The Luke and Pete Show - Shaving Yourself To Death

Episode Date: July 29, 2021

On today's all-new episode of the Luke and Pete Show, it's time for some overdue Olympics chat. What event would Pete partake in if he had to give himself the best chance of qualifying for the games? ...Tune in to find out.The boys also talk at length about their appearance, how Amazon shops actually work and of course take in a whole new raft of your battery suggestions, emails and other correspondence. Have a great weekend and we'll see you on Monday! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 It's Thursday and welcome to the Luke and Pete show I'm Pete Donaldson I am once again joined by Mr. Luke Moore and we're doing the show for you guys completely free at Point of Source enjoy us throw us in the bin
Starting point is 00:00:20 we don't much care but do give us a five star review on iTunes it's very helpful imagine how much we'd genuinely be able to charge for this not exactly i don't know there'll be many punters queuing up but listen we had a really really busy week of downloads this uh last week i checked earlier i was bloody surprised unbelievable thank you so much for everyone listening um peter say for example um someone had listened to monday's episode and then told a few of their friends and a few of their friends were listening
Starting point is 00:00:47 for the first time today. They just thought, you know what? We'll listen to the most recent one. What have you got to tell them? What do you mean? I mean, are they coming in for particular reasons? No, I just started listening. The Olympics chat?
Starting point is 00:00:59 What can I expect? What have you got to tell them? Are you going to welcome them along, presumably? Then you're going to give them a little bit of a 101 on what to expect. Bought a gaming desk. Oh, good. Carry on. Because I need a slightly smaller desk.
Starting point is 00:01:13 And it turns out you cannot buy a video gaming desk that doesn't look like you are 15. It doesn't have... It all has neon lights on it. It has integrated mouse pads. What is a video gaming desk? It has cup 15. It doesn't have... It all has neon lights on it. It has integrated mouse pads. What is a video game in there? As cup holders. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:01:29 I just went... I just want a desk that's simple, that will hold my computer. And unless you want those kind of two-tier jobs and you want something that will fit like quite a chunky gaming... It's my own fault for having a gaming chair and this has dictated all my choices afterwards.
Starting point is 00:01:44 Yeah, I've bought an affordable yet rather gaudy, I never say that word, gaudy, gaudy gaming desk.
Starting point is 00:01:53 It's quite disgusting. So, once my studio's finished, I'll give you a tour and we can put some of these videos out because right now, as you can see, Luke,
Starting point is 00:02:01 it looks fucking disgusting. Yeah, hopefully you can see, you'll be able to see my new gaming desk. It looks like you're going through puberty. What do you mean? Just generally. I've come to some sort of agreement with myself that...
Starting point is 00:02:15 I've come to some sort of agreement at the moment where if I prepare my hair in a certain way, I can get away with just having the long locks out rather than wearing a ponytail. I did it over the weekend. I was like, you know what? You look a little bit like Noel Edmonds but I reckon you can rock this one.
Starting point is 00:02:34 I mean, if you're interested and I'm sure you're not and I'm sure you'll file this piece of advice wherever you file every other piece of advice I've ever given you since we've known each other which is fine. I think you look better without the ponytail or bun. Right, okay.
Starting point is 00:02:47 So I think I agree on that point you've just made. I agree with you. It just takes a lot of combing and a lot of hair drying. The whole kind of washing and all that business, it's a little bit stressful, a little bit too much. But I did it over the weekend. I was like, you know what? I might stick with this.
Starting point is 00:03:02 I might have a crack at just having my hair long. So, interestingly enough, I feel like the age of experimentation on appearance for me is kind of over now.
Starting point is 00:03:14 So... I completely agree. The reason I feel it that way is because I can remember about three or four years ago, maybe a bit longer actually, I put on quite a lot of weight and I was quite mortified
Starting point is 00:03:24 about it at the time. So I went on this, I've just embarked on this kind of fitness thing put on quite a lot of weight i was quite mortified about it at the time so i went on this i've just embarked on this kind of fitness thing and just lost a lot lost a load of it right and then because of covid i put on quite a bit more weight not that much not not terrible or anything but like enough that i would notice and the thing that surprised me now i'm in my 41st year was i didn't actually care like you know you know that you can tell yourself you don't care or that you can kind of pretend that you do care about something but there's always like as i've had told to me before there's like a logical reaction to something whatever it may be in your life and there's an emotional reaction to something and some people's
Starting point is 00:04:00 emotional reactions are a lot stronger than others for certain things but emotional reactions you can't really you can't really change it, right? So you can understand that you can feel emotion about something, but you can't really control it, right? Most people can't control the very basic emotion to how they react to something. And I genuinely didn't care. Like before, I massively cared and now I really don't. And so to me, with the whole long hair thing, or whether that be trying out a different look, with the exception of formal wear,
Starting point is 00:04:28 which I am still quite passionate about, I want to look... Big formal occasions, I kind of want to look my best. Other than that, I know it sounds pathetic, I know, but I genuinely don't give a shit. I just don't care. I think I... You know when people have a bit of a giggle behind their hands
Starting point is 00:04:44 when they see, I don't know, an older man with a much younger lady or an old man driving a penis substitute kind of car. Bezos. Yeah, or Bezos flying to the moon. In a penis. It did look like it. It wasn't the moon, by the way. It was nowhere near as impressive as that.
Starting point is 00:05:03 Okay, all right. It was space. I don't know. Apparently not necessarily as that. All right, okay. All right, it was space. I don't know. Apparently not necessarily even space. Carry on, anyway. Oh, really? It's debated. Did they keep moving the limits?
Starting point is 00:05:13 Yeah, that'd be brilliant if they did. Love it. This is how we get rid of him and Branson. We just keep on pulling it further out and further out. This is the Milky Way, man. Come on. Speaking of, you have got a bit of Branson about you, actually. Yeah, I'd take that.
Starting point is 00:05:27 But I mean, like you said about Branson, he's not changed his haircut since the 70s. But we giggle at like older men who, you know, they don't seem to realise what they look like. They look like the stereotype. They look like men who are trying to sort of maintain a certain look for too long. But you do get to a certain age and you sort of go,
Starting point is 00:05:47 even if I fuck about, I don't really care because I'm not in the market to impress any young people or anyone, really. I'm enjoying this. So you think the mistake... And I wish I had that confidence when I was young because I would dress stupidly, but I'd always couch it in, I would never go too far. Do you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:06:07 Imagine if I'd had this confidence when I was 22. Imagine how big my trouser would be. So there's a misconception that people think that older men are doing that to try and be relevant or try and impress people, but actually just doing it because they don't give a shit and they're doing what they want. I think so.
Starting point is 00:06:22 I think you're probably right, actually. I think so. Yeah, it's a worrying uh realization but it's and and this can only go badly for me because you because look at me but it's it's it's uh yeah i just think you just get to a certain point you sort of go i don't really care i've got i've done everything i've done and i'm going to do everything i'm going to do and you know none of this is going to as long as you're not problematic as long as you're not hurting anyone. Yeah, I agree.
Starting point is 00:06:46 And I think there's also a lot to be said for the idea, I think, as well, over and above what you're saying there, Pete, which I agree with, that it's actually more tragic to try and dress really young and be cool still than it is just to do your thing, right? Yes, yeah, I guess so.
Starting point is 00:07:02 I mean, look, and that is why I'm leaving the football ramble. I'm, look, and that is why I'm leaving the football realm and I'm just going to write about video games. Which I've always loved and have always been my first. Which I've always loved, always been my first love. Can I just say, you didn't have a problem with any of that until video games were brought in. You kept fucking quiet.
Starting point is 00:07:23 He stepped on my fucking tongue. A lot of people listening aren't going to give a shit about what we're talking about here or even get it. But trust me, right, Pete, you did not care about any of that until the two video games came in. You sent a WhatsApp saying, oh, right, it's fucking video games now, is it? And for those of you who do know what we're talking about,
Starting point is 00:07:41 welcome in. For those who don't, you're probably going to work it out. Pete's being mean about other podcasters. That's what he's doing. Yeah. Mean Pete. That's me.
Starting point is 00:07:50 Why the fuck not? Why the fuck not? He's just doing what he wants to do. Yeah, where were we? On Monday we said, by the way, after the break,
Starting point is 00:07:58 I want you to do battery rounds this week. Yes, okay. That's after the break. But for the meantime, we promised everyone on Monday we'd talk about Olympics.
Starting point is 00:08:06 And I want to know, we need to put a kind of Luke and Pete show spin on this. I want to, because we know nothing. So I want to know if, for example, so say you're in your prime. You mentioned earlier about being 22. So say you're a 22 and someone, I don't know, God came down and said,
Starting point is 00:08:25 you have to compete and qualify fairly for an Olympic event by the time you're 40 or I am going to kill you, right? And you have to start now. And I'm going to kill you and everything you hold dear. Every person you like I'm going to kill. And I'm going to kill you last, unless you compete legitimately and fairly in an Olympic event
Starting point is 00:08:50 by the time you hit your 40th birthday and you've basically got no choice but to start work straight away. You're 22, what do you go for? I'd be asking for the New Testament version of that. Okay. Does he sound proper naughty?
Starting point is 00:09:04 Then he would say do do that but it's kind of fine if you don't but the messages are a bit meh yeah pretty much just say sorry
Starting point is 00:09:14 before you die I'd be fucked because skateboarders are like that's 8 years of skateboarding didn't somebody who won a gold
Starting point is 00:09:23 they were like 12 or 13 or something crazy like that? It's insane. The ping pong girl from Iran, I think. She's 13. Let me stop you now. She's not knocked out.
Starting point is 00:09:31 She's incredible. There's no way you'll get in this skateboarding or ping pong. They're both, you have to be fucking so good at it. But I interviewed the guy who did table tennis for Britain in London 2012. And I went down there and interviewed the geezer. I think his name was Paul Drinkwater maybe. Right.
Starting point is 00:09:48 I think he came rank last. Right. Out of the whole thing. And he was by far one of the most impressive skilled people I've ever seen at anything. Right.
Starting point is 00:10:00 That is a dot on the horizon to you ping pong. Forget that. You ain't doing that. Look, would it be fair to say anything I say? Archery. What about archery? Shooting.
Starting point is 00:10:11 Archers are really skilled. Yeah, but I'm just saying you've got 18 years to go here. It doesn't matter if you get old at archery, does it? Yeah, but what if I'm really good at ping pong? What if I get really good? You might as well be saying you want to do the fucking marathon. You're not going to win fucking ping. So you've got to qualify.
Starting point is 00:10:28 What I'm saying is you have to qualify legitimately. So you essentially have to win loads of stuff to get to that point. Right, right. Well, you do, because otherwise you're not going to qualify. I would just put myself...
Starting point is 00:10:38 Every night I go to bed and I put myself in, like, a mould. You know, like a jelly mould. You know, like a banana mould. There's cases you put a banana in, right? And that would make my body curly, right? Naturally sort of aerodynamic, so that when I fell through, if I was doing the diving, I could just sort of roll off the board,
Starting point is 00:10:57 and my body would naturally, because of the wind resistance, curl into some interesting shapes and then drop gracefully into the pool. So I wouldn't even need to work that hard. I could just pop myself in a little jelly mould every day. And then I'd be like a little tortellini or something. It's not that well thought through. You've had three days thinking about this. I think you've got to go.
Starting point is 00:11:18 Look, if I bring up now, list of Olympic event. Right. Okay. You're not going to be a footballer. That's not happening. Right. I mean, this is Olympic event. Right. Okay. You're not going to be a footballer. That's not happening. Right. I mean, this is Olympic football. So you can have all...
Starting point is 00:11:31 It's objectively easier, but it's still way out of our depth. Yeah. It's a big team, isn't it? I'd bloody love to see you do boxing. Could you maybe do... The problem is the qualification. So the original angle I was going to go for was,
Starting point is 00:11:47 what about a sport that genuinely isn't popular in Britain? So, for example, handball. No-one plays handball. Has anyone ever met anyone who plays handball? So you would have to... Right, OK, so you would pick an unpopular sport that people... But then you've got to qualify. That's the problem.
Starting point is 00:12:04 Yeah, that's the thing. Well, look, we had... We were going to do a show last year at the Olympics people um that yeah but then you've got to qualify that's the problem yeah that's like well look we we had we were going to do a show um last year at the olympics with a gymnast um he didn't make the cut like and so like we were in conversation with him for quite a while he was in stacks or stakhanov then uh offices um and he you know he was focused for the last four years of his life on something that was moved a year later and also he didn't manage to qualify so it's just like like to have your entire life focused on one thing yeah as and and it's not even a team sport it's just you know i guess it is a team sport but
Starting point is 00:12:37 there are very few spots on there um for each for each side and uh yeah it did make it like absolutely crushing. I don't know what kind of headspace you could be in if you didn't make the cut and you worked so bloody hard. Isn't it so mad how at the very extreme, so say for example for a sprinter, presumably I think I'm right in saying the Olympic gold would be the absolute pinnacle. So they would probably, a lot of them at least,
Starting point is 00:13:04 would pride that over say a world championship gold. And it's every four years, as you say. In this case, it's been five years, obviously. You are essentially bringing down years and years, literally, of training for one 10-second moment, you know, that you've got to execute perfectly. That's worse than any other sport, surely. That's worse than any other competitive, surely. That's worse than any
Starting point is 00:13:25 other competitive sport. Like football's 90 minutes. I think someone worked out that across the entirety of his career, Usain Bolt only competitively raced at the highest level in total for like under 20 minutes.
Starting point is 00:13:41 That makes sense. It's mad, isn't it? It's mad to think about. 20 minutes of your life and that's the thing that defines you. And certainly athletics and like, it's not a well-paid sport
Starting point is 00:13:52 unless you're at the very top and you can get as many sponsorships in. Oh yeah, when you're at Usain Bolt's level, like you get paid just to turn up
Starting point is 00:14:00 because it makes the event so much bigger. I'm pretty sure Tiger Woods was being paid. So I know you get prize money for winning golf tournaments and stuff and getting places. But I'm fairly certain Tiger Woods was being paid just to turn up.
Starting point is 00:14:15 Because it made such a big difference. That's why. And this doesn't happen so much now, but it used to happen. That's why you would sometimes find professional golfers, say 20 years ago complaining that tiger woods was getting all the attention tiger was this and tiger was that and it's like are you being fucking serious he completely i can floated the entire sport the fact you're getting
Starting point is 00:14:35 paid the golfers can now be millionaires without ever winning an event and a massive part that's because of tiger woods and what he did for the sport and it's a lot better now and some of it was kind of tinged with a little bit of racism as well but it's a lot better now but he was almost like a one man, well he was a one man industry the amount of sponsors the amount of interest, the amount of stuff in golf
Starting point is 00:14:58 a lot of it is essentially just down to Tiger Woods and so I imagine with someone like Usain Bolt, what he's done for athletics generally has been just seismic. Like the amount of, you know what it's like, you always say this about different stuff, but similar principle.
Starting point is 00:15:13 Things only really happen when like big people, big companies want to get involved and invest their money and lead and try and lead the way, right? And it would be the same principle in this case as well. Yeah, definitely. And I think some people have been very good at their at their sport but you need that little bit of charisma as well would
Starting point is 00:15:31 that be fair to say in in in athletics because you need to capture the imagination of the people you need to capture the imagination of uh of sponsors and that's how you know that that's how the world works it's sad but that that's that you need that little bit more yeah you need that little bit one of the best sports example one of the best examples in sport for that would be boxing, right? So you get boxers who are amazing, who are undefeated, but they can't put the crowd because they just don't cross over. Then you'll get boxers who, say, for example, Ricky Hatton, who is brilliant.
Starting point is 00:16:01 I mean, he only really lost to two all-time greats, but he probably at that that time, wasn't the very best in the world, but he was certainly one of the best. He's a world champion, multiple world champion, etc. So he's very, very good. He would take 40,000 people to a fight in Vegas. He would sell out
Starting point is 00:16:19 with people from Manchester at a fight in Vegas, because people just loved him so much. He had that charisma because a lot of the time his fights were dramatic and he'd sometimes get in trouble and he'd get hurt and he'd bounce back and this whole narrative around him as a boxer was so powerful
Starting point is 00:16:35 all thrown up thrown in with his charisma that it made him just a massive draw and not all boxers are like that. So you're right, the charisma thing is a really big part of it. It's a large part of the reason why everyone
Starting point is 00:16:47 loves all over the world loves Maradona for example like he's just he's able to cross over with just normal folk
Starting point is 00:16:55 and people just absolutely love him so I've got that going for me so I reckon yeah you're definitely ping pong mate definitely
Starting point is 00:17:00 ping pong yeah Petey's little ping pong party I'd enjoy that I'd enjoy that I'd enjoy that immensely shall we take a short break and come back with some
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Starting point is 00:19:00 Luke Peachaw Part 2 on a Thursday. We've got some battery brands on the go, on the boil, Luke. Will Blackman emailed in with Duracells. Don't be silly. Did he really? He did, yeah.
Starting point is 00:19:13 Excellent. A nine volt Duracell. My favourite Duracell, though, to be fair. Love a nine volter. They're a different shape. They're just fun. Ryan B has sent in some Pair Deer Industrial. Not a new player.
Starting point is 00:19:26 Do you want me to search the old... I've just done it for you, mate. ...Archives? Okay, lovely. First time we saw the Pear Deers was in November 2018. That's a no from us. Oh, a real, really early. Lovely old job.
Starting point is 00:19:38 John Cassidy sent in some GM cells. Lukey Moore, have we got GM cells? Are you putting GM cells in inverted commas? I don't remember seeing them, and a search earlier brought up no result, so I think I'm going to give them the nod. Oh, there you go. They're getting in.
Starting point is 00:19:54 They're coming in the Battery Hall of Fame. Well done, John Cassidy. Rich Cracknell has sent in some Nangrand extra heavy duty. Now, I think we've had Nangrand before, but possibly not. We've had Nangrand. We've had Nangrand Extra Heavy Duty. Now, I think we've had Nangrand before, but possibly not. We've had Nangrand. We've had Nangrand. Believe it or not,
Starting point is 00:20:09 we had Nangrands on December 6th, 2017. Wow, really early. When did we start? That was the same year we started. It was, so we got them in pretty short order. So I'm afraid that, Rich Cracknell, you are not a new player entering the game, but a special mention for Will for sending in Duracell.
Starting point is 00:20:30 Did he do that ironically or did he mean that? Well, imagine if we didn't ever have a Duracell. Imagine if, because a lot of people sort of self-effacingly kind of just sort of go over and got Duracells in my remote control or whatever, like, you know, seeing themselves off a little bit. But imagine if no one had seriously sort of went, I've got some Duracells in my remote.
Starting point is 00:20:50 Will, you're a bit behind the curve there because our friend Andrew Jones, friend and listener Andrew Jones, sent an email on November the 8th, 2019, saying batteries are just normal Duracells, but you've not had those before. So he's ahead of the game. Same thought process as you will, but he's beating you to it, sadly, I'm sorry to say.
Starting point is 00:21:11 Yeah, less silly. I enjoyed the way it was displayed in the email box. Thank you, Will. And well done for GSC, John Cassidy with his GM cells. Should we submit those? Yeah, let's do it. All right, then. We've got a message from Ruben I think I don't think we've had this one before
Starting point is 00:21:30 but you were talking about the Amazon shop where you just walk in pick up your um pick up whatever you want and then just walk out and it just basically debits your Amazon account you mentioned how you were unsure how the Amazon shops works says Ruben Villapilay.
Starting point is 00:21:46 Basically, you have an app which you scan upon entry. This is linked with your Amazon account and therefore your card. There are hundreds of cameras all across the shop. They detect whenever a product is removed, put back or put somewhere else. It detects the product and its price and then it builds up a virtual list of all the products you've taken and adds up the price when you leave the shop, open up the app and walk out of the door. They'll detect that the app is open and take the total away from your card. Hope this gave you both a somewhat better sense of this dystopian future
Starting point is 00:22:14 that's becoming a reality. I think they should have just got one of those cardboard cutouts of a policeman you see in Poundstretcher. Good idea, actually. That would be foolproof. That's more of a deterrent. How do you feel about this? Because what... How do I feel about the cardboard policeman?
Starting point is 00:22:29 I'm dead set against him. I think it makes your shop look cheap. There's one in Wix. I cannot fathom why they use it. I didn't even know that was a thing. I thought you were joking. No, in like... In more down...
Starting point is 00:22:40 If you... You can tell you're in a town centre that's not that moneyed and a bit rough because every single shop will have those cardboard cutout policemen. And I think it just makes the town look shit. What's the point of it? It makes your shop look shit. It just says, hey, shoplifters, we've taken a picture of a policeman.
Starting point is 00:23:00 What does it say about me that I've never seen one of these before? Am I only hanging out in the royal spa towns? I've never heard of this before. Yeah, they're like kind of like life-sized reproductions of policemen. I just always think it looks really cheap and rubbish and it basically says
Starting point is 00:23:16 we're going to prosecute you shoplifters and there's probably a lot of you around because it's a down-at-heel town. It doesn't make any sense because every adult, I would say, in every developed nation on earth knows what a policeman is and looks like. So at no point am I sort of walking around a shop
Starting point is 00:23:36 vaguely aware of the concept of a police service but not really sure what they do or what they look like. It's completely pointless. You might as well say it's basically a jazzed-up version of one of those signs on the wall that says, Smile, you're on CCTV, right?
Starting point is 00:23:50 Yeah, or when you are sometimes around Victoria Station, you'll see a life-size representation of a builder, and it'll say, like, Please keep my daddy safe by not speeding, or something like that. Or it'll be like, wear a hard hat hat or here's the defibrillator or whatever but yeah I never understand why they do that
Starting point is 00:24:07 it just looks so shit and it's you know if you're a shoplifter you probably felt the long arm of the law before so you probably don't care
Starting point is 00:24:15 you ever been caught shoplifting Donny no I remember seeing a lad who's dead now in Superdrug just arm
Starting point is 00:24:23 at a right angle just sweeping as many Gillette rays into his bag as possible he went alright lads and then walked out and he was
Starting point is 00:24:31 yeah he's dead now but he in an unrelated incident he was the no I don't think he shaved himself to death I presume he sold them
Starting point is 00:24:39 on a block crack house bolter heroin but yeah exactly so yeah it's bad don't like it
Starting point is 00:24:47 but Amazon don't mind it I do think that's over technifying over technology it's a technological solution
Starting point is 00:24:56 to probably be you know you could probably make do with barcodes but I think I was listening to a podcast and somebody
Starting point is 00:25:03 sort of said about Amazon they said like can they not just chill out the Amazon just cut like drones and solutions that we didn't really need we've got all of the things that we need you know delivery wise and stuff just calm down just have a yeah I think a lot of those stories could come out about Amazon being futuristic are essentially PR spins right so I'll one day drones are gonna deliver to your garden and obviously that's not gonna happen but it means everyone's gonna
Starting point is 00:25:29 talk about amazon so that's why i do it right right oh they're gonna talk about that story rather than uh workers pissing in bottles yeah so it's it's you know it's that yeah and i agree with you in principle because i think to myself and this again might be the words of an old man and you might people might be listening thinking oh come on granddad but the way i see it is this right shops have always had people working in them right it's not a bad system is it someone gets a job no someone gets paid can always be better i'm sure they can always be treated better and be paid better i worked in a shop for many many years of my life so i get that you know but ultimately as a system i don't look at the world's problems and go that's in the top 50 things that needs to be sorted out right if you've got amazon money right if you've
Starting point is 00:26:15 got like so much money that you literally even if you tried couldn't spend it in a thousand lifetimes how are you thinking that's one of the things that needs sorting out? Because it's bigger than that. Because at that point, the problem is bigger. The problems you can now solve are bigger than that. So why are we doing that? It doesn't make any sense.
Starting point is 00:26:35 It makes people feel weird if they're over a certain age, and I get that. And again, it's solving a problem that doesn't really need to be solved. To me, there's things that are more important than just endless efficiencies forever. I can't remember what it said here, but there's more to life than increasing its speed, right?
Starting point is 00:26:53 Just let people work in a shop if they want to, is what I'm saying. If you don't have those people working in a shop, who's going to buy your shit? If no one's got a job, no one can buy your shit, mate. Yeah, exactly. Don't worry about it. There's no jobs for anyone now,
Starting point is 00:27:07 so it's super convenient, but sadly, no one's got any money, so they can't buy anything. It would just be podcasters now, wouldn't it? It's like when, it's like,
Starting point is 00:27:17 oh, it certainly fucking feels that way. It's, it's, yeah, it's like when Republicans, like, will have, they won't, like, allow, like, stimulus payments,'t allow stimulus payments or the welfare state. Every time you've given money to people who need it, it helps the economy.
Starting point is 00:27:35 It helps them spend the money. So give them the money and they'll spend it on your shit. Give them money for working in your shop and then they'll spend money in your shop. Would you give everyone a million pounds? You know what's cooler than a million pounds? My time. Yeah. I'd give them my time.
Starting point is 00:27:50 I told you, doing your coat up when you got shorts on. We established that before. You would give everyone a million quid and that would be that, right? You know you can't just keep giving people money. You don't realise, I understand your point, but at the strong end of that, it's ruinous. It's ruinous, right?
Starting point is 00:28:08 There has to be a debate about it, is what I'm saying. Mate, I'll just go down the horses. I'll just go down the races, because I am really into gambling. When I first started making podcasts with you, if someone said to me in 2022, for example, Pete's going to stop doing this with you and he's going to have a completely new career,
Starting point is 00:28:26 what do you think it'll be? I think professional gambler would be at the bottom. Actually, right at the very bottom. Like, under professional gigolo, it would be so far down the bottom. Why do we both go for that at the same time? Fuck you, Moa. I don't need your low
Starting point is 00:28:41 self-esteem. I don't need my low self-esteem compounded by your insults that's what this show is isn't it yeah it is it's just if someone said to someone else
Starting point is 00:28:50 oh what's the Luka Pichon like they would say there's a man on it with low self-esteem and another man who is a cunt that's what they'd say who also has low self-esteem
Starting point is 00:28:59 that's why he's a cunt yeah alright listen Peter Pete Donaldson let's get out of here. Let's go. We'll be back on Monday, of course,
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Starting point is 00:29:15 who emailed in. We will get to you at some point. I promise you that. We've just got a big pileup of emails at the moment. You're all our friends. You're very welcome here.
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