The Luke and Pete Show - I think Bryan Ferry might have lived here for a bit

Episode Date: July 18, 2022

Luke goes stomping around London like a massive red music nerd, and Pete's found a prison phone in his apology cabin. hello@lukeandpeteshow.com for all your messages and batteries and that! See you Th...ursday! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Luke and Pete Show. It is Monday the 18th of July and I do hope you are keeping well. I'm Pete Donaldson from the email address that is hello at lukeandpeteshow.com. I'm joined by Luke Miller I'm Pete Donaldson from the email address that is hello at lukepeachshow.com. Yeah. I'm joined by Luke Miller. All right.
Starting point is 00:00:27 Who also has access to the email address hello at lukepeachshow.com. How you doing? That's kind of why we, we just happened upon this email address and we were like, let's do a show about it. That's not even our original names.
Starting point is 00:00:37 What are our original names? I'm Polly Wallets. My real name's Polly Wallets. What am I? Big Pussy. Big what? Big Pussy. Is that a...
Starting point is 00:00:45 Yes. Why haven't you watched The Primal? I've only seen three seasons and I can't remember any of them. You can't remember any of them. Speaking of... We're in a golden age of television. I remember Tony Samuels going,
Starting point is 00:00:55 fuck, a lot. Yeah, that's right. Fuck. A lot of good TV shows around, aren't there? We're in a golden age of telly. I think we're coming out of it, to be honest. Really? There's a lot of shit kicking honest really there's just too much now
Starting point is 00:01:07 too much what don't you like ooh what don't I like now television wise I don't generally like I started watching
Starting point is 00:01:16 who the fella that was in the John le Carré first Carla novel film adaptation fucking hell
Starting point is 00:01:25 I'm going to work hard here we go so you're talking about Tinker Tail Soldier Spy who's the main who played George Smiley in that Gary Oldman
Starting point is 00:01:30 Gary Oldman so Gary Oldman did a is doing I think in lieu of a of a sequel to that film he did a show
Starting point is 00:01:39 about spies where he sort of getting kicked out of the circus and he's you know he's running a shit silo on Loverbling the circus and he's, you know, he's running a shit silo
Starting point is 00:01:45 on Loverbling for people who, for spies who, you know, people who work for MI5 but they're shit ones and kind of like that. And so like,
Starting point is 00:01:53 so that's the show. And I started watching that and I was, and I, you know, I love fucking, that's all I read is John O'Connor's spy film,
Starting point is 00:01:59 spy books. And he, and it's not very good. Right. Just a bit rubbish. Thanks for the answer. It's just a bit shit I'm just saying that
Starting point is 00:02:06 everyone's just having a go everyone's just having a go and throwing a load of shit at the wall what's going to stick I don't know and yet TV shows like Detroiters
Starting point is 00:02:14 only got two seasons and then you know chinned it off it pisses me off that some really good stuff doesn't get any
Starting point is 00:02:21 much of a look in you mentioned Gary Oldman so I should mention as part of that one of my favourite Luke and in. You mentioned Gary Oldman, so I should mention as part of that one of my favourite Luke and Pete show facts is Gary Oldman is 13 days younger than Gary Newman. Yeah, I like that. Which is always nice to hear.
Starting point is 00:02:32 And I had some people telling me last weekend that they thought Better Call Saul was better than Breaking Bad. Yeah. Which I don't agree with at all. Have you watched all of it though? I haven't watched all of it. No.
Starting point is 00:02:43 But I will get there. I watched, I'm about three from the end of the second most recent season. So I will get there. Somebody pointed out that I think it was in Breaking Bad. Like, the main guy, Walter White, Jesse, Saul, and his henchman, Mark. Mike. Carl, Mike. Mark. Carl, Mike. Mark.
Starting point is 00:03:07 Carl. Carl. You know Carl. You know Carl from Better School Saul. Yeah, all four of them are absolute baldies, and yet at certain points, you know, they're mainly baldies. Spoiler. And one of them, and Hank as well,
Starting point is 00:03:23 one of them was like hairdresser. One of the credits at the end of the TV show was like hairdresser. I was like, mate, most people are bald in this show. It's like the famous credits of the guy who was listed as a dinosaur supervisor in Jurassic Park, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:03:36 And then the damn kitchen. Yeah, exactly. They go everywhere. People died. I was going to bring something to the table today that I think you might find confusing but also hopefully vaguely interesting. Yes.
Starting point is 00:03:45 Is that last weekend, I went on a massive monster walk on a Saturday. Do you remember I showed you the... Look at the monsters? I showed you the... No, no. I showed you the step count, didn't I? You showed me the Fitbit readout,
Starting point is 00:03:57 and I just thought... It's Garmin. You know I'm a Garmin man. All right. What's the difference? You thought I was having a... You thought I was endlessly masturbating, and that's how I got the step counter up.
Starting point is 00:04:04 Correct. If you don't mind me saying it's quite childish um go for a big walk it's quite childish what are you a dog i did have a tantrum to make it really yeah and no it went on did 42 000 steps i think it's quite good in that heat as well and throughout lockdown i mentioned um on this show and our regular listeners will be aware, that throughout lockdown, me and a few of my mates did a listening album, listening session every week. For 100 weeks, we did 100 albums.
Starting point is 00:04:30 Right. And they were selected in a completely egalitarian way. There was a short list, and then devised, and then people would have their votes, and whatever album came out on top, we'd listen to.
Starting point is 00:04:38 Yes. Now, it was my mate's 40th birthday, and he can't really go anywhere or do much because his wife's quite heavily pregnant. So he said, look, I can do something for my birthday to celebrate my birthday
Starting point is 00:04:47 but we have to stay in London it can only be across a day because I need to be close by fine so a couple of my mates devised a walk which we then had printed out on a map
Starting point is 00:04:57 and framed of a point for every single a destination a location associated with every single album we listened to in some way.
Starting point is 00:05:05 Okay, nice. And it turned out to be like a 40 mile walk. So you couldn't really do it in one day, not in that heat. So we did like half of it, the most interesting half of it.
Starting point is 00:05:13 And that's what I was doing on Saturday. And it still turned out to be about, I think it ended up being 38 kilometers or something. Is there something in your soul that says that you need to go back and finish? Presumably you took a snapshot
Starting point is 00:05:22 from the middle of the course rather than the start or the end so you've got two more walks to have basically no we did pretty much exactly half from the start so you could finish eventually so the one we started off on was at the Savoy Hotel on the
Starting point is 00:05:38 river side of the Savoy Hotel because that's where Bob did his Subterranean Ho Sick Blues video shoot and we listened to a Bob Dylan album and then it ended, it went all the way around Central London, West London and all the rest of it and our half of it ended up at Abbey Road because we did
Starting point is 00:05:53 it wasn't actually a Beatles connection because the Beatles connections are all over London the Beatles connection was in Savile Row where they played their last gig but the Abbey Road one was Red Hot Chili Peppers did something because we ended up listening to a Red Hot Chili Peppers album something because we ended up listening to Red Hot Chili Peppers and I'm fucking knows why we did it and they did this parody
Starting point is 00:06:08 of the Beatles Abbey Road thing with socks on their cocks that's right anyway that gives you the fucking context it was a really cool thing I know it's nerdy people are going to be rolling their eyes
Starting point is 00:06:17 going go get a life but it was good but what became really clear is my friend Duncan and my friend Tommy who are music like nerds one of them is Duncan is like the feature director of a big music movie it became really clear, as my friend Duncan and my friend Tommy, who are music nerds, one of them, Duncan is the feature editor of a big music magazine,
Starting point is 00:06:27 it became really clear, and we kind of had a laugh about it, and they were kind of self-deprecating about it, is that it was getting quite tough to find links, but they had to find one for every single one. So one of them ended up being the registered address of Tom York's listed company, which is like this obscure office
Starting point is 00:06:45 on Great Portland Street or something it'll just be a mailbox sink and the absolute nadir of it right was we traipsed
Starting point is 00:06:52 in like 30 degree heat for about 40 minutes to this obscure part of like Earl's Court yeah because and I I fucking shit you not
Starting point is 00:07:00 we got there nondescript house on a residential street I sat down on the curb like sweating yeah to reapply sun cream fucking shit you not, we got there, nondescript house in a residential street. I sat down on the curb, like sweating, to reapply sun cream. And one of them just went,
Starting point is 00:07:11 yeah, I think Brian Ferry might have lived here for a bit. I was like, you're fucking joking. It's like a 40 minutes to get here. And we had to walk every single part of it. But anyway,
Starting point is 00:07:23 some particular highlights. One was the hotel in Shepherd's Bush where Nirvana stayed the very first time they visited the UK. Okay. There was a flat that Mick Fleetwood used to live in. There's loads of cool stuff. It's all publicly available information. I bet he's bothered to see it before.
Starting point is 00:07:37 I bet he has. Yeah, well, not like you have. So anyway, that was quite fun. If people are interested, I'll share the actual route and you can have a go at it yourself. It works out, like I say, I'll share the actual route and you can have a go at it yourself. It works out, like I say, I think about 30 odd miles
Starting point is 00:07:46 in total, but the portions of it are interesting. Apart from the Bride Fairy one. Well, quite. That was very uninteresting. And this is all publicly
Starting point is 00:07:55 available information. We're not fucking stalking people's houses and stuff. But it started off with quite a lot of concentrated ones in the centre of town. Do you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:08:02 So you go, you nip across Registry and go to where Ziggy Stardust had his photo taken for their album cover of that and that's actually all blue plaqued and all the restaurants around there
Starting point is 00:08:11 are named after Bowie and stuff now so it's kind of a bit of a shrine Hendrix's house around the corner from where I used to live obviously in sort of
Starting point is 00:08:17 Mirfair kind of yeah Hannover Street they the my mate used to live in the same block of flats that Jimi Hendrix lived.
Starting point is 00:08:29 And his landlady was a runner of a... What do you call a runner of a brothel? A madam. A madam. It was a madam. And she was once burgled by two blokes and she, with a broken ankle, managed to
Starting point is 00:08:49 lock the burglars on the roof. Wow. Like they tied her up and she managed to get free. What year was
Starting point is 00:08:55 this? Locked them on the roof. Probably about, I don't know, 20 years ago. Bloody hell, that's crazy.
Starting point is 00:09:01 Wild. So we actually went to where Jimi Hendrix died. Yes. And that was in a hotel in Notting Hill. Yeah. It's un went to where Jimi Hendrix died. Yes. And that was in a hotel in Notting Hill. Yeah. It's on Markham.
Starting point is 00:09:09 It's like a really posh hotel, but it's not got a sign outside or anything. But anyway, we found it. Not something you want to sell it on. No, probably not. But it's a really, I mean, you know what Notting Hill's like now. And that's the one real interesting,
Starting point is 00:09:19 I think, one of the really interesting takeaways from the whole thing is that, so you'd, like, you go, now we're going to here because this is where the Walker brothers
Starting point is 00:09:26 were put up when they first moved to the UK and you'll go there and literally, the Walker brothers were, I think, was on Eaton Square.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Right, okay, yeah, yeah. And they were like, yeah, they stayed in this, in the top two floors
Starting point is 00:09:36 of this building on Eaton Square for five pounds a month. It's like a 40 million pound house now. Yeah. Like you say, Jimi Hendrix living on Hanover Street.
Starting point is 00:09:45 Obviously, none of that can happen now, but the world, the city was so different back in the 60s. I want to, I think me and Mark on the rest of me show,
Starting point is 00:09:53 an excellent stack podcast, we kind of want to find out where, we know where, but it's been knocked down now, but it's where Yokozuna died in Blackpool. I think it's kind of roundabout Blackpool, sort of hairy's where Yokozuna died in Blackpool I think it's kind of round about Blackpool
Starting point is 00:10:06 sort of hairy Liverpool What was he doing in Blackpool? Was there a day of a WrestleMania there or something? No, just like you go after you sort of finish your contract
Starting point is 00:10:13 with WDUF you go and do your own thing and promotions will just take you whatever state you're in around Britain Is it an urban myth that he was frightened
Starting point is 00:10:21 to death by a spider? What? Because people were saying back in the day that he had a heart attack because he was frightened to spiders and he saw one because people were saying back in the day they had a heart attack because he was frightened to death by spiders
Starting point is 00:10:26 and he saw one in his room it's quite an 80s rumour isn't it yeah that pretty much is and to be honest I mean he's wrestled in Japan where they've got proper spiders
Starting point is 00:10:34 so you know yeah I don't know why do those things come up why do people say those things what it is is evidence of
Starting point is 00:10:40 the meme culture before the internet couldn't get away with it now could you you couldn't like like, really. There's no mystery now. No. And even, like,
Starting point is 00:10:50 the rumours that go around are always a pastiche of a previous rumour, so you can kind of trace its etymology a little bit. So, like, with when Shinzo Aoibe got shot. Yeah, that's really sad. What a sad story. Very bizarre. Really rare in Japan, right? Yeah, I mean, it's so rare, he had to make his own fucking gun
Starting point is 00:11:05 by the looks of things. Oh, right. It was like just two pipes connected, like he made his own little gun. I love the... Craftsman to a fault. I love the memes
Starting point is 00:11:14 that did the rounds where people... It's terrible to say about someone who actually died, but the memes did the rounds of people taking off the fact that there's loads of quote Japan experts
Starting point is 00:11:22 out there who say really knowing kind of contrary things. Yes. Yeah. Someone said actually in Japanese culture
Starting point is 00:11:28 killing someone's really disrespectful. But yeah what are you going to say? It's very hard when you do like the podcast like abroad Japan would do at
Starting point is 00:11:34 stack. It's very hard to not sound like an absolute cunt but it doesn't matter because on the Luke and Pete show I've shown on more than one occasion
Starting point is 00:11:41 aka with Etsy's email last week that I am more than willing to embarrass myself constantly. I'll come round your house and put my foot through your fucking foot. I'll do that. Oh, you like your ceiling, big boy. What were you going to say about Shinzo Abe? It's good, isn't it? They, somebody said the rumours were going around that,
Starting point is 00:12:02 or a fake tweet was going around of Shinzo Abe saying in Japanese, I have evidence that will put Hillary Clinton in prison the day before he died. Which is made up. A, because it's made up, and B, it was traced back to every person who's been killed in the past, has been murdered in the past three or four years. People have circulated tweets before, because the Hillary Clinton fucking QAnon bollocks. Yeah, they've fabricated tweets that they put out.
Starting point is 00:12:38 But it just makes me laugh that it's such a hack and done, an overdone thing about, I have proof that Hillary Clinton should be in prison. And then the day after they die, you know, the fake tweet is such an internet meme. But even like people took it quite seriously, you know, news outlets took it quite seriously. That's a real problem, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:12:56 There is no quality in journalism anymore. I think there was a, oh, I can't remember. It might have been Greek, actually. Greek TV station had a picture of, anymore i think there was a oh i can't remember might have been greek actually greek tv station had a uh had a picture of there was a a racist fucking meme going around that hideo kojima who little uh sort of slight japanese guy with glasses uh sport if you're not really familiar with looking at japanese faces a lot had the had a passive environments of the man who shot the gun um right so somebody tweeted out out, blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Some right-wing news organizations basically posted a picture of Hideo Kojima, who at one point was wearing like a Russian hat and he stood in front of a picture of Che Guevara. It's like Che Guevara loving left-wing murderer of Shinzo Abe. Which is no due diligence at all. No due diligence at all. And so news outlets reported that he was obsessed with
Starting point is 00:13:47 the guy who shot the gun was you know basically posted a picture of Hideo Kojima and said he was obsessed with left wing politics when in fact
Starting point is 00:13:55 he just fucking didn't want to shoot the president you know so is there a motive for the killing being established as we record this
Starting point is 00:14:03 I don't know yeah it probably has. I've not really paid much attention, I guess, you know, who really cares, I suppose,
Starting point is 00:14:09 at that point, isn't it? One of my... Astonishing that he managed to do what he did and it just shows how safe Japanese society is
Starting point is 00:14:15 that they allow people to get so fucking close. Yeah. And get two shots away. It's actually come up, they've come unstuck there, haven't they, on this particular example?
Starting point is 00:14:24 Yes, yes. To be fair. Poss it should be a bit better yeah it's like the guy who had that bulletproof briefcase
Starting point is 00:14:30 and he it shot to the army was all on the ground and the guy gets his little briefcase out to be fair
Starting point is 00:14:37 he does take some of the blast of the second one this little kind of weird little you can't
Starting point is 00:14:41 really this is the thing isn't it you can't really blame the close protection officers for however they reacted in that split second isn't it you can't really blame the close protection officers for however they
Starting point is 00:14:46 reacted in that split second because you know you can only do what you can do it's a safety net but it's not more than that
Starting point is 00:14:53 no I know and it's all about how you plan out the actual thing itself but I think most people in slightly more
Starting point is 00:15:00 space environments are going shouldn't have been able to get the second one off that's insane do you know what I was reading the site the other day bang bang you know he shouldn't have been able to get the second one off. Well, yeah. That's insane. Do you know what? I was reading this out the other day.
Starting point is 00:15:05 Because you go, bang, bang. You know, he shouldn't have been able to get it off. Just mad. Is the suggestion that it's so alien in Japan
Starting point is 00:15:15 to have that happening that people couldn't react to it? Oh, yeah. No one could react to it. I'm sure they've got their training and stuff, but it's just so weird that... Listen,
Starting point is 00:15:22 when I was doing some research for Science House, I was reading up about something and it was a, I think it was, when I was doing some research for St. Kels, I was reading up about something, and I think it was President Donald Trump attending an event in the UK. I forget the event. It might have been some kind of D-Day anniversary. I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:15:34 Anyway, but I was reading a report about it, and it was like the lengths that the Americans go to for security reasons like that. To the point where in this particular example, they had two of everything. So he was going from the airport, some particular airport, to the venue in a helicopter.
Starting point is 00:15:54 Yes. But it was two helicopters, two cars, two close protection security teams, one of which isn't even on the president. Just this total kind of vagaries around where he actually is and where he isn't
Starting point is 00:16:05 just do just do two attempts at his life just do it twice double up you have to double it yeah the lone wolf I guess
Starting point is 00:16:11 quite difficult to do on the conspiracy theory thing I would be it would be remiss of me not to mention a my favourite conspiracy theorist who is of course
Starting point is 00:16:19 Matt Letizio ex-Adampton football player who's now blocked me off Twitter sadly I can't read what he's saying. I actually fucking hate people who use that as a badge of honour. And I also hate that he's done it
Starting point is 00:16:30 because I really genuinely like looking at his tweets. But anyway, I have other ways and means. Oh, do you now? But there was a group, Pete, honestly. There was sock puppet accounts.
Starting point is 00:16:38 And for legal reasons, I'm going to say to you, last week, I am not suggesting in any way, should before Matt Letizio was associated with this, but of course, when you tweet the stuff
Starting point is 00:16:45 he tweets, you get the replies, right? Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. You are going to get
Starting point is 00:16:49 the attraction of, of, of certain people. And so he was, he, he posted a tweet, Matt Letizia, talking about the candidates
Starting point is 00:16:57 for the next leader of the Conservative Party that he didn't want to be Conservative Party leader. yeah, yeah, yeah. And they were all
Starting point is 00:17:04 associated, according to Matt, in some way, with the World party leaders. And they were all associated, according to Matt, in some way with the World Economic Forum. And he shared something that said, oh, they suggested they were working as WEF agents within our national government, right? Yeah. Conspiracy theory stuff, right?
Starting point is 00:17:18 That's fine. It's not fine. It's mad, but he is quite mad. One of the replies just made me think, one, that is hilarious, but two, people like this will find anything, right? And one of the replies, Pete, was a woman who had found out, quote, found out,
Starting point is 00:17:33 that the days that the MPs of the Conservative Party all started resigning to get Boris Johnson out was the same day that Bill Gates landed in London on a plane. She had flight-tracked his plane. I presume it's his plane. I don't know how she would know. But she said, is it a coincidence that Bill Gates was in London
Starting point is 00:17:51 the same day MPs started resigning? Yes. I've thought about this, and the answer is, yes, it is a coincidence. I love the fact that she doesn't even consider how often Bill Gates is probably travelling. Floating around, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:04 As one of the world's richest men. But they will look for anything. They will look for anything. But I just like the thing with... It's good for me because I never really... I'm fascinated by it, but not enough to actually fucking read up on it and find out what they're actually saying.
Starting point is 00:18:19 It's just funny. It's just funny noise. I'll wait until Boing Boing or something, kind of one of my kind of like disseminators kind of finds out what q and on and i'll break it down for you yeah it's all right i can't be arsed um but there are so many different like little kind of quite professional looking websites and little kind of you know uh social media free speech advocate groups and stuff that matt letizia will retweet and you're like, fuck, these guys have all got funding, graphic designers, they've all got resources.
Starting point is 00:18:48 And I'm just impressed that the level of quality presenting-wise has gone up a little bit. The insidious thing about it is they obviously are presenting as serious news outlets. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. And to people of a certain disposition and certainly people more likely in my parents' generation, they think, yeah, stupid people,
Starting point is 00:19:10 and also people who aren't aware how easy it is to make this stuff look good, that veneer of, it's very easy to ape and ghost and kind of recreate that kind of veneer of respectability just with a couple of things, a kind of veneer of respectability just with a couple of uh you know a couple of things a bit of graphic design i do have i do have a certain amount of sympathy with the ideas because well actually not the ideas but the principle of the ideas because there are things that have happened that massively almost to their mind ratify what they're thinking because they'll go well you're saying I'm a conspiracy theorist but actually when this happened, you told me it was all bollocks
Starting point is 00:19:48 but it turned out to be true kind of thing. And that stuff does kind of happen because obviously public life and big decisions and the way the world works is actually very complicated so sometimes people get things wrong and then they'll tack onto that and use that as a reason to quote prove a conspiracy theory because they'll say, well actually you said that was a conspiracy theory. I don't know, something like
Starting point is 00:20:04 I was trying to think of an example something like stuff around when COVID came about and people were making their best guess because it was a new thing
Starting point is 00:20:12 the government you know needed some space although they were incompetent at the time you're just like well you need to give them
Starting point is 00:20:18 some space to actually work out what's happening and they would get things wrong and the things they said that were at the time would turn out to not be true
Starting point is 00:20:24 but Matt Letizia will go well you see that was true and you told me it wasn't so they'll use it like that
Starting point is 00:20:31 but you're believing everything and we're going right look we remember fucking thalidomide and ball pal we remember
Starting point is 00:20:36 being told a certain thing and it actually wasn't true and if we were the cream egg thing the cream egg conspiracy what's the cream egg conspiracy what's the Krimeg conspiracy?
Starting point is 00:20:46 What? What's the Krimeg conspiracy? Well, I told you they're only valuable for sale between Christmas and Easter. Yeah, it's a slightly different thing. But I mean, I would say follow the money on that, I would say. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:53 And sort of like go... My mind's all going from me to them for Krimegs. Yeah, if you're ever in that situation you think about conspiracy theory, follow the money. Does Donald Trump necessarily want to think you know is he going to make any money out of hanging out in underground pedo tunnels blowing them up is he gonna is that really part of his thing you know if if most billionaires could probably get away with
Starting point is 00:21:17 murdering a few kids and not and you're not noticing right is that going to make them a lot of money no and most of them have got to that position because they fucking like money and they don't want to fuck anything if you had underground
Starting point is 00:21:29 pedo tunnel on your Luke and Peter bingo cards yeah but that's one of the big ones
Starting point is 00:21:34 in the Q&A the earthquakes of Donald Trump blowing up the underground pedo tunnels couple of years old now
Starting point is 00:21:39 they think that he is sent by God to disassemble by by violent means, the satanic paedophilic cabal that is running not just the US but the world. And then they'll tottle off to church. Do you know what I feel I'm going to have to say that on the show? I just think to myself, Luke, don't put too much pressure on yourself as a broadcaster
Starting point is 00:21:59 because there's no easy way to do that. There's no easy way to say that and not sound ridiculous. So yeah, no, you are right. You're spot on. I think, as I've said to you before,
Starting point is 00:22:08 it's a, it's a way for, you know, ordinarily stupid people to feel clever. Yeah. And it's no coincidence. The people who believe in that shit would believe in all the other ones as well. And if it was in the early nineties,
Starting point is 00:22:17 they'd be talking about UFOs. And then if it was in the fucking seventies, they'd be talking about the moon landings, et cetera, et cetera. Anyway, let's have a break. When we come back,
Starting point is 00:22:25 I want to do an email about a jellyfish. Lovely. And we're back, and it's the Luke and Pete show, and we've got emails galore. Hello, LukeandPeteShow.com if you want to get in touch. Luke, last week in Cornwall,
Starting point is 00:22:34 I saw so many jellyfish. Jellyfish were in bloom and are in bloom. I saw... One of them wearing a pair of glasses. One of them wearing a pair of glasses. I'd love that. But I saw a nasty one. I saw one of those pod a pair of glasses a pair of glasses I'd love that but I saw a nasty one I saw like one of those Portuguese looking ones
Starting point is 00:22:48 little kind of like the ones that have inflated fins just like when you saw a hummingbird which has never been observed it was not a hummingbird that was a hummingbird
Starting point is 00:22:55 yeah I told you it wasn't a hummingbird well on jellyfish I mean Christian our friend Christian's got in touch by emailing hello at lukeandpete
Starting point is 00:23:02 show.com following up on your jellyfish chat from a while back, Peter, and I'll let Christian take up the story. He says, hello, chaps. Following Pete's masochistic admission that he'd like to be stung by a jellyfish. I would. I nearly.
Starting point is 00:23:14 Why do you do it? Because the only one that I could find that I knew would be able to sting me was like the nasty one. And I was like, that's too nasty. Too nasty. Yeah. I mean, if it was indeed a portuguese man of war i mean that's that's pretty bad news bad news isn't it yeah it could
Starting point is 00:23:33 have been i think there are two variants and and two that look exactly the same as those ones uh and the the the blue jellyfishy ones uh are a little less serious but they're still pretty pretty potent i didn't see any like normal ones that would you know give are a little less serious, but they're still pretty potent. I didn't see any normal ones that would give you a little sting. They were mainly just moon jellyfish and compass jellyfish. So in the case of the Man O' War, I think it's rare for it to cause death. It's like a difficult, painful thing for a few days, I think. But I think the usual stuff, I mean, with your track record as well,
Starting point is 00:24:05 it mimics an allergic reaction, so it can block the airway and stuff. Yeah. And older people, it can cause heart problems and stuff. So listen, trying to get killed by being stung by a jellyfish, Peter, it reflects very badly on all of us here.
Starting point is 00:24:16 Okay. Anyway, you didn't take the opportunity to get stung by one. No. Fine. Christian says he was actually himself stung by a jellyfish while on a family holiday in Spain. He says, I was around eight years old, fa jellyfish while on a family holiday in Spain.
Starting point is 00:24:25 He says, I was around eight years old, faffing about on a lilo in the sea and felt a sharp zing on my foot. The pain didn't hurt that much, but the shock, there we go, the shock was enough to make an eight-year-old me cry incessantly. Having been told that urine neutralizes the sting,
Starting point is 00:24:40 my older brother, Dom, who is also a listener and a victim of the Christmas fight from last year's first Christmas special, was very forthcoming in offering to piss on my foot. Ultimately, I was able to do the deed myself and piss does in fact work,
Starting point is 00:24:51 do wonders on a jellyfish sting. So if Pete does find himself in jellyfish infested waters, I recommend he hydrate amply before going in. I think it's to do with the alkali in the piss, I think.
Starting point is 00:25:01 It's not just the heat. I thought it was just a massive misnomer. Well, no, because vinegar is the thing that's supposed to help and it was just a massive misnomer. Well, no, because vinegar's the thing that's supposed to help and that's obviously
Starting point is 00:25:08 an acid rather than a fire. Oh, maybe it is that then. Maybe I've got the wrong way around. The, say, hot water and just get the credit card across the stings to take them out.
Starting point is 00:25:16 My grandad trod on a sea urchin and I think took a slash on his phone and made it a lot better. That was in West Indies, I think. I mean, that's just
Starting point is 00:25:24 a general puncture wound, though, isn't it? I'm West Indies I think I mean that's just a general puncture wound though isn't it I'm not sure I think it depends on the anemone or the I think they're just spikies aren't they
Starting point is 00:25:30 they're really sharp when I was out in Puerto Rico I dragged my foot across a coral and it was so rough it took ages to heal absolutely ages
Starting point is 00:25:41 well that's the thing with jellyfish I just naturally because I've been stung by them I'm naturally scared of them I didn't realise that the Portuguese man of war
Starting point is 00:25:48 for example it's not even one just one organism it's like three or four so the inflatable fin is one bit the tentacles are another and they just have
Starting point is 00:25:57 a mutually beneficial relationship that they just hang out and feed each other and keep each other alive it's amazing it's mad that it's evolved like that it's fucking insane and they're not
Starting point is 00:26:04 they're not, you know, they're not animals. They're fucking just, they're like coral. They're just like, so that made me feel better that one wasn't necessarily going to chase me
Starting point is 00:26:12 and try and grab me. It's not, it's not, you know what I mean? It's not like, yeah, it's not necessarily where. God made them like that,
Starting point is 00:26:18 Pete. He did, yeah. He decided that I'm going to do this. I thought he was one of us. God was like, I'm going to make this fucking weird shit today.
Starting point is 00:26:25 Yeah. Shall we finish with a media report from Reuters a couple of days ago about, you were saying, has there been a reason established why Shinzo Abe was...
Starting point is 00:26:36 But going back to that, it wasn't jellyfish, was it? No, well, Reuters have got the skinny. The suspect told police he was dissatisfied with Abe and wanted to kill him. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:47 Kind of checks out that, doesn't it? Hard to refute that. Very hard to refute that motivation, isn't it? I would, I don't know
Starting point is 00:26:57 how I would make a gun and find the munitions and stuff, but I don't, there's not many people in my life I would get the vice out for. You know what I mean? Get the vice and a hacksaw out for. There's not, there's not many people in my life I would get the vice out for. You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:27:06 Get the vice and a hacksaw out for. There's very few people I would create a model to destroy or hurt them in any way. Yeah. I'd just throw a cup of tea in their face. You're a reasonable person. You're all mouth though, aren't you? I'm all mouth, no trousers.
Starting point is 00:27:20 You do, you're on the hair trigger. You are very, very explosive. All mouth, no trousers. I don't think I am I think no you're explosive in a really contained undangerous way
Starting point is 00:27:29 for a short amount of time yeah like a dying star or do they or do they notably take a long time yeah famously take a long time very powerful as well
Starting point is 00:27:36 yeah good exactly that's correct I've seen this in my pocket what is it little mobile phone I bought in Japan it's a mini iPhone
Starting point is 00:27:44 it's a little phone. You've literally pulled it out of your pocket. Does it work? Does it connect to a network? It does if I put my SIM in, yeah. That's absolutely amazing. I had it in my cabin
Starting point is 00:27:57 and I was like, shit, I forgot about that. That is fantastic. It's not Apple, is it? No, it's Android it's Palm how much did you pay for that I mean
Starting point is 00:28:09 it was when I was on radio money to be honest more money than I needed to never used it spending it on shit terrible anyway let's go
Starting point is 00:28:17 let's go Peter you've you've ended the show with the least non-visual feature ever that's okay I was in the process of looking up what
Starting point is 00:28:26 those guns that aren't metal are made of. Apparently it's polymer. Very interesting. I've also got some very deep rooted
Starting point is 00:28:32 interest in the crisis of masculinity around people and guns and America and all the rest of it. I haven't got time for that now.
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