The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 194: Is that a real man?
Episode Date: August 15, 2019If you're have a tough old week at work, don't worry, you're nearly there now. It's Thursday, and Luke and Pete have got your back for another half an hour or so. Kick back and relax listening to tale...s of a dolphin playing keepie-ups with a jellyfish, the price Pete would want for his different body parts, and the week our two eponymous heroes spent in bed together in Johannesburg back in 2010.And if that isn't enough to whet your whistle, we also hear of a man currently working inside the Department for Exiting the European Union. Could it be time for another episode of Wicked Whispers? Stay tuned to find out...Our email address, should you need it to lift the lid on a scandal: 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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Oh baby we're back it's the Luke and Pete show I'm Pete Donaldson and I'm with Luke
Hello
You alright mate?
How come I don't get a second though?
Happy Thursday mate
Cheers brother
Happy Thursday
Cheers my brother
How have you been mate?
Not bad what's been going on?
Um just uh I'm trying to avoid mocking a criminal's hair.
Oh, I saw something about that, yeah.
Gwent police warn people mocking a wanted man's hair.
Police in South Wales have warned people who've mocked the hairstyle
of a wanted drug dealer that they could find themselves facing prosecution.
A mugshot of the Newport-based drug dealer
was published
by police on Facebook
after he breached
his licence conditions
it prompted
hundreds of jokes
puns and memes
among the
nearly 90,000
comments left
on the Gwent police
Facebook post
police said
offensive comments
could leave people
facing action
yeah
I'm not sure
that necessarily
needs to happen
well
seen his hair
is that mockable yeah I think so I think so it's a bit cruel Facing action. Yeah, I'm not sure that necessarily needs to happen. Well, have you seen his hair?
Oh, yeah, he looks... Is that mockable?
Yeah, I think so.
I think so.
It's a bit cruel, I suppose.
It's a bit crusty.
The clown is what it is.
I speak a lot about your hair, don't I?
Yeah.
Got the old Richard Spence.
At the moment, it's more of a Jack Grealish, isn't it?
It's all going in the book.
All going in the book.
Did no use a hair dryer today.
Do you use a hair dryer to dry your hair?
No.
I don't do anything.
Is that going to be too volume?
It just comes out like that
yeah
wow
I just get out of the shower
that curly
dry it with a bit of a towel
maybe push a brush through it
and that's it
I remember
when we were in Johannesburg
for the football ramble
trip to the world cup
in which we saw
no world cup games live
for some reason
got pissed though
got pissed
oh didn't we just
didn't we just
underneath the bed
that we were both sleeping in together.
We had to share a bed
because we had no money at the time.
Yeah.
We still don't.
We probably have.
No, we'd probably do it
out of choice now, wouldn't we?
Just to keep the home fires burning.
Yeah.
I found like a little,
it was like a little,
like a curling tong,
I suppose you'd call it.
It was a tiny little hair dryer
that was in a tube
and you'd put it through your hair
and it would make your hair
like really voluminous
voluminous
and curly
and I used that
for a good six months afterwards
and nobody sort of said
Peter
stop this
you look fucking ridiculous
I don't even think I noticed
no
it was
it was at a time
where I was actually photographed
by
De Montfort University
oh I love that photo of you
it's one of my photos of you
it went on bus shelters and everything, didn't it?
Yeah, it did go on bus shelters.
In my line of trade, image is everything or something.
Yeah.
And then you were dressed like an absolute pervert.
In my business, presentation is everything.
And I'm wearing an old, I'm wearing like sort of kinky boots,
black skinny leathers, skinny leathers?
Skinny jeans.
Jeans, yeah.
And a long shirt.
And my hair is ridiculous.
You can't zoom in with your fingers, Pete.
That's a laptop.
I could have a touch-based laptop.
Yeah, I remember us sharing a bed for
seven nights in a row.
Is that how we ever got away with that, really?
What do you mean? Our routines
are quite different. You're very, um, you made
it very clear that you
went on for quite some time saying,
I will need my own space, I will need my own space I
will need my own
time and then for
some reason you
agreed to sleep with
me.
Yeah.
Foolish.
I remember walking
in on you in the
bath as well at one
point.
Alright okay.
I took a photo.
That's alright.
Yeah I took a photo.
One for the folder.
We've actually that
was nine years ago
now we're in South
Africa.
Yeah a long time
ago now.
Good times.
Good times.
What else have you
been up to this
week?
Much going on?
Recovered from your weekend yet?
Listen, I've not been mocking the Gwent-based drug dealer.
Nor should you be.
That's the main thing.
I know you definitely got drunk at the weekend
because you sent quite a few ill-advised WhatsApps
and then tried to style it out saying,
I'm not drunk, I'm in bed.
I was in bed.
That was the Friday.
You can still be drunk in bed.
You found this weirdly objectionable
that I said that dogs are angels.
No.
I said that dogs
are probably angels.
Yeah.
And you said,
oh, I don't drink,
have we?
I'd say that
if I was sober, mate.
Dogs are angels.
If God exists,
dogs are angels.
Let's put it to bed now.
Had you had a drink or not?
I'd had a few.
But I'd stopped at midnight,
which is very early for me.
I saw an amazing, to change the for me. I saw an amazing,
to change the subject completely,
I saw an amazing bit of footage this week
of a dolphin juggling with a jellyfish.
You seen it?
No.
What, it was throwing?
It's absolutely insane.
It was,
bless you.
It was chucking around a jellyfish.
I'll show you.
Look, check it out.
Was it singing jelly on a foot?
See that?
Oh yeah.
Flicking it up in the air.
It's amazing, isn't it?
That's cruel.
Dolphins are little shits, aren't they?
In a harbour in Denmark.
Yeah.
I don't really know if the jellyfish has got any capacity
to feel any kind of emotion or anything anyway, so...
People say we should eat them.
They're very watery, but we should eat them, apparently.
What do they benefit?
What's the benefit?
Well, there's just too much of them.
There's too many of them.
They're actually a bit of a blight on the sea
in certain parts of the world.
There's too many jellyfish.
We should, by right, be eating jellyfish.
I think jellyfish salad is the thing,
maybe with noodles.
I mean, is this coming from the Japanese?
I think it's Koreans.
I think the Koreans are saying they should do it.
Peter, you're a fan of the environment, aren't you?
Yeah, I'm alright.
You think it's important.
I take a lot from it.
Without putting anything back. Yeah. How do you rate the importance of the environment to your life out of 10 um i live
right in the center of town so i don't see a lot of it no but i appreciate the carbon dioxide
processing power it has you're also a fan of the brazilian president jair bolsonaro aren't you yeah
a big fan i like what he says about minorities. So when these two things come together
and in the face of
huge deforestation
that he has,
he said to help
protect the environment
what people should do.
What?
Have a little guess
what he said.
Wear fewer clothes?
I don't know.
He said only have a shit
every other day.
Oh,
well,
I'm right up that street,
aren't I? People should only shit every other day. Oh, well, I'm right up that street, then, aren't I?
People should only poo every other day,
and that will stop the... Has he gone straight for the toilet roll idea?
That will stop a football pitch sized of Amazonian rainforest
being destroyed every minute,
which apparently is the current statistic,
and save the environment.
And you'd be right in favour,
because you've got the haircut,
you've got the right-wing haircut,
and you've also,
you can't go for a poo.
I think he's even more right-wing
than most alt-righters, I'd say.
He's an interesting chap.
Are you saying that Jair Bolsonaro
is a bit too liberal for your taste?
No, I said he's a bit too right-wing.
I think he's gone so far around,
he's back at the left side again.
That's how it works. But yeah, he's an interesting far around, he's back at the left side again. That's how it works.
But yeah, he's an interesting chap, isn't he?
I fear that the election of Donald Trump may have bolstered the...
Bolsonaro.
Bolstered the Bolsonaros of this world, so to speak.
Yeah, I think you're probably right.
To be those kind of leader strongmen kind of characters.
I think you're probably right, Peter, as well.
Absolutely. I just think that was right, Peter, as well. Absolutely.
I just think that was quite an interesting thing to say.
But on the dolphin juggling thing,
is that going to be another thing that people use
as an example of how intelligent dolphins are?
What do you mean?
Because everyone goes crazy about how intelligent they are.
It's a bit annoying to me, really.
I think they're just...
Isn't he not just trying to break through the surface of the water
and it just happens to be a jellyfish? He does it about 16 times. I think he's just, is he not just trying to break through the surface of the water and it just happens to be a jellyfish?
Well, he does it about 16 times in a row.
So I think he's doing it generally.
Like Pele.
The Pele of the...
Yeah, that's his name.
The name is Pele.
I haven't been doing much this week, really.
I've been kind of busy.
Kind of lots of bits and pieces going on.
We had a few emails in about your weekend in Rotterdam.
Have you got anything further
to add
sadly what
didn't happen
which I always
hope happens
when you're away
for a weekend
somewhere
in some
unsalubrious
part of town
Rotterdam
behaving
hardly Amsterdam
is it
behaving the way
that you
but that's the
kind of thing
that people who
went to Rotterdam
would say
if I go to
Rotterdam
I can just say
yeah but it's
not Amsterdam
exactly
no one emailed saying they actually saw you or anything like that,
which is very sad.
It's a shame, really.
But yeah, I haven't seen much about what we've been doing.
There was a Ramble fan who said hello on the street.
And as I was sort of saying hello and shaking his hand,
who's the bloke out of Fantastic...
Is it Fantastic Creatures?
Whatever that Harry Potter thing was he was also he also played
Stephen Hawking
in a thing
oh it's
Eddie Redmayne
Eddie Redmayne
he looked absolutely
amazing as a woman
in The Other Girl
that's right yeah
Eddie Redmayne was
coming towards us
both and I was
thinking this guy
has mugged himself
right off here
by wanting to get
a picture and say
hello
oh so you got
spotted by a
rambler
and Eddie Redmayne was basically next to ramble listener. And Eddie Redmayne
was basically next to us.
In the face of Eddie Redmayne.
Yeah.
Eddie Redmayne must have been like,
I've got to get me a podcast.
I've got to get me
into the podcast game.
Does he speak like that?
Yeah, big time.
He speaks any way you want.
I'm in Soho.
He's a good actor.
He speaks any way you want.
He's a really good actor.
Very weird.
And is that the most
famous person
you've seen down your street recently?
I saw Mr. Robot a little while ago.
I didn't know.
Oh, you always talk about him though.
Yeah, I'm trying to think.
You do see people on my street quite a lot.
Have you ever had like a really awkward experience
either working or out in the street
with a bit of celebrity?
What do you mean?
Like as in?
Wasn't you done something wrong
or you messed something up or?
In the street.
No, because I saw Pete Doherty
in the street once.
Yes.
Was he drinking a big milkshake
and eating a massive breakfast?
No, it was about...
It was when he was still on the heroin.
Right.
It was about 6.30 in the morning.
I had a breakfast meeting
and I was working at Capital at the time.
I was in there really early.
No, it wasn't a breakfast meeting.
I was working on the breakfast show
at that point.
Right.
At Capital on sponsorship promotions and stuff.
And it was about 2004
5
must have been 5
probably
and I was kind of
I liked the Liberties
at the time
and I was into it
and there was no one around
and he's really tall
and obviously
very identifiable
oh yeah you forget
he's quite tall
he's really tall
and I went over there
and shook his hand
and said
alright B
how you doing
he didn't know
what was going on
and I sort of I didn't want to at that point in doing? He didn't know what was going on. And I just thought it'd be,
I didn't want to,
at that point in my life,
I didn't want to not sort of say hello.
Yeah.
I shook his hand and looked at my hand and his hands were so dirty.
It was like they'd been in the,
in the charcoal.
And then my hands were dirty just from touching his hands.
Oh,
lovely.
It wasn't great.
It was not great.
I got a lot of time for that.
He was honestly so dirty. What was he doing in Leicester square then? No, it wasn't. It was, it was, it was great. It was not great. I got a lot of time for that. He was honestly so dirty.
What was he doing in Leicester Square then?
No, it wasn't.
It was not far from where you live.
It was on one of those roads in Soho.
I see.
I was walking through Soho to go to work.
Yeah, so...
But that's not particularly awkward.
Drug abuse looks and sounds exhausting, Luke.
Yes.
Absolutely exhausting.
I completely agree.
But you've never had an awkward moment
when you've been interviewing someone, have you?
No, I've always...
I'd brought up
Kurt Cobain to
Billy Corgan before
and
what did he say
he just
he sort of blanked me
because I went
he was talking about
radio shows
and he's going
no I used to make
little tapes of me
on the radio
like pretending I was
on the radio
little tapes of me
and stuff
and I was like
oh they just found
Kurt Cobain's
footage of like old tapes of him doing that like cutting up tapes of me and stuff and I was like oh they just found Cacobin's footage
of like old tapes
of him doing that
like cutting up bits of audio
and stuff
and he went
oh did he
anyway
were they friends
or whatever
I think they were mortal
oh because of
Courtney Love
yeah
okay right
because that caper
right
so yeah
I didn't realise
that Billy O'Coggan
had written
or co-written certainly
Malibu
and the other
song off the Hall album that everyone remembers quite fondly, Celebrity Skin.
Oh, did he really?
I didn't know that.
I didn't realise he'd co-written it or written it.
I didn't know that either.
Amazing.
I heard stories of him being absolutely insane on Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness, like
staying there like 48 hours straight recording like a hundred different guitar parts for
each song and stuff.
And he'd just, people would be playing the bass and he'd just grab the
bass and go
now play it
like this
yeah but I
think a lot of
I think the
effort pays off
I also heard a
story that Julian
Casablanca's of
The Strokes
can't really play
any instruments
but sing all the
parts to all the
band members and
get them to play
what he was singing
and he kind of
directed and
constructed the whole album
like that.
Oh, that's clever.
I don't know if that's true or not.
I have no idea
if that's true or not.
People get upset
all sorts of stuff, don't they?
Have you seen that
Netflix documentary
The Defiant Ones?
No.
Almost guarantee I haven't.
Jimmy Iovine's interesting.
Right.
He's the producer
for Springsteen
and that kind of stuff.
He's the business partner
of Dr. Dre now.
Okay, right.
And they created beats together.
It's interesting. It's interesting.
It's interesting.
Let's have a break
because I've got a really,
really fucking good email.
Don't say that often.
I promise you,
stick around
because the one after the email
after the break
is going to be great
and we're going to try
and make a thing of it.
So stick around.
All right, bang.
Huh?
How the fuck is it called
Easy Jet then?
If you want to make a point...
Shut up, man.
Move from here, son.
All right, you're about to be flying.
Forget it.
I wasn't flying in the first place.
He was so angry.
I love that.
It always reminds me of that meal
that I had with my dad.
I told you about it.
My dad's food just didn't turn up.
Right.
And we walked out and she went,
okay, well, I won't charge you for your meal.
My dad went,
I haven't had a f***ing meal.
Anyway, so someone's got in touch
and I'm only going to use their initial A.
Right.
I don't want to blow their cover.
Okie dokie, baby.
Unlike you, Donny.
Right.
So A is pleased it's me reading the email out and not you.
He says, so he starts off talking about something a little bit different,
but you'll like this.
Speaking of medical never events,
and the guy who was circumcised in episode 192,
my mother was due to have her appendix out.
During the pre-op assessment, her surgeon came in in picked up her chart at the end of the bed and
promptly said so mrs jones has the doctor been through the after effects of a hysterectomy
and my mother immediately panicked and said no no i'm here for an appendectomy thank god my mom
was a woman of science and knew what a hysterectomy is for those listeners who aren't okay with it
hysterectomies but they removed the womb. So it could have been a huge deal.
Terrible.
So they luckily
caught out there.
Right.
And he said,
also in the episode,
Pete said,
I'd need more than
£20,000 for my foreskin,
which opens the question
of how much would Pete
want for his foreskin?
Answer now, please.
What?
I turned down £20,000?
Yeah, that's what he said.
I can't remember what he said.
I mean,
yeah,
£20,000. £21,000? £30,000. £30,000? Yeah, that's what he said. I can't remember what he said. I mean, yeah, 20 grand.
21 grand?
30.
30 grand.
Anyone wants it?
There you go.
Put your money where my penis is.
And what would you charge for other body parts, Pete?
Like your ear.
What would you lose for £20,000?
Oh, ear.
Now that would be difficult, that one, wouldn't it?
There was a guy I used to work with.
I do wear spectacles, so they are very important to me.
You could probably get another one built with the money.
What's the point?
But actually, you've got to remove for 20 grand,
and it costs 20 grand exactly to get a prosthetic one for.
But there was a guy who claimed that at Safeway where I used to work,
but he never showed me,
but he claimed that he'd had his little toe cut off
and re-stitched back on for like 20 grand or something at university.
Oh, what, they removed it and then put it back on? Yeah, and that something at university oh what they removed it
and then put it back on
yeah and that's why
he walked a bit funny
I don't know
it's true or not
but people used to talk
there was always talk
of going and doing
medical stuff
well like selling
yeah I mean
that's not medical stuff
that's just you know
you've got a bloke
with a knife
and you just get reattached
disgusting
no but it was a medical
experiment I think
to see how easy
it was to do it
this is back in the 90s
why would you not do that on someone who oh that doesn't make any sense Disgusting. No, but it was a medical experiment, I think, to see how easy it was to do it. This is back in the 90s.
Why would you not do that on someone who... Oh, that doesn't make any sense.
Mind you, he is working the safe way, so...
What's wrong with working the safe way?
Well, it doesn't exist now, so...
It's true, actually. It's Morrison.
I know that apparently Axl Rose, Slash, and Izzy Stradlin
signed up to do a medical experiment
of the effects of non-stop smoking
to finance the band for a bit.
I mean, they do it anywhere.
Slash in particular.
I don't imagine that was much of a change for Slash.
Apparently, literally,
I think it's in Slash's autobiography,
which is an amazing read.
Apparently, they just constantly smoke
until they couldn't do it anymore.
Good Lord.
Yeah.
What a terrible day that would be.
They're also alive.
Yeah.
Anyway. I like guitarists who put their cigarettes day that would be. They're also alive. Yeah. Anyway.
I like guitarists
who put their cigarettes
on a little guitar,
on the guitar string.
Nice.
So that's for that
part of the email.
I know you're probably
listening thinking,
well, what's so special
about that?
Nothing.
But this is,
I think, interesting.
P.S.
If needed,
I can be Luke and Pete
Show's Brexit
correspondent as I currently work inside the department for leaving the EU. Oh, nice. P.S. If needed, I can be Luke and Pete Show's Brexit correspondent
as I currently work inside the department for leaving the EU.
Oh, nice. Okay. Yeah.
Listen, A, send us the good stuff.
Send us the stuff from the front line, unfiltered.
You can be our Julian Assange there.
Yeah, you can be our Julian Assange.
We will not relay the information with any political spin on it whatsoever.
I might. I will not do it. Tell any political spin on it whatsoever I might
I will not do it
tell us how it's going
exactly what's going on
and people who listen
to this show
can get under the fingernails
behind the scenes
we'll never blow your cover
send us the information
to hello at
lukeandpeacher.com
or to my email address
if you want me to read it
and we'll keep people
abreast of it
how exciting is that Pete?
yeah my mate works
in a part of,
I think it's like renewable energy
inside this little service.
And, oh dear,
they are very much preparing for a no-deal Brexit.
As you'd imagine.
They have to be, right?
Yeah, they have to be.
And also they're just all of like,
everything's going to be fine.
The talking points of Mr Boris Johnson,
such as he is,
it's just been, that's policy
now. That's whatever comes out of that man's mouth
is now policy. What you need to do
is understand two things.
Brexit means Brexit. And two,
you need to be optimistic to make this work.
Get him out. Get him out. You need to be optimistic.
Get rid of the mole. Not your balls.
Not your foreskin.
Peter, you need to be more
optimistic. I know, it's Project Fear isn't it
it is
Project Fear
Project Fear
whatever happened to Project Fear
yeah exactly
can we have Project Fear 2 please
I was quite enjoying it
this time it's personal
yeah exactly
what email have you got there Peter
I got from Liam
hello Liam
I mean I half read this one
it's probably going to be alright though
oh for goodness sake
as a big fan of all your podcasts
I've often been disappointed that
it's like your leg?
How tall are you?
I'm just having a little stretch out, mate.
Good Lord.
Just having a little stretchy.
I've often been disappointed that as a boring, miserable man in his late 20s, I've never
had any interesting or grim stories to tell.
This changed, however, after a conversation I had with my dad on the way to football one
day.
As an electrician, dad has many friends who have a trade, and thus the conversations he
has on a daily basis are very different to the ones i experienced in my working life as a teacher on this particular occasion he was telling me
about his friend who was simply known as cd shane um cd shane yeah i don't feel like i need to
introduce you to cd cd shane because his name speaks for itself uh one particularly disturbing
cd story uh yeah involved his regular staying over at hotels where no doubt several questionable acts
took place. It was during an everyday conversation
as my dad was making his morning brew
that Shane approached him and began to
ask about whether dad had made a cup of tea in his hotel
room that morning. This line of questioning
heightened my dad's curiosity as to where Shane was going
with his story and begrudgingly asked Shane
as to why he was so interested. Shane
and his answer would prove to be a very important
life lesson and one which I feel is my duty to let your good listeners know.
It turns out that members of Shane's community,
in inverted commas, including Shane himself,
upon leaving and checking out of a hotel room,
would ceremoniously ejaculate into the kettle
as a parting gift to the next guest.
One, that is horrendous.
Great performance, though.
Unacceptable.
Great performance.
Two, have we not heard of people doing this before on this show?
Poopies.
I think we'd heard of poopies being popped.
There was a kettle involved.
Yeah, in the hotel kettle.
Is this like a subculture?
It seems to be a thing, yeah.
A kettle-obsessed subculture.
Yeah, it just, you know...
Because I have made many a cup of tea in a hotel kettle,
and now I wish I hadn't.
A lot of...
It's like rice cookers in a lot of Airbnbs in the Far East.
I mean, you could get a good,
get a bit of everything
in there,
couldn't you?
What's a rice cooker?
What do you mean?
It's like a big pan,
but it's electric.
It's like a big kettle
that's like all self-contained
and you can just cook rice in it.
Right.
I bought one once
when I was,
when I went congee wild.
Voltage problem again?
No,
bought it here.
Yeah,
$12.
Pretty cheap.
Yeah,
pretty cheap.
I bought a brilliant money box for my niece for Christmas. A little pig in a nappy? No, it's a, a it here. Yeah, $12. Pretty cheap. Yeah, pretty cheap. I bought a brilliant money box
for my niece for Christmas.
A little pig in a nappy?
No, it's a...
A ceramic pig?
You put the coin on top of the box
and the box opens
and a little cat's paw
comes out and pulls it in.
That's brilliant.
There's a nice spirited away.
Is it spirited away
with the spooky ghost thing?
I haven't seen it.
I don't watch a lot of anime,
but like, yeah,
a similar sort of thing.
There's many deviations.
I like it a lot, though.
I think it started off as
a skeleton skeleton would
come and grab your money
right okay why would
people be doing that
into kettles though I
don't really get it
well I would I mean you
couldn't you could do
that with the cat put a
little bit in front and
the cat and just grab it
gone that's mine that's
my donation that is
dirty proper sperm bank
we don't endorse that
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here's an email from
Fred who says hi guys your chat about the talking clock man made me remember how
gullible i was as a child my brother convinced me that the talking clock man was a real man
who had to sit in the room every day of the year telling people the times he convinced me he was
also a man who never grew tired so never sleep, and spent the whole time sitting on the toilet.
I believed this so much
that I rang him to ask if he does sit on the toilet,
but he never answered my questions
because he was too busy telling me the time.
But after I hung up, he rang me straight back.
Well, he didn't actually ring me back,
but it was my brother, very committed to the joke,
and we had a very nice conversation about his little room
with only a toilet for a seat.
I believed all of this for quite a long time.
So with that said, do any other listeners have any stories of being extremely gullible when growing up?
All the best, Fred.
That's adorable.
That is adorable.
Do you have anything like that, Pete?
I was sort of growing up, I remember seeing on, it was like some kind of Pebble Mill kind of thing,
that this juggler came on and did some juggling and said,
and in the voiceover it said that he's done over 13,000,
he was doing,
like,
it was something
like 13,000 or 4,000
performances
of his juggling
because he was quite an,
he was an older guy
and I thought
that they meant
that he was
like 4,000 years old
and so for ages
I thought that people
could legitimately
be 4,000 years old
because this juggler
had came on.
It's something I'd misheard on
Pebble Mill all those years ago. Did you ever ask
your parents about it? No, it's not important.
I know what's important. I remember
a woman who
I may have said this to you before, Pete. I remember
a woman, it wasn't actually that long
ago, who was
completely surprised to hear
that the sun and the moon weren't the same thing.
Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think you've mentioned this confusing lady.
But, I mean, if you're not really someone who's interested in science
and you didn't pay attention at school,
and you never really read any newspapers or listened to anything on the TV
or spoke to any other human being ever,
you could labour under that mistake.
And it would be labour.
It would be labour, wouldn't it?
For quite a long time.
But I wondered if she was just sort of putting it on.
But then she had some opinions about some other stuff,
which I thought,
no,
you probably do believe it.
So that's not quite in the same wheelhouse because it's older.
I can't think of anything like that when I was a kid.
I used to,
I used to say stuff.
My granddad said to me once that I,
cause I was come back from,
from school one day full of the joys of spring.
We had learned about the sun
and how massive it was.
Yeah.
And my grandad saying to me,
no, it's not that big, look,
because I can cover it with my thumb,
look how small it is.
And I didn't really have the idea of perception
and depth of field and stuff.
And I was like,
that is funny,
but at the same time,
if I go back to school and say that,
I'm probably going to get bullied
for being stupid.
But I don't think I really...
Don't get involved.
We all used to believe local urban myths about... Because one of the things, I don't know if you had Don't get involved. We all used to believe like local urban myths about...
Because one of the things,
I don't know if you had it
where you grew up,
but where we grew up,
obviously I grew up
in a strategically very important city
in the Second World War.
And there were air raid shelters everywhere.
Did you have them?
Yeah, we had quite a few
because we were shipbuilding, yeah.
And basically they descended into,
I think, places just for old blokes
to go and read porn magazines.
But the thing that's surprising to me
looking back on it now
is they were just left
completely derelict
so the door would be there
the windows would be there
you could walk in and out
you'd think it'd be like
locked up wouldn't you
you'd think it'd be like
yeah
and there's all sorts
of rumours about
they'd be haunted
and all the rest of it
and we used to go
to this place
near where we lived
called Monk's Walk
which was this
kind of forested area
but it was a bit run down
and one side of it
was the
was like an inlet
from Portsmouth Harbour
basically
and the other side of it
was this
was this
weirdly
this army assault course
called
what was it called
I can't remember
what it was called now
but the guy who ran it
used to let you go on it.
He shouldn't be doing that.
He shouldn't have been doing that.
He shouldn't be doing that.
He should not have been doing that.
But anyway,
in the middle of it
it was all forested
but there was loads
of these air raid shelters there.
But it became quite a big thing
for us at school
to be brave enough
to go to Monk's Walk
after dark.
Just these deserted places
that would have been left.
Yeah, because there would be
like air raid shelters,
porn mags,
the physical training, the army physical training assault corps.
He used to let us go on it,
like completely unsupervised.
Ay-yi-yi.
Yeah, it's not great,
but it was the 80s, 90s.
Speaking of dereliction of duty,
do you say that Ninja,
the big streamer,
who's obviously the most famous streamer in the world,
he does a lot of Fortnite,
he's moved from Switch to,
sorry, Twitch, Twitch.
Twitch, yeah.
Twitch to another one
run by Microsoft, Mixer.
And Twitch left,
so basically his content
on the page, basically,
because he's obviously
got the most followers and stuff,
they just put a selection
of other people
that he could follow,
because obviously he's not
going to be on the...
So recommended followers.
Yeah, so recommended followers. Recommended videos and streams that he might follow because obviously he's not going to be on the so recommended recommended videos
and streams
that you might like
but one of the
one of the top listed streamers
on his page
featured just porn
just somebody streaming porn
wow
can you even stream porn
on Twitch isn't it
no you get banned immediately
but
because it's for kids right
no it's for everyone
but you can have spicy content
but you can't just be
rebroadcasting pornography
remember that when that kid
rebroadcast a UFC fight
and he pretended it was a video game
by just being in shock?
I've got a lot of time for that.
That's very enjoyable.
All right, Pete, let's get out of here.
That's probably about enough for now.
It's very hot in here, isn't it?
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