The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.84: This Tarantula Needs Watching
Episode Date: January 2, 2020Happy 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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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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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
Christmas day
opening hours
for some kind of
Auckland city
coffee shop.
When that trade
website reported
that you had left
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
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.
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
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
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.
It was ridiculous.
Ridiculous.
5,077 emails later.
Ridiculous.
For example,
Hotel Football,
they're involved.
Bills, restaurants.
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
The flash crash?
On May 6th, 2010,
a trillion dollar
stock market crash
occurred across
36 minutes,
initiated by a series
of automated
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.
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?
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
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,
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
on in prisons in
the US as well.
Oh yeah.
I mean the
prisons are just
one big
licensed place
manufacturers and
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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,
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.
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
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
into orbit.
Apparently the
Boeing's
impressively titled,
if nothing else,
CST-100 Starliner.
Cool.
And they're testing
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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...
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
you hanging up
your stocking on
the wall?
To which I
replied, no.
Right.
He played it and
I realised he was
talking about
everybody, you
know, here is
Merry Christmas.
Merry Christmas
everybody.
Is it Slade?
Yeah, Slade.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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?
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
and when purchasing
the toy spiders
from Taobao
China's equivalent
to Amazon Marketplace
he didn't realise
he was in fact
purchasing baby
Brazilian giant
tarantulas
further research
via Google
translation apps
and picture comparing
we think
he bought me a Chaco golden-knee tarantula
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
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.
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
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.
His wife is
feeding him
one more Dev
from the spoon
yeah
soup on it
very evocative
I still remember
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
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
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
she stopped suddenly
he went through the
back of her and
killed her
that was
that's for getting
me a tarantula
for Christmas
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.
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.
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.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Awful.
Awful business.
Baby shark on loop.
Mate, it's a banger.
Do-do-do-do-do.
That kid in it,
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
to do Baby Shark
how would he get
those wrong
baby
fester
adult
fester
bless him
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
everyone else
who emailed
we didn't get round to
this week
Ian
and who else
Ian
and James Tortoise
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
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.
You've just been away for Thanksgiving.
Have a word with yourself.
Give your head a wobble.
This was a Stakhanov production.