The Luke and Pete Show - Boxer shrimps changed my life

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

On this episode of The Luke and Pete Show, we’re reminiscing on some old school Glastonbury memories. Luke’s got some info on the micro economy that used to operate there in the 90s and Pete’s raging about an inflatable banana. We’ve also got some top tier examples of young people with old people’s names, Luke’s got a heartwarming story about red kites and Pete’s giving us an update on his horrible Swarfega habits.Today’s episode is full to brim with Sunny D, boxer shrimps and the finest Korean onions. Get it on!We’d love to hear from you, to get in touch with the show, email us at [e-mail]!***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and the Pete show. My name is Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by my good friend and compatriot, Mr. Luke Will. How you doing, man? Hello, I'm very well, thank you very much. As I just casually, but very carefully and quietly removed the lid of my Nalgene because that's one of Pete Donaldson's biggest bugbears when it comes to making a podcast episode. He don't want to hear that Nalgene lid making a noise, but I don't want to hear that now, Gene Lidd, making a noise. But I'm very, very good apart from that. It's more that I just don't want to hear a man hydrating. No, I know.

There's already so much water. Our bodies are mainly made up of it. We don't need more. Can I just say, you were absolutely spot on the other day on the Ramble episode that I listened to, but I wasn't on, where you said, and this is, I mean, look, I'm not saying it's a good or a bad thing. I'm just saying your observation was absolutely spot on.

Up until probably the late 90s, no one was drinking water. No, it was Sunny Delight. I think Sunny Delight may have been the watershed moment. I think we drank Sunny Delight and we were like, this is too much. We need to get back to basics. It's turning our children orange. Did that actually happen? Like that kid turned orange, didn't he?

Because he had to at Sunny Day. I mean, that for me feels like one of the textbook tabloids, go-to stories that people like to churn out every so often. Kid turns a different colour. Because I've heard that story related to Sunny Delight, carrots and baked beans. Carrots. I think carrots can do it, but you have to eat a hell of a lot of them.

My problem at the moment physically and the way that my body's changed is that I had a bad neck on Monday, as you probably know, and I was trying to sort of just calm it down a little bit with a bit of ice. I don't own any ice, or I don't own any... Does anyone own any ice? It's a very most contemporary thing, right? No, yeah, you very much create it, don't you?

I didn't really have any ice in the house, but what I did have was a packet of frozen Korean mini onions, like little mini shallots. So I had that behind my head on the bed yesterday and I sort of dozed off a bit. It did really help. It really, really, really calmed it down. I was working from bed mostly yesterday

and the neck got better, but I did wake up and all of the shallots had melted, meaning that my entire bed and mattress now smells of onions. Yeah, that's not great. Not ideal. They're not in the packet. They were in the packet, but you know how it works.

They leak out. They were half open, but they had one of those plastic crocodile clips over the top. Terrible situation. No, it's not great. You know, speaking of the water thing, I remember my granddad a number of years ago went into hospital, sadly, because he had a UTI, a urinary tract infection.

And obviously, it can be quite dangerous if you're of a certain age, but he was thankfully fine. And I went along to see him, and the questionnaire that the doctor gave was just general stuff about his diet and his health. And my mum lives just down the road, so she checks on him every day to make sure he's all right and stuff because he'd be 89 this year. Anyway, in the questionnaire,

he couldn't remember the last time he drank a glass of water, right? He basically, it quickly transpired that the only thing he drank ever was red wine and coffee. And it's like, I was was like can i have a word with you quickly just drink a glass of water every so often just it's the easiest thing in the world to do but yeah right i mean people of that generation and i'm probably a lot younger than that the water

wasn't the thing it was all it was all soft drinks it was all having a bit i don't really remember the only time i know this sounds pretty shameful but the only time back in the day i ever remember drinking water was when i was on holiday and i had a hangover yeah or bottled water and there's something about bottled water because you could drink from the tap when you're in spain in like the 90s or whatever fizzy water was my kind of awakening when it came to uh delicious delicious water but but again i've got i've got to have something exciting in there i've got to have have a little hint of peach, a hint of, I don't know, lapsang. A hint of Korean onion. Just a little bit of Korean onion.

Is that a Korean onion in your bottle of water there, Pete? Yes, it is. It is, yes. If you can do it with cucumber, you can do it with a tiny little shallot. I've a problem saying the words. It's shallot. Yeah, shallot. Yeah, because in America they say shallot, and it kind of confuses me. Shallot. Yeah, shallot. Because in America they say shallot and it kind of

confuses me. Shallot. Yeah. It's a little bit like the, well, those little guys in the shells.

It's a little bit like shallot. Yeah. What are you talking about? I don't know. What do you call them? They're tiny shell-based creatures.

They're little circles and you have a little eight of them. You open them up. Oh, oysters. Scallops. No, scallops. up. Oh, oysters. Scallops. No, scallops. Scallops, yeah.

Scallops, isn't it? You love buying scallops and just cooking them. Yeah. Yeah. I go on big scallop kicks. That's weird. For days and days, and then I'm sick of them. They're so delicious.

It's kind of American psycho behavior, though, isn't it? Well, just finding one thing you like and eating it constantly for a week. No, no, I just think if a detective was investigating a murder and he went to someone's house unannounced and just walked in and the guy was there on his own cooking loads of scallops, they would think, we've got our man here. I think it would be worse if they were arranged like the chocolate for the... Why can't I think this morning?

I'm so tired. The reception, the ambassador's reception. The Ferrero Rocher. If they were sort of assembled in that kind of Ferrero Rocher, kind of concentric pyramid. Beautiful. That was amazing. Just scallops.

Just scallops. Just left there. Colorless, colorless, unlovable looking scallops. Beautiful. You just amazing. Just scallops. Just scallops. Just left there. Colourless, colourless and lovable looking scallops. Beautiful. You just bury your head. And when they say, we arrested you on suspicion of the murder of all these people, the end cut scene is just you just burying your face in a massive pyramid of scallops. Tried to run into them.

You'll never take me alive, pig. Drown yourself in scallops. Yeah, exactly. What did you have with them um just scallops somebody you don't do anything with scallops they're so delicious bit of lemon bit of pepper p puree p puree p puree there was a big phase in gastronomy of serving up scallops with black pudding and p puree for a while i remember having it at restaurant yeah p puree is just a smear, isn't it? It's only ever a smear. You get nothing more than a little smear.

Waste of time. Are you one of those people who goes to a really beautiful restaurant and then when someone asks you what it's like, afterwards you say, oh, the portions were a bit small. Yeah, the portions were a bit small. Give me some proper food, for God's sake. I had a disgusting vegetable gnocchi over the weekend. I shall not be having that

again. What's the point? That is almost the peak of inanity there, Pete. Do you remember last week we talked about the conservation of lemurs? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was a bit of a sad story i mean because obviously you are famously a huge fan of the primate and i get confused about them sometimes which ones are which but yeah still love them hey you're pretty good on that compared to most people well for live once a doubt there's a reminder that you know lemurs are the ones that you only find in madagascar most people will identify with the most famous of all the lemurs are the ones that you only find in madagascar most people will identify with the most famous of all the lemurs which is the ring-tailed lemur you see those a lot um at zoos they're like goth goth little monkeys basically yeah yeah a little bit like robert smith from the cure and they've got um ringed tails obviously hence the name anyway that was

a slightly depressing conservation story because it was like oh what's going to happen to them is there civil unrest in madagascar is it deforestation they don't exist anywhere else the stupid bastards what we're going to do um and um so it's a little bit of a bummer and i felt bad about it because sometimes there are successful conservation stories so i wanted to bring one of those to the table to provide a bit of balance uh not in a bbc kind of everything's fine don't worry about it way just that you know it might be nice to have a positive story as well anyway again so um this is a bit alan partridge but bear with me right in the 1980s there was there was three globally threatened species in the uk right and one of those was the red kite um it got so bad that um people responsible for that kind of stuff don't know their name probably um i think it might be the

international union for conservation of nature um boffins yeah the boffins the bird boffins the bird brains um yeah they brought 13 young red kites over from Spain and released them in 1990. Fast forward 30 years, 10,000 of the bastards in the UK now. Come on, that's not a bad result, is it? That's too many, really. That's out of control. So what are you doing this weekend?

Are you going to go and find them? I'm going to shoot some kite I'm no mathematician Pete but I think that's 10 red kites for every man woman and child in the UK well you've read that or worked it out somewhere haven't you you've not sort of

come up with that figure yourself which is quite exciting basically Pete there's 10,000 red kites in the UK I'm going to say it again that's 10 there's 10 000 red kites in the uk i'm gonna say it again that's 10 for every man woman and child right that's not is it oh yeah it's not is it yeah well i mean i've just woken up to be honest you've still got shallots on your shoulder i'm i'm sort of experiencing i couldn't remember the ambassador's reception earlier on i'm i'm currently thinking through the, the fog of,

of an oniony smell. I just can't get off my clothes on my body or my soul. It's very upsetting. It's quite funny because weren't you talking last, earlier in the week about how you don't really have that many dark moments in your flat anymore? Yeah, no, that,

that I think, cause I'm, I'm hoping to sort of move fairly soon. I'm, I'm just sort of figuring out, I'm just sort of figuring out how I can make it super dark. Good luck selling your current place. Fucking hell,

it stinks of onions apparently. And there's only Swarf Eager in the shower. Yeah. I used it again this morning. Don't even care. I am unrepentant. Oh, for goodness sake. I'm unrepentant.

Look, it's a cleaning thing that you can use to clean anything. So I'm Swarf Eager-ing myself. It's fine. I'm going to do a poll on Twitter about that. I feel like people will be more upset about that than you realise. I think one particular account will be very on board.

Swarfiga. Swarfiga UK. Don't get a little swarfiga sent to the office. I told you my mate Gav, he got some swarfiga because we were chatting about how good it was when we were on holiday in Japan. And he got me a personalised jar of Swarovski saying, you know, have a good time, love Gav.

And the jar of Swarovski said Pete Donaldson. It was very exciting. I think he's just as bad. So are you using, can I just confirm, mostly for the benefit of our listeners, are you using a personalised monogrammed bottle of Swarviga to use in the shower? I certainly am.

Oh, my God. This is like Pete Donaldson. I don't think he's ever got any worse than this. What does your significant other think about you showering with Swarviga? I mean, I do it on days when I don't see her, so it's fine. That's a chilling poor scent. Pete time, I call it. Peat time, where I smell of onions and Swarovski.

I mean, to be honest, if anything's going to get the smell of onions out, it's going to be Swarovski. I'll tell you who doesn't smell like Swarovski or onions, I reckon it's probably, we've mentioned him before on the podcast, we probably mentioned him on Monday about him building his own computer.

Mr. Henry Cavill slash Cavill slash Cavill. He's been in the news, hasn't he, recently with his arms. Yeah. Doing the old computer. His forearms are unbelievable. I mean, and the thing about Henry Cavill, is that how you say it? Cavill, Cavill. I think I went for Cavill when I interviewed him.

Oh, yeah. I don't know why Iill when I interviewed him. Oh, yeah. I don't know why I was using his full name. As you mentioned to me before, he's from the Channel Islands, so it probably is the posh pronunciation, isn't it? What was he like when you interviewed him? Absolutely charming. I'd hate him. Get him, throw him in the river.

Was he a nice fella? He was a lovely fella. Of course he's a lovely fella. Look at him. If he was evil, that would give some ugly people like us something to hang our hats on. But no, he's wonderful. He's lovely.

He's respectful. He's beautiful. He's got everything going for him. He builds his own computers. And he's built his own computer. Although, may I say, your obsession with my obsession with thermal paste is a situation where he didn't actually use his own thermal paste. is a situation where he didn't actually use his own thermal paste. The cooling block that he bought actually came pre-thermal pasted,

so he didn't even need to. He didn't even need to faff about with thermal paste. Could he have used Swarovski instead? I don't know. I would say that it would probably dry out pretty quickly. So, yes, Swarovski would be on the list of things I would not be using for thermal paste there is a um this is interesting henry cavill looks as he looks and does the job he does

yeah it's also obviously a bit of a nerd right and part of the reason he wanted to be gerald of riviera in the witchers because he loved the game and and isn't it interesting how um this is a bit of a stretch but bear with me the kind of fringe geekdom has become like hugely mainstream now so for example another example i'll use is the um comic books obviously used to just be the bastion of of the kind of you know the outsiders and people who were a bit nerdy and all that kind of stuff who weren't really into sport and now they're obviously massively mainstream it's the same with music like glastonbury festival you used to get the piss taken out of you to go to glastonbury festival when you're a kid i remember yeah i remember playing because i was one of the kids who who was a bit of a music nerd and a bit of a bit

of a geek i suppose and a bit um bit of a grunger as they used to say back in the day but i also played for the football team right so i had a bit of a bit of both going on and all my football team pals used to massively take the piss out of me if you're going to glastonbury so you're doing yeah and now everyone goes yeah yeah it's massive it's and also you sort of notice the difference i sort of mentioned this on wrestle me recently um you notice the difference between glastonbury's because obviously glastonbury didn't happen this year so they were doing highlights of uh previous years uh from back in the day um the difference in the look at me kind of mentality of people who got a glastonbury um from 10 years ago to now is stark because before you could stand in in front of the pyramid stage and you could see the act from pretty much everywhere that you were. Now, you can't see sod all because everyone's got big fucking flags.

Everybody wants to be on the telly. Everybody wants to make their statement. Oh, look, I've done an Alan Partridge quote. Oh, look, I've written something about Jeremy Corbyn or Boris Johnson. Yeah, and I think I went mental at one point about somebody I went to see. They were watching Beyonce. Obviously, Beyonce, one of the most celebrated artists of all time. And apologies if you did see, hear me on wrestling me screaming about this. But like, you know, top of her game, some of the most incredible pop songs ever written.

And you will probably never see her in this form again. She's incredible. and you will probably never see her in this form again. She's incredible. She's a god. And somebody thought, I'm going to go to the pyramid stage while Beyonce does an era-defining performance for the Glastonbury Festival, and I'm going to bring an inflatable banana because that's what people need to see

instead of seeing Beyonce, the artist that they paid 300 quid to go and see. Infuriating. Yeah. I find the whole thing interesting, chiefly because I remember Glastonbury. I first went when I think I was 16, possibly just 17, and it was a dangerous place. Yeah.

For people who are a bit younger, we don't necessarily realise. Glastonbury now, as you rightly said, Pete, it attracts artists like Beyonce, and it's much more richer for that and it costs and obviously at the same time it is literally because it because it costs 300 quid i remember i remember going when i first went i think it was like 65 quid for a weekend ticket which was quite a lot of money then especially for like a 16 year old but when you turned up there right there was basically no provision for anything so you got to like this station train station called castle carey and you had to kind of jump on one of

the buses or kind of find your own way to the to the uh to the festival itself when you got there it was full of like tracksuit bottom wearing um near do-wells. You can sit. Mostly Scousers. Yeah, mostly Scousers. It was Scousers with knives, cutting up tents. No, no, what I was going to say was they were there. I didn't personally witness that, so I can't be unfair. But what I did witness though, Pete, was people, I think it was mostly Scousers,

but my geography of that area is really poor, so I'm not going to necessarily say it was them. But they sounded like scousers but my geography of that area is really poor so i'm not going to necessarily say it was them but they sounded like scousers and they would be there with ladders in the little foresty bits saying oh for a fiver you can use our ladder and jump over the fence right oh yeah there's no wristbands or anything i remember being really pissed off thinking god i could have just paid a fiver here and there were loads of people who hadn't even bought tickets who were in there and then the one thing that annoys me based on the flag thing you were talking about is that people will say oh um you know we need the flag because if we lose our friends it's so massive there that we can't um find them again

well hang on a minute one you've got a fucking mobile phone with a spare battery right we didn't have those back in the day i know i sound like uncle albert here but we didn't have that and and and so if you lost your friends at Glastonbury in 1997, you might not see them again for a day. Or longer. Yeah, so grow up. That's what I'm going to end by saying. Grow up.

It was a dangerous place and it was better for it. It was the Badlands. It was scary. People were scary. Grown-ups were taking drugs and you didn't know what drugs were and people were doing weird things. My taking drugs and you didn't know what drugs were and people were doing weird things my friend once told an amazing story that uh back in like the early 90s he's obviously a bit older than me he said that like there was that has to be back that in

those days became like his own almost like it had its own little micro economy so if it pissed it down with rain like they would put wellington boots up to like 50 quid a pair and because it was so isolated they had no real chance of going to like 50 quid a pair because it was so isolated they had no real chance of going to buy more stocks and they just went they became these amazing commodities but my friend said like back in the early 90s there was an amazing year for weather and it was so hot it was like 100 degrees like every day and he said what started happening was these same kind of mini but quite brutal entrepreneurs started um building like sort of creating little cordons uh with their friends and charging people to sit in the shade oh my word so like it would

be like you can either go back to your tent which is obviously your tent but there's no you're nowhere near the band you can't watch anything but if you want to watch if you're not if you want to watch an artist on a big stage which is outdoors you pay extra to this fucking dodgy geezer to get in the shade, like a tenner or something. Amazing. It's amazing what used to go on, I'm telling you. Oh, I love it. It's like a little city, isn't it?

Fantastic. And they don't only buy booze with the proceeds, no doubt. Unbelievable. Yeah, exactly. Putting it back into the local economy. Exactly, yes. A little micro-economy. Right. We're going to hit and add Brick.

We'll be back with some emails, if that's all right with you. Lukey, is that all right? Sorry, I was just having some water. Yeah, that's fine. Oh, yeah. You thought I was going into a brick and not going to ask you anything. Yeah, we'll be back in a second. Jack Mate's Happy Hour is back for a brand new season.

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And we're back. It's the Logan Pitcher part two. Well, we've got 10 minutes left. It's the Luke and Pete Shaw part two. Well, we've got 10 minutes left. That's the main thing. We've got some emails to get through. Thank you very much for everyone who got in touch recently. It's hello at lukenpeateshaw.com. And you guys have been getting in touch in your droves.

So thank you very much for that. Lukey, are you going to kick us off with an email? Yeah, I've got one here from Andrew. It's quite a worrying email, really. And speaking of your ailments, Pete, it might fit in quite nicely. He said, it's from Andrew. He says, hello, Luke and Pete. I had a migraine

yesterday. Oh, no. That's not it. No. It sounds a bit dull, but it was what was called a hemiplegic migraine. Have you heard about this, Peter? Oh, plegic sounds like something's going to stop working yeah it's a known symptoms of this particular head-based disaster include a combination of vision sight and hearing impairments he says basically i was minding my own business having a shower and realized as i got out that when i looked in the mirror i could only actually see half of my face um this was a telltale sign for

me as i've had these particular migraines in the past few years uh so i know uh what was i knew what was coming sure enough my poor vision continued so i got into bed and closed the curtains but what followed was the inability to actually properly hear and understand the english language i was laying there trying to listen to man united v crystal palace on five live but genuinely couldn't actually process or understand the words I was hearing. It was literally like listening to another language. And before you ask, no, it wasn't Robbie Savage on the co-commentary.

I tried my usual technique of reciting my ABCs in my head. Andrew suffers from this so often. He's got a technique, a usual technique. Reciting ABCs in my head and found I stumbled a few times throughout, struggling to remember the actual letters and how they sounded. usual technique um reciting abcs in my head and found i stumbled a few times throughout struggling to remember the actual letters and how they sounded when my wife came home and checked up on me i couldn't really understand her and i had to talk very slowly to communicate with her even then it was a struggle to remember certain words over the next couple of hours laying there my vision

hearing and speaking did begin to gradually improve and i can confirm I'm as fit as a fiddle today. But I just thought this is the sort of weird little caper you gentlemen would be interested in. I'm a video editor by trade, so I think a combination of stress and screen-based concentration from a busy week was the cause. Have either of you ever experienced anything like this? Cheers, Andrew.

Fuck no. Jesus Christ. Pretty full on. It's a little bit much. I've had migraines where i get like a little blind spot and but the only thing i can do is just go to bed it's like a crushing headache i remember being on the way to the office back in the day a job i had a few years ago and um i was on the tube on the way in and i got about halfway and i was like nah this ain't happening.

I had to go straight home and just go to bed. But to be honest though, I went back to bed for three hours and I felt fine afterwards. It kind of passes very quickly. But have you never had a migraine, Pete? No, I've never had a migraine. I must admit I'm so bloody pleased that I've never had anything in that direction because it sounds bloody awful. But the idea of just completely losing,

not being able to understand people. I mean, I'm hoping that his wife in question, his wife, was understanding. Like, hadn't seen it for the first time because she'd be really worried, wouldn't she? She'd be like, taking her to the hospital. Yeah, and I think the worst, the weird thing about it is,

I know it sounds a bit odd, but it really does hit home to you the kind of reliability or the reliance on and the power of the brain because because you know if you've got a headache fine you've got a headache maybe you've got a hangover or you're a bit dehydrated or whatever so you could just drink a lot of water pop a paracetamol whatever move with your life. Like a migraine is completely different to that. And when you start, I mean, I've never had anything as severe as Andrew's had, but when you start like getting a blind spot in your vision, you're thinking a bit, you're a bit like, fucking hell,

this seems quite serious. I'm not sure this should be happening. You know, when like a headache happens, you think, oh, that's fine. It's the headache. But when something happens that you think, I don't know about this, but I'm fairly certain this shouldn't be going on it gets a little bit more frightening pretty extreme kind of symptoms for something you're just like well did this this never has never happened before um i'm not expecting such severe uh symptoms for something

so simple as a migraine but yeah they can be bloody horrible. I'm so glad I've never contracted one. I don't really know what they are. Next thing you know, you wake up from your nap because you've got a migraine and you're surrounded by little onions. Little onions. Maybe I was just seeing them. Maybe they didn't actually exist.

Yeah. Have you read Slash's autobiography? No. It's amazing. It's so, so good. Even if you think Guns N' Roses are a bit cheesy

and a bit shit I mean I will fight you against that opinion but even if you do think that's the case the slash or topography is amazing and there's one bit

where he's trying to give up drugs and he's at some weird little I don't know like a little chalet somewhere trying to get away

from it all and he just wakes up in the middle of the night and obviously in some kind of serious withdrawal and he just sees these weird little beings chasing him around everywhere.

He eventually ends up getting, I think he might even end up getting arrested because he's running through a golf course like naked trying to get away from these little demons that don't exist. It's bad. It's bad. Which drugs do that to you?

But substitute little demons for onions and you've got a dancing experience. You've got my life. You've got my life. You've got my life. Hello to It's Been Enthusiast Dave. It's been. All right, fellas. I was very pleased to hear Luke's take on Tuesday's being without an identity.

As it's a theory, I have been pushing on people for some time. If anything, I would go one step further and suggest that Tuesday is actually a fake Monday. You know where you stand with a Monday. It's shit. It doesn't pretend to be anything else. Tuesday, though,

it offers nothing. Nobody wins from a Tuesday. The Omanias of the week. The Omanias of the week. Yeah. Harsh on him. A little bit harsh. For those of you

who don't know anything about football, that's just a football joke. It's one of those tedious things that football fans do. Yeah, a little bit harsh. For those of us who don't know anything about football, that's just a football joke. It's one of those tedious things that football fans do. Yeah, indeed. Yeah, I agree with him. I think he's absolutely spot on. I can't think of a more nondescript day than a Tuesday,

which is why I'm pleased. Today's a Thursday, Peter. What about this from Ben, who says, Hi, guys. Regarding your discussion of young people having incongruously old names remember we talked a lot about keith yes um he says in my in my year at school the late noughties we had a guy called keith um which always seemed an unusual sorry it seemed an unusual name for a teenager but what made it even more unusual is that he had two younger brothers one of whom was

called colin and the other one was called clive but they both spelt them with a k like and he said and ben says yeah yeah i always thought that swapping the c for a k was probably a doomed attempt to make them sound less like middle-aged men if it turned out their names were officially spelt like that and they weren't just spelling out a choice like just changing it themselves i've never come across a family with such unusually old school yet unconventionally spelled names before or since keep up the good work guys ben and ben also includes a coder to that email saying please don't use my full name because the family was really fucking hard i don't want to beat me up.

Scared of families, like, you know, years and years. But that is a weird one. It's a bit Kardashian-esque, isn't it? It is, yes. Yeah, yeah. They've all got quite similar names, haven't they? Very interesting. Is Kanye, speaking of that family, is Kanye kind of, is he going forward with his presidential bid?

I know he said he was out, but then he was in, then he's out. I think we're on shaky ground here, Pete, because obviously I'm not qualified to comment really, but just as an aside, I think he might be quite unwell. I think a lot of people are going to regret indulging this

or getting involved in this because I think he is probably a little bit unwell. Money corrupts. Money corrupts. Well, I don't think you can necessarily link money to mental health issues. Yeah, but I just think nobody's told him. Yeah, that's probably part of it.

Normal people. Sam from Leighton. Hi, Luke and Pete. I'm Sam from Leighton in London. I've just heard your podcast in relation to animal facts. Animal facts. My quick animal fact is a boxer shrimp knocks its prey unconscious by making a vacuum in its claw and creating a small sonic boom

slash explosion. Isn't that incredible? I've seen it too. It's great. Check it out if you can. Yeah. I remember once being at my mate's house when, um you know i'm just gonna i mean it was a long time ago i was a teenager you know uh to paraphrase um that politician or whatever i did

inhale and um we sat around i told you i might add that flat where it would be opposite a kebab house so we would go around there just hang out there and wait for the fights right the action it was that era it was that era more yeah and um and we were watching this like nature tv that was a bit stereotypical we watched like a nature documentary at like one in the morning and this boxer shrimp was on it and i promise you it it's it's the it's the closest thing a nature documentary has come to change in my life i mean it's absolutely unbelievable what it can do it creates this, as the email said, it creates this vacuum. And it essentially delivers, for those of you familiar with the work, Street Fighter II Guile Sonic Boom, right?

And knocks out all its prey. I mean, if you need any further indication that evolution is a ridiculous thing, an amazing thing, this is it. I mean, it's unreal what they can do. Check it out whenever you get a moment. It's amazing. I i completely forgot about that and it's nice to get a reminder it's like the um it's like how you stun a uh stun a cow uh and every time i hear about that it makes me sad about eating meat uh yeah um it but then sam has gone to say also the new brain thing comes from the newt's ability to regenerate

to sorry the newt brain thing remember we were talking about newt brains you can squish all his brain around and it remembers stuff

comes from the newt's ability to regenerate its own brain cells while this could be theoretically be done I doubt that it could survive what your listener

described Sam from Leighton so Sam from Leighton giving no kind of qualifications as to whether he's a doctor or I think it's just the amazing species diversity from Leighton. So Sam from Leighton giving no kind of qualifications as to whether he's a doctor or... I think it's just the amazing species diversity of Leighton, mate. Yeah.

He's surrounded by these things. Leighton knows. Everyone knows about Leighton's beautiful coral reef. It's stunning. It really is. Sam, email us back with your qualifications because otherwise we're just parroting crackpots and cranks. Exactly. Crackpots and cranks.

That's what we're all about. So we've rattled to the end of another Luke and Pete show. Thank you very much for listening. This has been your Thursday Dose of the Laps. We'll be back on Monday and it will be a Monday. We've only missed one in our two and a half year run or something like that. So have a cracking weekend,

whatever you choose to do with it and do get in touch. Hello at lukenpeachhawk.com. Say goodbye, Luke. Yeah, goodbye. It's goodbye from me as well. And if Pete's shoulder complaint continues, we will get a box of shrimp in there

to blast it back into place. Yes. Or at least just knock the onions off the bed. Ha ha ha!