The Luke and Pete Show - Episode 37: A brave new world
Episode Date: February 12, 2018The 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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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.
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,
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
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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
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.
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
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
because I've been
using Mark's login
ooh
but it's
their revenue is
surely getting on
towards a billion
dollars a year
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
that's basic
yeah
slightly poorer hotels
are eleven
some dreadful hostels
and airbnbs
are ten o'clock
and you're like
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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,
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
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,
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,
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
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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.
Boring.
I'm going to go for...
Eight years.
Eight years?
Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah.
You sticking with that?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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