The Luke and Pete Show - Goodbye 2024!

Episode Date: December 30, 2024

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Welcome to The Luke and Pete Show. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Lukey Miller on this Monday the 30th of December. We are on the precipice of 2025. I'm a little bit worried which direction my life's going, but other than that, absolutely chipper. I mean, I could tell you definitively which direction your life's going into if you want. It's a good point actually. Final episode of 2024. We're on the piss, impressive piss of 2025. How do you feel Peter?

This is a time for reflection for a lot of people, kind of thinking about the year that's gone and what's to come and how does that find you? I can already smell a January health kick. Oh yeah, what's it going to be? What's it going to comprise considering my rotator cuffs on both sides are absolutely johnnied. How's that happen? Boxing?

You're doing that back street boxing again? I'm doing boxing. Did I tell you before the Tyson match I threw my shoulder out? Like it came out the socket and went back in again. Solidarity for Mike Tyson? Well I was doing shadow boxing to impress Sarah and I threw my shoulder out, like it came out the socket and went back in again. And solidarity for Mike Tyson? Well, doing, I was doing shadow boxing to impress Sarah and I threw my shoulder out. What are you talking about? I screamed like a little girl.

In what world is that going to impress her? I don't know, I was going, I'll give him a bit of this, give him a bit of that. And then I went, ahhhh and fell on the floor. And she was like, what is wrong with you? It's a constant, constant possibility I'm gonna hurt myself. A mutual friend of ours going back to his own kitchen after the pub and after a good old session at like four in the morning and like boxing with one of his neighbours. What

are you doing? Go to bed! You've got to find the right neighbours for that to be honest. I'm trying to think why. I thought they were consenting in fairness. Right, okay, okay. He didn't just absolutely start raining. It was like grabbing them off the street. Raining blows down. Yeah. Like a 19th, like an early 19th century kind of press gang.

Yeah. Making towards the Navy. I've been sort of, I've been helping out my neighbours. I've done three Christmas miracles. I climbed a tree to put the Christmas lights into the tree because nobody's... Just before or after you put both your shoulders out? It was before I think, yeah. Okay, it would have had to have been. Climbed the tree outside my house and outside someone else's house to get the Christmas

lights up. And I threw them so high, I think they will need to be cut down more than... Leave them up all year. Leave them up all year. Leave them up all year. Leave them up. Yeah. You know. That's one Christmas miracle. I think the second one was somebody else was having a bit of a light issue and I sold them back together like a big brave boy. These aren't miracles. These are basically very basic neighbourly favours? All right, someone, one of the neighbours, sells rum from the area. Damien? Damien.

He told us about it a lot of times. All right, fine. Well Damien was selling rum down at the market, down at the Christmas fair, and his eye-zettle machine wasn't working, so he could have had to have just, you know, left his market stall and go home and sell no rum that day. But I managed to fix the Bluetooth connectivity on his iZettle machine and he was able to take payments via card. So there, Luke and my three Christmas neighborly, and I'd redelivered Amazon parcel to Martin, the jazz musician over the road. Toby – I did exactly the same thing. I told you about my detective work Yeah, but you didn't you won't do it twice. No two Christmas miracles for you. Come on

Come on. There's a limit isn't there is a limit. Yeah How have you found now with the other side of Christmas? How have you found them? Christmas party season looking back on it. I had too many Christmas party season, looking back on it. I had too many drinks at times that I didn't... You know, like, it's weird because, like, for a lot of people, Christmas party season is you go boozing and you recover and you just do work. But, like, a lot of our work happens in December, doesn't it? There's a lot of, like, Christmas roll-up stuff.

Like, you've got to edit a lot of shows, you've got to put a lot of shows together and stuff. So a lot of our work does happen on December and having more than two pints these days puts me through an absolute loop the next day. So yeah, I have to limit myself to three or I can't cycle. Yeah, it's mad, isn't it? Well, you can't cycle home. You should be cycling all three. The problem with London these days is that, you know, even to get five or six miles on public transport can be super unreliable. Yeah, that's true. If I'm on the bike, I'm in charge of my own destiny, you know, even to get five or six miles on public transport can be super unreliable. Yeah, that's true. If I'm on the bike, I'm in charge of my own destiny, you

know, I saw like range, you ever get range anxiety, like with electric cars that your legs aren't your pistons aren't going to get to where you need to be. I absolutely back myself. I may collapse in the entrance hall to my own home, but I'll get there, boy. Speaking of my loads of work yet to do, I know you've, you obviously did, what you've been doing, Wrestle Mimas as well. And just to, just so you know, I mean, this won't be a surprise to you, but it may be a surprise to some of our crossover listeners.

That when I left the office the other day, walked back through a little park across the road with producer Finn. And I saw Mark Haynes sitting on a bench with a big coffee, genuinely like just stealing himself for coming in to work with you. He was like stealing himself. He was just telling a bit of a thing. You know when outside the back of the Linton travel tab and where Michael's just like rubbing his head.

Rubbing his face, yeah. Yeah, it was a bit like that. Yeah, it was like that really, yeah. Yeah, he did say he'd seen you, but... Do you know, speaking of the Christmas parties as well, so I've got a good friend of mine who I've known him for a long old time. I lived with him for a while in New Zealand. Great lad, known him 25 years plus, but he is basically through weird... The thing is he's from the same area as me, but the posh bit. And he's essentially just a bit like Bertie Worcester. And you know Bertie Worcester, right? Yeah. And he talks like Bertie Worcester and he communicates like Bertie Worcester. He's a very

successful man in his own right, but he's just got big Bertie. He's got the accent to prove it. Yeah. Yeah. And he was talking about his, his Christmas party. So he's, um, he's like quite high up in a, in a shipping company. Yeah. And, uh, he's obviously one of the authority figures that these Christmas did is, and obviously because it's like broke trading and stuff, it's all, it's all money. And, uh, I, I, I'm going to read this to you. I've not named him, so you won't be embarrassed. There's no way I'll listen to this. He only really listens to like proper,

like in depth radio three, radio four podcast series, right? He's that kind of guy. There's no way he's coming near this. And I messaged him, we were talking about Christmas parties on WhatsApp. And I messaged him because I knew he had his Christmas party the night before. And he replied with this message, genuinely, I'm

going to read it exactly how he's written it. It was fine, but saw some run behaviour that I just wrote off. As you know, some of these chaps don't spare the rod and when they sober up, they're bloody good eggs. Brilliant. That's party Worcester stuff, isn't it? Yeah. It is. I always sort of find like men who have that kind of delivery and men who have that kind of accent and voice and delivery. It does, it does sort of make me think I do enjoy it. I don't enjoy it, but I always find it quite weird when they don't have a very good job. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Like, I mean, like they're not

very high up in their company. Like Brooklyn Beckham doing that wine video. Say again? Like Brooklyn Beckham doing that wine video. You should be doing more with your life. You've had every chance. Well no, I'm just sort of thinking like posh, posh lads who, um, who are clearly, like, who, whose job doesn't match their accent. Do you know what I mean?

Yeah. Do you think with that, like, that, that affords a certain amount of kind of respect, I think, having, having a bit of a pop. It's definitely half the battle isn't it? I can imagine you in a disciplinary meeting or an HR meeting going, you know, I understand what one is saying but some of these chaps don't spare the rod and when they sober up are bloody good eggs. Can we just remember that and put that in the report? People say the same about you though Pete, because they hear you and they go bang, coal miner. Yeah, yeah. Whip it Wrang you though, Pete, because they hear you and they go, bang, coal miner.

Yeah, yeah. Whip it, Wrangler. That man's a whip it Wrangler. This man should be in some kind of, ploughing some kind of coal seam three miles out under the sea. Under the North Sea. This voice is quite rough because of a drank I had. A purple drank I had.

I've gotten a purple drank over the Christmas period. Right, not because of you, it's the time for it. You'd think my cough would be better. No, I had a couple of beers on Monday and it's now Wednesday that we're recording this and I think it's fair to say that I can't, I think I've got problems with polyps on my couple of beers. What do you mean couple of beers though? Do you actually literally mean a couple of beers? Four.

Four in the end. Cover a day. It's not four is it? Well, alright, double couple. It's a couple of couples. It's a couple of couples. Is it an even number? Then a couple is involved, yeah?

We don't know how many couples. You're not speaking to your partner now mate. A couple of drinks have been taken repeatedly, alright? You're not speaking to your daughter now. Daddy's just having a lie down in this shed. And a couple of beers. You're not speaking to your daughter now. Daddy's just having a lie down in this shed. And it's ruined my voice, but I did try and sing the Wind of Change with Andy Brassell and Marcus Haynes.

Marcus Haynes? Marcus Speller. You are up against it, aren't you? I'm tired. Marcus Speller a little while ago. And I, my voice bug, I can't do a tight singing anymore. It's a very tough one to sing. Yeah, but like,

do do do do do do do do, I don't know, holy night! Like that, but I can't sing. I don't think anyone would expect you to be able to do that. Holy night! I can't sing, I've got nothing up that register. You'd have to do what Robert Plant did in those Led Zeppelin reunion concert. What, sing low? Need them, need them reworked.

Need them down to step two now please. Well they all do that don't they? Like Bon Jovi's a famous one for stuff like Always, it'll sort of have it down, like it's a good few semitones. I'll tell you now, this is a big claim by me, but if anyone wants to invite me down a karaoke bar, and let's be honest, pay me to be there, I reckon I can still do Always by Bon Jovi. It's right at the very limit of what I can do. What's the pitch of...

It's not that bit, it's the bit where he starts to give it some towards the end. Right. When there ain't no doubt in the only time, baby, if you give me just one more try, we can pack up our own dreams and our own lives. That bit. That's not the right key. There's a key change though. No, but that's not the right key. I'm doing it anyway. I'm just doing it to demonstrate. But there is a key change. Yeah, it goes higher. But it's right on the limit. But if I'm on my own in the car, and I warm myself up, you know, perhaps with a bit of the temptations and then spin it like he's done it. On the right day. I just sing rancid these. I mean,

I've seen for the first time, you did promise me a video of you and your band doing Radiation Vibe, but you sent me- I couldn't find it. You couldn't find it, but you found another couple of songs. Turns out Luke Moo's dad band is upsettingly competent. Wanted them to be shit, not shit. Annoying. You surround yourself with talented people, mate. You can't go wrong. Yeah, annoying.

To be fair, I should probably make it clear that the other people I play with, and it's very much a kind of not for public consumption, just an excuse to get together and have a few beers type band. It's not like, it's not like anything serious, but the drummer is a, is a pretty competent session session drummer. He plays in like jazz bands and stuff. The other guitar player is occasionally Blair Dunlop, who is a working professional singer songwriter. Yeah. And another guy, Mark is a studio engineer who's like engineered some Nick Cave albums and stuff. They're proper. And do you want the thing that unites them all?

A mistrust of your intentions? Patience to put up with me. There's a running joke amongst a few of us that I'm the worst guitarist in history to have a guitar set because Mark the engineer just does all that stuff for me. Right, okay, yeah. So when I turn up with my staff, he just sets it all up for me. What? He just sets it up? What?

You've got guitar tech? No, because he sets everything up because he's a studio engineer by trade. So he basically does mine for me. So basically what he's thinking, it sounds like I'm being a massive diva, but if you think about it in practice, he's not going to go, right, I'll set up all this stuff, but I'll just leave Luke to get on with his own guitar because it'll sound like shit and it'll be a complete waste of time. So he'll just does it all for me. One of your little cog multi-pedals, the little 60 job one. Yeah, he's just like, I know how you like it to sound. So just leave it with me.

I'll just do it. Yeah. It's great. It's also fun. I would recommend it to anyone. Does he set up a little Peter Frampton voice tube for you to get out more? Yeah, like Peter Frampton. I think it's great for the soul to be listening to and playing music with your friends. It's great. It's a great thing. Yeah, it's got to be as pretentious or pompous. Just a bit of fun. Now, that'll be for the first album. That's when the pretension comes.

Yeah, well, maybe one day. If I make enough money where I'm going to do a job anymore, maybe I'll give it a go. But that doesn't really like it sound like it'll be like the most conducive environment for a good album. Just financial ease. Not worried about anything else. It's not going to make any sense. Anyway, Peter, I would like to do in this Christmas perineum between Christmas and New Year, there's lots of bang through a few emails of us okay with you. Yeah, let's do it. We've got a lot in the bag. We've got one here from a debt collector.

Would you like me to read that? Yes, please. They've not named themselves, perhaps because they're ashamed of their profession. Oh, I don't think that's the case, is it? I couldn't possibly say that. No, I wouldn't say that. But we talked a bit about debt, didn't we? Debt collectors a while back,

and a working debt collector has come in and given us a few thoughts of their own. So I'll read it through, because I think you might find it interesting, and I think our listeners will too. So, hi, Luke and Pete. I'm not qualified to speak on behalf of an entire industry, but I've been working in the field for over 10 years

and have some thoughts that might be helpful to your listeners. Some firms do buy debts but this is not the most common way for it to work. Usually the firm will work on behalf of the company who has owed the money and earn a commission from them when the debt is collected. Most of the time if a debt is paid promptly the debtor does not lose out as a result of an agency being used. You mentioned that some debt collection agencies operate in a grey area but the majority don't. It's true that in some cases a debt collection agency will give up after a certain number of letters and phone calls but they do have the option of obtaining a county court judgment. If this happens it can mean fees are added so the amount increases and if the debt remains unpaid it can affect your

ability to obtain credit. There are various ways that a creditor can enforce a CCJ. For example, they can obtain a charging order which means the money will be taken from the person's wages and their employer will find out about the debt. Another way to enforce a CCJ is to enlist a High Court Enforcement Officer. Someone attends a property in respect of a debt, this is usually the case and they will be very happy to show you ID and the paperwork to prove that they are authorised. It's right there's no obligation to engage with them, but they do have certain powers. For example, if your car is parked on the road, they could clamp it.

Uh oh. Yeah. And to which you say, Peter, which car? Which one? Which car? Which one? I mean, like, I mean, what? That big, long, weird Japanese car? I like the idea of you just saying to them, look, I do own admittedly several different ill-advised vehicles, but I am unquestionably still skinned. Partly because of the vehicles. I'm not selling a single one. I'm gonna have an underground compound

that they're gonna liberate one day. Like the Sultan of Brunei or Bashar al-Assad. Anyway, my top tip for dealing with a debt collection agency would be to engage with them. If a person doesn't owe the debt, they should demonstrate this and they will be left alone. If the debt is owed and they can afford to pay it, they should do so.

Paying to the agency is best because then they will definitely know the payment has been made. Brackets always include the reference. There will be not any letters. If you pay the original credit to direct, that is fine too, but there may be a delay in the agency being informed and you may get calls and letters,

still get calls and letters. Where a person owes the debt and can't afford to pay it they should tell the agency this and by law they must be treated fairly. Part of the job of customer facing staff is to make them aware of places they can go to get help if they're in financial difficulty. I've worked in the industry for a long time and I've had many customer facing colleagues. I honestly do not remember ever having any indication that any of them took pleasure in causing problems for customers. All they want to do is resolve a debt, do their job and move on, keep up

the good work. So there you go, Peter, an insight from inside the industry itself. It's the kind of programming that Greg Wallace would have done before he got cancelled. Yeah, I was watching some stand up and they were talking about just before Christmas, late November time, and they were doing a whole bit of their routine. It was probably one of the more successful bits of routine. And it was all about Greg Wallace's in the factory where Greg Wallace would show up at the factory and go, oh my God, amazing. And when the Greg Wallace thing all came out, I was like, that's a shame for that stand up.

Because that's more often exact. Who was it? Tell them, name them. It was one you don't like. That doesn't narrow it down, does it? No. Josh Whiddicombe. It's Josh Whiddicombe. I remember that thinking. Never mind. You can't honestly tell me that Josh Whiddicombe doing a stand-up routine about Greg Wallace doing Inside the Factory is like worth parting with money for. Well, it wasn't like that.

That wasn't the main draw. I mean, there was several acts on it. It was part of it. Be honest. It was part of it. It's part of it. Part of it. Why are you going to see Josh? It was restitution for how how horrible you are to him. I've got to I've got to put some money in his pocket.

There was no money. It was a charity thing. If he if he you want why those people are going to these charity stand up nights, are you? What are you doing? I think you need to get in the stand up. Maybe you should just piss her, get off the pot, get yourself a little open mic spot somewhere in South London. I'd be shit. And talk about, talk about, I don't know what it's like in your street. Should I do, should I do five minutes? Yeah. Is it five minutes? Yeah, type five. Should I do five minutes? Is it five minutes they do the open mic? Type five. You're perfectly set up for it. You're quite tall, so very visible. And you can remember things really well.

Five minutes, Pete, of me trying and failing to hit the top notes in Bon Jovi's always. That would be funny after a while. That would get tongues wagging. Just keep doing it. Just keep doing it. Just keep doing it. Yeah, it's a horrible thought. On that note, let's have a quick break. When we come back, we'll do some more emails from these lovely listeners we've got here. We're back with the Looking Pete Show and if you'd like to get into the show for 2025, please do so. Hello at lookingpeachshow.com. I mean, you're probably in the, as I discussed,

the Buffmans Bridge between Christmas and New Year, that eerie place where people just don't know, you know, what's up, what's down, what's in the fridge, what's not in the fridge, et cetera, et cetera. And you've probably got some amazing Christmas stories you want us to hear about. Maybe you've got some batteries that came with some cheap Chinese electronica. We want to hear from you. Hellolinkpicture.com. Yeah, let us know how your Christmas went. Exactly. I want to know weird things that yourLinkPitchlock.com. Yeah, let us know how your Christmas went. Exactly. I want to know.

Why not? Weird things that your family have done. What about this from Chris? He says, morning gents, long time listener, many time emailer. Your chat and fish and chip shots coincided with a set from comedian Adam Rowe, for fuck's sake. Yes. He recently talked about how pretty much every chip in England also doubles up as a Chinese takeaway, which never happens anywhere else in the world.

I mean, that's just not true, is it? A lot. There's a few. They're not ones you wouldn't go for either the fish and chips, or you wouldn't go for the Chinese. I'd never go to one like that. No, but you'd think that they would be able to get both things right because they are quite similar. Everything's deep fried pretty much in Chinese English cuisine, isn't it? In some kind of batter. You think that'd be, if you've already got an oil frying, you may as well just give them a bit of fish.

It's one of the simpler dishes. Just take out the MSG really. Certainly some people are bringing in their own fish. Exactly. He says, I never realised this before. I just thought it was normal that I can get a fish supper and a chow mein from the same shop. But you guys are a bit better traveled than me.

Have you ever come across this phenomenon abroad or is it truly UK only? I mean, I wouldn't go into a place that doesn't specialize, basically, when it comes to fish and chips. Yeah, but it's a bit rich because fish and chips are really easy to cook. You know, if you can handle a duck pancakes, you know, getting that all cooked properly and dried out properly, I think you could probably handle dipping a

bit of cod into some batter and then chucking it in the fryer. I just feel like, I like the idea, I mean it's probably absolute bollocks, but I like the idea of like a proper, you know, experienced, dedicated fish and chip shop that's got this recipe and all the rest of it. And I feel this, I never really go to Chinese takeaways, so I couldn't really comment on that. But like the same way that I wouldn't go to a curry house if it was also doing fish and chips for curry, like it's supposed to be a curry house, right?

It goes back to the whole time about that guy tried to sell me that car battery and that deli block of cheese. I'm not gonna buy one of those things from someone who's selling the other. No, and imagine if you cut into the cheese, another little battery. It was just a way of stealing yet another battery. That would be a lovely surprise, actually.

That would be a lovely surprise. I want to read this one out from Dave as well, because I think you might like this one, Peter. He says, hello to Luke and Pete. Your chow and itching powder a while back reminded me of a prank gone wrong during a school trip in 2001. We went to Germany and we were based near Trier with the year below. I think that's pronounced Trier. T-R-I-E-R. We were year nine, they were year eight. So for those of you who are listening internationally, that's probably, well that's basically, you know, eighth grade, ninth grade, so 13, 14. As you do on school trips, we were allowed free time to wander the city.

We found a local joke shop that sold an assortment of classic pranks, as well as for some mad reason throwing throwing stars and other knife related items. This is a bit of dance than this. One of my friends at the time bought some joke sweets, which looked like orange sherbet or actually garlic flavored. He then handed these out to several of the year eight kids, but unfortunately one of them then had an immediate allergic reaction because he was allergic to garlic. Exactly, big joke, just a big joke.

Then what happened was there was a lot of panic before he was immediately taken to hospital. Fortunately he was eventually fine, joining up with our group later in the evening, but my mate was roundly bollocked by the teachers. Also on this school trip, we were quite rightly told off by the angry hotel owner for having water pistol fights throughout the hotel. And another lad in the year below bought pornographic playing cards, which the teacher swiftly banned. Eventful to say the least, cheers Dave. That's a bit of you that, Donson. Oh, the- Both the allergic reaction and the prank I think the more allergies but I would say

with the whole damn or the whole kind of like what I like about prank is that it was completely innocent and it was just like a little haha that sweet didn't taste like what you wanted it to taste like sounds more delicious really a lovely sugary sweet with some garlic providing some kind of backbone. I don't think it's sugary, I think it's probably going to be horrible. Do you not think it's funny that like it was just an innocent joke and it went as badly as an innocent joke like that could have gone? Amazing.

Did you do any field trips when you were a kid? Yeah we did Antwerp I think. No, Bruges. Bruges is lovely. And we, yeah, we, it was a sort of football trip. I think we went with, did we go with the orchestra? I seem to remember we were in a public toilet and a woman came out of her, presumably also a good joke shop because Belgium and Holland just had, it was just wall to wall joke shops, wasn't it, back in the day? Yeah. There was nothing else that would enchant children on holiday.

Was it wall to wall or did we just find them because we were like teenage boys? Maybe, yeah. But for me, it would always be, as discussed in this show before, it would be a joke shop that was also a sexy shop, like a little bit, a lot of bawdy stuff in there. There's always a, I think I mentioned it before, like you'd go in and there'd be a Tintin magazine, but it's not, you'd be being bummed by Tintin. It was really subverted. What you thought it was actually a little, a little scary, but I remember a woman running out of a joke shop and pouring a bucket of water on a man who was hiding in the girls toilets, like looking at basically school girls. And that's justice in Belgium back in the day.

Belgium's got a terrible reputation for that kind of thing. Does it? Right. Is it like Japan with all weirdos? I think there's a lot of issues with that type of crime in Belgium as far as I know. Oh yeah, wasn't there? Isn't there like a lot of absolute wrong, isn't there like absolute, I don't like paedophiles, like it's got a big, it's a big holiday destination for them for some fucking reason. Yeah, that's on rings of bell. Yeah. Yeah. Well, speaking of, were you speaking of Charles? Not really, it's been a toilet, but I guess it's related. This from Mark, he says, Hi Japs, just had to share

this with you, because your show has just caused me a very awkward and hilarious encounter. For background, a couple of months ago, I started work as a teacher at a college. Oh, dear. There's a terrible link into this email. The college is a fully fitted gym for students studying sports science and other subjects. Before and after school college, however, it's used by the staff. After the usual induction I started coming in early to use the gym before work. Now most days I had the gym to myself and was able to play whatever I want to listen to for my workout. The one downside is the showers have no hot water at the moment. So not wanting to

stink for the day after a workout I've been having cold showers. Again this is the bonus that I have the cubicles and the change room to myself because obviously no one else wants a cold shower. Somehow, Spotify skipped the Halfords episode of Luke and Pete and I'm being alone in the shower, I just let it play on my phone. On the episode, just as the wife Luke has access to came in for a packet of Doritos and Pete started talking about the stroking the penis of a horse, I heard the sound of someone else in the changing room. Mid-shower and not being able to pause or stop it.

Pete just carries on talking about throbbing horse cocks. Yes. So I got out of the shower to see my head of department glance over the shocked expression about what he just heard. Weeks and weeks of listening to whatever I wanted to alone. And the one time I'm not alone, it had to be Pete Luchan's Pete Show content. This ended with me having to explain what the show was. I'm not sure I made it any better.

If anything, I probably scared him off and I managed to keep the showers and gym to myself in the mornings. So hopefully that's a good thing. I hope it gave you a laugh. Keep up the good work, Mark. I told you before that you should not be talking about horses cocks all the time, but on the other hand, we always assume listeners are listening with headphones. Yeah, always. And never in the car with children. Or even if they are, I just think some content

isn't necessarily that interesting for anyone. Do you know what I mean? For kids, they're probably not that bothered, to be honest. I don't think we're overtly, and we are overtly rude all the time and quite squary as well. So a bad example. But I think also you and I don't know what it's like these days to have a proper job. Exactly. And I think the absolute potty mouth I use, I do sort of think we're not cool. Do you know what I mean? So if we started smoking, Um, we're not, um, we're not cool. Do you know what I mean? So if we started smoking, yeah, kids wouldn't want to start smoking. So I was using bad language.

Like, yeah, that's not the language for us because those two are absolute dweebs. Yeah. I think that's probably right. Yeah. I mean, we're just so that's the beauty of the show. We're just so non-descript and middle-aged men with no, no real interest for anyone. Yeah, I think so. Some people get attracted to this show and they like it.

That's usually how podcasts start, isn't it? That's the trope, that's the stereotype, isn't it? We were doing it before everyone else. I know, that's why we don't go at the pub, because the natural end of being in a pub with male friends is you just start a podcast. We started a podcast so we never need to go to the pub. No, but I do go to the pub, which is not my best thing to go with you. You never stay still for long enough to be in the pub.

No, snipers, I've got a lot of them, but a lot of ops, I've got a lot of ops. Speaking of snipers, this is massively partridge, but I'll just put it out there. You know that show, Day of the Jackal? Yes, the new one. Yeah, so why the plot points is around a really long range sniper kill. Yeah.

I looked up out of interest what the most longest confirmed sniper kill is. It's in the miles isn't it? Yeah, it's something like, I think it's something like 3.8 kilometers, which is over two miles. How high up is that person? You'd have to dick about with so many dials to work with the weight of the bullet, the curvature of the, I mean, good God. Yeah, and also it's not just the weight of the bullet, the curvature of the earth, the wind, all that kind of stuff.

It's also the fact that I think a bullet traveling at that speed takes six seconds to hit the target. How has it got anything left after that? I bet it's really cool. I bet it's cool lead by the time it gets there. No, but you have to be pretty certain that person's gonna stay in the same place for six seconds. If you count six seconds in your head, that's quite a long time. Yeah, yeah. It's fascinating.

Oh yeah, it's amazing. But like, but you would have to be pretty high off, wouldn't you? Yeah, you would. But you'd also, you'd also, so like someone in, someone sitting in a car, for example, stationary car, obviously, because otherwise that'd be impossible. You've got to be pretty confident they're gonna stay there. Yeah, well for six seconds at least, I suppose. Six seconds is a long time piece, what I'm saying.

It's not like shooting someone from the other side of the room, is it? Look at Donald Trump, he moved at the last second, didn't he? They didn't get him. I don't know what the range on that was. I can't remember. No, he seemed, yeah, he was a bit closer, one might suggest.

Yeah, you'd think so. So yeah, they also, I think I also didn't realise that, just because I have no real knowledge of this area, but they have spotters as well. It's like a two, it's a two man job. I could see that, yeah. He's gone, the wrong window is Tarquin. What is he called Tarquin? I'm not frightened of a sniper called Tarquin. He's a posh sniper, so he's got a posh voice, so he's obviously going to get a great sniping job. The guy who broke the record, normally snipers are like, basically, normally totally anonymous because they're usually special forces, right?

The guy who broke the record was a ex... Mr Blobby enthusiast. No, he's an ex- Mr Blobby. Mate, he's an ex-competitive shooter. Oh, right, I can see that. For Ukraine, who signed up in the war when Russia invaded and capped a Russian, a high-ranking Russian guy,

and was like, yeah, it was me. Yeah, wild. How'd you like it? Well done. Honestly, it was really metal. He announced himself. He confirmed it himself. He then made a statement saying, I hope this means that these Russian guys won't be safe

in their homes. Hope they feel unsafe in their own homes or something. It was properly full on. Anyway, get us out of here, Peter. There's only one way to end, to do, only one thing to do now Anyway, get us out of here, Peter. There's only one way to end, to do, only one thing to do now, and that's to end the show, mate. All right, well, keep your messages coming in, if you would.

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