The Luke and Pete Show - Not much of a sweater
Episode Date: August 20, 2020It’s a Thursday, which means another serving of nonsense from the Luke and Pete Show! This week, Pete’s playing with fire by recording semi-nude and Luke’s giving some love to Ronnie O’Sulliva...n. Strap in folks, it’s going to be a weird one.Also on this episode, we hear from a concussed pilot, Pete’s squaring up to Alison Hammond and Luke reveals what he has in common with er…. Prince Andrew…?Get stuck in at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com!***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Pumpin! This is the unloved members of the Black Eyed Peas, Pete Donaldson and Luke Moore.
Luke and Pete Shaw, we were thrown out after Where Is The Love? But before, let's get it started.
We were proud members of the Black Eyed Peas,
but just Fergie, we just could not deal with her.
She threw us out.
And now we're doing a podcast together.
So pleasure to speak to you once again, Luke.
Are you enjoying it?
Are you thinking of joining any chart-topping beat combos in the future?
Well, what people don't fully realise, I don't think,
is that the P in Black Eyed Peas actually stands for Pete Donaldson.
Yeah, Black Eyed Pete.
Yeah, Black Eyed Pete.
Which is what happened when we left.
We had a big fist fight.
Yeah.
I've been in the same room as Fergie, by the way.
Yeah? Good.
Did she wet herself or am I thinking
of someone else
that was on stage
I wasn't there then
I've got an alibi
for that
no it was
it was in the
it was in the office
I was in
I was working
in the music
business at the time
and she was on
the label that I worked
at and she came in
and I don't really
have anything interesting
to say that wouldn't
be unnecessarily cruel
so I won't
okay but we were only ever I mean what I'm interesting to say that wouldn't be unnecessarily cruel, so I won't. Okay.
But we were only ever, I mean, what I'm trying to say, Peter, to our listeners,
is that we were only ever really part-time touring members, weren't we?
Yeah.
Sometimes I will take a phone call occasionally from Will.i.am just to find out what he's up to.
Yeah.
He's still massively into his vaping. Really enjoys gardening as well. He's
doing alright actually. He's not as tall as what you'd expect.
Well I heard him being interviewed by Alison Hammond
in the world's most tedious interview
over the weekend on Radio 2.
And you've done a few, let's be fair. And I've done a few
but none as quite as
asinine as the one she
managed to bring to the table, I have to say. I mean
look, she's very charismatic
and obviously they're going for a...
They've obviously gave a job to Ryland,
who's a very
vivacious, exciting kind of
character, charismatic guy.
And he could definitely do the job.
I think Alison Hammond, I shouldn't have
to listen to her doing a two-hour
radio show, quite frankly, because
she's very
much charismatic
when she's doing the Blade Runner
interviews and stuff. Have you ever seen him
interview
the cast of the new Blade Runner film?
Very, very funny. But do I need her doing
links? Do I need her linking an entire
show together? Not really.
Not for me, Clive. And I speak
from a little bit of experience and a little bit of,
I think I might be pound for pound the better radio DJ than Alison Hammond.
I'm going to say it.
Guys, I'm going to say it.
I reckon I've got more to my game than Alison Hammond.
And you may laugh at me and go, Pete, there's a reason why she's on telly.
There's a reason why she's on radio too.
I go, fine, fine.
I can be as unprofessional as she is.
I can just, you know, just laugh my way through the interview.
Giggle my way through the interview.
Finally, I'm on board.
Oi, oi, oi.
I'm sure she'll get better.
We all get better.
Don't row back from it, you coward.
Stick at it.
Fucking pathetic by you.
Stick at it.
If this show is in,
Alison Hammond should not be on the radio.
I should not be paying that licence fee.
Listen, you've said that.
Stick with it now.
People will respect you if you row back on it.
And I would say that I didn't know she was on Radio 2.
I don't think I've picked on Radio 2 for a long time.
Well, I think Rylan's excellent.
Yeah, no, I completely agree.
But I think they're trying to just kind of throw the...
When you see sort of DJs getting thrown in at the deep end,
you sort of go, that's not your fault.
Because you're always going to say yes to work, aren't you?
You're always going to say yes to a better job.
Or a bigger job or a more stable job.
And she's been throwing the lines there.
Oi, oi, oi.
But just the Will.i.am interview was just very basic.
What was wrong with it?
It was just like, what have you been doing during lockdown?
And then he'd say the answer.
And then she'd ask the same question again.
What have you been eating during lockdown?
And then he'd say that again. goes i've i write three songs i write three songs a day i write three songs a day and then i walk out for two hours every day that's what he says so he's that's
how he talks so he sounds how does he talk so that again i walk out for two hours a day and i release
three it sounds like mitch hedberg i release three i read three songs a day and I release three. It sounds like Mitch Hedberg.
I release three.
I write three songs a day and I'm living in a castle.
And he kept on going on about a joke and that he lived in an English castle.
It was just so tedious.
Why were you listening to this?
I don't know.
I was just, it was just, I don't even want a radio show anymore.
I was just going, come on now.
Come on.
Come on.
Basically, you don't want a radio show anymore,
but you also don't want anyone else to have one?
I don't want Alison Hammond to have one.
Who else don't you want to have one?
You.
And I've succeeded.
Well, that wish has been granted.
You left talk sports, so I'm happy now.
If I can't have one, nobody can have one.
Yeah.
I think these are the ramblings of a genuinely unhinged man.
I know.
I'm hot as well.
I'm in the Stakhanov studio, and it's obviously during the summer months,
which we've kind of been, thanks to COVID and lockdown,
we've kind of missed a lot of the body heat that would usually be present
in the studio.
So I think we've done pretty well not to melt.
But yeah, it's
just been raining in London. Speaking of that, Peter.
And just as I was slagging off Alison
Hammond, the sun comes up.
Yeah, just as you were slagging off Alison Hammond, you've literally
got five minutes into the show and you're now doing a weather
update.
Traffic and travel next.
Mate,
speaking of the temperature,
did you see something that broke earlier this week
about Death Valley in California?
Did it reach record temperatures or record low temperatures for this time?
Because Death Valley's awful.
Well, what happened was, right,
it's a part of Death Valley called Furnace Creek.
Isn't that hot?
Probably is.
And apparently at 3.41 on Sunday just gone 341 p.m the temperature
hit 129.9 fahrenheit or 54.4 celsius which could be the hottest reading ever reliably recorded on this planet. Now, the complication is that in 1913,
there was talk of a slightly hotter bit of data,
which I think came in at 100 and...
What did I say?
Yes, apparently 134 Fahrenheit has been clocked,
but it was in 1913.
So the 54s, right?
Yeah, I don't know if people are happy with yeah yeah i don't know if people
are happy with the reliability of the data either way it's definitely the hottest day ever in um
in august in death valley and i just wanted to bring it to the table because i did some interviews
for some people who want to come work with us last week and i had to do in my spare room on it when
it was the hottest day of the year and because of the fact that they were done over zoom i couldn't really have the fan on
and had to have the window closed and it got to 34 degrees in my spare room now this is 20 degrees
hotter than that and my brain can't even process how hot that would be luke's dying hot cars i like
the idea that um any new recruits would be seeing your beautiful glistening face.
My new boss is very shiny.
Well, I'm not much of a sweater, am I, famously?
No, no. So I'm all right.
You're like Prince Andrew.
Yeah.
In many, in many different ways.
I try to get in there and say,
a bit like Alistair Cook,
who's a famously an English cricketer who doesn't sweat,
but you got right in there with the Prince Andrew.
Yes.
Couldn't stop it.
Well, as you know, look's it's too it's too obvious mate because i you you you we'd be
talking the same language if we're talking about cricket because i'm just so across it
the bat and the ball the smell of the cedar i know we found out on monday cedar we found out
on monday but i just i just wanted to carry on very very quickly with this death valley thing
because i think that some people out there will be confused as i was about why it gets so hot there because you know you've got you know
people understand that the equator is warm and the earth is a certain shape but there's a certain
amount of it's like a confluence of like different factors which makes death valley very very hot
and the other only other place i believe that is equivalently hot is a
place in libya um which roughly equivalent in terms of temperature but you could you expect
if i said to you if you didn't know you'd think well where's the hottest place you'd probably say
something like the middle east right like yeah yeah but it's apparently to do with the fact that
um in death valley particularly there's four main things one is that um because it's low it's apparently to do with the fact that in Death Valley particularly,
there's four main things.
One is that because it's mostly rocks, it experiences what's known as solar heating,
which I think is roughly equivalent to why London is a few degrees hotter than elsewhere outside the big city because there's loads of rocks
and loads of concrete which heats up.
And the sun basically just warms the rocks and they then respond by releasing heat
then um the the um the the the warm air gets trapped because of the high um steep kind of
valley walls if you like the mountains around the valley so it can't escape um and then there's
migration of warm air from other areas and then the mountain winds come from other hot areas,
which are really very hot as well.
So you've essentially got the perfect topographic conditions
for what is essentially a natural oven, basically.
Yeah, yeah.
Would you like to go there?
I don't know if you can go there.
I think they might stop you certain times.
Really?
Do you reckon?
Because it's like, isn't it Las Vegas?
Because Las Vegas is just like a bit of a, it's a bit of a ball.
It's a bit of like a nail in just a big desert.
It was just kind of like created by man.
Like this come here and gamble in the middle of nowhere.
I remember the drive from San Francisco across through like Modesto
and a place like that to be, there's just nothing there in Modesto and places like that to be... Right.
There's just nothing there in between there and the coast.
Well, it's quite interesting because, as ever,
these kind of things are politicised as well.
So Libya do actually claim a 58 degree Celsius temperature recorded in 1922,
but there was an investigation seven years ago
by the World Meteorological Organization
who dismissed it and said it was completely unreliable and couldn't be claimed,
which they got pissed off about.
So it's like a bit of a claim to fame.
I don't really know why.
It's a weird one, isn't it?
Yeah, we will need humanitarian aid pretty soon because this is fucking ridiculous.
All I'm saying, Pete, is if the World Meteorological Organization
want to come and investigate the circumstances
around my flat last Wednesday, they are welcome to do so.
I've got witnesses, I've got evidence.
I took a photo of the thermostat in the house and everything,
so I can't really dismiss it.
What do you reckon?
I wouldn't bring in independent scientific research
and thought and measurements.
I would bring in Carlos Santana and Rob Thomas.
Man, it's a hot one.
Like seven inches from the midday sun.
I'd bring them in.
Give me a hot, very real, or else forget about it.
Not that one, the other one.
No, no.
The other one.
There's a guy on Twitter who just keeps on tweeting Rob Thomas
with the phrase, man, it's a hot one.
Hot one here, Rob.
Hot one.
Every day.
Is it like Limmy who tweets every single day?
Yeah.
Limmy tweets, check out Get Lucky by Da Funk if you can,
Sound of the Summer.
Sound of the Summer, yeah.
He's done that every day since like three years.
I admire it.
I mean, Gav from Regular Features is a very, very good podcast.
He's part of the RKG lot.
And he, every time, I think he's got it set up to,
I think at the start of the month,
he checks out when Jurassic Park is on the television.
And when it starts, it'll automatically post on Twitter.
There's a film called Jurassic Park on Channel 4 at the moment.
Sounds a bit fair-fetched, but I'll stick with it.
And every time it's on, I'll watch the channel.
It's always on ITV2.
It's always on ITV2. It really, really is.
But look, it works because I think it's like the same thing
of putting Friends on every day on Channel 4 and beyond.
It's just something that people will watch,
and it's quite cheap programming.
You put on Jurassic Park, you're going to get eyes.
Yeah, I believe that when Netflix acquired Friends,
everyone was like, what are they doing that for?
And it's the most viewed show on there by miles, basically.
That's why they're doing it.
Very easily.
Obviously.
I'd say the resurgence and the rebirth of interest in the US office
has been similar.
You know, it's on Amazon Prime.
Anyone who's got a Prime account can watch it.
I think it's on Netflix as well.
And so kids are watching it because it's just really easy.
You know, it's 20 quid, road-tested, slightly edgy humour,
slightly dated humour in 2020.
But it's, you know, 20 minutes of fun and then out,
all the characters are there.
It's cracking.
And there are infinite amounts of them.
And I've watched, I'm finishing off my fourth run at it,
incredibly and inexplicably.
Despite what people on Twitter who've got like 400 followers
and put in their bio that they only watch Mongolian art house movies think,
most people aren't like that, are they?
No, they're really not.
They're really, really.
Can I mention something, Pete, that I forgot to mention on Monday?
I know you'll have zero interest in it, but I'm
quite passionate about it, so I want to mention it anyway.
I really enjoyed watching
Ronnie O'Sullivan win his sixth world title
in the World Snooker on Sunday.
And what he has
been able to achieve in the sport is actually
quite ridiculous.
He's been at the very top of the game
without even really trying for the most
part for now 27 years he won his first triple crown title at 17 he's now 44 and he's just won
the world title again right he is when people talk about the last dance and michael jordan being the
best at any sportsman's ever been at anything ever ronald sullivan is right up there with the most
naturally talented sportsman that's ever lived, not just in this country, but around the world.
And to put it in perspective, in 2012, he won the world title, right?
He then took the whole of 2013 and 2012 and 13 off,
came back for the following world title without playing any snooker
and won it again.
It's not even fair it's it's funny and i guess snooker probably isn't uh regarded as being the you know because i guess
physical more physical sports um you have a much more limited um kind of lifespan uh but you spoke
very eloquently about him last week and how incredible he's he's he's able to do what he
does and and and he's quite funny and chippy about it.
He's in good nick as well.
He does lots of running,
doesn't he,
Ronnie O'Sullivan?
He's a bit of a runner.
Yeah,
he's very,
I sent,
I sent a,
he's got a publicly,
I think he's got a public Strava for his running.
So you can look at his times and stuff.
And I sent his 10K PB to my mate Lee,
who's a really big runner.
And he wouldn't,
he wouldn't have it.
He's like,
no fucking way. I'm not having it. No way has has he done that that's seven minutes faster than my pb he
can't do that but apparently he's a very naturally talented runner as well yeah brilliant i love that
i like those kind of it's just it's just a genius right yeah it's just like the the general
consensus around something like snooker is you have to have a bit of talent of course but it's
just practice practice practice and it's one of those really kind of mentally draining pursuits
because you spend a lot of time on your own in a dark room.
Some of them spend seven, eight hours a day just potting balls.
And Ronnie, although I'm sure he does practice,
doesn't really do that.
And yet it's still better than all of them.
Even Stephen Hendry, who's widely regarded as being the best ever,
who's had seven world titles to Ronnie O'Sullivan's six.
Stephen Hendry even says he's the best player ever.
You know, it's not even like a closely run thing.
So it's just incredible what he's been able to do naturally with,
you know, he's essentially just a genius.
I know you've got to take that kind of phrase, a term under caution,
because it means different things to different people.
And some will say that,
you know,
there's no such thing as genius.
It's all about practice.
I mean,
I don't really see how you can explain the phenomenon of Ronnie O'Sullivan
without acknowledging the idea that he is just supremely talented way over
and above everyone else.
It's kind of interesting how he said his own mental health problems as well,
by the way,
which have manifested themselves in different, different respects. But what he's been able to do i think has been it's
astonishing really and he and he should be what what more widely regarded for it i mean i know
that um someone piped up the other day saying that there's no way he shouldn't have been sports
person out of the year by now i mean like some of the people who've won it you they've walked past
you bought past him in the street and you wouldn't know who they were. O'Sullivan's been at the top of his game for 27 years.
Stephen Henry's the best player
in terms of winning the most world titles.
I think he won his last world title at 30
and Ronald O'Sullivan's just done it at 44 years old.
I mean, it just doesn't happen.
It's incredible what he's been able to do.
Well, look, study his brain.
There must be something going on there
that's not going on anywhere else in humankind.
What do you reckon it is?
Big hippocampus.
That's the only bit that I remember.
They're big.
The hippocampus is just massive.
Just a big, fat, greasy hippocampus.
I don't know.
I'm not a bloody expert, am I?
Did you see that in that show, that film Free Solo,
with the guy who free climbs El Capitan and he goes for a...
Have you seen the movie?
No, no, you have.
Okay, at one point he goes into a hospital and gets an MRI.
Yeah.
And they find out that the bit of his brain that kind of manages fear
is just like completely non-existent.
He just doesn't want to have it.
He can't process it it would they find that would they find it would
they find that i mean that seems like that's overreaching what the hospital should be doing
what do you mean he's asked to do it he's been asked to go in there all right oh so this okay
so it's right okay so so so then pin him down i thought it sounded like you just went in for an
unrelated you know cardiogram or something and just they just went no no your fear gland is
so small what's wrong with you yeah it sounds like a simpson sketch when you're when you're
3 000 meters up in the air or whatever it is with no ropes on and you're still climbing and you're
not getting sweaty palms you're so focused it doesn't affect you they want as part of the
movie they wanted to find out why he was able to do that right okay i see every every kind of natural reaction or
inclination of most human beings would be to get the sensations that you would get which which
attribute themselves to fear so it could be for any reason but you know what it's like you'll get
a dry mouth you'll get sweaty palms you'll start to be a bit twitchy and he doesn't get any of that
so they went to try and find out why that was basically very interesting uh we're gonna hit
that brick we're back very very very soon with uh more of your emails before we do though pete i just
want to let you know if you haven't seen the film what happens is they scan his brain why is he so
good at rock climbing it comes back and his brain is just a gigantic rock cliff it's a bit hot hot
death valley cliff that's all that's all it is yeah um we'll be back in a second and we're back
luke i do not mind admitting I've taken my top off
in the Stakhanov studio.
Is that allowed?
I don't know.
We'll find out if any of our colleagues walk in and shout at me.
I can't stop you.
You can't stop me.
I can't stop you, mate.
Yes.
And nor would I want to.
No, exactly.
It's just, it's got too hot and I'm wearing,
I'm not wearing the dad jeans that I'm famous for,
but I have got my top on.
I've literally got, I'm looking at the reflection of the door.
If I hear the door go, I've got a second and a half
before people can see my nip nips.
So I'm on tenterhooks.
I'm excited.
I'm exhilarated.
You shouldn't be excited.
You should be focused.
Well, I'm laser focused on the show,
but also not scaring katie
or charlie who is who are our colleagues with my given that you have played several nude pranks on
me in that studio over the years no i've not i've not got my bits out in this studio mate i don't
think so anyway i've got photos i can share it i'll share them if you want there's 4k footage
if there's 4k footage of my wanger, that's out of order, Luke.
4K makes it sound really impressive.
Four kilograms.
It's actually 4K footage.
Yeah, four centimeters.
Chris has got in touch with the show.
Huge thanks for the podcast and making the last few months more bearable.
Mate, Chris, thank you for listening.
Firstly, just picking up something from last Thursday's episode where Luke said that there was a coffee that went through
and came out of the digestive system of an ocelot.
Unfortunately, the ocelot is a small carnivorous cat
from Central and South America who are carnivores
and they snack mainly on iguanas, rodents, rabbits, etc.
I presume you wouldn't want what comes out of them
after a big session on the iguanas.
The mammal famously digested the coffee beans
to create Kopi Luwak, or Luwak maybe.
It's from Southeast Asia and it's called a civet.
There are 12 species of civet.
Oh, yeah, that's right.
They're a nocturnal mammal.
They're found across the tropical rainforests of Asia and Africa.
So there you go.
Anyway, after the civet ocelot debate,
I wanted to pick you up
on the bizarre funeral habits
of people around the world
following Pete chatting
about stripper funerals.
In Sulawesi, Indonesia,
there is a region called
Tana Toraja.
Yeah, a few years ago,
I found myself there
and ended up attending a funeral.
When someone dies,
they keep the body semi-mummified
in the bedroom of the family home until they've saved enough money for and ended up attending a funeral. When someone dies, they keep the body semi-mummified in the bedroom of the family home
until they've saved enough money for a suitably
lavish funeral. This can take up to two
years and the family sleep in the communal areas
while the body lies in the rest of the
bedroom. Part of the funeral ceremony then is to
sacrifice over 20 buffaloes by
hacking their throats with machetes in front of the funeral attendees.
That's too many. That's too many. Each buffalo
and its meat then gets
given to different people in the local community.
A bizarre funeral experience indeed.
Yeah, just like a shriveled up mummified body.
What part of the world is that in, Pete?
Indonesia, I believe.
Yeah, because I think what he's referencing there,
he's referenced in the film Apocalypse Now
at the end when they do whatever they do.
I don't want to spoil it, even though it was made in the 70s.
But they interspersed shots of what's happening
with the ritual sacrificing of a buffalo.
And I think that movie was shot in the Philippines.
So I think that might be exactly what he's talking about, that kind of didn't they try and touch uh argue that um no buffaloes were harmed or
something in in that movie just obviously i mean come on yeah i mean yeah there's a lot of
controversy around that movie because i'm pretty sure that um the director ended up like loaning
a lot of helicopters from a government that was actually listed on a banned government list.
Lovely.
Doing business with the United States.
So he can provide all sorts of kind of sanctions.
He was basically mad.
He was mad what he was getting up to.
It shits on Apple and...
I've seen Apple and Epic are having a fight about Fortnite,
the video game that every kid in the world is playing.
Yeah, I've also seen that if the US go ahead
with this thing about banning WeChat,
that Apple are going to have to say goodbye
to $45 billion worth of revenue in China.
Oh, it will be...
There's no way they can do that
because WeChat is like everything.
It's a payment processing thing as well, right?
Payment processing, you can book cabs,
you can get food, you can get your friends.
It's your whole life.
It's an incredible piece of work.
You can gift people money with the red envelope systems.
It's like, it's a fully fun, it's what,
if you had a government who just allow you to just do
whatever the fuck you want,
that is the product that you get out of it.
A lot of the products are obviously disabled in the West,
but yeah, it's everything.
Obviously, I think Japan's got Line,
the Chinese have got WeChat,
and it's just a whole suite of...
It's your social media, it's your cabs, it's your food,
it's your everything.
Excuse you!
It's your cab.
Did you order a cab on WeChat?
Yeah.
So yeah, it will be incredible
but the idea that
Fortnite has got so big
the Epic think
that they can just sort of go
fucking
come out as Apple
we're gonna
we're gonna
do our own little
we're gonna do our own
we're Epic based
they're American I think
yeah
but I mean they've got
they've got studios all around the world
but they literally
Fortnite has gotten to such a size
that they think
they can take on Apple
and say
look
you're not taking 30% of all of our money
because even though it's pretty flat all over,
they take 30% off everybody apart from the film side of things.
But yeah, they think they can go toe-to-toe with Apple
and the only winner will be Apple.
What's the fallout going to be?
Well, they were clearly preparing.
They clearly were prepared for Apple to take them off the store and the google play store as well
um because they prepared a fully um cgi'd animation of like a parody of an old apple
advert that nobody fucking remembers um like a 1984 free fortnight hashtag bollocks and basically
people have talked about a lot over the weekend but weaponising gamers which is never
a good idea because
gamers are incredibly
insane
yeah
but how
why would it affect
the Google
why would it affect
the Google Play Store
as well
well similar so I
think Google
Google take
if you're on the
same rate
they take the same
rate so so Epic
took basically added
an extra bit of
coin into their
system and said
look you can get
these points and you know you can get these points
and you can get this in-game currency a little bit cheaper
if you go through us.
Because obviously Apple and Google aren't taking their 30%
if you go straight through Epic.
But yeah, obviously it was not checked by Apple.
If this precedent is set, Peter,
if this precedent is set, will you stop taking 30% of my income?
Look, you make...
Look, this is the reason why Blondie is still touring.
You make decisions when you are younger in your career
that you live to regret for the rest of it.
And if you can't...
Like in...
I was going to say, like in this country,
when she doesn't get...
Her mum won't celebrate her birthday
because she says that she sold her birthday
five years ago for 200 quid.
Nice.
Lovely old job. So I'm not celebrating now. You knew what you were doing five years ago when you sold ago for 200 quid. Nice, lovely old job.
So I'm not celebrating now.
You knew what you were doing five years ago
when you sold it for 200 quid.
You're not having a birthday present this year.
You know what you've done.
200 quid is such a good line.
It's such a good amount of money.
It's such a good amount.
It's because it's a decent amount of money
that you would sell your birthday for.
But obviously the idea that a parent would do that
is such a good game.
She spends it all on in-app purchases on the game
anyway yeah listen we've let's do one more email because we've got an email from another pilot and
it's pilot claude who i don't think before so very hello a very uh warm welcome and hello to
you claude he says uh hi guys hope you're well thanks again for all the pods keeping us entertained
definitely made lockdown easier just
thought i'd get in touch because you mentioned us pilots sitting around doing nothing at the minute
which is mostly true i wasn't flying for three months over lockdown and then was luckily one
of the first pilots to be called back around mid-june it's been strange going back to work
with a lot of new procedures mainly revolving around masks more and more people seem to be
kicking off about them and giving the cabin crew a hard time hopefully people understand it will just be the rule for
some time and we have to get used to it that's another story though there are quite a lot of
pilots obviously still on furlough and practically all airlines are proposing big pilot cuts sadly
our union has been taught in talks for ages with the company to reduce the redundancies
but it's not a lot not looking great for a lot of folk,
but hopefully they can save as many jobs as possible.
Back to your point about pilots
sitting around twiddling their thumbs,
I managed to get a concussion and whiplash last weekend
playing Gaelic football.
I fell backwards with a lot of force
and smacked my head on the ground.
So I've been grounded since then
because I have to take some rest
and get some rest and take some painkillers.
I can't go back until I get signed off by various doctors.
So, yeah, it's back to sitting around playing FIFA
and dossing around for the time being.
All the best, Claude.
Claude, can I just say, you sound like one of the more hapless pilots
we've heard from, and I wouldn't like to fly with you.
I would not like to fly with you.
He's clearly got a concussion enjoying something, you know,
something a little less systemic and, you know,
a little less kind of stressful.
And look where it's got him.
I mean, I would abhor playing a pilot on FIFA.
They'd be so precise.
They would know that they have to have very kind of organized minds.
Good angles, probably.
Good angles.
Yeah, great angles.
Judgment, flight of the ball you know the ball
dynamics would be all up in their up in their heads it'd be a nightmare oh and the language
from the muse yeah but in claude's case yeah in claude's case he's actually got a serious
battle concussion so you probably fancy a chance of speaking him yeah but i mean he'd be he'd be
on the he'd be on the xbox live headset because obviously they're used to wearing headsets and
they'd be like true good afternoon, everyone.
Can I just say, Pete?
You're playing Pilot Claude here.
You probably have to, yeah.
The altitude we're playing at is approximately zero feet.
You must really hurt yourself to get whiplash
from hitting your head on the floor.
Whiplash?
Yeah, like forward whiplash, presumably.
Yeah.
I didn't realise you could get whiplash like that.
He's had the sets knocked out of him.
No. Anyway, on that bombshell on that whiplashy bombshell we're gonna get out of here that's
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