The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.84: This Tarantula Needs Watching

Episode Date: January 2, 2020

Happy New Year! It's 2020, can you believe, so Luke and Pete take a good squizz through what is likely to happen in this, the highest year on record. There's flexible screens, space travel, tarantulas... a listener perhaps didn't quite expect, and a hilarious Italian man trying to pronounce a word. Trust us when we say, his English is still far better than our Italian.Elsewhere there's Spam, prison labour, your emails (including a frankly horrific one about a spider) and some neat sound effects too, so don't miss em.To be involved: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com*** Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple Podcasts or your preferred podcast- provider. 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 🎵 Hello there, I am the Ayatollah Pete Donaldson, ready to rock your world. I'm joined by Luke Moore, hello. Hello. You alright mate? I'm pretty good, yeah. You on your phone, you tapping out a little message? I'm just texting, yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:24 Sorry, I'm done now though. Welcome to 2020! Sort of behaviour I would be pilloried for in 2020. 2020, 2020, everyone's now like Blade Runner. Is it? Yeah! Is that when Blade Runner was set? I got here in a flying car.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Is this where Blade Runner was set? No, 2019, I think. Oh. I think, yeah. We're already in the future. Did you get here in a flying car or not? I got here in a train car or not I got air on in a
Starting point is 00:00:46 train an underground train underground a lot of cities don't have them that's the future a lot of American cities don't have underground trains did you wake up
Starting point is 00:00:53 on the 1st of January yesterday and see what was instantly different because we're now in 2020 because 2020 feels like it's a long
Starting point is 00:01:02 like a big thing like it feels like now we've got a decade where we can say it's the 20s it's a long like a big thing like it feels like now we've got a decade where we can say it's the 20s it's the 20s it was tough to get an anchor point before
Starting point is 00:01:10 I'm going to be a flapper yeah do it I'm going to do the dupe it rhymes with that Peter I was speaking to a friend of mine the other day
Starting point is 00:01:19 and I completely agree and people listening at home to the all new Futuristic Luke and Pete show, hopefully a lot of them will understand what I mean here. Katie, can you put some laser sounds in here? Katie, do lasers here.
Starting point is 00:01:31 There was a 10-year period from 2010 through to now, just the other day, where there was no anchor point. I didn't know what decade I was in. Before I was in the noughties, before that I was in the nineties.
Starting point is 00:01:45 We were in the teens, baby. We were balls deep in the teens. I didn't know what decade I was in. Right. Before I was in the noughties, before that I was in the nineties. We were in the teens, baby. We were balls deep in the teens. It doesn't sound right. Especially when you say it like that. Do you know what I mean though, Pete? Yeah. Now there's an anchor point. Please say the show title
Starting point is 00:01:56 is going to be Balls Deep in the Teens. It's not going to be that, is it? I want to start the year. After Monday's bone to meshers. Come on. It's not going to be that. Come on.
Starting point is 00:02:04 Yeah. I've got no professional broadcasting now. I can say what I bloody want. This is going to be me, live and unleashed. I've got no, like they can't find me from Absolute Radio. I'm already gone.
Starting point is 00:02:13 Do a burp. I can't now. That's why I needed a catacomb. Katie, put a burp on there. Put a burp, followed by a laser noise, followed by another burp. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:02:23 Thank you, Katie. Thanks, Katie. All right, let's leave a pause for that now. Thanks, Katie. Cheers, Katie. If nothing else, we'll know whether she listens or not, won't we?
Starting point is 00:02:38 What are your high hopes for 2020, Pete? I hope people stop sending us spam email to the fucking Luke and Pete it makes my half a job an actual job you've got nothing to do now you've literally got nothing to do
Starting point is 00:02:52 you said let's let's do some Christmas emails last week to get rid of them I'm like alright let's do the coffee club Auckland
Starting point is 00:02:59 Christmas day opening hours for some kind of Auckland city coffee shop. When that trade website reported that you had left
Starting point is 00:03:07 Absolute Radio and it said in the article to spend more time on his production company Stakhanov, I was thinking I don't know what
Starting point is 00:03:14 he's going to fucking do. I don't know what he's going to do. Get out this email box. Do you know what you're going to do? Get out this email box for spam.
Starting point is 00:03:21 We do have a lot of spam emails. It grinds my gears. I wish I'd never got involved. I think about a year ago. Just leave the email address on some
Starting point is 00:03:31 waste ground and burn it. About a year ago, I think we were kind of short of content. Right. We were doing something and we were busy
Starting point is 00:03:36 or whatever and we said, oh yeah, wherever you are, put in hello at lukeandpitcher.com as your email address. We should never have done that.
Starting point is 00:03:42 It was ridiculous. Ridiculous. 5,077 emails later. Ridiculous. For example, Hotel Football, they're involved. Bills, restaurants.
Starting point is 00:03:53 I like a bit of Bills. I've started doing like a jazz night at the one near me. It gives us a... Jazz night, baby! It gives us a good insight to where our listeners are.
Starting point is 00:04:02 Because I've seen an email here from a place called Wooden Shades, which is a quite obscure Nicholson's pub that I drive past sometimes. And I always remember it because I think, that's a weird name for a pub. And we've got an email from there. So one of our listeners has been listening to the show or has had the show in mind while being sat in there.
Starting point is 00:04:21 So all joking aside, it's 2020 now. There should be a solution to this. Shouldn't there? Yeah. We should all drink MD 2020 until we're happy with the situation. Imagine Tom Cruise in the film Minority Report.
Starting point is 00:04:33 Right. I should be able to go, bring up spam, spam, get rid, get rid. I think the very idea of the word spam, kids will know it,
Starting point is 00:04:43 but they won't know where it's come from. Nobody eats corned beef anymore. Where does it come from? It's not even corned beef, it's ham. It's like a shit version of ham, and that's what's called spam, because it's a shit version of emails. It should be called spemails then. I think it's, I mean, spam is a registered trademark.
Starting point is 00:04:58 I'd be furious if I was them. I wonder if there was ever a battle, a court battle. I'm fairly certain spam's a trademark. Never mind. If you learnt nothing else today, you've learnt that this is going to be the same old shit. My voice is still fucked. Absolutely fucked.
Starting point is 00:05:12 But what are your high hopes for 2020? I don't know. World peace? World peace. Is the Welsh on fire? Probably. Imagine sort of being in a coma for 10 years, going to sleep in 2010 and then waking up now.
Starting point is 00:05:24 You'd be like, what the fuck? That's a good idea. Do you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to actually go to the Wikipedia page for 2010 and find out some of the things that happened. I don't know if it has changed that much.
Starting point is 00:05:35 You what? Well, it's got worse. Well, it hasn't changed that much, but it's just got worse. Everyone's got better mobile phones. We've all got better computers. And there are people in football matches doing monkey chants.
Starting point is 00:05:49 It's like, wow. Yeah, we've not really, we've moved backwards, haven't we, really, in many ways. So if you were around in 2010 and you went into a coma at the end of 2010, some of the things you'd remember would be the Burj Khalifa in Dubai was officially opened. Oh, good.
Starting point is 00:06:02 The 2010 Winter Olympics were held in Vancouver. Yeah. Okay. That was... Who won that? Was Edward involved? Do you remember the president of Poland
Starting point is 00:06:12 was killed in an air crash? Remember that? Oh, I really don't remember that at all. That was a big deal, yeah. 96 people were killed in an airplane crash in Russia and the Polish president
Starting point is 00:06:19 was on board. Jiminy Cricket. That's incredible. By the way, I feel like I should know more about this. Have you heard of the 2010 flash crash?
Starting point is 00:06:31 The flash crash? On May 6th, 2010, a trillion dollar stock market crash occurred across 36 minutes, initiated by a series of automated
Starting point is 00:06:40 trading programs in a feedback loop. Ha! Did someone try to divide by zero? I mean, that is a financial problem that I literally cannot understand. Like most of them are, really.
Starting point is 00:06:52 Interesting. WikiLeaks released some stuff about the war in Afghanistan. And Germany... This is a good one. October 3rd, 2010, 10 years ago, just over, Germany made its final reparation payment for World War I. Yeah. That is fascinating, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:07:09 That's what kicked off World War II in many ways. And December 21st. Reparations, the diktat. Yeah. Ow! Quite. The Treaty of Rapala, was it Rapala? Or Locarno?
Starting point is 00:07:19 I forget. I think it was the Locarno Treaty. The first total lunar eclipse to occur since 1638 took place. I remember that. I think I remember where I was. On the day of the Northern Winter Solstice
Starting point is 00:07:31 and the Southern Summer Solstice. The first time a lunar eclipse happened on that day since 1638. You don't remember where you were in 1638, Pete? No. That's almost certain.
Starting point is 00:07:39 And so what have we learned since then? I wasn't... Since then? Literally not. What's gotten better? Certainly in the UK. The Wikipedia page for 2020 is quite ambitious.
Starting point is 00:07:53 It's quite ambitious. Right. So these are the things that will happen in 2020. How is that Wikipedia page? Your predictions? Brexit withdrawal agreement. That's in there. That's in there.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Yeah. And there will be another solar eclipse on December 14th. That's something to look forward to. I don't think you can say nothing's got better since 2010. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:10 In 2010 in the summer, you and I went to South Africa together. We went to Johannesburg and we had to share a bed for a week. So don't tell me your last night
Starting point is 00:08:18 got better since then. Well, you know, it's alright for us jacking it. That's how the Tories work. We get better. The poor people get poorer. It didn't... It got alright for us jacking it. That's how the Tories work. We get better. The poor people get poorer. It got better for me than being chased around a scary South African house
Starting point is 00:08:32 in one of the world's most violent cities by you with a cattle prod, which is something that actually happened. We never really... I never actually connected with anyone. I didn't even do it on myself. You did do it on yourself. Did I do it on myself?
Starting point is 00:08:45 Yeah, you did. You're drunk. You did it on yourself. Yeah, and that's what really hurts. Someone said to me when I was at school, when you get older for a job, you're going to run around a terrifying house in a terrifying city
Starting point is 00:08:56 being chased by a man with a cattle prod from Hartlepool. Yeah. I'll probably say... I'll take it. Both hands, please. I'm from Gosport. I was thinking it could have been worse. No, it's great did you one of the things we missed over christmas by the way probably the least heartwarming story um that you could imagine at christmas i mean i'll just
Starting point is 00:09:16 read the first line of the story tesco has suspended production of charity christmas cards at a factory in china after a six-year-old girl found a message from workers inside one allegedly written by prisoners from Shanghai claiming they were forced to work against their will. I mean,
Starting point is 00:09:36 this is absolutely shocking. Is it? I think it's awful. Why was everybody, because we are recording in the future, why was everyone kind of wringing their hands? I'm not wringing my hands.
Starting point is 00:09:47 I'm just saying it kind of brings... Clutch of the Bell is about how we know this goes on. We know how capitalism works. Yeah, maybe there's a disconnect. Yeah. A cognitive dissonance. The man on the street not realising where his shit comes from. But it brings it home, doesn't it?
Starting point is 00:10:05 Yeah, it's a particularly stark example, isn't it? It's like a kid going to buy a couple of... His mum going to the supermarket and buying a couple of bits of chicken and then watching a chicken be violently murdered in front of it. I'm not saying, you know, obviously people should understand where their food comes from, this stuff goes on, I get it, but I'm just saying it kind of brings it home. And I found it personally quite shocking
Starting point is 00:10:26 for all the kind of woolly, fluffy, probably pathetic reasons like it's Christmas, it's awful to think of that happening, and it's awful actually to think that a company like Tesco, and of course, I don't know if this has been proven, it's been alleged here by the BBC, that Tesco is using that in one of their supply chains, essentially using prison labour from China
Starting point is 00:10:49 to manufacture their Christmas cards. That's quite a shocking story. Every single last manufacturer of, every single supermarket will have a relationship with, somewhere down the line, with forced labour. It's just how capitalism and the world works
Starting point is 00:11:08 and how China works and how Taiwan works and how Korea works. It happens a lot in the US as well. A lot of manufacturing goes
Starting point is 00:11:13 on in prisons in the US as well. Oh yeah. I mean the prisons are just one big licensed place manufacturers and
Starting point is 00:11:19 everything else that they make. I think a lot of white goods are made by prisoners in the US. Yeah. I mean, they technically get paid,
Starting point is 00:11:28 but I mean, yeah. Yeah, they technically get paid a tiny amount and things like where, I think I said before, they are, you know, they used to fight fires
Starting point is 00:11:38 in California and stuff, but because they're convicts, they're trained up as firemen and firewomen to fight these fires and then when they get out of prison, because they're convicts, they're trained up as firemen and firewomen to fight these fighters. And then when they get out of prison, because they're felons, they're not allowed to apply to be a fireman.
Starting point is 00:11:51 Yeah, right. Yeah, there's a lot. I mean, there's a really good book. It's a slightly different but related subject. And there's a brilliant book, I think it won the Pulitzer, called Slavery by Another Name by Douglas Blackman.
Starting point is 00:12:03 And it talks about what happened after the abolishment of slavery in the US after the Civil War. So the Reconstruction period basically all the way through to World War II.
Starting point is 00:12:12 And basically, essentially how slavery essentially continued in a different way. In lots of different creative, if you want to use that word, ways, between then
Starting point is 00:12:21 and essentially 1939. It's an incredible, incredible story. Well, look at the way people are like imprisoned, in prison, not only with bricks and mortar, but with just circumstance.
Starting point is 00:12:32 You know what I mean? Like in the US where people have health insurance and it's tied to their... Income. To their job. And they're scared to move jobs because they will lose their premiums.
Starting point is 00:12:42 They will lose all of these things that they had. And so they're scared to lose their job. They're scared to take jobs because they will lose their premiums. They will lose all of these things that they had. And so they're scared to lose their job. They're scared to take holiday because they don't get holiday pay. It's like, there are certain aspects of that. I get it. Changing trains ever so slightly,
Starting point is 00:13:00 because I know how much you like to roll your eyes at these, and I'm quite cynical about them as well. But there was a couple of things in these predictions about the tech trends for 2020, which I thought might be quite interesting to talk about. One is apparently, according to a guy called Guy Norris, who is senior editor at Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine, which sounds like a pretty good job, actually.
Starting point is 00:13:26 2020 is going to be a pivotal year for space travel. Apparently, since NASA retired the space shuttle in 2011, the US has been relying on Russian spacecraft to transport astronauts to the ISS. But that's going to change this year, because apparently two US-built spacecraft are going to start carrying crew. One of them is made by Boeing, so insert your own
Starting point is 00:13:47 joke there, in light of the 737 MAX problems. They'll have a lot more time to think about it. It could carry up to seven astronauts
Starting point is 00:13:56 into orbit. Apparently the Boeing's impressively titled, if nothing else, CST-100 Starliner. Cool. And they're testing
Starting point is 00:14:04 it, and the first man flight is likely to be this year and the spacex dragon capsule will go through some final tests um and that will be ready for a crew mission later this year as well and of course these things always go wrong in in some part so maybe it'll be delayed but it's quite interesting and the talk is that um of jeff bezos he's thinking of even more creative ways to not pay tax and looking to do some space travel himself I'm going to space
Starting point is 00:14:29 does that satisfy you? you'll never get my tax off me now haha you want it? I'm on the moon baby you want my tax? well you can come
Starting point is 00:14:37 and fucking get it by the way I'm on Mars see ya he could say that maybe for example and the other thing Pete which is right up your street
Starting point is 00:14:46 and something I found bloody interesting as well, is these flexible displays on mobile phones. I love that. Yeah. Where's that coming out? Tell me about that. I had my eye on the old Galaxy foldable phone for a little while because it came out, people started peeling off a protective layer
Starting point is 00:15:01 that wasn't designed to come off. Oh, good. By people, do you mean you? Because that's what you were talking about on Monday. Yeah, I love peeling any a protective layer that wasn't designed to come off. Oh, good. By people, do you mean you? Because that's what you were talking about on Monday. Yeah, I love peeling any kind of layer off. So they did quite a good thing. They sent out test units to the press. The press said, this is shit.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Why? So they went... Because some people ate and peeled off the protective layer that protected the screen, and obviously that breaks it. People would experience dust particles and things breaking and smashing. But the inherent problem with foldable displays is they're actually quite fragile. Right.
Starting point is 00:15:32 So that's only going to get better. So the big move apparently is that Samsung was a bit of a canary in the mine. And apparently, as I was reading in preparation for this show, and this is not an area of expertise for me, but just for what I've read and based on my notes, there's a company called TCL who are the second biggest maker of TVs in China and they've apparently invested...
Starting point is 00:15:53 Not for all the TVs in China. They've apparently invested in a lot of prison labor. No, in a lot of... They've invested $5.5 billion in developing flexible displays ahead of moving into that market. Right, okay. So apparently they're going to improve a great deal very, very soon.
Starting point is 00:16:10 And they're going to not only be just for mobile phones, but they're going to be for smartwatches and smart speakers. Right, okay. I don't know why you need one for a smart speaker. Presumably because it can wrap around the speaker itself. Yeah, because they're quite circular, aren't they? Smart speakers. I like the, what's that flip phone that everyone had?
Starting point is 00:16:28 The Motorola Razr. That's back and that's using a foldable display. That was wicked back in the day. The new one looks pretty good. It's a full Android experience on a flippy flip phone. They talk about the Motorola Razr a lot on revisiting. It's a classic. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:43 It's a classic. One of two phones that I desperately wanted as a kid, but I never got. And by kid, I mean like, you know, late teens or whatever. That was one. The other one was the one from the Matrix, the Nokia one.
Starting point is 00:16:53 Yes. When you press the button, it flips out. Boop. That was great. I mean, excuse me. You could probably still, I reckon there's some enterprising company that probably makes something similar.
Starting point is 00:17:03 You press a button on the side of the phone and it goes, and arms your iPhone for you. That would be amazing. I'd love that. Lovely. I would love that. Invest in that.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Yeah. 2020, people, come on. You can invest in anything, guys. Let's take a quick break, Peter, after which I am going to, it's a bold prediction. Right. I'm going to deliver an email, which is possibly going to be the high watermark for the entire year.
Starting point is 00:17:24 So don't go anywhere. Stick around for that. Gentlemen, this is Democracy Manifest. Wonderful rolling of the arse on Julian Assange there. Yeah. Democracy Manifest! What's Julian Assange up to in 2020, man? I don't know, man.
Starting point is 00:17:41 Did he get acquitted of his rape trial in Sweden? I believe he did. That was an interesting situation. Here we go. Oh, he's given an interview about the rooms he stayed in in the Ecuadorian embassy. Cool. There's not much going on, to be honest.
Starting point is 00:17:57 Alright, what about this email? So I did pre-promote before the break that I was going to do an email, which I think will really make you laugh, Pete. And it's from Rhys Ferguson. Hey, Rhys. And he says, Hi, guys. This isn't really related
Starting point is 00:18:10 to anything you've recently spoken about, apart from Pete saying the word Worcestershire in a recent episode. It reminded me of a brilliant video I once found, which I think you'll enjoy.
Starting point is 00:18:19 It's fairly simple. It's an old Italian man desperately trying to pronounce Worcestershire sauce right have you seen it Pete? I think I have you mentioned this
Starting point is 00:18:29 but it doesn't matter I'm going to enjoy it it's a good clip it's a guy being I'll set the scene it's a guy being filmed presumably by his son and he's got a bottle of
Starting point is 00:18:39 it's not Liam Perrins but it's like Heinz Worcestershire sauce everyone knows what that is they have that in the US I'm sure they do I find it hard to say anyway I'm like Heinz Worcestershire Sauce. Everyone knows what that is. They have that in the US. I'm sure they do. I find it hard to say anyway. I'm an English speaker.
Starting point is 00:18:47 You've got to go. Worcestershire Sauce. Yeah. Well, listen, it's a better effort than this. This one drop of Worcestershire. No. Ready, set, go. We've got to use this one just shush, shush, shush.
Starting point is 00:19:00 I don't know. One just star shine. Yeah, one just shine. One just star shine. One just shine. One just shishara. One just shush... Shushara. Shushara? One just sharib.
Starting point is 00:19:16 No, sharib. One just sharib. You know, almost this argument that dropped like my name, Sharab. Shar... One... One... know almost this argument the drop like in my name shut up it's sharp what once one still he starts to infect other words he can't say one yay i told you the truth i don't know what kind of the to say. I've written Italian now. Brilliant.
Starting point is 00:20:00 That gives me life. I love the fact that also in that video, he's wearing a T-shirt that says, no sweat, no sauce. Enjoyable. What a great man. What a lovely chap. It reminds me of when Marcello Bielsa tried to say the word Ipswich. Ipsbitch? Ipsbitch.
Starting point is 00:20:15 He just couldn't say it. It's also particularly funny for me because I also obviously pronounce every foreign word brilliantly. Correctly. Never get it wrong. Hello at LukeandPete.com is the email address, I should say, Pete, before you go on. Yeah, Sean got in touch before Christmas. So I want to stick this in because we haven't mentioned this and I forgot how good this was.
Starting point is 00:20:38 Emailing to let you guys know of a proper idiot moment, a friend of mine, Ross, had our house Christmas dinner. Before the dinner, we were talking about our general distaste for Christmas music and Ross asked me, have you heard the raspy song where the guy sings, are
Starting point is 00:20:50 you hanging up your stocking on the wall? To which I replied, no. Right. He played it and I realised he was
Starting point is 00:20:57 talking about everybody, you know, here is Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas everybody. Is it Slade? Yeah, Slade.
Starting point is 00:21:04 Here is Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun.ade? Yeah, Slade. Here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun. Yeah, everybody's having fun, yeah. Which, of course, I have heard. I watched it, I have heard. But he played an edited version where the lyrics are all, are you hanging up your stocking on the wall? Have you seen, have you heard this clip? No.
Starting point is 00:21:19 Basically, someone's took the song, here it is, Merry Christmas, everybody's having fun, it's Christmas. But he's edited it in a wonderful way so that every lyric is, are you hanging up your stocking on the wall? Okay. And it sounds, I'm going to use the word, demented. Let's go.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Only got a minute's left. Are you hanging up? You're stalking on your wall. Are you hanging up? You're stalking on your wall. Oh, God. Are you hanging up? You're stalking on your wall. Are you hanging up?
Starting point is 00:22:07 You're stalking on your own Are you hanging up? You're stalking on your own Are you hanging up? You're stalking on your wall? A lot in there. A lot in there. I was going to say edited, but he's clearly just sang it himself.
Starting point is 00:22:34 I didn't expect it to be so enjoyable. Yeah, but imagine hearing that and going, have you heard that rasping Christmas song? Are you hanging up your stocking on the wall? Pete, I was absolutely terrified because when you started that email, he said, do you know the Christmas song are you hanging up your stocking on the wall Pete I was absolutely terrified because when you started that email he said do you know the
Starting point is 00:22:48 Christmas song are you hanging up your stocking on the wall right and I was thinking yeah I thought he was going to say that's not the lyrics
Starting point is 00:22:54 right I thought he was going to say no he doesn't actually say that it must be one of these misheard lyrics and I was going to be guilty of it I was trying to work out
Starting point is 00:23:00 whether I was going to own up to it or not or go oh what an idiot I never thought it was that did you hear that Scottish kid who was trying to sing Jingle Bell was going to own up to it or not. Or go, oh, what an idiot. I never thought it was that. Did you hear that Scottish kid who was trying to sing? Jingle Bells. Oh, it's brilliant. It's so good.
Starting point is 00:23:10 What a kid. Amazing kid. He deserves to be world famous, that boy. Yeah. Because his confidence. His confidence, yeah. Yes, TV news, broadcasting, and all good beers. But now it's time for a Christmas song.
Starting point is 00:23:22 Dashing through the snow. And I want four surfing slaves All the hills we go Laughing all the way Ha ha ha Stalking's to be up That's wrong Stalking's to be up
Starting point is 00:23:36 That's wrong To give you presents That's wrong Every single year Hey Can I just say what I love about that? So he gets two lines in the whole song right, which the one's the first one,
Starting point is 00:23:49 the other one's the most famous one. And I love the idea, because he's about eight, that kid. If they come to me, TV, camera, microphone, and said, sing Jingle Bells, and I didn't know it, I probably would have cried. This kid, he's gone straight up there,
Starting point is 00:24:03 S-TV, time for a wee Christmas song! I just thought, I don't know it, but I'm ploughing through it. And it's brilliant. Good on him. What a kid. The world belongs to that boy. Yeah. We have singularly failed to not do Christmas stuff after Christmas. So I'm going to continue that theme
Starting point is 00:24:19 with this email from Alex. I don't know if you've seen this Pete, but this is a brilliant email. He says, Hi, guys. In response to your weird Christmas party stories request, something happened just today that I think fits the bill. It was Secret Santa in the office of our international school today here in Jiangsu, China.
Starting point is 00:24:36 And my mate, John, got me a present. With me being a Geordie, John got me a wind-up gift of a Sunderland shirt. However, also knowing I'm not particularly keen on spiders, he wanted to add some spice to the gift by getting some toy spiders that could fall out of the gift as I opened it. As Alex says there, oh, the hilarity, right?
Starting point is 00:24:57 So you get what he's saying there. So he's going to open the present, the toy spiders are going to fall out of the shirt, and he's going to shit himself. That's the gag, right? He actually shat gag right Alex says the problem is John doesn't read Chinese
Starting point is 00:25:09 and when purchasing the toy spiders from Taobao China's equivalent to Amazon Marketplace he didn't realise he was in fact purchasing baby
Starting point is 00:25:16 Brazilian giant tarantulas further research via Google translation apps and picture comparing we think he bought me a Chaco golden-knee tarantula
Starting point is 00:25:27 that is only one centimetre in size now, but will probably grow up to 22 centimetres in leg span, and if it's male, could live up to 10 years, but a female could live up to 25. Little John will live in the science lab at school from now on, but will be staying with my wife and I over the winter holidays to make sure it's fed and safe. I don't think I'll ever get
Starting point is 00:25:45 a better Secret Santa in my life. Hats off to John. Aww. That's a lovely end to a horrible tale. They're looking after it. Yeah. They're doing right by it. Doing right by a spider.
Starting point is 00:25:54 A golden new... If you can't do right by a tarantula at Christmas, peace and goodwill to all spiders, that's what they say. That's the saying. Well, I remember that marketing campaign, a golden new tarantula is for life, not just for Christmas. Exactly. Oh, that advert with the cork dog
Starting point is 00:26:07 that gets thrown in the bin. Sad. Makes me sad. Sad face. Yeah. Sad face. It's all that, those kind of adverts and drink driving adverts. One more Dave. Do you remember that one? Back in the day. One more Dave. Oh, yeah. He's in the pub and he's one more Dave. And then he is terribly unwell.
Starting point is 00:26:24 His wife is feeding him one more Dev from the spoon yeah soup on it very evocative I still remember
Starting point is 00:26:30 even 20 years ago the most I forgot about that one but that was a very very evocative there's an evocative one as well where there's a woman
Starting point is 00:26:37 driving around a nice suburban village and it's a very pleasant scene and the voiceover says Debbie knew her killer and it goes through very pleasant scene and the voiceover says Debbie knew her killer and and
Starting point is 00:26:47 it goes through all that kind of stuff and then it turns out that she's been killed by her son behind her who wasn't wearing a seatbelt right
Starting point is 00:26:55 she stopped suddenly he went through the back of her and killed her that was that's for getting me a tarantula for Christmas
Starting point is 00:27:02 alright now time for a wee Christmas song. Dashing through the snow. But that's stuck with me ever since. I think about that every time I get in the car.
Starting point is 00:27:14 Okay, good. When I have to drive my... Looking for kids behind you in the back seat. When I drive my four-year-old niece around in my car in her little car seat.
Starting point is 00:27:22 I'm watching you. If you try and kill me I'm going to fucking do you. No, I think I'm fairly certain I drive everywhere at 15 miles an hour and I am terrified.
Starting point is 00:27:31 Yeah. Yeah. Awful. Awful business. Baby shark on loop. Mate, it's a banger. Do-do-do-do-do. That kid in it,
Starting point is 00:27:37 baby shark, something wrong with him. I don't like him. I haven't seen the vid. He's got like a weird face. Is that a Scottish kid? He just looks a bit too beautiful. It's like, ooh. Can we start a petition for that Scottish kid
Starting point is 00:27:47 to do Baby Shark how would he get those wrong baby fester adult fester bless him
Starting point is 00:27:56 there we go alright Pete that's the first episode of 2020 in the can in my cans check out my cans many thanks to
Starting point is 00:28:04 everyone else who emailed we didn't get round to this week Ian and who else Ian and James Tortoise
Starting point is 00:28:10 but James emails all the time James Tortoise we'll get to you at some point James and yeah thanks everyone for all your support in 2019
Starting point is 00:28:17 it's great to be with you in 2020 and we'll see you next week peace be with you and also with you when Donnie is back from his 42 week holiday you've just been Peace be with you and also with you. When Donnie is back from his 42-week holiday.
Starting point is 00:28:26 You've just been away for Thanksgiving. Have a word with yourself. Give your head a wobble. This was a Stakhanov production.

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