The Luke and Pete Show - Podsmiths

Episode Date: December 14, 2023

Pete’s getting a new car and he’s ordered it from Japan, obviously. The lads track the car's journey across the sea on today’s show.Elsewhere, Luke and Pete take a moment to enjoy Jeremy Vine's latest faux pas and a listener sets the parameters in which the battery feature will end. You better send us your new players!Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Looky Mill, you know I'm trying to import a car. I do know this, and I'm very excited for an update, because last night when I was with you at a social event, you were showing us the progress of the car. It was going through the Suez Canal, which is very exciting. It's a project that started in September when my life wasn't quite as complicated.

I just feel that this project arriving early January might not be as wellly received. But it's only a car. It's only a car. I can always push it

into a river. Don't do that. Back from where it came, the Suez Canal. Is there any more admin to do once it arrives? Yeah, got to get it registered

for their own pay tax and put the rear fog light. The UK are obsessed with rear fog lights. You like to make your life difficult, don't you? But in many ways, it's very much like the Christmas period.

You say yes to stuff, like gigs at the Charlottes. And then when they come round, you're like, this is not a good time for me. Peter, what inspired you to buy a car from China to import it here when you've already got a big Jaguar?

Because it just wasn't me. I reckon I could make a bit of money off both projects, selling one and selling the other as well. Is this a family car? It's big enough for a family. It's got ISOFIX. That's the main thing.

Okay. And so when's it due to arrive? I think early January. When I can least use that time. Well, I would recommend anyone who's out there, if you've got a friend who is important... Happens to be in the port of Southampton. No, no, who's importing a car from China

and they've got real-time updates. It's Japan. Real-time updates on their phone and you can watch the car and the cargo ship it's on and where it is. It's actually strangely exciting to watch. It is, yeah. So it's on and where it is. It's actually strangely exciting to watch. It is, yeah. So it's on the Wisdom Ace.

It's in the Red Sea. Actually, it's just leaving the Suez Canal now. Probably a lot of admin to get through the Suez Canal, is it? Probably takes ages. Yeah, I guess so. I mean, it's off to Barcelona, I think, is the next bit. But I think it's just stopped in Egypt. How does that work?

What do you think of that life? It would be an amazing life, wouldn't it? Because I see them out my window every day, these big tankers coming down the Thames. You do sort of go... I mean, I know you're at sea for like 30 days each time, but there's something quite romantic about, you know, becoming completely anonymous and just living on a car ferry.

I don't think it's like the Cutty Sark, is it? It's not like you're not climbing the rigging and getting spanked for being a naughty boy. No. Yeah, you're just hanging out with quite dull merchant seamen. Or I think a lot of the crew members of those types of ships are Filipino. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. A lot of the captains are Greek, I think, or ship owners are Greek, I think.

Right, okay. But what's kind of fascinating to men of our age is the Suez Canal and the Panama Canal, absolute game changers. I think they're both, it probably, it goes, it doesn't probably go said enough how much that's changed the world. Yeah. Given the topography and the geography of how the world actually operates, those two big canals are fucking unbelievable.

There's a brilliant book, a Jean Le Carre book. Is it The Tailor of Panama? The title would suggest that it is. It's just based in Panama. And everything that goes on there. Because Panama have now, I think Panama have like, they're kind of an interesting country because they're basically, I think, a vassal state

of the United States. They don't even have their own currency or anything. It's all dollarized. And it's obviously the home of a lot of quite opaque business and spycraft kind of dealings quite a fascinating place

and it's all set around the canal basically which changed the world I'd love to see what I'd like to do make another canal I'd like to read a book

about how that's happened I would I would I would voraciously consume a book about the Panama or the Suez Canal yeah like you wouldn't believe I mean didn't didn't because it was a big part I would voraciously consume a book about the Panama or the Suez Canal.

Yeah. Like, you wouldn't believe. I mean, didn't, because it was a big part of, we did Disraeli in A-Level History. He was like, he bought a lot of, he bought a lot of those shares, didn't he, the Suez Canal? Was that his thing, was it? It was just, but he was really hot on the Suez Canal. He saw it coming.

He was a visionary, probably. I think the Rothschilds were involved as well. Interesting. Yeah, read about that. Absolutely. Disraeli and Gladstone, just two of the most

fascinating prime ministers. Imagine, if you will, Rishi Sunak just walking the streets of London at night trying to talk to prostitutes about Jesus. Imagine if you... Imagine him getting away with that

in the same way that Gladstone got away with that. Rishi Sunak's a Hindu as well, though, so it would be a bit out of character. Yeah. That would be out of character, yeah. If he's going to start, all right, fine. So Benjamin Disraeli was essentially, for those listening who don't know,

and I don't know much about it, he's basically one of the founders really of the modern conservative party, right? The one nation, compassionate conservative. Is that what people say about him? I've never studied Disraeli. I don't know anything about him.

No, I can't remember much about him. It was all fucking, it was peeling the cornrows back then, wasn't it? It was after that. I don't know anything about him. No, I can't remember much about him. It was all fucking... It was peeling the car nose back then, wasn't it? It was after that. I think it was quite a bit after that one. Nah, not really. But London was a fascinating place around then, right?

So, you know, obviously we're getting our years mixed up and stuff, but I sometimes wish that I could have spent some time in London when it was this eminently walkable, drivable, and dare I say this is an opinion of someone with immense privilege and I recognise that actually a little bit more dangerous just to see what it'd be like.

Do you know what I remember? I remember first moving to London in 2004 and Soho still feeling a bit edgy. You know? Yeah. And then obviously the 10, 15, 20 years before that it was bit edgy, you know? Yeah. And then obviously the 10, 15, 20 years before that, it was properly edgy. That Ian Brown F.E.A.R. video where he rides backwards on a bike past my old house,

it just looked like a completely different world. And that was only like 20 years, 25 years, 20 years? That would have been late 90s. Yeah. So it's a very, very different city now. But yeah, I mean, fascinating stuff. I mean, the thing is that you hear a lot of stories, don't you, late 90s yeah so it's a very very different city now but yeah I mean fascinating stuff

the thing is you hear a lot of stories don't you of like really famous politicians royalty back in the day

travelling out in disguise effectively out in London to try and have normal lives which obviously you and I

no camera phones no exactly that's all part of it as well that is absolutely part of it as well Peter That is absolutely part of it as well. Peter. Hello. Did you hear Jeremy Vine's latest Alan Partridge moment?

Was that the one about the arm? Oh my God, it's so good. It is so good. It's only 34 seconds. I'm going to play it out. It says, when I was eight, my parents had a boat on the River Hull. One day it rained. The river rose. My parents let my 12-year-old brother drive the boat.

We were sunbathing on deck. I went to get a drink just as the galley caved in because what he'd done is accelerated into Ticton Bridge. I don't know why I'm laughing. OK. This is not good. The collision took my mum's arm off. Always read ahead. Here's what I don't like about that.

Right. It's a flagship BBC Radio 2 show. Right. I've worked at radio at a far lower level than that. Yeah. You're reading your correspondence ahead of time. I know the exec on that show. Tell us more. I just know the exec

any good she's very good yeah well how's that happened then how's that happened then but like but shoot there's only one person

who can fix that by reading ahead he needs to read ahead I don't think that's what I'm saying I don't think you should go that's the host's fault isn't it

the host should be reading ahead listen I'll have a little quick scan all I'm saying is I think the way that losing go, that's the host's fault, isn't it? The host should be reading ahead. I'll have a little quick scan. All I'm saying is... I think the way that losing an arm, I think the way you'd scan that, you wouldn't necessarily pick up on a horrific cleaving of bone from flesh. You would just sort of lost an arm. Like, it just sounds, it doesn't sound as serious, I would say.

So I think the email writer has got it wrong. If this is a pre-production conversation, and you're hosting, and I'm the producer, what I'm now saying is, we're not doing the arm. We're not doing the arm. We're not measuring the arm. No. We're either going to do the story and have a chuckle,

or we're going to kill it. Just take the arm off. Like she did. But I will tell you this, as a man who is a veteran of presenting live on TalkSport on a Friday night as people are leaving the pub you are i'll tell you boy you are getting some spacey legs because some of them take a turn right some of them take a turn yeah i've had people calling in burping down the phone

slurring all over the place yes so trust me on that you've got to do it it's probably quite a good because I only ever get to hear that station in the morning when I'm driving in and it's astonishingly wobbly at that time but like I think at that point in the day

I'd love to see someone who hasn't got that firm a hand on the teller just letting whoever wants to get in there was an element of the fact I think there was an element

when I was doing it and I did it one year I did it one year, I did it for a while with Danny Kelly, he was just brilliant, so that never really came up, because he was just all over everything, and he was amazing.

But the year I did it on my own, which was a fucking shambles, there was an element, I think, I'm not going to call anyone out individually, but there was an element. Throwing you to the lions. No, of just like, everyone's in the pub,

no one's going to fucking listen. Just do what you want. Obviously, that's the healthiest thing you could do because because you know you need to at least behave like there are listeners but i mean i just think it's astonishing that stuff gets to that level i mean we talked about it on monday a bit about the woman doing the fucking middle finger it's almost like i might mention this once or twice before but when you come out of uni and you study when i first to you the first time around did a bit of media and you're told

all this stuff by these kind of academically angled people about how radio or TV actually works and they say

stuff like well you have to remember the moment you step on the studio floor no one swears you're never on

your own when there's a mic in the room most people are just normal don't fucking do that most people just

fucking push it and push it and it becomes like second nature to them because it's just their job and then they get caught out doing stupid shit like that. That should never have got to air. On the fucking radio too.

I mean, to be fair, radio too is quite patchy at times. They'll have people broadcasting from their homes and they're in the bathroom. I don't know why they choose the echo-iest room. I don't know how they get away with it

to be quite frank. Usually the big celebrities get to do it. During COVID, you'll know more about this than me, but during COVID, I had to broadcast from my spare room on TalkSport. And some guy came to my house and opened up a whole new world of broadband connectivity that I knew didn't exist. Using this IPL detail or something. Right.

It's a weird thing where it just, it gave me super fast, reliable broadband connection. Voice over IP. Crystal clarity. It was like, what are they used to use? ISDN. It was like ISDN. Is someone there now?

Is ISDN still around? No, I think BTKilled it this year, I want to say maybe. There's no need to use it anymore. It's very expensive. Well, because broadband's just as... Broadband's just good, isn't it? Business line's just better.

Why is it when we sometimes do shows with some of our colleagues here that their home connection's crap? User error, usually. Operator error. I thought you were going to say that. Let's take a break. When we come back,

we'll do some batteries because it's Thursday and I've got an email too as well that I'd like to cover. Peter, if that's okay with you. Okie dokie then. Hi, it's Fido. Start the semester with a new phone

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every single Thursday on the show, we go through your battery brands, what you have got in touch with. And we're going to be doing it again, to be quite frank, because George has come in with some absolute stonkers. Hello, gents, long-time listener, first time Ian Miller here.

I was cleaning out my parents' house the other day when I came across a lucky Japanese waving cat. I believe they're called Maneki Neko, if Peter's aware of them. I took it upon myself to try and get it working again and found these Topcraft batteries hidden inside. I asked my brother, who's a long-term listener, and he can't remember ever hearing them,

so he can share the blame if they've been submitted many times before. I attached the photo of said cat alongside the batteries. No idea where it came from. I believe it may have been a gift from a family friend, but even my parents don't know. Thanks for reading, and keep the fantastic show all the batteries. No idea where it came from. I believe it may have been a gift from a family friend, but even my parents don't know. Thanks for reading and keep the fantastic show. All the best, George.

He's come in with Topcraft. Topcraft. Nice bowl in the background. Nice bowl in the background. And I just like the fact that this family suddenly acquires a lucky golden cat and nobody knows where it came from. Yeah.

I think that's utterly charming, quite frankly. New players. New players. New players! Late in the day, and you're coming with something so decipherable as Top Craft. It's great stuff. I've even searched for the quotation marks. Yeah, it's lovely stuff, George.

Can I just give you a little insight into the battery section of this show? The lucky Japanese waving cat has served you well there. I think you'll like this. So I was at an industry party earlier this week, and you were there. You couldn't make it. No, I went to a different one. Yeah, and you were working as well. But you'll like this um so i was at an industry party earlier this week and you were there you didn't you couldn't make it you know i went to a different one yeah and you were working as well um but you were like this and i think people listen to this show were like this i got chatting to a guy who

is i would say quite a reasonable size player in the podcast industry right works for a very reputable very serious company doing narrative stuff right shows you would have heard of okay I don't want to embarrass him so I'm not going to

mention his name or the show and he runs a dog fighting ring no he's like Luke and Pete show's the best

podcast yes get us some money do you know what he was saying to me he was going through me stuff like I know what you've

done we don't good because we don't I'm standing there holding a beer going yeah you tell me what

I've done because I've got no idea let's write this down put it in the deck. You've distilled broadcasting down to its very essence. You get in there, you just record, and that's it. And whatever goes out, goes out.

And that, for me, There's a lot of that around. It's fantastic broadcasting. There's a lot of that around. And I was like, what you've got to understand is sometimes it takes me two years to do a series. And I'm like, so It's just obviously the opposite.

He said, batteries, genius, how do you think of it? I'm not really sure it is. Just one of those things, isn't it, Peter? I'll just pop the batteries out of a remote in a hotel room one day. We'll move on to something else after all the batteries have run out, but we've not run out since. We haven't. How many years has it gone now? Three years of batteries? Mate.

Mate. I think it's seven years. It's not been seven years. Six years. We didn't do it from Luke and Peter's summer. We haven't. How many years has it gone now? Three years of batteries? Mate. Mate. I think it's seven years. It's not been seven years. Six years. We didn't do it from Luke and Pete's summer. We did at the end

of the summer. That was 2017. Good God. That was our last feature. It ain't broke. That was our last feature that we did.

If the batteries haven't run out, don't recharge it. Right, what's next? David has come in with a Golden Queen. I was using my oximeter and it died, so when I replaced it,

I found these Golden Queen batteries and was wondering if they are new. David, oximeters. Oximeters? Oximeter, I would say, yeah. Oximeter. What's it for? I presume it's one of those little clippy things

you put on the end of your finger to measure the oxygen, blood oxygen. I think. You're not going to have a double A in there, though. Well, that's what I was thinking. There's two double As in there. Why? I don't know what I was thinking. There's two double A's in there. Why? I don't know what it is.

Anyway, David, thank you for sending them in. You are, unfortunately, the second person to send those in. Our friend Evan Miller sent those in, I think around June of 2022. Oh, David. So you're a bit behind the curve, but you are only the second person to send them in, so it's not too bad.

Circular breathing breathing just breathe get more oxygen in and you'll be fine use your oximeter use your oximeter um hi to puke and late I couldn't help but notice

that last week was a very rare not out of three Jesus not out of three in Thursday's battery roundup this is Tom McDanielson

thank you Tom I'm by no means growing tired of the places and devices our cylindrical friends have discovered. Oh, the delightful nomenclature designed to them, designated to them.

But could I add some jeopardy into the section? I can't see this happening anytime soon, but I propose that if we go a full month, four weeks on the calendar with no new player, then the beloved battery bash is put to bed in the battery daddy in the sky. Yeah, I think that's fair enough. Is that fair enough?

Yeah. If we go a month without any new players, we've got the writing's on the wall. The writing's on the wall. Have we gone... We've got pretty close here and there, haven't we? I don't feel like it's ever... I think we did two shows,

and then I think we didn't do the feature the week after. I don't know. Anyway, if that hasn't got your attention, can I pair it with a submission of my own as the official Luke and Pete Goldsmith? I found these little gems in a very cheap set of scales in my workshop. Enter Dianne Ware.

Dianne Ware. Dianne Ware. So, Tom, you are the second person to send those in. Our friend Joe sent some Dianne Ware batteries in February of this year. Right. And it was in his granddaughter's musical book. Have we got grandfathers

listening to this show, mate? Yeah. I can't help but think, Tom, that you are trying to stack this feature. You're trying to crash this feature into the side of the jetty. Yeah, it could be,

but I do like that he's a goldsmith. Yeah, well, he's an official Luke and Peter Shaw goldsmith for crying out loud. I like anyone whose job involves them being a smith. Yeah, how many smiths are there? Blacksmith. Goldsmith? Yeah, well, he's the official Luke and Peter Shaw goldsmith, for crying out loud. I like anyone whose job involves them being a smith. Yeah, how many smiths are there? Blacksmith. Goldsmith.

Goldsmith. It just seems like a job where someone will tell you that doesn't exist anymore. Yeah. But it does. Smiths don't exist anymore. They don't. When I was down in, I used to spend a fair amount of time down in the town, the beautiful market town, actually, of Devizes in Wiltshire.

There's just every new day, there's a new fucking place to think about in England. I don't need you to, I don't need anything from you on this.

What they were saying, though, that that's where the Wadworth Brewery is. Right. They make 6X, a lot of other real ales, that kind of stuff.

Yeah. When I was there once, this was years ago, they had a big town-wide campaign to find a new Cooper. Someone who makes that kind of stuff when I was there once this was years ago they had a big town wide campaign to find a new cooper

someone who makes barrels right because they were saying our cooper's about to retire and it's got no apprentice for the first time in however many years

are they not just made in factories now they're one of the only companies that still do it the traditional way it's part of their thing and they were really trying hard to find a cooper

I don't know if they found one or not I'd love to know if they did I hope they did well I hope they companies that still do it the traditional way. It's part of their thing. And they were really trying hard to find a cooper. I don't know if they found one or not. I'd love to know if they did. I hope they did. Well, I hope they put their money where their mouth was and increased the amount of money it takes. Is it sad that people don't want to do that stuff anymore? Well, I think it's slightly naive when presumably barrels get made quite easily with machines.

Yeah, but that's the price of everything and the value of nothing. It is, yeah. But I don't think there's any intrinsic value. I mean, maybe as a gamer, I'm just always blowing them up. But like, there's no...

You're picking them up, throwing them on the floor, getting an apple. For me, booze people talk about barrels way too much. It's just the thing that stores the thing. I don't like it when people replace the type of beer they drink

for a personality. Yeah. I like, in the Far East where they serve Red Bull in carrier bags. Do they? Yeah, it's just easier. I'd invoke a rule that every single person

that has an in-depth conversation about the particular type of beer they drink in the pub, automatically the barman or the landlord rings a bell and that person has to drink a pint of lager. Well, we were in one of those silly pubs last night, very briefly. I ordered a drink, nobody else did, so I had to walk down the street drinking it.

Well, I couldn't get a drink because I'm five deep at the bar. I can't either, because everyone was talking about tasting nuts and wanting to test a little bit with their little glass. But I did order a lager. She said, would you like, that one's getting churned to that barrel, but would you like a slightly lighter lager at 4.5?

I went 4.5. Everyone lagers like three. Terrible. In the US, it's terrible for that. All the beers are so fucking strong. All I was saying was. Are they? Oh, yeah.

Surely not. You go to one of those craft beer places in the US. But off the pegs. Yeah, and it's all like tens and stuff. They're all stouts. But like an off the peg one, they're all light beers, aren't they? They're all lagers. They're all millilites and Michelob and stuff.

The lager scene in your communal garden bar is fucking poor. Disgusting. All I was going to say about the Cooper thing, about Cooper obviously as someone who makes barrels, what I was going to say was I understand there's no perhaps economic value getting emotional sorry I don't want my voice broken

there's no economic value in that but I just feel like it would be nice to have a little cottage industry of it yeah but then the barrels would be 400 quid each you'd be like

well what do you want just buy one I didn't just buy one decorative barrel yeah put it at the entrance. Put your oats in it. And put the menu on top.

Yes. That's the only time we see a barrel, really, isn't it? Yeah. I've got no business with barrels anymore. I'd love to see you making a barrel. I imagine it takes a lot of, like, chest strength. Do you know what I mean? Yeah.

Because you probably have to get, like, the wood really wet and then pull the hot. And no one uses those chest things anymore, do they? No. So now it's got only chest strength now. I wonder where my dad's one went at that. Yeah. It's fucking lethal.

It wasn't really a summer's afternoon for me if one of my uncles didn't get that chest hairs caught in those springs, which is the major concern about using one of those chest pull things. But anyway, so thank you to Tom. That's not a new player. We've had one new player this week, so the battery feature is protected for yet another week. Sorry, Thomas.

Sorry about that, mate. I want to finish with an email here from Dan, if I may, Peter. Yes. Which is, hi, team. I love the show, as always. It's a slightly long one, but hopefully worth your time. Luke's reference to office culture, team making, and microwaving tuna has prompted me to email in.

The microwaving tuna bit comes from when I worked at TalkSport. There's a guy called Ian Abrahams there. His nickname is The Moose. He is a character, shall we say. And I was on the breakfast paper. So I started work at like 5.30 in the morning. He was doing the early morning shift on the sports desk. He was always there really early to the point where about 7 a.m.

it was his lunchtime. And he would microwave tuna in the office at like 7 a.m. First of all, you don't even need to microwave tuna. You can just fucking have it as it is. Have it cold. And that's where that came from. Anyway, I'll let Dan pick up the story. He says, I used to work in car sales and like many sales jobs,

the bar for entry at the time was mostly, are you a good bloke with a bit about you? Anyway, one colleague, let's call him Dave, was due to celebrate his birthday. So we had a whip round and we all donated £5 with the kitty coming to £60. He was in the process of paying for a wedding and used to save £5 notes.

So we agreed the best thing to do would put £50 worth in the card and spend the remainder on his lunchtime essentials, which at the time, this is depressing, were tuna, rice, and double-strength orange squash. Dave ate this every day,

microwaving the rice and tuna together because cold tuna isn't very nice, according to him, and washed down with a hefty glass of double-strength orange squash. Is that like sort of high juice, kind of like you mix it with water? He's not just slamming that back?

No, it's the double concentrate that you only have to use half amount to top up a bottle. Just imagine having that for lunch every day. Unfortunately, the treasurer for this birthday, let's call him Keith, misunderstood the task and spent £50 in Lidl on tuna rice and

orange squash. Two bagfuls of the stuff. To my memory, this came to four times, two litre bottles of squash, 10 packets of rice and 20 tins of tuna. The fateful day to hand over the presents came, but before he had the chance to ask a question about his decision making,

Keith, who enjoyed dabbling with quite a lot of narcotics, came over very pale and was soon sat shaking profusely under his desk with the rest of us not sure what he was doing who knows this could have been a masterstroke to avoid being held to account but we didn't see much more of keith after that because the on-site first aider had to help him out of the office in regards to dave present we scaped great together another 20 pound for the card and presented him with his lunchtime essentials and he was absolutely over the moon cheers dan right A little insight into the working life of a car sales

office, I would say. Yeah. I'm not really sure why... Why was he not very well? I'm confused how he got on well. Ripped between the lines. Right. Okay. Too much tuna. Too much tuna. Too much mercury. Too much tuna. Is it mercury that's in tuna? Interesting.

I'm going to say yes. Lithium? No, mercury. I think it's in mercury. I think you can overdose on tuna, can't you, for some kind of metallic reason. Oh, yeah, anything like uncooked tuna and salmon and stuff. If you eat a lot of sushi, that's, yeah, I think, yeah. As I always say to you around this kind of time when this comes up.

Magnesium? Potassium? We had a mercury maze in our house in the 80s, and it leaked out in the house no one cared I found a lot of lead in my dad's

pencil house and I was just like squeezing it because lead's fascinating to sort of manipulate but I'm like I should have washed

my hands really shouldn't I I'm sure it's not that bad yeah I don't think it's that bad on the I don't think a moment on the lips a lifetime on the hips, I don't think it's that bad on the... I don't think it's... A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips, Luke.

I don't think you should be eating it. I just think, because people used to talk about kids in the 50s used to play with lead toys. Or lead paint, maybe. Yeah, so we had... Why would you make toys out of lead? Because it's quite flexible. It must have been an ally of sorts.

I think so. Weirdly enough, when we were kids, and I might be doing my parents a disservice here, I hope not. I don't know how this happened, but my dad somehow got hold of a single swing. It's like, you know a swing thing?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He got hold of one. Yeah. And he took it to our house and he basically installed it into our garden with like concrete blocks. Nice, solid, yeah. And we were allowed to plant it.

We had our own swing. It was rusty as fuck. It was bright blue and orange and I'm fairly certain that the paint was lead. Right, okay. Covered in lead paint. Well, I mean, if you're not... It used to cover, it used to mark your hands,

peel off... Oh, the chain was covered in lead. No, the frame. Why are you touching the frame? That's not swinging. I think, I mean, no one said to me, don't touch the frame. I was like 10.

You've got no business touching the frame. Hands off the frame. It's my own fault. Everything you say is my own fault. Exactly, yeah. I think, the more I think back about some of the projects that my parents used to embark upon when we were kids the weirder it is

that was one of them the other one was my dad at one point we went on holiday to the US must have been early 90s and he noticed that a lot of the cars

had little almost like mascots on the car aerials yes yeah little balls yeah bought about six boxes of them had little, almost like mascots on the cart aerials. Yes, yeah, little bowls, yeah. Yeah. Bought about six boxes of them. Oh, why? He imported them.

To sell them on. No one was doing them in the UK. Right. So I'll get them, I'll do it. Nothing happened. Just stayed there. That's the thing, though, isn't it? It sounds like he's a bit of me.

You have this idea, but then you don't really have access to the market. I love that he had the idea. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's nice, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, because you imagine that as soon as you have this idea but then you don't really have access to the market yeah yeah it's nice isn't it yeah yeah because like you imagine that like as soon as you have a kid you gotta be sensible but then he's just buying a lot of little little mascots from america went mad on it i guess we don't have that many massive uh spread out car parks this is to notice your car isn't it it's also in a busy car park it's also a lack of vision because cars don't have

those areas anymore do they no but I mean they did for a long time didn't they car areas were a big thing I think he could have just gone down the road

there was a very at the time a very busy bustling market and he could have just gone and pitched there and sold them probably people wouldn't have

given a shit would they you would have to explain to them what they're for though wouldn't you put this on your car aerial why because the Americans are doing it that's how McDonald's got launched and also You would have to explain to them what they're for though, wouldn't you? Put this on your car, Ariel. Why? Because the Americans are doing it.

That's how McDonald's got launched. And also, if everyone's got one, you can't find your car, can you? They're identical, yeah. It's quite difficult. I remember once I went into my Saturday job and had a car at the time. And when I finished the shift, I spent about 40 minutes trying to find my car. Yeah. And then I realised I had to get the bus in

because the car had broken down like a day or two before oh and you forgot you even had a car and access to a proper car I made an absolute cunt of myself yeah I've done half an hour

at Heathrow T5 parking have you? just completely forgotten where I put my car that is a disaster why didn't I write it down? but I do think in those

so you know for the future I think that you can go to the office and they'll tell you because it's number plate recognition and they know where they are. Oh, that's a nice touch. Beautiful. You're like a fucking idiot.

You can't do that. Hello, I can't be here. I found a little hack as well. I don't know if anyone listening will ever park in Heathrow and if they use other car parks or whatever, but I always use that one because it's like authentic

and I also heard that the other ones, they just use other car parks or whatever but I always use that one because it's like authentic and they also heard that the other ones they just use your car as a fucking holiday car and drive around before you're away

and I only paid an extra £30 last time for valet parking and with a six month old son but that's for space reasons though isn't it like you give them

the valet and they drive up because there's just not enough room and they drive it somewhere else I cannot tell you how much value it was

given that you just got back from a red eye in a six month old and your car's just there. Yeah, bringing the car around jeeves. It's fucking brilliant.

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Any traditions, any arguments, bust up mainly. That'd be good. Yeah. That'd be nice, that. Perfect. Alright, we'll see you on Monday. Thanks very much.

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