The Luke and Pete Show - Eight Crazy Frog Singles
Episode Date: July 9, 2020In today’s episode, we’re reminiscing about the glory days of Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, the Crazy Frog and Motorola Razrs. We’re also debating our chances of survival in an apoc...alypse - would Luke’s car save him? Plus, Pete tells us about his Dad’s recent antics on Photoshop, we hear some alarming animal facts and we learn an interesting tidbit about clocks in films from a listener!We’d love to hear from you at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com, don’t hold back!***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.
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it's a little picture it's a thursday how the diggory donaldson are you doing i am diggory
donaldson i'm joined by mr look more how you doing very good um what point did you um turn into
diggory um i was adopted you i some people say i was adopted by the diggory some people say
i was born into it um yeah i don't know i've not really i've i've not
talked to my father who's uh who's bestowed upon me the moniker degree um for some time actually i
really should check in with him was it an argument about um compression rates of jpegs on whatsapp or
no no generally he's kind of calmed down he's kind kind of what's up. There's a new baby in town.
Baby Sophie is my new niece.
She's got a second niece.
And my dad's mainly just doing Photoshop of her, to be quite frank.
He's got other stuff on, mate.
He's spending time with his family.
Well, he can't go and see his family.
That's the problem.
No, but I mean, he's doing it in a way that he can. Yeah, through an Adobe
Creative Cloud license,
I presume.
Have you given him a login?
Have you given him
a stack login
to the Adobe suite?
Yeah, he's on the stack login.
I'm trying to teach him
After Effects.
No, I think he pirated it.
Does he want a job, seriously?
Well, look, he's better than I am at cutting things out.
I tried to do a fake Photoshop of something in the office
a few weeks ago to annoy Luke,
and he took a look at it and went,
Pete, that's not even a good Photoshop,
and I was chastened.
To annoy Luke?
I am Luke.
Yeah, that's you.
Yeah, I was talking to listeners.
Oh, okay, right, okay. Did I ever see that what did it actually ever kind of manifest it was your it was your euro
2020 um planner um oh i did see that down for for our plans for that was a poor effort i was
really disappointing you i saw it straight away well you'd spent all day making this plan about
who was going to be doing which shows what what we were going to be doing and stuff. And then it actually transpired, obviously, that the Euros got postponed.
But Luke was very protective about his little chart because he'd spent all day doing it.
Doesn't sound like me, does it?
The thing is, I don't begrudge you not being organised, Pete, necessarily.
I begrudge you being annoyed at me for being organised.
I mean, all you did was
write something on a chart.
Oh, that's all I did, was it?
That's all I did.
Working out a little jigsaw.
I'm preserving that for next summer.
And I'm putting you on every day.
Yay!
Peter? Do you want those listening figures?
If you want those listening figures, I'll fucking do it.
I'll tank this
fucking tanker
I thought that was
what you were doing
yeah
Peter I saw something
on the BBC website
the other day
which I thought
might be of interest
to you
it probably won't be
because it's difficult
for me to know
what's interesting
to you and what isn't
but I thought
I'd give it a go
there's a place
in Wales
you're half Welsh
so you might like it
on top of a hill
and it's near Powis which i think or
in powis which i think is like central mid wales um but it's quite rural um and it's called the
space guard center and it's a working observatory which tracks near earth objects that could hit
earth right and it's been there since 1997 it's basically just one dude who sits up there
monitoring comets and asteroids and all that kind of stuff and i read the article um because i've
been sort of obsessed with this type of stuff since i read at the age of a quite an impressionable age
of about 14 that someone who who meant well on tv said it's the best to think of the solar system as a giant intergalactic bowling alley.
And Earth is just one of the pins at the bottom of the lane.
And someone is sending a bowling ball down every second forever.
And we're hoping they don't hit one of the pins.
And I thought, that doesn't make me feel very good.
So I became obsessed with that kind of subject.
And this guy, he's like an ex-army fella
who specialised in missile systems.
I don't know why he used him.
I mean, he's not going to do anything,
is he?
What do you mean?
I mean, he's presumably
quite good at trajectory calculating,
I would say.
I hope so.
But the way they've written it
makes it feel like
he's just going to fire a missile
at one of them,
which I don't really want to happen.
Anyway, so...
The best offence is defence. So a lot of missile systems are shooting at other missiles. fire a missile at one of them which i don't really want to happen anyway the best the best
offense is defense so you a lot of missile systems are shooting out of the missiles so presumably
working out where that missile where the target's going to be is is probably he's probably good at
that i would say true now it's a fair point he makes the point that also that um a lot of
potential extinction level events are completely unpredictable so for example like earthquakes or
um massive
volcanoes or whatever but comets are really predictable because once you get hold of them
you can see what their trajectory is going to be as you rightly say people anyway my point was just
going to be that there's two two things on this um why is there an observatory set up in somewhere
where presumably it rains all the fucking time that's number one because what's the telescope
going to realistically see it's not like it's in the atacama That's number one. Because what's the telescope going to realistically see?
It's not like it's in the Atacama Desert
where it's so dry and clear that they can see everything.
And two, I feel like there should be more than one person
working on this.
Like, he's on his own, this guy.
So does he not have a day off?
I mean, what's happening?
I mean, I'm almost certain there are more agencies
looking at this,
at the behavior of comets and the like.
But I mean, does rain affect telescopes in that massive way?
Because the cells are so massive.
No, but I think one of the things as far as I understand it,
is the enemy of space observers is moisture.
That's why, because it distorts the
imagery that's why in the atacama desert in chile that's why a lot of the observatories are there
because they're so it's so dry there you get the clearest picture um but i was just gonna say
solar energy this guy who did articles about on the bbc website right he's talking the angle of
the of the of the um article is actually actually that he has a lot of trouble persuading
decision makers and governments and everything.
This is really important, right?
Yeah.
And I'm not making this up, right?
Right.
The final quote of the article from him, I'm just going to read it to you, okay?
This hopefully won't happen in our lifetime, in the next century or the next millennium.
I don't know.
If I did know, I would be happy.
But the point is, it will happen.
And when it does happen, life will turn to pain in a very big way.
What a quote.
It's like cutting a wrestling program.
A lot of gravitas to that quote, isn't there?
There is a little bit, yeah.
We're all fucked.
Would you like to go?
Would you like to die in an extinction level event, Pete?
Because as we said on Monday, everyone's going to die.
It's one of those things that happen.
Nothing you can do about it.
No point trying to avoid it.
Would you like to die in an extinction level event?
Well, I would sort of feel if I had the choice,
I was somehow kind of like consigning all of my fellow man
to perishing. So probably not, to be, to perishing.
So probably not,
to be honest,
I wouldn't mind just diet,
just,
just,
just French exiting this earth,
to be honest.
And it's been fun guys,
but I'm just going to go to the loo and then I'm out the window and down the street.
Do a Carl Reiner.
Do a Carl Reiner.
See you later.
Give me a hot dog.
I'm out of here.
But do you,
but see,
I mean,
it's,
it's be quite interesting.
An extinction level event would be
quite interesting but presumably you don't believe in anything like afterlife or anything like that
so i know i know you're saying as someone who's currently alive the idea that your relatives or
your children or whatever would live on beyond you i get that but if you're going to be dead
anyway presumably you don't give a shit because you can't yeah yeah i mean true yeah i mean yeah
there's a philosophical debate to be had whether i give it whether i should give a shit because the world will die with me so um i
wouldn't like that millisecond of thought that i i've consigned everyone to death by my own hand
um and it's probably for the same reason why i'm i'm not planning on top myself anytime soon so
you know well that's good news do you remember when we had that chat about how good we'd be
in the post-apocalyptic environment?
Yes, and I'd be dead
within a couple of days
because of asthma.
Asthma.
Yeah.
We both established
that through your asthma
and my incompetence,
we'd both die pretty quickly.
Look, you can drive a car.
That is true.
Well, that doesn't mean anything.
We'd just die in a different place. No, exactly. Yeah, but you't mean anything. It just means I die in a different place.
No, exactly.
Yeah, but you can get places.
You could probably get quite far with a car.
How old is your car?
It's new.
It's only a couple of years old.
Right.
Okay, cool.
I've gotten cars recently.
Interesting.
I don't think me having a car means I've got more chance of surviving,
to be honest. No. But I reckon it's adding a couple of odd days on it in it no let's be real what it means is my final moments will be spent in a traffic jam that's what it means
that's what it means mate yeah sounds about right sounds right i was also going to ask you about um
have you so you know we talk a little bit about tv programs and what stuff to watch on
netflix and i've been watching the third season of dark as i've said but i can't really talk about
that chiefly because i don't want to spoil people but most importantly because i don't understand it
um yeah and the and it would be ridiculous me trying to explain it but one thing i have really
got back into and you're going to laugh at this is for some reason and i want to stress uk only not the us version the uk only
version i've got really into ramsay's kitchen nightmares again right okay yeah so have we have
we not spoken about my love for ramsay's kitchen nightmares specifically the youtube um uh like
compilations of him uh you know coming in kicking off, going in the fridge and stuff like that.
I've waxed lyrical before about how much I love Ramsay's Chris.
I may have been on abroad in Japan,
but one of my guilty pleasures is getting a bit of dinner,
going onto YouTube, and my algorithm will throw Chef Ramsay
popping into a Louisiana steakhouse and kicking the fuck out.
I'm only UK.
So for me, Ramsay is an amazing TV guy.
He's amazing to watch on TV, isn't he?
The charisma is unbelievable.
But I find the US version is just a bit too over the top.
And the way they edit and cut US TV reality shows,
I don't want to sound you
know as you well know i deeply deeply love the united states i've got a lot of family and friends
there but i don't like the way they cut reality shows and tv there because it to be honest it's
very very tv for dumb people and they just recap and recap and recap it's a style of reality tv in
the us which is just recap heavy and it puts me off and he also
goes way over the top in the u.s one for ratings and stuff but on the uk one is when he first
started it and you get the impression that at least for the first few seasons that he genuinely
does care about it and he wants to do something about it and and to me the dynamic of seeing the
young particularly younger chefs um really respect him and listen
to him and seeing him be so good at his job i just find it absolutely compelling he's he's so
good on tv it's amazing to watch yeah but i i like the american ones i like i like the the rare
occasions where i'll come into a joint and it'll go oh i quite like me this is quite a good recipe
for like a particular cake and i kind of have it. And it's lovely.
But no, I've always really enjoyed Kids' Nightmares.
But as I said, I prefer the American version
because I just like the way that I think the British people
give it back a little bit more.
But the Americans just sort of go,
ooh, Chef Ramsay knows what he's doing.
And I'm on the telly as well.
I respect it.
I find the hosts,
the people who own
the restaurants
a little bit more charismatic
in America.
Everyone in America
is brilliant on TV.
It's incredible.
You go to like a backwoods
part of a rural state
in the US
and interviewed them
because something's happened
on an interview with the news
and they are better
than some professional broadcasters
on this show included
on camera.
It always surprises me.
Always.
Yeah, but my favourite
thing is when Chef Ramsay goes into the
freezer and just finds some
really old sauce.
He goes, how old's this sauce? And they go, oh, I don't know, a few weeks. And they go, bullshit! And he gets really sauce. He goes, how old's this sauce? And they go,
oh, I don't know, a few weeks. And they go,
bullshit! And he gets really angry. He goes, this is
two years old, this sauce.
It's in the freezer, mate. Don't worry about it.
I also love it when
he says to them, when he goes
in there, this kitchen's fucking
filthy. When was the last time
you cleaned it? And the chef involved,
he just thinks it's
not getting any worse than this for me he just goes day before yesterday he goes fuck off fuck
off you couldn't even convince me that that was clean the day before yesterday mate i'm i'm a
human being with a house i know what it looks like when it's clean is it why is it why are they
saying that against what to one of the best chefs around?
Amazing.
And also, if you look at the great thing about the UK version as well,
is that it's a real snapshot of early 2000s life.
There's a lot of nostalgia about that to me.
Some of the clothes people are wearing, the cars they're driving,
the things they're doing, they put that on a mobile phone.
What mobile phone is it?
Oh, it's a Sony Ericsson.
Love that.
I've got a lot of time for that.
And anyone using an old mobile phone is all right by me.
It's a period of time though.
Probably from around 2000 to 2008 for me,
I'm interested in what mobile phone you've got.
Yeah.
I mean, what were the bangers for you?
I mean, I was strictly a Nokia kind of guy.
Flirted with a Sony Ericsson.
I found an old BlackBerry last week in an old trunk,
the old Donaldson trunk,
as we discussed on the Football Ramble last week.
Yeah, I found a very old BlackBerry,
but the lithium-ion battery was very bulbous,
so I was a little worried about what it was going to do.
I had a job not that long ago, and I'm not going to name the job or the company
because I don't want to embarrass them and myself,
where as part of the job, they gave me a BlackBerry,
and I worked there for four and a half years and i never worked
out how to use it i've never even i've never used it once i liked it i liked a blackberry i like the
track ball it used to have remember it was i had a little kind of track on the middle yeah
blackberry's had their moment in the sun i mean to answer your question i did not i had nokia
then i went to sony erics for a couple, but I tell you
the phone I always wanted but I never had?
The Motorola Razr.
Yeah, okay.
Well, that's back in a big way, isn't it?
You can indulge, yeah, to come back with
a smartphone. Now it's an
Android-based smartphone. You probably won't like
it because it's not original. I'm too scared to leave Apple
really. Do you remember the phone
way back before that?
I can't remember what it was called.
It might have been called the N70,
but it was the Matrix Nokia.
When you press the button, the thing flicks out.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That was good as well.
I mean, was that a tie-in?
Because that just reminds me of Matrix background.
It was around about the time that fascias
and also ringcias and also like
ringtones and stuff were very big the crazy frog etc yeah people i wonder because it doesn't want
someone we know know someone who made all the money off the crazy frog and he literally made
like millions of pounds i do sort of think with stories like that because the phrase crazy frog
was so ubiquitous and it's the sort of thing that dads would know about down the pub i do sort of think with stories like that, because the crazy frog was so ubiquitous and it's the sort of thing that dads would know about down the pub,
I do sort of think that it's a pretty good lie to tell
and it can be spread about quite easily about the crazy frog.
Yeah.
You've got to hand it to Crazy Frog, though,
because they took it to a lot of different places.
I'm talking like video games. I'm talking different places. I'm talking like video games.
I'm talking like songs.
I'm talking like ringtones.
It was probably some kind of TV show.
Wasn't it based in Scandinavia as well?
I mean, I don't know what the wider Marvel cinematic
Crazy Frog universe kind of had for us.
But yeah, I don't know where it came from.
I don't know where he went.
But yeah, I imagine there know where it came from. I don't know where he went. But yeah, I imagine
there was a couple of really low budget
PS2, PS1 titles
made about the Crazy Frog.
They also announced a new Crazy Frog album
in 2020. So look forward to that.
Oh, wow. Cool.
Maybe they'll want to spend a bit on podcast advertising.
We're a game.
We are a game.
How many singles
so far
do you reckon
the Crazy Frogs had
in the UK
yeah how many
if you want
you can answer it
in that way
how many singles
have they released
in the UK
three
the answer
is eight
eight
what
why are they doing that?
Eight singles.
Are they working?
Are people buying them?
Five top 20s.
I'll let you be the judge of that when I say they've had five top 20 hits.
Are they all written by the blokes who, Scooter?
Are they all written by Scooter?
Yeah, might be.
Because they just basically repositioned old kind of standards,
not standards, but like pop songs.
Listen to this, right?
In a rare style.
Listen to this.
One of them, yeah, which did actually chart in the UK
and peaked at number five in the chart was a Crazy Frog
double A-side version of Jingle Bells and MC Hammers
You Can't Touch This.
Look, again, but they've thrown good money after bad there
because they could have had, I presume, the Christmas part of it,
the Christmas song was, you know, you don't have to pay any tie
for using that, but certainly MC Hammer, you're putting him in there,
you're going to have to, you know, pay money for samples
and re-recordings of people's tracks.
I think it's foolish.
Write original tracks,
Crazy Frog. You'll make more money.
On the other hand, he is just a frog, though.
True. What does he need financially, really? Apart from a little
pond to swim around in.
Amphibious as well, so probably very popular
underwater as well.
Do a version of A Little Mermaid.
Do something like Under the Sea by
Little Mermaid. Do we know how many tracks he's released Sea by Little Mermaid. Do We Know How Many Traxies Released Underwater.
Some frogs can change sex as well,
so we can appeal to everyone.
Very political these days, but you can.
Exactly.
Exactly, yeah.
Tell you, I'm starting to see the potential now.
Can I be replaced by the crazy frog on the Luke and Crazy Frog Show?
I wonder how the weird type people have noticed.
We'll be back in a second. More Luke and Crazy Frog Show I wonder how the weird type people have noticed we'll be back in a that's rude, we'll be back in a second
with more Luke and Crazy Frog Show
It's the Luke and Crazy Frog Show
I'm Pete Donaldson, I'm joined by Luke Moore
if you want to get in touch with us as always, hello at
LukeandPeteShow.com, just a quick one from Simon Cornwall
from Nottingham, confusingly
alright chaps, just after the fleshlight chat
on the latest excellent episode of the Luke and
Pete Show, we, or at least I, got an advert for abroad in Japan featuring Diggory himself talking about Atenga.
How's lockdown going, Pete?
I don't know what Atenga is, you're going to have to tell me.
Atenga is just a Fleshlight and a Fleshlight is just a...
I think it was first featured on Eurotrash back in the 90s.
And I think it was invented by a Japanese man as an onanist's aid,
as one might describe it.
A male little silicon holy hole to put the winky-wink into.
It was designed by a man who was eating a pot noodle.
So there you go.
What?
As you can imagine, a man looked down into his pot noodle
and thought, that's warm, that's soft.
We'll probably need some time to cool the windows down.
Men are disgusting, aren't they?
They'll fuck anything, mate.
They'll fuck anything.
So you're talking about masturbatory aids on this show
and literally advertising them on this show,
on another show you're on.
Correct.
And we're not even in the pocket of Big Tenga either.
So, yeah.
No.
And on the back of that, we're not even being paid.
No, exactly.
But to be honest, if we were in the big pocket of Big Tenga,
we'd be covered in lube.
Because imagine keeping all your money in that.
I think somebody hilariously used a flashlight as like a little coin purse um i don't like it when you do that
little giggle when you're about to tell a story it's never anything less than a chilling portent
i'm just thinking of the image of a man in starbucks and he's trying to pay for his coffee
and he just he keeps on getting money out of his um what he's calling a little coin purse but it's not it's a flashlight uh and all of his coins
yes costing you uh yeah it was it was a it was a ruse it was a work and uh he was getting all
his money covered in lube out of a flesh yeah that is i mean that's like you know we shouldn't
name them because it'll be unfair but one of our colleagues has got a coin purse,
which is basically a pervert's coin purse.
It looks like Pac-Man front on, doesn't it?
You know what it looks like to me?
It looks like a large version.
Remember when we were kids, you'd have these little pieces of plastic
and you'd push them one way and leave them on the ground.
And when they popped, they would flip up in the air.
Like an eyelid, yeah.
It was like an eyelid that you could invert yeah it looked like one of those and i think what i mean presumably because he's like east london and quite trendy so presumably
that is fashionable to have one of those purses but i mean because i'm old and i can see from
outside the bubble i just think that looks ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Well, especially if you're, I mean,
I hate to slit the younger generation
for being short-termists,
but I mean, guys, we're going cashless.
In two years' time,
especially with this Corvair break,
we're going to be cashless within two years.
So to invest in coin purses now
is demented behavior, quite frankly.
Yeah, who's paying with coins these days?
Not me.
Who's paying with coins? And if
they are, get one of those little kind of
those little tiny coin
flasks you used to wear around your neck
when you were swimming. Oh yeah, only for pound
coins. They need to be resized because you get a new pound coin.
That's a good point.
Yeah, I remember that. Why were they always around
when you went swimming? I suppose because you could swim with them around
your neck. But I mean, if you're swimming in a swimming pool, you don't need them.
I think that was the design but I never wore them
going to Preston Park
or Flamingo Land
and stuff like that
again a reference
you're going to be hearing
on the Patreon episode
of the Wrestle Me
in a few weeks time
whenever I went swimming
I'm just recycling material
I was always allowed
to get a packet
of Monster Munch
and a Caramac afterwards
nice
Caramac
great choice
great choice mine was always just umpteen cans of Coke a packet of Monster Munch and a Caramac afterwards. Nice. Caramac. Great choice. Great choice.
Mine was always just umpteen cans of Coke,
but most importantly, an Iron Brew bar or some Highland Toffee.
And I'd generally have a pound with me,
which would, Highland Toffee for the small bars were five pence.
Big bars, 10 pence.
Can you imagine how much toffee I was consuming every weekend?
Can you imagine?
Terrible.
And I reckon I would be arguing that I was probably the first generation
of Hartley Pudlians who had like a pound's worth every single Saturday
to spend on sweets at a time when sweets were actually quite cheap.
So I think that must have lopped five years of my life,
eating all that sugar.
Yeah, I remember when I was a kid, me and my best mate Jimmy,
I'm still best mates with now,
we would walk to the shop at the bottom of our street
and for 50p you could get a drifter and a packet of soft mints.
Nice, a drifter.
And that's what we used to buy.
I don't know why we used to buy those two things like every time but we did drifter was like um advertised by like uh like a like a literal
drifter wasn't it he would come into like a um he was like a cool kind of disco daddy wasn't he do
you remember what it tasted like though p do you remember a drifter i remember it being like a
crap twirl it's like chewy and and uh and and it had mallow in it, I think. And it had like...
No, no,
because it was like
two little bars,
so like a Twix,
but it was wafer-y,
caramelly.
You probably still wire them.
Wafer-y, caramelly, yeah.
Yeah, I've not seen any
in a while.
I mean,
and I'm a man who last night
did indulge in
a packet of
pickled onion Monster Munch
and a caramel Galaxy.
So there you go.
That's not bad.
That's how I'm living my life.
By the way, Pete,
speaking of food,
do you want to hear an email
from one of our listeners, James,
who sent in a couple of animal facts
that I don't know are true
and I'm not sure if they possibly
even can be true.
Okey-dokey, bring it on.
But he's calling them facts
and so he's gone through
our rigorous checking process,
which is basically getting an email successfully to us.
It follows up that thing I was talking about
with those planaria worms a week or two ago.
James has emailed in saying,
hi guys, after your chat about worms,
here are my two favorite animal facts.
Now, if you're squeamish take this as fair warning
okay i was talking earlier wasn't i about how much i love animals and stuff um but i got a lot of
trouble a couple of years ago for talking about seeing a fox be decapitated once which i did
and there's nothing i can do about that i was just regaining the story it wasn't like i was
taking pleasure out of it i I didn't do it.
I just saw it happening.
But anyway, so this is kind of a similar thing,
but it's about very small creatures,
which are all God's creatures
and all worthy of their place on this planet.
But anyway, don't shoot the messenger is what I'm saying.
First animal fact.
Listen to this.
You can put a leech in a maze with a bit of blood at the end,
and once it finds the correct way of navigating through the maze,
it will remember it and always go straight to the blood.
If you then blend the leech and feed it to other leeches,
they will also know the way through the maze
because of a thing called chemical memory.
I don't think that's true i'm just number two
you said you think that's just a warm-up that's just a warm-up that one i think that's an
incredible shout and i imagine it's true but it's one of those things that i go now i've got no frame
of reference for how that would work so i'm not even gonna deal it's the sign of a confident
emailer it's like it's like if that's the author it's like
writing a song and starting it with a sax solo right like uh boy meets girl waiting for a starter
fall or careless whisper number two this is the this is the good stuff mate right you can remove
a newt's brain mince i mean you can yeah mince mince it, put it back,
and it will continue to function exactly the same.
Oh, shut the fuck up.
Block him.
Block him.
He's talking absolute shite.
Imagine the two scientists, Pete.
Right, so what are you doing?
I'm taking the brain out.
Okay.
What are you doing now?
Putting it back.
No point.
It's dead.
The newt's dead.
Steve, did you get a Nutribullet for Christmas?
Is this just your way of putting the tax rate off?
So, yeah, it's just broccoli and apple and a newt's brain.
What?
Yeah.
Mad.
I mean, wow. I james has had quite the weekend
yeah yeah i'm not buying that second one the first one was late yeah
the first one's similar to the one i was talking about a couple weeks ago chemical memory is like
a thing that's been observed um james does spend some portion of the email elsewhere talking about
alcoholics and special brew so and i'm not making that up he does actually include portion of the email elsewhere talking about alcoholics and special brew.
So I'm not making that up.
He does actually include that in the email.
So listen, the jury's out.
Use your own judgment.
If we can find someone who listens to the show,
knows about this kind of stuff,
a biologist or some kind of animal behaviorist or scientist,
that would be amazing.
But for now, there is someone in the shape of James who thinks you can mince a newt's brain
and put it back in the head and it'll carry on as normal.
As normal.
I mean, as normal is the biggest shout, I think.
Carry on as normal.
What was the newt doing before that, for crying out loud?
You can remove the crazy frog's brain, mince it, put it back,
and it'll still do a version of MC Hammers.
You can't touch this.
If anything, he's got crazier.
I'm going to wrap up the show, if that's all right with you,
with a quick one from Conor O'Hanlon.
And it's a quick one.
It's probably TK Maxx specific.
Americans do have TK Maxx, but it's called something else.
It's called TJ Maxx.
TJ Maxx.
Conor O'Hanlon, on subject of things you only see in movies,
I was reminded of clocks always being at 10 past 10. I worked at TK Maxx. Conor Hanlon, on subject of things you only see in movies, I was reminded of clocks always being at 10 past 10.
I worked at TK Maxx years ago,
and one day whilst tidying the home section,
I noticed that all of the clocks were set at 10 past 10.
I looked this up and found that clockmakers set clocks at this time
when they're being sold without a connected battery
because it is symmetrical and apparently pleasing to the human eye.
I started noticing in movies that clocks are frequently showing this time,
meaning that they must be bought for the scene in question
and stuck on the wall
regardless of what time
it actually is.
I started to see it
as a sign of careful
or at least not lazy directors
when a clock in a movie
actually displays a time
other than 10 past 10.
All the best, Connor.
Fantastic little nugget there.
I'm going to be watching out
for the next time I watch
any kind of recorded media.
Do you know what?
The reason I...
That's so weird because the reason I read that email
and the reason I thought that they were set at 10 past 10,
and this might be completely ridiculous
for a reason I haven't thought about,
is because 10 past 10 can be day or night, right?
So if you've got a night scene and the clock's there
and it says 10 past 10, that's fine.
Yeah. But if you look and it says 10 past 10, that's fine. Yeah.
But if you look and it says 10 past 10, it's day,
that's also fine.
There must be some times that that isn't fine, right?
Well, if it's 10 past 10 and it's light,
but the family are having breakfast,
you're like, what's going on there?
Why are they having breakfast so late?
Where's that bloke going?
Is he going to work?
Where's that woman going?
Is she going to work?
What's going on?
The kid's gone to school yet?
Why is this 10 past 10?
Do you know what I mean? Because if it said quarter past five and it was summer it wouldn't be dark either time would it it would be more
problematic no it would um interesting i would say that if you if you as a set dresser have invested
in a wide range of uh clocks uh on your own supply and you're not renting every time,
I think you might be in for a shot, sharp shot.
Because how many clocks have you got up in your house, Luke?
Clocks up on the wall or whatever.
None, none.
None, exactly.
No one, I would say the vast proportion of homes,
that is the truth.
Unless you're with all the parents, I would say.
Speaking of continuity,
that show I was talking about, Dark,
that takes place across loads of different timelines.
I mean, the continuity person for that must be an absolute genius.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I guess general time travel,
you're working from several different timelines, aren't you, really?
You've got to remember what's been done, what's not been done.
And also you're filming everything out of order as well.
Or maybe they just film everything in order.
Make it easier.
They can't, can they?
They can't go back to 1850 or whatever and start filming.
I don't know how far it goes back, Luke.
I've forgotten when you described it.
Something like that.
I can't remember.
People should know by now that if they listen to this,
you're going to spoil them.
So if I do it as well, it doesn't matter.
Exactly.
Anyway, let's get out of here, Peter.
Let's get back to the future.
We're back on Monday with more of this nonsense.
When it will be, I'm consulting my calendar, the 13th.
Ooh, lucky 13, or unlucky 13.
Where is this year going?
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