The Luke and Pete Show - Do not insert the frozen potato slice
Episode Date: March 12, 2020On this episode we’re discussing bull fighting, ‘dining & dashing’ and a problematic home remedy which utilises frozen sliced potatoes. Also coming up, we’re reading some of your near... death experiences, including a hazardous tale from a noughties trip to Malia and a man who, despite all the odds, survived a drunken encounter with a horse.All that, and something about bath beers! Do your homework and slip us a DM at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com ***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Meow! How you doing? I'm a cat. I'm Pete Donaldson the cat and I'm ready to lick my paws.
I'm with Luke Moore who is also a cat. We are cat people for the remainder of this show.
It's a Thursday.
Heading into the weekend,
Cataday obviously being our favourite day of the week, being cats.
What was that?
What was purring?
It's a horse.
It's purring.
It's a horse.
I can't do the rolled tongue thing.
Yeah.
What, is that what your cat does?
No, do it without making a sound.
Do it just with your...
Yeah, that's a purr.
You can't purr. No. What? I. Do it just with your... Yeah, that's a purr. Purr.
You can't purr.
No.
What?
I can't.
That is your...
What?
I can't do the thing with my tongue to make it go like that.
Do a purr.
That's what I can do.
You can't do that.
No.
Magical.
Ask me again.
Can you do a purr?
I believe we've established that.
As Alan Parkridge would say.
What a start to the show.
Happy Thursday, Pete.
I'm all right, yeah.
I haven't asked you how you are yet.
Sorry, I'm kind of...
Why are we recording this show so early?
Because you were showing off.
The best players,
they don't think about the control.
They're all doing something else, all right?
Yeah, okay.
Automatic control.
Just know I'm in the room,
and then I'm off.
How do you fit into that?
Nuclear efficient.
I'm already off. I'm off on a you fit into that nuclear fission I'm already off
I'm off on a new subject
a new tangent
new tangent
when you quit your job
at Absolute Radio
because in your words
commercial radio is dead
dead
you suggested
that then you would be able
to do early shows
yes
it's a Monday isn't it
what's happened
it's a Monday
it's a Thursday Pete
for the purpose of this show
it's a fucking Thursday
alright yeah but it's a Monday
though isn't it we record it on a Monday but it's a Thursday, Pete. For the purpose of this show, it's a fucking Thursday. Oh, right, yeah, but it's a Monday, isn't it?
We record it on a Monday,
but it's a Thursday show.
I know.
Don't tell everyone everything.
Leave a bit to their imagination.
Well, then, on a Thursday,
I could do an early record
because I'm into the hustle and bustle
What have you been doing on the weekend
that's made you so tired on a Monday?
I went to Southampton.
Oh, yeah, you already said.
All right, fair enough.
I watched the She Believes Cop
match between England and Japan
and I had to look at Phil Neville's face.
That's enough to...
That's like eating a teaspoon of uranium,
looking at Phil Neville's face,
a man who's managed to just fail upwards in life.
Do you remember the brilliant thing about Phil Neville
when he first started doing co-commentary
and someone once observed...
That was...
I thought he was just first doing coke.
No, someone once...
I'd like to see a bit of that.
Someone once observed that he sounded like he was recording his commentary in a cupboard
and he didn't want to wake up his neighbours.
He just couldn't unhear it.
He was just like, well, they've done really well there.
Anyway, Peter, as it's Monday, and this is a Thursday show,
and we've confused our listeners already,
I'm not going to ask you how your week's been,
because that's a lie.
But what I am going to say to you is,
we got inundated, absolutely inundated,
with emails and tweets and everything about
this is Democracy Manifest.
Yeah, that's the thing about the show and podcasts in general.
When you've got a bit of a thread or a trope,
when something happens with that trope,
it's really hard to get work done because everybody sends you it.
And we're very appreciative.
Well, because there's been an update.
The man who is known on this show as Julian Assange.
I thought he died.
I thought he died that night.
Well, this is the interesting thing about it.
So, I mean, you're going to need to have at least be on nodding terms
with this show
to understand this,
but I'm going to assume
that you do.
This is Democracy Manifest!
That guy.
You could probably
press the button, couldn't you?
Yeah, if I'd levelled it properly.
Yeah, you haven't levelled it properly,
so that's fine.
That's very Hallowell.
That's O-Town.
Oh, shit.
You're telling...
No.
Hey, y'all!
No.
So, first step...
That's the fart guy.
That's the crisp sound.
That's the posh guy at the airport.
Yep.
Sorry, basically.
No.
Just endlessly, there's a lot of clips
what is the charge
of eating a meal
a succulent
Chinese meal
so that guy
yeah
the best arrest ever
the famous
laps idea
yeah
so someone
professed to have
found him
a while ago
said he's a
he's a Hungarian
Australian guy
he got busted
for doing 200
like odd skipping restaurants without paying the bill he's a he's a hungarian australian guy yeah he got busted for doing 200 like odd
yeah skipping restaurants without paying the bill he's also a chess master blah blah blah that was
kind of oh that mystery's been solved then i thought it was like an i thought it was like an
actor and the two camera thing that was my no it wasn't it was definitely it was definitely a
natural thing but it wasn't actually that guy they a sports betting company in Australia found the guy, the proper guy.
And he wasn't the Hungarian emigrant
or the chess master or whatever.
It was just this Australian guy
who found it and he's appeared in the music video
for an Australian punk band, The Chats,
who are really good.
I actually quite like them. I was really pleased to see that. Anyway, so it's interesting because he's appeared in the music video for an Australian punk band, The Chats, who are really good. I actually quite like them.
I was really pleased to see that.
Anyway, so it's interesting because he's been discovered.
He looks great.
He looks like he hasn't missed a step.
It's like a little...
I haven't got it plugged in,
but there's a little short interview with him
on the internet.
He sounds great.
He looks great.
I can't believe...
Because that clip looks really, really old and it is really, really old and I can't believe, because that clip looks really, really old
and it is really, really old
and I can't believe
the guy,
it looks like he's
just grown a beard.
That's the net result
of like 20 years
of doing what he does.
Apparently,
it was called
Cecil George Edwards.
I remember Cecil,
yeah, yeah.
Interesting.
So thanks very much
for everyone
for getting in touch
with that.
Pete,
you are going to do
your own Dine and dash
sometime soon right
have I ever dined
I did once
on the island
of Jeju
near Korea
I was
me and a friend
Craig were
playing darts
and sinking
a few
cobbled wands
he means beers
he means beers
and had a love
for three or four
and then
we retired to our Airbnb.
And then the next day I came back to the same place
and this woman just ran over and went,
you did not pay your bill last night.
Oh, really?
You just forgot?
And I was like, and imagine, you know what I'm like.
Oh my God, you'd have been so awkward.
I overpay for things.
I tip heavily because of the things I've done in my life.
I overpay for things.
I tip heavily because of the things I've done in my life.
And yeah, it was just, I felt awful.
So I dined and dashed on that night.
I drank.
By accident?
I darted and dashed.
Have you ever done a thing where you sat in a restaurant for so long that you've forgotten that you've still got to pay it?
Yeah.
So I guess that was like that, right?
But it was just writ large.
Yeah.
A lot of my meals are paid for by other people, yeah,
because people like to wine and dine me.
So I just assume that someone else is going to foot the bill.
Where has that come from?
I don't know.
Where has that come from?
Here's a story, Peter, that you will bloody well love.
In fact, when I first saw it, I thought of you
instantly. For a couple of reasons.
You'll see why. Mark Busby
sent me this story.
Mark Busby, babes, he always
makes me cry.
Thinking
of the teams
of years gone by.
I used to
love that song when I was a kid.
He's emailed in about doctors warning people not to put frozen potatoes in their anus.
That would be problematic because the crystals would start to freeze the anus.
Doctors have issued a warning against putting frozen potatoes in your anus.
This comes as an increasing number of hemorrhoid sufferers
have reportedly taken to the internet
to seek alternative solutions to their problem
instead of consulting their doctor.
That would be soothing, but problematic, you imagine, yeah.
Apparently, it's been going around the internet
because the internet is a fucking cesspit these days.
Shut it down.
Yeah.
Inserting frozen potatoes into your anus for 30 minutes is the answer
so one article
claims you need to
peel a raw potato
cut it into thin
slices like you do
for french fries
put the slices
into the freezer
and wait until
they are frozen
insert the frozen
potato slice in your
anus and leave it
inside for 30
seconds repeat the
process for 3 to
5 days the next
3 to 5 days leave the slice inside for 30 seconds more each time you're making it up as you go along get a
get a frozen pad rather than like something that you can actually freeze rather than you know like
a white clean kind of plastic um kind of like like a frozen patch that you would use to like
alleviate like muscle pain bind that up and then put that up your bum don't use a potato because
the starch
it would start
it's not going to stay
frozen for long
it's a thin slice
anyway
but the water vapour
on the side
or even just
because it's just
a big ball of water
isn't it
it's very watery
and starchy
and those proteins
and that frozen water
is just going to
do damage to the cells
of your bloody hemorrhoids
well the doctors
chimed in
they're always chipping off
aren't they
bloody doctors
oh no at all.
I've had enough of them.
Done in medical school.
Yeah.
Can't deal with real life.
I'm going to take 10 years off.
Yeah.
And then I'm going to do 12 hour shifts
because I don't like life.
I love the idea.
I don't like sleeping.
Love the idea.
Cocking my leg up
on the doctor's table,
getting a frozen potato,
shoving it out of my bum
while screaming in the face
of a doctor.
University of life, mate.
University of life.
The doctor said,
there is no medical evidence
that putting frozen potatoes inside the anus
can help cure piles,
so I would urge caution to anyone thinking of doing it.
Only urging caution,
not telling them not to do it.
Yeah, proceed with caution.
Piles often go away on their own after a few days,
but there are some tried and trusted ways
to keep them at bay.
Drink plenty of fluids,
going against the Donaldson mantra.
Maintain a fibre-rich diet,
going against the Donaldson mantra.
And having regular warm baths.
Do you have regular warm baths?
Don't have a bath.
Again,
you are the dictionary definition
of a man who could get piles.
Risking.
Piles and haemorrhoids,
are they the same things?
Yeah,
I believe so, yeah.
It's kind of just bits of your canal
just getting inflamed, isn't it?
Isn't it a...
I think it's an inflamed blood vessel,
isn't it?
Why do they need so many blood vessels?
Because that's why they put drugs up your bum, isn't it?
Suppositories and the like.
Is it? Yeah, because there's a lot
of blood vessels, so it's really easy to get in your bloodstream.
Are we getting into the old disclaimer territory here?
Well, who used to blow cocaine up people's bums?
Oh, right, yeah.
Because it's really easy to get straight
into your bloodstream really quickly.
Right.
It's a rush.
What a rush.
Oh, Jake the Snake's back in wrestling.
Is he?
Yeah, he's got an undercut like me. He must be so old. He's got an undercut like me. Yeah, but the thing with Jake the Snake's back in wrestling. Is he? Yeah, he's got an undercut like me.
He must be so old.
He's got an undercut like me.
Yeah, but the thing with Jake the Snake,
he was never an amazing wrestler,
but my God, he could do the mic stuff.
He's so chilling.
He's 64 years old.
Absolutely frightening.
Yeah, because he looks like an old grandad.
Yeah, watching Jake the Snake
at the height of his alcoholism,
rolling around on the floor using his snake,
I forget his name, as a penis,
is an image that will stay with me for a long time.
Hashtag, listen to Wrestle Me.
I'm just looking at a photo of him now from two days ago.
He sort of dyed his hair as well.
He doesn't look too bad.
On the mic...
He's looked a lot worse.
On the mic, he looks like a lot worse. On the mic he
looks like he's
got up to say
something at an
AA meeting.
If he's been in
enough AA meetings
he's had demons.
He's had demons.
Oh he has.
I've seen him
be on the mat.
It's absolutely
chilling.
Speaking of
putting potatoes
up your bum
he used to put
the snake in
the fridge.
Why?
In the mini bar
because it just
calms them down
doesn't it?
Because they can
go in the lock.
Oh because they're
cold blooded.
Just stick them in the freezer calms them down. In the minibar. Because it just calms them down, doesn't it? Because they can go in there. Oh, because they're cold-blooded. Just stick them in the freezer.
Calms them down.
In a minute, calm a snake down.
Or euthanise a tortoise.
Put them in the freezer.
I don't think...
I don't think...
I know it was like the 80s,
but I don't think a wrestler
travelling all around the US
with a questionable attitude to substances
should be travelling with a pet snake.
Cock will be waiting as my car.
Yeah, all that.
That should also
not be happening.
It's a gimmick that,
alright, you can enjoy
the first couple of days off.
It looks good, yeah.
Yeah, but then you're like,
I've got to take this
to a bar store.
Yeah.
I've got to take this
to Chattanooga.
Is it Chattanooga?
Yeah.
Is that a place?
Yeah, I think it's in Tennessee.
Yeah.
What have we learnt here?
Do not put a frozen snake or macaw up your bum
if you've got piles.
No.
You never suffer from piles, no?
No, never.
Frozen snakes would probably...
Frozen snake up your bum would probably work better.
Shape.
Shape.
Shape of it.
And also the water.
It wouldn't be as watery.
It wouldn't freeze the ice.
You wouldn't get icicles up your bum.
You wouldn't get ice. It's all gone a bit kind of weird, isn't it? It's not, it wouldn't be as watery. It wouldn't freeze the ice. You wouldn't get icicles up your bum. You wouldn't get ice.
It's all gone a bit kind of weird, isn't it?
It's sexy.
Shall we take a break?
Yeah, let's take a quick break.
When we come back, we'll do some emails.
It's okay for macho men to show every emotion available right there, you know,
because I've cried a thousand times.
I'm going to cry some more.
Another great Mike's man.
Yeah.
Another great Mike's man.
If you'd like to get into the show
it's hello
at luganpeachshaw.com
it is
have you got an
email there Peter
I have sorry
I was reading
the email address
out so I thought
you were
I can do one
I've got one here
I've got one from
Darren
who's responded to
an earlier piece of
homework which was
I thought I was
going to die
when
and he says I found myself standing in a Derbyshire field
in the pitch black, pissed,
with the sickly malty taste of nine pints of Brooklyn lager in my mouth
all swelling around my stomach.
And I was up to my knees in freezing mud
with the sound of a galloping, panting horse circling me.
Wow, how's that happen? Pretty full on, right? right yeah without even the comfort of the light from my phone because of a dead battery or coat yeah
no excuse he says all out of all out of uh options here he says to cut a long story short number one
unplanned pints after work number two last train home last train home to a semi-rural location number three shortcut through
a field yeah number four you know the rest angry with visions of regional news reporters standing
in a field where i died telling of the dangers of spooked horses and drunken shortcuts i eventually
got home about an hour later after climbing over a wall into someone's garden smashing the roof of
a rabbit hut and setting off the sensor,
which seemed like after 15 minutes in total darkness,
trying not to get eaten by a horse,
the world's most powerful floodlight,
I ended up about 100 yards from where I started,
before the doomed shortcut.
I'll never take a shortcut through a field again.
Keep up the good work, lads.
Darren.
That's frightening.
That genuinely gives me chills.
It's also a very stupid way to die as well.
Isn't it?
Well, yeah, because he'd just knock you over and then...
I mean, he would just knock you over and then that would be out.
It's not...
It would stamp on you or anything, but yeah, it wouldn't be ideal.
Have you ever done anything like that?
I had a Brooklyn Lager last night.
Did you?
I had one bottle of Brooklyn Lager
in the fridge
and I never drank it
at home,
but I was like,
that's going.
Out of 10 in terms
of depressing scenes,
how bad was it?
It was alright.
It was alright,
but yeah,
I don't know.
It just reminds me
of the unpredictability.
We used to walk
at the school,
we used to take a
shortcut through
a horse's field
and it was very much
the horse's field.
Sometimes there'd be
three horses in there, sometimes there'd be only one horse, but all of the time they'd always take a shortcut through a horse's field and it was very much a horse's field. Sometimes there'd be three horses in there,
sometimes there'd be only one horse,
but all of the time they'd always take a run at you.
When I used to...
It's a very thrilling way to start a day's education.
Yeah, I think it's a very northern story, that.
You've told me that before and I can't really think of...
Mind you, there were quite a few fields in the two towns
or villages along from where I lived.
Did you ever have, like,
a kind of travelling folk
who would have, like, a council house
but they'd have a horse
in the front of their garden?
No.
That would happen quite a lot.
No.
There were travellers who used to come to town
and rock up and pitch
in, like, a field or whatever,
but they would never, sort of...
Have a council house.
...have a static home, yeah.
But the thing
I was going to
say was when I
used to go out
with a girl from
the West Country
and when we'd
go and visit
her parents
we'd go for
walks and her
parents were
very kind of
serious walkers
knew all the
public footpaths
knew the rights
of way and all
the rest of it
and I'm not an
expert on this
particular field
excuse the pun
but there are
public footpaths
that the public have a right of way down
no matter where they are kind of thing.
And if someone's built a fence,
you can just climb over the fence.
Or if someone's built a house
and it's part of their garden,
you can just walk straight through.
And it causes a lot of problems in the countryside
as far as I know.
But anyway, it happens.
And I remember once going for a walk
and we're going through these fields,
public footpaths, et cetera.
And we went over
this stile
to go into a field
and there was
a gigantic
bull
in the field
wow
right
and they're just
walking through it
and I was thinking
I mean
if this
if this bull
decides to go for it
one of us is dead
I'm wearing an
Arsenal shirt
yeah
nightmare yeah it was it was apparently the red thing is a it, one of us is dead. I'm wearing an Arsenal shirt.
Nightmare.
It was apparently the red thing is a
myth as well.
But anyway, so
you walk past it and at one point we're only about
six feet away from this ball.
And it's just there, eating the grass or whatever.
Do you not think that... Big ring for its nose.
Like a cartoon.
Something to grab all of, eh?
No, no. Would you grab all of, eh? Yeah. I don't know what I mean by that.
No, no.
Would you be frightened in that situation?
Yeah, I would be very concerned,
but also I think maybe our images of bulls
are wildly wide of the mark
because we only see bulls kicking the fuck off
and smashing up China shops,
which has never happened.
No. How does a bull even get in there? I know up China shops, which has never happened. No.
How does a bull even get in there?
I know, I know.
But yeah, I like that story.
I like that very much.
Just that kind of white-hot fear of going,
ooh.
What does Darren think is going to happen with the horse?
He's up to his knees in frozen mud.
Yeah.
The horse is galloping around him.
What's the horse doing?
The horse is probably fairly thinking,
what the fuck are you doing here?
Yeah.
What's it going to do to you?
Maybe it's trying to escort you
out of the field
because it knows that you're
ten sheets to the wind.
It's probably saying,
get on my back.
Get on my back, yeah.
Get on my back
and ride his riders home.
I told you my best mate Jimmy
got bitten by a horse, didn't I?
Yeah.
To be fair,
it could be dangerous.
Am I wrong to think that
when I see a video
of a bullfight,
am I wrong that I like it when the ball jumps up into the crowd
and hits some people?
I like it when the horns absolutely go the fuck out of the block.
Yeah, same.
Right up through the diaphragm, right through into the lungs.
One got it right up the bop-bop,
which is a more extreme treatment for piles.
There's a famous
picture of one getting
right up the bum yeah
look he's earned the
right to be there I
would say the ball if
you're going to get
there if you're going
to get into a ring with
a ball one it's on you
yeah if you're going to
if you're going to sort
of tip the odds so
you've got a couple of
weapons or whatever and
you're and you're
are they our weapons
I think they have
they have spikes to
stick into the back
don't they?
Into the back of the ball?
Yeah that's what they do it
and they kill it at the end
but the coup de grace
at the end don't they?
It's grim
it is grim
that's why
that's why that
the
The Sun Also Rises
that Hemingway novel
is so good
because it's
nothing happens in it really
apart from they go to
a load of ball fights
and get pissed
and I hate ball fighting
but it's so good it's still such a good read it's amazing from they go to a load of bullfights and get pissed and I hate bullfighting but it's so good
it's still such a
good read
it's amazing
for a book to be
about a subject
that I genuinely
find abhorrent
and still really
enjoy reading it
is a testament to it
I think
and that's the
review he's asked
from me
it's my book of the
week
it's his book of the
week
do your email
Joe Bartlett
there's been a lot
of talk recently
about the livery, enjoyable bath beer.
Bath beer.
Oh, yeah.
Well, today I came across this hotel in Prague,
which takes the bath beer to the next level.
The bath itself has two taps, obviously hot gold,
but also it has an extra tap pouring unlimited fresh beer
from the brewery that is attached to the hotel.
Whoa.
Whoa.
That's pretty cool.
I've never been, but I would be more than happy to head on a fact-finding mission
on behalf of the show.
Just let me know where to send the expense form.
Cheers, Joe.
Imagine getting dehydrated because your skin gets all wrinkly, doesn't it?
Yeah.
On your fingertips.
What would happen if you got really dehydrated?
Yeah.
Would that level out?
Would you just not get that because you're dehydrated?
It'd be ironic, wouldn't it?
It would be ironic.
I was in Germany a weekend or two ago,
and in that particular part of Germany,
it's not the big steins of beer.
They have these really grumpy waiters at all these bars,
and they bring you small beers.
Right.
And they're really rude.
I don't know why it's traditional,
but they're rude.
Who's this?
I was just in Germany.
Oh, right.
Yeah.
Is it traditional that they're rude?
Yeah, apparently they're just known
for being kind of quite brusque.
And the reason they bring you small beers
is because they get paid per beer.
Okay.
But I think they take a,
they take like a self-employed stance
on the waiting of the tables and if they spill a
beer for example they have to pay for it right and their job is to get you for as many beers as
possible and they get because they get paid by beer interesting yeah i don't know how it works
in prior but i've never heard of a bath with a beer pump and that's great have you ever been to
a um it was like it's like a theme pub um i think it's called like Dave's or Alan's Last Resort in America.
And they're all over the place.
And they are basically, it's like a family restaurant where you go slash drinking establishment
where all of the staff are the rudest people.
And that's the thing.
That's the trope.
I've heard about this.
You just get insulted, right?
You just get insulted constantly. Just calling you a tit. I think I've maybe about this you just get insulted right you just get insulted constantly
just calling your
tit and not
I think I've maybe
told this story
on the podcast before
but there was a family
enjoying a meal
and
they would
make little hats
out of the
these massive serviettes
and they'd draw
like an insult
on the hat
and they'd put
the fucking prick
and they'd put
the fucking prick hat on your head and they'd put the fucking prick and they'd put the fucking prick hat
on your head
and I was watching
one family getting
this treatment
and this book wrote
this waiter was being
really rude
because that's the thing
wrote
you are flat chested
and put it on the head
of a
couldn't have been older
than a 14 year old girl
that is outrageous it was the worst of a, couldn't have been older than a 14-year-old girl.
That is outrageous.
It was the worst bit of behaviour I have ever seen,
and I think about it a lot.
Yeah.
It was the worst bit of behaviour I have ever seen from a man.
At what point does a manager say,
right, we need to dial it down.
Dial it down.
Dial it down.
I don't know what the boundaries are.
I don't know what the rules are here.
Dial it down.
Yeah.
Dial it down. You told me. I don't know what the boundaries are. I don't know what the rules are here. Dial it down. Yeah. Dial it down.
You told me to be as offensive as I could.
It's like going there.
Statistically, with three of you, we'll get cancer.
Yeah.
Or, what have you written on mine?
I've written that both your parents are dead.
Yeah.
Where did you draw the line?
That's the key point.
So if you go in there, tempting to say, if you go in there, you deserve everything you get.
But with children,
it's a bit different.
It is.
It was.
Clearly his barometer for how old people were
was off.
And that's not a great statement.
Also,
not great training
for a job at another restaurant,
is it?
No, no.
You have to basically
just rotate around there,
isn't it?
Good evening,
and fuck you.
Sorry. They weren't like that. Old job. They weren't like that. It was just like, it was isn't it? Good evening, and fuck you. Sorry.
They weren't like that.
Old job.
They weren't like that.
It was just like, it was kind of like,
all right, what do you pricks want?
Wow.
It was like, can we have two beers, please?
Yeah, I might fucking get round to it.
You might like that.
I think you'd like it.
Yeah.
Because you don't like people making a fuss, do you?
No.
Well, no, but that's the problem.
They do make a fuss.
They constantly insult you.
Oh, right, yeah.
Where are you fucking pricks from?
Ah, you fucking limeys. Limeys, is that a thing? Are we limeys? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Probably get tedious, wouldn't's the problem. They do make a fuss. They constantly insult you. Oh, right, yeah. Where are you fucking pricks from? Ah, you fucking limeys.
Limeys, is that a thing?
Are we limeys?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I always forget.
Probably get tedious, wouldn't it?
Yeah.
We'll squeeze one more email in from Pete from Wrexham,
who emailed in a week or so ago,
and he says,
listening to the most recent episode,
when you set the homework,
I was instantly transported back
to one of the scariest
and most embarrassing moments of my adult life.
I thought I was going to die when...
Uh-oh!
On holiday with a couple of mates
back in Malia in 2002.
Malia.
For the avoidance of doubt,
that is where the first
Inbetweeners movie is set,
which tells you everything
you need to know.
Malia's one of those places
that I rarely hear of
because you don't...
People don't go there anymore.
Is it a thing anymore today?
No.
My uncle used to live in Crete
and I had to drive through
Mali at once
and it was horrendous.
Anyway, he says,
we went on a cruise
to a smaller island near Crete.
So,
holiday in Mali,
2002,
him and his pals
on a cruise
to a smaller island
near Crete.
It was quite a sedate affair,
said Pete,
not a booze cruise
by any means.
However,
the previous night
we'd been out drinking
and working our way
through the cocktail list
at one of the bars
just off the main strip.
I'm not and never have been a big drinker, but as a younger man, I often went past my limits.
You sound just like me, Pete.
That night, I didn't feel too bad, and we all went to sleep fairly early to get up in time for the cruise.
All was going well until we stopped at a tranquil bay to jump off the top of the boat and have a little swim.
I joined my mates up top and dutifully waited my turn.
I happily jumped in in but then things went
wrong upon hitting the water my arms and legs instantly cramped up i resurfaced and then
realized that somehow i jumped off the wrong side of the boat and there was no one nearby to help
as panic and realization set in i somehow made it back to the boat and reached up to some feeding
that ran around the hull in excruciating pain i pulled myself around the boat and reached up to some feeding that ran around the hull. In excruciating pain, I pulled
myself around the boat and after what
felt like hours, it was probably only five
minutes, I made it to the ladder and was helped back up
by a couple of good Samaritans.
When I told
my two pals about my terrifying ordeal,
they mercilessly took the piss, not only
for the rest of the holiday, but every time
we've met up since too. For nearly
18 years,
my nowhere near death experience is brought up on our catch-ups.
Love the show.
Make you up the good work, Pete.
That would be really frightening.
I'm going to side with Pete from Wrexham here.
What, he just jumped in the water
and his arms just cramped up?
Arms and legs.
Right.
That's not ideal, is it?
No.
The gingerbread man.
It sounds terrifying
and it also reminds me of a time
when I was walking, I might have told this before, but I was walking home from school and it also reminds me of the time when I was walking
I might have told this before
but I was walking home
from school
and there was a group
of kids in front of us
who were bullying
another kid
and they didn't stop
until he had
two dead arms
and two dead legs
so he couldn't
actually get up
nice
and at the time
you were like
oh that's quite funny
now horrific
horrific
I mean working
that's
because when I go to the barbers they
do that they sort of
hit your arms they put
your arms out and pull
on your fingers and then
they just don't like you
give your arms a good
beating they cut your
hair nah see you later
20 quid get out
that's brilliant all
right let's wrap up
hello at Luke and
Pete show.com to get in
touch thank you to Pete
from Rexham and all the
other people who've got
in touch over the last
week it's been great to
hear from you yeah Pete and Crete and all the other people who've got in touch over the last week it's been great to hear from you
yeah Pete and Crete
we'll be back on Monday
with some more of this nonsense
let's stick with the
current homework
you thought you were
going to die when
yeah
what else have we got here
text your parents
or grandparents
ask them what they think
the worst thing about you is
and tell us the most
interesting encounter
you've had with a telemarketer
he's Pete
I'm Luke
we'll see you on Monday
bye tell us the most interesting encounter you've had with a telemarketer. He's Pete, I'm Luke. We'll see you on Monday.
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