The Luke and Pete Show - Joe Wicks vs Mr Motivator

Episode Date: July 2, 2020

On today’s episode, we imagine who would win in a Joe Wicks vs Mr Motivator face off. Choose your fighter.Elsewhere, we talk about face ID, magnet fishing videos and a worm that can regenerate itself over two hundred times. Plus, Luke’s purchased The Last of Us on PS4, which leads us into a big old chat about video games, as usual.In addition to all this, we hear from a marine biologist who has been working with seals to predict the weather and a whole load of you have got in touch with your stories about golf club etiquette, which is more interesting than it sounds.Get in touch at [e-mail]! Don't hide your light under a bushel!***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running. And it's the Luke and Pete show. It's a Thursday. Thor's Day. Who is, of course, the God of love. Do I do it anyway? I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Luke Moore. Are you there, Luke? Hello. It's a Thursday, Thor's Day, who is, of course, the god of love. Do I do it anyway?

I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Luke Moore. Are you there, Luke? Hello. I am here, and I've got my giant hammer with me. Okay, cool. Cool. I actually look like, because of my lockdown haircut,

you know that scene in one of the Avengers movies where Thor's got quite fat? I've not seen that. Is it all prosthetic? Surely they wouldn't allow a man so beautiful to ride. I believe it is, yeah. So I look a bit like him in the back of a spoon. Why does he get fat? I can't remember.

He's talking about something, bored, drinking too much beer. I don't know. Although the beer he drinks in that movie famously is from the brewery in athens georgia i think called creature comforts brewery and i've been there it's actually a cool place um anyway welcome to thursday's episode of the luke and the pete show um peter is here i am here monday we were talking about all sorts of things mirrors venetian assassins um chips for microchips for apple computers a remake of Twister. So much going on, Pete.

How do we pack it all in to a fun-filled half an hour? Well, we don't worry unduly about the fun-filled bit. I know that much. I've gone a bit Thor's hammer and I'm grabbing my belly at the moment because I don't think anyone's in. Even people who have really worked really hard on the old jaw wicks workout is he still doing that is he still doing his jaw wicks every day oh someone i think you know what pete you and i about something completely different

earlier today we're talking about pr and how to get good pr and messaging and stuff right joe wicks's pr is unbelievable like he went overnight from being this guy successful guy sold books made money good looking, good luck to him. I met him once briefly, seemed nice. He went from that to as soon as lockdown happened, where most people were going, holy shit, have I got enough toilet paper? How am I going to feed my family? Am I going to lose my job?

Overnight, he transformed into, in quotes, the nation's PE teacher. That is the kind of ruthless efficiency that you have to respect. I don't know if he's still doing it. He was on Desert Island Discs last week. That's all I know. He had a lot of – I mean, he had a platform to start with. So it's not like he started from nothing. But, yes, he did become the nation's school teacher.

I mean, of course that's the case. It would be weird if just, you know, one of the big developments of the COVID crisis and lockdown was just that some random man... A man appears. ..has just decided that he was the nation's PE teacher and he's got a channel four every morning. But Joe Wicks looks like a man who, like, you know,

he's very... he's body beautiful. He's playful. He's a bit of a Cockney kind of character he's like he is he's palatable um but a matt like but he doesn't have the intensity of your friend and mine mr motivator now imagine if mr motivator just appeared from nowhere true um which like went from zero zero mr motivatorator to Mr. Motivator. I mean, Lemmy did a lovely little kind of piece about Mr. Pitbull.

At one point there was near Pitbull and then there was Pitbull. Imagine there was near Mr. Motivator and then one day Mr. Motivator was everywhere. A man in skin tight lycra and glasses and a bandana doing his thing 24 7 for you and me um do you do you are you saying that then if if the world has to be divided into two camps the mr motivator camp and the joe wicks camp and say there was some kind of massive brexit style referendum decision to decide who was going to become the nation's PE teacher, you're not only voting for Mr Motivator,

you're probably going to be involved in his campaign in some capacity. Yes, definitely. Mr Motivator would definitely be my pick. He is a man of advancing years. He's body positive. He's bright. He's quite shouty and enthusiastic and well he's a motivator well he's a motivator yeah i i think i told you before i was watching uh one of my favorite channels uh a man who has a big fucking magnet

uh who um puts it in um the canal the canals and rivers of our fine nation. Yeah, magnet fishing. And he pulls out old Uzis and old Tommy guns and stuff. And so on. I mean, maybe in the sewer. But yeah, he just pulls out some proper naughty munitions and some crazy stuff. He was filming that one time and Mr. Motivator just turns up. And he goes, hello, and he's got what he did.

And Mr Motivator, I'm fairly certain, demanded to know what was happening. Real name Derek Evans. Oh, okay. Maybe he's the fourth Evans brother. Isn't there loads of Evans actors? Maybe he's the fourth Evans.

Maybe he is. We didn't know. So what was he doing in this video you watched then? He was just strolling, I think he was just strolling down the canal. I mean, this is a good couple of years ago now, so I can't really remember. But yeah, Mr Motivator just rocking up, demanding to know what a man is doing

with a magnet in a river. Fair enough, really. I just feel at the moment, you know, I started this whole thing off sort of saying that I've gone a bit Thor, Thor's belly. I'm currently looking at under lockdown, one of the few places near where I lived was Joe and the Juice. Joe and the Juice, basically a nightclub that sells coffee.

It's a fucking coffee house that has the music on way too loud. But during lockdown, they were selling takeout food and drinks. So I was like, cool, I'll get my usual order of a chicken jalapeno and an avocado flatbread sandwich. I brought it home using the app. You've got to order everything with apps now, which is annoying. And I've changed my appearance recently, so my Apple ID sometimes doesn't recognize me.

I would buy arm. It's a metaphor. It's a metaphor. It doesn't recognize you. Exactly. We've all had a rough... Yeah, does your Apple ID, your Apple Face ID, find it harder to identify you after lockdown than it did before?

But I've got a stash of KFC garlic buttermilk mayo sachets. Sorry, can you slow down? This is quite difficult to keep up with. Right. I've got a sandwich I bought from Joe and the Juice. It's kind of healthy. It's under the auspices of being slightly healthy. Chicken, avocado, Tabasco, flatbread.

Lovely old job. And I am dipping it in one of three, three of three, garlic buttermilk mayo pots that I've got during one of my wild Friday night KFC orders. I'm falling to pieces, Luke. My phone doesn't recognise my own face and I'm watching videos of a man magnet fishing. Pete, can i just also

chime in and say i don't want to i don't want to cut well i've got a couple of just a couple of final bits to say i'll miss the motivator and joe wicks so i'll do joe wicks first i saw joe wicks i met him briefly seems like a lovely chap very handsome very nicely put together as you'd expect but he looks a bit like the prototype for a person that's being designed in the future because right you know i mean he's like a first iteration because he's just so small oh is he quite uh yeah he's very very diminutive so yeah he kind of looks like a little kind of prototype of something that's going to come along later you'd make it bigger first and then shrink it down yeah just do exactly what you did with him but just just normal size that's what they said make a bit no it would be smaller with an arm a low power arm processor

yeah yeah yeah exactly everything's getting smaller these days so it's not surprised they do keep the doctor away but if and the final thing i wanted to make um a point i want to make re magnet fishing um and as it pertains to mr motivator if you're someone who spends a lot of your time essentially dredging ponds and rivers right if a man turns up and becomes very interested in why you're doing that he's almost certainly done something horrific that's at the bottom of that pond so all i'm saying is mr motivator he might look like he's got a bright and bubbly exterior at the age of 67 he's still in amazing shape and of course at one point in the 90s was the was technically the nation's pe teacher

yeah are we about to see a dramatic fall from grace i say dramatic no one would probably care but it would be big news nonetheless. He's probably lost a lot running up and down those canals. He's probably lost a few spectacles in his time. That's all I'm saying. Could be. Could be innocent. Hope so. Hope it is. Hope so. Is the nation ready? Or he could have

done what that bloke from Egghead's reckoned he'd done. All I'm saying is if he goes on the run, there's no chance he's fucking hiding with that outfit on. I'm just glad to see he's gone. 67 looks great. That's fantastic work. Fantastic. Yeah, I'd be bloody happy

to look that good at 67. I really would. Anyway, Peter, I wanted to bring to your attention, if I may, that I bought The Last of Us for the PS4. Gah! Video game reviews from, I think, 10 years ago.

But, wah! Don't know anything about it. The only thing I know about it is that everyone says it's good, including you. The YouTube video of them acting out some kind of dramatic scene that you made me watch, and the advert for the subsequent sequel that is out now. That's all I know. So how much of a treat am I in for?

First five minutes, the worst five minutes of a video game ever. It cost me 12 fucking quid. Why are you telling me that now? And then I guess very good. No, like emotionally, it's weighty. Oh, right. It's one of the most affecting video games, I think, you've ever played.

And I include Zelda Breath of the Wild on that one as well. Can I potentially, because I'm a complete layman when it comes to video games, as regular listeners will know, can I ask a question that might well seem sacrilegious, but I'm just being honest. Okay. So with The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt, which I've enjoyed on the Switch, and I'm a level 23 Witcher now,

so you be the judge. The one thing that I find tedious, well, there's two things actually. One is that a lot of the kind of quests are fairly similar. And two, it's very, very slow paced when you have to watch all the kind of set piece dialogue scenes and all that kind of stuff. Is that something that's kind of well established as something that's a bit tedious or am I just in the minority there?

Yeah, I think when games got expensive, like, you know, 50 to 60 quid and these maniac, you know, like how Patton Oswalt does this fantastic bit of stand-up where he talks about films are made by women, all films are made by women, because the director will have this, he'll be this virtuoso kind of maniac who's got these wild ideas about everything, and he'll film everything possible and put everything in there, and he wants all the explosions and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And then the editors, and the best editors are invariably women, sit the same director down and go, right, calm down. You can't have a nine-hour film. We're going to make this two hours. And they tidy it up. And Patton Oswalt uses the explosion of sperm and the woman making a baby out of this fucking mess that you've made, making this beautiful creature.

So I think these people like, I'm trying to think of Hideo Kojima and these kind of like virtuosos, the kind of directors. Well, Thelma Schumacher is famously Martin Scorsese's editor, isn't she? Exactly, exactly. So why is the Irishman 42 hours long? Yeah, I watched that recently. It wasn't that interesting. I don't think she did that.

I'm just being silly. Carry on. But I think these people kind of rose through the ranks in the 80s where narrative wasn't really a big deal and it was all about action. and certainly in people in in hideo kojima's case and a few others um they made these games and role-playing games that were very narrative heavy uh and that and the stories were revolutionary uh and the graphics were fantastic and and stuff like final fantasy uh was was this kind of like revolution in storytelling. But it just made them fucking long. And nobody, because these male directors became so powerful

in their particular genre, nobody tells them to calm the fuck down and make the story a bit shorter. Because you've not only got the story, you've got the side quests and the side missions and the sub games and the Gwent and all that bollocks you've got to get through as well. so that's why i think video games are quite impenetrable for people who who want to play like um my missus was like watching watching um telly and she said and oh i fancy playing that game um the last of us two uh and she's never played a video like she's never she's not played a modern video game before.

So I was like, well, A, it would be fucking ridiculously long and B, using a twin stick controller to someone who's not really used one recently, it's like fucking learning another language. I can't do it because I don't play games enough. So like, I wouldn't even recommend

someone who's not played video games for like, you know, 10 years to suddenly jump into playing with a dual controller with the complexity and the prior knowledge video gamers are supposed to know off the bat. If I push this up that way, I'll walk this way. If I look down there, if I press the other way thing, it'll go down. And if I press this button, it'll open my menu and stuff. That's taken as red for me because I've played loads of video games.

But for people coming into video games, it's really difficult. And also, for disabled people, video games are fucking impossible. If you've got any kind of disability at all, you can't fucking play them. Xbox have done this wonderful thing where they've remapped all of the Xbox controller functions into this kind of like modular system that you can put around a wheelchair or a desk setup or an eye setup or a mouth setup. There's a great charity called Special Effect who work on PC video games that you can use and move your eyes and stuff like that.

But I think the modern video game, they're too long. They're completely inaccessible to anyone who hasn't played video games for 10 years. And they could just be a bit cheaper and a bit quicker. And that is, I think, why indie games and independent studios are so popular at the moment, because they provide an easier way to get into games. They're nice and quick. And you can be a bit more flexible with your narrative.

That's my speech over. Thanks for listening. I've been Pete Donaldson. This has been the Video Game Tech Talk. Yeah, I'll probably just send it back. No, I'll let you know how I get on. It's not even that for me the i mean let's go for let's go for an ad break but very very quickly it's not just about the controls and stuff that does take a while because i'm old and i don't play video games that often

but it's just a slow slow pace of it all i don't want to see like a sometimes quite literally three or four minute long conversation which then of course they hilariously give you the option to skip but if you skip it then you're not going to know what's happening and so if you can skip it and still know what's happening then what's the point of having it look last of us one of the um probably in the top 10 games ever made so enjoy yourself i I bloody will. I'll let you know how I get on. All right.

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just... And Mr Motivator sometimes. And Mr Motivator sometimes, yeah. Get him on. We could probably get him on. That's one of the famous people we could probably get on here. He wouldn't have anything else to do. Bash him over a Zencaster link, no problem. Is apparently magnet fishing...

Get this, magnet fishing the law. It is illegal and punishable by a £25 fine to magnet fish or remove any material from a canal or inland navigation under the control of a canal and river trust in England. £25. What a lazy fine. Well, what? I mean, you could make £25 down the scrapyard.

I'll pay it every day. With anything you find. Every time. Every time. Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. It's just an overhead. It's literally not a fine. It's just Ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous. Yeah. It's just an overhead.

It's literally not a fine. It's just an overhead for a legitimate business. Exactly. Exactly. Yeah. If you've ever been magnet fishing, I mean, Pete, I don't understand. Sometimes I think to myself with the stuff that you love on YouTube, like magnet fishing, lock picking, all that kind of stuff.

I don't mean to sound rude, but it's not that ambitious. And what I mean by that is why aren't you just doing it yourself? Because it would be more fun doing it, right? Yeah, but I'd get the wrong magnet. I'd crush. Magnets are very dangerous, especially the sort of ones that we use in here. And, you know, I would get it wrong. Do they have to be turned on and off, those kind of magnets?

I think they're electromagnets. I think they have to be, haven't they, surely? I don't really know, I would get it wrong. Do they have to be turned on and off, those kind of magnets? I think they're electromagnets. I think they have to be, haven't they, surely? I don't really know, to be honest. I do know that pure gold, there's no point looking for, like, really precious metal because, obviously, you know, gold, aluminium, and silver, you know, the valuable ones, they're obviously not particularly attractive to magnets. In fact, I think pure gold is slightly repelled.

So if you are magnet fishing for pure gold, you are literally doing the worst thing possible. You're repelling it. Yeah, you're pushing it further away. You're pushing it further away. A metaphor for some of my relationships. Right. I've got an email here, Pete from um from a lovely chap i'm assuming

he's a lovely chap i've never met him called jay who is a marine biologist would you like to hear i mean he's a marine biologist so he's got some opinions on magnet fishing presumably but his email's not about that or magnetic fish bring it on could be let's read through and find out he says i'm a marine biologist and i'm currently waiting clearance to move to New Zealand for my PhD, and I've had a chance to do some really great field work over the years. I've been loving the weather chat recently on your show, a great chapter of the British Small Talk textbook. When at University of St. Andrews last year, I got a chance to go seal tagging on the west coast of Scotland, a very exciting, dare I say, mind-blowing experience.

the west coast of scotland a very exciting dare i say mind-blowing experience we basically caught seals took a number of measurements and samples for various ongoing studies and tagged them with satellite tags this is where it gets interesting though pete a number of these tags were actually funded by the met office who used the temperature pressure and salinity data which the seals collect when they're offshore to predict the weather the seals are offshore making them more efficient than weather stations or man-made observations and they also move around making them more efficient than boys i've attached a picture of one of them with a tag on her forehead he has it's cute he says i'm also currently a volunteer coordinator for the uk's national whale and dolphin watch every year we use public sightings

over the last week of July to gain a snapshot of all the whales and dolphins in UK waters. If this email does make it all the way to the top, if you could give the Whale and Dolphin Watch a shout out, I'd love that. Anyone can get involved and it really helps, especially in these difficult times. The charity is called the Sea Watch Foundation. Give us a Google.

Stay safe, Jay Kirkham. So people are using seals, Peter, to predict the weather. Well, like you said, Luke, using boys, I mean, I would argue you shouldn't be throwing boys in the sea at Harvard. Do you know what they call boys in America, by the way? Oh, I don't know. Do you know it's spelled B-U-O-Y? Kids in America?

Right, yeah. They call them buoys. Oh, do they? know. Did you know it's spelled B-U-O-Y? Kids in America? Right, yeah, yeah, cool. They call them buoys. Oh, do they? Ba-ba-buoy. When my wife first said that, I was like, it wasn't even like one of those, oh, that's a funny mistranslation kind of thing. Isn't that interesting?

It was like, sorry, what? You've said that wrong. I don't know what you mean. I literally don't know what you're talking about. But they say buoys, apparently. So there you go. What do you make of them? Morally and ethically, should these seals have to sign

some kind of waiver to agree to it? I don't know. Or at least put a flipper on a piece of paper, like a cross or something. Well, I would also say that how are these devices powered? I need to know about the technology. Are they powered by fish? Are the devices somehow run by the food that the seal eats?

The seals are probably happy, by the way, because their interaction with a lot of humans will be, here comes someone, oh, they're going to club me over the head. So the compromise of being a weathervane is probably one you take. Well, you just want me to be a weatherman. Yeah, I'll do that. I think there are a lot

of beautiful dolphins seen off the coast of Hartlepool recently. There was a sunny day. Sunny was out at sea just off the coast of Hartlepool. It was sort of beautiful.

Is it a pod? I forget. Well, it's just... Words fail me. I think it's a pod of whales. I think it might be a... Is it a pod of whales? Possibly a school... I'm not sure about dolphins a school of fish, pod of whales, not sure.

But if you guarantee, people who are listening who are based in the UK and desperately want to go and see dolphins, I think they're dolphins or they might be porpoises, you go to the Cromarty Firth up in Scotland and because there's a weird meeting of two or three different waterways there's obviously a lot of fish always get caught around there and you're almost guaranteed to see dolphins or porpoises every day of the week. I think the

organisation that the emailer mentions should use the television song Deliverance. Whales and dolphins whales and dolphins yeah. Crack and track Crack and track Yeah I think it is called Deliverance? Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah. Cracking track. Cracking track.

Yeah, I think it is called Deliverance. Apparently, a group of dolphins is called a pod, Peter. Good on you. Well done. Yes! The thing is, Luke, I'm genuinely proud of that. You should be. Good on you.

It's good knowledge. Be more confident. From that to, do you want to clear up some golf etiquette? Yeah, go for it. Golf etiquette. I love these things. George got in touch. Your conversation about Panicati and members of the golfing community

reminded me of a trip to a golf course in Milton Keynes a few years ago. I went with my father-in-law and a mate from work. Went into the shop to pay up and get the cards or whatever else you have to do. The guy behind the counter explained

that I would not be playing today because I was wearing jeans. I love that. The black trousers. You won't be playing today. You won't be playing today. You've made it all this way and you are wearing jeans. The black trousers I was wearing weren't actually jeans,

but they were a thicker type trousery thing. Admittedly, they were probably from Primark or something. I had bought them to play golf in. They were phenomenally uncomfortable, and now I was being told that they weren't right. There followed a back and forth between me and the bloke, in which he finally came around the counter to touch the trousers to ensure he was happy.

I felt like asking whether, if such a close inspection was necessary, it was really worth the conversation. He eventually decided to let me play and acted as though he was doing me a favour. We saw one other party playing on a fairly warm summer's evening and I wondered whether there might be more people playing if he took a bit more of a relaxed attitude to the jeans slash trouser debate.

It's amazing. I've got a quick one from Ben as well. He could not have written the uh the the the the letters larger on this email please just use my first name not my last name especially if pete reads this all right lads um loving the podcasts uh keeps you going through those long days in the workshop in the most recent episode what length are your socks um it made me remember a couple times at my golf club one time we rocked up to the first tee, and the pro pulled me up for wearing black socks with shorts,

in which I had to purchase a white pair for £10 from the shop before I could go. An absolute rip-off. So the pro, how many pros do you have per club? Is it just one pro per club? I think you get one, and you get like a couple of assistant club pros or something. But is this just a big design for them to actually sell shit from their club shop.

I mean, it very much sounds like it, doesn't it? It sounds like when you go to a posh hotel and it's, oh, you've forgotten your cosy because you've got a pool and it's a £50 pair of bloody swimming costumes. So what's the pro thing? Like the pro is a very good golfer who presumably has been in a few... Well, they just give out. They just do lessons and all that kind of stuff. They're just part

of the club, basically. But they don't necessarily have to have ranked in a pro tournament. It doesn't mean they're a touring pro. It just means they're a club pro, basically. Right. I suppose a bigger golf club might have more than one golf club.

I'm not sure. Right. Okay. Another time, my father-in-law, who's also a recent member of the club, he got pulled over pre-lockdown for changing into his golf shoes in the car park and he should change them in the changing rooms. And he also got pulled up on his T-shirt, which is a polo shirt, because it wasn't tucked in properly at the back. Another friend got chucked out of the clubhouse wearing trainers

because an older gentleman grassed him up. They were a plain black pair as well. We've also had emails from the board asking from some members to refrain from heckling and giving abuse to away teams from other golf clubs because of what they were wearing on their feet. Until recently,

some of the younger generation decided to start to knock a few of these older members down a peg or two and we got a few of the rules changed. I can only apologize for the long email, but I thought I'd contribute to the podcast finally. Many more stories of stuff that goes on in golf clubs, which I'm happy to share. Cheers, lads. Ben. Men.

In the... Like the play... We talk about this a lot on the Football Ramblin'. You know, the problematic men who think that football is the last bastion of the old racist... Oh, the golf club people, they all vote UKIP and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, so it's the last bastion.

It's the last bastion of the... Yeah, so it's kind of like these men are just raging against their demise effectively. So that's why they're being so pernickety. Why is Ben so brave to get all this stuff done but not want to give his surname? Is he worried about the old-timers at the golf club and what they could do to him, the power they possess?

The power they possess? He doesn't want to be kicked out of his golf club. That's fair. Look, he wants to change from within. He wants to rabble-rouse. He's changing the car park by the sound of it. Oh, dear. We should go golfing one day.

We should. It would be terrible. Should we squeeze one more email in before we go? Okay, then. This is from Chris. It's right up your street, Pete. It says, hi, chaps. Just wanted to point a finger towards what seems to be a remake

of an old Luke and Pete show subject. On Sky History at the minute, there is a series called Eating History. So far, I've seen two guys eating 70-year-old cereal that has clearly been invaded by weevils and a pack of rations from the Vietnam War alongside a 40-year-old bottle of Tabasco sauce. Definitely worth a watch. Chris. Weevils. Weevils.

Weevils are one of those things that I thought we'd, I think I said on a group thread last week, warthogs I expected to run into. I expected warthogs to be a bigger part of my life than they ended up being.

Never seen one. Not likely to see one. Not asked. Same with weevils. They're not really that common in, I mean, you dig it about. But weevils, though. There's two type of water hogs. One of them, they're both in Africa, aren't they?

So I don't think you're going to see one knocking about in Soho. Well, good point. But weevils, I mean, weevils were always like in cartoons and stuff and in comics. Weevils would eat stuff. Woodworm. Do you want to hear something that absolutely blew my mind? I heard it the other day about, I can't remember the name of them now. I'm just going to go back through my notes because it stunned me so much. Oh, they're called planarias, right? planaria worms okay are the absolute kings of regeneration so if you get a planaria worm and you chop it in half it'll grow into two planaria worms right yeah yeah now that's mad right that's mad anyway but the record for chopping a planaria worm into parts at which point all of them grow into brand new planaria worms is 279

hang on say again where's this you ain't gonna believe it but i'm telling you it's true so that so scientists took a planaria worm yeah chopped it into 279 different bits and then and it had 200 and then you had 279 planaria worms. Why not go for 300? I'm pulling their funding. I'm pulling their funding. But the most mind-blowing thing about the whole thing is that, I read this on a Wikipedia page about planaria worms. Cool.

Right? Is that you can train planaria worms to react to things like light and very weird electric shocks and stuff. And planarias... Just go stiff. Yeah, is that right? This is how it gets absolutely insane, right? It's brown and smelly.

This is how it gets insane, right? I first got pointed towards this by Science-ish, the Wicked podcast Science-ish, right? And I did some further reading about it. by Science-ish, the Wicked podcast Science-ish, right? And I did some further reading about it. Scientists have trained planaria worms to react to light in some way, shape or form. Then they've chopped the head off the planaria worm.

The planaria worm has grown a new head and it still remembers the training it's been taught. It taints it. Oh my God. That is good, isn't it? That's good. Good worm. Great stuff.

Why don't we see more of them? They sound great. Why don't we have more of them knocking about? Let's have some more planet... Where do they live? Mr. Wikipedia. I don't really know how big they are or where they live. Mr. Listens to Scientist once,

and then goes on Wikipedia. Should be a meme about me. Pathetic. Yeah. I hear it I go on Wikipedia to check it I'll put it on this show

that's all I'll do good that's all anyway that's just kind of like the public domain version of everyone else's podcast basically yeah

I love it we've got QI and science issues this week alright then let's get out of here this has been the Luke and Pete show

enjoyed these we got through a lot I've just been getting increasingly hotter and hotter because the temperature is rising in my kitchen so let's get out of here enjoy these uh we got through a lot um i've just been getting increasingly hotter and hotter uh because the temperature is rising in my kitchen so uh let's get out of here we'll be back on monday with more of this shit yeah thanks very much for listening see you soon play the last of us This was a Stakhanov production.