
The Luke and Pete Show
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The One-Armed Green Grocer
MDMA on a Desert Island
One Question for the Boss
The Christianity Escape Pod
My Name Isn't James
Yes, Captain Kidney
I’ve Got Loads of Bags of Cement
Dispatches from Orchestra Camp
Leave the Tortoise Alone
Schrödinger’s Poo
A Balustrade Tragedy
Ten American Men

AKA the Bronx
On today’s show, Luke laments the inherent meekness of the British and their aversion to revolution. Thank God for a new set of golf clubs to lift his spirits a bit. Pete, meanwhile, is getting stuck in the long grass of naming conventions and the business of double-barrelling.We’ve also got a bizarrely-decorated hard hat to investigate and the origin of a nickname to explain.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Last Men on Earth
If Luke and Pete were to leave the studio to find they’re suddenly the only people left on the planet, what would the strategy be? Minor spoiler: primates and Lime Bikes would be involved.Also up for discussion are parking tickets, jarring tonal shifts in hip-hop and an email about bubbly water.Plus, we find out what Pete was up to in the 90s.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Elderly Japanese Lady Golfer
Remember when you used to get fat footballers? Luke and Pete do.On today’s episode, the guys discuss the sartorial choices of football fans of the past and present, as well as those of golfers and middle-aged men more generally. Not only that, but there’s an offering for the Battery Robot and some big news concerning Afroman.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Goodnight to the Metaverse
The trailer for SNL UK is out and Luke and Pete are sticking to their original predictions vis à vis its quality. But there’s bigger fish to fry on this fine Monday because video game faces have been yassified and, $80 billion later, the Metaverse is dead.Elsewhere, Luke shouts out Denis Norden and David Niven’s wartime pasts and Pete gives his thoughts on contemporary British and Irish stars of the screen.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wet Music and Big Shoes
Luke’s distaste for what he calls “wet music” might have ruined a recent night out, but his negativity is no match for Pete’s beef with a certain Instagram content creator. Also on today’s agenda: robots on mental health walks, video game discussions and a massive question of the day from Mr Moore: "why are we acting like WWIII isn’t already happening?" Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Drinking is the Abraham
Pete might have cracked the code to weight loss, everyone. But will the solution give him bad pumps? Only time will tell. Elsewhere on today’s episode, the guys reminisce/have flashbacks about the time Pete was rescued by a lifeguard named Abraham and Luke brings a meat shower to the table. Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mongo the Chimpfluencer
Cryptids. Ever heard of them? Well, they get everywhere. Including Hartlepool, it turns out. Today’s edition of the Luke and Pete show moves from the cryptozoological to the regular kind of zoological when chimpanzees become the focus of the discussion. Trigger warning: includes details of a brutal real-life chimp attack. This is not one for the squeamish. But there’s a nice chaser in store: Pete’s “sexy” MSN pranks.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Wild Moldovan Dogs
Pete’s been off on his holidays again, this time to Moldova and the breakaway republic of Transnistria. And he didn’t even get as pissed as he could have.Staying on the theme of states and nations, Luke and Peter touch on the war in the Middle East and how certain Dubai residents have reacted to it.And on an entirely different note, there’s a good amount of potty training chat. Truly something for everybody in this episode.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The House You Can Aggressively Have Access To
Luke is in the purgatory of British house-buying — a process his Wife He Has Access To finds baffling when you can apparently just kick a door in and claim land in Connecticut. Plus, Pete has been dragged into a six-quid Vinted dispute over some trousers that were definitely brown in the photo and has emerged victorious, slightly guilty, heartfelt hospital stories and a new genre of music called Egg Punk — *basically* as it sounds.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chess and Chest Presses
Welcome, intrepid podcast traveller - good to have you with us. Let Pete regale you with tales of a near-death experience involving a 25-minute walk, getting a blister while dodging a man carrying a slab of MDF, and fancifully thinking about taking up boxing. We've all been there.Elsewhere, Luke continues to beat Pete at chess and will not let him forget it. Plus, retro video games we'll never finish, debating whether Pete Hegseth's bench press is impressive and Luke witnessing a catastrophically cringe question asked in front of a thousand people. Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Obama’s Extraterrestrials
A former US President said that aliens exist! More on this story right here on LAPS. In other news, Battery Robot has returned to the fold, Luke’s getting into chess and Tommy Robinson is still a horrible grifter.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Something Fishy About the Biscuits
Happy Monday everyone. What better way to start the week than with some allegorical analysis of 1986’s Top Gun? Also on today’s menu: framemogging, Sci-Fi literature, hot tamales and, crucially, supermarket biscuits. Pete reckons this thing goes all the way to the top.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Ice Have It
On today’s episode, Luke and Pete contend with some of the grim realities of the ruling classes on both sides of the pond. In unfortunate news for Peter, a truly dreadful man shares his passion for the Toyota Century.There’s also some ice bath chat, a big battery submission and a brief look back at Pete’s dating history.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Happy Promptman
On the agenda today: Maxïmo Park, tight trousers and the appendages they disguise (or don’t disguise) and the astonishing number of famous people produced by one small Scottish town.Plus, we have a look at a beautiful radio owned by Luke’s grandad and find out what Pete’s father makes of AI.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Six-Sheep Threshold
We kick off today’s episode with a look back on the good and the bad of 1990s cartoons and satire, before taking a moment to appreciate the late, great John Virgo.What’s more, there’s some battery business and listener correspondence to attend to. A Network Rail gentleman tells Luke and Pete a bit more about animals being hit by trains.Send us your best stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Peter, it’s Paella Time
Mr Donaldson’s just got in from another European trip, this time to the land of tapas and seashell-adorned buildings. Today’s topics include punctuation, close calls with rental car companies and the death of the Metaverse. Plus, loads of limestone might be cheaper than you think.Send us your best stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Too Many Stick Insects
Disturbing psychological conditions, Disney cruises and the obscenity of billionaires. Variety is the spice of life. Plus, there’s plenty of love around here for Harry Hill and plenty of time to marvel at the sheer number of species out there. Remember, there are always more armadillos than you think.Send us your best stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Always Smell the Beef
Pete’s been to Paris and it’s making everyone very depressed, and not because of envy. The man is self-admittedly awful at booking things.On an equally cheery note, the guys discuss the limits of their animal-killing capacities, as well as those of train drivers. Also, worming a cat is no joke. Happy Monday everyone.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Cow’s a Silly Animal
Luke and Pete kick off this episode by delighting at the days getting longer. It’ll be spring before you know it, lads.Things get more controversial when Luke has his say about lager consumption alongside a curry (is it really that good of a pairing?) and the guys take a look at the curious case of Veronika the Austrian cow. She may or may not be doing wonders for the reputation of her species’ intelligence. Also, raw milk is definitely still disgusting.Send us your best stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Many Cakes of Tom Cruise
Carmageddon II looms large in Pete’s early university memories, but it’s not the reason he had to apologise to campus security. Luke, meanwhile, had to deal with an American-style shared room. The stuff of nightmares nowadays.Elsewhere, the guys discuss the Beckham family drama and wonder precisely how many cakes Mr Tom Cruise is sending out at Christmas. Place your bets.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fascinating Problematic Characters
Impending doomsday diary entry 876, from Donaldson and Moore’s bunker studios…As the world casually burns, we still find time to enjoy Looksmaxxing bros continuing to shoot themselves in the reproductive organs in their quest for hotness - as well as the Tate Brothers conducting their own Donaldson weekender.Plus, the big questions answered: who are our own Top G influencers? What’s the best substance to soak your hands in before fighting? How to best bribe your children? What’s the optimum time to have dinner? Consider this a public service to you all. Battery Robot has had his firmware update and needs to guzzle down on your submissions! Get them into: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Is Bailey’s egg-based?
Luke’s got to come clean about his murky past: the amount of pints and chocolate eclairs he knicked while working at the Student Union. To be fair, at least he wasn’t getting high on his own pork supply like Pete was at Leicester City. Plus: the relentless abundance of political weirdos, tricks of the hotel trade and metal bands fronted by literal children. Just another Monday with your podcast dads… Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Rest is Pete’s History
After dancing delicately through Luke’s recent toilet trouble for a good ten minutes, we find out that Pete’s been buying radar keys on eBay. Doth the cap fit, n all that.Elsewhere, we rate the last meals of Ivan the Terrible, Hitler and various other horrible men, and we officially dispel the myth of the WWI Christmas Day football match - and we are definitely the first podcast to work that out. Plus, disappointing curry dispatches from Indian restaurants in the US.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's That Cash For, Sir?
I know what you're thinking - if I download this episode of The Luke and Pete Show, what can I expect to hear? Well, first off you're going to hear about a really expensive tuna. After that you're going to find out all about what it's like trying to get cash out of a bank these days, a conversation which naturally evolves into Pete's latest run in with the taxman, and after that there's a bit of chat about looksmaxxing, something that you will be genuinely worse off for hearing about. But don't let that put you off! And send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: [email protected]. DO IT NOW! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hand Warmers of Various Types
Hello and welcome back to what feels like a podcast at the end of the world. Put it this way, Pete is desperate to know where he can secure regular asthma medication from as we edge ever closer to the abyss.In the meantime, the lads still find time to talk about purchasing paint, why you shouldn't urinate in the sink, and Axl Rose's performing habits. There's also adverts for soup, a very welcome New Year's appearance from Battery Robot, and the question on everyone's lips - will Luke and Pete invade Greenland?New Year, new questions? Only one place to put them: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Who Let the Wallabies Out?
Looking back on it, how weird was Covid? Luke and Pete share some of their oddest memories of a strange time, before going on to chat about potential new pandemics, executions and the story of pellagra in the Deep South.After that, they open up the email pipes and hear your stories about wallabies in the Midlands, guide dogs failing their training and a food poisoning story with a twist. To get involved yourself, it's [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

50 Shades of Paté
The Luke and Pete Show is back for another year, and what better way to start 2026 than to have a deep and fairly involved conversation about paté? And when does a paté become a parfait? And when does it become a terrine?Elsewhere, Pete needs a new fridge, the lads run the rule over Enid Blyton and Roald Dahl, and there's plenty of other chat besides. Oh, and are we starting off the year with a brand new player into the Battery Daddy? Tune in to find out...New Year, new questions? Only one place to put them: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Got Any Old Beef?
Pete's beef wellington didn't quite go to plan on Christmas Day, due to some promises made by a butcher that simply weren't kept. But did he let that setback deter him? Tune in to find out. Elsewhere, there's some sizable kebab shop chat, Pete has been wrestling with His Majesty's Revenue and Customs again, and the boys hear from a listener who developed food poisoning in one of the most impressive locations on Earth. Oh, and Luke's put his house on the market - first port of call? Bothering the property photographer with annoying questions about photoshop and shutter speeds...Christmas-related comments or queries? Only one place to put them: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Three Noel Edmonds Coasters and a Christmas Samurai
Merry Christmas everyone! Luke and Pete muster on Christmas Day to deliver you a festive, bumper edition of the Luke and Pete Show, because they know it's what you all asked for from Santa...This time around there's chat about Jake Paul's broken jaw (truly a Christmas present for everyone, that), a truly bizarre claim from the husband of an ex-Blue Peter presenter, some server chat from Pete because it's his Christmas as well, and then Luke wraps things up by playing "What's Pete doing at this time on Christmas Day?" (Hint: it mostly involves farts).Merry Christmas everyone! Enjoy the festive season!Subscribe to join us, and email whenever you like: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Experiencing Paddington
Pete has been hanging out with one of the world's most famous bears, and do you know what? He bloody enjoyed it. But the feel-good chat doesn't last very long, and before they know it the lads are taking in their listeners' best food poisoning stories.Elsewhere, there's raccoons. Or rather, one particular raccoon that keeps escaping...Subscribe to join us, and email whenever you like: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Night in a Hostel
Welcome back to a new episode of the Luke and Pete Show! As we build up towards Christmas, the lads talk presents, including a very thoughtful gift Pete has been working on. Ah, bless. Unfortunately he reverts to type fairly shortly after that after his gastric problems come back and he finds himself stranded in London with nowhere to go.Luke and Pete also find time to hear from an American that enjoyed a strange experience upon visiting Camden, and there's one or two carpet anecdotes as well. What more do you need?Subscribe to join us, and email whenever you like: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finally! A Podcast Episode About Food Poisoning
How is Pete preparing his turkey for Christmas dinner this year? By sticking it in the freezer, of course. Pray for his guests, particularly when it sounds like the rest of the day's food is going to be cooked in his airfryer.Elsewhere, and as the title suggests, the lads discuss several tales of food poisoning (unrelated to Pete's cooking, it has to be said), there's a good trip down memory lane discussing old video games and, for some reason, Pete attempted to close out the episode by speaking some Welsh. Subscribe to join us, and email whenever you like: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Worst Snack of all Time
Pete's been out on the lash again, and you simply will not believe his drunken food of choice. Honestly, you could have a thousand guesses and you'd never get it. In other news this week, Luke is really hitting all the major milestones of middle age by taking up golf, there's some impassioned follow ups from listeners in our great airfryer debate, and the lads also reminisce about time they've spent in Istanbul. Subscribe to join us, and email whenever you like: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Airfrying Your Big Toe
Christmas is coming and so the inevitable Pete Donaldson/Luke Moore airfryer debate simply must rear its ugly head. Can Pete honestly be planning to cook his family's Christmas lunch in such a contraption? One can only speculate at this early stage.We are also blessed this time around with plenty of big toe chat, a mysterious advent calendar-themed email, and some truly excellent travel tips for those attending The O2. As ever, it's a smorgasbord of conversational topics, none of which are important but all of which are in their own way nevertheless absolutely vital. Tune in and subscribe!The Luke and Pete Show only serves up the longest of shrifts, and don't you forget it. To contribute to this travelling jamboree, get in touch here: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

TV Show Anxiety
Welcome back to your all-new edition of The Luke and Pete Show! This time around, the lads start, as all great podcasts do, with chat about the seminal PC game Lemmings 2: The Two Tribes. Was exposure to it as a young man responsible for Luke's anxiety in adulthood? Seriously, it was a *really* stressful game.There's also time to really run the rule over Noel Edmonds and his blatant writing of the Noel's House Party Wikipedia page, the Paul Daniels vehicle Every Second Counts, and plenty of other nonsense besides, including your battery submissions of course.The Luke and Pete Show only serves up the longest of shrifts, and don't you forget it. To contribute to this travelling jamboree, get in touch here: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Geriatric Man of the Match Award
Has Christmas started even earlier this year? If so, why? And what's the attraction of adult lego?Just two of the questions that the Luke and the Pete attempt to answer on this episode, the inaugural missive of December. And while we're on the subject of the festive period now the final month of the year is upon us, one of our listeners gets in touch to recommend a Christmas reading of the 9/11 Commision Report, and do you know what, Luke might just give it a bash.The Luke and Pete Show only serves up the longest of shrifts, and don't you forget it. To contribute to this travelling jamboree, get in touch here: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On The Lash in Leicester
Yes indeed, as the title suggests, Peter has been to the historic city of Leicester, home of his alma mater the iconic De Montfort University, to have a legendary night on the sauce with some old pals. "But where did he go? What hostelries did he patronise?" we hear you ask! Er, it was basically just O'Neill's. Did he have a brilliant time though? Tune in to find out.Elsewhere, the lads marvel at the terminology and behaviour of self-described Pick Up Artists, there's incredulity at the range of spirits available to purchase in Aldi, and Battery Robot of course pops in to say hello and get a feed.The Luke and Pete Show only serves up the longest of shrifts, and don't you forget it. To contribute to this travelling jamboree, get in touch here: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Toilet Plates
What has Pete been up to this week? Now there's a question to strike fear into the heart of men, but worry not! Because the answer basically extends to him cleaning some windows, going to see some stand up comedy for charity and typing some quite unusual things inton ChatGPT.Also on today's episode, the lads also talk about the dot com boom, run the rule over their favourite type of labourer bigger boys, and then hear from a listener who's family member has been doing some truly demented things with food leftovers.The Luke and Pete Show only serves up the longest of shrifts, and don't you forget it. To contribute to this travelling jamboree, get in touch here: [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.