The Luke and Pete Show - Mongo the Chimpfluencer

Episode Date: March 12, 2026

Cryptids. Ever heard of them? Well, they get everywhere. Including Hartlepool, it turns out. Today’s edition of the Luke and Pete show moves from the cryptozoological to the regular kind of zoologic...al when chimpanzees become the focus of the discussion. Trigger warning: includes details of a brutal real-life chimp attack. This is not one for the squeamish. But there’s a nice chaser in store: Pete’s “sexy” MSN pranks.Send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 It's Thursday the 12th of March. We still okay, we're still alive, we're still kicking, good news. It's the Pete and Luke show and the Luke and Pete show. I think one week we should just entitle this, The Pete and Luke show and change the artwork just for a laugh. For a big April fool, is there an April fool coming up? Does April lay on a Monday or a... It's a Wednesday, it's a Wednesday, this.
Starting point is 00:00:29 That's a shame. That's a shame. Maybe next to you. The straight of hormones. moose of podcasts. But we're staying open, baby. We're staying open. We will single-handedly defend every thought,
Starting point is 00:00:42 every email that comes through our email box. Yeah. In case, Esbela blow it up. Right? Yeah, fine. Absolutely fine. Good. All right.
Starting point is 00:00:50 Yes, it has been a wild week. And, Luke, you've written the running order that you've seen a big foot? No, I haven't. Or you've seen someone seeing a big foot? Producer Bruno said to me, Are you interested in Bigfoot? And I said, yes. Yeah, okay.
Starting point is 00:01:06 And I said, it's a good job we didn't ask Pete that because he'd say no. I wouldn't say no. I was interested for 12 years that I was the voice of DMAX when all of the Bigfoot shows. I was paid to be interested. Exactly. I'm Bigfoot for payers, they say. So you hate UFOs, but you like cryptids. I'm Sasquatch for scratch, baby.
Starting point is 00:01:26 What's your favorite cryptid? What's your favorite cryptid? What's a cryptid now? Remind me. Crypts is like a mysterious beast. Oh, right. Like a cryptic... Like a mythical kind of animal.
Starting point is 00:01:39 Right. Now, a cryptid shouldn't be cryptic. A cryptid sounds too inert. It doesn't feel like an animal. Do you know what in the word cryptid? Yeah. It doesn't feel like it should refer to an animal, I suppose. So what's really interesting, I think,
Starting point is 00:01:54 is that every single culture and nation really has its own kind of crypto-zoological folk story, right? Yeah. And they're all pretty similar. They're slightly kind of adaptive for the culture or, yeah, the terrain or whatever.
Starting point is 00:02:13 But every single one's got them. And it's quite, I just feel that's quite an interesting thing. Yeah. And so there's always a witch. There's always like a witchy kind of of Baba Yaga kind of character. There's always a man of the forest. There's always a beast just loose,
Starting point is 00:02:27 like a panther or something. On a moor. Because if you look at like the Yeti, and the Bigfoot, they're basically the same, but one is based in the Himalayas and the other's based in the United States. There's no way to...
Starting point is 00:02:40 Yeah, it's a matter, isn't it? Yeah, it's a matter that was kind of translated. They've invented it separately, like a kind of... Did that start with like the... Like the call of... The Viking kind of, kind of ingress into the UK
Starting point is 00:02:53 and then across to America. What are you talking about? I'm trying to think people who would talk about cold men in the wilds, you know, those kind of guys, it'd be somewhere cold. Did Hartlepool have its own crypted? No, we were obviously dominated by the grey lady ghost and the, um, the monkey, the monkey, the monkey, obviously.
Starting point is 00:03:13 Lawrence, the, the cross-dressing, um, uh, for Heartlepool United supporter. Well, I was looking that apparently there's a, there was a, um, there was a, um, doc monster of Hartlepool, which is like a, um, it's like the Lambton worm. You know the Lambton worm? Yeah, we know the Lampton worm. We spoke about it at length on the, uh, the ramble. That's what I mean. That's in the river
Starting point is 00:03:34 that's a Sunderland thing, right? Whereas apparently the heartlepool dock monster is the heartlepool equivalent. How do you not know about the heartlepool dock monster? I'm looking at it now. Because I went to school and all of our teachers are from Sunland and see him and all of the pit towns. So like they were
Starting point is 00:03:48 obsessed with the Lamped and worm. So I never heard this guy. Doc Monster. Yeah, Doc Monster man. As in he's in a dock? I think he just, I think it's just like a almost like a lot-nest monster but in the docks. Hartlepool. In the dog's
Starting point is 00:04:02 right, okay, fine. So for some reason it's just instantly more depressing. A marine,
Starting point is 00:04:08 well, then they built the marina so it could be a marina monster as I suppose. Yeah, they took it,
Starting point is 00:04:13 did they get permission? They get planning permission from the doc monster. My favourite of the cryptos is the Mongolian death worm, which apparently
Starting point is 00:04:20 is that, but you're just the same as the lantern worm, like a big worm. Yeah, because I think it's just basically
Starting point is 00:04:24 what happened is in the, probably in like the 1700, someone saw quite a big snake and then, The whole thing just goes gross.
Starting point is 00:04:33 That's a beaut, that is. I found out that, I was on a show yesterday, and I found out that a chimp I was very fond of at the zoo had died. That's sad. And it hurt me, it hurt me more than, more than, and thinking back, I think I may have experienced this sense of sadness before,
Starting point is 00:04:56 and just forgotten that they died, and now I'm sort of re-experiencing it. latent kind of grief, a subconscious grief. A latent sort of grief. So I, um, what chimp was it? It was a show we were talking,
Starting point is 00:05:07 I can't know what we were talking about the, um, it was this chimp that at Twy Cross Zoo, that all of his hair had fallen out. He'd been in captivity for, you know, one of those mad ones that zoos acquire from private collection. Oh, Jambo.
Starting point is 00:05:21 Jambo. Yeah. So, so he was notable because he had no hair and he was this beautiful looking chimp, but he, um, because he had no hair. it showed off all of his absolute, his muscular chest.
Starting point is 00:05:35 And he is, he's cut, he is, you know, people would, young men would follow him into some pretty shady stuff, I think. Some pretty shady right-wing stuff. He could be the first chimp fluencer. Nice. After the famous Monkey Bobo, his bloody name is it, everyone's getting upset about. And he was hairless, and he, but they took him for a health check. They put him to sleep for a health check when he was 22.
Starting point is 00:06:00 And he sadly passed. This happened like 20 years ago or something. I don't have like a long, no, 20s. Oh no, you're talking about Mongo who was his son. Mongo, sorry, not Mongo. Yeah, in 2016 he died, yeah? Yeah. So he died in 2016.
Starting point is 00:06:14 So you died in 2016. Forgot that you were upset and then you remembered again that he was dead and you've got upset again. Yeah. And clearly got confused with his dad. Just sort of in another 10 years. I don't mean to laugh because it is sad. But like, yeah. But imagine like you've got this big value.
Starting point is 00:06:30 a little chimp and he couldn't and like I mean I just love the idea we fast forward to 20-36 and you're supposed to be on the show with me or something and I'm like oh Pete can't come in today oh what is it manga yes manga again yeah he's gone to the grief Pete it's been 20 years
Starting point is 00:06:46 you never met the chimp yeah well everyone's everyone's sort of like in love with that that poor little macaque who's yeah and I understand that who's very it's a very it's a very visceral
Starting point is 00:06:59 kind of image, isn't it? A monkey who has nobody a player with, apart from a fucking stuffed stuffed orangutan, which doesn't make any sense anyway. There's no reason why that monkey would be hanging out with an orangutan. Anyway, but everyone's sad about that, including talking about right-wing vloggers, Chakarito, the little P. He's a bit upset about it as well. And the monkey is, a lot of people are quite,
Starting point is 00:07:26 I think he's a bit of a viral sensation, obviously. so people have been attending the zoo and they're all kind of a bit like this, it's a bit of shit. It doesn't look like they're looking after the monkeys properly. Look at all the monkeys. They're very hairless. And the zoo appears to suggest
Starting point is 00:07:41 that they are treating their monkeys very well with the caveat that it's a zoo out east, which invariably means it's very different to a zoo out west. The, well, if I Google, you're writing in the running order has distracted me. if you Google Punch the Monkey right now Lucas is written into the running order
Starting point is 00:08:02 That's not me, it's Bruno That's not me doing it Oh is Bruno I thought it was you Sorry that I wouldn't have brought it up otherwise Um Am I googling punch monkey am I Apparently if you Google Punch Monkey right now
Starting point is 00:08:13 Lots of monkey emojis come up on Oh they do yeah little cards Oh little hard So people are sort of going Oh this zoo isn't very nice But I would say if you visit a zoo in like Taiwan or China or Japan And it is a very different experience to what you experience out west.
Starting point is 00:08:29 I think zoos are kind of politically incorrect in this country now, aren't they? They've got to be like sanctuaries or rescue centers or whatever. But it's absolutely heartbreaking. You see a little macaque monkey, which is cute. And he's got his only friend is like a little stuff orangutan. I mean, in the cruel world in which we currently live, it does pull on the heartstrings. I'm very cynical about that kind of stuff generally, but I found it quite moving. It didn't get me until I saw a video of him just by himself
Starting point is 00:08:57 sort of preening and sort of pulling the dust out of the fibres of the orangutai Absolutely did me absolutely did it We must protect him But you know he might grow up a maturity And he might be a real shit And he might be the biggest dog in the in the pound So you never know Have you taken this a little bit to a bit of a darker place
Starting point is 00:09:17 Do you remember back 15, 16 years ago When that woman had a face ripped off by that chimp? Kind of, yeah. She ended up having a face transplant and it became quite a favourite story. And you must remember that. It's a big story.
Starting point is 00:09:32 I do remember that, but I'm fairly certain I've confused it with maybe some you know, bully Excel stories in my mind. Right, well this was, I think she was one that she ended up becoming one of the first people to have a full face transplant. Right, I see. But yeah, that's fine, whatever.
Starting point is 00:09:49 How would you choose? Do you reckon you have to attach for a face transplant. It's mad. It's absolutely mad. It must be a million you've got a fucking... Could you not like... Is there not something
Starting point is 00:09:58 that can just plug one in and just tell the body to just find a way like they do with the brain? Have you read anything about the story of the attack because it's absolutely fucking horrific? I remember how running across the road without a face.
Starting point is 00:10:13 That was a particularly horrific part of it. He was a pet chimp, right? And this lady went to go and visit and he was... owned by this woman's friend, right? Yeah. And she, what happened was, Travis the Chimp, by the way, if you listen to this and you are particularly susceptible to being upset by, say, horror movies or something, do not listen to
Starting point is 00:10:38 what I'm about to say. And do remember it's real life as well, so it's not even a horror movie. It's worse, if anything. It's worse. It's worse. Right. And Travis the Chimp was mucking about with his mum's car keys, right? Right.
Starting point is 00:10:51 I ran out of the house to, um, to, she just, just play a game, whatever, with the car keys. So this woman was like, look, can you come and help me get him back in the house, right? So they both went outside and the, the lady who was attacked, her friend, um, grabbed, um, Travis's Elmo's, um, right, to take it back to what we're talking about. Elmore is such a powerful as disgust on the shore. And he went absolutely spare that she got his Elmo toy, right? Right. And some of the details, this is crazy.
Starting point is 00:11:25 He flew into a rage and he attacked her because of this Elmo thing, right? Yeah. Travis was familiar with her because she worked at the same company that his mom and his owners worked at. But she had turned up that day with a different hairstyle. And so he was confused and apparently alarmed. And so he went. It's like that pilot YouTube I watch where everything has to line up to it
Starting point is 00:11:54 for the plane to crash. There's just a lot of things going on here. Well, apparently his owner had also given him his usual cup of tea, which I like. I like that. That's a huge cup of tea. Left milky than yours. She had laced it with Zanats
Starting point is 00:12:11 because she had started to be worried about his aggression. Oh, right. This is starting to get, right. So he gets, he gets, he attacks this lady, at which point his, the chimps, I keep saying mum, because I guess they're so human-like, he just feels like mum. Yeah. His mum tries to stop him by stabbing him in the back repeatedly with a butcher's knife, right? Fucking Nora. At which point Travis turns round and is like really upset that she's done that to him.
Starting point is 00:12:42 So she had no choice, but she thought that her friend would have died. So she ran to her car. presumably she got her keys back, locked herself inside and called 911 and throughout the entire tape, you can hear the chimp screaming in the background going mad, right? When the police turned up, right, Pete,
Starting point is 00:13:02 Travis the chimp starts on the police car, right? He smashes the mirrors. He gets in the car, he gets in the fucking police car and the police officer has to discharge his service pistol four times and kill him. Fucking aura.
Starting point is 00:13:17 Right. I mean... Can I just also say the one thing I forgot to mention all this is that Travis the chimp attacked this lady, Sandra, Charler Nash. The attack that he exhibited on her
Starting point is 00:13:32 went on for 12 minutes. How is she survived now? That's half an episode of The Simpsons. Not a particularly good one, Alain. Twelve minutes of being attacked in the face by a chimp. Yeah. Chimp hit my face. I mean, that is astonishing
Starting point is 00:13:49 and that we would get to a point it's, I mean... It's so bad. It's so bad. Half the surgery, half the emergency surgery they performed on her, right? Was to remove several of the chimp's teeth from her head.
Starting point is 00:14:11 He must have been, they need more Xanax. They just need more Xanax in the house. I mean, crazy. Why is a chimp just like, around. Don't have a pet chimp.
Starting point is 00:14:22 Like a chimp gets, like, I guess, I guess, state by state, it's probably different rules. But surely they've tightened those loopholes by now. From my cold dead hands, you take my chimp's paw? I'm just saying that you've got to be careful before you start to become affectionate for these primates. Yeah, yeah, you do. All of a sudden, one minute they're walking around
Starting point is 00:14:42 with an orangutan plushy and it's cute. The next minute is literally Nicholas Cage and John Travolta. I mean, to be fair, Macacs are very violent, horrible little... Are they? The sosses of bad ones as well, are they? They're the sausage dogs in the monkey world, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:14:57 They're horrible animals with really aggressive little shits. With their massive bomb... You love a chimp, you? Does that put you off? In that story I've just told, does that put you off them? I think if you've got a male,
Starting point is 00:15:10 especially a male, like, you're not going to see any of that from a younger than teenage male chimp. Like, it's fine when they're, you know, bubbles, Michael Jackson's bubble sort of age. You've also throughout those chips probably doced up the whole time, weren't they?
Starting point is 00:15:25 Well, I would not like to besmirch that. I may have besmirched the good name of a relation of the monarch recently, a man who does crypto recently, but I will not besmirch the good name of Michael Jackson. But I say, if it's true that Michael Jackson dozed up his chimp, it could really affect his reputation. Let me, let me, um, let me, um,
Starting point is 00:15:48 give you a little scenario, right? Based on what I've just told you, because you are, you're a man who claims to be a fan of the chimp, right? Yeah, and the Michael Jackson. So you've got a friend who you know pretty well. So, like, you're fairly good friends, right? Yeah. And they say, you want to come over for a beer or whatever,
Starting point is 00:16:05 and you go, yeah, fine. And they said, by the way, I've got a pet chimp now. I've got a pet chimp. They'll just be hanging out with us. Are you going? Would I give him a bit? You give him a beer? Yeah, I think, hmm.
Starting point is 00:16:18 I think I would. I wouldn't fuck about. I would, I would sort of halfway through, sort of go, look, we need to go to a pub because this is meant. Like, I don't like leaving my, like, my dog's bark when I leave. Imagine leaving a chimp behind in your house. There's no way I'm getting in the same room as a chimp. No, no.
Starting point is 00:16:36 Like, it's just not, it's just not, I mean, presumably it's just an internal, external cage that the chimp is left in. But you just, you get free-range chimps in suburbia, it's not happening. I also just think they're out of their element. they're going to be overstimulated. Yeah. Or, yeah. Or they're in a cage and they're...
Starting point is 00:16:53 Before you know it, you've turned the TV off before he's finished tipping point. And you're fucking... Tipping point. You're in the... Before you know, you're in the clue for an experimental face transplant.
Starting point is 00:17:05 You can't be confident about that. I don't think there's any way you want to be in the same room as a chimp. In a closed environment with a chimp. I think it's mad. I think it's absolutely insane when you see.
Starting point is 00:17:17 see people with these exotic pets. I love animals, right? I'd love to go on a safari, this Africa or whatever. But you don't need a lizard. You don't need one. Nah. People don't need lizards. They don't need lizards. They don't need tautuses. They're not, they're not good pets. They're not fun. Yeah, the tortoises at one on and dad have got. It just nips at your ankles any chance he gets. Does he? Yeah. Yes. It's a little shit. I just say, isn't that the dirtiest, the most, uh, the most toxic place is a, oh, oh, not salamander. It's some kind of, it's something weird. It's something weird like a tortoise that my parents have got is um you've got to be really careful after handling it
Starting point is 00:17:53 because i think they've got to sound manna right yes you've got to be really careful around kids particularly you can be really dangerous so you've got thoroughly wash you shouldn't really be touching them right well that's that's the first thing i'm going to do when i go to my daughter's nursery is pick up that fucking daughters they've got in the in the reception room man it's funny that they've got one because i remember my son's nursery right they had a little hamster in the um in the corridor, in a cage, and add like an info-graphic thing around it, like a display so the kids could learn about it and stuff.
Starting point is 00:18:30 This is a hamster, this is its name, this is what it eats. This is facts about the hamster, right? You'll not see him, he's asleep. But they had to get rid of it, because every single time a kid went near it, and tried to bite them. I remember just thinking to myself, why you, this is like a $2,000 a month nursery.
Starting point is 00:18:46 Why are you bringing this variable in? Why are you basically putting off? People bringing their kids here when you've got like a feral hamster that's biting their fingers. When punches, kicks and bites have been administered either on or by my daughter, I get a phyllophorming.
Starting point is 00:19:03 I've got a fella forming. Yeah, you do. She's bashed her head. Someone's bitter. They won't tell you who it is either, all day. She won't tell you who it is. Yeah. That said, one other child did absolutely
Starting point is 00:19:14 when a certain individual, was administered, she said, go, that's so-and-so, she bit me. Yeah. Good, good stuff, nice. If your kids switched on enough, they'll tell you who it was. Yeah, exactly. And then they'll listen very, they'll listen very carefully and very intently when you explain to them exactly how the campaign of hate should be executed from now on in response.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Yeah, it's a very sort of feral thing to get done on your person and to do on someone else. but I guess it's quite, it's quite all very natural, I suppose, isn't it? I bet you were bitey when you're a fucking toddler, because you've got that kel's going to do about you. Yeah, I don't think it probably, I don't think it probably bothered with forms and things. No, I think I went to, um, I went to three hours a day.
Starting point is 00:20:00 Skip. Play school, which was free? What was play school? Yeah, I think I had free. I remember sort of only have an a couple of hours and then I'd go home. It was free, like a little flescle. It's the only reason I went in there is because my mom said because it was free so she could afford it.
Starting point is 00:20:14 Yeah. Yeah, it's a little sort of play school. They don't have them anymore, did they? I don't think so. I think it's just been defunded. No. Good point, actually. Do we get funding yet?
Starting point is 00:20:24 What's going on? This is a meeting going to do off here. I think what we need to do is crunch a little bit of those delicious Xanaxes in all of our child's teas, and everyone will just chill out. Everyone will just chill out. Didn't work for that chill out. Bash not how bad the attack would have been if he wasn't on Xanax. I know, right. We've got an email or two to do when we come back.
Starting point is 00:20:43 Does make you hungry. It's the look. a Pete shot, I'm Pete Donaldson. Oh, we've got some emails to get through. Does that sound like fun? Yeah, let's do this one from Kieran. Yeah, yeah. Hello, Kieran.
Starting point is 00:20:53 Kieran says, Hi, lads, following on from a recent episode where Pete spoke about being on Duo Lingo. That's when you're learning Japanese. And you're still doing that? I'm still on my streak. I think when I was aware...
Starting point is 00:21:06 See again, I've got a 32-day streak, I think, and when I was away, I missed the cutoff because I forgot about the time difference and I was doing it half cut in my bed at midnight going it's too wait even for you this is a depressing scene I got to do me Jewelenga the owl
Starting point is 00:21:26 will be angry but listen this from Keirin said I had a 3,000 day streak doing Spanish that's amazing that's basically that's the best part of like nine years it doesn't feel particularly efficient you know I mean if you've not done if you've not learnt the language after nine
Starting point is 00:21:46 years of learning it every day. I think you might be wasting your money. No, completely agree. Anyway, he said, I'm doing Spanish and I spent some time in Spain with my mates on the stag do, and I managed to order food, drinks, direct taxis, etc. in relatively fluent Spanglish. One night, heading back from a bar, we got in a taxi with a driver I'd seen before. So I got in the front and had a usual basic chat in Spanish. All of a sudden, the mate behind me needed the driver to pull over to be sick. I couldn't find the words. I panicked, and the driver sensed the pulled over and everything was fine. However, when we started to move again,
Starting point is 00:22:21 he spent the rest of the journey berating me in perfect English about, quote, fucking green owl cunts and how it's made his job much harder. What, green owl cunts? Dual lingo, green owl, isn't it? Yeah, but like, why is it made his... I guess he's just like, I can speak English just wasting my fucking time with this bullshit version of Spanish
Starting point is 00:22:41 that owl's taught. I bet, yeah, there's a thing, isn't it? There's nothing worse as... You get the patronising Nihunga Jorzu in Japan where it's like, you speak very good English. Sorry, you speak very good Japanese, even when you don't even speak any Japanese. It's very patronising. It's just something they feel puts that person at ease.
Starting point is 00:22:59 Oh, stop, no. Stop. Muzer gaziz. Muzer gazied. Safe to say, I quickly lost the duo streak. Thanks a lot. Cheers, Kieran. So look, you're going to be careful.
Starting point is 00:23:09 One person. See, I have such a long, long streak, 3,000 days streak, and then have it sort of tossed. tossed away by a surly taxi driver. That's a shame. That is a shame. I don't think 3,000 days on one language is that impressive. I think it's mental.
Starting point is 00:23:26 So I think it's 250 hours in total. I've worked out. I think that's right. You've done it for nine years every day. So 250 hours. You've managed to. But you might as well just go and get proper lessons. Oh, yeah. I mean, yeah, yes.
Starting point is 00:23:43 How much is it a month? I don't know. I imagine it's fairly affordable. This isn't an advert for dual ingle, but... Say it's a fire for a month, right? Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that is quite literally, you know,
Starting point is 00:23:57 300 months or whatever, isn't it? Yeah, I mean... Raman Des, got it wrong, Corey away, Ramandes. No, it's 100 months. So you spent 500 grand on that? Yeah. Well, look, none of us can do a language,
Starting point is 00:24:11 so... I've just said, Luke, you've always said, Luke, you've got a very good memory, so I think you'd be greater to learning a language. I think you should be. Well, I've currently got a 21 day streak on chess.com. Right. Looking at ladies' chests is not going to get you
Starting point is 00:24:26 anywhere, Loki Moore. It's not going to get you on a list. I feel much better. I think you're wrong. I forgot what you even talking about. You jumped in, I feel great. See, that Xanax are crushed up in your tea. You make you feel much better, isn't it? I feel absolutely great. Should we get an email from Lewis before you chip off?
Starting point is 00:24:43 Yeah, why not? Lewis. Is this Lewis, save yourself the pen? Read your head reference, Lewis. Possibly. Whenever I hear the name, Lewis, that's what I say. A lovely follow up here from Lewis, a listener who got featured on the show in 2020. I did ask for an update. We're getting it six years later. Morning chaps, remember the time I had the below read out during the early peak of COVID.
Starting point is 00:25:04 Thank God that's in the past and had another listen after mentioning to a friend after we discovered we both listened to the show. I did ask for an update. Shall I bang through the original? email because that kind of makes sense to do that. From April 2020 when we were right in the thick of things at COVID and Boris Johnson We didn't know which way it was going to go did we? We really didn't.
Starting point is 00:25:22 Morning chaps, after hearing the MSN talk, it sounds like we were really on fire, firing on all cylinders. I thought I'd share my own experience of it. After nagging my mum to finally have internet ordered for our house back in the heady days of 2005, I was rather impatient and couldn't wait. I remembered I had an AOL disc offering one month's three dial-up broadband, which has been sitting
Starting point is 00:25:43 a cupboard for about two years. Without my parents' knowledge, I signed up. I am 15 at the time. I fake my details and with my stupidity, I didn't realize I was signing up to a two-year contract, which was later cancelled due to my age, luckily. It was fraud, but, you know, it's only adds to the weight of how important this all was. That very evening after signing up, I was speaking to a friend on MSN. She was at another friend's house and they were just about switch accounts. Add me on theirs, I asked. Little did I know how important that flippant comment was. From there, I speak to the newly added person to my MSN messenger post school evenings. We chat for a couple of months, plug up the courage to ask her out on a first date, and she agreed.
Starting point is 00:26:18 First date, classic cinema, meet up a few times after this, and the rest is history. I remember this, too. And we are married and we are living a very happy life together. Moral of the story, sometimes being impatient, rewards you with a big fuck-off life win. Rest and peace, the Microsoft Network. Right, so we step forward. Six years. The world is unfa. fire. AI is taking all of our jobs and I am fat. Everything's going great, says Lewis. And just like you both recently have introduced to your own life, we've introduced a new life to our family, a baby girl called, a baby girl called Fritter, have been super lucky with paternity and I'm
Starting point is 00:26:59 taking seven months off to bond with them and support the wife I have access to. Keep it great work. Lewis, Lewis met someone on MSN, told us about it. in 2020 in the middle of COVID. Everybody got through that unscared and lovely baby frere. So this is a lovely letter. That's absolutely wild. Well done. I think we started talking about that because I think
Starting point is 00:27:23 I met the Wi-Fi have access to online as well. On MSN? Not MSN, no, no, no. Right, I see. I wasn't really a big, I wasn't really a big user of MSN. I did have it and I did use it occasionally, but it wasn't part of the culture. I think maybe I was a bit old for it. Yeah, I was, I think I said before, I was a big fan around at that time, like early days of the internet, running into sexy chat rooms,
Starting point is 00:27:47 calling everyone a dickhead and then pretending it was my brother doing it. Why would you do that? And then, cause a bit of curse. I think I was a, that was me at my most keyboard-warioriest kind of troll. I'd run into a sexy chat room and ruin everyone's sexy fun. What's a sexy chat room? It was like a sexy chat room. It'd be like, you don't mean like the age sex locations,
Starting point is 00:28:09 kind of chat rooms used to go to. And there'd be like kind of slightly adult ones and I'd run in underage and go hi, yeah, I'd really like to I'd like a cyber, I'd like a cyber. And someone would go, yeah, I'm up for cyberring. What's that? Cybersex. Do you want to do some cyber sex?
Starting point is 00:28:25 What the fuck are you talking about? So basically, you go to a chat room, right? I know the chat rooms. I thought they were like, I thought they were based around certain interests, though. Yes, people getting their end away. But you're not because you're like a pew. Oh,
Starting point is 00:28:41 wanking, okay, right. My experience of chat rooms would be like, oh, it's like an offshoot of a particular football team you support or a band you like or a genre of music or something. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:28:52 none of those people sound like that happens next, but this room is fucking. And I go in and I go... How do you find it? Just asking for a mate, how'd you find it? And do they sit around? I think, it's just all the us net groups and all.
Starting point is 00:29:01 It'd be like a live chat room. Like a live user stuff. But that's different to MSN, because MSN, because MSN, you add your friends and you chat to them directly. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this is like a chat room
Starting point is 00:29:09 there was loads of people in there and you go private and you go and you go and I want to cyber and they go yeah I'll cyber and go fuck off fuck off
Starting point is 00:29:19 I'm under it you fucking dickhead this is worse than when you're ejaculated for the first time playing hero quest and then
Starting point is 00:29:25 and then they'd try and kick me out and then I'd come I'd get a time out and then I'd come back in and go I'm so sorry about that was my brother now would anybody
Starting point is 00:29:33 like to sign up ah balance yeah Did it make you feel good? I'm ruining everyone's sexy fun. Clearly, I did it so much. So, well done, me.
Starting point is 00:29:44 Is that how we met? That is how we met. I wonder if those kind of stupid chat rooms are, you know, like non-visual kind of chat rooms are still floating around. They must be. There's something for everyone. There's something for everyone.
Starting point is 00:29:58 If you can think of it, the internet's got it. Exactly. Good point. All right, then. If you want cyber with us, it's hello atlupitjohn.com. Fricing now. Age sex location.
Starting point is 00:30:07 Let's know. how old you are, what your sex is, and I'm complicated now this. It seems to be more... I'm tired. And location, where you are in the world. Let us know. So do let us know about that.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Hello at Luke Beecho.com. If you'd like a cyber, and we'll be seeing you on Monday. See you later. Have a good weekend. These classes. The Luke and Pete Show is a stack production and part of the Acast Creator Network.

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