The Luke and Pete Show - Chewie and the floater

Episode Date: January 12, 2023

Pete’s New Year’s resolutions keep coming! His latest one requires him to spend a predictable amount of time on his own in a dark room…Elsewhere, Luke gets a taste of his own medicine while trying to sell some furniture online and we sympathise with a listener that likes to chew sponges.Have any weird cravings? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running. Welcome to the Luke and Paige show. It is Thursday, the 12th of January, and I do hope you are keeping well. How are you doing? We're in the thick of it now. Just got to get through.

I think if you're in that position where you got paid early because of Christmas, this six-weeker is a killer. But you're over halfway through now, so just keep the faith, stick at it, don't deviate, hold the line, stay the course, and we'll all get there together. I'm doing well, Peter. How are things with you? It's good. I am keeping out of trouble. I've been continuing with my new love, which is I've been learning over the Christmas holiday period to develop black and white film, if that makes sense.

It definitely makes sense. I know exactly what you meant by that sentence. Cool. I've been getting involved in the black and white photography game. What's that? Black and white by michael jackson good on girls on film what other songs are there about cameras well black or white isn't about isn't about um kevin carter yeah i guess kevin carter is a very good one actually it's a really good one a typical listen that is the kind of suggestion that you can only generate having done 10 years on an indie radio station. That's true. That is true.

I spent hours upon hours taking little test films, making my little toilet in the cabin completely light sealed so that I can use it like a dark room. I'd like to think of you spending your days like that. Yeah, I mean, that part is literally and figuratively dark. But I was sort of figuring out how to sort of load a film processing role in the dark, so I've mastered that to a certain extent. Nice. And learning, you know, what temperature to put the chemicals in and stuff,

making sure the right temperature, time. It's just serious stuff, this. Jostling the film in the right way to process it. And so I bought a little film scanner. You can put a little 30 quid film scanner, you can put film in to scan it basically. And I sent over some scans of my negatives to my partner, Sarah. And she said,

that looks rubbish. Hmm. It's disappointing. That looks rubbish. Hmm. Not very supportive, is it? She supports me in every other aspect and every other folly in my life.

I was just a bit surprised yeah it's a shame she was unapologetic and she did point out that she did support me in everything else but I just didn't see

this one coming Luke but she's earned her point is she's earned the right to be out of order about it she's earned the one time to tell the truth I think that's fair

I think if she was playing proper 3D chess she would have said that's really good and been really encouraging of it so then you'd spend more time in the dark room which is a converted toilet at the bottom of the garden look look i agree with her it is shit but who else in our life is is is producing negatives look i think i think who

else needs to who else has got the time i don't think they're the only negatives you're producing in that relationship but but it's a net negative yeah let me just say um i will i've seen some of the evidence of these photos and i think our listeners will be interested in my take on them um but before i give you my take i would say that you have to put it in perspective and in context because we're all bombarded with beautiful photography now because of the technology because of the post-production techniques because all these different bits and pieces the colorization and the photos you sent me looked one of them looked exactly like the very first photo ever taken which i don't know if you're familiar of with is in the kind of early 19th century i forget the name of the guy but it was a self-portrait um and it

looked similar to the one you did and i thought to myself i thought twice before i sent that feedback to you because i thought it would be disrespectful but i genuinely didn't mean it to be disrespectful because when i took into account the fact that you developed the whole thing yourself did it in a really um kind of organically analog way if you like i thought you deserve a bit of credit because you got a result out of it and you worked really hard at it and i think people should be more patient and more appreciative of that yeah and and that's what i usually get from my partner i was just surprised that on this occasion this rare occasion she said actually how she felt yeah and the relationship's not built on that is it no none of our relationships me going look at this look at this sarah look what i've

done she goes very nice well done pat on head. I go back to me cabin. But this time, she said, boo, bad. And I go, yeah, I know it's bad, but they're always bad. Everything I do is bad. Everything's half-assed. Come on. This is the problem. Are you the type of person who responds positively to a good old dig,

or do you like an arm around the shoulder? I think you're an arm around the shoulder, yeah. Yeah, exactly. I wish I had more shoulders so I could accommodate more. I could do with three or four shoulders. Then I put my hand on your shoulder and all of a sudden it's a hand shelf and I'm disrespectful.

Yeah, but you put a lot of weight on it. In a photograph, you activate every muscle in your arm to push me down. Like a proper pirate. And people think when they see the size of me, they think I'm strong, but I'm not.

I'm actually not very strong. I've done a lot of steroids, though, as disgusting, in the picture. What I was thinking was, what happens if I do all the steroids at great personal,

physical, and financial cost, and then do none of the workouts? Yeah. I mean, someone's got to have done it. They just absolutely take the juice, but don't let it loose in the gym.

Like, there must be people who've done that, and they sort of go, oh, this isn't working. I just feel ill. I'd love that to be a wrestler's motto.

I take the juice but I don't let loose. Just a fat bloke with really bad acne. I mean, a lot of you. Tidy nuts. Fat acne boy, yeah. A lot of wrestlers are like,

I got small nuts. I don't kick any butts. I like wrestlers who look like they used to juice, but they've just really let themselves go and they can't be bothered anymore. They just cannot be bothered.

Yeah, I can see why. And I think people don't think about the long term, do they? They don't go, oh, actually, how am I going to wean myself off these so I don't turn into a flabby mess later? Me, I've gone straight for that phase. Yeah, it's like a lot of... There was a video, did you see, of...

Did I speak about this before? Arnold Schwarzenegger, not Arnold Schwarzenegger, what's the other one? Stallone, in the gym picking up big plates. Yeah, you said they were basically fake plates. Sure. And like, why are these people doing it? Why are men in their 60s? No, Arnold Schwarzenegger said, when it comes to actually working out, I saw a video of Arnold Schwarzenegger where he said,

because someone said to him, why are you still going to the gym and put yourself through this like in your 70s and he said look it's so hard wired into me it's the same as eating breakfast or brushing your teeth you just do it like there's no i don't do anything else um i've all i don't sorry i've never known anything else so it's just part of my routine so it's still like effective it's still like it's still cardio isn't it when you get when you get down to it it's still like it's still good for your heart to sort of be doing stuff like so that when you're doing

when you why do you insist on continually giving out unqualified medical advice all the time it's gotta be good but it's gotta be I'm not saying

drink driving the other day it wasn't it was trying to figure out how not to drink drive I mean not drink is probably the easiest plan I mean just don't do it

but yeah like why like it must be helpful like it's not gonna How not to drink drive. I mean, not drink is probably the easiest plan. I mean, just don't do it. But yeah, it must be helpful. You're still putting stress on your heart every day, so that's a good thing, isn't it? It's like going for a bit of a jog. I just don't think, you don't sound convincing. That's my problem. No.

Well, I don't think anyone's taking health advice from me. If I went into a clinical environment and you were standing there with a stethoscope around your neck and a shirt and tie and a coat on and you said this stuff, I still wouldn't believe it. I'd use the wrong, I'd be like,

what's that thing again? You'd be like Dr. Nick. I'd be like, what? I'd look a bit like Dr. Nick. I've got floppy hair, speckles and a little beard. Speaking of the old boozer and the old medical staff,

am I right in saying that you've started taking those tablets now to stop you having hangovers yes they're good stuff I only did it once in a year well I was quite ill of the stomach for three days afterwards but I think that was more the overindulgence anyway but I think yeah they were really good I don't know

why the what's it what are they bloody called it's a placebo effect though isn't it I mean it must be I mean so it comes in two it's nomo

and they put that little line over the o that Japanese Japanese Romaji seem to want to fucking use for nights

focused days in this little packet right you get three black carbon capsules for the night so after you finish your last drink you slam down these three tablets which i think is just fucking charcoal i think it's just charcoal in a capsule it's probably fucking amphetamines yeah exactly and then the and then the next day uh just vitamin capsules i mean again not i mean

i'm sure it's not that much vitamin content in there. I'm sure it's just caffeine. Makes you feel a bit better. But honestly, I fucking pied back beer. I pied back Prosecco,

spilled it all over the floor like a piss head. Got it in my car. Had a couple of rum and cokes. Had a dance. Got it in my car. Drove around for a bit. And then I had

the three black carbon capsules and I felt as right as rain I didn't have that heavy kind of stomach I feel so ill I'm going to keep testing them and I'm going to keep what's the damage on them? they're quite punchy

I think three packs is astonishingly expensive so I think it's only for special occasions but yeah I'm team weird tablets I always was astonishingly expensive so i think it's only for special occasions but uh yeah i i'm i'm i'm i'm team uh weird tablets but i always was but how much of it do you think is placebo effect uh i really do fare quite poorly on hangovers these days yeah it's not gonna stop me drinking i'm not gonna be the kind of bloke that goes don Don't worry, everyone. Don't worry, everyone. The gyps will continue. I can enable your bad behaviour too.

Yeah, I just think that... Yeah, I don't favor everyone. I think I will try any trick in the book. I'm quite good when I get home and I'm soft and drinking. I can do the usual couple of headache tablets and a pint of water. Like, I can do that and sleep through, but it's just like

i don't find i'll be honest with you touch wood i don't find it that bad chiefly because i don't really drink a huge volume these days so i'm going to the pub with my pals for a long old time and steadily drink ales or whatever but don't do anything silly i get home at a reasonable hour bolt a load of water and the worst thing i have to deal with is anything silly i get home at a reasonable hour bolt a lot of water and the only the worst thing i have to deal with is i have to get up at like 5 a.m to go for a slash that's literally it and next time i'm kind of fine a bit tired but that's about it yeah but i'm not a party party man like you though i'm not with you on the piss i'll be honest with you with you on the piss and i'll tell the listeners this it's all very busy there's lots

going on there's lots going on there's lots of different types of drinks there's ideas too many ideas too much travelling between venues yeah there's all sorts

going on you don't stop do you you don't stop for a second you're like a liquid rather than a solid I just look I do my best for God and the Queen

the King the King every night look I just like trying different things. And if that is Baileys that have been behind the bar for two years, the sour cream curdling, day by day, I think I'm allowed to try these new things. Yeah, fair enough.

These chunky Baileys. Speaking of trying new things, big news in the Moore household. We're having pretty much the whole house decorated uh oh from top to bottom this is troubling because last time

your bathroom was quite a quite an epic journey it was so we're having bigger boys in bigger boys in more bigger boys

I mean I will say for anyone who considers doing painting I just don't do it I just let the bigger boys do it because painting is fucking boring and it hurts your wrist and it i just don't do it no i just let the bigger boys do it because painting is fucking boring and it hurts your wrist and it's also hard to do it well yeah

like is that yeah it's hard to do it well and it just gets everywhere and people and watching watching a lot of last um professional painter do the corner of your um skirting board or the side of a a plug just by using the, no tape or anything, they just go swish, swish, swish, and it's done. It's just a sight to behold. It really is wonderful. I love that stuff. I think also,

I have experimented with decorating ourselves, and it's just I just think they're professionals, they're good. They're professionals at it. One of the things I learned when I saw these guys work before is that the preparation they put into the walls

and the ceiling and everything it's like it's just it's a level of knowledge that you can never do so basically when you look at the way I would describe it is you take a wall or a ceiling

and you paint it and you go well I've undercoated I'm using the best paint you can get I've spent loads of money on the paint and stuff and it still looks like shit it's because the preparation you have to do the level of knowledge is unbelievable like it's sanding it's filling it's sanding again it's

evening it's leveling stuff out you know it's loads of stuff to do and so i just thought you know what we're going to bite the bullet we're going to have a bombsite of a house for three weeks we've got so basically the point i was just going to make was that we've had to sell quite a lot of furniture because we've got to change our house around for a couple of different reasons. And so I've just been dealing with selling a mattress to someone, selling an armchair to someone. Sold an armchair to someone the other day who's a massive fan of the Tom Wally's cycling podcast. Oh, nice.

How did that come up? Because he came in to look at the house to get the see if he wanted the armchair and the bed and he saw tom walling was doing was lying on the floor doing in there you stop staying here tom um and he saw the podcast app and he's like oh do you do podcasts and i said yeah i told him about stack and he was like i'm a white man deal with it yeah do what oh sorry do i do podcasts Have you heard some of my opinions? Everyone else has. So anyway, bigger boys coming to sort the house out.

So what we've got to do is we've got to basically move the big bits of furniture into the centre of the room. And then once the certain amount of decorating has been done, we've got to negotiate new carpets coming in and all the rest of it. It's very, very tedious. And it's one of those things that in life, i'm sure you can empathize with this there's certain things that that need to get done but don't get done because people cannot be bothered and what's happened here is we've just bitten the bullet and decided to do it and i think it'll be worth it long term i mean

it's not cheap by the way fucking hell things are so expensive these days especially in London and especially yeah and I think I just think I think doing everything but you're not a spiller are you so like you're never going to damage it

I just whatever gets sort of done in my house I'm going to spill it I'm going to snap it off I'm going to drink it there'll be something that you'll just

you'll just be interfering interfering I was I went to put the bloody more every time every time i go into my house and have a peek around there's always something that that displeases me and i had to i had a medieval king i had a saga of a bloody and a saga of a bloody um unflushable toilet uh over christmas that there was a good two days of trying to find the right kind of plunger and the right kind of chemicals

to get rid of that little monstrosity thanks Emma and Sophie the children How were they responsible for this? I just worry about my toilet was fine then the kids turn up seven people come to stay and suddenly the toilet, people aren't

very disciplined with their toilet paper use and suddenly my toilet people aren't very disciplined with their toilet paper use and suddenly my toilet's blocked and i've got two days of issues two days of trying to deal with that was it definitely not you it could have been me and i didn't make it and i didn't make it any better by forgetting that the toilet wouldn't flush and just do my business on top and it's like it's like similar music as well probably it's like Jim's toilet explosion

I was getting like I went to put the Christmas tree away in the bathroom I went to put the Christmas tree because the Christmas tree lives

in the loft behind the bathroom behind the toilet weirdly and I go in the cavity of where the bathroom wall meets the outside roofing, basically.

It's a Golovkin version, so you've got a bit of space, a little crawl space you can put stuff in. That's where I put the Christmas tree. And I've noticed the extractor fan that extracts all the heat and the steam out of the bathroom when you're having a shower or a bath.

It's just like the end of the pipe. The pipe doesn't go outside. It just fills up the roof. What does everyone who lives in the house before you you or i or anyone become just hot just hot steam going into my cavity wall and i'm like that's bad is it bad is it bad anyone who knows what they're doing is it but i'm fairly i don't know what i'm doing but i think it's bad that sounds bad doesn't it it's bad so what have you done about it complained about it on. So what have you done about it?

Complained about it on the local beach. That's about it. What are you going to do? I can't just punch your fucking hole in the wall. I just got... I mean, Sarah doesn't have long showers, but I have long showers, and that's in a different bathroom, so I think I'm covered.

But I just... It's a constant living crisis. We don't want to hear about all the different bathrooms you've got. Yeah, they're both fucked. They've both got extraction fan issues. I couldn't believe it. But are you going to try and fix it and fuck it up?

Because I think that'd be really good for the show. I don't know how I'd do that. I don't know how I'd punch a hole in the fucking ceiling. It would just be a nightmare from start to finish. Yeah, get a bigger boy in. Get a bigger boy in. But it just seems like such a small issue to get a bigger boy in for. There's bigger issues going going on the world

and i'm getting in because i need to vent a little bit of steam when i tried to sell one of these armchairs right and i've sold it to a very lovely family now and it's fine and it's all good but a load of different people came to look at it and it's a really it was a really it's a really nice leather armchair like it's you know i don't be i don't want to be vulgar but it's hundreds of pounds worth and it's one of those leather armchairs in the chesterfield style that it gets nicer the older it is, right? Yes. It's just too big for our house.

Right. So I tried to sell it for 100 quid, which I eventually did because someone, obviously, who's not mental, came round and went, that's a really good deal. We'll take it. Someone came over, looked at it and was like, oh, yeah, yeah, it's nice. Standing in my house, right, and went, 50 quid?

I was like... Get out! I'm not haggling. Get out! You are haggling. You love haggling. Standing in my house, right, and went, 50 quid? I was like, get out. I'm not haggling. I'm not haggling. You are haggling. You love haggling. You love haggling. I'm not having this. You're on the reverse of it now.

I like it as a buyer. You like haggling as a buyer. Interesting. Yeah. The tables have turned. Sell that table on Fizzle Marketplace. Like, what's happening then? Why are you surprised?

This is interesting. Very interesting. Why are you surprised to know that when I don't have the power in the situation, I don't like it? This should not be surprising to you. Big fan of that. Big fan of the tail of the get and turn. It's not that I don't like haggling when I'm selling. I just don't do it.

Right, okay, yeah, yeah, fair. 50 quid, 100. 60, 100. 70, 100. 80, 100. How did you do that then? How did you kind of... I'm not saying that.

I didn't say it to them. Mate, I knew there was appetite for the purchase elsewhere. Right, okay. So in a way, I still had the power in the situation, right? And I've also sold a couple of mattresses, 50 quid each. Great deal. They've hardly been slept on. People are all over it, mate.

I'm talking a town in West Nord at the moment. Hang on. So you actually... Because I gave away a mattress that West Norwood at the moment. Hang on. So you actually, because I gave away a mattress that had been bought in error, but like no one had slept, I think one person slept on it for one night. But like what happens there?

Like, because I just gave it away because I presume that no one wanted to buy a used bloody mattress. That's amazing. The point is these ones aren't really used. And therefore it was 400 quid for the pair I paid for about two months ago and 50 quid each

is a really good deal and someone came out straight away and said can I test them I said you're not sleeping in here that's oh how we laughed

laughed we nearly did and they just tested it just checked the firmness and I was like yeah definitely take them they were delighted mate honestly I've got a lot of

very happy customers on this street that's wonderful yeah I'm a big fan of that let's take a break when we come back we'll do a lot of very happy customers on this street that's wonderful yeah i'm a big fan of that let's take a let's take a break when we come back we'll do a couple of emails shall we all right then see you later we're back with luke and pete show every thursday we talk about batteries and we got some beauties for you uh this week phil flaut love the name love the guy love floating in general in general. Come on, Phil.

Come on, Phil. Can't be bothered with a long spiel, and I'm sure you can't be bothered reading one, so the question is, Zhao Jinlong, new player? Thanks, boys. Keep on keeping on, Phil. Thanks, Phil Flort. Yeah, they are new players. Nice.

Zhao Jinlong are new players. Phil sent the email in. He forgot to attach a photo. He sent a follow-up email to attach the photo. That's fine. He said he found them in the new ceiling fans that he installed in the outdoor area of his house. Good on him.

New players. Well done. What? Hang on. We were talking about extractor fans earlier on. So an extractor fan can be run on a battery. Now, that would simplify my life somewhat. We were talking about extractor fans earlier on. So an extractor fan can be run on a battery. Now, that would simplify my life somewhat.

I'll simply redeem now. Shit didn't add the picture. I found them in the new ceiling fans we installed in the outdoor area. Hmm. Do you smell a rat? Do you smell a fancy rat? No, I'm just sort of thinking that, like, I mean, that wouldn't last very long for a fan, would it? I don't know. I don't know.

I'm not going to get involved. But I will say that Xiaojian Long, terrible, terrible graphic designer involved in this project. I completely agree. Absolutely awful. Dean Chu. Excellent names this week. Dean Chu and Phil Flood. They should be presenting this show. Hey, look at Pete.

I hope this email gets through to you. My last two, three emails don't seem to have been in the cut. Chewy, i'm sorry um please see these super explosive batteries uh which are wow i can't believe this uh super explosive batteries which i hope are my third new player i nearly cry when i heard the wilco batteries that i've been sitting on for months were submitted by someone else and accepted a couple of weeks back oh dear chewy is coming with Super Explosive. And it's a lovely design, Super Explosive. There's a big bomb where the O is. Yeah, it's great.

But you don't want the image of something exploding in an electrical item you own. Terrible idea. Super Explosive. Is it a new player, Luke? It's not a great branding for what it is, but it is a new player. So congratulations to you, Dean.

Two out of two. He'd be delighted. That's his third, he reckons, so good on him. Yeah, well done, Chewie. Hello there, Pete. Sitting, staring at me for many months, screaming for submission are the AAA batteries in my old digital radio. I'm optimistic for a new player. Tomcat

Heavy Duty. The Australian Pete Donaldson slash James Harmer. Thanks, James Harmer. You're the best so the only the only email we've ever had mentioning the word tomcat is from our friend jake back in 2018 who um told us a story about adopting a tomcat from a animal shelter there have been no other batteries called tomcat sent in so they are a new player as well and that is the hat trick can you believe we're still finding brand new batteries

that we've never seen before from all over the world on this show because that is three out of three this week. Incredible scenes. Yeah, and if we didn't make up the names of the people

who found them like Phil Flott and Dean Chu I think we'd be a more honest podcast in many ways. I mean, I've never been more disappointed to hear the name James Harmer which is just a very normal name

after Chewy. Boo! Sex it up, mate. Well, you tried to sex it up with the just a very normal name after Chewy. Boo! Chewy and Floaty. Well, you tried to sex it up with the Australian Pete Donaldson, but it didn't quite work. Chewy and the Floater. Chewy and the Floater. I like it.

Great kids show. Yeah. Shall we round off the show with a little bit of Connor Gill's, a tweet that came in quite recently. Yeah, I mean, we can, but could we also squeeze in an email from Gethin, because I really want to read it. All right, then.

Do Gethin, and then I'll finish with Colin's message on Twitter. So Gethin's email in saying, G'day, gents. Recently been reminded of some of my dad's classic behaviour from when we were younger. For context, the old man owned a caravan park on the outskirts of Darwin, obviously in Northern Australia, mate. Darwin, mate.

Where we had a lake, and we also ran a water skiing business from it as such we it's funny isn't it because if that was britain and someone emailed in saying that we've got our own lake we'd be like bloody hell fucking jacob reese mug vibes but because it's australia and you literally cannot be posh it doesn't even register um yeah anyway gethin says as such we used to get school camps coming and staying on the park uh using the water slide and learning to water ski the food we used to offer them was far from gourmet and one of the side offerings was mashed potatoes which was actually just deb instant mash which is dehydrated potato powder and a copious amount of butter as dad would serve up the food for the school kids he'd walk around

grabbing and rolling his old his own shoulders to which all the kids would ask sir are you all right and straight faced he'd say oh yeah i'm fine my shoulders just sore from mashing all those potatoes to which the kids would exclaim it was the tastiest mash they'd ever had and much better than what their mum gives them at home the absolute glee my dad gets every telling that practical joke is a fond memory of mine. Hope you had a great Christmas and hope the fancy wrap was well received. Cheers, Gethin.

So what is dad doing? He's giving them up, serving up like fake mashed potato crap. It's not fake. It was still potato in there. Yeah. And by the way, Gethin, does Gethin and the rest of our Luke and Peacho family

know that you bottled the fancy wrap for your mum or not for Christmas? Yeah, I believe so. I bottled it. I think I said it on the show. I think I bottled the fancy rat because I just didn't want to bring a rat into the world that didn't need to be. Not with your dad around. Not with my dad around, exactly. You got her a rat calendar in the end, didn't you?

I did. She made do with a rat calendar. I'm sure she's very happy with that. Pete, would you like to go to Gethin's dad's lake in Darwin? I would. And I'm a man who appreciates solid mash and I will mash my potatoes when necessary with my shoulders or otherwise.

But I did make a fish pie with mash I just bought in the fridge section of Sainsbury's. Lazy. It is, but I was I'm time poor you're not you're not time poor I am

because the only reason you're time poor I'm on holiday in a couple of weeks I've got to spend all your fucking time doing stupid shit that's why

I'm time poor I've got to develop some pictures why I don't know I've got to get back in the camera how can I

make dinner when I've been developing pictures all day? No one asked me to develop them. I got two days of dinner out of that, though. I made a fish pie. It wasn't very well after it, though, so I don't know. The fish might be a bit dodgy.

And I also made some crab cakes. Crab cakes are so easy. Fish cakes are so easy. It's a bit of spuds, a bit of fish, a bit of bread. Beautiful. Stick them in the air fryer. Job's done. The wife I have access to,

the big difference about her mashed potatoes is where she's from in New England, they leave the skins on, brother. Yeah. If you put loads of butter in, I think it's nice. Yeah, I agree. I wouldn't mind that.

As long as they're scrubbed. Because when you sometimes bite into an unscrubbed potato skin and it's crunchy like the soil's done there. If you're not washing your potatoes, I can't help you. I can't help you. What I would say as well,

a little tip for you, if you are doing boiled potatoes, par-boiling potatoes ahead of roasting them, take a couple of the potato skins and put them in the pan while you're boiling the potatoes. It gives you a much bigger, stronger flavour because a lot of the flavour's held in the skins.

Oh, that's interesting. Yeah. Nice. Anyway, what's the tweet you want to do? But do you want to taste it? Do you want to taste the potato? Or do you want to just taste the butter and salt? Probably, yeah, probably the second one.

Do that. Yeah, just a quick one from Connor Gillis. He wants to do a Doctor Special. Or Connor Gillis, rather. Same Connor who's currently binging every little picture since last November. Is it worth doing a doctor special now and then? I've started a weird, weird sensation

of chewing sponges, not eating, just chewing. It would be nice to find out the fuck why. What, from a doctor? They can't help you with that. Yeah, but we could be like the kind of pop doctors. You know how pop scientists aren't, like you say,

you never hang out with other scientists. Like we could be like like pop doctors that's what Bill Burr said again about Neil deGrasse Tyson wasn't it you never see him

speaking to another scientist so how do you know that he just speaks to normal people yeah exactly well you want us to do I don't have any qualifications though

well I'm only saying because I I don't chew sponges but I certainly because I would find that quite difficult on the old teeth, like that cotton on your teeth sort of thing. But I certainly, when I get a new packet of, what are they called, scrubbers. Brillo pads. The story you're about to tell is specifically related to Brillo pads,

so you must make that clear. Yeah, Brillo pads, the green, but with the yellow form on the back. That's not a Brillo pad. That's a sponge, a scourer. A sponge scourer? Yeah. If it's just a sponge, it would just be a sponge, wouldn't it? So what is the Brillo pad?

A Brillo pad is like... A Brillo pad is... Combined with a sponge. No, but that's... You're getting confused. A Brillo pad is a brand-named pad that's got the soap. It's partly metal, and it's got the detergent in the pad. Oh, God.

It's a proper... Oh, they're rotten, those things. Yeah, nobody wants that. You're talking about a sponge scourer, which has got the yellow sponge on the bottom. It's like an oblong shape with a little groove in it, and it's got the green scrubbing bit on top. Has everyone been calling them Brillo pads? I don't think so, no.

Right, okay. Anyway, soap scourers. No no sponge scourers yeah if i get a packet i take it out and who says sponge count it sounds weird um i jam the sponge right into my nose and go yeah because i find the smell absolutely enchanting i don't know where it came from i've been doing it since i was a kid and And so I get it, Connor. I really do. I'm not sure about the teeth thing. That sets my teeth a little bit. I kind of get the teeth thing. I can understand how it would be satisfying to give yourself something to chew

on like that. I get it. Oh, the very idea. Maybe I'm just sensitive after a lot of nerd abuse over Twitter. Over Twitter? Over Christmas? Yeah, that's something completely different. I'm melting down, guys. Peter, I would just say, if we're going to do a special, I think we should also do a shout-out for smells

because I think people have got very, very... It goes underplayed in society how odd people... the smells people like are. I have always been obsessed with the enchanting smell of the Hoover, the vacuum cleaner. Right, that's just dust, isn't it?

No, it smells amazing for some reason. I love the smell of the vacuum cleaner. It's almost a little bit floral it smells amazing for some reason i love the smell of the vacuum cleaner it's almost a little bit floral isn't it it's kind of floral yeah a very kind of almost seductive floral note to it have you got like a um have you got like a henry or like have you got like the one that you put bags in yes right do they impregnate the um the bags with something that smells nice they might do it's possible I think yeah so you can smell

the bags let's not talk about impregnating the hoover because that's something completely different I love my Henry Hoover I had a really expensive

400 nearly 500 quid fucking hoover that was like you know wireless and cordless and all the lesses

and it was supposed to pick up pet hair and stuff and it just got snagged tangled almost immediately get yourself a Henry Hoover they're like so much cheaper and they're so good I was supposed to pick up pet hair and stuff. And it just got snagged, tangled almost immediately.

Get yourself a Henry Hoover. They're so much cheaper and they're so good. I was chatting to a professional cleaner once. Might have been at my old office. And they were saying to me exactly what you just said there. Oh, yeah, all that fucking expense. Henry Hoovers are the best Hoovers. It's wild, isn't it?

Yeah. We've got one. I completely agree. Good stuff. Anyway, let's get out of here. Let's get out of here.'s get out of here alright then I'll do that I'll just I'll press the

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