The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 37: A brave new world

Episode Date: February 12, 2018

The first of a new-look, twice a week Luke and Pete Show muscles into territory as diverse as efficient hydration (Luke), too-tight trousers (Pete, obviously), hemp trousers (Pete again, obviously) an...d the world's oldest animals. A note of caution, the world's oldest animals section blows Pete's mind to bits and it may well do the same to you. Consider that a warning.There's also more than enough time to hear from a listener who got himself into a spot of bother in a hotel in Krakow with hilarious consequences, so don't miss that. Tell us about your hotel or old animal-related problems and issues here: hello@lukeandpeteshow.comLeave us a review on iTunes or wherever you get your pods and be in with a chance to become our favourite ever listener! Love you x Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Luke Moer, would you mind not opening a bottle of pop during the music? Outrageous behaviour. I'm addicted. I'm addicted to sugar. He's not actually drinking pop, ladies and gentlemen. He's actually drinking a little bit of water. I am. You're a very hydrated man, Luke. Thank you very much.
Starting point is 00:00:29 It has been said. Fitting like a racehorse, I am. I'm knackered, Luke. I spend a good half an hour fixing the system, fixing the headphones. Yeah, we had a conversation last week, didn't we,
Starting point is 00:00:40 about whether we should or shouldn't mention technical things in the studio we've been there for about two hours fixing it and i say we i mean you i was wearing the tightest trousers uh and so when i uh sort of bent down to fiddle with a load of wires on the floor yeah it genuinely restricted blood to my head and i felt dizzy when i started you're wearing a pair of trousers which very much say i have never done an ounce of man you wouldn't get a plumber coming around oh yeah i love look at your boy no problem in a pair of purple tartan skin tight trousers made of hemp i was going to you always say that
Starting point is 00:01:16 i wear hemp trousers i don't i don't have anything in my woolen um i was gonna go to the gym afterwards so i could have turned up in me civvies, couldn't I? But no, I thought I'll make an effort. I'll wear some tart and weird trousers for you. Anyway, Luke and Pete show. I'm Luke Moore. This is Don Peterson. Hello, you all right? Good.
Starting point is 00:01:34 Don Peterson actually sounds like you could be a bad guy in an 80s Miami Vice type show. Don Peterson. Or a good guy in a 90s show. Yeah, possibly. Who knows? Redemption. We should probably point out as well, Peter,
Starting point is 00:01:50 this stage, because people are going to see this in their iTunes pipe or wherever they get their podcasts, that the show's a bit shorter today. Just as a reminder, we are going to bring out two shows a week from this week onwards.
Starting point is 00:02:02 One on a Monday, one on a Thursday. So they're going to be slightly shorter. So don't panic. Don't email in. You can email in, but don't email in about that. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. There's going to be two.
Starting point is 00:02:14 You're going to get another one on Thursday. That's why this one is a touch shorter. Yeah, I mean, if you're upset about that, you could always just listen to both in a row, couldn't you? Yeah, true. And then everything's fine. Set up a playlist. Set up a little playlist. Don't listen to both in a row, couldn't you? Yeah, true. And then everything's fine. Set up a playlist. Set up a little playlist.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Don't listen to any for the next three months and get a ridiculous amount. Someone's going to crop that. You get a big line-up, and if you go on the run for longer than about 25 minutes, which I bloody well don't, you can never have the next one playing automatically. How's your week been? Have you been doing a bit of running? You're pretty good. You like a little bit of running every now and again, don't. You can never have the next one playing automatically. How's your week been?
Starting point is 00:02:45 All right. Have you been doing a bit of running? You're pretty good. You like a little bit of running every now and again, don't you? Yeah, I committed to... This is an error, but I committed... I committed an atrocity. So I had to run away from that.
Starting point is 00:02:53 What were you going to say? No, I signed up for Strava Premium and I committed... What the hell is that? It's a way of... Sounds like an Italian restaurant. Yeah, I signed up for Strava Premium. I can't run anymore because I'm full of pasta. No, it's a way of an italian restaurant tracking yes well yeah i can't run anymore i'm full of pasta no it's a way of tracking your runs and comparing your pace and different routes you run regularly
Starting point is 00:03:10 and all that kind of stuff essentially what i was doing isn't it the wearables and the tracking well it goes on your phone so i have to have a phone in my pocket or my arm or whatever but it um the big problem for me with running is just that i don't get out to anywhere different yeah i run from home back to home really yeah and so there's only a certain amount of routes you can do but strava at least gives you a chance to monitor how you're getting on where you're fast where you're slow how you can improve you what route would be better for you um where you can improve and stuff so i've signed up for that and i was just going to say i've committed publicly as publicly as you can i suppose on
Starting point is 00:03:41 strava to to 500 miles this year okay which doesn't sound like a lot to some people I know but to me it's quite a lot so I need to stick at it really so I have been running I did 5 miles yesterday I always find running a track quite boring simply because I don't run myself but if I did I'd find it incredibly fascinating the thing about running is
Starting point is 00:04:00 that you've got to push yourself all the time like Sean Connery you've got to push yourself all the time and i just can't be arsed something inside me goes you don't have to do this at least you're like lifting well i don't mind lifting weights like because i look how powerful i look yeah um i don't mind lifting weights because you do that completely naked don't you as well but at least you're like i just need to do this a few times and then I can stop.
Starting point is 00:04:32 You've hit on something there because the biggest sort of enemy of being able to go on a successful run is that voice in your head that says, what are you doing? Just stop. Just stop. I talk myself out of it by saying, well, okay, if I stop now, it's going to take me twice as long to walk home. Right. okay, if I stop now, it's going to take me twice as long to walk home. Right.
Starting point is 00:04:48 And I also try and tell myself that I'm a youngish, not outrageously unfit person. So I'm very unlikely to puke up in the street or drop down dead or whatever. So I just think, well, just get on with it. Stop moaning about it. Just get it done. And for me, it's a really good way of clearing the mind and having a little look around and just being outside. Because these days, you know what it's like in the lifestyle we lead, the way we work and stuff.
Starting point is 00:05:08 You don't really get outside very often. So it's important to do so. So that's what, I've done a bit of that. What have you been up to? Not running. Went to the gym a couple of times. Listened to the new Franz Ferdinand album and interviewed Franz Ferdinand. So basically, this podcast has just become what I've done like yesterday.
Starting point is 00:05:24 Because you can't remember anything more than that one thing that has just because I don't want to forget to remember this you know the wrestling podcast you're doing with Mark, Wrestle Me it's made me I've listened to it and enjoyed it it's made me realise that
Starting point is 00:05:40 Survivor Series 1992 and I'm not doing Survivor Series, I'm doing Wrestlemania but Survivor Series 1992 was one we're not doing Survivor Series, we're doing WrestleMania, but Survivor Series 1992 was one of the biggest moments of my childhood. Right, okay. And I've already ordered, I've already bookmarked it to try and order a copy of it
Starting point is 00:05:55 so I can watch it again. Okay, why don't you just get a login to the WWE Network, which is how I watch everything. I don't know if I really want to do that as a 37-year-old man. The WWE Network's worth it, is it really want to do that as a 37 year old man. The WWE network is worth it, is it? Shall I do that?
Starting point is 00:06:07 You know what, out of all of the on-demand video services I've ever experienced, it's really rather good. Like, again, the whole conceit of Wrestle Me, the podcast of myself and my friend Mark Haynes, is that Mark Haynes knows a lot about wrestling. He's a funny, intelligent, erudite man
Starting point is 00:06:23 and I think that's fair to say. You are none of those things. And I'm none of those things, and also, on top of that, I don't know anything about wrestling. So I'm coming to it completely cold. I'm experiencing the WWE Network completely cold. And their delivery system is actually very good.
Starting point is 00:06:38 Like, their markers on the timeline, you can sort of go back and check out what's going on. They've got all of the WrestleManias, all of the Survivoranias all of the Survivor Series every WWE product and also some that aren't even
Starting point is 00:06:49 WWE that they've bought in is available on the WWE network and it's really something else I don't know how much it costs
Starting point is 00:06:55 because I've been using Mark's login ooh but it's their revenue is surely getting on towards a billion dollars a year
Starting point is 00:07:03 though right yeah and yet they want to throw things at the NFL. XFL. Yeah, XFL. That's been tried before as well. Yeah, and massively failed.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Can we have an it's been? It's been. You sure can. That was a weak second half. I've been dicking about with it. Yeah, you were tired. It's fair enough. My legs are tight.
Starting point is 00:07:20 It has been a week since we've talked. I just thought I'd give us a quick praise of the stuff we've been talking about recently, some of which may well be covered in the much-coveted and much-looked-forward-to email section a little bit later on. Stuff we've talked about recently includes old animals, and there is some more of that in a minute. Old animals? Weird place names, statues, words that have no translation to English and odd reasons to have a riot oh that was the
Starting point is 00:07:49 the dockers the straw hat riot of 1922 don't fight a docker or whatever they were were they dockers they were dockers dockers were involved
Starting point is 00:07:57 at one point and that's when it went south Pete that is when it went south and it's funny I was thinking when we were talking about that last week we were talking about
Starting point is 00:08:03 never start on a bunch of dockers no and then i started thinking about the brand of chino's dockers which are the most benign and and pretty laid back pair of trousers you could get which i personally found quite ironic yeah i like i used to like dickies they're kind of working pants i had working pants dickies is a bit of a strange one for me because I had a lovely, sort of quite tall mirror in my house at my parents' place. I think I said giraffe. No. And when my parents decorated my bedroom as a teenager or whatever, they put a nice mirror in there. And obviously me being the obnoxious teenager that I was, and some would say still am.
Starting point is 00:08:40 Bad boy's life. No, I put a Dickies sticker on the bottom of it, which I got free with some shoes or something. And then fast forward about 15 years, when I was going into my most recent flat that I live in now, I thought, I really need to get a nice mirror. I thought, hang on a minute, I've got a mirror. And I'm like, oh shit, it's got a big Dickies sticker. It's got a big Dickies sticker.
Starting point is 00:08:59 And it wouldn't come off. It wouldn't come off. Surely you could. No, it's too sticky. Too sticky. Sticky Dickies. Come on, get some... Solvent?
Starting point is 00:09:07 Some solvent. Get some solvent. Get some nail varnish remover. I watched a video of a nail varnish... Sorry, of a keyboard, a computer keyboard being dissolved in... Is it acetone? That's nail varnish remover? I think it's acetone, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:09:19 Yeah, sounds about right. Like a little kind of... Not vial. A little kind of glass of acetone. And somebody was just melting a keyboard. It was like a time-lapse thing. It took about 72 hours, I think. Oh, it looks very satisfying.
Starting point is 00:09:32 Just everything melting. Does it remind you of that scene in Breaking Bad? Which one? Where he dissolves the guy in the bath. Is that a spoiler? Breaking Bad's been out for years. It can't be a spoiler. Come on now, guys.
Starting point is 00:09:43 You don't even know which guy it is. Shall we do emails? Let's do emails then. Because we've been taking ages already. Let's do emails. All right. Do you want a sweeper then? All right then.
Starting point is 00:09:53 Let's do a sweeper. Good. I love it. Well, I don't have my dial now because I had to take it out because it was making a funny noise, isn't it? Off mic. Off mic.
Starting point is 00:10:02 I haven't got my dial. I haven't got my dial. There we go. Okay, Luke. Don't gunge me mate pipe down pete i told you never to argue with the customers never argue with the customers luke no i'll try not to do you want an email first yes please you go you go first okay would you want old animals um stubbington study center or um a hotel in krakow uh can i get a hotel in krakow please i mean you go for that one. Of course you can.
Starting point is 00:10:25 Okay, here we go. This is from Charlie. He doesn't want his surname being used. Fair enough. So I won't. Because he's a mad, keen finger baiter. No, you're here. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:35 He's a star of the viral video of 2000 and whatever it was. He says, hi, guys. Given that you've mentioned Krakow a few times recently, I thought I'd share my amusing and rather harrowing experience there last week. My very lovely lady had booked a trip to the Polish city for us as my Christmas present. And this is often the case on your first night away somewhere, full of excitement, we got rather drunk. We returned to our hotel around 1 a.m. and passed out almost immediately.
Starting point is 00:11:00 Nature called at around 3 a.m. And I woke half asleep, half drunk, and aimed for the bathroom. I opened the door, walked through, and the door closed behind me, and only then did I realise that I hadn't walked into the bathroom, but out of the hotel room. Oh no! Completely naked. Perfect. Absolutely perfect. I knocked on the door and called my girlfriend's name, but alas, she was out for the count.
Starting point is 00:11:22 This is a nightmare come to life. Squinting like a mole in the bright lights of the corridor and completely billy bollocks i started wandering around trying to find something anything to cover myself walking into the stairwell i found a big dirty laundry basket pretty disgusting but knees must it must have looked like a really shit beginning to 28 days later taking one of the soil cloths out and fashioning into what was essentially a big nappy i got in the lift and headeding it into what was essentially a big nappy. I got in the lift and headed down
Starting point is 00:11:47 to reception still desperate for a piss. Well, you could have wet yourself if it was dirty linen after all. Yeah, that's what you'd do.
Starting point is 00:11:54 There were not one but two gentlemen working the night shift on reception who looked rather bemused when I approached and asked can I have another room key.
Starting point is 00:12:01 To make the situation even creepier the room was booked of course under my girlfriend's name which meant I was basically a drunk man wandering around the hotel room naked in the middle of the night demanding to get in a woman's room for a key to a girl's room walk around a hotel sorry not a hotel room and remarkably he gave me the key so i went back to upstairs to bed um what are you up to my girlfriend asked oh now she wakes up as i walk back into the
Starting point is 00:12:23 room never mind i'm in my nappy yeah never mind i replied as i finally went for a wee and went back to sleep i saw the two gentlemen on reception several times over the next few days always greeted with a smirk and also noticed the next day as you'd imagine there were cctv cameras everywhere um long time fan of the ramble and love the show too if you'd like to if you'd be so kind as not read out my surname on air that would be greatly appreciated that's Charlie Naked Boy Smith his surname might be Smith
Starting point is 00:12:48 I didn't take a note of it that's a great email Charlie thanks for that I once got locked out of a hotel room in Porto in just my pants because I got in very very late and the next day was the day we were supposed to be checking out and I think I went out in just my pants to knock on my mate next door.
Starting point is 00:13:09 No, no, just to knock on my mate next door. I took my key with me, but obviously the key had just been deactivated. Yeah, oh, God, yes. So I had to go back down. I had to go to the reception in just my pants. Well, you shouldn't break curfew. You should be out before kick-out time. And your key wouldn't be cancelled, sunshine.
Starting point is 00:13:23 That's rich coming from you, pal. No, because I'm very conscientious when it comes to leaving airbnbs etc at the right time my friends that on more than one occasion on my airbnb rating have stayed behind longer than they should have wait at at the point where the cleaner is turning up and that's going to affect my rating yeah that gets my that boils my piss i can think well i think of one or two other things that are going to affect your rate as well. But do you know what I had to do? They essentially helped. Blood everywhere, Luke.
Starting point is 00:13:50 Oh, God, don't do that again. The thing about that is, right, Pete, there's a lot. Those of you who have not listened to the last week's show, do go and do that. Otherwise, this won't make sense. But when you come up with that sort of stuff, there's two things happen. One is I get a load of tweets saying, oh, I think Luke does really well to deal with Pete when he comes up with that sort of stuff, there's two things happen. One is I get a load of tweets saying, oh, I think Luke does really well to deal with Pete when he comes up with that sort of stuff. And then loads more people saying,
Starting point is 00:14:10 I love it when Pete does that stuff. Well, exactly. I'm just trying to derail it. Yeah, I know you are. See what you're going to do. I know you are. I'm making you a better presenter in many ways. Yeah, and that needs to be done.
Starting point is 00:14:18 Going back to the hotel in Porto, they essentially held me to ransom Pete. They said, yes, you can have another key, but that is technically a late checkout, so you have to pay. Yeah, well, I agree with them. I want my stuff back, so I agree with them too.
Starting point is 00:14:32 What time was the late checkout? What time was the... It was supposed to be 11, and I think I got it till like 2. I... Well, you're well over the late checkout. That's disgraceful. No, I paid to get to.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Oh, right. Oh, did you go back and have a little snooze I think I went down there at one minute past eleven it really annoys like hotel good hotels usually twelve o'clock
Starting point is 00:14:52 that's basic yeah slightly poorer hotels are eleven some dreadful hostels and airbnbs are ten o'clock and you're like
Starting point is 00:14:59 get stuff mate I'm not here for ten I'm not leaving at ten can I just say that's it hotel I'm talking about. I am going to name them. It was the Four Seasons in Porto, which is a bloody good hotel. Jeez, they should have a bit more, well, yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:13 There we go. Britain born, isn't it? Britain born, nobody likes us. Nobody likes us, everyone hates us. We do care. With good cause. Words. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:22 Can we do some words? Sure. Sam Blakely. Words you're after, is it, he says. Oh, God. My favourite wordsy fact is that the fear of long words is known as the delightfully succinct hippopotamonstrosoquipolidophobia.
Starting point is 00:15:36 36 letters. That's great. So you couldn't even tell people what you had because you'd be so scared. Scared of it. Say it again. No. I'm going to name the show after it, so say it again.
Starting point is 00:15:40 You'd be so scared. Scared of it. Say it again. No. I'm going to name the show after it, so say it again. Hippopotamonstrososoquipedervilophobia. Hippopot at the front? Yeah, hippopot, because I guess it's big, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:15:55 It's large. Like a, yeah, a big, large hippo. And the longest word you can write on the top row of a QWERTY keyboard is... Oh, I know this. Can I guess? Yes. I think it might be typewriter. Apt. Very apt and correct. Is it typewriter? Yes, it is typewriter. Yeah, I know this. Can I guess? Yes. I think it might be typewriter. Apt. Very apt and correct.
Starting point is 00:16:05 Is it typewriter? Yes, it is typewriter. Yeah, I knew that before. And the longest word that doesn't repeat a letter is somewhat aptly uncopyrightable. Uncopyrightable. Yeah. I could go on and won't, says Sam Blakely. Good for you, Sam.
Starting point is 00:16:17 That's good on you. Are you familiar with this word? Is it hygge? Yes, I am. The little bug with hygge. It was a big buzzword a year or two ago yeah it's all just a bit like um let's upcycle a dresser let's let's put some gloss paint on this jet deck chair and call it shabby chic yeah let's hang out in ikea all day i'm i'm
Starting point is 00:16:38 gonna say let's um upcycle did you just say upcycle upcycle yeah yeah yeah let's put let's put some new fabric on this chair. As far as I'm aware, the reason this came about is because a study was done which said that several Scandinavian nations, if not all of them, are the happiest on Earth. I mean, what does that even mean? Well, that's the thing, isn't it? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:16:59 They could have just got lucky and just found a load of really happy people. But Britain was quite far down the list. Yeah, well, I would look at somewhere like Scotland. I rarely meet a Scotsman or Scots lady that I don't like. I think they're all brilliant. I'm not trying to curry favour. I just...
Starting point is 00:17:15 If I meet a Scottish person who's a dick, I go, oh, that's weird. I think you're right there. And I'm pleased you said that, because if I said it, I'm part Scottish, so it would sound like I was trying to dig myself up. But I spent a lot of time in Scotland and I think you're right there and I'm pleased you said that because if I said it I'm part Scottish so it would sound like I was trying to dig myself up but I spent a lot of time in Scotland
Starting point is 00:17:28 and I think you're absolutely right they but it can belies what their weather's like but they are comically miserable though they're sort of self-aware miserable no? no I think they're usually quite lovely
Starting point is 00:17:40 maybe I just haven't spent enough time up there would you describe yourself as optimistic or pessimistic? I'm pessimistic. Massively pessimistic. I can't believe you're thinking while I think about that. I was thinking, can I look on the bright side of this? No.
Starting point is 00:17:57 What's that gag that Alexi... What's his name? Alexi... No, American guy. Alexis something or other. I can't remember his name now. He does Alexi Sayle? No, American guy. Alexis something or other. I can't remember his name now. He does charts and things. He sort of said,
Starting point is 00:18:10 it depends on the way you look at things, like cup half full. I'm a cup half full kind of person, but what if it's baby's blood? What if it's full of baby's blood? On that Scandinavian study, the big takeaway for me from that was that I think I'm right in saying that they established
Starting point is 00:18:29 that happiness of citizens is not directly related in any way to economic situation so that essentially there's no link between how wealthy you are and how many things you've got to your overall happiness which I found quite a lot more quite annoying most people did
Starting point is 00:18:45 yeah well i'm well into capitalism i'm furious that's the point i've been sold a lie luke well you've been sold several lies about this show particularly but the reason i said i'll bring that up is because it's hard to i know i know everything is talking about brexit at the moment i don't tend to get into that but rexels but so much of um what we hear about in terms of of politics is related to the economy right yes and i understand that people people want to have jobs but surely they don't just want to have any job i mean for the sake of having a job they want a job they enjoy so it just seems like a little bit of a disconnect but anyway i don't want any job no i know and that's why we're doing this that would make me happy i'm going to squeeze in another email well i was going to say because
Starting point is 00:19:23 that because the person who brought up that, Hugo, was Joe Stevens. He also goes on to tell us about something very special indeed. Indeed, something in Danish culture. His favourite bit of Danish culture is the cake man, the kaggerman. Okay. Which is a birthday tradition in which
Starting point is 00:19:39 a large gingerbread man is made and decorated for children's birthday parties. As part of the tradition, the birthday boy slash girl slices the head off the gingerbread man is made and decorated for children's birthday parties. As part of the tradition, the birthday boy slash girl slices the head off the gingerbread man with a knife while the other kids scream, happy birthday, darling. Now cut the throat of cake man.
Starting point is 00:19:55 Is that true? I really hope that's true. I didn't even bother Googling it because I got so excited. I don't think it matters if it's true. Sever his gingery artery. I love it it i actually love that that's fantastic it is there is something quite odd about if you think about it about kids
Starting point is 00:20:10 making sort of um um like cakes or edible things that in the shape of human beings right yeah which they then eat it's a little bit strange isn't it but nobody gets upset about that sort of thing but i remember mrs peverley a teacher at school i used to draw these muscle men uh getting their arms chopped off with chainsaws when i was a kid loads of claret everywhere loads of blood lots of red pen yeah uh and she uh took me aside a few times and it's everything all right at home right the old the old the old conversation a teacher must have to have like every week to someone i think it's the 80s though i think there's a lot of a lot of abuse uh hysteria flying around. Remember when everyone was obsessed with, like,
Starting point is 00:20:48 abuse and the occult and stuff like that? These weird sort of cults in the 80s. So, like, our parents must have been absolutely shit-scared of us reporting them for any kind of small misdemeanour. I thought you were going to say you ended up cutting off your teacher's arms with a chainsaw. Well, yeah, that was how it ended, yeah. That's why I was in Boston for three years.
Starting point is 00:21:06 I'm going to squeeze another email in. All right. It's about old animals, just because it's a particularly nice story. And it's from Craig Weeks. And Craig says, Hi, guys. Always good to hear a reference or two to Portsmouth,
Starting point is 00:21:19 my hometown. Well, of course, it's partly my hometown, too, so that's probably why that happened. He said, on the topic of oldest pets, and we talked about this last week may I submit my entry for the 85 to 90 year old Mediterranean Spur Tortoise in my family
Starting point is 00:21:34 Jimmy, more about the name in a second was given to my father about 40 years ago who at the time had no idea how old he was we all thought Jimmy to be male and probably about 10 when dad got him. Fast forward to about eight years ago and for the first time,
Starting point is 00:21:49 Dad takes Jimmy to the vet to trim nails and claws and there's a bit of damage to him. And lo and behold, not only did we find out that Jimmy was in fact a lady, but that she was the same age as Dad at approximately 80,
Starting point is 00:22:03 making her around 88 now. Aging a tortoise is done by the shell size, so Vette's estimate was not exact, but we knew it to be pretty close. Sadly, we lost dad 18 months ago, but his pride and joy is still going strong. Soon to come out of another hibernation in a few weeks as well, with Craig's mum taking
Starting point is 00:22:19 over the caring duties. In her time, Jimmy has been shook around by a dog mistaking her for a ball, fought off some cheeky foxes in the garden and been made homeless by a family of frogs who took over a little outdoor brick house. And she still has the enthusiasm and sleepiness for life
Starting point is 00:22:35 as those many years ago. Dad would often sit around wondering about what her life was like in those 40 years before becoming a part of our family. And those chats are still fond in my memory now. And he also says he's got some Sainsbury's batteries in his remote, so nice one for that, Craig.
Starting point is 00:22:50 I wonder what that tortoise has got in her remote. Yeah. Because, I mean, she's been gone a long time. Are tortoises battery-powered? I don't know. No-one's ever opened one up and seen. My parents have got a tortoise, but it's not very old. It's only about 10 years old.
Starting point is 00:23:03 This spurred me on to look into the record holders of different types of animals, the oldest that have been confirmed. Some of this is unbelievable. Now, we all know tortoises get very old. So, for example, Jonathan the tortoise is based on St Helena, quite a famous tortoise, probably the second most famous tortoise after Lonesome George, who I think did die
Starting point is 00:23:25 but jonathan is about 186 years old that's too old yeah um and um yeah so that's that's pretty pretty pretty interesting but check how old do you reckon the world's confirmed oldest cat was 28 you're gonna have to stick 10 years on top of that. Jesus Christ. A 38-year-old cat. That's not a cat. That'll be like a different kind of cat. Is that a tortoise?
Starting point is 00:23:54 Is that a tortoise that you put some whiskers on? You just put some fur on it. Is that a tortoise that you've put a bath mat on? That's incredible. The tortoise? I'm doing it now. The cat was called Cream Puff as well. Cream Puff. This is even better.
Starting point is 00:24:05 How old do you think the oldest confirmed koi carp was? They're big old chunkers, aren't they? Tight, very tight fish. Tight looking fish. They look a bit solid. They look like they could take a punch. There's very few fish I see in a pond or in a Chinese restaurant that I go... Which is where you see them, is it? I could punch that
Starting point is 00:24:25 and it would be fine. This is your area, Japan, so you need to get this right. How old do you think the oldest confirmed koi carp? People listening at home, if they've not got a particular interest in this subject, which they probably haven't, they're going to be stunned to hear this. I don't even think the person who owned the koi carp had that particular interest in him.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Boring. I'm going to go for... Eight years. Eight years? Yeah. Yeah? Yeah. You sticking with that?
Starting point is 00:24:51 No, because you're laughing. 20 years. 226 years old, I'm telling you. Shut the fuck up. Fuck off. Fuck off. There we go. When they replaced actors and neighbours, fuck off.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Not having it. Are you absolutely sure that's the same Coy Cart? Spray painting them in a factory. That is dreadful. Mendacity. Lies. Nonsense. I'll finish off with this.
Starting point is 00:25:16 Obviously, the giant, the oldest tortoise, still around is 186, but the oldest tortoise to have ever been confirmed to live, and it's still waiting verification, is a giant tortoise, an Aldabra tortoise, in Calcutta in India, which is an estimated 255 years old. Beautiful, beautiful.
Starting point is 00:25:36 There we go, old animals, you can't beat them. Old animals, you can't beat them. If we're still doing this when I'm 226, I'll be upset. Well, no doubt we'll have some horrific stories to tell at some point. So it's been real thank you very much for joining us this week for the Luke and Pete show if you want to get involved
Starting point is 00:25:50 if you want to get involved with the show it's hello at lukeandpeetshow.com and we will of course be back on Thursday yes we will indeed be back on Thursday
Starting point is 00:25:57 listen to Wrestle Me one of our other podcasts the wins are not as well you might not think of yourself as a royalist you might not be a royalist oh you might be a sizzling Republican. But it doesn't matter.
Starting point is 00:26:08 Have a listen. It's very funny indeed because the people who hosted, they're also not royalists. Yeah, it's about the royal wedding, the upcoming royal wedding. Worth a listen. If you like this sort of nonsense between two men with nothing better to do, you've got more of that coming. With two men who are better than us.
Starting point is 00:26:21 The wins are not. Check that out if you can. We'll be back on Thursday. Luke, say goodbye. Goodbye. I'll say goodbye too, then. Bye.

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