205: Pete Discusses His Recent Trip to Vegas

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2:15See, that got me. It's just to see whether you're all paying attention. Yeah, I like that, actually. You know what I mean? It's just, yeah. Just so you're all more engaged and you have to think about it. I was in a daze just then, got caught out. Yeah. This episode will contain swearing. If you don't like it, go f*** yourself. Make sure you rate, review, do all of that crap. You know the score by now. Right. Holidays.

2:41I feel like you need a whiteboard or something Right, holidays, that's where we're starting Holidays Okay, here we go Yeah Will you start with me? Yes, yes, yeah, absolutely So my name's Sam I just came back from LA Bought a new cardigan I've had this for ages Sam has made an effort today He's got a new pair of kind of Brogue type lip shoe on Boot, I would call it actually and a cardigan. And I think you said lots of compliments. Actually, I have, actually. Which really worries me because I'm like, fuck, how bad do I dress? Because this is like, these are the jeans you told me to buy. So Pete told me to buy these jeans.

3:20These boots I've had for a couple of years. I've wore them in the jungle. And this shirt's got a, this t-shirt's got a stain on it. But you have a cardigan. You just do it up. I do. I have a cardigan. I do have a cardigan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they weren't LA purchases? No, they weren't. They weren't. These are all saints, these bad boys, actually. Well, how was LA? LA was really good. It was great. It's a fucking long way to go, though, for four days. America? Yeah, mate. Well, just the other side of America, mate. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a 12-hour point. I was also there. I know. Me and Pete were relatively...

3:49Actually, I was back as you left. Yeah, yeah. Which I bet you're quite happy about, because I would have made the trip. It is a long way to go. You are right. But what was it like? Was it like you expected? You've been to LA before. Your missus used to live there. Yeah, she... Did she give you the full LA experience? She did. we went to like melrose and went shopping down the thrift stores and like we saw like i don't know kim kardashian's like mate's best mate at some point who like had like bleep you saw someone that may have someone that may have been on keeping up the kardashians i've got a fucking clue and like and she was like she's like we're having our we're having like our our grape sort of like new tiktok craze like smoothie what we all saw how bloody expensive Bloody, bloody expensive.

4:37Well, yeah. I mean, from what I saw in the stories, and obviously you didn't document the lot, it was you moaning about the price of smoothies and going to a cat cafe. So what... Cat cafe is expensive as well. Mate, the price of a smoothie in... So there's a place called Air One. $21, I believe. $21. You are Rain Man. The fact that you can remember that is wild. Don't even get me started on numbers. I'm a weird guy when it comes to stuff like that. Mate, he's not wrong. Mate,$21, right? And you had to get two. And I had to get what me and time. $42. Nearly deceased, mate. I literally, and do you know what?

5:12I'm walking around. There's this place called Air One, which is like, I don't know. It's like up plate, the cool place to go in LA. And you walk in and, mate, you know the exact. I, without, who do you think's an Air One, Pete, in LA? Oh, just every **** and their mate. And their mate's mate. Oh, yeah. And I walk in there. After Pilates. A dude. Everybody's in athleisure. Not one person is in normal clothing. They're either in athleisure. No boots and cardigans in Air One. Mate, I'll tell you what. No boots and cardigans in Air One. Absolutely not. How do you say it? Air One. It's like, I think it's a Chinese guy who started it up and now it's like massive.

5:49But everyone in there is like some super influencer and stuff. But I couldn't believe it. And all these smoothies and stuff are so expensive. One's called the Hayley. I had the Hayley Peeber. Oh. So you can have a little taste of Hayley for$21? You can, mate. Sounds like a bargain. We actually, you walk in, you think it can't be the stereotype. And then actually, like, there are genuinely people doing taste tests on TikTok. And they're doing the tap test. You were doing the price test on TikTok. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm sitting there like, just how? And they're literally influenced sitting there, like, going, so, like, I've got the Haley Bieber.

6:22And they're like, just go, like that. And it's so shameless over there. And, like, you know, I'm pretty shameless with, like, my filming and stuff. It's like no one cares that they're literally, like, They've got a ring light and a camera and stuff. So that was kind of it. It was like going to the zoo. So what about other kind of famous LA haunts then? Community goods matcha? Did you queue up for one of them? I didn't, but I did go to a CVS. Well, CVS, I mean, I went to a CVS and cleared the shelves of eye drops. I love a CVS. We also bought dog toys, but that's a different story. It is. CVS, I didn't realise this until Tally explained it to me, but CVS is the kind of place.

6:59Mate, it's actually like Disneyland. It's unbelievable. The things you can get in CVS that you can't get in the UK. Did you press the little button for help? We did get help. Excuse me. I'd like two of those. Complained about the price in there, actually, as well. And the lady was like, oh, stop complaining. In-N-Out Burger. Didn't go In-N-Out, but did go to, oh, my God, Chipotle. Right, yeah. Had a Chipotle. Expensive. No, no, that was okay. Oh, fuck, mate. Thank God for that. Stayed in the Beverly Hills Hotel, which was lovely. Yes. Really, really nice. Expensive. Old school, liked it. Yeah, it was, I mean, yeah, but that was, that's worth it.

7:38The juice is worth the squeeze on that one. But yeah, it was really, really nice. We went to a breakfast bar underneath Beverly Hills Hotel and apparently Bieber used to go there all the time to get his breakfast. So you ate his missus and then followed him round? Pretty much, yeah. Hey, baby. But do you know what? It was, I couldn't live there. I don't think. Why not? I feel like, I mean, your missus used to live there. She looks very LA. You both look very LA. You were very athleisure in the backwards cap and the kind of baggy thing. You look like you belong there. You really did. Pete really studied my stories.

8:15Listen, you've got to look at these things. Yeah, but you know, it's, you can't really drive, like, sorry, you can't really walk anywhere. No one walks. The traffic there's fucking violence. It's absolutely wild. I couldn't go on, I wanted to go on a hike. I wanted to do the basic bitch hike and I did, I couldn't do it because it was on the other side of town. It takes like an hour and a half to get there. And it's, but nobody walks. Like you have to drive. I went down one of the - Did you have a car? No. So we'd just get an Uber's everywhere. Little electric scooters. I would have loved to, but Tali didn't want to.

8:45She thought they were a little bit dangerous. But it was amazing. I couldn't live there. One, I couldn't afford it, I don't think. Two, it was - You are struggling for money. It's the kind of place I think that you would go for like a month. You know? I think a month is about, ooh, 29 days too long for me. Oh, so you're not an LA fan? I don't like it. Yeah. I don't like it. It's not for me. Do you know what was kind of cool? I don't get it. Everyone's healthy. We're trying to be healthy. I just, no. And it's pretentious. I don't like it. Mate, no one smokes either. Yeah, it's not for me. Mate, to the point where, like, I worked, because I actually had a couple of cigarettes out there, and I left the hotel.

9:23You're fucking bad, man. Mate, I walked out. Out there, you do feel like one. You actually feel like you're about to get arrested. Nice. You walk outside the front of the hotel and I sparked up a ciggy and the guy, the valet went... Are you sure it was a ciggy? Yeah, it might have been a doobie. And the valet goes, sorry, mate, you can't smoke outside the hotel. And I went, what do you mean? He goes, you've got to go round the corner. There's a tiny little spot. It's like the corner of shame that you have to go and have a cigarette in. It's kind of weird. They really look down on people smoking over there.

9:54It's just not for me. It never has been. We've obviously, you and I have been together. I don't like the place. I don't like America. It's just not for me. There's just nothing about it that makes me go, let's go LA. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what was cool? You know, I'm a massive Harry Potter fan and I love movies and stuff. So I went to like Fox and I went into the lot. And so I went and I saw the sets and stuff. That was class. Like, I really enjoyed that. And so I went into like some of like the big meeting rooms and stuff and like that was really, really cool because you just like, you think, who's sat here?

10:27What was better, that or the Pussy Palace? The Cat Cafe was great. Sorry, that, yeah. The Cat Cafe was really, really cool. We walked past it, it was in Melrose, and we walked in, it fucking stank. But it was so, so nice. I've always wondered, what happens in a Cat Cafe? You walk in, and there's just a load of cats who basically, they would have been put down so they get a home and they go in. So they're like rescue cats? They're rescue cats. Oh, okay, all right. And you go and you pay like, I think it's like$20 for 15 minutes, and you go in. For 15 minutes? Mate, it's not cheap. and you can't even complain at that one because you're doing a good deed.

11:00But do you ever drink there? No. No, you literally It's not a fucking cafe then, is it? Oh no, you can get a coffee but you wouldn't want to because the smell is so bad. But also, by the time they fucking finished it you've got to fucking down it. And by the way, they time you. So like, it's literally in and out. I saw them boot out some kids who started crying because they'd like gone over their time. What were the cats like? It's beautiful, obviously because, you know, obviously they wouldn't be here if they didn't have the cat cafe. But yeah, and it says like there's like 15 cats there's like a lot of cats in there they're just and you can tell they're having a great life and then they get adopted so you go in if you like it you can adopt it and there was one beautiful one it actually reminded me of what people said about her it was like he just had so much character and i was like i really really want to adopt this cat he was like climbing onto my lap and he was literally only just being rescued he was going to get put down the day after he got rescued and he was like climbing up my leg and that's tough i literally looked down i went oh Oh my God.

11:52I could, but she, one of the ladies, the lady actually went, she was like, he won't even be here for long. He'll be scooped up for sure. Oh, it's beautiful. Well, I like that. I like the fact that you did that. Do you know what? There was one, there was one thing though, that got back to the price. There was one thing where they go, you can vote for who's cat of the week. And they wear a little, a shiny little collar. Did you tell them? You were in 40 the month? I told them my cat of the week. Oh. Yeah. He's called Jerome. And, and I was like, I'd like Jerome. I'd like to put my cash of the week for Jerome, please.

12:17And she went, all right, cool,$10, and you can put Jerome down. I went, fucking hell. And the problem is, it's like, I've already said I want to do it, and it's for a good cause. And so I literally was like, oh, cool, yeah, of course. Like, of course. And Tali looked at me, and she started laughing, because she knew. She knew that all I wanted to do was be like, that's fucking daylight robbery. What, did you have sort of nights out together, or dinner together? Yeah, yeah, we had some great dinner spots. that I mean, I don't know what they're called. Did you drink in LA? Yeah, I did actually. Did you tell me?

12:48Yeah, we got quite pissed. Just like, mate, because they love tequila over there. So like there's loads of different tequila. So we were just shotting. Stunt sounds better to me. Mate, we were just shotting tequila. Like we didn't even really have any long drinks. We literally had like a tequila before the starter, tequila after the starter, just go like that as it went on. It was fucking great. Fucking beautiful. Yeah. And it was the first couples trip. It was our first proper together without other people. Without other people there, yeah. How was it? really really good really really good it was um more in love now than ever I mean did LA bring you closer together I think so yeah it was um yeah and also like oh god I don't know how interesting this is but like it's just like on the plane we just like I know it sounded like gone along really well on the plane I know it sounds stupid but like 12 hours on a fucking flight with somebody and we neither of us really sleep on planes and so like it was just really fucking fun and uh and the whole trip was really fun and I had meetings like sporadically dotted around these days.

13:45And do you know what I love about her? She just goes and does her own thing. So yeah, cool. I don't care. I'll go and do my thing. She's coming out to Australia, actually, when we do the jungle for the last 10 days. And she went, I'm treating it like a solo trip. And she was like, I'm going to do so much sightseeing. I love that. She's got a little itinerary planned for herself. Oh, she loves it. Meanwhile, you'll be working like a dog. How are you feeling? Because it's not long till you go now. You're a little jet setter. I know. From the US to down under. I know, like two completely different parts of the world, to be fair.

14:15Mate, I can't wait. I'm super excited. It's going to be fucking amazing. I've done the photo shoot for The Jungle now, the proper photo shoot, which just gets you so jacked up, so amped up. Clark's Wallabies in the photo shoot? Yes. Yeah. How do you know that? I know everything. Oh, did Kelly send you a photo? No. How do you know that? I know everything, mate. That's absolutely wild. I know everything. I love, okay, I'm going to get the name wrong. I love a pair of Clark's Wallabies Clark Wallabies it's your it's your first time you know I've been wearing you used to take the piss out of me so be I've been wearing them for years I was going to have to hold my hand we actually did something on this podcast I think about fucking Clark's Wallabies we did and you took the piss mate I've got to put my hands up right they are one of the comfiest shoes I have ever put on in my life and I remember I said to Kate so me and Pete both know the same stylist that I'm working with on this Australia thing and I said to her I went God I just didn't think I'd like them I mean I've been taking the piss out of Pete for years.

15:11They're so nice. Yeah. Hands up, man. Fair fucks. So now you've done the photo shoot, how was the styling session? Were there any shakets involved? Yeah, no shakets involved. So what sort of vibe are we going for? We're going for more chill, more relaxed. More chill. You know, we're in the jungle. We're in the... Yeah, we don't care. Well, it's like... I haven't got a stylist and I haven't thought about this. But also, do you know what it is? It's like, they told me I had to have a stylist. I didn't even think I needed one. They were like, no, you do. And then I just realised, Do you know what, Pete?

15:38Like, if I'm going into this presenting gig, I've never really done anything like this before. There's no point in trying to be someone else. You know? I do it on this morning. I used to do that on this morning. I'd turn up in like a Dermot O 'Leary outfit. No Dermots. No Dermots. We're going as Sam. We're going as Sam, whatever that may be. A styled Sam. Yeah, a styled Sam, whatever that may be. And then we're just going to go from there. But I can't wait. And what about grooming? I don't know. How are we feeling? Just dust on the ball patch. Jungle beard? Or going to keep it trim? Keep it trim.

16:07Keep it trimmed. Keep it trimmed. So we've not going a bit rogue. I'm in the jungle. We're going to go sharp, groomed. Sharp, groomed. And just hoping that I don't sleep in. Because it's an early get up. Well, the lineup has now been announced. I don't know if it's been announced or leaked. But from what I've seen, I don't think it's the official one. But I have seen that. If it is that, and I genuinely have no idea, then it's an interesting lineup. I mean, Wayne Rooney, if he's going on it, would be... I mean, I love Wayne Rooney. I think he's absolutely hilarious. So, and obviously Colleen did it beforehand.

16:39So he'll be great. If Keith Lemon, Lee Francis is in it, I don't even know who the real Lee Francis is. So I'd love to know. Will the real Lee Francis please stand up? Well, this is the thing. Exactly. So I can't wait to see what he's like. And then obviously, you know, if it is, as I say, legit that you've got the YouTuber. Chloe Burrows. Chloe Burrows, who we both really like. And Stacey from Gavin Stacey. So. Yes. Joanne. Paige. Yeah, Joanna Page. Yeah. And I think people will be really interested to see her AJ AJ we love AJ we love AJ she's great and she's done Strictly as well so she's about to if again I keep having to say if complete it it's the same thing she would have completed it that's she's done the round robin there so yeah oh very nice very nice who's your early money on oh it's got to be Wazza it's got to be Wazza or Wayne Rooney you know how these how these digital guys do like why are we saying Wayne Rooney because I think he's really interesting He reminds me of another Tony Bell.

17:39You think? Yeah, I think he's going to go in. He doesn't really know what the fuck's going on. I don't think he really cares either. He's going to go in and sit there and be like, what the fuck is going on? Well, I don't think he's going to be, he hasn't done shows like this before, has he? So he's not going to be as savvy as to what's going on, which means that he'll be authentic. Yeah, oh, he'll be completely authentic. Which means that he'll probably be the best. I agree with that as well. I think there's loads of people in there actually who'll be - How much? How much do you reckon he's got paid?

18:02Yeah. Ah, do you know what? Do you know what? I would I would I reckon a lot of the budget has gone in here I would say like I have no idea I'm this is just me pissing in the wind it's got to be close to a mill I'd say you reckon it's got to be he's Wayne Rooney he used to be on like 300 grand a week at Man United like he's not getting out of bed for anything less than like that I reckon that amount of money he's gone through a real glow up yeah like a real a real Sam is what we call it a real Sam he's had a real Sam he's had a real kind of glow up as well hasn't he yeah mate he's uh he he's trimmed down when he was doing soccer aid he looks he looks phenomenal but yeah i reckon he's probably a bit of money yeah and how are you going to um uh keep your yourself sort of unbiased as a presenter of of um unpacked do you know what makes it i haven't really got any skin in the game on this one because i don't really know any of that i know chloe quite well and she she is going in she hasn't told me which i'm a little like hmm but um but yeah i i don't really know any of them so that's quite good so i'm actually going in with a completely blank campus.

19:04I'm like, okay, what are you guys like? How are you going to be then if someone that you really like, like Wazza, or Clummy Burrows, or AJ, who you know, turns out to be a cunt? And then are you going to, well, I know them, and then are you going to go, yeah, what a dickhead. How do we do it? I don't know, because I feel like as a presenter, you can't really have an opinion, right? You just sort of have to ask other people. So I guess I'm just going to be like, what do you think about Wazza? Have you seen any guests that are coming out? Yeah, the three I know so far, GK Barry's coming out. Are you allowed to say Yeah, yeah.

19:34So GK's coming out. I thought I'd just help you out there. Well, we got this person and Colleen's coming out. And Regin's obviously giving the crown away as well. So he'll be there at the very end. So it's a great line-up that we have. Looking forward to seeing Nice Orange again? Looking forward to seeing. Do you know what I'm really gutted about? Is there were rumours that your missus was going to be in it. And I was actually like, ah, do you know what? And I spoke to Pete a little bit about it. And I was just like, like briefly, I went, mate, do you know what? It'd be so great if it was on it.

20:00Because obviously it means you can come out. and it looks like from what I've seen on the elite line-up that she's not going. Well, it doesn't just look like it. I can tell you now. Yeah. She's not. I was really, really hoping. If she is, I don't know. So if she is, looks like, I don't think I'd be able to go out. I was really looking forward to that. Who the fuck's going to have the Rottweilers and Lola? Yeah. You know what I mean? Be a fucking daddy's home on his own. Another bridge moment, though, would have been so good. Would have been so, so good. Yeah, because it was a real... We just, for anyone listening, we just looked up.

20:37It was a real nice moment for me last time. The photo. Nearly fucking died. But I suppose, mate, that's kind of all me, really. That's my LA trip, Australia. I'm sort of going to be gone for a little bit. So this is my penultimate record. How homesick do you think you're going to be? I do get quite homesick. Were you homesick in LA? No, because it was so short. I was with Tally, so it was fine. But yeah, I miss it. So home is where Tali is. Home is where Tali is, I'd say. But I'd say I'll miss the pause massively, mate. I'm going to be gone for a really long time. And also, I don't like the fact that I'm leaving you to, I mean, don't mind, don't get me wrong, I'm sure people absolutely love it.

21:14They're probably bored stiff of me. But I feel like I'm leaving you in the trenches a little bit. So I apologise for that. But I'm going to miss it a lot. Well, for those listening, we have plans. Pete loves a contingency. We have plans. it's um so the pod isn't going anywhere just sam is and we will actually get better and we will no it won't but we will be doing check-ups with sam as well so it's not it's not gone but forgotten um we will be doing regular check-ups i think we're going to be doing some sort of outfit of the day pics fuck lots of exciting things happening we'll also be doing a rundown of of how he's getting on as a presenter.

21:53Oh, no. Lots of different things. We may get in some commentary from presenters and different people. So there'll be lots of things. Sam will still be very much involved in Stan Redman. Well, mate, what about you anyway? I mean, obviously you've been away. What about you? You've been gone. How was Vegas? Fuck me, mate. Dude, Vegas, from what we've seen, Vegas looked phenomenal. I got back from Vegas last night. I didn't even know that. Oh, you got back last night? I've not slept. Oh, you got a jet lag. Yes. Oh, nice. And I got back late last night. Don't even look tired. So I haven't slept and then I'm straight to Dublin today.

22:26So, yeah, I'm running on fumes pretty much, although I have got my voice back, which is nice. Did you lose your voice? Yes. Yeah, it was heavy because we had Liv's Halloween party. And then when the next day you flew to Vegas, so we slept a little bit on the plane and then promptly set our alarms to wake up two hours before the end so that Liv could get ready on the plane and we could drink so that when we got to the airport, we could go straight out, basically. So we got to the airport. She'd arranged a party bus to pick us both up. So we were picked up straight in a party bus, went straight to a liquor store and bought a bottle of tequila, dumped our bags at the hotel and went straight out to backstage at Omnia for Tiesto.

23:16How are you at Tiesto? How am I? Do you like that kind of music? No, no. But what I do like is tequila, nightclubs and nights out with Liv. Do you know what I mean? Sorry, not to cut you off, but Liv put up a really nice photo of her behind the DJ deck. And I actually replied to, she actually replied to me. I replied to a story, I need to know where Pete is right now. Is he like behind the deck? Oh my God, you took a selfie video. This is Liv on a podium and me just behind there. But yeah, I was right there with her. We were having a lovely time, just the two of us. Tiesto there, Omnia. Oh, my God.

23:54It was all up and down. Pete did, just for anyone listening, Pete did a, what you've just shown us there is a panoram view. You know when people like... Well, I saw Liv doing it, so I thought, I better do one. You know people in Ibiza when they're like behind the decks and they do like the proper round like a thing? And like, I just, look how far you've come. That was our first night. So we did that and then we went drinking and gambling till 7am. How much do you win or lose? Oh, God, I am down. I am down. What I didn't realise is Liv kept saying to me, I'm very lucky. So we did some gambling together and set her up so we were playing on the same table.

24:36And every time I'd leave the table, she'd win. Every time I'd sit back down, she'd lose. So in the end, she just told me to leave her alone. She's a winner. I am a loser is effectively what we, we know. And so we're playing, I'm logical. So I'm trying to play logically. She's just going, yeah, yeah. And winning. It was, it's so annoying, but yes, we did that. Then we had a really, really fun day on the, on the Saturday. And we, we, we, again, the party bus picked us up in the morning, took us to loads of different places we needed to go to and wanted to go to. Mainly. adult emporiums. Sex shops?

25:20Yes. Right. Because we were going to get Halloween outfits. But as it turns out, Halloween outfits, very easy for a woman, not so easy for a man in a sex shop because I didn't want to be dressed up in a ball gag and pig costume. With a dildo for a mouth. So anyway, so we did that. Then we got ready. We went out. We had some dinner and whatnot. And then she took me on the Saturday night for my birthday to the largest strip club in Vegas where we had a tour of the strip club. It was fucking huge. Really? Absolutely mental. So we went there for the night, obviously drank fruit. We just had a great time.

26:02Well, I've got to ask, did you get any dances? No. No? Did she get a dance? No. We just had a lovely time with that happy birthday, Pete, on the fucking screen in the whole fucking strip club. God, mate, street fellas would be mortified. They'll be livid. I would say it's 10 times the size. Fucking hell, really? Mate, I'm not even called Sapphires and lived film there last year and it is fucking huge. But it's just everything that's on a different level, isn't it, in Vegas? Everything is just on a different level. We went Carbone on the day of my birthday and it was, yeah, it was just, it was, it was lovely.

26:35We had a lovely, lovely time. It sounds like you had a wonderful, wonderful... But we are both feeding. We're both quite ill. Yeah. Because obviously we had the Halloween party the night before. Well, mate, this is the thing I was going to ask you about this. I mean, wow. Mate, I'm gutted for one that I wasn't... I couldn't attend. It looked fucking jokes. Like, it looked so, so fun. Marvin on the decks as well. Nelly. Mate, their outfit was class. What was really funny is I was talking to Rochelle and Marvin, Nelly was DJing. and um Rochelle was showing me that in the afternoon they'd obviously got dressed up they went and recorded a music video as Nelly and I saw Kelly um which was really funny because I thought no one has done more than Liv and I um based on the two hours that I was sat in makeup with 900 people in the room but um but yeah turns out there's a little music video which was very but they did look very good um but yeah uh Marv was DJing every and when it was fucking great It was good.

27:35We did go all in on the outfits. It was a lot. How was that for you? Because obviously you don't like sort of like normally being sat in a chair for two hours. Well, I've been at work and then had to go and get ready at the hotel with loads of people there. So and lots of people had already had some drinks. So I was getting ready playing sober sitting there. And Anna Lingus, shout out to Anna Lingus, who's done, you know, she's an incredible makeup artist for all that sort of stuff. And I've known Anna for years and she's great. But it was, yeah, I mean, it was, it was tough. but you looked god damn good mate I'll tell you what was tough was knowing that you're flying to Vegas the next day and then struggling to get green dye and fucking Liv has still got some of the fake tattoos on because they they won't come off it was obviously the hair and everything else we we got back from the party and then had to have a bath for fucking two hours what time did you get back?

28:28four or five such a weird question what time did you come back for the party? what are you the cup? Yeah, so it was a lot, but it was fucking great. A very racy video as well on one of the Instagram posts. Like, Liv's leaning over, and there's a tongue kiss in there as well. Very raunchy. You're in your raunchy era at the moment, Peter. Not another era. I am just full of eras. You are, you're full of eras. You and Taylor Swift are going neck and neck. Yeah, me and Taylor Swift on the eras talk. Is that right? Yeah. Yes. Yes. Well, listen, as a couple, we do use tongues. So if people are surprised by that, you know, we were the Joker and Harley.

29:13We were in character. Are we worse when we're Pete and Liv? Yes. But Joker and Harley, it's character, isn't it? I had a plastic gun. Pew, pew. And a cane. Yeah, it was good. And a holster. Mate, it looked, when you were walking in, because I looked, I watched all the videos and photos, so much FOMO. It looked fucking amazing. Like, from the top to bottom, it looked like you'd put everything into it. She'd had all the costumes, because it was a very specific reference to Joker and Harley of a scene in the film. So, yeah, it was cool. Is it where she jumps into the... I... Oh, you watched it, yeah?

29:57Yes. But yeah, it was very specific. But it was good. Everyone made a... Because it's one of them. If you throw a Halloween party, you kind of don't want people to half-arse. Yeah. But everyone had gone kind of fucking full in. So yeah, it was fucking great. But I'll tell you what was better. I'm now back on sugar and booze. He's finally on it. Although, no, you haven't just asked for a coffee with... Well, I'm slowing down on the sugar, but I am allowing myself a dessert now. What was the first sugary thing you had?

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32:19I think it was sugar in my coffee at the apple. I deserve this with green hair. I fucking deserve this. And it felt great. But yeah, it was, yeah, like, obviously we've, you know, Liv and I were in Vegas. It was very, I feel like that's very Harley and Joker as well, just fly straight to fucking Vegas. But we, yeah, we went for it over the weekend and we are both feeling a little bit sorry for ourselves. Well, I mean, is that the reason you were in an oxygen chamber? Because that's crazy. as well. I mean, is this, we're in a health era as well. What's going on? No, I did send Pippa a picture of me in an oxygen chamber because we were, and I'll tell you something as well, these oxygen chambers, I don't know if they really do anything, but what a lovely time and a bit of peace and quiet.

33:09Yeah, I bet. And it's like an hour in there, isn't it? Oh, mate. I sat there, got through some emails, talked to Pippa, doing some other little bits and we've got a lot of shit done. Is this in Vegas? No, no, no, no, no. This is before. So got a lot of shit done. But yes, the health of Healthier, I think I'm going to try and continue my wellness journey based on the fact that Liv is obviously very healthy. It might not look like it if you look at Instagram stories at any point over the weekend. But she goes to the gym. She loves oxygen shaming. She loves all that sort of stuff. I do need to be healthier.

33:42I'm getting old. I'm fucking 38 officially now, despite the fact I've been telling her I'm 38 for about 10 years. I'm sure I am 38. You are? I had to check. I genuinely love my passport because I can't live but I'm basically nearly 40 so yeah I do need to look after myself a bit more which is lovely what's so nice is that probably I'd say what a year and a half ago you'd sit there and be like well when I die I die oh no I'm still likely that I'm going to die but I would rather we're all going to die but it's just it's quite nice do you know what I mean like the change and now you're like look at the impact that another person is going to have on you you know you're now looking after yourself wow Oh, I...

34:21Oxygen shaper, mate. You've got to go out of your way. You know, I'd love to do that. I haven't done that. Well, I was contractually obliged. You will find out. Oh, is this... Oh, you actually filmed it? It's genuinely for the show. Oh, I thought... Either way, it's lovely that you're looking after yourself, mate. And, you know, I feel like the team are really, really helping that. They're trying to keep you agile. You know, I wasn't in the office recently, and there's a video got sent to me of Pete chasing balloons. Well, no. The team... Now that Shakira's in here as well, let me just start. So obviously you know what happens.

34:51These motherfuckers, they like to set me up for things because you're so competitive. You're going to think you can't do it, blah, blah, blah. But what they don't realise is I'm not as sick as I look. So when, bless Molly, who's part of the team now, who sits in front of me, has a phone pointed directly at me and there's a microphone on the end of my desk, I generally know something's going to happen. So as I sit down and then Pippa goes, I was, does anyone think they could catch a balloon?

35:26So, the team being as subtle as a fucking brick, I thought, well, listen, we'll swap it around because I know you all think I'm just going to do this. Let's make the whole team do it. So I made a little competition for them. Anyone that could catch the balloon gets£100. They all did it. When I tell you these two, Pippa and Josh, two of the most pathetic things I've ever seen in my life. What? No. Josh. Wow. That was close. Well, Pippa, I could have told you from date. Oh, Pippa, please come on. People don't believe this, but there is fucking footage. So then, oh, Pete, you have a go. Pete, you have a go.

36:03Fine. I'll have a go. You look at the video. It looks like I've missed the balloon. That was my third attempt. Had you got the balloons before? Because the two before, oh, do another one, do another one. And I knew you'd only put that one up. Do another one. Caught two of them. I don't know. What do you want from me? I don't know what you want. Then make a slam dunk with a fucking gun. Yeah, yeah. Oh, I can't believe it. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Yeah, it's just four against one, mate. Who's telling the truth here? Yeah, yeah. Well, you're all getting sat. Now he's telling the truth.

36:29But, yeah, so we, listen, we, just trying to fucking liven things up in the office because I'll be honest with you, they are boring. Yeah, a little bit of office banter never went amiss though, right? No. Yeah, I think they've got a lot of stuff lined up for you as well. It was, I'm going to be, mate, I've got a lot of shit lined up for them. Let me tell you. I fucking worry about... We're now in a war with our boss. Don't worry about what they've got lined up for me. I'm going to come back and there's literally going to be like a trench in the middle of the fucking thing. It's like you can't cross that line.

36:57But we love it, mate. We love... I love seeing it when they put... When they... Like, there's a little Pete prank in the office. It's always nice to watch. Well, it was... Look, you know, we're just keeping everyone agile, keeping everyone... Keeping limber. You know, it's a little bit of kind of health, well-being balance for the office, chase a balloon around. But yeah, no, it was good. And listen, everyone needs to stay fit these days. Exactly. You know what I mean? You go to the gym. I'm doing less bad things, which is good, because one day we might get Calvin Klein campaigns. I didn't know where that was going.

37:33So you've seen the Jude Bellingham? Oh, who hasn't seen it? What a piece of money. What a honey. I'm just going to put it out there. I don't care. We've all looked at the penis, right? Like, don't pretend, oh, Pippa, fuck off. Do you know what's mad? No, but it's just from you again. But do you know what's mad is, in all honesty, I didn't. Please, it's gone everywhere. Everyone's talking about that. What, the penis? The penis, mate. I'll be honest with you. When you ever look at underwear campaigns, especially for men, don't bother looking at the car. Because it's not real. Well, it might be real.

38:05Who knows? But either way, they're never going to make it look bad. it's not like they're going to take a picture of you and then just mangina it up for men's underwear is it do you know what I mean like they're going to make it look this is what I was thinking I looked at that it might be real but they're never going to put it up and people go where's his cock you know what I mean I get it and I look I looked at that and I went I don't know I feel like that might be there's a plant I mean, what, you think he's got a plant in it? No, I just feel, as you said, I feel like he wears a prosthetic.

38:43You think he's got a prosthetic? No, they probably put a box in or something like that, you know, like a cricket box or something like that. Yeah, there is obviously, they're never going to make it look bad. Am I surprised that he's a Calvin Kleinman? Not really. He's the man of the moment. Women seem to love him. Does it look slightly airbrushed? Yes. Is that okay? Yes. Have you seen the walk he does? Have you seen the video? Not just the photo. I don't know if I've seen the video. Oh, he's walking like up. It's on your WhatsApp if you want. Oh, please. Something for the wank bank later. Sam and his little cardie watching this.

39:19Yeah. Sexy man. Mate, he's a good looking bastard. Well. He's a good looking guy. I get it. He's a footballer. Is that why you said, what did he say? Oh, fuck it. I can't remember. Like, do you know what I mean? If he worked in Tesco's, would you? he's tall he's tall he's good looking but he's not Brad Pitt do you know what I mean like Brad Pitt in an everyday you'd go fuck me that is a fucking good looking man Jude Bellamy's a good looking man yeah I am but is he showstopper is he the athlete that takes him over the edge or is it the fact that he plays for Real Madrid he's like the man of the moment all the other aura yeah that's what you all like has he got that fucking yes why don't we take that to the room why don't we take it to the room Oh, but listen, girls, he's a good looking man.

40:07You know, if he wasn't a footballer, wasn't at Real Madrid, right, and you saw him walking down the street, and would you turn to your friend and be like, that guy is phenomenal? I think so. Hannah? I agree. Really? Yeah, but it's high. But if you just go on. He's a good looking man. By the way, I'm not saying that he's a good looking man. Well, I don't know, mate. You seem to have a bit of B for Jude Bellingham. I just feel like, and he definitely listens to the pod. so he's going to be fuming. And everything I know about him, like, Don't backtrack now, Pete. I'm not. Everything I know about him, he sounds like a fucking great guy and all the rest of it.

40:43But everything else, when you look at, when you look at all of that sort of stuff, is it, is it the fact that he's Jude Bellingham or is it Jude Bellingham? I think they're both the same. Well, no. Listen, if it's Jude Bellingham, the footballer, the Real Madrid, he hands all this money, he does amazing things, because everyone looks like blah, blah, blah. That aura, or is it based on looks that? Because I think aura makes a huge difference to everything. The way people see you, especially when it comes to sexiness and all the other things, because fundamentally in classically good looking people, when you look at them who have got fuck or aura, you still go, that's a fucking good looking person, but I'm not interested.

41:27He's got that sexy people thing that people go fuck. And I don't think that's because of looks. I think that's because of who he is, which is a great person, great athlete, great this, great that. He's got something that is more than looks, is the point. It is. Well, I'm more shocked about the fact that you know what aura is. Well, you guys have spoken about so much, I am learning. He's got aura, good old dude. He's got that thing. He's got that thing. Have you ever done any underwear modelling? Mate, do you think that I? You're all impressed I'm wearing a fucking cardigan. Well, maybe you could do some cardigan modelling.

42:02I mean, that's the most depressing model. What are you, a cardigan model? That's like an old man. If you were to be the face of a brand, what brand would you want it to be? I'm trying to think what I would suit, and there's not many things coming to mind. Sam Thompson, the brand, Duracell. Duracell. Fucking good one, actually, yeah. That is a really good one. Not the Duracell bunny, the Duracell Sammy. Yeah, the Duracell Sam. That's actually a fucking good one. See that. I'm the face of batteries. Yeah. That's a good one. Duracell batteries. Yeah, I get that. I get batteries. Can I tell you what I think yours is?

42:38Not to take yours away. No, please. Fuck you. Let me tell you what yours is. I would say Dior Sauvage. Oh, taking over from Johnny Depp. Yeah. I've got to say, yeah. Do you know what? I know you all despise the way I smell because you repeatedly say that it's a overpowering stench, but I like to smell good. An aftershave would be a good one. Yeah, I could see it. I think clothes is just clothes, isn't it? An aftershave would be good. You get to do a cool shoot like that. It's got to be a Dior though, mate. You know that bike, you get off and bike in the desert. I wouldn't, it wouldn't, well, would I say no to it though?

43:14Yeah. If Dior came in, I probably wouldn't say no, but it's not my favourite and that's kind of Johnny Depp's in it. But I'd like a good, an aftershave would be a good one. Or.

43:32some boots. I just, whoa. Whoa. I really like good, but like a good, imagine doing like a shoot in like Iceland up the mountains and it's all like, do you know what I mean? Like on the back of a horse or something. I can so see you like running down a pier, like, you know, those perfumers. I think I'd be fooling. They like run down the pier and then there's like waves everywhere and the music and then there's some girl at the end of the pier and at the hairs everywhere. I think, yeah, like a cool shoot like that would be great. I can see P maybe we should make our own aftershave advert that would be quite funny so we should make a Duracell one and a Dior one but how about we make each other's so I would come up with yours and you would come up with mine direct each other's and you've actually got to try by the way yeah that's not a bad idea I would actually try and make yours look cool that's not a bad idea but let's say neither of those things happen for us and Dior and Duracell decide they don't want to come in but Calvin Klein do.

44:32What, you said you all don't want to come in? What? Do you know what I mean? Let's just say they're busy with the bunny and they're busy with Johnny Depp. Fair enough, they're busy with the bunny. But Calvin Klein go, do you know what? We don't need you, Bellingham, anymore. We need something new. Sam Thompson, would you say yes? Obviously. Yeah, 100%. Would you, though? Yeah. As if. Well, all right. Let's say you don't need the money. Well, not that you do need the money. saying that you've just been in LA's maybe you do I do need the money so money aside and they said listen we want you to be the face of Calvin Klein and you're Sam Thompson and then it gets leaked out so it goes to the internet are you saying yes I personally am saying no I'm saying yes no but it's time you have to do it seriously and I'll tell you why I'm saying no I'll tell you why I'm saying no because I won't be able to deal with people going what the fuck is he doing as the face of Gavin Clark?

45:31I love how Sam was like, yeah, obviously. Obviously, of course I did. Mate, money aside, listen. No, I thought you were going to say what Pete said. Imagine, imagine going, oh God, it's a big announcement. They've got the new Gavin Clark face. And then they go, Sam Thompson. Or they go, Pete fucking wicks. You have to be oiled up. You have to be like on that set and you've got to deadly seriously like Do you want to know something? I do literally this. No, but you can't do it as a joke. No, I wouldn't do it as a joke. I'd do it seriously. Do you want to know something? You fucking bitch. Do you want to know something?

46:07But obviously I've done some similar things previously. Fucking hell. I was the first male ambassador for Anne Summers. Oh, my God, of course. Do you remember this? Yeah, I do. Hold on. Let's see if we can find some images.

46:28back in the day. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Where I've been oiled up. And listen, we all remember the calendars. So I've done a bit of this, like previously, obviously. Which surely you'd say yes, then, to good old CK. No, because back in the day, Sam, I didn't look like this. So it's a tough thing to do. I do think we should try and recreate a little bit of this. with you at some point though. Because if you'd say yes to it, I wouldn't now because I know I look like I've been dug up and I would hate people to look at that and go, why? I just, it wasn't even a thought in my mind. It was just affirmative.

47:15Straight away. Yes, sir, sign me up. Well, look, you know, you never know. Calvin Klein, we are here if you want us. And to be honest with you, you could probably get two for the... Of course they don't. The fact you just went, well, I mean, you probably don't. No, they 100 % don't. But if you do, two for the price of one. We've got something on this pod called the power of delusion. And one day, we will be Calvin Klein models. Pete, do you agree with it? Absolutely, we will. If you're honest, we're right here. And listen, if that don't work out, remember, Dior and Durastel, we're also right here.

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