The Luke and Pete Show - Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

Episode Date: June 14, 2021

On today’s show, we’re recording in the fast lane as Pete shares breaking news of the world's most bizarre smuggling scandal to date. Elsewhere, Luke gives us the 101 on how to fix a cat. We’ve also got time for unusual pet snacks, podcast pub fiascos and the largest human poo on record…DON'T MISS OUT!Have you ever smuggled anything before? Does your pet cat enjoy a particularly weird snack? Get in touch and let us know! Drop us an email over at [e-mail] or get involved on our Twitter and Instagram @lukeandpeteshow. We love hearing from you!If you're currently enjoying the show, go ahead and drop us a review. 5 stars will do. Cheers! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It is the Luke and Beat Show, Pete Donaldson with you, joined by Luke Mill. We're getting into the show nice and early because I'm very, very concerned that we never start the show speedily. Let's get into the content. What's going on, Luke? What have you done for your weekend? Are you having a nice time? I'm not ready. No, I don't think I've seen many criticisms of this show by the way but I haven't seen one that says it's not quick enough

but I'm happy to try it if you like I mean I can go quick with the best of them ask anyone they like I think they appreciate Adordal the Luke and Pete show fans if indeed there are any I'm always astonished at people

giving us a bit of love on Twitter and in the iTunes reviews, because I've got some opinions about this show. I'm sure you have too, Luke. So thank you very much for listening. People love it as a companion show, right? It's just like they like to hear what two morons have been doing.

And I think it gives them a little window into, look, Pete, I'm much more confident about things than you are. I'm much more up myself than you are. Everyone who listens to this show regularly will know that. I'm not going to do this show as a disservice. I'm going to say people think, people see it as a bit of a companionship. They think they love us.

They get to know us over time. They enjoy our company. We've been doing this four years now, of course. There's been a lot of things that have come as a result of it. And we value all of our company. We've been doing this four years now, of course. There's been a lot of things that have come as a result of it. And we value all of our listeners. It's great. I'm constantly overlooked at the British Podcast Awards for this specific show. But fair enough.

Maybe it's not a critical success. Maybe we're more Michael Bay than Martin Scorsese. I can live with that on this show. Yeah, that's fair. But I mean, was Scorsese ever approached to even, even enter, even, even enter a podcast award entry? It's the first name

I thought of. I don't know. Probably not. Four year anniversary. We've been doing this for four years and we're still here. So that's got to tell you

something, right? Yeah. We're like Anvil. We're like the podcast version of Anvil. Remember that film, Anvil? Yeah, they were like

the universally forgotten rock band that had a bit of a cult following. Did they reform in the film? They were very old, weren't they? They had a real second wind after the movie itself because people didn't know if the movie was real or not. They thought it was like a Spinal Tap type vibe, but it was real.

And as a result of the film's popularity, they became quite famous again, started booking big shows. And as a result of the film's popularity, they became quite famous again, started booking big shows. And of course, these days in music, that's where all the money is. So you and I haven't had like proper fist fights like they do though. No, well, it's hard to do that sometimes

on the rare occasion we do it over Zoom. Luke, I have got an amazing news story. A woman, right, has been arrested at the US border and she's been doing a little bit of smuggling, right? Not the north-south border, the Canadian... America's hat into America. This woman, right, tried to smuggle... She tried to smuggle the following out of the country, right?

Stop me when you're interested. Eight African antelope horns. That's naughty. Yeah, that is very naughty. Six shark jaws. Right? Wow. 30 sea stars.

Now, how many sea stars do you need? 30 of them. What is that? I presume it's like a starfish. I presume it's an Americanism of the word starfish. I quite like them being called sea stars because that's a much better name than starfish because they're not really a fish.

No, true. Yeah, good point. 23 raccoon feet. Why just the feet? I mean, there's a process involved there. Yeah. 18 crocodile skulls and heads, seven crocodile feet.

Just obsessed with feet. You've got shark jaws in there. By the way, feet seven, that's not even a round number. No, seven crocodile feet. Just obsessed with feet. You've got shark jaws in there. By the way, seven, that's not even a round number. No, it's not. That's one and three quarters of a crocodile. Yeah. I think the thing that probably made it more difficult than anything else was the three-toed sloth

she tried to come in with. I presume that was alive. A one three-toed sloth. That's the equivalent. That is the animal smuggling equivalent of that guy trying to go for a million who wants to be a millionaire. It is, yeah. You've gone too far.

You've gone too far. How big's her bag, by the way? Oh, one thing I haven't mentioned, one human skull with mounted butterflies. Like a case with a skull. Where's she going? Where was she travelling? From Highgate Springs, Vermont.

She was arrested at the US-Canada border after trying to smuggle a three-toed sloth, some antelope horns, and a human skull. I think, for me, that is horrific. I think we can all agree on that. I've seen a video on YouTube of a guy rescuing a three-toed sloth from a road

and putting him back up a tree. It's an amazing video because the sloth is every bit as you'd imagine it. Basically every bit like that scene in Madagascar where they're doing the customer service desk in that movie. And when the guy rescues the sloth from the road

because he's taking so long to cross the road it looks like at some point a car's going to come along. Picks him up, puts him in the tree and then they've got really smiley faces. The sloth does this, looks back and looks around and gives them a smile it's the cutest thing ever

I hope it's not the same sloth no, yeah, I hope it's not a famous sloth that she killed famous in the sloth community exactly, yeah, a viral breakout sloth star, I think with the sloths though, i would love to give them a little shampoo because their their their fur is always matted with moss and green algae

and stuff i want to give them a vidal so soon let's be honest wild animals stink they do like they do i don't think and i think that's fair enough that's that's part of it right um part of the reason i like i mean i like it, right? Part of the reason I like, I mean, I like dogs as well, but part of the reason I like cats is because cats don't smell. Right, their food does, though. No, because we only have dry food with them. Right, okay. It doesn't really smell of anything.

It's not really, I don't think, as far as I'm aware, it's not really the done thing to give cats wet food anymore. It's bad for their teeth and stuff. Bad for their teeth? What, their teeth get too sharp because there's nothing to chew on no i think it's just that the it coats their teeth with this kind of lacquer which is bad for their kind of oh so oh i get yeah a lot of the um a lot of the good dry food um helps to clean their teeth as well right is there a cat version of a dentist stick because my dogs are absolutely wild on the old dentistics.

They love them. There is. I felt there should be. But I don't think there is. So the thing about cats is, so for the difference as far as I'm aware, and I've had access to many dogs over the years, not quite as consistently as you, and of course Buckley, the dog you have access to, we featured on The Ramble on Friday. Lovely stuff.

But the thing about cats is they're not constantly hungry. So it's not... I get the impression, and correct me if I'm wrong, I get the impression with a dog, he's always ready for food, right? If you give him food, he'll just eat it, right? Cats kind of are, but they don't... My cats, anyway, only at certain times of the day. So to the point where you can leave a plate with crumbs on it on the sofa and occasionally my cat will jump one of my cats will jump up sniff it but

not actually get stuck into it if i don't if i don't fancy it so there's not this feeling where you've always got to feed them and of course in the summer they're out for hours on their own so who knows what they're doing you know they're probably going through bins and stuff of course but um because one of mine ate a chicken bone and cut his stomach and a bit of blood in his saliva and stuff. So that does happen. But I don't think you need to, I don't think there's an idea with cats that you need to give them constantly something to chew on,

which of course you do need to with dogs. How do you sort of fix a cat's bleeding stomach? Because presumably that would be quite an invasive bit of surgery. Yeah, I think with, luckily for us, I think it was a very very small kind of um irritation right is it like when if you blow a gasket in it you have to operate yeah if you blow a gasket if you blow a gasket in an engine um you can get this stuff um if you do what i do where you left the coolant um top off the car and drove about 100 miles down the road

and obviously and obviously the the engine uh And obviously the engine coolant evaporates or just kind of leaves the engine somehow. And if the gasket gets blown and stuff, or if there's any sort of slight tears in the engine, you can buy this stuff and it goes in your coolant. And it's basically just these little rubber balls that kind of find the cracks where the oil is leaking out or where the coolant is leaking out.

And it basically just fuses together with the hot cracks, so to speak. I find that I love any technology. I love discovering any product that I've not discovered before and then it becomes the most important thing in my life and I need it. That's all you can think about. That's all I can think about.

I told you. I always tell our listeners that you either think about things not at all you just do something or you think about things way way too much like you never think about something for the most appropriate amount of time is that fair uh no no it's not fair but for the purposes of the show for the purpose of this show i don't think you care whether i care no exactly can i just tell you something you reminded me of with that little fact there which was fascinating is that have you seen um i believe they still use it but there's this big um medical treatment that i believe i'm right in saying i'm freestyling a bit here because i haven't looked it up uh there's this medical

treatment that is used to treat wounded people on the battlefield, which has kind of completely revolutionized how wounded soldiers are treated and what it is as far as I'm aware. And by all means, email in hello at LukeandPete.com if you know more information about this or if I'm wrong. But I believe I'm right in saying that one of the biggest causes of death on the battlefield is people essentially bleeding out right it's impossible

to stop the blood flow if the wound is big or it's in a certain place and there's this treatment which is basically it looks like a giant syringe and it's filled with quite small

almost like I want to say they look like polystyrene little things that you get when you have packaging but they're like

super absorbent sponges. And they go to the wound and they inject these sponges through this thing into the wound. And they instantly expand and completely block off the wound. Right, okay, so it's like insulation form. Yeah, basically, yeah. It's exactly like that. And it buys you a load of time because the victim is far less likely to lose too much blood.

And it's kind of an extension to that old thing that everyone knows about how super glue was used in Vietnam and stuff. Well, there's that Chinese powder that was very important, I think, in Vietnam as well, where you sort of throw it in, and it's an antiseptic, but it also congeals the blood. It is just about congealing the blood so it is just about

yeah coagulate just just as soon as it hits that hits the wound fascinating stuff probably very dangerous in the long term but uh hey if you if your guts have come out um you just need it closing up pretty quickly you do you do oh yeah yeah speaking of um i just finished listening to a brilliant podcast series called the line, have you heard of it? I haven't, no, fill us in I think it's a I want to say it's an Amazon original, not sure, anyway

it's about a guy who gets accused of committing a war crime in the Middle East and he's basically ratted on by his own patrol. Right, yes, yes, yes. The patrol of Navy SEALs and the chief of the patrol.

And it's about what happened and different people's stories and the court case. And of course, they had no crime scene. They had no victim to look at, no autopsy or anything. And it's about kind of the dynamic between a patrolled leader and his soldiers, his troops, and also what is expected

of special operatives in that part of the world and how demanding it is and how difficult it is and the ramifications of being involved in that kind of warfare. It's really good. It's like a six-parter,

called The Line, well worth checking out once you've listened to these episodes, of course. Oh, interesting. That was kind of fascinating. Yeah, I don't... You might have seen it on the news, actually might you might have seen um it's a guy called eddie gallagher and he was famous he became well known pete because it became a bit of a cause celebre for the right wing in america and there was always talk that donald trump had pardoned

him and all that kind of stuff but it wasn't that was not actually strictly true that's not actually what happened but it's well worth having a listen yeah Yeah. I mean, that's the thing that we do. When you get to the position of like Navy SEAL, you, people expect a higher level of performance than just, you know, your normal squad and stuff like that. And so when it is a very extreme situation,

and I imagine that podcast brings up a lot of kind of, if you're not there, you don't really know how bloody hard this job is to be quite quite frank, which I think is certainly fair to a certain extent. Yeah, so the idea is that one of the interesting thought experiments that it posits in the show, for example, is that there's this desire and this need, and chiefly from the Geneva Convention, to put rules essentially on war, right? What's acceptable, what isn't? So if you've got a prisoner, you have to treat him a certain way. If it's civilians,

you have to treat them a certain way. If they're unarmed, you have to treat them a certain way. All that kind of stuff. They surrender. There's a protocol for that. And one of the thought experiments is that whatever ISIS insurgent comes in,

shoots four of your colleagues dead, chucks his gun on the ground, and puts his hands up in the air. Technically speaking, they shouldn't kill him because that's what the Geneva Convention states. But ultimately, it's an extreme example, but it's not ridiculously extreme. And obviously, that comes along with its own kind of ramifications

because you've been training with these people for two, three, four years. They're your friends, and you're in a war. So what happens a lot, and a lot of these Navy SEAL three four years they're your friends and you're in a war so what what happens a lot and a lot of these navy seals are talking about is that um yeah well welcome to the fucking real world everyone war is fucking horrific right it is this it is worse than hell so if you don't know about it perhaps be a little bit more empathetic but then of course on the other side it's like well if we don't behave in certain ways then we're just as bad as the people we're fighting and all the rest of it and that comes in play with things like torture and all that kind of stuff.

So, look, it was a really fascinating, philosophically very interesting series. Beautifully put together as well, by the way. So, I've enjoyed listening to that over the last week. Recommend to me, Pete, by our friend Charlie at Stack. Oh, good stuff. Chasmo. Chas Morgan.

Chas Mo. The editor, producer of the Football Ramble. He celebrated a Football Ramble, which is war in itself in many ways. Yeah, so embattled. Before we get too serious and before we kind of people turn off and think, you know what?

You guys don't normally talk about war and Navy SEALs and stuff. Can I interest anyone in the largest human poo on record? Yes, you could. Yes, yes, yes, yes yes okay so this was so the great thing about doing the luke and pete show is that we get to look at news outlets that we would never normally touch in our normal lives poo news.com yeah and this has come from poo news.com editor pete donson the thing i do like about this now if you will allow me to be a little bit um make a couple of

assumptions if i may okay okay so this is a daily star story okay the headline is largest human poo on record shows viking who passed it was riddled with parasites okay the reporter is charles wade palmer do you think he spent do you think he spent five years at Charter House followed by three years at Ballyhalter, right? That kind of story? Yeah, yeah. I don't think his journalistic career has really turned out as he'd imagined. No.

But anyway, listen, the giant poo is apparently the largest human poo on record. It was dug up from a site in York almost 50 years ago and dates back to the 9th century. 20 centimetres long and 5 centimetres wide. So we're looking like, I mean, listeners can't see me doing this, but you're looking at like that probably, Pete. I'm imagining the big sausage in the TV show Grinch Hill at the start. The way that you're holding...

Fatter, fatter thanatter. Fatter than that. Fatter than that. Yeah, he's fatter than that for sure. I feel like it should be bigger. Well, I just sort of think that, like, I mean, let's have a look at this. We're in a situation where this has been dug out from, like, years ago.

It looks girthy. It looks solid. But, I mean, yeah, I think it should be a little bit longer. And what is that guy eating? What was the diet of the 9th century Viking? Mostly meat and bread, apparently. Right, okay.

Because you'd think that would back you up a little bit, wouldn't it? Rather than make you do a huge amount of poopies. Well, apparently as well also, I don't know how they can tell this apparently they can by tests they can tell the following thing so i'm mostly meat and bread based diet several hundred parasitic eggs found which suggests the viking was riddled with intestinal worms and it had been built up over a good few days of no stalls passing. Right. The Donny. The Donaldson Viking. But I do feel like it should be bigger. It just looks like

quite a big turd. But on the Viking front, there's an excellent historian of the Anglo-Saxon era called Mark Morris. He just put a book out recently about the Anglo-Saxon. From the Plutons. Do you know what? Actually, they're not the same person, but you've just reminded

me that that's the same name. The Plutons. Yeah. And I've just finished reading this book about the anglo-saxons, because it's a fascinating period, right? Because you had the Romans in Britain, they all just fucking go because the Roman Empire collapses, and what follows is actually a really kind of tumultuous period

in Britain. But what he does is there's a chapter in there about the Vikings, and it is the biggest, almost like, and I mean this with love because it's a great book, but it's like the biggest letdown because you're expecting, right, let's get stuck into the Vikings now.

And they weren't actually at all as popular culture would have them. So they didn't have big horned helmets. They weren't particularly ferocious or fierce compared to other peoples of that era. They were just farmers. Yeah, and they were particularly good seafaring people. That's kind of the only real stereotype that kind of stands up.

But what happened was Britain had become a nation of Christians at that point. And as a result, they had a different outlook on life. And the Vikings at that point were still pagan, so they were just a lot more ruthless basically and large large parts of britain were just massively undefended and so the vikings just took advantage of it when they realized because they had been trading together for a while they were like right we're gonna have a bit of this now and they got right they got properly stuck into britain but they didn't have horns on their helmets right so i mean what you're saying is that back then uh in in the what would

that be the ninth 9th century, there was a situation where all of Britain was just full of snowflakes and they just let the Vikings do whatever they wanted. Yeah, exactly. Get a grip. Can't even defend your own homestead. Well, from long boats to long poos to the ad break. We'll be back after this with your emails. So that's all right with you.

Salute and show, baby. Terrible link. An excellent link just before the break. The Luke and Pete show are back on Monday. What's wrong with that? That was the best link I've ever done on the show.

The most organised. Well, you just went long boats, long poos and then just jacked it in. Yeah, exactly. I didn't have a third. The rule of three. That's how you sort of end it.

I am starting the rule of two. That's what I'm doing. Number twos. Listen, you are far better at that kind of presenting than me, and it's not for me to be wise after the event, but could you have gone from long poos to long boats to a not-so-long ad break? We'll be back in a minute.

Could have. You could have stepped in. Sometimes you step in for outtrowing. Sometimes you don't. Like an uproarious pub debate with you pete i only thought of it on the way home that's the problem oh speaking of that by the way we were in the pub together for the first time in ages weren't we we were i got terribly sunburned did you really you that's the thing see and i think pete it's a really good

point because i want to make it clear to everyone listening to this. The fact that you got sunburnt in the pub last week on a beautiful day in the pub garden is a massive testament to the quality of your personality because I was absolutely insatiable for the shade. I wasn't listening to anyone against it. I was getting in the shade whenever I could, and I was making other people sit in the sun because they can deal with it much better than me. You didn't moan a single bit. You sat out in the sun the whole time, and a result you've paid the price there yeah i mean i'd like

to thank the sun uh for all its hard work on the day i'd like to thank the people it was the way but it's just like i'm not uh i'm not a big sun bearer but i am i enjoy being tanned but i cannot be arsed with sitting out in the sun so i think think a pub, when you're a bit pissed, in the pub garden, you're not really noticing that your skin is burning off your forehead. So yeah, we had a lovely old time. I can't really remember what was said, spoken about, discussed,

but we had a nice time. Well, Jim Campbell was regaling us. This might have been just after you left, actually. Jim Campbell was regaling us with amazingly funny stories. He did a rehash for people who haven't heard it, because there was quite a few people there, of The Crappening, which people heard for the first time

on this show a number of months ago. It never gets less funny. No. And he was telling some great stories. I was expecting the staff of the North London pub in which we were in to be a little bit more welcoming, I'll be honest. Right.

At one point after being closed for however many months I've had to be closed for, which of course is very sad and a terrible thing, the member of the bar staff actually audibly complained when after buying three bottles of wine for the group, we asked for some glasses. Can't use those glasses. Can't use those. Hasn't it been a COVID pandemic? Just get some glasses. Can't use those glasses. Can't use those.

Hasn't it been a COVID pandemic? Just get some glasses. You know what I mean? We don't know who's been drinking out of them. Just get some more glasses. We bought three bottles of wine. It was probably about 150 quid. Can we have some glasses?

So you'd hope there'd have been more welcoming. They weren't, but that is the London way sometimes, isn't it? That's the thing. I think pubs that certainly I've frequented recently, they're finding it very hard to get people back off a furlough and just pay them more i i would i would suggest any people who have businesses just pay them a wage that they don't have to worry about um tips and stuff like that um and they are and so they're kind of understaffed because it's hard to retain staff and so therefore the people who aren't turning up for work are letting the people who are in work down.

Not like out of furlough, but just for whatever reason not turning up for work. So everyone's having a terrible time. Everyone's stressed out. And on top of that, you've got the COVID protocols. You've got the people drinking to excess because they haven't been out of the house for six months. It's a recipe for a very stressful summer for a lot of people in the service industry. And so I salute everyone with both hands with that. And what's this that's going to come and make it a little bit more easy?

Oh, hello, the Euros. Throw your pints in the air, guys. It's the Euros. So I had a problem with that back in 2018. I thought if you're going to throw your pint up in the air to celebrate a goal in a football match, instinctively because you're so excited, fair enough. What I didn't like, Peter, I didn't like people there primed, ready to do it.

Doing it for the gram. They're doing it for the gram and I don't think you should be allowed to throw any alcohol up in the air unless you are 10 miles north of Sheffield because everything south of that, too expensive. That's a five quid pint there. You throw it in the air in a box park.

Oh, absolutely correct. It's a really good point. And I think five pound is very, very low for your example price there. I drink Stella. I think the pints in... So I'm fairly certain the pints in the pub we were in last week were north of six pound.

Right, yeah. Yeah, no, that sounds about right the worst ever liberty the worst ever pub liberty pete donson was a local pub near an office i used to work at where um it would have been a number of years ago let's say let's say it was five six six years ago right pint of communal garden lager or a pint of ipa in a nice pub near our office five £5.50. That £5.50 is a liberty. If I'm handing over a tenner, I'm not getting a note back. Absolutely disgraceful liberty.

Yeah, that's upsetting. That's over the lip for me. That's worse than £5.50. Yeah, I'd rather that a £4.99 if you're going to give me a penny back. Just make it £5. Make all the drinks £5. There's no reason for drinks to be more expensive than that. They just aren't.

Should we start a campaign? This is five's plenty. I can have a culture-spark campaign. Every single alcoholic drink, it's like a flat tax. Yeah. Flat rate of tax. £5 for every drink. You know where you are with it.

And some drinks, like, if it's a half, that'll be annoying because you'll be paying double what you're expecting. But that's just the way it's going to be. If you're going to have a half, don't have any alcohol. Just have something else. It's fine. Yeah. Remember back in the late 90s where they just brought in the £2 coin and beers were literally £2. It was basically like the Bank of England had brought out a beer token.

Yes. The £2 coin, was that... Because at the moment £2 coins have have a double colour, don't they? It's kind of like gold and silver. So £1 now? Oh, yes, they do. And back in the day, the £2... I've not used coins for quite a long time, but, yeah, the £2 coin,

that was originally just a little bit bigger than a £1. It looked like an old guinea, didn't it? I think it was probably twice the size of a pound coin. Right, okay. Oh, interesting. I think it's always a two-tone, I think. Is it?

Okay, well, fair enough. I think so, yeah. But it seems, it seems to, I can, know that you had five beer tokens in your sky rocket. Definitely.

And I remember, this is going to make us sound incredibly old, but I remember in our house having half pennies kicking around very i do as well in the big bells bottle yes exactly and so that would have been whiskey

bottle in your house we did uh we had um i can't remember what we had yes something similar that was just a lot of a lot of uh coins in there and maybe just a metal tin an old um a tin that used to have a little cake in it maybe but the but like half pennies went out like 77 was it 70 years i don't remember ever being in a position where we could spend them but we had them left over and i also think that um speaking of that which is absolutely this is absolutely horrific i can remember we had this big so i'm talking about a three foot high bells whiskey bottle empty full of coins right mostly coppers right me and my sister used to she's five years younger than me we this is basically my fault we used to pick it up empty onto my mom

and dad's bed and see how many of the coins we could fit in our mouths oh luke that's gonna that's gonna do you isn't it that's the that is one of the how can you imagine how many pockets how many hands how many toilets how many those kinds of yeah your mouth would like

dry up wouldn't it and it would just be all metal it's really horrible it makes me it's almost like people scraping their fingers down a blackboard

when I think about it but the only other thing I can offer which is vaguely similar to that is there was a kid in the rugby team at uni who his big thing was he had a massive pair of nuts.

And to be fair, I mean, to be honest, the nuts were normal size, but the ball bag was massive. So his pub trick was he had a big ball bag and a big foreskin. Yeah, so his ball bag was so big, he could basically put a pint glass, empty pint glass under his balls, and the balls would touch

the bottom of the glass right oh wow that is he'll have to get that fixed truly imagine what it's like now he's in his 40s

he'll have to Venetian blind it yeah and his foreskin was massive and he used to put coins under his foreskin which again can't be good for you the man's just got too much skin

just calm it down mate calm it down, mate. Anyway, we're supposed to do emails. We're supposed to do an email. I'm sure we can fit a couple in, maybe at least one in. Helloatlukeandpeachshow.com is the email address. We always, always, always struggle to fit them in because we talk windbags, talking absolute shit for half an hour each time. So one man who has sent an email in, I think it's a man.

It might not be a man. The emailer's name is Sam, so it can work both ways. It says, Hi Luke and Pete, happy four years from a long time listener. Thank you very much, Sam. They say,

I would like anyone to challenge my most amount of steps in a single day. At a rave on January 30th, 2018, while I was studying in Portsmouth, and he says, this could be a software malfunction. I can't really remember. I'm as surprised as you are. But I think I was dancing all day and night at a rave.

413,452 steps in 24 hours. That seems impossible. You would have to be running constantly at that time, surely. I've worked it out. It's 206 miles. I don't think it could be true. I don't think it can be correct. I mean, maybe because it's on, I presume

he did it with like a Fitbit or something. He was probably shaking his arms around at a higher ratio than his feet were actually wobbling around. I presume it's just an iPhone. I don't know, though. Oh, you reckon?

Okay. Yeah, that does sound like a software malfunction. I mean, I'm not going to cast aspersions to our semi-anonymous listener, but surely you're at a rave. Drugs must have been imbibed. That is insanity. I mean, 206 miles,

you are going to be getting through. I mean, by6 miles, you are going to be getting through. By the way, that's 10 times almost, that's about nine times the length of a marathon, right? And when you're doing a marathon, you're burning thousands upon thousands of calories. I don't know if it is possible. So we've got a confirmed one. Someone in a while back said they did two marathons a day.

Fair enough. All accepted. Definitely possible. My friend Jimmy, a.k. Someone emailed in a while back saying they did two marathons a day. Fair enough. All accepted. Definitely possible. My friend Jimmy, aka Jimmy the Fruitarian, he did 75,000, I think, in a day. And that's confirmed. But he literally left the house first thing in the morning and walked all day because he is a man child, as we all are. And he wanted to break a record set by another friend of mine. And he took a day off work to do it because that's what men can be like that's legitimate he couldn't walk for three days afterwards his feet

were in absolute pieces but he did it i'm not sure and then you factor in the idea that this guy's done six times that i don't know yeah i mean and that and that was on fruit to be quite frank uh the um i think it actually falls naturally from the plant as well. True. And I think with... I just think Mo Farah hasn't made or maybe won't be making the Tokyo Olympics this year. Slip him an eckie.

See if he'll have a go at breaking the 413,452 steps in a marathon because that's what I would like to see. I haven't even thought about the Olympics yet this year. Have you? Only because I really desperately want to go back to Japan. And it just seems like a nightmare in which the Japanese are never going to escape it

because none of them are keen on vaccines. Is that part of the problem? In the 90s, there were some quite, you know, designer-y vaccines that came out for some less than exotic problems they had out there. And a lot of people got quite ill because the vaccines weren't very good. So the vaccine confidence is, you know,

over the world is just so low in Japan. And nobody, I think they're at 2% at the moment. And it's nearly July, for crying out loud. And they, I think they're at 2% at the moment. And it's, God, it's nearly July for crying out loud. And they're heading into an Olympic situation. Yeah, certainly,

it was last time at 2%, 3%. There's very low vaccine confidence there. They'd just rather not talk to foreigners. I had no idea.

There you go. A little bit of knowledge bombing. More Japan stuff on Pete's excellent other podcast Abroad in Japan, which is well worth a turn of the ears as well um indeed should we get out of here because we're probably out of time now aren't we yeah let's we'll we'll be back on thursday though aren't we doing the same thing we'll we'll do battery brands we'll finish fitting

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