The Luke and Pete Show - My almost fingerless Friday

Episode Date: March 7, 2022

Pete’s well-publicised tax issues have led to Luke coming up with a genius money-making scheme for the pair of them. Warning, it involves NFTs and some sensitive Donaldson content…We also hear abo...ut some of our good deeds that have gone wrong and finally finish our hand-hurting emails. What to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Feel free to give us a follow while you're there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Luke and Pete show, two men in a room talking about absolutely chod all. How you doing Luke Moore, you alright? Good, I've never heard that word before, chod. Chod, chod. Is that an older word? We always use chod as like kind of like dirt or shit. You know, we just chod, just absolute detritus. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:00:30 I've never heard it. I'm doing all right. How are you? I'm all right, Luke. I did something I've, I did two things actually that I've never done before. Right. First is my well-publicized tax bill issues from a couple of weeks ago. Well-publicized by you, by the way.
Starting point is 00:00:48 By me. I just want people to know I'm paying my tax. I was like, I think I've got, because I'm trying to figure out how I can pay this bill. I think I've got a couple of hundred quid of Ethereum kicking around somewhere. So I went on a bit of a hunting journey for a login for a Coinbase wallet. Say again? You went on a little bit of a hunt for your crypto wallet?
Starting point is 00:01:13 A little bit of a hunt for my crypto wallet. And I found it. And I had 150 quids worth of crypto Ethereum for a thing I was doing a couple of years ago. And you'd think a couple of years ago, probably worth a bit. Nah, it's worth nothing. I don't think I put much money in anyway, I was like cool that's good, but I also found a couple of like
Starting point is 00:01:32 you know what I said a little while ago I had like I was involved in a card NFT thing like a football card NFT game sort of thing like fantasy football like FIFAft game sort of thing like fantasy football uh like fifa pro cards but it's like all nfts and this was like a year ago uh i was dicking about with it and um it was a
Starting point is 00:01:53 waste of my time waste of everyone's time a pile of shit um but but i it got me on this thing i was like so how do i get these this um king kazoo uh commemorative card one of a thousand um not so rare nfts how do i put that in my converse well anyway so i'm figuring out how to do that and i was like let me put that in the thing because it'd be funny um and then i was like how do you like because all of those things where they sell a lot of this stuff um they're on the i think open is it open sea or something they're one of the big kind of marketplaces for this NFT art. I went on there and I was like, Jesus Christ, there's a lot of like,
Starting point is 00:02:29 just fraudulent, and I'm more than willing to go to fucking court on this one, just absolute IP infringement. People just put in their own pictures on there with the word Nike written on it and stuff. Like real kind of like copyright, problematic copyright kind of shit. Wild West stuff, right? And they put them on there and no one's buying them and the only people that are buying them are themselves and stuff. Like, real kind of like copyright, problematic copyright kind of shit. Wild West stuff, right? Wild West stuff, right?
Starting point is 00:02:46 And they're putting them on there and no one's buying them and the only people that are buying them are themselves and, you know, all this stuff. It's just a lot of shit floating around. Anyway, so I'm not
Starting point is 00:02:52 in a debate whether NFTs work or not. But I was like, how do you mint an NFT? Because people talk about this minting. I'm going to mint all of these NFTs at a time
Starting point is 00:02:59 and it's going to be dropped at a certain time. So I minted an NFT, Luke. Oh my God. Right? And I just dragged
Starting point is 00:03:06 a random picture from my desktop into OpenSea and it's just on sale. How much? I don't know. I just put it on there. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:03:15 But it's there and if I can do it, anyone can. Like, it doesn't... And I've deleted it because it's a piece of... It was just a random picture. Probably a picture of you. It's a random picture on my desktop. And I was like, it's a piece of, it was just a random picture, probably a picture of you.
Starting point is 00:03:25 It's a random picture on my desktop. And I was like, it's that easy. People talk about minting it like it's the most, like the most difficult sort of process in the world.
Starting point is 00:03:34 But like, you're literally just dragging it in and it's there and you've got a little blockchain-y dress thing and it's just like, what is that about? Bizarre.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I've got so many thoughts. I've got so many thoughts. I'm trying to get through them in order. One is, as your broadcast and business partner, Yeah. I've got so many thoughts I've got so many thoughts I'll try and get through them in order one is as your broadcast and business partner yeah I don't like to hear you say
Starting point is 00:03:50 or start a story by saying I'm more than happy to go to court on this one because that's quite nerve wracking yeah okay fair number two is that I knew that that peep folder
Starting point is 00:04:02 I've had on my phone for six seven eight years is going to come to fruition because I've got so many great photos of you and videos that would be brilliant AFTs and I'm more than happy to give you a 10% cut. Any favourites? Me jumping out the behind the curtain naked for Marcus?
Starting point is 00:04:21 That is, we're never going to share this because it would be very graphic it would impinge on your dignity but I do think it is worth saying to our listeners
Starting point is 00:04:31 it's a story probably worth telling so for those who've listened to the Football Ramble for a very long time you may remember that we used to do
Starting point is 00:04:39 like a video and actually do you know what looking back on it it was actually some of the best work we've done we would find a topic that happened that week and we would kind of lampoon it in a football way
Starting point is 00:04:49 and we'd do that video for every single episode and we would say get it in all the usual places and there's an amazing there's an amazing load of outtake videos which probably we could share of do you remember that time i can't't remember who it was, but one footballer, scratched, another footballer, scratched his own, oh it was Yogi Love, he scratched his nuts, and sniffed it,
Starting point is 00:05:10 and we did a video, of you scratching my nuts, and sniffing it, and then me looking, into the camera, and going get it, in all your usual places, and it took about 70 takes,
Starting point is 00:05:18 and I've got all of them, on my phone, anyway, because you're not a professional, and I'm a professional, yeah the one we're talking about, is, is,
Starting point is 00:05:28 Pete it was the week, that Newcastle United, got relegated from the Premier League and Marcus was doing a piece to camera and you were behind a big black curtain with a gap in it and halfway through the video, you were supposed to put your head through the curtain and say, I'm not coming out, I don't want to do the show anymore and that was the joke. Marcus couldn't get through it. I don't know why.
Starting point is 00:05:45 I think he was just a little bit perturbed that you were behind a curtain behind him. Yeah, never good. Never ideal. And then for when you were supposed to put your head out, you somehow had managed to get yourself completely naked behind the curtain and jumped out going,
Starting point is 00:05:59 yes, yes! But it is one of the best videos I've ever seen, and I cannot show it to anyone. I've been through that video frame by frame. There's nothing better. You can't take anything away from it or add anything to it that's going to make it better.
Starting point is 00:06:16 It is a perfect video. I think, you know, we were sort of speculating as to when I got hench. You were definitely quite ripped around that time. I mean, from those stills, I definitely were not. So it may have been before that. But that was in where they used to record audiobooks. USB? Yeah, they used to record books for the blind.
Starting point is 00:06:37 They gave us a favour. Let us record in that studio. And we, not literally, because that would and we, not literally because that would be unacceptable, we metaphorically sold it every week for about a year.
Starting point is 00:06:51 I think they were like, what are these guys even doing here? They shuttered it after us. They just moved away. Yeah. Never mind. I also remember
Starting point is 00:07:00 when sometimes I'll get stick on it. Obviously, everyone gets stick on obviously everyone gets stick on the internet when you're doing stuff and I don't I've kind of limited
Starting point is 00:07:07 all my Twitter mentions and stuff now so it doesn't happen very often you're so curatey about your Twitter it does make me giggle it's just hard work man
Starting point is 00:07:15 hard work it's not really is it you click a button saying mute people who don't follow you and you don't have your mentions on certain settings
Starting point is 00:07:23 but anyway sometimes I get I get stick from people who say, oh, the dude only knows about football because he uses the internet. And it's like, well, first of all, doesn't everyone use the internet, right? Sure they do. And secondly, I can remember, Pete,
Starting point is 00:07:36 you didn't sort out the internet at our recording studio before this one for like three years at Absolute. Right. So we couldn't use the internet for any show. What do you mean? I found out then. So i'm sure it'll be fine yeah no i i didn't start the internet but we weren't supposed to be there i mean i'm not blaming you i understand the reason tell your eyes like everyone else i get that but it was
Starting point is 00:08:00 just funny that people the weird things people criticize criticise you for. Anyway, I can't remember. Oh, yeah, so I reckon, is there any laws around, I presume there isn't any laws around the kind of explicit content on NFTs? Oh, I don't know, actually. I mean, no, I don't think so, if you're willing to sort of buy it. Maybe the people who are selling,
Starting point is 00:08:22 the marketplace, I suppose, that are selling it would I suppose that are selling it would probably have a problem with it and I would like to make it clear the forged and IP infringing they do have a team of people who check this stuff out and these weren't checked out at that point but they were very visible
Starting point is 00:08:38 and very purchasable oh no you were prepared to go to court about it earlier and now you're fucking hedging ruined back to shore the old Donaldson would never have done that the old Donaldson would have been rogue as fuck the old Donaldson
Starting point is 00:08:47 used to scream down the phone at fucking Freddie Foreman slagging him off where's your bravery gone Donaldson who's Freddie Foreman the guy you fucking talked about as a reprehensible thug
Starting point is 00:08:57 he was a is that his name oh Frankie Fraser Frankie Fraser mad Freddie Foreman Freddie Foreman's an actor, I think.
Starting point is 00:09:05 I don't know what I get that from. I knew it was a double F. But anyway, I do think there's probably between eight and 10 photos slash videos of you that could do really well as NFTs.
Starting point is 00:09:16 One is that one. The other one is you standing head to toe in that green morph suit. Yeah. For some CGI thing we did. Me fall off my chair. You fall off your chair
Starting point is 00:09:24 would do very well. Remember when we were travelling back from Greece and your shampoo exploded in your bag and I got a photo of you in the queue? Yeah, less fun that one.
Starting point is 00:09:31 Yeah, that would do really well because that's like a proper photo tells a thousand words. You'd look so angry in it. There's loads that would do really well. I've got a peat folder
Starting point is 00:09:40 for about 250 in there and I lost about 30 when I got my phone nicked and I didn't back it up properly and that's annoying. Back up your peat folders, about 250 in there and I lost about 30 when I got my phone nicked and I didn't back it up properly and that's annoying. Back up your peat folders, guys. I know. I know.
Starting point is 00:09:50 I was fucking fuming. There's some really good stuff on there. So the other thing I did, apart from entering the world of minting NFTs, good God, what a pile of nonsense that is, I sold something
Starting point is 00:10:03 on Facebook Marketplace and, Luke, it went badly. Normally you're a purchaser, not a seller. I sold something on Facebook Marketplace and, Luke, it went badly. Normally you're a purchaser, not a seller. I know, I'm a peruser. Well,
Starting point is 00:10:11 it's kind of one purchase and a sale. I had like a, I got like a TV. You know, when I locked you in my flat, the stand that my TV was on, the little black thing.
Starting point is 00:10:24 Strange I don't remember that check your peat folder check your peat folder um yeah it's just a little tv stand and it's been with me for you know 10 years and it's just sat in the cupboard doing fuck all so i'll fuck it i'll put it on visit marketplace and i didn't sell it i just said it for free i said you've got a sentimental attachment to a TV stand it's a nice TV stand got me through a lot right
Starting point is 00:10:48 and it's and so I stuck it on Facebook Marketplace and said look come and pick it up or you know I could deliver it within reason
Starting point is 00:10:56 but you know I just want it rid of it because I'll take it to the tip tomorrow and this woman got in touch said yeah I'll love it yeah brilliant
Starting point is 00:11:03 I'll have it and she said I'll come pick it up tomorrow. I was like, you know what? She was like a good 25 minutes away by car. So I thought, I'll fucking drive it. I like driving, you know. So I stuck the thing in the back of the car,
Starting point is 00:11:17 got there, and she was really lovely. She was like, oh my God, thank you so much for driving it all the way to Benfleet. That's so, that's such appreciated. Is she paying for this no
Starting point is 00:11:26 it's free fucking hell mate so I'm delivering this thing I just wanted to get rid of it I was trying to do something on a good turn erm
Starting point is 00:11:34 and er and I had noticed that it fucking got scratched the fuck in the back of the car it was a write off
Starting point is 00:11:42 really and fucking and fucked it and absolutely fucked it what did she say I angled it away from and this is to my
Starting point is 00:11:50 discredit because what do you give it to for free I'm usually you know fucking worried about what people think about me
Starting point is 00:11:57 but I rocked up this thing I angled it in a way that she didn't see the massive fucking scratch on the top and put it down and she was really lovely
Starting point is 00:12:04 and I could not get out there fast enough i felt like an absolute criminal and wait to your house no but i mean she i mean she had a couple of cars so she was clearly uh and she probably could have taken it to the tip herself and i'd driven 25 30 minutes to get there so i think all in all my conscience should be slightly clear but that's very not me but the key thing is you're not asking to pay for it, right? So it's kind of no harm done, really. No. If you'd agreed a fee,
Starting point is 00:12:30 would you have knocked some money off it, do you think? I would have went, I'm continuing to write the tip. I would have given it for free. It was a proper big gouge because I hadn't protected it in the back of the car. I just felt really bad. And she got back in touch on the Facebook going, oh, mate, thank you very much
Starting point is 00:12:45 it's such uh thank you so much for driving it um my uh my daughter's just got a new house and she loves it and i was like well either but then i was thinking is she telling the truth or she's just trying to sort of ascertain and get me to admit that i scratched it in the car i mean it's a nice thing to do and i guess if you're starting out of a new home you probably don't care that much just got a little scratch on it, do you? Chances are the TV would cover it anyway, because it was right in the middle, but I just felt really bad.
Starting point is 00:13:12 I remember once, mate, I remember once we got fitted wardrobes put in our bedroom, and before that we had these two big, unwieldy, fucking massive Ikea wardrobe things. Yeah. They were just far too big and once you put them together you couldn't take them apart again and i sold them on like gumtree or something yeah
Starting point is 00:13:29 and i had to take them and we've got a small house so i had to get them downstairs and everything and i had no one ready to help me so i got my downstairs neighbor at the time ed good lad to come up and help me do it and um i thought i'm not gonna there's nowhere to put these right so i can't really move them from where they are until she comes to collect them in this van right so there's no there's no way i can get them downstairs leave them because there's nowhere to leave them so when i knew she was probably be on her way about an hour to spare or whatever i i said they'd come up and we'll move these wardrobes and i sold both of them to the same lady for like a hundred a quid It's not a massive amount of money.
Starting point is 00:14:05 It was a good deal for everyone. I got the first one down the stairs, right? The second one fucking smashed. Oh no. On the way down. Nuts. So like, it like,
Starting point is 00:14:17 when you angle something over, say a banister, I think it was, the weight of it on its own, warps it and breaks it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so the whole base of it was smashed. Yeah. on its own warps it and breaks it and so the whole the whole base of it
Starting point is 00:14:27 was smashed yeah like it couldn't really be used and then she turned up and I said look I'm really sorry look
Starting point is 00:14:33 I could I could like you know I don't really know what to tell you but this is what's happened I'm not obviously not going to
Starting point is 00:14:39 charge you 100 quid do you know what I'm happy just to get them out of the house why don't you just take them yeah and she was like no no no
Starting point is 00:14:44 it's fine I promise you I'll give you 100 quid so house why don't you just take them and she was like no no no it's fine I promise you I'll give you 100 quid so I owe you 50 quid for it and she was really nice about it she insisted on giving me 50 quid and then when she drove off me and Ed just smashed up
Starting point is 00:14:52 the other one put it in the bin we had this situation when you get big cupboards with big glass panes in them you can take them apart again, yeah, fine,
Starting point is 00:15:05 but they ain't going back again, because the weight, and the tension, and the tolerances, are so, heavy, that like, however you put it back together,
Starting point is 00:15:14 the screws will just be, a little bit weaker, the sort of stress points, are about a little bit weaker, we've got, I managed to get a big old, fucking cupboard together, by myself,
Starting point is 00:15:23 and put them on the rails, and stuff, and it was a good, so heavy, and so big, and I'm glad I managed it, but, old fucking cupboard together by myself and put them on the rails and stuff. And it was a good, so heavy and so big. And I'm glad I managed it, but I have had to reinforce the walls with some braces and some hinges. That would be the worst thing to put down. I'm putting a flap in the roof of the cupboard.
Starting point is 00:15:38 But yeah, I've had to sort of make them better. The reason I never use Facebook Marketplace is because I've subsequently found out in recent years that where I live, it is an absolute goldmine. You basically just leave stuff outside your house and say, please take it for free. And it's gone. Yeah. In recent weeks alone, I've put a bed frame and two of our old cat carriers out the front of the house.
Starting point is 00:16:02 Yeah. And they've been gone by the next day. our old cat carriers out the front of the house yeah and they've been gone by the next day and you know for a fact it won't you you have this kind of romantic idea that it will be used for a cat or something but it'll just go in a hoarder's house it'll just have some bucks of kfc in it well either that either that or they'll take it to a i don't know they'll probably try and sell it themselves on marketplace for like a fiver and they've made like a tenner or something right okay so those cat carriers i probably could have sold them for a fiver each if i cleaned them okay yeah it's not worth it it's just not worth the time speaking of uh speaking of uh uh things
Starting point is 00:16:36 on facebook marketplace um it's probably not true but it made me laugh because the picture and the in the uh in the writing um help my neighbor hang a 75 inch tv he brought from a crackhead when he turned it on it was the menu from kfc that can't be true they're not programmed on the telly are they i guess you would usb isn't it it would be a little media player i think that would be kind of wi-fi or 4g maybe it would just automatically update or they'd be they'd be you know like the one the tv that you've got behind you in that studio you've got like a little media reader it's like a 20 quid little bit of kit and it just um yeah and you can sort of change the image on it stuff and presumably kfc just send
Starting point is 00:17:20 a file they put it on the disks and they update the screens. There probably wouldn't be much need to have an always-on Wi-Fi sort of situation. But you could just plug it in to a different USB and hit the source button and change it. I'm sure there'd be. I mean, I don't think KFC are that worried about people stealing the screens that are in the bloody thing. But clearly someone's got a way with one. No, exactly. All right, on that note, Pete, let's got a way with one alright on that note Pete
Starting point is 00:17:45 let's take a quick break when we come back we'll do some emails from our listening community shall we say there's more to Irish history than St Patrick and Shane Todd and Hazel Hayes are here to tell you all about it on We're Not Fucking Historians
Starting point is 00:18:01 the Irish history podcast with a few facts and plenty of crack like the legendary Irish warrior C Cooke Cullen. Some sources say he killed a dog by driving a hurling stone down its throat. Now he's six. Did someone say the naughty step? Someone went to bed with their supper, didn't they? Someone call Supernanny, because he's at it again.
Starting point is 00:18:27 Or Ned Kelly, Australia's infamous Irish-born bushranger. Punishment was imprisonment with or without hard labour. I'd prefer without. If possible. If it's going. Do you have any without hard labour? Yeah, can I have the without labour substitute, please? Can I get the hard labour on the side?
Starting point is 00:18:45 Can I get almond instead of hard labour, please? Search We're Not Historians. That's We're Not Historians in your favourite podcast app for weekly episodes every Tuesday. Let's see what these people have said about it. Amazing, the times. Whoa, New York times. A lot of times.
Starting point is 00:19:05 Great, Hazel herself. We're Not Fucking Historians is a Stack Production and part of the Acast Creative Network. All right then, it's the Luke and Pete show. My name is Pete Donaldson and I'm joined by Mr. Luke Moore. And what have we got from everyone? What have we got from everyone, eh? Well, we did say last week we'd squeeze one more hand-hunting email in.
Starting point is 00:19:36 I think we should just try and squeeze it in. Yeah, I think so. Jam it through the letterbox. Yeah, but I want to just say that it's titled, from our friend Andrew who's emailed it in, My Almost Fingerless Friday. Lovely. That's not a meal available from KFC on that telly.
Starting point is 00:19:56 Can't lick them if you don't have them. It is probably as it sounds, so if you are of the squeamish disposition, I've no idea why you'd be listening to this, bear that in mind. Okay, Andrew says, All right, chaps, I heard your cry for stories of hand injuries and thought
Starting point is 00:20:07 finally I have a reason to write in. And I should say by the way, this is the last one of these we're going to do so don't keep sending them here. We'll think of another topic for future emails but this is the last one we're going to do. I'm going to hurt your leg. Andrew says, we're going to go back a few years now but I was working in the building world
Starting point is 00:20:24 and we were renovating a jazz bar in Luton what a jazz bar in luton is like um what would it even be like yeah anyway as part of the build we were to clad the back wall in reclaimed wood to give the bar a rustic feel enter my final destination moment i was using a drop saw to cut lengths of the timber for this wall after a cut though the cut lengths of the timber for this wall. After a cut though the stand on which the timber was supported fell, naturally leaving me to extend my arm to grab the wood. At this point the blade was still spinning
Starting point is 00:20:54 but for some reason the protective guard which covers the blade after a cut had not dropped into place. This meant I had thrusted my own hand into said spinning blade. The split second of realisation of what had happened quickly dawned on me. Looking at my left index finger, all I could see was a lot of blood and lots of other awful stuff. Feeling a bit sick, I went straight to the hospital where I learned that I would need surgery to reattach my tendon
Starting point is 00:21:16 and many a stitch to make my deformed mess of a finger work again. This followed by six weeks off work and not a lot to do as my finger was in a splint. So I walked around just pointing at everything. Like that blog member Kim Jong-un points at things. On the flip side, it was a World Cup year, so my summer was spent watching the World Cup and playing copious amounts of ping pong as it was the only one-handed activity
Starting point is 00:21:38 with small amounts of movement I was allowed to do. Cheers, lads. Keep up the good work. Andy Kightley, an old friend and odd team occasionally a teammate of sir marcus speller there we go there's your link yeah good stuff i mean that could have been worse though couldn't it could have been that could have been a lot worse i mean just i mean when you use this sentence um this meaning i thrusted my own hand and said spinning blade it's less than ideal no matter which way you slice it and he sliced it i think i think given that sentence that's the best outcome he could have hoped for
Starting point is 00:22:08 that's the best outcome so no more hand emails we're gonna no more hand emails for crying out loud um we can't move on to other emails though um scott's come in with some kind of solution to my runny nose problem or just runny nose problems in general that was mine wasn't it remember i said when i leave the house on a cold day, I'm the world leading mucus provider? Oh, right, yes, that's right, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:29 I'm more of a, my face goes big and my throat closes up and I go into some kind of shock. Luke's got a bit of a snotty nose. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:38 He goes outside. Hello, Luke and Pete. This is Scott. I don't normally email podcasts or shows, etc. Oh, don't put yourself out, Scott. But I thought this one time I can actually add something to the discussion, so why not give it a go?
Starting point is 00:22:50 I'm bracing myself for the inevitable disappointment of not being read out, and then I'll never email anyone ever again. The problem you described is something I wondered about a few years ago. I cycle a lot, and my nose would almost constantly run. And when I think to myself, what on earth is going on? I'll need an extra water bottle just to replace the hose pipe that's apparently become lodged in my face.
Starting point is 00:23:09 This is why cycling gloves have that soft patch on the thumb so that you can wipe your nose. I didn't even realise that existed. That's disgusting. Upon doing some research, I discovered that it is in fact not snot that is leaking from your nose
Starting point is 00:23:20 in this situation. It is likely to be mostly spinal fluid. It's not spinal fluid. I added that in. It's mostly just water. As anyone who wears glasses will be all too aware. If you come into a warm building
Starting point is 00:23:31 on a cold day, your glasses will immediately fog up with condensation. This is essentially what's happening to your nose. The difference in temperature between the air you're breathing out and the lining of your nose
Starting point is 00:23:38 mean that you are breathing the air that is condensing onto the lining of your nose and subsequently running out and making itself a nuisance. The same would happen in your mouth, but you're less likely to notice for obvious reasons that's a really driving down the street that's brilliant i'd never thought of that
Starting point is 00:23:52 and that makes perfect sense yeah it does yeah you're right well some of the fluid will be mucus if you examine it you'll find it's probably both clear and very runny like water as opposed to the nasty colored often thick stuff when you have a cold hope this helps i remember when i first discovered i had a moment where i thought well obviously and felt a bit silly and my source is this i both researched at the time and i'm a real life scientist biochemist despite what some my colleagues might say and it sounds like this is exactly what it would be all the best the pod is great and i have crohn's disease uh so i always feel somewhat sympathetic for pete and his ongoing bowel related issues uh and I don't have any battery brands of interest. I couldn't pile in these PSs here, Scott.
Starting point is 00:24:28 Thank you. I don't have any battery brands of interest. My apologies. I changed all of my batteries out for rechargeable ones because I'm not some sort of plant-hating barbarian. Wow. Good stuff. There's a lot going on there from Scott,
Starting point is 00:24:40 but I love that insight. That exactly makes perfect sense to me. True. I get it. I totally get it. Completely agree. Smashing stuff. Alright, great stuff.
Starting point is 00:24:49 So why don't we go, why don't we wrap up with this final email from Patrick in South Dakota. Let's do it. Because he's from South Dakota and I reckon that's the first person to ever email in
Starting point is 00:24:58 from that state. And this is on the theme of most eventful shortcuts that we were doing a while back. Do you remember that Pete? Yes, yes. The bloke almost jumped into a back. Do you remember that, Pete? Yes, yes. The bloke almost jumped into a zoo. Do you remember?
Starting point is 00:25:08 Incredible stories, yeah. So Patrick says, Hi guys, I'm just catching up on episodes and have my own summer abroad shortcut story. In the summer of 2014, I was studying in Istanbul. You might recall the weeks of political unrest that took place in Turkey around this time
Starting point is 00:25:24 and as a group of 20-year-old Americans, we had not ever experienced anything like this. One night when the protests had died down, a few classmates and I went out to the main city square, where many of the protesters had gathered. Unexpectedly, the police arrived with tear gas and water cannon. We began running back towards our apartments. One of our younger colleagues was insistent he knew the fastest way home, despite the other five of us telling him he was mistaken he took off running the wrong way on his own while the rest of us successfully returned to our apartment several hours later he had not returned
Starting point is 00:25:53 that we had not heard from him as we were discussing the futility of going out and searching for him my phone rang it was our missing friend who began the conversation simply with i made a mistake he told me he was in the hospital and asked that I bring him his passport. It happened that as he was running away from the protest, he fell 20 feet into a cement pit at an abandoned construction site, breaking both of his arms and legs
Starting point is 00:26:17 and was in predictably excruciating pain. Yeah. He underwent surgery in Istanbul and spent the next several weeks there in recovery before he was flown back to the States on a private medical jet. Up until this point, I thought the obscenely expensive travel insurance we were forced to buy from the university
Starting point is 00:26:32 was a scam. I've not seen him for several years now, but to my knowledge he has made a full recovery. Patrick in South Dakota. Now that is an eventful shortcut, to say the least. Get your hair plugs done at the same time that's what I would say is that where you go
Starting point is 00:26:46 for that that's where you go for that it's very cheap surgery so yeah probably in the best of hands with the worst of legs
Starting point is 00:26:53 or if they decided to do his hair he wouldn't be able to stop them would he because he can't use his arms or his legs
Starting point is 00:26:59 so he'd do it he couldn't wrestle the doctor where do people go for dentistry now is that at least in Europe or is that India now
Starting point is 00:27:04 oh Poland Poland yeah it's interesting You couldn't wrestle a doctor. Where do people go for dentistry now? Is that at least in Europe or is that India now? Oh, Poland, I believe. Yeah, yeah. Okay. It's interesting. Like, yeah, people do a lot of Kepa because it's cheaper out there. I wonder if, like, we have to really take stock here and realise that, you know, if you're actually travelling over 1,000 miles to another country to get work done,
Starting point is 00:27:32 and it's still cheaper, including all the travel, something's gone wrong. Yeah, somebody's gone a bit awry, haven't they? Yeah. Speaking of really boring expense-related issues, Will, before we go, I noticed the other day that to heat my two-bedroom flat for a month the other day yeah bill was 118 quid it's just mad isn't it like it's uh you know we talk about the cost of living and stuff but i mean these energy like people said the energy prices are good but when people said the energy prices are going up massively and there's going to be a massive fuel crisis,
Starting point is 00:28:06 you know, there's going to be a massive energy crisis financially, I don't think any of us really gave it as much thought as it needed to be given, you know what I mean? And we're relatively comfortable, you know what I mean? It's like, we're pretty all right. That's the motivation for me saying it, because I live in a first-floor flat where we get a huge amount of you know you know over we basically get heated by the flat downstairs because obviously it rises and it makes the floors really warm and it's great
Starting point is 00:28:35 there's only two of us we're at work a lot of time and it's a it's a small place so i have no idea how much it's costing like a family of four in a house, you know, which hasn't got those benefits and is a lot bigger. It's scandalous, man. It's absolutely scandalous.
Starting point is 00:28:51 Terrible. Yeah. Well, don't worry. We've got the best people at the top to help us all out. What, you and me? Oh, no, not us.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Yeah, me and you. Me and you. All right. We'll be back on Thursday for battery brands and all kinds of nonsense. We'll have to think
Starting point is 00:29:04 up of a new topic for people to get involved, but we'll do that at the end of the next show. I think it's very safe. Yeah, good idea. Yeah, lovely stuff. Goodbye, Luke. Goodbye to you too. See you later on.
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