The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 199.87: Excellent trunks

Episode Date: January 13, 2020

There are some troubling developments reaching LAPS towers. Firstly, there have been some satanic killings in the New Forest, but secondly and arguably much more importantly Pete has been spending his Sunday night vaping. We all knew this day would come, and here it is. There's no way a man with such an interest in gadgetry could hold off forever. How troubled should you be? Listen in to find out.Elsewhere, there's spam, The Mousetrap, moths, Knives Out and loads more, including the types of sketches Pete used to get in trouble for at school.Come find us on Twitter @lukeandpeteshow or email us: [e-mail]***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.

Hello Team Tronkers, it's Pete Donaldson here and Luke Moore for the Luke and Pete Show and it is a Monday. We are recording this on Monday, it's going to be released very soon. So what's on the menu for today? What's today's specials? You've put me on the spot there, Peter, but good morning and a very warm welcome to everyone listening along. In this morning's news, what's on the agenda for the Sandringham Summit? It's Queen versus ginger-haired man and dark-haired girl. Yeah. Yeah. He should, as people on Twitter have been saying, he should just get a DNA test if he wants out the family.

Oh, that is rude. No, I've got sympathy for them. I do, actually. I have sympathy for them. As a man with an American wife, his family have been horrific to her over the years no I'm just kidding yeah

it's a mad story that one it is a mad story from the outside looking at it it looks to me that people who get really particular

and are really into the royal family are now kind of have kind of flipped their opinion on it well in that

they have been taken in by an orchestrated racist attack by most of the tabloids. And you've got other people who profess to not care about the royal family. Now they really care. And now they're really into it. Yeah. Strange, isn't it? Yeah.

Very strange. Yusaku Meizawa, he's a Japanese billionaire, and he wants a life partner for a moon voyage he's paid for. That's you, surely. He's the fashion mogul, 44. He's big, big licks in Japan. He's set to be the first civilian passenger to fly around the moon on the Starship rocket, SpaceX.

What, is that Elon Musk's? I think SpaceX. I wouldn't be doing Elon Musk's. I wouldn't be trusting him. Not after his public performances recently. No way! His little boogie dance. No way am I doing that.

He loves a weed cigarette, doesn't he? Oh, yeah. You've seen him on Joe Rogan. Yeah, absolutely. Smoking a fat dude. Well, I was on that last night, Luke. I want to inform you that I've turned to the dark side and now I am a drug addict.

A friend gave me a vape that was illegally imported from California, like a little all-in-one vape that was breath-activated when you suck in like that. The weed comes out. And, yeah, people talk about weed like it's the most creative drug. I wrote one thing when I was off my head last night. Marine Kong karate. Right.

I was imagining, I think, some kind of King Kong character dressed as a karate master at the docks. So that's the limits of my 1960s era sort of Beatles journey. It's like 1998 all over again. I think when it comes to the creativity, I think the idea is you've got to have the creativity there in the first place. And then the heroin brings it out. The heroin, not the, oh for crying out loud.

If anybody has got a heroin vape pen, I'd love to hear what the hell is going on. So yes, now I am a drug addict. If you carry on with this, the best thing that's going to happen to any of us is you're going to end up as some kind of skinnier, worse Seth Rogen. That's what's going to happen.

I'll take it. Is the weed vape pen something that you are able to keep? Rogan. That's what's going to happen. I'll take it. So you, is it something, is the, is the weed vape pen something that you, um, are able to keep? Are you going to be revisiting it? Well,

I can't really smoke. So I believe the teenagers say, are you going to continue to hit that? Hit that fat rip? Um, no, I'm not going to be taking any more fat rips out of it because, uh,

it's, it's, it's, it's not, it's not good. How's your asthma this morning? Not great. I saw you when I walked in earlier

you were huffing on an inhaler so that's not the weed pen is it oh dear yeah it was actually it's not made my

asthma any better I give it the big licks oh my dad smoked and he's got asthma so I think I can smoke yeah I can't smoke as soon as as soon as smoke

gets to my lungs my body goes get it out does your dad still smoke now? Nobody used to for a very long time. Yeah.

And he has pretty bad asthma, probably because of it. But yeah, it's not ideal. Not ideal. So stay off the drugs, guys.

What else happened over the weekend, Pete? Went to see Knives Out. Same as you, mate. We both went to see Knives Out at different times. I think I saw Knives Out

two hours before you. I could have given you a dirty old text two hours before you. I could have given you a dirty old text, couldn't I? I could have given you the worst text. It's a testament to how much our friendship

has broken down over the years that I knew that you were going to see it that I put it on the other step straight away because I knew, yeah, the thing is,

I didn't think you would spoil me, but I did think that you would do some kind of joke which would be annoying. Yeah, looking like you were

going to spoil me then not spoil me which I would have found as annoying I was going to text you is the mousetrap the end of mousetrap I was going to just say

it was that can I ask something about the mousetrap have you seen the mousetrap no but I know who did it but this is the question so Agatha Christie's

the mousetrap for those who don't know it is the longest running play in the West End in London about a board game it's a whodunit about a kind of

people get snowed in in some hotel and someone dies and that's all you need to know but my question was I assumed that they did it

so it was a different murderer every night and they rotated it oh right and that's why it's so good because that's why it keeps people guessing because you go and see it one night and they rotated it. Oh, right. And that's why it's so good because that's why it keeps people guessing

because you go see it one night and it's that person. You go back six months later it'll be another person that's rewritten. Right. No, I think it's

always been the chap in question. In which case, have I just had the best idea for a theatre production ever? Surely they've done that before, haven't they? Yeah.

It would have to be bloody good for you to come back every time to see who kills someone. It would be possible because they've got a certain defined and limited amount

of characters in that play. They could just do rewrites. Yeah, but you get well confused. And when you turn up at that day, they go,

right, we're doing this one tonight, so crack on. I'd get really confused and do the wrong speech. You're the murderer tonight. God damn it

yeah and there's about three murderers in every single one but yeah Knives Out was good and one thing I found odd about it

again this is a spoiler free zone so because the film is still in cinemas Ryan Johnson directed it and he in your cinema show

was there a little interview with him at the start saying don't give any secrets away yeah yeah I found that odd why

because I felt like it took me out of it it was right at the start of the film yeah it was but I felt like I don't give any secrets away. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I found that odd. Why? Because I felt like it took me out of it. It was right at the start of the film. Yeah, it was, but I felt like I don't need you to tell me that. Is that how we've descended now? Yeah, but people are fucking idiots, aren't they? People will tweet any old nonsense, won't they? Yeah, I saw Mark Kermode was on Twitter

literally yesterday saying, by the way, stop complaining to me about spoilers. I mean, I'm a film reviewer. If you don't want to know anything about a film, don't read the film review. I'm giving you a plot outline because that's what i have to do yeah why would you read a film review before you've seen something and go oh no you spoiled it for me but i mean bearing my trailers just spoil everything about the film anyway all of the visual um bits a laid bare before you even go into the cinema yeah i really want to see that

um oh it's a korean film um infected or something i'm hearing good things about something cinema. Yeah. I really want to see that Korean film Infected or something. I'm hearing good things about something that sounds a bit like Infected but I can't remember what it is. Yes.

And another film I've seen, Pete Donaldson, is I saw it yesterday, Little Women. All right, yeah. It's very, very good. Very good. Exceptionally good.

Is it about some actual little women or is it based on the book? Yeah, is it about some actual little women or is it based on the book yeah yeah it's both like little women as in yeah they're tiny

like Honey I Shrunk the Women exactly it's exactly like that so imagine Honey I Shrunk the Kids yeah but but set

in during the US Civil War yes and they're very tiny and they've got tiny little clothes and tiny little jobs and there's a massive dog

but it's just a normal sized dog but to them it's massive yeah and terrorises them oh right and they all want to go and their husbands all want to go and fight in the US Civil War

but they can't because they're all tiny you're not going to be and there's a big booming general who says you're not going to be effective because your guns they look like normal size to

you but they're just like pea shooters to normal size people they could climb up the soldiers and get their carotid arteries with their little guns couldn't they so

that's what they do they end up going on like a secret agent mission and they climb up the trouser leg of all the normal size soldiers and nip their

ephemera what's it called the ephemeral artery in the thigh in the thigh yeah and end up being responsible for a few murders so it was good

it was good it wasn't what I expected and yeah so I would recommend that shout out to Jet Set Michelle

on Twitter who discovered a new battery brand this week Kiho K-I-H-O a new player has officially

entered the game it's at Luke and Pete show on Twitter our handle K-I-H-O. A new player has officially entered the game. Yeah. It's at Luke and Pete Show on Twitter, our handle. And I am very, very kind of perturbed to announce to you, Pete Donaldson, that there's been a spate of satanic... I shouldn't laugh. There's been a spate of satanic I shouldn't laugh there's been a spate of satanic

sheep killings in the new forest how satanic is it just a wolf a sheep has been found impaled on a well if it is a wolf

then I'll let you make your own mind up a sheep has been found impaled on a pitchfork alongside an upside down cross made of hay in the latest animal killing to feature occult imagery in the new forest.

Just kids. It's just kids being awful. Kids can be Satanist. Kids can be Satanist too. Someone's spray-painted a star, like a satanic star on the sheep's fur. Look at it. What?

Oh, a pentagram. A local man said it gives me the creeps. He doesn't have anything else to say. What do you mean, that gives me the creeps? Yeah. There's a vicar. They found the local vicar. The thing about this is it's great local journalism.

They found the local vicar, and he said, people are concerned. I've been here 15 years, and I've seen a lot of stuff. Have you? What? Parish in the New Forest.

But nothing like this. It could just be kids, but I don't think it is given the context. There's been witchcraft around here for hundreds of years. The New Forest is well known for witchcraft and black magic and this has obviously gone up a level.

Could it be your mate, Joe Scribbles? What do you mean? Oh, what? He's out on the lam, literally. On the loose. Is he trying to get some kind of

cheap heat for a forthcoming podcast? Serious, yeah. Why would you... I mean, it's not something I used to do when I was a kid, but I mean... Murder animals. Is it something to be worried about? Because these people normally go along... I mean, we've all seen presumably that Don't Fuck With Cats thing on Netflix.

Yeah. I mean, I haven't seen it, but I know what it's about. And if people start killing animals, it's a bad sign, isn't it? It's like wetting the bed and starting fires. Well, it's not very... The three things they look out for for kids.

Wetting the beds today? Harm to animals, wetting the bed, starting fires all the time. Come on, we've all wet the bed and none of us have gone on to murder anyone. I don't think it means wetting the bed after like 15 pints, Pete.

All right. And a little suck on your little weed tree. On my little... On my little... Your little lolly pot. I'm not a sweet Mary Robot, Jen. But I think there are things that people look out for. My friend, who shall remain nameless,

did a exchange to, I want to say, Germany, a student exchange, and set the family's house on fire. Why was that? He was. Deliberately? Mocking around with a lighter in a deodorant can. How can you just stop that immediately?

You know what you've done. I don't know, but I think in my mind, and I've got no basis for this, but in my mind, he was staying in one of those Swiss chalets that were made of wood. Yeah, it just went up.

Oh no. Yeah. Do you want a quick clip from Family Feud Canada? Hmm. Oh, I've heard about this. Yeah,

I want to hear this. I really much enjoyed this week. It's Family Fortunes, isn't it, basically? Yeah. The American version. So the question is...

One question. Only one answer. Whoever gets it, you're playing for $10, question. Only one answer. Whoever gets it, you're playing for $10,000. That's it. Whoever guesses this wins the game. Here we go.

Name Popeye's favourite food. Chicken! Oh dear. It's her little dance she does that I quite enjoy. Show me chicken! She's got confused with Popeye's chicken,

hasn't she? Yeah, she has, yeah. Spinach, Jerry. Show me spinach! The Tomlinson Waterloo She's got confused with Popeye's chicken, hasn't she? Yeah, she has, yeah. Spinach, Jerry. Tommy Spinach! The Tomlins from Waterloo have taken it, Ontario. 10,000 Canadian dollars up for grabs. How much is that in pounds? I don't actually know.

I reckon it's about 8,000 pounds. It's 5,895 pounds. That's not great, is it? At time of recording. It's better than nothing. It's better than nothing. The thing is, normally, I mean, Mimi was watching an amazing TV show yesterday. And I mean, I say amazing, I mean, like, baffling.

I can't even remember what it was called. Right. But I think, oh, yeah, this is the thing, right? So, I think, let me just double check what it was called. I think it might have been called, yeah, it's called Forged in Fire, right? It's a reality show, and it's about people who are bladesmiths and blacksmiths, and it's a competition show, and they have to make the best knife or whatever, a weapon.

And I was watching it with Mimi yesterday. She said, I really want to see this for ages, and I never got around to watching it, because she's a nerd for that kind of stuff. And as she started watching it, do you know what I realised it was? What? It's the show from Dads with Swords.

Uh, what? So they test the weapons at the end of each episode. Yeah. And it's that thing you made, that video you made, Dads with Swords. Right. That's where you've taken the footage from. Oh, what?

They're just, no, I thought it was just like an advert for a particular knife shop where it's just a lot of blocks in the car park. Well, it's very similar because at the end of Forged in Fire, the one I saw last night, they were making bowie knives

and they had two tests. They had the antler test and the beef rib test. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. And they had to smash the antler. I didn't know this, but apparently antler is very, very good

for testing the veracity or the strength of a blade. Why? Because it's so well knitted together and it's a mineral so it's essentially a bit like a rock

a bit like a rock but you can cut it yeah and this guy was smashing blades into a lantern and one of the blades broke right

but one of them kind of did it and it was good and then they had a big carcass yeah and they were slashing through it

I just always think with those like they never they just let the carcass they just they chop up the meat and the meat just falls on the floor

yeah it's a waste yeah it's and the meat just falls on the floor. Yeah, it's a waste. Yeah, it's just a waste. Get that on the barbecue. Delicious. Yeah, definitely. Maybe they should do it directly above a barbecue. So it instantly starts to sizzle on the barbecue.

It's done, yeah. Disgraceful. All right, let's have a little break, Peter. And then when we come back, we'll do some emails. All right, then. That's nice enjoy that is that your remix of the human league remix

yeah just enjoyable very enjoyable just enjoyable got any emails there Donnie hello at lukeandpeachshow.com

is the place to email in I've got a few collected here, but you're welcome to go first if you want. Yeah, well, Robin Stacey's come in with an idea for the 200th episode special. Nice. And the running order that might take place. Not that we even have a running order.

Live from Stubbington Study Centre, all attendees to bring their remote control batteries for a best-named battery competition. My batteries are King Kongs, for example, Robin. Thank you for that. On arrival, canapes of sliced long eggs, space food, and a little bit of the bubbly. Nice.

Segment, Tinkering with Pete, sponsored by Maplin. Pete opens up his power PC and replaces component after component using plenty of thermal paste. Attempt to set a new It's Bean world record. We haven't done that for a while. Guinness World Record adjudicate to be present to ensure it's not actually spin it, being said.

Special guest is Julian Assange. He eats a succulent Chinese meal on stage while talking about his time in the Ecuadorian embassy. And then a talk, a TED talk, if you will, from Pilot Neil on the legality of carrying cocaine in the cockpit of an aircraft. And then a bit of men Carter

if you've got time that's the greatest hit that makes that sure sound good I don't reckon Maplin have got a marketing budget

at the moment no so they would better get involved we couldn't afford Pilot Neil because pilots BA get paid

very well is it BA I can't remember I think it is somebody I mean somebody will own the name surely Maplins

won't they it'll belong to some receiver or someone you can buy it really cheap and just stick it on

well to the point of them giving us money to promote something that doesn't actually exist anymore well to sell a name I guess

again to get the market interested in the name Maplins what do you reckon Julian Assange is doing right now I don't know

probably looking out of his window having a coffee reading the papers where is he he's done a lot of that the last few years I is he? He's done a lot of that in the last few years, right?

I reckon he's probably out for a walk. A wee walk and his dog. But yeah, Robin does finish the email by saying, O-Town will perform their hit single

Liquid Dreams. This must be properly policed. It must repeat, not turn into an all-night rave. Yeah. So there you go.

There's another one on that vein here from John Rendell. He says, Gents, I note based on your current podcast numbering convention that episode 200 is scheduled for Monday the 2nd of March. This gives you A, a bit of prep time for something special, or B, ample opportunity to move to three decimal places and procrastinate further. I think we all know where this is going.

Love your work with best wishes, John. Yeah, we haven't really, I mean, we've kind of been lost because maybe other, because we are two men who society is forgotten about and rightly so, or because we're way ahead of our time.

And I'll let you make your mind up about which one of those it is. We kind of try to subvert the whole naming convention, numbering convention thing because it is essentially pointless. I don't know why we started it. We've undermined it. Well, we started it because I wanted to do it, because I needed some kind of... Control.

Order. Yeah, control, partly, but order to your mad life, so to give us a better chance of success. Right. But yeah, I completely agree. It's entirely irrelevant now, and that's why we kind of subverted it. Yeah. I can't remember what number we I completely agree. It's entirely irrelevant now and that's why we kind of subverted it. Yeah.

I can't remember what number we're on now. It's something ridiculous. This is episode 199.87. I've got it written down just in case it comes up. I think we might be running out. We'll have to go to half that again. We'll have to go

into the next decimal point. Well, like John says, you move to three decimal places and procrastinate further. So it's possible. It is possible. Ewan from Aberdeen. Hello, Luke.

Hello, Pete. Long time listener. First time emailer on one of your recent shows. I was surprised when you got the origin of the term spam wrong. On the show,

you mentioned that spam email is like spam. The meat is spam. It's a low quality meat. Just as spam is a low quality email. However, the actual origin

of the term spam is from a Monty Python sketch set in a cafe. And then he goes into detail the famous spam sketch from Monty Python. I don't know that. Spam, spam term spam. It's from a Monty Python sketch set in a cafe and then he goes on to detail the famous spam sketch from Monty Python. I don't know that.

Yeah, I know that, but I don't know how it relates to emails. Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam! Spam!

Spam! Spam! Spam! I think just geek culture embraces Monty Python pretty heavily. Do you remember they had a really good video game on the Amiga back in the day? Really good stuff. Really strong. My American family were surprised when I told them that Monty Python isn't as part of the kind of modern discourse as it is in the US. One of the very few comedy actors

who broke America, isn't he? We never, I don't ever remember it being on TV when we were kids. It was in my house, but I don't know whether my dad, it's just because my dad liked it.

My parents liked it though. They talk about liking it all the time. We used to watch, I saw Life of Brian and Holy Grail at a very early age. Yeah. On like video,

VHS video, but I don't remember it being on repeat on TV. But then having but I don't remember it being on repeat but then having said that there were bits on TV I remember watching there wasn't that much TV then there was there

no but I think I remember a couple of like retrospectives where they just got together like the strongest sketches or whatever and I was really fond of one where

where these two kind of like spivs run onto a a tennis court anyone for tennis no okay then and they all start playing tennis kind of like spivs running onto a tennis court. Anyone for tennis? No?

Okay then. And they all start playing tennis. And I think like they keep hitting the balls at each other and they keep on hitting each other's eyes and stuff

and their eyes just start, blood starts coming out of their eyes and their arms fall off and there's blood everywhere. It's disgusting.

It's my favourite Monty Python sketch. Did that appeal to the eight-year-old Pete Donaldson? It did, because I used to draw this. I remember being reported to the head when I was in primary school for drawing two muscle men. I used to draw proper muscly guys. I can imagine you were the kind of kid

who used to spend a lot of time doodling and drawing quite problematic cartoons in the classroom. There was a lot of claret splashing around. And I remember Mrs. Peverley had a really strange problem with me. Tell us more about that. She would just be obsessed with the fact that I used to draw rather graphic pictures of chainsaws. Sexy ones?

Sexy men getting their, big muscle men getting their arms chopped off with a chainsaw and blood everywhere. But you used to do sexy cartoons as well? I didn't do sexy cartoons, no. No. I stole some books once, and she thought it was indicative of problems at home, which obviously alerted my mum and dad a little bit.

So what did the teacher say about your muscle men? Just describe an example. Two muscle men, usually in their pants, just very muscular, six packs, nipples, excellent trunks, so to speak.

And yeah, one of them is invariably attacking the other one with a big chainsaw. Heads are coming off, limbs are coming off. There's blood everywhere. And if Mrs. Peverley

can't handle that, then watch out. She shouldn't get involved, should she? No. She shouldn't get involved. What was her complaint then? What was her kind of beef? I don't understand what her problem is.

She's too violent. It was just too violent. I don't mind you drawing in class. I don't mind you drawing in class. Was it an art class? No, no, it was just normal class. Right. And how old would you have been at the time?

About eight. But she thought there was something going on at home because I was a troubled child with me stealing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books and drawing daubings. What did your parents think? dark there was something going on at home because I was a troubled child with me stealing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory books and drawing daubings what did your

parents think about you your dad was presumably in bed by the time you told them all I used to do was tell stories

that weren't true like I had a brother at another school yeah like a brother at another school oh you're that kid were you

yeah girlfriend who went to another school that kind of stuff I stopped that when I was about 25 but I mean when I was that when I was about 25. But I mean, when I was a kid, I did that.

Lads in our school. I remember my parents sitting me down and saying, now, first of all, we all think it's excellent that you've got such a vivid imagination. Yep. But, stop being a little cunt. You don't have a brother. You don't have a brother who lives in a loft. Yeah. Were you going to say something then

about a kid at your school I'll cut you off yeah no no he said he had a brother who lived in the loft did he yep I think that's the plot

of a Simpsons episode isn't it where Bart becomes yes there's an evil Bart in the loft what about this from Andy hello to you Andy

who says listening to your latest episode about the dad who buried animals for his kids. He actually listened to that episode. He messaged me. So thanks for calling me a cool and metal dad, he said.

And then showed them the bones. It reminded me of my parents' recent behavior. This is great, this email from Andy. He says, both my parents are scientists. My dad is a geneticist at Imperial College.

And my mom is a biochemist for science research and neither really have a hobby but they've both recently retired and told me they've got into breeding moths. Oh no. However, it turns out they're not breeding them in the traditional sense. They're importing

usually from South America, sorry usually from South Africa via mum's old boss. Exotic caterpillars which they then put in a box with some leaves. Then they go into chrysalis hibernation and turn to moss, of course. Now's the interesting part, though. They're invasive species and so cannot be let loose.

So what my parents do is put them in a large mesh box, think of a laundry basket, but slightly see-through, and let them flap around inside until they die. My parents then dry them out, frame them, and include the Latin name. Hilarity ensued when I got a series of texts upon landing from a long-haul flight

that mum had texted the family WhatsApp group with a photo of a death's head moth, which is very beautiful, followed by a message that one had escaped in the night and started flapping around the bedroom. They had to get up and find it. I've no idea if they killed it.

They probably did, Andy. And it probably ate through your dad's suit or something as well. But what a great hobby for parents to have. It's a weird one, isn't it? A death's head hawk moth. I'm looking at one now. They are quite beautiful. I wouldn't mind that one. I mean, that would take

a big old chunk out of your claws. It probably doesn't eat claws, that moth. Probably trees or something. Does your dad have a hobby? Has he done the shed a lot? What does he do? No, he's not been in the shed for a little while. I think I should set up

a little bed in there. Yeah. Just that could be my Christmas bed. But I think with Andy, I think this is a situation where he's, he comes across

as a little bit kind of embarrassed by his parents being geeky. Right. But other people think this is really cool. Yeah, that is cool. It's a cool thing.

I mean, would they have to keep moth balls in all of their bits and bobs to keep the moths out, do you reckon? Well, it looks to me

like they've got a pretty slick, swept up operation and only very occasionally there's one escape. So maybe they'll have to think about it too much.

They've got the large mesh box to rely upon, haven't they? Large mesh box. There was a great episode of a David Attenborough documentary

a while back. You know the one where you disrespectfully took the walrus chucking itself off the cliff? Boing? Yeah, that series. Yeah.

With the mayfly. Yeah. They wait for, I think it's three years, to come to maturity from the riverbed up to the top of the river and they fly out and they fly onto a tree and then they kind of, I don't know what the terms are, but they evolve and they go and find a female mate. Three years it takes them and they're alive and they fly onto a tree and then they kind of, I don't know what the terms are, but they evolve and they go and find a female mate.

Three years it takes them and they're alive for four hours. Yeah. It's like a cicada. Isn't that beautiful about the fragile? They spend all of their weeks underneath the ground.

That's like 10 years though, isn't it? Well, I don't think it's that long, but they come up and try and find a mate and they're dead within a couple of days. It's crazy.

The fragility of life, huh? The loudness of cicadas. Yeah. I've got one more email here we can squeeze in before we go and it is from Sam who says, Hi chaps, after hearing the Inspector Gadget theme in the last episode, I have a little bit of trivia

for you. Haim Saban, the mastermind behind the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, made his money originally as a musician and is one of the team who created the Inspector Gadget theme tune. Also, on the Gladiators thread, Wolf opened a petrol station in Coventry back in

the 90s. Thanks for the good work, Sam. Wolf opening a petrol station in Coventry, you don't need to give the decade there, do you? It's the most 90s thing that could ever happen. He probably had a can of that soft drink

that Jim Campbell always talks about Jim said the most 90s thing to ever happen was there was a can of soft drink released to run alongside

an opening of a rollercoaster at Alton Towers that is quite a 90s thing to happen I've told you Nemesis the blackcurrant

licorice mashup in Hartlepool love that stuff I would drink a can if anybody could find a can from quite a 90s thing to have. I've told you, I've told you, Nemesis, the Black Currant Licorice mashup. Good, right? In Hartlepool, love that stuff. I would drink a can. If anybody could find a can from the 90s, I'd probably think

about drinking it. Why did you sort of intimate that it was only available in Hartlepool? Because I didn't see it anywhere else. And I've travelled. I've been around, baby.

I don't reckon you left Hartlepool that much in the 90s. It wasn't in Middlesbrough, it wasn't in Newcastle, it wasn't in Darlington, it wasn't in Billingham, it wasn't in Peterley.

But would you regularly leave Hartlepool? No, no, no, not necessarily. We didn't have a car. Would you go to see him?

I've never, I don't think I've, I've walked around seeing him a couple of times but I've never sort of, no, I've not really spent that much time there

to be honest. People should get in touch, hello at lukeandpetecher.com. Have you ever been to see him? If you've A, been to see him and B, think of the most 90s thing that ever happened.

Tell us. I'm just looking up Haim Saban. Because remember Saban used to come up after every Power Rangers used to say it. Saban. I pronounced it Saban. I probably got that wrong. Haim Saban. Yes, he's an Israeli-American media proprietor,

investor, musician, and producer of records, films, and television. He is the 232nd richest person in America. I thought the Power Rangers were like Japanese or something because all of that was very sort of Mothra and kind of King Kong kind of style. You know, like when everything used to go big and they used to have a fight.

I assumed it was as well. But having said that, I feel like I missed the boat on Power Rangers. I was a little bit too old for it. Did you ever watch it? A little bit, but it was all a bit polished for me. It was all a bit kind of like

true blue American, Americana, that I didn't care for. They always defeat the bad guy in the end. They always defeat the bad guy in the end. That's what you need when you're a kid. You need to know that good triumphs over evil. I think one of them died recently.

Might be more from Power Rangers. I think you're right. Because when you're an adult, you realise the world is fucked and literally on fire. And on that note, we shall leave you here until Thursday. Thanks very much for tuning in.

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