The Luke and Pete Show - Insanity or incontinence
Episode Date: April 8, 2024Luke revisits more call centre nostalgia and raves about the magic of Teenage Mutant Turtles. Plus Pete finds out that Lukey’s a big ol’ nerd who’s eagerly been awaiting the final books of the G...ame of Thrones series for a whopping 13 years!Elsewhere, Luke says Pete should go into stand up comedy and is certain that all he’d need to do to find success is wet himself on stage.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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It's the Look of Pete Troy, it is Monday the 8th of April, I'm Pete Donaldson and I'm joined by Mr. Lukey, Lukey Moore.
I, Lukey Moore, have to apologise to our very good friend.
Well, alright, okay.
That's fine.
What would you like me to apologise to you about?
Right, I've got, hang on.
Alright, get your list out.
Get your list out, get your little book out. Cut my folder. No, get your list out okay get your list out get your
little folder no you carry on yeah um i would like to apologize to um john hudson who we spoke about
um a couple of weeks ago john hudson sent me a whatsapp sound he was loving it
he was like well so he heard us talk about the fencing. Um, and I, and he basically texted me saying,
thanks for mentioning,
um,
thanks for mentioning the old,
uh,
the old,
the old,
um,
fencing.
I think it's important that it's out there.
Um,
and I texted back saying,
John,
whenever I see bad fencing,
bad swordsmanship in films,
I think of you.
Right.
Yeah.
And what I meant to say was,
I think of you because it must really meant to say was I think of you
because it must really
annoy you
because you're a professional
right
but what came out was
every time I see
somebody bad at fencing
I think of you
because you're bad at fencing
you know when you're
a bit tired
and you write something
and then you're like
about an hour later
you're like
I don't think that
looked right
I don't think that
sounded right
that must happen to you
like every day though right
but yeah but even if
I've said something right I'm like did that full stop did that full stop um you know
did that pregnant part did is it is it a microaggression as they say it was that full
stop a microaggression so i just worry about um things constantly uh it eats me alive it really
does but i loved it when um john messaged me because he said thanks very much for the big
shout out um it's huge for my brand and when the serious helicopter takes off we all fly
together like it like it yeah anyway he's a good lad john you can't you can't keep a good man down
he's coming over in june as well for the um for the baseball for the mlb oh are they doing like a
mlb the show here i think are they doing an extra MLB the show here? Are they doing an extra...
Yeah, I think they're doing it at the London Stadium normally, don't they?
What?
Is that not just too...
Oh, the London Stadium.
I guess it's quite wide.
Would you not need like a wider purpose-built kind of baseball thing for it to...
And nets as well.
You need to put nets up, wouldn't you?
God, I didn't know you were such an expert.
Well, I'm just saying, it's wider, isn't it?
It's like a big triangle.
You'd have to sort of start in one corner and god
the London Stadium
it doesn't help itself
does it
ladies and gentlemen
before we open up
the London Stadium
for this Major League
Baseball series of games
I've got to welcome
our project manager
director and expert
Pete Donaldson
Peter any thoughts
nets
put loads of nets
is it wide enough
nets
we need loads of nets
and we need
yeah it just needs to be a wider situation yeah and just because you carry a baseball Wide enough. Nets. We need loads of nets and we need, yeah,
it just needs to be
a wider situation, yeah.
And just because you carry
a baseball bat around
Leon C doesn't make you
a baseball expert.
I'm the Casey Jones
of Southend.
Casey Jones was hockey
though, wasn't he?
He had loads of stuff.
He had cricket bats,
he had baseball bats,
he had all kinds of stuff.
He basically,
he's sort of like
a garbage wrestler,
I suppose.
Yeah, I'm actually
quite surprised
that Casey Jones
hasn't been given
a WWE contract
at some point
well I imagine
I think the Turtles
probably got involved
with WCW
I remember
Robocop was best friends
with Sting
I remember that
I watched the
recent
Turtles animation movie
on the plane
back from the US
oh right
okay
is it 3D
is it 3D
is it cell based how does it kindD? Is it cell-based?
How does it kind of fit together?
So it's like a... Have you seen...
Is it mixed live action?
No.
It's called Mutant Mayhem.
It's kind of like...
Have you seen Into the Spider-Verse?
Yes.
Okay.
Oh, it's like that?
Yeah, kind of like that.
I would have loved that
when I was a kid.
I love the Ninja Turtles.
Yeah.
All right.
Do you think the guys
who created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
made a load of money
erm
yes
god
good god
yes
they must have done right
I can't remember their names now
erm
I was looking at
Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird
apparently
Peter Laird
yeah erm
yeah of course they did
it would have been
an absolute killing
I mean they were
everywhere
on everything
they must have
like
generational
erm money they must have like money uh money they must have like money
to like proper like private island money for that yeah this is crazy listen to this i've got it here
right the franchise in terms of merchandise alone the franchise generated merchandise sales of 175
million dollars in 1988 350 million dollars in 1989 and 650 million in 1990 by 1994 it was the world's most merchandisable franchise having
generated a total revenue of six billion dollars in merchandise sales alone i think that answers
my question yeah and that was merchandise then you had the films and you had the you know comics and
good god kevin eastman at the time looked like such a comic book guy he just looked like he looked like the kind of i don't
know he just like such a sleazy dude like and uh and he's obviously he's still knocking about still
doing his thing but i mean he's never going to have um he's never going to scale those heights
again but anyway the movies the movie's pretty i actually thought the movie was pretty good and
the caveat being that i would say that who are the baddies? I was on a plane
Shredder
I don't want to give it away
You don't want to give away
the plot of some
Turtles movie
that no one's got to watch
Who are the
Where's your titles?
Where's gotta get your titles?
Was anyone talking like that?
And we'll know
I'll get you on board
by telling you the following things
The voice actors in the movie
contain is the following things. Yeah. The voice actors in the movie contain,
is the following people.
Hannibal Buress.
That's Michelangelo all day.
No, he's not.
He's not.
He's not.
He's not.
Is he one of the turtles?
No, no, he's not.
He's not one of the turtles?
He plays the Genghis frog.
Genghis frog.
Oi, listen.
Ice Cube does a voice.
Paul Rudd does a voice.
Jackie Chan is...
Paul Rudd is Raphael.
Paul Rudd is Michelangelo then.
No?
No.
Who's playing Michelangelo then?
None of the titles are famous voices.
Oh, because that would be too expensive.
Exactly.
Stunt castings, right.
I see.
So Jackie Chan's Splinter, which is good.
But listen. That seems weird. Rocksteady. Rocksteady. Oh, yeah, right? Yeah, so Jackie Chan's Splinter, which is good. But listen, Rocksteady...
Oh, yeah, yeah, I guess so, yeah.
Rocksteady is voiced by John Cena.
And Bebop is voiced by Seth Rogen.
Yeah, but they're not going to have thick New York accents
like they had, though, did they?
Can I also interest you, Pete?
Something that will really tip you over the edge
and make you really, really happy
is that Mr Beast
also voices a character
in that
that's a shame isn't it
one for the kids isn't it
one for the kids isn't it
just let him have that
for crying out loud
anyway I enjoyed it
I think Kung Fu Panda
is back
and I think one of those
lads who plays football
is voicing one of the characters
you know those
are they the F5 tricksters
or something
you know those two lads those two Essex boys the F2 freestylers the F2 freestylers one of the F2 freestylers is voicing one of the characters. You know those, are they the F5 tricksters or something? You know those two,
those two Essex boys.
The F2 Freestylers.
The F2 Freestylers.
One of the F2 Freestylers
is voicing someone in Kung Fu Panda 5 or whatever.
It's four.
It's number four.
And it gets me because it's like,
are they still,
are they still kicking a ball?
Yes, they are.
Because they had a falling out,
didn't they,
quite famously, hilariously.
Did they?
I can't remember whose side I was on,
but I watched a YouTube video about it.
That's the thing about YouTube,
it is like shit off a shovel
that knowledge.
It just,
it hits you hard
and then it just
absolutely skanks off.
It's just like,
I've no idea.
Oh, Mr Beast is in that as well.
He's in that as well,
is he?
And he's got the same
surname as you.
I didn't know he was
called Jimmy Donaldson.
Yeah, Donaldson, yeah.
God, it's annoying for you
to have a much more
successful online Donaldson
than you.
There's so many online,
there's so many more successful Donaldsons. Or Neil Donaldson, the Reading player. Yeah, from back in the day more successful online Donaldson than you. There's so many online, there's so many more successful Donaldson's.
O'Neill Donaldson,
the Reading player.
Yeah.
Stewie Donaldson.
Stewie Donaldson,
the,
the,
the head of a vigilante group in Hartlepool.
Anyway,
Peter,
I wanted to bring in a couple of emails on today's show,
because I feel like we always get to the end and we never have time for them.
So I was going to bring a couple of in,
in based around my calls, working in a call center story from a week or two ago.
Because I never know if I should use people's full names on this.
I'm just going to use the first name because I think these people are still working in the industry.
So I don't want to cause them any trouble.
But Neil's been in touch saying,
Hi Luke and Pete, listening to Luke's Lloyd TSB woes unlocked a core memory for me.
I was in a call center for an office supplies depot
in the early 2000s.
And every three months,
we had a review in which the team leader
would randomly play three calls from that period
of all the hundreds of calls she could randomly click on.
And you had to listen to the three with her
and they'd give you a mark, right?
Which never happened to me.
I'm not sure if the technology properly existed
in that call centre then, but anyway.
So Neil says, number one, it was a customer complaint
and I surprised myself with how well I handled it
and my team leader gave me an A.
Call two was an outgoing call,
usually when you get back to a customer
with an answer to a query, but not this one.
I was calling my best mate
Dave to arrange a night out and see if he could get any
weed. Rating
D.
So he
had to sort of make up these scenarios
or? No, he's obviously just using the
phone to call this mate. Right.
And it's registered as a call and
she's just chosen it as random
to review it.
That's not even a D.
That's like a...
I think D's the worst you can get.
It must be.
Why is that ungraded?
You're literally just ringing up
for a night out on some weed.
Well, Neil says,
luckily I used to get my team leader weed
so she didn't kick off at all.
Oh, right.
Okay, I see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But she told me not to use the phone again
for personal reasons.
Call three was an incoming one.
Good.
I thought as no mates had my direct line, it'll be fine.
However, my then brand new girlfriend and now wife I have access to called me.
And it went from you've left your wallet here to about when I'd see her next
and then what I'd do to her sexually.
Yes, good stuff.
Team leader Slit deserved an A but gave me another D
two D's
someone got a D
two D's
but had to retrain
had to retrain
what's the retraining
sexually
or
you know
drug abuse
I left two weeks later
he says
cheers guys
Neil
more time for your hobbies
by the sounds of things
that's kind of
so
we used to like transfer calls to our mates
instead of other departments and do that kind of thing
because we were just young and bored and didn't respect it
and all that kind of stuff.
But we didn't ever have, like, detail of that length.
You never had, like, a snoop.
You never had someone sort of sitting down with a car
and saying, right, how could that have gone better?
Yeah, exactly.
How could...
On radio, you used to get, like, snoops that have gone better? Yeah, exactly. How could get, when you see it on radio,
you used to get like snoops
every couple of months
and what I would have done there.
Well,
like a mystery shopper
kind of thing.
Yeah,
they'd basically take
a short random
and sort of go,
right,
let's listen to this one
and you'd be like,
ah,
fuck,
that was my hungover show.
That was the Hobgoblin show.
That was the Hobgoblin show
and yeah,
they'd sit down
and you'd do it
and you'd fluff all your lines and mess it all up and yeah they'd sit down and you'd do it and you'd fluff
all your lines
and mess it all up
and then they'd go
right so how could
we have done that better
it's like well
don't do any of that
that's crap though
when you're making
radio I fucking
hate that shit
it's supposed to be
a creative endeavour
well yeah but it is
but you've still
got to stick to the
it's still just
market trader radio
isn't it
you're selling something
you're selling the music
or selling a product
or selling the other
parts of the station
you know there's no so you want to be getting the other parts of the station. You know, there's no...
So you want to be getting the basic stuff right.
So that's what, like, when we do the Rambo
and you want to be, like, getting the fucking basic stuff right.
Yeah, I suppose I get that.
I think for us it was...
You know, they used to...
I don't know if they still do,
but they used to call centres like the modern workhouses, right?
The workhouses of, like, the 21st century or whatever.
Because the way they used to monitor us
is they used to just check
how long you were sitting at your desk
and they could check the number of calls you dealt with.
Piss off.
Yeah.
So you'd be timed to the minute for your lunch break.
And if it was a particularly quiet period,
they would give you other work to do,
like admin work,
while your earpiece was in.
So the earpiece thing,
it used to be quite anxiety-inducing because you didn't get a choice whether to answer the phone like it just
used to go ding ding and then someone would be there that's so quite invasive yeah massively
i don't know man you couldn't even like decide how long it took you to answer it or whatever but
anyway um chris has also been in touch saying um hi guys um given that i'm the self-nominated union rep for the luke and peter
community and may or may not work for an organization that luke used to work for i was
dismayed to hear that luke had to do two weeks unpaid training in response to a pretty minor
incident involving transfer of customers it got me wondering though whether luke had ever partaken
in the game that always used to be played
on weekends when management was scarcely about.
The aim of the game was simple.
There was a word of the day. Let's
say today's word is carrot.
Every call hand had to fit that word into as many
calls as possible and the one with the
highest or most creative won that round
of Saturday games. No prizes on
offer. Just the delight of telling Mrs.
Harding that she'll receive her replacement credit carrot
within 10 working days.
Carrot card.
Yeah.
So we used to do
little challenges
to each other.
I remember
my mate challenged me
to,
because someone's card
wasn't working,
my mate challenged me
to ask the customer
if they'd ever been past
a secret military facility
which could have
wiped the card.
And the guy who had the line, he was already quite pissed off
because he was in the shop and his card wasn't working.
You can imagine he was raging.
I always remember he screamed at me,
how would I know if it's a military facility, if it's fucking secret?
Imagine being in the shop while he's doing all that.
I also remember um during the um during
that period i worked there leading up to christmas and it was always a tense time because there was a
ballot for who had to work like christmas eve and new year's day and stuff yeah right and uh this
guy i used to work with who will remain nameless he's still a friend of mine it was a very volatile quite emotionally led fella
just by total just by total coincidence right he got he got drawn out the ballot for christmas eve
and new year's eve right and he was fuming right absolutely fuming you can't be angry at fit you
can't be angry at chance can you and i remember he was so angry right that he had a
little he was in like a little room off the side of the main office right sounds like he does it
sounds like he he does richly deserve that by being quite spiky i just remember on three it
was like three others in there in that little room with him and i remember when i used to leave
him a lift home right and i remember going to get him at the end of the day on that day that
fateful day that he had been given all the uh bad news and he had spent the afternoon with a on with dry white pens on
the massive whiteboard drawing a huge cartoon of a set of scales a load of money on one side of the
scales and him dead on the other scale saying like like, like an homage, like Metallica's
had justice for all.
And underneath it was like,
their money tips the scales again
kind of thing.
He took it really badly.
It had like a cast of a devil
in the background.
It was pretty special.
Does that sound like it's,
does that sound like he was
on the edge of something,
or was he just
being a silly sausage?
He's doing fine now.
He's doing fine now?
Yeah, he's doing fine.
I think it was kind of before the internet properly kicked off.
So he probably couldn't find like-minded individuals
to go and cause an atrocity.
So he just drew a sign from the whiteboard.
Simpler times.
Simpler times.
Just express yourself on a whiteboard for crying out loud.
Get out of your system.
Get out of your system. That'll of your system that'll be wiped down
as soon as you leave
draw a phallus
yeah okie dokie
and enjoy your Christmas
let's have a break
when we come back
we'll do some more of this
shall we
welcome back
to the Luke and Pete show
and my name is
Pete Donaldson
I'm joined by
Lukey Moore
for another half
another
I'm going to call it
a tight tenner
a tight ten a tight ten uh for more luke and pete short action oh dear if you have to um
sorry carry you have to go and do like a tight 10 minutes someone said to you that you have to go
and do like a tight 10 minute stand-up show a week on friday to a 200-seat comedy club. Awful. How would you go about it?
I would feign death.
No, you have to do it.
No, don't.
I reckon you could do really well by being, like, properly insane.
Yeah.
I mean, begin, like, kind of...
Wet yourself.
Come in.
I mean, is that insanity?
That's just incontinence, isn't it, really?
Or is it?
There are very few things that you can sort of do on stage now
can't do anything
on stage
but it wouldn't be
sort of
people would be like
oh dear
but I think
if you went up there
dressed in the more
outrageous of the garb
you've got access to
yeah
like chiseled your
little finger off
and then wet yourself
yeah I think
I think chiseling
the little finger
would be
I mean that would be
a strong start
wouldn't it
people would be
people would give
that five stars
get a lot of press
uncompromising
uncompromising talent
uncompromising
specifically to his
own digit
he's got yeah
he's probably got
ten more gigs
left in him
I'll tell you what
would be an amazing
topper to that
it's like people
would be like
people would be like
oh yeah it's amazing
the special effects
on that
how he's able to do that
and then they come
and see you the next week
and you just had nine fingers
yeah
or I just had one finger
and I'd had a busy week
I'd done the comedy star
yeah
that's what he does in
and I had the chisel in my mouth
that's what he does
in the banshees
of In the Sherin isn't it
oh yeah
he pops his fingers off
don't he
fucking
oh and you're
spoiling them
that's an old film
yeah that's an old film yeah
that's an old
film
oh
speaking of
your
speaking of
your
spoilers
there was
House of the
Dragons
back in a
couple of
weeks
isn't it
is that
the second
season
of
yeah
second
season
did people
watch the
first one
I did
I enjoyed
it
I did
and I
enjoyed
it
I'm a nerd
for it
though
is it as
good as
Game of
Thrones
is it
worth
flirting with Game of Thrones the good as Game of Thrones? Is it worth flirting with?
Game of Thrones,
the thing is with Game of Thrones
is that it got panned the way it ended.
And then when I was,
when my son was really young
and I was just up all the time,
I watched,
I needed to watch something
I couldn't really think about too much.
And I re-watched Game of Thrones.
And upon re-watch,
I didn't think the ending was actually that bad. I didn thrones and upon re-watch i didn't think the
ending was actually that but i think it was good i think it was that bad no and so i think people
were so hyped for it and the same thing i'm not saying it's as good as the ending to some of these
shows but the principle is that when people fall in love with a tv show nothing's going to satisfy
them no i remember like people caning the sopranos ending and it's a it's a it's a
brilliant fucking ending it's a legendary ending yeah yeah but at the time people were fuming
well it it kick-started um journey's journey back to the top of the charts
an unintended consequence i would say yeah i i would say that like watching has he finished
the book yet because didn't he sort of you hadn't finished the book and he basically told the producers where it was going to go roughly what game of thrones
yeah but he's got two he's got two volumes um still to come right and he's still and is he
cracking on with them is the producer is the publisher tapping their watch well i'll tell
you what's ridiculous about it is that so there's two more books to come two so the whole series is
called a song of ice and fire to so the whole series is called a
song of ice and fire right and the first book is called a game of thrones which then the tv
show took its name from yeah and the most recent to come out is a dance with dragons
which came out in 2011 and i read it at the time yeah and he was like oh yeah the winds of winter
which is the next one's coming out soon or or whatever. Yeah. And it's still not out. So we're talking 13 years later, it's still not out.
It's like Duke Nukem Forever.
Forever waiting.
Well, I'm confusing the name there, right?
Exactly.
It's going to be forever waiting.
So he's still not done.
But presumably because the ending on the TV version, the TV version, the TV adaptation,
was roundly panned.
Is he going to change um the but a dance with dragons
ends from my memory probably around the fifth season of right the show and there's eight seasons
so it's way outstripped it and it's way simplified it as well obviously which you'd expect it's an
epic fantasy series but people are fuming because he's done so much other stuff in between what do you mean like uh
masks singing and stuff what do you mean no he's like he's he's basically gone and done stuff which
perhaps fantasy nerds and fans who you know are particular about this kind of thing don't deem as important. So for example,
he's published one, two, three, four, five, six,
seven, eight, nine, ten other works
since he did A Dance With Dragons.
What kind of stuff?
What's he been up to?
What kind of stuff?
Fantasy stuff?
Yeah, he's done stuff like
he's gone and written like
a history of the House Targaryen
and a compilation of different short stories and all that kind of thing.
He's done some prequel stuff as well, I think.
So people are fuming because it looks like he's just mucking about.
Get back on the treadmill.
Get back on the grind.
That's a really interesting idea, isn't it?
Because what happens at some point is that you make something
you create something so successful it's like an unwritten rule where it just becomes the property
of the public rather than you yeah yeah like you he's well within his rights isn't he in principle
to say i'll do what i fucking want i'll do what i fucking want yeah but people don't accept that
he's a pariah for saying that or for doing that um and he's an older guy as well so maybe he feels
like he's not able to write as much or he has to write slightly different things because the narratives
are tough he did say that he's got um he's got um like stuff locked away that if he dies that
people can finish it on his behalf okay and i don't think it's a coincidence that the quality
of the tv show went downhill to an extent i think it's been exaggerated how much it went downhill
but it did go downhill to an extent.
Once they didn't have their texts behind it.
Once Benioff and Weiss,
who I think are both hacks, really, I think,
didn't have that to lean on as much.
But anyway,
speaking of that,
speaking of anthologies and stuff,
there's a new Alien film coming, isn't there?
Is there?
Yeah.
I'm completely,
those things leave me quite cold.
I thought you were an alien guy.
I was back in the day,
but only because of the translated through line
from the video game Darkseid
through the H.R. Giger drawings.
Yeah, okay.
Which, if you look at it nowadays,
you sort of go,
God, I mean, that looks...
That has the greasy, otherworldly aspects
of like an artificial intelligence picture,
like a mid-journey sort of greasy, kind of grey,
kind of like sweaty cells that are kind of growing,
like kind of like weird futurist organism kind of stuff
that an AI could create.
So I think an AI could probably make H.R.
Giggs stuff quite easily.
Which is sad.
Which is sad.
It is very sad.
No way.
But this new movie is called Alien Romulus,
and it's set between alien and aliens.
Is Scott involved?
He is involved, but he's not directing.
He's producing.
I mean, he's old now, Ridley Scott, you've got to remember.
Yeah.
I mean, Ridley Scott, right? So he's directed the film fairly recently,'ve got to remember yeah I mean Ridley Scott right
so he's directed the film
fairly recently hasn't he
what did he do recently
oh he did Napoleon didn't he
oh did he right
there's a new Gladiator film coming out
the thing about films
they do take a very very long time
he's 86 years old
is he
yeah
good god wow
yeah
there's these kind of
auteur video game developers who are like similar kind of Rid's these kind of um auto um video game uh developers who were like similar
kind of ridley scott kind of characters um films nowadays they take you know four years like for
you know four or five years to to get off the ground and get and get done yeah um video games
these days at that similar triple a yeah you know 100, 100 million price kind of tag,
they take like 10 years.
Like these games are just,
you're getting one title per generation of video game.
And there's a lot of these kind of like,
these celebrated directors of video games,
you know, head of studio guys,
who are basically saying,
I've probably got one more game in me and I'm 60.
Do you know what I mean?
It's kind of like, it's mad that these things take such a long time
and we demand so much from our creators
that they've probably only got five stellar AAA games in them
in their entire lifetime.
The gaming industry takes more money than Hollywood now, doesn't it?
It probably does, yeah.
It probably spends a lot more on marketing.
It's certainly as big at least, right? Yeah. yeah i mean i think the delivery system is probably different as well
it's easy to get get into people's homes yeah definitely this this new i mean the obviously
the most recent movies in the alien kind of franchise were um prometheus and then covenant
right which were both quite flawed but also at the same time quite enjoyable to watch just because
you grew up in that kind of world.
I mean, it was a very impressionable age for me
to be watching those alien movies,
and I really loved them.
So I kind of will forgive them a lot.
But this one's set in a slightly different timeline.
It looks a little bit more gritty.
The teaser trailer makes it look a lot more back to basics.
Okay.
But it's not out till August,
so it's one to get excited about,
but not watch just yet.
And just finally,
while we're on this subject,
have you seen Alex Garland's
got a new movie coming out as well?
No.
Remind me who Alex Garland's is?
Ex Machina.
Okay, yeah.
And he did Annihilation as well,
which is brilliant.
He also did,
he wrote 28 Days Later and Sunshine,
and he's got a new movie out
called Civil War,
which looks absolutely fan-fucking-tastic.
And that's out in, I think, in maybe a week or two's time.
So that'll be interesting.
So there's a lot of good stuff to be excited about.
I've given up watching films after watching about half an hour of Roadhouse
with Ginger and Hull.
It's done really well, though, hasn't it? You see how well it's done? Has it done really well? I mean and Hull. It's done really well though, hasn't it?
You see how well it's done?
Has it done really well?
I mean,
I guess it will have done
really well
because I mean,
it is for fucking...
Broken a lot of
Prime video records,
I think.
Is that a thing?
Is that a big thing?
Is that a big thing?
Because they're
claiming 50 million streams
like across two weeks
or something.
I could see that.
I could see that.
But they put little adverts
at the start
don't they
old Amazon Prime
these days
yeah
yeah I mean
the thing about that film
is that
it seems that
Gyllenhaal
he's a bit of a talent
you know
he's certainly got
the hot bod
and
they've got the setting
it's proper like
80s cheese ball
stuff
pastiche stuff
where you know
it's all black and white and all of the baddies ride
motorbikes and all that shit. It's a real sort of 80s kind of vibe to it. But the thing
about it is it wouldn't have taken much to improve the script a little bit. It just wouldn't
have taken much to make it 100% better. That's the most disappointing thing. All that time and all, you know...
Who wrote it?
I don't know.
It sounds like it's been written by Colin McGregor,
who's in it.
It's that kind of...
It's that simple.
He's been doing some funny interviews, hasn't he?
Let's not get into that.
I mean, I don't want to cast aspersions,
and I've got to be careful what I say, obviously.
I think he might have a problem.
Yeah, if you've ever flirted with that sort of stuff,
you can see the signs.
I think that's fair to say.
To me, I think Gyllenhaal's brilliant.
I'm a big fan of his generally.
I don't really understand what the point of making this movie was.
Roadhouse!
I also think that...
I can see why Gyllenhaal agreed to it, though. Because if you re-watch the original Roadhouse, which also think that I can see why Gillian Hall agreed to it though because if you
re-watch the original Roadhouse which came out
in the late 80s, it's
actually really watchable and Patrick Swayze is
surprisingly charisma free in it.
Like, if you watch Patrick
Swayze movies back now,
it feels a bit like in the late 80s everyone
was having a fever dream because he's absolutely
like, he just looks so unbankable.
He's got no presence at all.
So I can see why
Gyllenhaal probably
watched that back
and thought,
yeah,
I could do that.
Yeah,
he's kind of,
he's got like
ravishing Rick Rood's body,
very tall,
very rangy,
very like oily,
old Swayze.
But yeah,
I never really got the whole,
he was in Donnie Darko
with Gyllenhaal,
wasn't he?
Old Swayze, wasn't he?
He was, yeah, Swayze.
Didn't he play like a...
Teacher, wasn't he?
Pedophile teacher, maybe?
Pedophile teacher, yeah.
That's a brilliant fucking movie.
Nor Wilde from ER was in it.
You never see Nor Wilde.
You never see the cast of ER around anymore.
When you watch Donnie...
Yeah, it's true, actually.
That was massive as well.
When you watch Donnie Darko back,
it's one of those movies.
I mean, it's over 20 years old now. Yeah. And it's still actually that was massive as well when you watch Donnie Darko back it's one of those movies I mean it's over 20 years old now
yeah
and it's still brilliant
yeah
it was around
it was around this time
like Fight Club
wasn't it
it was like
yeah it was
bit of a
just after
oh this is
like that kind of mid
that mid budget
kind of summer film
that just like
what is this
I feel like Darko
might have been like
a really low budget movie that just came from nowhere that's what I felt at the time feel like Darko might have been like a really low
budget movie
that just came
from nowhere
that's what I felt
at the time
because it had
that Mad World
song on it
didn't it as well
yeah that'll cost you
anyway it's an indie
movie which is
still
it's still
aged
it's aged really
really well
it's a banger
anyway on that note
Pete we should get
out of here
take us out of here
brother
films we like
we'll be back on
Thursday for more of this.
I will have returned from Philadelphia
with stories about cheese sticks and Airbnbs.
I don't know what's going to happen.
A lot of wrestling.
I like that you go away to cities, random cities.
I know you're going for wrestling,
but random cities and you don't do any prep.
Well, I...
Did you crash a car last time?
I may have scraped a car on Ariana Grande's house.
I'm driving.
Because of certain obligations I have in work and home,
I have to fly out later than Mark from Wrestle Me.
Why don't you like flying with other people?
You never do that.
And I have to fly into a different city
and then drive into Philadelphia.
What city are you flying into?
New York FK.
New York FK.
New York FK airport.
I'm going to be landing at 11 o'clock at night, really tired.
And I'm going to pick up an electric car from a B-grade
rental place and I'm going to drive it down to
Philadelphia. From New York FK.
From New York FK, baby.
It's only a couple hour drive, it's not too bad.
It's not too bad. It's near too bad. I've done me
doggies. Good luck.
Wish you very well and
we'll chat to you when you get back. Look after yourselves.
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