The Luke and Pete Show - My almost fingerless Friday
Episode Date: March 7, 2022Pete’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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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.
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.
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?
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
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
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,
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?
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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,
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
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
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
he was a
is that his name
oh
Frankie Fraser
Frankie Fraser
mad Freddie Foreman
Freddie Foreman's an actor,
I think.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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,
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.
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
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
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
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,
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
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
and er
and
I had noticed
that it fucking
got scratched
the fuck in the back
of the car
it was a write off
really
and fucking
and fucked it
and absolutely fucked it
what did she say
I angled it
away from
and this is to my
discredit
because
what do you give it to for free
I'm usually
you know
fucking worried
about what people
think about me
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
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,
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
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.
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
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.
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,
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
was smashed
yeah
like it couldn't
really be used
and then she turned up
and I said look
I'm really sorry
look
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
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
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
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,
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,
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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
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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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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.
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.
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
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.
Ta-ta.
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