every scene. Apparently his real name is Cecil Edwards. But that wasn't his real name anyway. That suggests a bit of cash, doesn't it, behind it?

That sounds like a... Well, he just changed his name. Yeah. He's Australian. Oh, what it? That sounds like it. Well, he just changed his name. Yeah, maybe. He's Australian! What, do you think, because he was called Cecil? He's an autobusiness or something. I don't know, Cecil just always seems... Cecil just always strikes me as being one of those names that you're either really,

really rich or just a little bit rich. He's apparently, yeah, apparently had prostate cancer, sadly. 82, though, good knock. Yeah, good knock. Pretty good knock. And it's quite an interesting story. People kept trying to find him, didn't they, for ages, and he got a lot of mistaken identification of different people. And then the chats, the Australian punk man, I quite liked the song about him.

It's quite an interesting story because he had a completely kind of below the radar, quite difficult life, some of which would probably be his own fault fault unquestionably, but he becomes this massive internet meme and he'll live on forever, mate. Basically, what will happen with him is something that your friend Alex is terrified of. Basically, he's going to be a meme for the rest of time. And he's comfortable with it, I would say. I wonder if, yeah, he's embraced it. I wonder if memes will, like that, will disappear for a bit and then come back again in almost like fashion. Permit the afterlife do you think? Do you think memes, do you think we'll have memes

in heaven? Memes in heaven, would you hear it do? Lovely Eric Clapton there. Bit of Clapton there. He was also a terrible shit. Funny little fella. A funny little fella. Let's have a break Pete, when we come back we'll do a couple of emails because we've got a few in the old inbox that we need to get through so let's give them a go. Oh do we need to do batteries first by the way? Maybe we've got to do batteries first. Yeah

we have. Yeah we'll do batteries as well. Yeah. It's a show that we recommend. Welcome to Sincerely Sloan presented by Uninterrupted. I'm your host, professional tennis player, wife, parent, and entrepreneur Sloan Stevens. As an athlete and as a person, my journey has had a lot of twists and turns from moments of adversity and doubt to unimaginable triumph and satisfaction. Throughout the season I'm joined by some of the biggest names in sports, entertainment, culture and a few members of my tribe. Our conversations keep it real and push it past skin deep. We reveal the perspectives, routines and products that allow each of us to show up at our best. Join me on my journey of self-discovery

and many, many laughs along the way. Sincerely, Slán. Acast helps creators launch, grow, and monetize their podcasts everywhere. Acast.com. We're back with Luke and Pete, and every single Thursday on this show we detail batteries what you have found in bits of electronics, what you've got. After the dump of batteries I sent last time says Joe and you picking a new player from

the list I thought I'd give it another go. I'm slightly fearful that this has been added to the battery daddy recently but it appeared on my desk at work with no context like a little gift from the aforementioned heavens wow that's weird wow yeah a gift from the battery gods Joe has come in with ant power so ant power is a brilliant name for a battery

yeah it's a brand new player it's a brand new player completely new player congratulations to you Joe and who are these people who are just leaving batteries on your desk? Yeah, maybe it was ants. Maybe it was the ants.

That's what they use to power their nests. Showing their power, yeah. Exactly. Hi there, Pete Aberpia from India. Longtime listener and second time emailer. I think he's from Guaguan. The display on my elliptical trainer recently went dim and I realised that it was time to replace the AA batteries powering it

and lo and behold, I found these babies. Jing Long Super Heavy Duty. Oh, Abhirup, I'm not sure about these, you know, Jing Long Super Heavy Duty. I'm hopeful that these give me the rare honour of contributing to the hallowed case that we listeners of The Luke and Pete Show know as the battery daddy. Abhirup, thanks for this. Lovely design, lovely hands, there's just a lot to be said for these Jing Long Super Heavy Duties to be honest. Yeah, unfortunately Avarupe, you are the fifth person to send these in, so not quite a new player, although they are fairly rare, so no shame in that.

No. But the first person to send those in was Alex, our friend Alex, back in October of 2021. So they haven't popped up that often but you're not the first person so they're not a new player sadly. Right okay I mean there's got to be with the proximity. Let's have a look. Where is this city? If we're looking at, is it South? Oh it's near New... is near it okay right okay so it's near like quite a big sort quite a big sort of city, isn't it? So you probably have got the opportunity to, you know, fill your pockets full of the full gamut of amazing batteries, I think.

I always sort of think that, I don't know, you've either got to be right in a city to get decent batteries, funny batteries for us, or you have to be really out on the sticks where no one's touched something for like 70 years. What do you reckon? I saw a Varta battery stand the other day. Yeah. I think they're owned by a big boy. They're not like one of the Samsung lot. Maybe but I was one of the Swindon lot.

I'm used to seeing the Duracell stand behind the counter at Supermoto or whatever but it walked into a shop. I can't remember where it was now but it was the big a big VARTA stand right in front of me. I was like, I've never really seen that before. So I know they're big in Europe, VARTA, but I was well surprised to see one of them in London. But Jing Long, yeah, they're not common. So you know, you could take a little bit of comfort from that, but they're just not brand new players. I do think, you know, far and wide, you have to be going these days to get a good new player because it's very, very rare. And power is a great exception.

Yeah, all right, well, great work, I'll be right away. Raph has come in with something so obvious as Google battery's been submitted. I got these with the new Chromecast. I got it because I live in Vietnam as an English teacher, and now I'm gonna watch all the UK TV channels for five good a month for some dodgy service. Please tell all your listeners, if you're young and struggling in

the UK then consider moving to South East Asia to teach English. The qualification you need at TEFL takes a day or two and it's only about 40 quid and then you're as good to go as you could possibly be and it's easy work and it pays very well considering the cost of living. I was depressed in the UK as a young 23 year old and eight years on I'm still here in Vietnam and loving life all the best RAF! I wholeheartedly concur I try to be a Tefl teacher but the bar was too high for me and wasn't allowed to do it You've mentioned that before and this is great insight from Raph who basically says you need 40 quid and two days of your time to do it Which of those two things did you fail on? I think it was just a general kind of lack of understanding

about what they needed out of me, to be honest. How did you actually fail? Like a sleep. How is it even possible to fail? They didn't really, well back then, if you sort of apply for a Tefl course now, there's obviously so many resources to sort of tell you what to do.

Back then, I think there was one forum post that would tell you what they want from you as a Tefl teacher and I turned up in after having like I'm not a big game player I if I've got something big on if I've got a flight to take, if I've got a meeting to do or some kind of you know if I'm getting on stage to do something I never sleep I don't sleep a wink before it before that. Get tickets to the Ramble live show! Get tickets to the Ramble live show! Cause who knows, Pete's gonna be a fucking zombie! With rippers trousers!

And so it's really difficult for me. And so yeah, I turned up and I was just not having a good time and I didn't really know what they wanted and I didn't really have time to prep and all that stuff really and I just absolutely messed it up. So that, but things could have been different for me. could have been you know in the arse end of Norway and Japan and had a terrible time because I'd be terribly lonely because you know me I'm such a I love a bit small talk I'm such a social animal and

I and and and I wouldn't have had the opportunity to work to run a housing website. Well Raph obviously succeeded where you failed. Yeah, well done Raph. And he's out there mugging you off there by talking about how easy it is. Certainly has, certainly has. But travel, I always think travel is a really good answer. He does have a picture of a communist, Pepe the Frog, on his shelf, which is a bit worrying. He's taking that photo on purpose for that in the background.

That's his most prized possession. Anyway, how do you feel about Google Batteries Peter, first and foremost? I think at this stage, at this late stage of the party, I think we're absolutely fine for Google Batteries to come in if indeed they're a new player. If not, we're going to wang them over the wall in the garden. Well, they're not a new player sadly. Our friend Drew sent some Google batteries in in September of 2022. They said they also came with,

he says they also came with a Chromecast TV remote. So they have been sent in before, but nevertheless, Raph, thanks for the email. So Peter, in terms of new players this week, it's one out of three. That's all right, at least we got one. Some weeks we absolutely struck out, so yeah, well done Joe with the ampower. Fantastic.

Better than nothing. Pete, a couple of emails I want to read out just to update stuff on some of the things we talked about before. First one up from Jake who says, hello Luke and Pete, just wondering if there was an update on Pete's durian fruit being delivered to the office. Did it cause any problems with building management? Yeah, we didn't actually clear that up, Pete. Did you want to give people the information

about what actually happened? It quite helpfully did not arrive. They couldn't, my durian guy on Amazon couldn't manage to secure the durian. And by the time they could supply me with one, I was out of the country, so I didn't really want it sitting in the in the post room at Screamworks. I mean I will say the

building that we do operate a lot of stack from it wouldn't be the worst smell I smelt in that week because the toilets were literally backed up and there was sewage running down the corridor. So I should have just delivered it. I probably would have got away with it. People wouldn't have made the connection. They'd have been like, oh, it's the fucking toilets again. No, the toilets are backed up again.

Never mind. You seemed at the time pretty pleased that it hadn't turned out because I think it was one of the fires of regret. Oh yeah, massively relieved. I think there's something special about getting excited about something, instantly regretting it and then that being massively taken out of your hands. It's something delicious. It's how you make your partner, isn't it? It's as delicious as a durian. Yeah, exactly. So I hope that satisfies you, Jake. I mean, it's probably safe to say that if anything had happened,

we would have told you about it anyway. What about this from Adam? He says, all right, chaps, just a bit of info about living near an airport. As Luke suggested recently, it does feel pretty badass being able to walk home from one. As a frequent flyer, I have probably used Leeds Bradford Airport up to 12 times in the last two years. While the airport itself is an abomination, it still kind of works and is currently undergoing a much needed revamp. The trips I have been on have not just been personal trips but also work related ones too. This summer after arriving back from Crete with work as a light packer I left my colleagues

waiting for their luggage and taxis home. Meanwhile I was on the short 10 minute walk back to my house. It truly is a great feeling opening that front door knowing your fellow passengers are still waiting for their luggage and have another leg of their journey to complete As for the noise, I don't live under the flight path and actually believe the planes are quite calming Hearing them take off early doors is sometimes a nice gentle alarm and those that land late at night are a relaxing lullaby Thanks for the output. Cheers Adam interesting perspective Peter on living right near an airport Yeah, I think that's absolutely fine. I live right near an airport.

I mean, if an easy jet went over now, it would block the entire of my window. It really is that big. And if you're in my garden and you've never kind of experienced how close we are to a flight path, it really is something. People who shit their pants, they go, fuck it all!

That plane's massive! And what time of the day do they cut do they run the latest one is about 11 i think probably but it's you know you just get used to i suppose i mean let's make it very clear post like post covid um southern airport they don't really do that many flights but uh but but obviously um yeah when it starts to pick up again and i think there are a few more flights popping off, so to speak, but yeah, I think I'm absolutely fine with it. I find it quite inspirational. I think it's quite exciting that people are coming

from three places in Europe to spend some time in Southend. Could they be coming from Faroe, Amsterdam, or somewhere in Italy? I've not researched. It has to be one of those, doesn't it? It will have to be one of those. And then you'll have the usual kind of people who have got private jets and have been misinformed about how close London Southend Airport is to everything. Sure those private jets aren't that loud though right?

They are relatively, no they're not as big obviously as a 7x7. Why is it called Leeds Bradford Airport? I realise it is equidistant and north from Leeds and Bradford. Why don't they just call it Yorkshire Airport or, you know, why don't you call it Liverpool York or Manchester York? Apparently it's located in the town of Yeeden. So it should just just called Yeeden but I guess no one will know where it is then. No, true. True that. So you don't get woken up by these planes every morning or anything like that then? Nah. You only get like three or four a day. It's absolutely fine. Yeah, I mean we'd be quite, I mean I see, we don't hear them because they're still really high, but I see the line up of planes going into Heathrow pretty easily from the back garden. They come over like every minute.

Yeah. So you never be that far away. There's a, since 1986, city airport, you know like Labour has been criticised for increasing the amount of flights in and out of city airport. Right. 12.30pm on Saturday to 12.30 p.m. on Sunday,

there's no flights into or out of City Airport. It's a curfew. That's an entire day where no flights take place. Like, oh. Because it's a business airport though, right? Yeah, but like why do they kick off again at, you know, 12.30 on Sunday? Yeah, I don't know, it's why do they kick off again at 1230 on Sunday? Yeah, I don't know

It just it's fascinating that they would I don't think they're they've had their passenger cap raised But they're not going to be able to fly Saturday afternoon flights and seems like that would be an easy win to Expand the the capacity no someone I know As an office right opposite city airport on the other side of the river and I've been to visit and it's fucking cool seeing them come in the flight I recently started watching them re watching airline that that late 90s early 2000s docu soap thing Is this after the the the the popular? Is this after the popular clip of that woman in the tiger face paint? Yes, exactly. And the guy who we used to run jingles on this show about,

he just had four pints and his wife left him. It's a fascinating show. It's a fascinating I bet. kind of insight into late 90s life in the UK. It's really cool. Oh yeah, massively. Just that, just you sort of think it's because it it feels like you know 10 years ago and it obviously isn't 10 years ago, you look at the fashions and you go oh fuck yeah we were so different, so very different. And some of the language involved, whew. Right, why, what, like? Some of the words being used for our homosexual brothers and sisters who are prevalent in that industry is difficult. What do you mean? Calling each other or?

Well because there's loads of people, there's loads of like cabin crew men who aren't gay, right? Right. And there's loads who are. Yeah. And are the straight ones saying I'm not in certain word? Yeah and they're also only doing it to obviously go after women because they realize it's such a female-dominated space. And they also have quite derogatory opinions. Not opinions, I don't think they're judging them, but they just use quite derogatory words.

I'm surprised they can still use that language on telly. But having said that, I think someone's just uploaded it to YouTube anyway, so if they ever reram it. It's not on telly. It'd have to be edited, put it that way. I don't know, this going to pass Ofcom. The eyes of Ofcom. It's POM, aren't they Luke? It's not designed to. The only way they could pass the Ofcom test is just literally put it out on GB News.

Good point actually, yeah. I do like people who get asked to go on to GB News to defend, I don't know, like a gay character on Doctor Who or some shit. And I do like the way that they really put upon producers who, you know, presumably just want their job in telly and they feel that this is something they can stomach for a couple of years before they... So they're DMing, you know, you know, vocally apparent or people who sort of identify certain, you know, parts of life and and and they're basically saying, hey, this is going to be a really fun conversation about a gay Doctor Who character. We're going to have a little fun.

Some people don't agree that it should be on the television. And we hope you could kind of you of disavow them of that notion. And it's just so fucking shit. You know who started all that stuff? The people who started all that stuff were the BBC. Because they have to show balance, right? So the BBC, every single fucking morning on the Today program you'd have someone on one side, someone on the other, which is a complete misunderstanding of how balance actually works. They'd do it about climate change. It was fucking ridiculous. Someone was pointing out that you're getting confused between balance and basically just an argument, because if you wanted to provide clear balance about

the climate change argument among the scientific community in the world, you'd have to have like 50,000 scientists on one side and then one weirdo who's basically bankrolled by BP on the other side and that would give you balance because the consensus is clear, right? The BBC's do that all the time and GB News do it now, of course, but I find it very strange that people have an issue around a gay character on Doctor Who given that the Doctor himself's got fucking two hearts and goes through time and space in a fucking phone box. Or a police box, sorry. It's not exactly the most believable show anyway, so don't worry about it. No, good point. All right then, let's get out of here. This has been The Look and Be

Short for another Thursday. We'll be back on Monday. But if you decide that you want to float through time with your sonic screwdriver over the weekend, you should be careful, all right? Yeah. Do it. It'll fix anything, that sonic screwdriver. It will. Do not get it near either of your nipples because it could do some damage. Farewell. See ya. The Luke and Pete Show is a stack production and part of the world's best podcasts. Here's a show that we recommend. Welcome to Sincerely Sloan presented by Uninterrupted. I'm your host, professional tennis player, wife, parent, and entrepreneur Sloan Stevens. As an athlete and as a person, my journey has had a lot of twists and turns

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