The Luke and Pete Show - I think Bryan Ferry might have lived here for a bit
Episode Date: July 18, 2022Luke 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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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.
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.
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...
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,
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
too much
what don't you like
ooh
what don't I like now
television wise
I don't generally
like
I started watching
who the fella
that was in
the John le Carré
first Carla
novel
film
adaptation
fucking hell
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
only got two seasons
and then
you know
chinned it off
it pisses me off
that some
really good stuff
doesn't get any
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.
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.
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.
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,
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?
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
and framed
of a point
for every single
a destination
a location
associated with
every single album
we listened to in some way.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
on Great Portland Street
or something
it'll just be a mailbox
sink
and the absolute
nadir
of it right
was we traipsed
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
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,
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,
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
Mirfair kind of
yeah Hannover Street
they
the
my mate used to
live
in the same block of flats
that Jimi Hendrix lived.
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
lock the burglars
on the roof.
Wow.
Like they tied
her up and she
managed to get
free.
What year was
this?
Locked them on
the roof.
Probably about,
I don't know,
20 years ago.
Bloody hell,
that's crazy.
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.
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,
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
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.
Right,
okay,
yeah,
yeah.
And they were like,
yeah,
they stayed in this,
in the top two floors
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.
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
out there who say
really knowing
kind of contrary
things.
Yes.
Yeah.
Someone said actually
in Japanese culture
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
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
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,
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
I don't know
yeah it probably has.
I've not really
paid much attention,
I guess,
you know,
who really cares,
I suppose,
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
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?
Yes, yes.
To be fair. Poss it should be a bit
better
yeah
it's like the guy
who had that
bulletproof
briefcase
and he
it shot to
the army was
all on the ground
and the guy
gets his little
briefcase out
to be fair
he does take
some of the
blast of the
second one
this little
kind of weird
little
you can't
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
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
no I know
and it's all about
how you plan out
the actual thing
itself
but I think
most people
in slightly more
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
he tweets,
you get the replies,
right?
Yes,
yeah,
yeah,
yeah.
You are going to get
the attraction of,
of,
of certain people.
And so he was,
he,
he posted a tweet,
Matt Letizia,
talking about the candidates
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
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?
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,
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
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.
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
the government
you know
needed some space
although they were
incompetent
at the time
you're just like
well you need to give them
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
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
but you're believing
everything
and we're going
right look
we remember
fucking thalidomide
and ball pal
we remember
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?
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.
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
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
pedo tunnel
on your
Luke and
Peter bingo
cards
yeah
but that's one
of the big ones
in the Q&A
the earthquakes
of Donald Trump
blowing up the
underground
pedo tunnels
couple of years
old now
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
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,
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,
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,
I want to do an email about a jellyfish.
Lovely.
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Luke, last week in Cornwall,
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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.
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,
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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...
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.
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
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
those guns that
aren't metal are
made of.
Apparently it's
polymer.
Very interesting.
I've also got some
very deep rooted
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.
It's probably a bit
boring as well so
we won't do that.
We'll be back later
this week for more
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