The Luke and Pete Show - Saturday scallop fever

Episode Date: June 9, 2022

Are you ready for the ultimate Luke and Pete Show pivot?On today’s show, we go from dissecting the deepest darkest issues of UK politics to hearing what Pete has in common with scallops faster than you can say "Boris Johnson". Elsewhere our mission to find new players in our battery database gets interrupted as we learn all about electric whistles.Want to contact the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I've not got monkey pox but I have got a real love a deep love for the Luke and Pete show oh that's nice alright mate how you doing

I'm pretty good it's a Thursday it's a Thursday which means lots of things. But this is the 9th of June. What's happened on the 9th of June? Let's find out, shall we? June 9th holidays.

Just typing into the website. It's National... What? I can't do it. I used to be able to do it. That's quite good. It's quite good. Can't do it.

No, it's actually quite good. I'm actually very surprised. I'm pleasantly surprised. I think it's Les Paul's birthday as well. I'll do noises for everything. National sex day. Yeah. Don't do monkey pox noise.

And Johnny Depp. Okay. Let's not do the noises. Let's not do the noises. Yeah. Peter, I watched a really good documentary the other day, which I know you're going to roll your eyes about. Yes.

It was called Sherpa. Have you seen it? Sherpa? It's on Netflix. Sherpa? Yeah. Sherpa? Yeah.

What's it about? Sherpas. Okay, then. Do you know what Sherpas are? Yeah, little fellas who help you up a mountain. Don't say that. They're an ethnic group. I know.

Anyway, it was all about the particularly devastatingly difficult two years on Everest where lots of people died because there was ice slips and earthquakes and all that kind of stuff. I find it astonishing that that sort of thing is still allowed in a modern world. What do you mean? Like people needing help, using, you know, like you said,

an ethnic group, a particular ethnic group to get up and out of it. But it's a big part of the Nepalese economy. Yeah. I think it seems quite an honourable job. It's really fucking dangerous though, isn't it though? Yes. It's really dangerous. And it's just to, you know, have people from the West going,

I climbed up this big fucking mountain, put on my Instagram, brilliant. It's a massive industry now. Have you seen those photos of the, people from the West going, I climbed up this big fucking mountain, put on my Instagram, brilliant. It's a massive industry now, have you seen those photos of the, literally like the traffic jams, of people waiting

their turn to get up onto the rock top of Everest. It's mad, isn't it? It's crazy. It's like, less a situation,

but like, Mount Fuji, climbing Mount Fuji is not fun, you're just behind old people, because it's not particularly testing

route, certainly on season and with certain routes, yeah, it's just old people in it's not particularly testing testing route certainly on season and with certain routes yeah it's just old people in front of you all the time

this documentary was interesting because it was all about the kind of geopolitics between Nepal and Taiwan yes so you can't go up

the other side of Everest because of Taiwan and Chinese cause problems for people who want to do that so you can only go up this one way

yeah there's a big ice swell on the route which you have to go across right one way there's a big ice swell on the route which you have to go across which is really dangerous

because it's always moving and it talks about the tradition of the Sherpa people how they've been disrespected in the past

particularly around when Sir Edmund Hillary's guys went up there with Tenzing and he didn't really get the credit he deserved

and how it's become a big part of the economy a big part of the tradition how like it's such a dangerous job that a lot of the Sherpa's families don't really want them to go up there and it's about it's become a big part of the economy, a big part of tradition, how it's such a dangerous job

that a lot of the Sherpas' families don't really want them to go up there. And it's also partly about labour movements, about unionising, and Sherpas saying that we're not getting paid enough, this is not good enough. It's a really interesting documentary. And it's also really sad because, you know,

there were, I think in one incident, the worst night in history on Everest, I think, was maybe around 2014, 2015, where like 13 or 14 of them think in one incident, the worst night in history on Everest, I think, was maybe around 2014, 2015, where like 13 or 14 of them died in one landslip because the ice slipped down and it was really difficult to get to people to rescue them. It's a fascinating documentary anyway. It's well worth watching.

So you say... Oh, do you mean China rather than Taiwan? Because I was a bit confused there. Because I thought it was near... Sorry, I don't was near Uttam. Sorry, I don't mean either of those things. I mean Tibet,

not Taiwan. Oh, right, okay, cool, cool. I got confused there. I got confused with my territories that are disputed by China. There's a lot of them.

Easily done. There's a lot of them. Yeah, it's Tibet because the other side is Tibet so it's difficult for Western companies to run operations there

essentially. But you think the Chinese would use that as a would that not be a big thing for them financially? There's no talking

to them apparently. There's no explaining them. There's no explaining them. Big Joe Biden said the other day didn't he?

A few weeks ago now he said that if China get aggressive in Taiwan we're going to get aggressive back baby. It's all being escalated.

Won't someone think of the semiconductors? Give us the bloody semiconductors. You're thinking about semiconductors, aren't you? I'm just constantly thinking about that. I'm just constantly... I just need my mining rig back, mate. One of my Radians gone down. I need my mining rig back on top.

There's a lot of mining rigs for sale in the Essex area, I've noticed. What are they? Just a load of graphics cards nailed together with the expressed and unique and single-minded quest to mine as much Bitcoin as possible. Is that what's driving the cost down? What do you mean? As in like...

The value of it. Well, it's clear that the energy crisis means that the energy is too expensive and the price of Bitcoin has gone down, so then it's not in any way financially viable to mine Bitcoin, certainly in this country so a lot of mining rigs that are just

as I said, five or six quite expensive graphics cards nailed together they're all going on sale on Facebook marketplace, now I look at them and go, ooh So some people are mining them at home just paying the energy bill Yeah, and it worked for a long time you know, it was financially, you know,

my mate did put it on for, you know, a few days and made a, you know, more, like, something like 200 quid

more than the energy it would cost to actually run it. How much is it? And he's in the, and he works for, uh, the,

uh, he works for, like, Clean Energy Initiative in Britain. Name him. I'm not going to name him. How long does it take to mine one Bitcoin?

I do not know. It takes ages. It would take like, I don't know, a few days, a month. I don't fucking know. No, because they're worth like 50 grand a piece, aren't they? Yeah. But if you're putting in 10 grand worth of energy. But you're not going to get through 10 grand worth of energy in a day.

You will if you've got loads of mining rigs. So yeah, it used to be viable. It's not as viable anymore. So you've got loads of mining rigs. So yeah, it used to be viable. It's not as viable anymore so people are selling their Bitcoin mining rigs. Energy costs are unbelievable now. I saw Martin Lewis, the money-saving expert on telly.

He's pulling his hair out and he's got none. He said, he said for the first time I've ever seen, he said, I can't help people. For the first time ever

I've not been able to help people. This needs government intervention and fast, which is a really worrying thing for a lot of people. Well do you remember before the budget Martin Lewis said

that Rishi Sunak rang him. Did he? Yeah. Do you ever like what is happening here? What's happening here?

Canvas and opinion. Fine. But it depends. I do get the feeling if he's ringing him saying I'm genuinely interested in your opinion because I think you know you've fine but it depends I do get the feeling if he's ringing him saying help me I'm genuinely interested in your opinion

because I think you've got many years in the game I don't mind it I don't mind that if he's ringing saying will I get away with this then that's different

because it's bad it's really bad honestly the amount the cost of living is absolutely incredible for people now and it's going to get worse

by the way it's going to get worse post October yeah and no windfall tax can't be arsed. Can't be arsed. You know what Luke?

It'll stop investment. If we give them a windfall tax it'll halt investment. Where else are they going to invest? Don't worry about it dickhead.

Also we've tried it this way for a long time now. We've given them a long time. Let's try something different. We've tried giving them tax breaks.

Put it this way, right? And they'll just go where the money is, you prick. Why don't you try something that might stop children starving today? Just try. Just try not having fucking old BT telephone boxes filled with loaves of bread for people who can't fucking afford it. Maybe try something like that. There was talk the other day

that some people at food banks who work in volunteering at food banks and God bless them saying that a lot of people aren't taking certain foods from food banks now

because they can't even afford to cook them. So they have to take the stuff that's ready to eat because they can't boil potatoes because they haven't got the money.

And as ever with these kind of things, what happens to the poorest in our society is they're put on these fucking meters where they have to pay in advance for electricity, which of course is loads more expensive, and once it's gone, it's gone. They just cut it.

And I used to have one of those at uni when I was a student, so 20 years ago, we used to have to go down to the shop and put a tenner on this fucking key and put it in. I had one in my last house. It was a fucking piss take. I was paying nearly fucking two grand in rent and they put me on a fucking key. Fuck you in. I had one in my last house. It was a fucking piss take. I was paying nearly

fucking two grand in rent and they put me on a fucking key. Fuck you. Yeah, it's bad. It's bad. Fuck you. So the idea being that like, really,

it should be, the opportunity should be taken now for people to at least be given some fucking help. I mean, ultimately, what you've got to say to these senior MPs is you've got to say,

what's more important to you? On your watch, people are dying? Or do you want to be part of this fucking Boris Johnson death cult? Which is basically what it fucking is. It's only going one way. This is the last days of fucking Rome. The Conservative Party,

apparently a party that is dedicated to fiscal responsibility, every time they get in power after 10 years, the economy is fucked every single time. And they can sort of say prevailing winds, COVID, all that shit. They always fuck the economy because they can't keep their fucking hands

out of their fucking kleptocratic fucking bank accounts. They're just like, fucking give me that. Give me all of the money to give to all of my friends every single fucking time. And it always happens like this. And Labour have to inherit a fucking shitshow of an economy every single fucking time and it always happens like this and Labour have to inherit a fucking shit show of an economy every single fucking time.

And do you regret voting for them now? Vote for them again? I like chaos me. But Pete I could do with eating less. What frustrates me

as well is how cowardly Labour party are. Yeah. They're too scared to say anything because they say oh if I say something

it might poll badly. Listen, it doesn't get worse than this. It doesn't matter. No one fucking can vote you in anyway. You're not playing the game that they're playing.

No. It's a different game. They can do whatever the fuck they want. Yeah. You're criticised for having a curry. Yeah.

You can have a picture of the Prime Minister with a fucking bottle of vodka swinging around with his knob out. He can do that. You can't do fuck all. That's incredible from you.

See, they're playing a different game. So don't worry about what fucking polls. Just fucking get angry. I know a couple of people who are advisors in the Labour Party. What the Prime Minister? Yeah. And don't talk like this. I know them quite well. And I always say, and I've been, I've had beers with them,

I've seen them quite a lot lot and they'll say stuff like about you know the polling this the polling that and I'm sitting there thinking oh I don't know what's the worst that can happen people still won't

fucking vote for you do something do something I've been working on my key of star what the prime minister he's a bit nasal the prime minister

and that's going to kill him stuff it people won't vote for him because of that you reckon nah he's got all the qualifications possible if you lined him up do the prime minister and that's going to kill him stuff it people won't vote for him because of that you reckon nah he's got all the qualifications possible

if you lined him up against Boris Johnson about qualifications experience intelligence integrity all that kind of stuff he wins

and everything he wins and it's not even close but the problem is it's about different things to that and it's obviously when you're incumbent it's very hard to be kind of removed

but the problem with Keir Starmer is he doesn't he doesn't seem normal enough it's almost like you're incumbent it's very hard to be kind of removed but the problem with Keir Starmer is he doesn't seem normal enough it's almost like the Ed Miliband thing I think Ed Miliband is quite normal

I think since he's been post all that leadership thing and I know he's still an MP now he's actually a shadow cabinet minister now and he does that podcast which I think is actually very good

he comes across as actually quite a nice guy but you are going to be absolutely filleted for fun by the media, by the press in this country

who are, for the large part, fucking disgraceful. And anything you get that makes you out to look not be normal, you're finished. Forget it.

So the reason why the Tories and Power are, in my opinion, the culture war that our dads like. It's dads liking the culture war. Not my dad.

My dad's not like that. Okay, alright. Well, most of our dads. What he dads liking the culture war not my dad my dad's not like that okay alright well most of our dads what he needs to do is sort of lean into the other stuff that dads like caravans

rockeries have been really opinionated about azaleas and you know how to correctly maintain

a classic car or something I'll tell you the best thing Keir Starmer could do now on that note is become best friends with Jeremy Clarkson.

Ha ha ha ha! Isn't it? But he would, Clarkson would probably skew Labour, but he's a fucking dribbling right-wing maniac. No, but the thing with Clarkson

is he's more an interesting case now. If you watch that Clarkson's Farm thing... But that's all just PR. He's PR-ing himself. You know for a fact what he is and what is a PR.

Remember his columns for like 30 years? Yeah, but that's... On PR. He's PR-ing himself. You know for a fact what he is and what is a PR. Remember his columns for like 30 years? On Clarkson Farm, my take is that he actually does, he does actually support quite a lot of work. I'm not making myself clear, but this is the very, very interesting thing. This version of the Conservative Party are nothing to do with what people would say Conservative values are.

Yeah, okay. So, for example a traditional working class tory like a john major or a traditional farming conservative a conservative is also a farmer probably has nothing in common with this correlation the tory party and jeremy clarkson's tapping into that original tory thing with this farming stuff yeah but he's also showing like interest in the environment all that kind of thing yeah which is a burgeoning movement like people who are naturally conservative, there's a lot of them now

who do actually care about the environment. That's becoming a much more interesting trope. Anyway, anyway, that's enough of that. I want to hear

what you want us to talk about before we start the show today, which is about scallops. So I'm going to Luke and Pete show pivot and I'm going to make you talk about scallops. Would the Prime Minister

eat a scallop? I would, I love scallops. For tea, I love scallops. Would the Prime Minister eat a scallop for tea? I love scallops. You're one of the few people I know who buy them from the supermarket and cook them at home. I've never once had a scallop at home. Yeah, but you're not eating good scallops. It's frequently frozen scallops, but just fucking banging them in there.

They're a little sweet, aren't they? They're a little delicious and sweet. So these fishermen a little while ago discovered something very interesting. they're like little delicious sweets so these fishermen a little while ago discovered something very interesting I don't know how

they discovered it actually an accidental discovery that scallops love disco lights scallops have got a bit of me in them they love an indie disco they're down there

at the bottom of the sea grabbing plankton or bits of grit or whatever the fuck they eat down the bottom there if you have your little lobster box down the bottom and the sea, grabbing plankton or bits of grit or whatever the fuck they eat down the bottom there. If you have your little lobster box down the bottom, and there happens to be a disco light

in there flashing away, little LEDs. Why have they come across this? I don't know how they come across this. I don't know how it happened. They're really attracted to LED lights. Actually, the lights were in there to attract crabs.

So crabs like lights too. It just seems that crabs are attracted to lights. Actually, the lights were in there to attract crabs. So crabs like lights too. I don't know. It just seems that crabs are attracting the lights. But they managed to get so many

more scallops than they managed to get crabs into the pots. And so scallops can have up to 200 eyes, which is mental,

were more attracted to the LED lights. One of the fishermen said it's like a scallop disc or illuminate the trap, and they come in.

It's astonishing that no one has discovered this before. It's quite an exciting find. So these set of fishermen, British fishermen, I believe, they've set up their pots and stuff with disco lights, flashing disco lights, and the scallops are just like, what's that over there? Do you feel bad that the scallops are being tricked? Yes, I do. I watched that.

Is it underhand? I felt bad and I said to my partner, I said I don't want to eat scallops again. This is really depressing. The video of the scallops into the pot and he's got to get eaten eventually. But it did when the next opportunity I had to eat scallops or not eat scallops, it reminded me about scallops and how delicious they are. They can't win.

They can't win, man. I also liked it in the story. They said that each little spot that they put in the pot is done by two rechargeable AA batteries. Yeah. I was thinking, get me a scallop fisherman. I'm actually trying to zoom into the picture that they've got. And it's definitely an off-brand battery. That would be right up our street.

I can't remember. Is it Bust Day? It's Dura Day. Dura Day. It's a Dura Day. Part of the Duracell. Part of the Duracell. Have we had,

check if we've got a Duraday. Check if we had Duraday in the email box. If not, the fishermen who discovered that scallops love disco lights, they're going to be going into the Hall of Fame.

Hello to you, Philip Harrington, Chris Maples and Greg Howe. You've all sent Duraday batteries in between now and when we started doing battery hunts. But I thought Duraday were part of the Duracell family. No way. He's got Dura in there.

No, he's an absolute rip. Would you not be suing them for that? No, Dura is just durable. You can't own part of it. No, if you're a scallop I mean. The genocide of my people. Dr. Bryce Stewart, a marine ecologist and fisheries biologist at the University of York, a study scholar for more than 20 years,

caught off of the paper about these disco-like discoveries alongside scientists at the University of Exeter. He says, this is one of the most exciting things I've come across in my whole career. Yeah, I like... I'm on nodding terms with kind of modern academia. And you do meet really interesting people and I do like the fact

that there's room in our society and our culture and in our country people who are really into scallops yeah for someone who's spent his life

20 years that's a career by any one stretch just studying scallops do you do oysters? no do you do mussels? no I don't

most animals including us have lenses but scallops don't they have mirrors at the back of their eyes, and they also have two retinas, one which senses darker things, one that senses lighter things.

So they can possibly use that to sense movement. Perhaps they prefer the illuminated areas because they provide safety from predators, or because it's easier to find the plankton they eat. So they are being tricked at these pots, but it still looks like a lot of fun. I don't know how they're using their eyes, because they're in a shell.

I know. Well no but the shell comes open. To propel themselves they flap their shells don't they? They all that's how they get

in the pot. I didn't know that scallops were so fun loving complicated as an animal. Yeah because they look very simple like a little button

and a little yellow thing in it. They're the best seafood. I reckon they might be up they're the best they're the best seafood I reckon they might be up there as the very best seafood they cook properly maybe

do the frozen ones still taste good uh do the no they're they're not great to cook they're not as good to cook

do you cook them from frozen yeah cook them from frozen but it just it becomes quite chewy maybe I'll try them in the air fryer oh god I want some scallops last time you put something in the air fryer was crab sticks and that you're supposed to eat them cold it was all right anyway let's have a quick break when we come back we'll do

some battery brands proper okay maybe get to an email or two as well but i mean i'll be honest with you i might not get to an email because i really want to talk about a woman who gave birth during a metallica concert, so listen out for that. It's the Luke and Pete show. It's a Thursday. My name's Pete Donaldson. I'm joined, I'm boined, I'm boid, I'm boid by Luke Moore. We've got some batteries for you. Those of you who have got in touch with your batteries, we'll get to them as soon as we can.

Andrew Leonard's been pulled out of the scallop pot at first. Hello to Luke and the Pete. You surely must have had a set of East Power Super Heavy Duty in a previous episode, but on the off chance you haven't, here they are. Kindest regards to the man who sent you the story of the luckiest man alive

way back at the start of your show. Andrew Leonard, you are surprisingly a new player. No one has sent specifically East Power Super Heavy Duties in before, so congratulations to you. You are a new player. That might be a controversial one,

because some people might think, hang on a minute, I've sent some East Power in. Those exact branded ones we have not had before. Yeah, okie dokie. All right, next one, James Jennings, Fox 40, Extra Heavy Duty. Fox 40? Fox 40. Was that not the band or TV show that the woman out of Pulp Fiction was in?

Morning, guys. Stumble across this whilst changing the battery on my electronic whistle I use at work. What? What? What? What? Tell us more about that. I'm a steel erector.

We use them to warn people when we are lifting overhead. Interesting. It's electronic. It's not just a normal whistle. I know. I wouldn't have thought anything could be louder than a normal whistle. It sounds like an electronic whistle. I've never once heard a proper whistle and gone,

oh, that could be louder. Elect... Oh, hang on. Have you? Electronic... No, not really. I think if you get... Yeah, electronic whistle sound.

What does that sound like? Oh, wow. Is a guy unboxing an electronic whistle? He's just opening... It's got a lovely battery in the bottom. It has three tones and a very powerful powerful sound it's a very powerful time in the bottom of the pack is a new leader uh it's a fox 40 branded whistle it can't count then what what do you mean is it look the actual whistle itself oh it's fox 40 and look at the battery well we can't have that

then that's it that's the same brand as the well i, I don't know. Is it? Have we had this before? I was a cigarette paper away from announcing that a new player then. Oh, my goodness. And you can use it in all the temperatures and... What is this guy doing? He loves his whistle. He loves his electric whistle. He's undoing the packet around the new leader battery.

He's got a new leader in his. He's got a new leader in his, yeah. He's popping the old 9-volt. Whoa, he just did a super zoom in. He didn't bother licking the battery to see if it was okay, though. Let's hear it. Let's hear it. Come on.

Why isn't it working? He should have put a new leader battery in that, for crying out loud. He's just zooming in, trying to make it work. Number one. number one tone I'll turn it down just in case just be prepared and don't wear

any headphones because it's really loud oh good it sounds like this on one that's alright it's like a beep that's like a bit

yeah as I told you it's really powerful a weird guy so enjoyable and that's why i like youtube i never knew electronic whistles existed yeah i'm not impressed by that one i think it's a perfectly normal whistle would work fine yeah but unfortunately for you james jennings you've sent in a fox 40 battery which does look good it's got a little picture of a fox and everything's nice i like it yeah but that's also the same brand as the product so it's a it's not a proper picture of a fox on it and everything it's nice I like it yeah but that's also the same brand as the product

so it's not a proper battery so we can't accept it even though we've not had it before and if you want to check out this man reviewing electronic whistles he's M3 Roving Ian

on YouTube he's done very well to get a fucking plug there and guess what the only other thing that he's reviewed and he's reviewed so many of them

it's incredible he just basically reviews car lights he installs new And guess what? The only other thing that he's reviewed, and he's reviewed so many of them, it's incredible. He just basically reviews car lights. He installs new Ring Xenon 200s into his car, tries different brands out, and then drives down the road and films what he can see effectively. So he's providing a valuable service as he rattles around it. How many subscribers has he got? The European city, 10,000.

That's not bad. It's not bad. It's not bad. That's fucking annoying, actually. He's got quite a lot of subscribers for that quality of entertainment. It's surprisingly easy to replace car headlights. I had no idea. One of my lights went down and I bought them off internet

and just went and plugged them in. It's just like a light bulb, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway. There you go. If I've bored you that much, sorry. I want you to do the last battery.

All right, then. Fine. Sean from Whitley Bay. Active energy, super alkaline, and Mustangs. That's what he's coming with. Hello, the looking Pete. Following my previous unsuccessful attempt to find that elusive new player, I managed to find the following.

Active energy, super alkaline. Found it in my father-in-law's battery drawer. He's a proper dad. Hotel remote Mustangs. I sent these in when I found them, but it wasn't read out. There's a reason why because you've had mustangs a million times

mate yeah exactly sorry Sean the last hotel I went to Hampton by Hilton York had the cheek to have screwed the back of the remote in place

so I couldn't check I was livid mainly as myself because despite being a father for over six years I wasn't dad enough to have a small screwdriver with me

on my weekend break to crack it open and check out their cells that's something in my life I need I need a screwdriver in my bag I just need it i don't know why i haven't got one yeah i need it um if uh it also it gave slight concerns to the character of the hotel guests that i was sharing the place with given that the hotel did it necessary to protect their

no doubt unique new player batteries if neither of those cut the mustard which i suspect might be the case the quest will continue sean from whitley bay any of those cut the mustard, which I suspect might be the case, the quest will continue. Sean from Whitley Bay. Any of those active energy, super alkaline, hotel remote, Mustangs? No. No? Neither. Sorry, mate. Sean's a regular emailer and a long-term listener,

and we thank him very much for it. But if you're going to send Mustangs in, it's going to be a no. And I'm sad to say you're the third person to send active energy, super alkalines in, so it's not a new player there either. Oh, good Lord. Never mind. Well, if you'd like to get in touch with the show and if you'd like to let us know about the batteries

that you found in your home or work. I feel bad for the Fox 40. I feel bad for our friend James. We wouldn't have known if I hadn't done a little bit of research. I'm doing my research. You know, those kind of conspiracy theories. I do my own research. I actually do your own research.

Matt says that a lot. He Matt. He says that a lot. He does. He says that a lot. Pete, when James Jennings here, father of the aforementioned Fox 40 batteries, so he's a steel erector.

What does a steel erector mean? Oh, I don't know. Do you reckon it's like... I thought it was like a scaffolder, but it's not that, is it? It's got to be like the people who put the framework in before all the cement gets piled into big buildings, maybe. Yeah. What, is it? It's got to be like the people who put the framework in before

all the cement gets piled into big buildings, maybe. Yeah. What do you reckon? Steel erector? Sounds like a tough job. When I walk past scaffolders, I think fucking hell that is a tough job. Yeah, iron worker, non-worker, yeah, they just assemble a structural framework in accordance with engineered

drawings. So I reckon James must be in good nick. I don't think he, well, not necessarily, because he doesn't do it physically himself, be in good nick. I don't think he... Well, not necessarily, because he doesn't do it physically himself, does he? Well, I don't know. He's got a whistle. He's got a big whistle. He's got a big crane, presumably,

and a big whistle, and he's... I saw a scaffolder the other week, at the back of the scaffolding van, the flatbed truck thing. He had about five of those pipes over his shoulder, right, at one arm, and he was chatting to his mate, and he was swinging them around, and he was chatting to his mate and he was swinging him around

and he was going to his mate yeah I've got a trapped nerve in my spine I've got to go and have an operation next week and I was thinking

how many can you normally carry he looked like he was in no discomfort whatsoever I wouldn't be out of bed if that were me

I need me at the front someone in the middle and someone at the end if we had to carry anything you know there's that TikTok thing we were talking about the other day about um traveling families

challenging each other to fight there's also a good trope on tiktok of people doing quite good feats of strength on the building site okay you know it's like probably a bunch of lads who use the strongest kind of thing yeah i saw one was this guy it's obviously a scaffolder and he had about it must have been about a 20 foot long pole yeah with all those little attachments on the end that they used to tie the scaffold post here about seven of them on the end you had to lift the scaffolding pole right up and lift it down again right did it and it was fucking unbelievable it's so alien to me that kind of stuff so clever oh dear anyway if you're a scaffolder get in touch with the most

interesting and impressive feat of strength you've ever committed. Because my feats of strength are non-existent. Shall we have a quick email before we go? All right, then. There's an email here from our friend Blake. He says, hi, Luke and Pete. Story about the alligator being sold out of a car boot a number of weeks ago.

Reminded me of another alligator-related tale. I send you this at the risk of being called Florida Man because it is the place of my origin, but I can assure you that I have moved away from that strange place and I'm not looking back, except maybe for the beaches. But one evening after a late night working at a grocery store in my hometown, just after graduating high school, I was driving home during a storm. I quite frequent you in the summer here,

and as I was about to turn into my driver from the road, I noticed something peculiar in the glow of my headlights. Two light pink circles floating about a foot off the ground, around 10 to 20 meters in front of me. Now, I'd heard that an alligator's eyes shine this pink in color, but to see one this far, you know, from the numerous ponds and small lakes that dot the landscape of my hometown was a bit unusual.

The interesting part, though, is what happened next. After driving around the gator and parking close enough to the house for safety we contacted the local authorities about what to do with this dangerous animal on our property they said they would send they said they would send someone out and about 30 minutes later two police officers showed up in a squad car and knocked on our front door they then asked if we had a piece of pvc pipe and a rope to make a slip that could be used from a distance to keep its mouth closed. I mean, they should have that. They should already have that.

They should turn up with that. It shouldn't be all one. Bare minimum. We'll just check if they've got one of them in the house. Yeah. After acquiring the random bits from our garage, one cop kept the gator's mouth shut while the other hopped on the back of it

and folded his little legs behind his back and wrapped them up in duct tape. Adorable. Bless him. After essentially muzzling and handcuffing the gator, they put him in the back of it and folded his little legs behind his back and wrapped them up in duct tape. Adorable. Bless him. After essentially muzzling and handcuffing the gator, they put him in the back seat of the squad car,

closed the doors and drove off. They didn't even seem to bother kind of, was it called tranquilising him or anything before arresting him. They've actually arrested

an alligator. Arrested an alligator. To this day, I'm not sure exactly they took him but I know there's a small state park in the area that has rumoured

that they released a problem alligator. I don't know whether this is true but having been to the park there are abnormal abnormally high number of alligators um as well as signs about how they may be aggressive to enter the area at your own risk before i know they could have taken into the police station locked him up in jail for the night before one of his friends came to post his bail thanks for keeping my work days interesting uh blake who's not from flor anymore I feel like I thought first of all there would be

a dedicated section in the police in Florida or get a patrol who'd have all the equipment yeah like a dog catcher

or something yeah because they're everywhere I mean you can't walk past the body of water in Florida anywhere

without going there's a fucking alligator and they just they've taped him up and chucked him in the back of the car

mad absolutely I hope it's got a record yeah they've taped him up and chucked him in the back of the car mad absolutely I hope it's got a record yeah they've taken him down for processing little mug shot little mug shot

yeah how would you photograph an alligator would you have to be you'd have to hold it like face on wouldn't you yeah you can't show it

like it's belly that's rude it's rude that it's just showing his belly but you can hold an alligator's mouth shut just with your fingers right

yeah they haven't got any jaw strength in there opening it's just a closing yeah so they're notable absolute wet blanket.

Wet blankets. Rubbish animals. Saltwater crocodiles are the ones. They're the nasty ones. They're the nasty ones. Oh, yeah, big time. Because they're just all salty. Yeah.

That's what they're called, that. They're just really moody all the time. Anyway, see you next time. Thank you very much for getting in touch. Hello at LukeandPeach.com for the emails, at LukeandPeach for the social media. Thank you very much for getting in touch. Hello at LukeandPete.com for the emails, at LukeandPeteShow for the social media. Thank you to our friends, Blake, James, and all the rest of you for sending correspondence in.

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