The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 105: Biting a kidney
Episode Date: October 8, 2018Welcome back to The Luke and Pete show, where your two eponymous antiheroes wait in situ to waste another 35 minutes of your time. It's tough work, but someone's got to do it. This time around, it's a... protein-heavy edition as Pete tucks into eggs and spinach while talking about diets.After that an actual real-life doctor gets in touch to discuss the best way to transport and transplant a kidney (clue: don't take a bite out of it), and then we get into the realms of Jurassic Park with a live orchestra, the absolute state of some of the things dinner ladies used to serve up to school kids, and a legend of The Luke and Pete Show finally gets in touch. Don't miss it!To tell us about the worst food you had served up at school, or indeed anything else for that matter: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com***Please take the time to rate and review us on iTunes 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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Welcome to the Luke and Pete Show
I am the Pete Bit
I'm joined by the Luke Bit
Alright
My Luke Bit on the side
That's me
Luke, I was wondering why the music was so loud in my headphones.
It's because I turned up my headphones really loud.
Okay, that's that mystery solved.
That's mystery solved, isn't it?
Call me Hercule Poirot.
I've changed my Twitter bio to Pete Donaldson's side bitch.
Yeah.
Because that's me, really, isn't it?
Exactly.
No one's successfully managed to ascertain whether you're my sidekick or I'm your sidekick.
I very much feel like your sidekick.
I think we're very much 50-50 in this relationship, to be honest.
It's depressing, isn't it?
It is a little bit, yeah.
Why are you wearing a hat in the studio?
It's gone from being very cool,
it's gone from being incredibly warm in the studio
to you wearing a woolly hat.
Well, a couple of reasons.
One is because it was a bit nippy this morning when I left the house.
And two, because I'm toying with the idea of growing my hair longer.
Oh, wow.
And I'm in that in-between stage at the moment.
In-between.
And my hair is, as you know, quite voluminous.
So are you going to do,
because your hair,
if it went any longer than your shoulders,
would be a bit poodle permy.
No, it doesn't.
It would be a bit Yannick Gers.
I'm very happy to hear that.
I'm very happy to be compared to that great man.
But when it goes longer,
it actually goes a little bit wavier.
It's not as curly.
It's not like a proper tight curl.
Not that.
But yeah, there you go.
So that's why I'm wearing the hat.
Mike, do you want to ask me why I'm eating eggs?
I know why you're eating eggs and spinach,
because you're eating an egg and spinach protein pot from Waitrose,
and I know exactly why,
because you're in one of those phases you sometimes get into where you're probably
going to the gym a bit more and you need protein.
That's basically the reason.
I just kind of wanted an egg but I saw the egg
and I thought, that looks nice. I don't eat enough
eggs. Who even says that?
But the egg looked like
pickled eggs. I was like, oh, that looks
nice. But I was remembering pickled eggs.
Yeah, they're really bland.
It's like
when you have cabbage for me if i have if someone offers me up cabbage i'm not bothered about it
shredded cabbage i'll have it on a roast dinner i'll i'll eat it i'll call up the texture but um
you've got to really dress up cabbage to make it interesting that's what i'm saying pickled red
cabbage is pickled red cabbage is up there. Normal green cabbage shredded.
I mean, it doesn't matter how much you season it.
It's so bland.
It absorbs.
It's like a black hole of flavour.
It just sucks everything in.
Exactly.
So you're not, what do people who go to the gym say?
You're not loading or cutting?
Carb loading.
I don't know what it means, no.
No, okay.
So you're one of those people who just goes down the gym,
just hits it hard and finishes.
Yeah, I don't think you should what's the little gifs you get
of people not doing
there was a man who
insisted I do
hi
my name's Steve
I'm making sure that
nobody goes on the gym floor
without a
a sweat towel
I was like
I don't understand sweat towels
because I don't
I mean I don't sweat
when I lift
because all I'm doing
when I lift
but all I do
is do the lifty thing
so I don't really sweat
you just go yeah and then leave like you don't leave any sweat behind really I lift, but all I do is do the lifty thing. So I don't really sweat. You just go, and then leave.
You don't leave any sweat behind, really, I don't think.
Some people do.
But do you rub the machines or do you rub yourself
to stop yourself sweating onto the machines?
That's what I don't understand.
Well, I think you would rub the machine when you're finished.
That's what I do, but I mean...
I mean, you're very much of the build of someone who's, you know,
you're like a vegetarian's toothpick, aren't you?
You're not like a big a big frame you know
as the japanese might say what does that mean toothpick yeah okay right good stuff well recently
on the luke and pete show we have talked about just giving people a bit of a an update a bit
bring them up to speed jack johnson first black heavyweight champion of the world oh yes legendary
athlete incredible man Great guitarist.
Great singer. Great performer.
Reincarnated as a quite middle of the
road singer-songwriter.
Is that the one that goes
We're no much better when we're together?
I can imagine the original Jack Johnson being sickened.
Absolutely sickened by that, that namesake.
Anyway, a bit of him.
A man who got stuck in a toilet block in Croatia.
Oh, yeah.
We haven't heard back from him.
He is hopefully well.
A man who was hit in the face by a seal carrying an octopus.
Brilliant.
That still lives long in the memory.
They were the three highlights for me.
I don't know about you, Peter.
I've been re-watching that man fall, like sliding in a full football kit,
sliding down the centre of a escalator on the London Tube.
Enjoyable, yeah.
I sort of stopped looking at it for a bit and then I've started again.
It's just, it's got everything for me, to be honest.
It's got a man getting hit in the balls with a triangle.
A metal triangle.
A metal triangle like that.
And then him bouncing.
But all the while, his face sort of showing some real puzzling qualities, I think.
He's like, genuinely, how has this happened to me?
Why will it not stop?
Yeah.
And he's very much brought it upon himself i think drink had been
taken do you reckon i think so yeah i did i must admit i did slide down the center of an escalator
once in prague when i was for the joys of spring and uh genuinely quite fun yeah so i recommend it
unless there's obstacles in the way which that man very much experienced the detail of the escalator
guy you're referring to there the detail i enjoyed the most and sometimes with these types of videos
which fly around the internet it's the little devil
in the detail
that's nice
the best thing for that
for me
is I think he's in a football kit
as in he's been playing football
so to me
that says
I've been out
playing five a side
I've sweated a lot
yeah
I've had a few beers
and that session
has overrun
and now I'm drunk
didn't plan to
next thing I know
I'm on my arse
on the escalator
I can't remember the last time
I was wearing a full kit
you were wearing a
full kit yesterday
no but after taking
alcohol
after a football
match effectively
I was in my gym
gear yesterday
I wasn't in a
football kit
if you don't mind
me saying Pete
and this may be
stepping outside
of the bounds
of our relationship
but you are not
someone who likes
to go to the pub
after football
because I think
you find it too
manly
yeah I do I think unless you're too manly. Yeah, I do.
I think unless you're having a proper session.
Whereas for me, it's the only reason I play football.
Unless you're having a proper session, there's bloody no point.
I think you're one of those people who likes to,
and this show is partly me psychoanalyzing you,
and I make no apology for that.
You know, that Blooming podcast is getting all depressed at the moment.
Where should we begin?
I'm talking about therapy.
I've been doing this for you for over a year I've been doing this,
and no one's given me any credit for it
I'm on a shit long you Wes
yes I'm not qualified
I'm having a lie down
but I think
you're one of those people
Pete that has to plan
a session in advance
yeah
you can't spontaneously do it
no
you want to be in control
don't you
drinking in the day
because that's when
it would usually start happening
it would start happening
at about 5 o'clock
it's too early
it's too early
5 is late that's late too early my favourite thing. It would start happening at about five o'clock. It's too early. It's too early. Five is late.
That's late.
Too early.
My favourite thing to do,
well, not my favourite thing to do,
because that would be depressing.
My favourite thing to do is spend time with my lovely wife.
One of my other favourite things to do.
Does she listen?
Just in case she does.
One of my other favourite things to do
is to meet some pals on perhaps a rainy Sunday
for a Sunday lunch in a nice pub
and just tie one on.
Just stay there. Tie one on?
What does that mean? Where's that come from do you reckon?
It just means to carry on. Give it a Google.
Carry on boozing.
Just before we move on because we were talking a second ago
about eggs and protein and I suppose
in a weird way diet. You and I
were having a conversation about dieting and diets
before we came on weren't we? Were we?
Oh yes we were. Yeah fad diets and stuff.
Someone once told me,
and I am someone,
I said to you earlier,
who has probably cumulatively,
although that is quite a hard word
for me to say clearly,
cumulatively,
probably put on
and lost 15 stone
in my entire life
because I fluctuate
quite wildly.
And a piece of advice
I was given,
and I understand
there's people out there with medical problems
and reasons why they've got different weight issues.
I get that.
But I'm just generally speaking,
and I'm speaking to someone who is one of those people,
every single diet ever invented can be superseded by the four words,
move more, eat less.
If you keep that in your mind, you'll be fine.
My M1.
And the reason I'm saying that is because it annoys me
when I flick on a
news website or open a newspaper at the Metro
or something, which is a rag, by the way,
and it says, oh, new miracle diet
by Gwyneth Paltrow. It's all bollocks.
It's absolute bollocks. I'm married to a
scientist. I know people who work
in this area, and it's all nonsense.
And this is a fat guy saying that. So if I can admit it,
you guys can admit it as well.
Well, yeah, exactly. I mean, I don't know why I'm not losing weight, except I do,
because I eat very sensibly Monday through Thursday.
And then Friday and Saturday, I drink heavily.
And not just, you know, not a nice clear alcohol,
which again still has a lot of calories in it.
The Pete Donaldson diet.
Very much stellar.
Very much stellar, I drink.
Are you really getting into Stella?
I just like a fizzy lager.
It doesn't fuck about.
Yeah, but it doesn't have to be Stella.
Stella to me is far too...
It's got a very, very strong flavour, Stella.
No, I think it's just really fizzy
and just kind of aggressive.
You wouldn't have a pale ale, no?
That's fizzy and cold.
No.
No, is it even fizzy, pale ale?
Yeah, a lot of them are, yeah.
Camden Pale Ale is a delicious drop.
A delicious drop a delicious drop
the second night
I'll go for an IPA
because it's a lot
harder to drink
yeah okay right
so it forces you
to not drink as much
yeah exactly
I'm getting the edge
where I find it
very difficult to drink
on the second day
it's very upsetting
I don't know how I do it
I reached that
particularly dubious
milestone quite a while ago
and just to find
on that point
when I put on weight I never not know why I'm doing it yeah exactly I reached that particularly dubious milestone quite a while ago. And just to find on that point,
when I put on weight,
I never not know why I'm doing it.
Yeah, exactly.
If I stop running,
my form of exercise I like to do is to run.
I genuinely enjoy it.
I know a lot of people think it's boring,
but I find it quite enjoyable.
If I don't do it and I eat whatever I want,
I put on weight.
And my only fitness I have,
it's not even fitness it's just
I go in and lift some weights
that's not going to make you lose weight
is it
I'm not going to suddenly go
oh I've suddenly got abs
because I've been lifting
well it's clearly
that's not going to happen is it
you're quite ripped though
you've got to
you've got to
not on my stomach
I've become more
triangular
over the last few months
I quite enjoy it though
I fit it into my routine
if I don't do it
I genuinely feel a bit a bit antsy that's good that's important I think I'm quite envious of the last few months. I quite enjoy it though. I fit it into my routine. If I don't do it, I genuinely feel a bit antsy.
That's good.
That's important, I think.
I'm quite envious of the situation
you've articulated there,
which is that Monday to Thursday
you find it quite easy
to do the right things,
but the weekend,
that's a fairly common thing.
For me, it's a different one.
Mine is from breakfast time
around to about six o'clock i can make all the best dietary
decisions i'll have i'll have my favorite breakfast to have will be like a porridge with some fruit
and stuff i'll eat a healthy lunch and then a lot of time i'll have quite a healthy dinner as well
the problem is the dinner i have way too much of it because i'm really hungry by that point yeah
and after that i just put a load of sweets in my mouth i think also I think also I think you but yeah
I mean that was my big thing
every time I've eaten
something savoury
I've always gone for
something sweet afterwards
which is always a disaster
and then you have
something savoury again
and then something sweet again
but like in the evenings
I guess
because you
I guess cook at home
I mean as I've said before
I use my oven as storage
yeah
what's in your oven
at the moment
just some trays
just some metal trays.
I mean, they belong in there.
Bag of cement gone hard.
I've got to get rid of a fucking desk, Luke.
I bought about seven years ago.
I had a little office.
I've seen it.
It's a nice desk.
And I bought myself a nice kind of 1950s, 1960s kind of Swedish,
quite expensive sort of desk.
It was originally like a dresser sort of desk. It was originally
like a dresser
sort of thing.
Aren't you trying to
sell it to
Cameraman Sam?
No.
You sent a message
the other day
with me copied in
saying to
Cameraman Sam
here's my desk.
Yeah.
Now I was just upset
that I have to sell it
because I'm quite sad
about it and I really
like it.
Because I had a little
and I bought like a
really 70s kind of
office chair.
But the problem is
I've upgraded to one of those kind of big sort of gamers chairs, really soft. I like the one I bought like a really 70s kind of office chair but the problem is I've upgraded
to one of those
kind of big
sort of gamers chairs
really soft
like the one
I'm sat in really
a really soft
kind of supported
just because I used
to spend a lot of time
on that computer
editing fucking podcasts
so
well get an editing chair
not a gamers chair
well it's the same
it's just a soft chair
isn't it
for idiots
with a high back and I'm sat there and I can't get, it's the same thing. It's just a soft chair, isn't it, for idiots, with a high back.
And I'm sat there, and I can't get,
because it's a bit bigger than my other chair,
my 70s business chair,
I can't get it underneath the table properly.
So now I'm having to get rid of my nice Swedish chair.
You don't need to do that.
You mean your desk?
You don't need to do that.
Sorry, yes.
You don't need to do that.
Just build the desk up on some books.
No, it won't fit. There's a very small alcove for me to do that. Sorry, yes. You don't need to do that. Just build the desk up on some books. No, it won't fit.
There's a very small alcove for me to move into.
It's a width issue, not a height issue.
In which case, yeah.
Oh, the chair's adjustable.
It makes a gamer's chair.
Does it vibrate?
Oh, we should get one each
and we can be like Ross and Joey and Friends.
Joey and Chandler and Friends.
Oh, man.
Never mind.
There we go.
Very quickly before we move on
to the interesting part of the show,
for those of you who are still listening.
What?
That's not in the fucking plan.
I went to go and see Jurassic Park
with a live orchestra last week.
Oh, nice.
Okay.
Yeah.
Very good.
A lot of seats yet to book out, I imagine.
Yeah.
It was good.
What are we talking about?
Because you go to the live orchestra.
I get it.
Yeah, but I mean, come on.
I didn't book tickets for all of them.
Did they have a spare chair for the cellos?
As I said to you on... Did I say to you on the mean come on I didn't book tickets for all of them did they have a spare chair for the cellos as I said to you on
did I say to you
on the ramble
or did I just say to you
in person
I went to go and see
the Czech National Symphony
last week
with Joseph Park
it was really fun though
it was a really good idea
and it was beautifully executed
the conductor
had this lap
so they play
they play the movie
up on the big screen
and they subtitle the film
so you can still see that so you don't have like a violin playing sam neill's um vocal yeah yeah
yeah that wasn't a violin what was it yeah that was again a little bit they do move in hearts have you seen Jurassic Park
life finds a way
and they show the film
up on the big screen
with subtitles
and they have an orchestra
obviously in the orchestra pit
below it
and the orchestra
are facing away
from the film
but the conductor
is facing to the film
obviously
and he's got a laptop
on his desk
in front of him
and I could see his laptop from where I was sat,
and the film that he was watching on his laptop
had like a timing bar go across it like that,
like the audio here.
Like DDR, Dance Dance Revolution.
Yeah, based on that.
And so, but the thing is, right, if you think about it,
so, okay, the film starts, and they play the opening credits,
easy, right? It's a sound mix, so, okay, the film starts and they play the opening credits, easy, right?
It's a sound mix as nightmare.
Exactly, Peter.
I thought you'd be really fascinated by it
purely because
the example I'm going to give
I think is a fascinating one.
So they play the opening credits,
that's easy
because the conductor
just brings them in,
keeps them in time,
does all his usual thing
and it ends when it's supposed to end.
But,
given that they're responsible
for every piece of music in the film,
the bits in movies that make you jump, it's the sound that makes you jump, every piece of music in the film the bits in
movies that make you jump yeah it's the sound that makes you jump right yeah it's not the vision
people think it's the vision but it's not when i was at uni we did a thing on that in one of my film
modules where we watched a horror film without any sound it's not scary yeah it doesn't make
any difference you're just watching some weird shit on the screen it's the it's the atmosphere
that makes you scared so they're responsible for the atmosphere and there's a bit in,
well, there's several parts
of the movie where,
I don't know,
when a dinosaur jumps
into the scene
or something pops
through a piece of glass
or whatever.
How the hell do you do
the timing on that?
It was perfect.
Absolutely perfect
and the violins
that are responsible
for the high-pitched stuff,
they're not even
facing the screen.
But it was still perfect.
I was honestly so impressed
and at one point
for about half an hour
because I had an intermission
so the whole thing
was just over two hours
I think
at one point
for about half an hour
I forgot the orchestra
was there
I was just watching the film
wonderful
yeah it was brilliant
it was really good
Royal Albert Hall
it was fantastic
a mate had to
well he didn't have to
it was an idea
that he had
he put on
the London Palladium
the music of Skyrim, I think it was.
Right.
The video game Skyrim.
Basically, he got...
Just like your video game chair.
He got a...
He only fit 100 people in there because of all these massive chairs.
He got an orchestra.
I can't remember where they were from.
They might have been Czech, actually.
Anyway, they came over and performed.
They'd been sent the music beforehand, obviously.
But their first rehearsal was on the day of this music,
which is incredible, just being that talented
that you just know timing, what to do,
and know how to play it together.
That's how you want to do live ramble shows.
You don't want to rehearse.
Fuck that.
Fuck that noise.
You're not as talented as them.
Yeah, good point.
Should we hear from people
Who are more talented than us
After the break
Yeah let's take a break
And then realise
That the other
Essential ingredient
Is a scotch bonnet
That is
Keith
Chief Keith
Chief Keith
He got in touch
Oh yes
Didn't he
So hello at
Lukeandpetecher.com
If you want to get in touch
And make a contribution
We'd always be happy
To hear from you
Legendary YouTuber Keith Cooks Or Keith Cooks Keith Cooks So hello at LukeandPetra.com if you want to get in touch and make a contribution. We'd always be happy to hear from you.
Legendary YouTuber Keith Cooks, or Keith Cooks, isn't it? Keith Cooks.
Yeah.
Heard about you waxing lyrical about his YouTube channel.
Just give people a sentence or two about who Keith Cooks is.
Adorable man, looks a little bit like the Colonel Cooks.
Good old-fashioned British food, including a long egg, notably.
Yes, and so he's got in touch.
Using a waste pipe.
Yeah, yeah.
So the long egg is a legendary part
of the Luke and Pete show, Pantheon,
so go back and check it out if you haven't already.
Keith himself actually got in touch.
Is it fair to say, Pete,
when I told you that Keith had got in touch,
you shit yourself a little bit?
Oh, massively, yeah.
I thought he was going to hit me around the head
with a waste pipe.
Because you thought I've been mean about him.
After a couple of IPAs.
You thought,
I've taken the piss out of the guy.
I don't take the piss out of the guy.
Well, no, I think I treated him,
and I think we both did treat him
and his oeuvre with a lot of love.
Because I think he makes me smile.
Oh, somebody backtracking.
I smell some backtracking.
Did not.
Did not.
I said he was quite adorable. I smell some backtracking. Did not. Did not.
I said he was quite adorable.
I'd say he was
nervous.
It's quite a
nervous presentational
style like we all
have.
How many nervous
presenters do you
see around here?
Only one?
This is your
Jim White this.
Like when I slagged
off Jim White
and I had to go
and work with him.
I had to front up
about it.
You put it in a
book.
That's even worse. I fronted up about it and Jim was absolutely a complete gentleman about it. He I had to front up about it. You put it in a book. That's even worse.
I fronted up about it
and Jim was absolutely
a complete gentleman about it.
He was like,
don't worry about it.
This sort of thing happens.
Forget about it.
Don't worry about it.
It's fine.
He made me
the smallest man in the world
by being the biggest man
in the world himself.
He fronted you with a yellow tie.
Anyway, Keith Cooks.
Why did you even admit that?
What do you mean?
Only admit something
when they found out about it.
Well, that's not a way
to live your life, is it?
You've got to own the narrative.
Own the narrative.
If you and I run the country, you're Prime Minister,
I'm your Malcolm Tucker, and I say,
tomorrow morning, there's a chance someone's going to find out
about you with those gaming chairs,
you've got to come out and make a statement.
You've got to own it.
No, but I only think you brought this up because a couple of people
tweeted you and CC'd'd him in and i
hate when people do that because it's proper telltale tit your tongue will split and all little
doggies will have a bit they're gonna do a lot more of it now anyway back to keith cooks he says
he finally got in touch emailed he must have heard about the show someone must have done exactly what
you said there yeah telltale tit your tongue will split yeah and all little doggies will have a
little bit yeah uh he says hello ch, somebody just told me about your podcast.
Ominous start.
Yeah.
You know the one,
episode 100.
It wasn't episode 100,
was it?
It was,
because remember,
we revisited all of the old topics.
Great,
okay.
I'm not going to tell him where the old one is.
Okay.
Many thanks for featuring the bloody long egg
and saying some nice things about me.
I'll give you a shout out in my next video.
Hey.
And I'll be more than happy to chat to you
in a future podcast if you like.
By the way, what's the best way to link to your podcast or do you have a youtube channel
a youtube channel cheers nervously incompetently eccentrically endearingly keith bs i've actually
done over 350 videos to search harder pete now that implies to me that keith cooks is going to
do a video featuring us yes now i mean how would i check that just go to his youtube channel i guess
he'll probably just say and hello to the viewers of,
of listeners of the Luke and Pitch Up.
I mean, he assumes that we've got a YouTube channel.
That guy's such a teenager, honestly.
God.
Yeah.
God, have you got a YouTube channel?
No.
We're on school.
We're podcasts.
How do you feel about him actually knowing about it?
He's actually got quite a lot of subscribers now, by the way.
Yeah, I know.
He's always had quite a lot of subscribers.
That's how I found him.
Actually, I think I might have
found him on Boing Boing
because he's sort of doing
this long egg thing.
You found that out
around the same time
you found that YouTube channel
of a guy who hasn't got
that many subscribers
who spends all his time
eating old war rations,
which for me was very unlucky
to miss out on the top five
because I love that.
Eating a hard tack.
He ate a US Civil War biscuit.
Yeah, incredible.
It was just like
eating a mothball apparently
because it's just old carbon.
Yeah, I bet it would have been
in some sort of state.
So yeah, that was the first.
It was only fair
that we opened the email section
with that.
Oh, good old Keith.
I would really like to do
an email from...
We will have to get Keith
on the phone
and have a little chat.
All right, yeah, sounds good.
At some point we will.
I want to do an email
from Dr. Robert Tyler. Uh-oh, it's a doctor yeah now trouble last week or the week
before um i forget now we talked about um pilot gav yes pilot gav is the new pilot neil although
we've got a fleet we've got a fleet of airlines we've got a couple of pilots now the airline is
getting closer to fruition.
And he talked about, as Pilot Neil famously talked about,
transporting cocaine for a court case.
Cocaina.
Cocaina.
Pilot Gav talked about transporting a kidney for transplant from, I think, London to Glasgow or something like that.
And we, Pete, you were on brand.
I asked a lot of pointless questions.
We were both on brand.
I asked a lot of pointless questions we were both on brand I asked a lot of pointless
probably quite boring questions
and you asked
and you asked
if you could eat it
or something
no how much trouble
would you get in
if you just chomped a bit of it
well allow
allow Dr. Robert Tyler
to pick up the story
he says
dear Luke and Pete
I've been a regular listener
for a while now
I listened with great interest
to your conversation
about the pilot
with the transplant kidney on board
and the resulting
shambolic medical discussions
that followed.
Yeah,
neither of us went to medical school.
Is he going to have a go at me
buying antibiotics off the internet
from Pakistan?
He doesn't mention that,
really.
You didn't use them anyway,
did you?
No, I didn't.
He says,
I have now finished a year of research,
but I've been training
to be a surgeon
for the last four years. Hot dog. And just completed a year of research, but I've been training to be a surgeon for the last four years.
Hot dog.
And just completed a year of renal transplant.
I feel relatively well-placed to contribute to this discussion, both in a jovial and slightly more serious manner.
I mean, just a little bit.
A whole year of replacing.
But before I go into this, Pete, he signs himself off as Dr. Robert Tyler.
But I think when you become a surgeon, you become Mr., don't you?
Oh, do you?
Yeah.
Now, Dr. Robert Tyler can pull me up on this, but I think when you become a surgeon, you become Mr., don't you? Oh, do you? Yeah, now, I think Dr. Robert Tyler can pull me up on this,
but I think I'm right in saying, and the reason I know this
is because my granddad had quite a serious piece of surgery
a few years ago, and the doctor was called Mr.
And he asked me to go along because my nan's passed away now,
so he said, will you come along with me and just go to the consultant?
And I said, yeah.
And I asked the guy why surgeons are called Mr. and not doctor.
Should you not be concentrating on your granddad's health?
I said, we'll do it in a minute.
Get out of the way in a minute.
But just very quickly, I have a few questions.
And he said to me something along the lines of,
and I hope I don't do him a disservice here,
that I think way back in the day,
surgery was considered quite cavalier and quite cowboy.
And it was so unspecific and unscientific it didn't really work so they wouldn't would obviously didn't work
as often as it does now if you know what i mean because they weren't as good and also it's
incredibly risky yeah so they were the kinds of medicine yeah and i don't think they wanted them
to be seen as actual doctors so traditionally i've always been called mr which is a shame because
mr you go through a heart transplant. You go through years and years
of becoming a doctor
and if you want to
choose to go down
the surgery route
you lose it.
Anyway
back to Dr. Robert Tyler
he says
number one
if Pete did decide
to bite the kidney
Hannibal Lecter style
it may not be
transplantable
oh sorry
it may not be
untransplantable
but it would certainly
put a fly on the ointment.
Kidneys sometimes have biopsies pre-transplantation and these need stitching up to stop them oh sorry it may not be untransplantable but it would certainly put a fly on the ointment kidneys sometimes
have biopsies
pre-transplantation
and these need
stitching up
to stop them
bleeding heavily
a nibble would
probably be salvageable
but a bite wouldn't
and lead this to say
can you please
never do this
I just enjoyed
the dynamic of
like the core pilot
going over the box
behind the pilot
and just nibbling on it
like whilst
maintaining eye contact
with the pilot and like and if I was the pilot I'd be like on it like whilst maintaining eye contact with the pilot
and like and if i was the pilot i'd be like what else will he do you really are a disgusting man
what else will he do number two do you remember that it was very clearly pointed out by pilot gav
that the kidney was a left kidney now according to dr robert tyler left kidneys have a longer
renal vein as it needs to cross the midline of the body
to join the inferior vena cava,
the biggest boat vein in the body.
So surgeons prefer these
because they have a bit of a stretch, so to speak.
Right.
So they will always go for a left kidney.
Bit of slack.
And number three,
the opt-out program is a good idea
in terms of donation of organs.
However, you should still tell your loved ones
you wish your organs to be donated
as when faced with the situation,
a lot of potential kidneys are not transplanted
due to family wishes
as they have,
in quotes,
never had the discussion.
Kind regards,
Dr. Tyler.
If any of my family
are listening to this,
I would like to donate
my organs if something
bad happens to me
and I'm sure you would
like to do the same thing,
Peter.
You can have half of them.
The rest I'm going to
feed as awful to dogs.
If Pete does declare now
that he would like
to donate his kidneys,
I would just say to everyone listening, tread carefully.
Don't tread on them.
My mum and dad were going to be, they signed up to a situation,
a program to get their bodies donated to Newcastle University.
But then for whatever reason, it was going to be a bit of a fart on.
I mean, not for them.
Let's make that very clear.
They'll be dead.
So they've given up on the idea.
And it's like...
What do you mean by that?
I don't know, but there was some kerfuffle.
In the same manner that they're really scared
that clearing out the loft might be a bit too much of a pain.
Apparently getting a body,
getting their bodies up to Newcastle University
would be too much trouble for us,
so they've given up on it.
It's such a bad end.
What do you make of those people
who had themselves cryogenically frozen
in the hope that in the future
they'll be able to be reanimated?
I mean, it's probably not the worst idea in the world.
Don't you think it seems like a colossal waste of time,
even though technology's moved on to such an extent?
I think it frees sperm, sperm, can't it?
It frees eggs, eggs.
Why not freeze a body?
Well, it's different.
What do you mean?
You freeze it whatever you want.
But it's not...
I mean, you freeze something that small
and that's sort of microscopic.
It's different to freezing an entire body.
Yeah, I know.
I realise that, but...
That's the problem I have with it.
The beef I had with that guy...
Do you remember that sort of...
I think he's Italian.
I forget his name.
Quite a sort of cavalier um pioneering um surgeon who declared
that he was going to become the first surgeon to do a head transplant yeah is he pioneering or just
a bit fucking mad why are they mutually exclusive but my issue with it is how it was reported it's
not it's not a head it's a body. The head supersedes the body in this.
Does it?
If it's a transplant
like that,
it's a body transplant.
Nah, look at the percentages.
You're more body
than head, aren't you?
Yeah, but the head's
more important.
No, I'd say
the circulatory system
where the heart is
is probably more important.
You can live
with a fake heart.
You can't live
with a fake brain.
Actually, I'm starting
to reconsider that.
I'm starting to reconsider that.
I'm starting to reconsider that. Pointing at the old noggin.
Yeah.
But it was,
it was a really macabre
and quite fascinating story
in a bleak way
because other doctors came out
almost enraged and said,
because it was,
it was actually quite a sort of
touching
and,
and in a way upsetting story
because this guy had a degenerative disease.
He knew he was going to pass away and he was losing bodily function every year
or whatever.
And he said that I'd,
I'd be happy to volunteer for this.
And,
and what was fascinating about it was some other doctors,
like very learned people with experience in this sort of area was saying,
don't do it because it,
it could be like a fate worse than death.
You could be living,
you could be essentially a living hell.
Yeah.
Your brain might completely reject it.
You know,
all this,
all this awful horror film type stuff
came out.
So I don't know
if they shelved the plans
or whether it's ever
going to take place.
The patient was,
yeah,
the doctor I'm fairly certain
was Italian.
But anyway,
on to more sort of
trivial and frivolous matters.
Did you say that
I was looking at,
I wasn't looking at,
but I ran into
the death photos
of that German cannibal.
Do you remember the German cannibal who advertised for a body?
At his penis.
Actually made the penis, tried to make the man eat his penis.
The man wanted to taste his own penis.
Don't we all?
Don't we all, guys?
And he cooked it and he fed it to him and he was just too chewy.
So he decided.
I overcooked it didn't I
yeah you overcooked it
you got one shot at that guys
yeah
come on
what were you reading about it
it was just loads of pictures
of him chopping up the body
and going look at this
and sort of
right
yeah
quite graphic
right okay
what was that
what website was that on
I don't know
I don't think we need to know do we
you just sort of walk into these things
don't you
don't spend all your time
on the dark web
no use the normal website I shot Sam one man one job last week I know you did no one wants to see it I don't think we need to know, do we? You just sort of walk into these things, don't you? Don't spend all your time on the dark web.
Use the normal web sometimes. I've got Sam, one man, on chat last week.
I know you did.
No one wants to see it.
He was very upset.
Stop poisoning minds.
Stop poisoning minds.
If you can't watch a man fishing joylessly
and rather businesslike, fishing out shards of glass
from his own anus, his own bleeding anus,
we're just full of guts.
We're just a bag of meat.
I think it gives you more hope for the future.
It makes you want to seize the day
when you see people doing stupid shit.
So at the risk of getting high-minded here,
and I'm sure people aren't listening for this reason,
but if you'll indulge me very quickly,
I think that cuts to the very core,
if you'll excuse the pun,
of your mindset and my mindset.
You've said to me
often before
that oh yeah
sometimes I'll watch
these videos
no no
that makes it sound
like I'm a fucking deviant
it means
but I'm not averse
if I see something
I don't go
oh my god
it's disgusting
oh my god
like it's just life
we're just mate
don't worry about it
I don't hunt them out
like a deviant
but if I walk into them, I'm like,
we think the lady does protest too much.
But no, that wasn't going to be my point anyway.
I'm releasing a DVD.
My point was going to be that you appear,
in seeing these graphic videos or these graphic events,
you appear quite genuinely to take solace from that.
We're just meat and bones.
It reminds me to stay grounded. We're just human beings. We're animals. We're just meat and bones. It reminds me to stay grounded.
We're just human beings.
We're animals.
Be nice to each other.
For me,
I guess it probably says more about me
than it does you
in terms of the size of my ego.
But I like to avoid that stuff
precisely because I don't like
to be reminded of that.
I prefer to think that human beings
are amazing and interesting
and more than that
and more than just meat and bones
and that kind of stuff.
Whether that be true or not, I'm just saying it's a different point of view, isn't it?
But at some point you go from being that kind of the id dies, the ego dies,
and at some point, bang, you're just meat.
You're just meat that is starting to, I mean, you're just dying.
You're just dying.
Shall we do an email about school dinners?
From Carl.
I was thinking about scraps of school dinners from Carl I was thinking about scraps
yes this is about
that
the reason I'm
doing all the
emails for those
of you who are
probably going to
complain about me
talking too much
which is the
biggest complaint
I get on the
podcast I'm on
is because Pete
hasn't done any
work
I've literally
started the emails
I'm going to write
out you fucking
prick
you normally do
printouts
where are your
printouts today
they're on my
phone
why waste paper
why get paper
involved in this
we're just
meat and bones digital Donaldson trees and paper I Why get paper involved in this? We're just meat and bones.
Digital Donaldson.
Trees and paper.
I'm going to do this email
and you're going to finish with an email.
This is from Carl.
Hey fellas,
Pete's recent chat
about his school serving up scraps
reminded me of an equally unhealthy story
from my primary school.
Now this is completely identifiable,
relatable,
but also horrific.
During break,
a tuck shop,
this is during break, it's not breakfast or lunch, it During break, a tuck shop... This is during break.
It's not breakfast or lunch.
It's break.
A tuck shop would serve sausage and bacon sandwiches
for 50p a time.
That's a deal, that.
Yeah, that is a deal.
These were understandably popular
and would often run out
a mere 10 minutes into break time.
So you've got to get there early for that at your school.
The dinner lady often had spare bread left over, though,
after the pork delights were gone,
and for just 20p would wipe up the excess bacon and sausage grease
using a slice of white bread and serve it up to us.
You know what?
That's resourceful.
We had this three to four times a week,
and we're somehow still alive.
Jamie Oliver would burst a blood vessel.
Oh, it's like when your nan used to cook with lard.
It's like, oh, jeez.
Bread and dripping used to be a thing, didn't it?
Yeah, bread and dripping.
Yeah.
Disgusting.
Does it make you wonder about all this stuff?
Because we are bombarded now with sort of information,
which a lot of it, as you and I know,
because we work in the media, is PR-led stuff.
About, you know, just one square of dark chocolate a day
will avoid your risk of heart attack.
Or, you know, the Daily Mail,
the Daily Express every five minutes.
Glass of wine.
Yeah.
Glass of wine's cancerous.
Glass of wine's not cancerous.
Everything's cancerous.
Everything's not cancerous.
Everything is very sort of negligible,
the effect though, right?
Yeah, massively.
Because I sort of think,
because I always sort of think like,
if I don't beat myself up,
the people who sort of beat themselves up about eating the wrong thing
or eating, like, a bad meal or something,
like, you didn't lose weight when you ate a good meal.
You didn't lose weight immediately because you ate a fucking salad
and went on about eating a fucking salad.
Like, so you're not going to suddenly put on, like, loads of weight
by eating a bad meal.
It's cumulative, isn't it?
It takes a long time.
And we're so, I don don't know we're so sort of
duty bound
to have everything
immediately
and have everything
kind of on a plate
so to speak
move more eat less
move more eat less
that's the message
tough love
from the Luke and Pete show
do an email before we go
otherwise it's going to be all me
just a quick one
from Alistair Dinewell
hello chaps
delighted to hear
a reference to
West Yorkshire's
finest Seabrook crisps in this
week's show. And I just thought I'd share the
cack-handed naming process for them.
Created by Charles Brook in 1945,
he wanted to call them Seabrooks
crisps, as in his initial
Charles. But someone at the
print shop wrote it down as Seabrooks and he was stuck with the name
on all his new packaging, so he kept the name.
Reading back there is actually quite very dull.
Actually pretty dull. Thank you Alistair for that rather underwhelming end to the show
never let something dull get in the way of our show see brooks see brooks i love it that's the
uh the reason i like that is because that's like 70 odd years ago that story that is the old school
equivalent of um a pr saying to a professional athlete just type something like on it's Twitter and they just copy and paste it
so the tweet actually says just write something like
had a great games day
just write something like this had a great game hashtag
the lads
hashtag bouncing back
good stuff alright Pete let's get out of here we'll be back
later in the week
see you later cunts
for goodness sake Peter
I'll be taking you to get a fresh kidney now.
Oh, bye.
And a fresh tongue, potty mouth. Bye.