The Luke and Pete Show - Inhaling our own toxins!

Episode Date: October 22, 2020

On today’s episode, Luke rinses Pete for his truly shocking dietary habits. The boys discuss the focus on black pain in various provider’s Black History Month collections. They also examine the sl...ippery slope that is QAnon and debate what exactly drives people to believe such outlandish conspiracy theories.Plus, Luke and Pete debate the ethics of getting pissed at work and finish strong with strange (and accurate!) taxidermy animals. And Pete wants everyone to look up gibbons. Obviously. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Oh, welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. I'm the Pete part of it, and Luke, I believe you are approaching being the Luke part of it. I'm 99.9% there, I think. Yeah, yeah. How are you doing? Good, man. Yeah, sun's shining where I am. I'm having a lovely old cup of coffee and some unlovable crispy cereal. Yeah, what is it? I don't know. It's like some kind of, it's one of those kind of like country farm kind of cereals
Starting point is 00:00:32 with little bits of freeze-dried strawberry or raspberry in it. Well, you really are living in the countryside these days. Look, it's not as good as the nut version. I'm telling you now, it's not as good as the nut version. I thought you'd be like a proper like no nonsense and absolute push frosty's man i thought you'd be like a standard basic level cereal guy because you are in many ways not a puritan but you like to deny yourself any of their life's pleasures no i know i like to uh eat the sugariest thing possible every option that i take food wise is always the sugariest thing possible that's that's how i live my life i just want sugar
Starting point is 00:01:13 all of the time baby um i uh my i spent actually i think possibly why i was concerned i might have some kind of um stomach. A quite serious one last week was because I'd eaten no less than three individual cinnamon sized boxes of the cinnamon snack hot tamales ordered from Amazon. And I just ate three boxes in three days. And yeah, I felt dreadful for the back end of that week. It ruined quite a few social engagements. So look, if anybody's out there who's like me, they love their MSG, they love their sugar, they love their salt,
Starting point is 00:01:51 don't eat three boxes of cinema-sized hot tamales. It will almost kill you. Yeah, I don't think you need to go to the doctor because I can tell you now what the doctor's going to tell you. Stop doing that. Stop doing everything you're doing. Stop doing everything you're doing. Stop doing everything you're doing. The first thing he's going to say
Starting point is 00:02:08 is he's probably going to take your blood pressure, just check your temperature, or whatever, and then he's going to start asking you questions, right? And you're going to have to answer those questions,
Starting point is 00:02:17 and some of them will involve you saying to him what you've just said to every listener listening now, where that's what you've eaten. And he's going to say, all right, he's going to close his book in quite a dramatic way has he got a book i don't know he's like his
Starting point is 00:02:28 diary or whatever you close it like that yeah close it and go mr donaldson you're wasting my time you're wasting your own time the nhs is under huge pressure as it is because of covid yeah get out of my surgery and on the way home, pick up some vegetables, drink plenty of water and do not darken my door again unless it's on a fucking gurney. That's what he's going to say. And I'll say, Doc, could I maybe get a flu jab?
Starting point is 00:02:55 Here's a flu jab, mate. Come on. Can I just have a flu jab? Doc, can I use your address for my next Amazon pantry delivery because they won't keep bringing stuff to my house anymore. And then all the hot tamales will turn up and you will have a little sex party with them. Yeah, I love a hot tamale.
Starting point is 00:03:11 I mean, I think I ordered it last week. They're like candy corn slash... They're like jelly beans. Hot, spicy, cinnamon, challenge-shaped jelly beans. They're delicious. They are lovely. They're like an American classic. I've never even, I mean, you say that,
Starting point is 00:03:29 but I've never even really heard of them. They're like Mike and Ike's kind of shaped kind of things. Or Good and Plenty's. They're the licorice torpedoes of American cinema food. I love all that stuff. It's so good and sugary and murderous. Have you ever had like proper American cinema popcorn with the butter on it? Not really.
Starting point is 00:03:51 No, no. So for those who don't know, uh, in the U S the, you can, you buy popcorn from the, from the vendor,
Starting point is 00:03:58 obviously as you would normally. And then at the side, much the same as you'd have like one of those push down plunger things for ketchup in McDonald's or whatever. They have loads of those and they're all filled with like hot and they call it hot butter but it isn't i don't think it is actually butter because it smells very strange and it kind of coats all the popcorn with this sticky gluey wet stuff and i i when i first had it i was like i don't see the attraction in this i'm not eating this and i couldn't go i couldn't go near it i didn't like it at all and but they're obsessed with it over there well they're kind of like you
Starting point is 00:04:35 know like we had um kind of uh chocolate sort of caramel salted caramel uh quite recently there was a salted caramel revolution and um everything's got salt in it now uh when it comes to caramel and it does work but they've been doing that for years like the peanut butter cups and stuff like that they've been mixing the the sweet and the and the salty uh for a very long time it it just gives the uh the sweets a bit more of a a bigger dimension a bigger palette i would say i think they've always been miles ahead of us um in terms of different flavors of things haven't they yeah yeah massively the flight i mean i've said this before i think um i believe i have but just to reiterate like don't don't be in leicester square they've got a big
Starting point is 00:05:16 shop called m&m's world right they do not have it's a massive tourist attraction it's called it's literally called m&m's world They don't have as many flavours in there as you get in the general corner shop in the US. I didn't think that the M&M World had many flavours. I think it was all just about the colours. I thought they just, you know, M&M's are pretty basic, aren't they? I mean, there's just the nutty ones and the non-nutty ones, even if they do nutty ones anymore.
Starting point is 00:05:42 But M&M's are unlovable at best. No, I like them. No good. A peanut butter M&M's are unlovable at best no I like them no good a peanut butter M&M is a thing of beauty then why have they got talking ones on the telly why are they having sex with women and stuff
Starting point is 00:05:53 yeah that's confusing because those adverts you have I'm pretty sure I remember an advert where the guy almost threatens
Starting point is 00:06:01 to eat himself which is weird and then there's one where the woman is having an affair with a giant M&M and the husband comes home from work. Again, I don't know what they're going for there. Like a gigantic anthropomorphic kind of M&M.
Starting point is 00:06:18 I don't see how that's looking to sell M&Ms. No, it doesn't make me want to have M&M's big, small or talking in any description. I've never liked M&M's, they're not great. I just don't understand why people would go to Leicester Square. Even American tourists, they will walk past M&M World
Starting point is 00:06:38 in Leicester Square and they'll want to go in. It's weird. Do you find that you presumably find that you've you you presumably find that you behave like a tourist in other cities though right yeah yeah yeah yeah walking around slowly getting in the way all that kind of stuff yeah yeah just kind of like getting off a train and sort of looking around not really sure where i am but everything's so enchanting and i think i'm enchanting and you get the fuck out of my way, Donaldson, you tit. You're struggling for your holidays at the moment as well, mate,
Starting point is 00:07:06 because of the old lockdown business. It's doing my nutting. We can't go anywhere now. My holiday levels are devastatingly low right now. That's probably going to
Starting point is 00:07:20 necessitate a little meltdown as well, isn't it, at some point? Yeah, no doubt. Struck yourselves in, guys. Speaking of, you know on Monday we were talking about
Starting point is 00:07:30 the movies we'd seen. I actually watched another movie the other day. I finally got round to watching Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. You seen that one?
Starting point is 00:07:38 Oh, yeah, yeah, decent. Yeah, enjoyable. Very enjoyable again. A lot of feet.
Starting point is 00:07:43 Tarantino, obviously, big foot fetishist. He is. I didn't know there was a lot of feet inantino obviously big foot fetishist he is I didn't know there was a lot of feet in the movie is that a thing
Starting point is 00:07:49 is it all over the gaff I think oh yeah he puts one foot she puts one foot on the windscreen yeah
Starting point is 00:07:55 puts her feet which is what she's in the cinema you know you've mentioned it yeah there's feet everywhere
Starting point is 00:08:01 it's just feet all of the cast just feet because he did that one with Salma Hayek in From Dusk Till Dawn, didn't he? Yeah. He's an absolute weirdo, Tarantino, isn't he? He's an odd bod, isn't he?
Starting point is 00:08:13 He is an odd bod. It was one of his films I've enjoyed the most since Inglourious Bastards, probably. Yeah, definitely Return to Farm, if indeed he dropped off any. I've still not watched any of his groundhouse ones oh no i found that um django unchained and the hateful eight were both like way too long way too long and they also had like i mean obviously this is quite obvious and say given that django unchained is literally about a slave but I found the race I found it just quite uncomfortable to watch like unnecessarily like I mean maybe it isn't
Starting point is 00:08:51 unnecessary I don't know but like if you watch for example 12 Years a Slave which is one of the best films I've ever seen obviously got a black director and it's done in a way where it's not it's quite unalloyed right it's saying this is what it was like and it was fucking horrific whereas i think when you're quentin tarantino and you've got a reputation of making these stylized type movies where everything's quite stylized you you apply that technique or that style to a movie like that it just comes it just comes across as massively distasteful, I thought. Yeah, it's a very, very difficult line to kind of work up to, I think, as a white director. And he frequently has overstepped that line a few times.
Starting point is 00:09:37 But he has employed a lot of black actors in his time, probably not as many as he should be. But yeah, he's not covering himself and covering everyone i always find like with um i think sky are doing a black history month uh kind of collection of films and the thing that gets me is like a lot of films are like really worthy kind of like bookish films and stuff and there's no you know the black history seems to be um films that represent black history as in like the the struggle of apartheid or slavery or um segregation in the south and stuff there's there's no actual
Starting point is 00:10:13 kind of celebration of black directors you know making fun films or or films that you know the the black issue has to be about um the historical like actual historical um events rather than you i think there's an argument that you said that you could mix in the idea of black history also being black people working in cinema and directing in cinema and so you know films where there's a bit of joy about fucking living like i think it kind of it kind of um it gives a very small kind of like um a very small part of of the picture i think and i think uh i'd quite like to see like just a a set of films where it's not necessarily about um about the parts in history pretty much all of history where black people have been subjugated and and put down but people who have broken out and and and being able to make films that aren't about necessarily
Starting point is 00:11:04 uh the black condition and are just about people living their lives and stuff like that i realize that's a very you know white person i think i said but i do always i do you know the sort of miserable people who sort of go you know black you know blah blah when is there going to be a blah blah like i think there needs to be some celebration of modern black voices in cinema otherwise it's just going to be just oh you know this is what happened in in the past but it's all different now it's not all different now um and i think black directors have very very different voices because they've come from very very different places and i and i you know i think some of those films should be
Starting point is 00:11:39 mixed in so just a a a concatenation of film after film about black people being, you know, just, you know, destroyed by the hand of the white man, effectively. Steve McQueen came out, the director of 12 Years a Slave, and said something about, I don't want to misquote him, but something about how he's frustrated by things that are called black British culture, where he would say it prefers just to be British culture. Yeah, yeah. Which I totally Yeah. It prefers British culture. Yeah. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:05 Yeah. Which I totally understand. I totally get that. And I think, um, one thing you could say about, uh, black history month is it's an attempt to get people to understand and turn to,
Starting point is 00:12:13 and maybe think about things in a way they would never would have before because ultimately let's be perfectly honest. If you live in like a small town in the UK, you're not going to think about black issues because you don't have to right unless unless you're black obviously so i think the idea of raising awareness and getting people to think about these things a little bit more deeply is a helpful thing and the intentions are obviously pure but i do i do understand what you mean it was like 12 years ago it was like beale street and stuff like that it's like yeah
Starting point is 00:12:41 i've seen all these films and i i them, but they are about harrowing chapters in black people's lives. And I just think that doesn't celebrate the modernity of black people working in cinema and creating different experiences. It's very one-dimensional for me. Yeah, I get what you mean.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Changing trains slightly, I had my first, I forgot to tell you when I saw you, this um i had my first i forgot to tell you uh when i saw you i i had my this week i had my first direct experience with a covid denying like hoaxing kind of conspiracy theorist this week oh wow cool on the on the tube on the way into work right so people would have seen if they're not in london they would have seen that that um you know um yeah people are traveling to work in public transport and then through part of the lockdown when we were able to i was driving into the office which is about i don't know seven or
Starting point is 00:13:34 eight miles away and ever since i've been i've changed the public transport and people are wearing masks generally speaking that's about 95 percent of people are wearing masks and you assume the others have got a um an exemption or whatever anyway so people are kind of socially distancing on the tube and i'll sat down um and there was no one next to me there's a few other people in the carriage and this guy got on with no mask and he was honestly like ranting and raving and he kept screaming at people you're inhaling your own toxins you're inhaling your own toxins. You're inhaling your own toxins. Oh, dear.
Starting point is 00:14:07 And I was like, oh, my God. The thing is, right, and this is part of the interesting part of it, I think, is that so if I'm on the tube train, and if I was to see, like, I don't know, a man, and this guy was a man, he's probably a bit older than me, not a small guy, just a normal-sized guy. In normal times, if in normal times if i had seen that person be super aggressive to someone who was smaller than him or or a woman
Starting point is 00:14:32 or whatever or a child i would you know me i'm i'm i'm i would 100 step in i wouldn't be awkward about it i would just go over and say what you're doing but it was quite weird because it didn't get to this stage because he inevitably got off the next stop and just went to the next carriage and walked off but it's it's kind of interesting how you would deal with it because of the of the social distancing thing now right yeah yeah you wouldn't feel like you yeah i think yeah you'd have to sort of go look this is just you know i'd be getting whatever he had anyway so so let's roll that down, shall we? Not just for him, but for the victim of it as well, right?
Starting point is 00:15:07 They don't want another person in their space. Do you remember there was that guy who spat in the face of that woman who died at Victoria Station a little while ago and there was no kind of corporate protection for her or even acknowledgement that there was even a connection to what she'd
Starting point is 00:15:23 experienced. It's very hard to prove that sort of thing but still it's it's uh it's it was a really really sad tale so what i did is i normally just i mean you know what london is a lot i mean like i say if it got out of hand i would obviously step in but normally you know you're a londoner right so you just let you just ignore people and they go away you get it happens all the time for those who don't know people get on the tube and they ask for money shouting yeah just shouting but in this instance when i got off um the stop i need to get off i actually went to the information bit said by the way there's a guy on the tube i just got off of who's like properly intimidating people hassling them screaming at them and you might want to have a look at it because it's like a public safety thing right uh and um they said they were
Starting point is 00:16:03 they were going to see so i basically grasped pete i grasped someone up you're gonna need to be in public protection you're gonna have to be in some kind of witness protection program now yeah i'm just worried about going home again the big man is he won't notice me because i had a mask on see there's the irony exactly well you get away with somebody so many more crimes now the um uh i'll i'll warn up you on that one there was a it's not really my story but um self-care club is a show that's to kind of produce you listen to it or wherever you get self-care club and they were doing um goat yoga uh a kind of way to relax yeah relax and kick back with some goats.
Starting point is 00:16:45 And they talked to this woman who was basically running the thing. And off microphone, she basically was this underground pedo cave truther talking about all the earthquakes we've been having lately is actually going on, blowing up all the underground caves of the paedophiles. Oh, my God. That's unbelievable. It's rare that you see, you occasionally see it,
Starting point is 00:17:15 you see people touching it on Facebook and you sort of go, right, maybe you've got a vested interest in not wearing masks and stuff like that. Maybe you own a bar or a pub or a night spot and you kind of want your life to continue as it was but when you sort of hear people being really like q anon level crazy you sort of go wow i've never i've never actually experienced someone in in the wild actually um espousing these views or spouting these views at least so how did it come about how did they kind of react to that stuff i think well i mean to be honest i think you're in a you're in a field with a lot
Starting point is 00:17:48 of gods anyway um so maybe you know you're on an organ situation there's a um there's a guy i won't name him because it'd be unfair but he's kind of tangentially related to my wife's friend right and he's he's kind of this guy who does he's always been a guy who kind of does odd stuff anyway like he'll jump in his car and drive across the country and yeah on a whim and he he went through a phase of just only eating meat right and this is before all this kind of trump stuff came along and this q and on stuff came along. But if I'm not being unfair to him, I'm not going to name the guy, but if I'm not being unfair to him,
Starting point is 00:18:29 I hope you understand what I mean when I say his mind might well have been fertile ground for this stuff, right? Yeah, yeah. And I kind of tangentially know him, so I followed him on Instagram for a while. But I ended up stopping a while back because it was a bit of a clean out
Starting point is 00:18:41 of all the people I was following and he just didn't survive the cut, which I'm sure would be devastating to know. But anyway, I went back and looked at his, his page because I think I saw him liking someone else's photo and I clicked on him and he has gone like properly full onto it now. And the thing you and I always joke about Pete,
Starting point is 00:19:01 he, his most recent Instagram post is just the truth about 9-11 they don't want you to know and his first line right is fact jet fuel doesn't melt steel beams right and it's like it's like baby's first uh conspiracy theory isn't it really yeah it's it's a stepping stone it's a stepping stone for him's a stepping stone for him. And so he's doing all this QAnon stuff. He's talking about do all your own research. Wake up. Do your own research.
Starting point is 00:19:33 Just look at someone else's YouTube video. Do your own research. Learn your history, by which I mean not the history I teach you in schools. And then it goes full on. It goes, this isn't about politics. This is a fight for the children. It's like, oh, here we go. Here we go. So he it goes full on it goes this isn't about politics this is a fight for the children it's like here we go here we go so he's gone like full on so isn't it interesting though the the idea that you know if you're gonna you can make i mean one person can just believe whatever right if one person is worked that way then whatever but isn't it fascinating and also
Starting point is 00:20:00 a little bit terrifying how everyone who believes in this stuff kind of agrees just to believe it. What I'm trying to say is it's not like they've all been radicalized at the same time in one movement. People have chosen in bits and pieces to kind of all gravitate towards this thing. I find it absolutely terrifying what the human mind is capable of believing. And it's very, very difficult to get them out of it. If if you watch that there was a really good video about q and on the financial
Starting point is 00:20:29 times website which one of our mates shared with us and i think you were on the thread as well and it had an interview in it with a guy who was now an expert in cultish behavior and the reason he's an expert in cultish behavior is because he's got some PhD about psychology from a good university. But in his teenage years, he was indoctrinated into a cult. And he spent three or four years in that cult. And then he was deprogrammed and de-radicalized. And he started his own journey about how it happens. And he talked a lot about how to behave around people that that believe this stuff
Starting point is 00:21:06 and what you need to do is it was it was fascinating but also absolutely terrifying because apparently the most natural reaction if it was say someone you knew or a friend is obviously just to cut them out of your friendship circle right well i don't want to talk about going wrong because they're fucking mad right apparently that's the last thing you want to be doing because yeah they then just see that as further evidence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Chilling. And then you get the President of the United States not taking an opportunity to denounce it
Starting point is 00:21:32 live on TV and it's like, what is going on, man? It's, oh jeez, I mean through the looking glass, we've spoken at length about it before, but anyway, we'll take a short break. We're going to get to your, presumably, your just as fertile ground on the emails. Hello, Luke and Pete Shaw, if you want to get in touch.
Starting point is 00:21:51 We'll be back in a minute for more of your dispensers. Dispatchers. Probably should have said dispatchers. Big dollars with you on the Luke and Pete Shaw dispensers. Your dispensaries. Yeah, if you want to get to hellotlookpinshore.com as discussed. What have we got in the emails, Lucky Mo? I just want to say that if you believe in QAnon, then
Starting point is 00:22:12 email it and let us know why, because I'll be interested to hear people's input on it. And I'll also be interested in where people draw the line on conspiracy theories. I mean, what point do you think, oh, that's an acceptable one and that one isn't? Someone who's done a really interesting study about the gateway kind of conspiracies that get people onto the you know for want of a better phrase the harder stuff um it's all pretty interesting stuff anyway let's
Starting point is 00:22:33 get back to more safe ground with an email from tom who wants to tell us about stealing alcohol from his job oh nice like this he says uh guys. Your chat regarding general work-related mischief reminded me of a little scheme that me and a friend had while working at a famous hotel chain. And I think this is reference to the story I told about a friend of mine who used to buy a sausage roll at the start of each shift at a supermarket and keep the receipt. And then the rest of the day, he could eat as many sausage rolls as he liked because if anyone questioned him, he always had the receipt, right?
Starting point is 00:23:05 Yeah, I like that one. Tom goes on to say, as guests checked in to this hotel, they received a drinks voucher, which could be redeemed at the bar. This could be for a soft drink or an alcoholic drink. So a colleague and I devised a scheme to ensure we could get pissed on shift at the expense of the hotel. When a guest redeemed their drink, we would write down what it was on the back of the vouch when a guest redeemed their drink we would write down what it was on the back of the voucher so it could be added to the system and accounted for in the
Starting point is 00:23:30 stock take but here's the beauty of the scheme when guests ask for a coke or lemonade for their free drink we would write on the voucher rum and coke or vodka and lemonade and these discreetly enjoy our beverage. We were never caught doing this despite some suspicious behaviour whenever several soft drink ordering children had arrived that day. Long may the schemers prosper. All the best, Tom. Look, I think if you're on what was usually close to living wage, possibly even less, I think you are allowed to take as many liberties as you like quite frankly
Starting point is 00:24:08 especially in a hotel should you be getting pissed at work it depends on how safe you could be when you've imbibed alcohol one might suggest i would suggest that as long as nobody tried to talk to me i could get away with it but because i'm a good drunk, but I think that a lot of people are a little bit too clumsy when they're pissed. So I'm not confident of anything. I'd be a better worker. I think you are talking absolute shit. When I remember once I was in a pub with you,
Starting point is 00:24:39 we went to a few bars, and you got pissed, not even that pissed, you drew um a fake tattoo of the red hot chili peppers logo on yourself for no reason so people look at that's a red flag mate people are gonna see that you can't what do you mean they probably just think that guy really loves the chili wellies yeah maybe um i i think also if you're gonna i do have sympathy with the idea that if you're working behind a bar it's an occupational hazard right yeah like if you work in a kitchen speed and cork in if you're gonna be a delivery driver you're gonna get caught in traffic this is how it goes it's an occupational hazard so i don't necessarily blame them for that i
Starting point is 00:25:21 remember when i worked at a hotel bar once at uni for a while you had to stay behind the bar until the last resident went to bed oh no so sometimes it could be at 6 a.m jeez that is miserable but i guess if you're on shift you're on shift you know they can't make you work more hours than than necessary but it does seem i never understood people who just like to you know be a hotel bar fly unless you can't sleep. I don't know, man. I just never going back to the hotel and then hitting the bar just has very
Starting point is 00:25:51 little kind of a lure for me. Maybe as an older man, I'll, I'll get into that. That, that kind of, I think it's worse if you're an older reading as I call it. Well,
Starting point is 00:25:59 I don't know. I just, I just, I just, I just can't be, can't be bothered with it. The thing is, I do understand that if, if I'm away with work or whatever,
Starting point is 00:26:08 on my own, in a city, say, I don't know, think of it, I'm in Marrakesh, right? I don't know why. Where's that? Why is that? Why have you said Marrakesh? Well, it just seems like quite a glamorous location, right? Are you doing import, export and spices?
Starting point is 00:26:22 What's going on here? Yeah, that's what I'm doing. I'm staying in a hotel, and I understand the glamour of having a drink in a hotel bar, seeing the world go by, lots of people from lots of different nationalities coming and going, interesting people watching. I understand the glamour of that, but I also accept that there's nothing glamorous about me, right?
Starting point is 00:26:41 So I'm not some kind of James you know james bond type character people are just gonna think who's that weird guy sat on his looking at me yeah looking at me so i kind of see both sides of it maybe if you go along with the book you can kind of get away with it but it's not uh it's not ideal yeah i think that's fair you got any emails there mate i have yeah um dom oh dom you've really made my day. Just following on from the quick mention of the overstuffed Horniman walrus. Remember that walrus that was stuffed pre the person knowing what a walrus looked like? So it was absolutely massive and it's in the Horniman Museum and it looks amazingly humorous. I thought you'd appreciate the seemingly overarmed monkey that they have there too.
Starting point is 00:27:27 And Dom has appended a picture of uh said monkey um the thing is right dom has um appended the picture of not a monkey but a gibbon uh that is actually a correctly stuffed uh and under-armed if anything uh gibbon gibbons have very very long arms with three kind of, like an elongated hand. So it looks like it's got two different elbows. So Dom, you're in for a treat, mate. If you've never seen a Gibbon before, type it into Google, enjoy the YouTube results that come up.
Starting point is 00:27:59 You know when someone's like never read a book that's like your favourite book and you go, you're in for a fucking treat. Or your favourite film or your favourite album or something. Yeah, if you've never seen a Gibbon before and you've never seen a Gibbon bipedally moving through the earth and through the world, just check it out because you're in for a treat, mate. But the picture that you've appended is a picture of a Gibbon and it looks like a healthy little white chick Gibbon.
Starting point is 00:28:25 I'd love to be there when he sees it for the first time. Shit! He's going to lose his mind. He's going to lose his mind. Give us a review next week, Dom.
Starting point is 00:28:31 Have a look at the gibbons. Give us a review. Marks out of 10. Lovely old job. And if you, once you've enjoyed that, perhaps try a rhino next because they're very hard
Starting point is 00:28:41 to describe a rhino. Yeah, I guess so. But surely you will have seen a rhino before. Well, it's what they say about the... I can't remember what they say. It's like, I think there's a saying about a rhino, isn't there? Like, when there's a rhino in the room, it's hard to describe it,
Starting point is 00:28:57 but you know it's a fucking rhino in the room, right? I would describe it as like a hippo with battle cap armor on. Yeah. A kind of war-ready hippo. Yeah. There's also a weird thing at the Hornet Museum called, I think they just call it the Merman or something, where it originates in, I want to say it's purported to originate in japan
Starting point is 00:29:27 and it's 1400 years old but it's actually a kind of fake thing exhibited in america by pt barnum you know the old circus guy and it's a it's a big fish basically with the head and shoulders of some kind of primate. Oh, right, okay. And they kind of made it out to be this actual merman skeleton, basically. And that's on display at the Horniman as well. So, listen, if that e-mailer sees that, he is going to lose his shit. There was one in there.
Starting point is 00:29:59 There was a mermaid in Hartlepool's museum back in the day. That's the only exhibit I can bloody remember. Such a rich history of shipbuilding and stuff like that. And all I can remember is a recessed glass box with ropes in them, different kinds of rope knots, and a mermaid's skeleton. That's all I can remember. In many ways, that is the history of Hartlepool, right? It is, yeah, yeah is yeah yeah yeah and you
Starting point is 00:30:26 know we probably i imagine there's a lot of pictures of the um famous heartlepool monkey that is actually a given so we was that a given as well i imagine it's probably a chimp personally yeah that would look more like a human man but chimp hangers hasn't got the same um ring no no and and if you did try and hang, you'd have to bind the hands and legs of the primate. But what would you do if it was a monkey and it had like a prehensile tail? How would you sort of keep that from grabbing the rope and saving itself?
Starting point is 00:30:59 I mean, the monkey likes a rope. It likes a rope. It famously likes a rope. Yeah, it's just like when alan partridge when he's at the owl sanctuary in there you're sentenced to be hung by the neck and no hovering um death by fire and score is the answer here and on that note people are going to get out of here we're going to finish up for this week's luke and pete show episodes we will of course as ever be back on monday with more of this inane nonsense hello at luke and pete show
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