The Luke and Pete Show - Suspected ghost receives fine

Episode Date: July 30, 2020

It’s animals all round on today’s episode, as Luke and Pete chat about crufts, foxes and The Supervet.We’ve also got an amazing story about a man who was fined for pretending to be a ghost in a ...particularly insensitive location AND we’ve got an anechoic chamber update!Also on this show, we have a chat about Dark and we hear from a listener with a rare disease.Hit us up at hello@lukeandpeteshow.com, we love reading your emails!***Please rate and review us on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. It means a lot and makes it easy for other people to find us. Thank you!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 and it's the luke and peach show it's a thursday i do hope you're keeping well i hope you're uh looking forward to a real sunny uh weekends uh barbecues with the family and uh is it yeah yeah i'm just trying to be a radio dj again it's been too long been too long you're okay mate yeah yeah fine fine just a bit tired it was our uh it was our uh we had a couple of drinks last night I'd be a radio DJ again. It's been too long. Been too long. You okay, mate? Yeah. Yeah, fine. Doing all right? Just a bit tired. It was our... We had a couple of drinks last night, didn't we?
Starting point is 00:00:30 Yeah. We're up a little bit too late, so that's what you're going to have to deal with. Yeah, it's kind of the professionalism that we are kind of synonymous with only extends up to and including probably two or three beers after that. Hey, it'll be fine tomorrow. Don't worry about it.
Starting point is 00:00:48 Especially post-lockdown, I'm a mess. I can't take it. I just can't do it. Any more pot noodle related incidents since I last spoke to you, mate? No more pot noodle related incidents. Made some lovely sea bass a couple of days ago.
Starting point is 00:01:04 Caught by an ibis. Freshly caught by an ibis. Sea bass a couple of years ago. So I didn't put the... Caught by an ibis. Freshly caught by an ibis. Caught by an ibis. Dropped into a hot buttery pan. I just started cooking. Did you de-scale it? As I said.
Starting point is 00:01:14 Sorry? Did you de-scale the sea bass? And did you also gut it? No, it was just fillets. It was just fillets. Already prepared, mate. Can't be arsed. Can't be arsed. Can't be arsed.
Starting point is 00:01:25 That's some ibis, that. Boring. That is some ibis. Yeah, he did a lot of work on them. He used his bill as a razor to cut the fillets off. It was lovely. I used chili. I used salt.
Starting point is 00:01:38 All the ingredients. Oh, it was all going off. People are going to have to listen to Monday's episode to get any Ibis-related joke that they hear today, basically. Aren't they? Okay. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:54 I mean, we were mainly talking about something that some Aussies call a bin chicken, a long-billed animal, bird, that seems to want to eat things out of bins. Don't we all? Look, we've all spotted. What's the best thing you've ever found in a bin? Luke, I mean, there must have been something that you sort of walked past a bin and went, I'm having that.
Starting point is 00:02:14 My dignity. Clean that up nice. Your dignity. Lovely old job. No, I can't. Pete, I don't really go around looking in bins. Where's that come from? You've never walked past a bit and seen something
Starting point is 00:02:26 interesting in there like a like a chocolate you'd never seen before or a protein bar you're never eaten and thought i'm gonna get involved in a bit of that i'm gonna find one i mean what happens sometimes in my house is that we've got this um so we had all these fridge magnets in our house and then we had the kitchen done so we've got no metallic surface to to put the fridge magnets on and like obviously pete some of some of the fridge magnets i've got no metallic surface to to put the fridge magnets on and like obviously pete some of some of the fridge magnets i've got you've given me as gifts and stuff so they have sentimentality they're sometimes obscene yeah regularly obscene and um so what uh mimi did she bought a big kind of almost like a chalk like a blackboard type surface piece of like plastic
Starting point is 00:03:02 but it's metallic so it attracts magnets right and she stuck it to a spare portion of the wall in the kitchen so we can put the magnets on but the problem is the magnets are directly above the bin and so if you brush past it yeah you have to keep rummaging around so i do i do spend more time rummaging in my bin than i would like but that's that's the reason you're an ibis yeah you're a magnet you're a magnet based ibis and i'm disappointed gotta have a lid on my bin as well because otherwise the cats will be straight in there oh mate like i'm having a real problem lately with like recycling and um food bins it's like food bins in the sunshine they're just disgusting like you're living for like three days and if
Starting point is 00:03:41 they go a bit hot you got maggots you, you've got flies. The good people at Lambeth Council have decided that we need a food bin but to be honest I'd rather use it for the compost in our back garden than put it in that bin
Starting point is 00:03:51 because they only come once. Sometimes they don't even come once a week. You can't be leaving a food bin out in the sun as you've alluded to there Pete for that long.
Starting point is 00:03:59 It's absolutely mad. You can't do that. So how are you sort of dealing with a compost bin? You're just sort of throwing all the food into a compost bin and it's just composting yeah so if it depends what type of food it is i mean sometimes you just have to chuck it away but um the problem we have as well and so
Starting point is 00:04:14 this is a bit boring but um the front of our house is where we put the bins out but we're on the first floor and so we have stairs going back to up down to our back garden so right and our kitchen's at the back of our house so we have to carry all the rubbish through the house to get it out the front of the bin yeah and then also above over and above that there's probably about five or six foxes in our road so right if you leave anything so what people do here is they if they do use their food bins, which not everyone does, but if they do, they've put a brick on top of it to stop the fox getting it. But if that gets knocked off, it's just food all over the street.
Starting point is 00:04:52 I'm just saying, Lambeth, this is an emotional appeal to Lambeth Council. Rethink it. Rethink it. You make it sound like, because you know the exact number of the foxes, you make it sound like they're in shared accommodation or something. Yeah. I mean, admittedly, I've never seen them all at the same time, so it could just be the same fox.
Starting point is 00:05:10 Also, we had a big problem with the fox digging up our back garden as well. Nothing we could do would stop it. But thankfully, after a certain amount of time, they just kind of moved on. But they were digging up all our flower beds, all our plants and vegetables, everything, man. They they're very naughty aren't they naughty little boys and girls very successful species i admire them i admire them what they did because they're obviously they've got a constitution like a digestive system i don't know this but they must have a digestive
Starting point is 00:05:38 system that can just digest anything and so that they just eat anything and it and they can obviously draw some kind of energy from it. You'll see them at dusk on the street. They're eating through loads of old eggshells. They're just smashing into all of them. Nothing seems to poison them. Out on the street, looking good.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Coming in a mess, going out in style. By the way, I saw a... Do you want to do an interesting story? I've got one here. Yeah, no, get involved. I was just going to slag off the super vet. Oh, no, do that.
Starting point is 00:06:11 Do that first. I think he's a bit too flashy. Yeah, I agree. A bit too flashy. I love his work on dog spines and spinal cords and dog wounds and filling in bone cysts, which I didn't even think were a thing.
Starting point is 00:06:27 I'm worried about all my bones filled with cysts now, thanks to Egg St. Bernard. And yeah, so he does some fantastic work. I think he's a bit flashy though. Yeah, I agree. I think so. He is, I think he's obviously very impressive because he's pioneering in the kind of area of,
Starting point is 00:06:47 well, as you'd expect for a vet, healing animals. But the thing is, I think a lot of procedures now, which are standard, a lot of them are thanks to him, whereas before it would be sadly a case that you'd have to put down an animal or kill it or whatever. There's a lot more that they can do now. Also, I think a lot of his work has now been appropriated for experimentation and development to be eventually used in humans. Oh, really? Nice.
Starting point is 00:07:16 So I think he's got a good thing going on where he crosses over with actual surgeons and stuff and he exchanges information with them. So he's like an amazing man. But the thing is, I've heard on good authority, if you go to Crufts, he's just got like 100 middle-aged women following him around. He is loving it. I'm being serious. That's not even a joke.
Starting point is 00:07:36 Well, do you reckon he's like starting some kind of militia? I know people who've seen it. When society crumbles, he's going to have an army of older, middle-class ladies with pretty dogs chasing him around. And he will be the new oligarch. He'll be taking a hold of all of the chemical plants in the northeast and bleeding the country dry of our natural resources. What I almost said was he has hundreds of dog women following him around,
Starting point is 00:08:04 but I realise that makes it sound like there are giant women like dogs. Look, I wouldn't put it past him. He's a very talented surgeon. Exactly, yeah. Yeah, I don't... So I'm ambivalent towards him. People who know... I know some people who know quite a lot about this area, weirdly,
Starting point is 00:08:21 and they say that if you go to Crufts, it's obscene how much attention he gets from women of a certain age. Look, I'm all in. I just think I didn't realise he was celebrated in the normie life. But I just find his flourishes a little too, his manner. Few too many hugs, a little bit too serious. Don't really understand it. What's going on?
Starting point is 00:08:48 I know what you mean. On one hand, I can see that you would be upset with someone who's so comfortable in their own skin. Is that fair? Yeah, that's fine. And also, did you also see, more importantly, the dog that won Best In Show at Crafts this year just promptly did a big old turd. Yes, yes.
Starting point is 00:09:03 Right after... On the main bit. Nice. Yes, yes. Well, right after... On the main bit. Nice. Look, it's green, isn't it? Yeah. It knows what to do. Yeah, they're funny old dogs, the old cruff dogs, aren't they?
Starting point is 00:09:15 They're never like normal dogs you'd see out and about. No. They're these kind of like strange, kind of like weird... They must be going back to the old school and just sort of going,
Starting point is 00:09:22 look, we have to stop looking like upper class toffs and make dogs that actually look like dogs that people might actually have in their homes otherwise we're just making these bizarre creatures that don't refer to anything anymore the reason i the reason i enjoyed the dog taking a turd is just because it breaks the illusion that it's anything other than just a normal dog right okay yeah yeah yeah yeah because you kind of imagine if you just watch crafts and that was your only exposure to dogs, you would think that they,
Starting point is 00:09:48 when they get home, they're like hanging their lead up themselves and taking a shit in the actual toilet and eat off a plate of a knife and fork and stuff. Whereas actually, they're just dogs. They're just dogs. They'll just have a little poop. The story I was going to share with you, Peter,
Starting point is 00:10:03 is, yeah, exactly, he's just doing it for a biscuit. The story I was going to share with you, I've is... Yeah, exactly. He's just doing it for a biscuit. The story I was going to share with you, I've just noticed he's actually quite a few years old now, but I've never seen it before. And so I thought I would just share it with you. Someone sent it to me. I can't remember the name of them.
Starting point is 00:10:17 I apologize for that, but you know who you are. Thank you very much for sharing it. If you want to do another tweet tweet just just tweet me and i'll i'll give you the shout out you so richly deserve but um it's a great headline this man fined for pretending to be a ghost in portsmouth cemetery oh yes i think we yeah we had we did have that sent on twitter didn't we what what was it what was his deal exactly he was just running around in a sheet, spooking people during the night or during the day?
Starting point is 00:10:49 So a man has been fined for pretending to be a ghost and other rowdy behaviour in a cemetery. Anthony Stallard pleaded guilty at Portsmouth Magistrates Court to using threatening or abusive words or behaviour likely to cause distress. The 24-year-old had been out drinking with friends when they went to Kingston Cemetery in Portsmouth and started to play football. A Hampshire police spokesman said that witnesses complained to police
Starting point is 00:11:12 about a Stalag's rowdy behaviour and his pretending to be a ghost. The witnesses reported the group engaging in behaviour and one of them throwing their arms in the air and saying, woo. That could just, look, that could just be the performance of Blair's song too.
Starting point is 00:11:27 Appealing for a penalty. It could have been just appealing for a penalty. What a wonderful way to spend an afternoon. That's all I'm saying. He was fined £35 and ordered to pay a £20 victim surcharge and £20 in cost. And he also had a three months added to a conditional charge
Starting point is 00:11:44 for previous harassment, a harassment. Which was in fact to be a preacher. In or outside of a particular place of death. Doesn't say, but if he's got previous, that changes the picture for me. Stop pretending to be a ghost. You're not a ghost. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:12:00 I just wanted to know whether Sheik was involved, whether he'd made his face look a bit more pallid, a bit more white, like a spooky ghost. I think the victim should be charged £20 fine for believing in ghosts. Yes, exactly. Misidentifying a dead man. I think that's definitely a crime.
Starting point is 00:12:20 I heard it on Police Quest by Daryl. Do you believe in ghosts, Peter? Do you believe in ghosts, Peter? Do I believe in ghosts? It won't surprise you to learn that I don't. The things I've created myself in my head, I know I've created them and I'm scared of them. Is there anything that isn't generally accepted
Starting point is 00:12:42 as being scientifically plausible or whatever, that you have an open mind to believing in? Love. No, I don't know. Not really, but then I can't really sort of call myself a big science junkie either. So what the hell am I? I'm just fucking lazy on both counts.
Starting point is 00:13:02 I don't read enough about ghosts. I don't read enough about goats. I don't read enough about goats. So, yeah. But didn't someone say, I can't remember who it was, but someone clever said that, you know, technology for the generation ahead is indistinguishable from magic, right? So essentially, if we went back to, spoke to the 11-year-old me and you and said that Wi-Fi,
Starting point is 00:13:24 internet was possible we'd be like what the fuck are you talking about so it's an interesting situation I just sat little little 8 year old Petey D down playing with his winky playing with my winky probably 1990 and just played
Starting point is 00:13:39 this and said look Pete in a few years time this is what you're going to be hearing coming out of your Nintendo Nintendo Nintendo system or go back to the 8 year old Pete and go listen you're enjoying playing your video games now in 30 years time
Starting point is 00:13:58 you're going to have a career that's too strong you're going to have a much bigger interest in this I'm going to have no time to play video games but you're going to have a much bigger interest in this. I'm going to have no time to play video games, but you're going to have a hell of a lot. You're going to somehow find a lot of time to read about them. And you're going to hang out with a lot of people who seem to find the time to play them
Starting point is 00:14:17 and also write about them and realise that the thing that you love, you can't enjoy as much as you used to because you just feel like it's a childless pursuit. What you should do... Just looking at the internet for about five hours a day. Yeah, what you should do is every time you go to read about a video game, you should just stop yourself and start playing video games.
Starting point is 00:14:39 Start playing a video game. Yeah, exactly. Get into Ghost of Tsushima, a video game that is very popular at the moment. No one can fucking say it. What is it about? It's about the Japanese fighting the Mongols back in the day, I think. I think that's the...
Starting point is 00:14:55 Is it good? I think that's the old... Yeah, it's very pretty. Very dull, but very pretty. Right. Like you. Very dull, but very pretty. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:15:04 And just like Ghost of Tsushima I'm built on outdated hardware at the end of its life cycle in many ways waiting for the
Starting point is 00:15:13 Pete 5 by the way I finished the TV series Dark over the start of the week over on
Starting point is 00:15:20 Joe Scrumbles from IGN is a big fan of that and he makes it sound very good but it sounds confusing. It's really confusing. But I think that
Starting point is 00:15:31 it's three series, I've just finished the third one and I would say, it's going to make me sound like an absolute dick but it's the best achievement of any TV series I can imagine. The writing in it and the continuity and the skill in which they tell the story and then tie it together at the end
Starting point is 00:15:50 is unlike anything I've ever seen before. I wouldn't necessarily say it's like my favourite TV show ever, but in terms of how good it is, like, objectively, it's very hard to think of something that comes anywhere near close to what they've achieved with it. I mean, it's basically a TV series, Pete, set across, you know, eight different timelines with loads of different types of universes, with loads of different – so, for example, and I hope this isn't a spoiler,
Starting point is 00:16:16 and I don't think it is, but you have the same character across different universes, and the character is obviously, because it occupies a different universe, it's slightly different, yet they're still the same character across different universes and the character is obviously, because it occupies a different universe, it's slightly different yet they're still the same character and they look the same. It's absolutely baffling but it still finds a way of tying it all together at the end.
Starting point is 00:16:35 I thought it was absolutely amazing. Are there any cues to find out how that character, what character you're looking at and what world you're looking at? Sort of, but it doesn't do a lot of the heavy lifting for you. It's not like a,
Starting point is 00:16:48 there's nothing kind of expositional about it. You're just expected to follow it. And also, it's obviously all in German. So you've got to read the subtitles as well. So my wife and I
Starting point is 00:16:58 both really enjoyed it. And we spent a lot of our time pausing and discussing what was happening. And what I mean by that is she explained a lot of it to me. To be honest, I was the same with her. I could only just get them through the, oh God, what TV show were we watching last night?
Starting point is 00:17:16 It's about... You can't even remember the name of TV shows. Yeah, it was the second season of a TV show that involved a child doing a murder. And there's three seasons, and the third one's a bit weird. But yeah, I can barely figure out what the hell is going on with anything a little bit sci-fi. I heard that two of the seasons looked like they were sort of filmed
Starting point is 00:17:40 all in one chunk, because the release of the seasons were quite close together. That's possible, yeah. The continuity a lot easier. But the thing is, Pete, I don't want to detract from the fine work that all these TV producers do and these cinematographers do, but it certainly appears to have become easier
Starting point is 00:17:56 to shoot beautiful TV shows. Cameras have gotten better and cheaper and prosumer is what they used to call the professional consumer. Um, you could film something for a lot cheaper, I think. Um, and distribution platforms, uh, there's a lot more money to be made really easily and really quickly. You don't have to do those deals. And also, you know, people just need fucking TV shows. People are signing anything. You should come up with one. You've watched enough of this TV show Dark. Do Dark 2. Yeah, I really don't think it's as easy as that. You just said it was easy.
Starting point is 00:18:36 I said it's become easier. You said it was easy. Anyway, it's amazing. People should watch it. People should watch it. I'm blown out. Look, last time, I'm trying to think of the last... I did a bit of filming last week. First time in a long time. we should watch it i'm blown out look last time i'm trying to think of the the last um uh i i did a bit of filming last week um first time in a long time and it was really weird sort of being in a
Starting point is 00:18:49 film like a filming studio where um everyone had to wear masks there was only a limited amount of people allowed in the different parts of the studio so there was like the screens where the director were and the client were were in a completely different room because they had to like run cables through and it was all really confusing and stuff and i was like wow this is how post-covid kind of tv production is going to be like you're only allowed um a couple of people like the sound guy and the and and the guys operating the camera in the room at any was it good what was it about are you allowed to tell us what it was uh i can't tell you what it was but nothing you know nothing i'm not um featuring in a in a in a in the new um batman what you were talking about on monday so people will be interested mate yeah no i've not joined the
Starting point is 00:19:37 hollywood elite just yet though i do share a lot of their views uh but uh no it's just really interesting how i was like wow it's going to be very hard for people to sort of film stuff nowadays but um it was uh like a like a very one camera um few lights beautiful set that sort of made and i was like this is you know this very tv and production like that is very scalable nowadays in a way that it probably wasn't back in the day because cameras were fucking massive yeah and sound stages had to be fucking massive and microphones had to be fucking massive nowadays they can be a bit more clever with what they're doing and also ultimately they can add a lot of stuff in in post like literal cities yeah and they can also presumably also because it's not i mean i know some of the stuff shot on film still but most of
Starting point is 00:20:23 it's not shot on film so they can do as many takes as they want as well. Yeah, yeah. But, I mean, that's been the case for quite a while. Very interesting. Very interesting. All right, let's take a break, Peter, and then we come back and we'll squeeze a couple of emails in, shall we? All right, then.
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Starting point is 00:21:03 Can you see the fading scar there, gentlemen? Yes. That's where I was stabbed in the neck by a drug dealer once. Or we just talk about whatever's making us laugh right now. When you think back to school kid banter, it's well funny because of how immature it is. We had this teacher called Mr McGibbon and he had this big cushion that he was teaching us
Starting point is 00:21:22 how to rugby tackle on. He just ran up to it, rugby tackled it, but landed on top of it. And one of the kids shouted, it's not your wife, sir. That is funny. Listen to Jack Makes Happy Hour on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your pods. Jack Makes Happy Hour is a Stakhanov production. It's time for some emails on the Luke and Pete show. Jack Mate's Happy Hour is a Stakhanov production. okey dokey uh it's from joe who says uh highly compete second time emailer and medium term listener i also contributed to the worst thing you've done to impress the other sex which was
Starting point is 00:22:10 read out on the rubbery eggs show in april of this year that was a proud moment for me and i appreciate you reading out some of my embarrassing experiences as a teenager i have another topic to contribute to and apologies i meant to see this send this email last week uh but here goes thanks for that joe appreciate the uh the setting of the scene um he says i have an update for you regarding anechoic chambers from my own personal experience in the south bank university chamber the same one calic spent 90 minutes inside remember we talked about a few weeks ago peter yeah he said i've been studying part-time to support my career in building services engineering at lsbu since september 2017 and um and one of last year's modules was acoustics acoustics are a hugely significant part of the building services
Starting point is 00:22:55 engineering uh situation and it's caused it's considered a dark art within the industry due to its complexity and the numerous parameters that affect sound i have actually spent time in this anechoic chamber please see the attached photo sneaked when my lecturer wasn't watching and i can report firsthand the chamber itself is about the size of a typical hotel room and the floor is a suspended metal grid with waffle shaped fiber attenuation spanning the gap to the solid floor below the other surfaces in the room are covered in long triangular foam pieces of attenuation for clarity attenuation is the absorption of sound or noise and these materials are used throughout duckworth duck work systems to reduce the noise created by mechanical plants fans etc
Starting point is 00:23:44 and they're above your head in almost all hotel lobbies offices and public buildings from my memory the chamber itself was actually referred to as semi-anechoic by the lab technicians and lecturer as it isn't actually a true anechoic chamber meaning it fails to completely absorb all sound reflections and isn't a perfect example of the principle this may explain why calyx was able to double the current world record time inside personally from spending around 15 minutes in the chamber it is definitely disorientating and your brain does struggle to adjust to the new environment but i couldn't say it was the extreme experience reported from true
Starting point is 00:24:20 anechoic chambers talking in the room was the weirdest experience though i can only compare it to someone turning off the reverb on a guitar amplifier as your words end abruptly after speaking them your ears could also sense a fuzz in the air around this is hard to explain but it was a constant annoyance even once your brain had adjusted if you have any other questions on the topic just let me know cheers joe i like the fact that there was an anechoic chamber built in London, the loudest place. Yeah. It's also an amazing irony to me that no one can say the word.
Starting point is 00:24:57 Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Maybe that's the only place you can actually say it, inside an anechoic chamber.. Inside an anechoic chamber. It's an anechoic chamber. Yeah. It absorbs all of the sounds. But I like the fact that this guy was given the big lick
Starting point is 00:25:12 saying that he beat the world record, but it was a muggy little anechoic chamber. The sort of thing that we used to try and create in my house in Highgate or Kentish Town when we used to record the Football Rumble back in the day. Yeah. A couple of sheets on the wall. I wonder if it's... A couple of sheets on the wall.
Starting point is 00:25:27 Do you reckon it's one of those things where it's actually possible... It might even be impossible to get a true anechoic chamber. Yeah. Yeah, I'm almost certain that's the case. You just get as close as you possibly can. It's like when you have those machines, those UV light things that kill all bugs. They kill most of the bugs. It's like Domestos, 99% of all bugs. They kill most of the bugs.
Starting point is 00:25:46 It's like Domestos, 99% of the bugs. But 1% of the bugs will get through. It's fine. I thought they had to say that for legal reasons. Yeah, probably. But I imagine it's probably true as well because it's probably 99.999999. But you can't say 100% for sure
Starting point is 00:26:00 because a new one might appear at any time. And you don't want to change the label, do you? Or a new sound. Or at any time. And you don't want to change the label, do you? Or a new sound. Or a new sound. Yeah. Do you want another email about migraines, or have you got an email there? Go on.
Starting point is 00:26:12 Well, actually, David Speed's having a go at you, saying, the latest episode, Friends of Mountains. I was startled to hear a fact from Luke that I had seen not 12 hours earlier on a QI repeat.
Starting point is 00:26:22 Father's point from the Earth Centre. That the show aired after the release of the podcast means only one thing. Luke is a witch and must be hunted down. Yeah, that's a weird coincidence, that. I don't really watch QI that much, but is he saying that our episode came out before the QI episode?
Starting point is 00:26:42 Well, I mean, he calls it a QI repeat, so I think if I was Daryl Gates of the Los Angeles Police Department, I think I'd probably be able to solve this crime. Yeah. But you wouldn't arrest me because I'm not black? Is that what you're going for? No, yeah, exactly.
Starting point is 00:26:56 Yeah, that's pretty much the way I'm doing stuff. I didn't see it on QI, but I would be happy to say if I did. It's not a, I don't really think it's a copyright issue. But I didn't see it on QI, sadly. But I thought it was a really interesting fact. I can't really remember where I saw it. I think it was like a TV show called IQ, I think.
Starting point is 00:27:19 Yeah, exactly. I'll squeeze this email in about migraines from james in bristol who says hi guys i was listening to the last episode where you spoke about migraines and how much we rely on the brain to process information for us correctly i myself have suffered pretty bad migraines in the past once i went out for a meal and could not understand anything the waitress was saying to me and thought i was having a stroke. These days, I don't get as many, but one condition I do suffer with is something called visual snow syndrome. This is a condition that is rare and still being investigated, but it's essentially where the brain does not filter out things that it should.
Starting point is 00:28:01 For example, in your eyes, there are small cells which float around. People will usually see this at some point in their life, and it's not an issue. But for people with visual snow like myself, you are able to see a hundred of these in your vision at any time. However, the main thing that characterizes visual snow syndrome is static. All people with VS report a constant field of tiny flickering dots of light in the whole of their visual field. This is usually described as similar to a poorly tuned analog TV. For some people, it's annoying and nothing to worry about, but for some, it is really debilitating.
Starting point is 00:28:36 For me, it's bad enough that I cannot drive, but I can generally function. Other symptoms include palynopsia, I don't know what that is, photophobia which i suppose is some kind of phobia of light entropic phenomena which is seeing shooting dots in the sky and on white surfaces and night blindness just thought you might be interested to see how the brain can fail at its job thanks james what i was tempted to say peter there's quite a lot of typos in that email but i think i'll leave it. That is awful. I did read the piece that he linked on rarediseases.org.
Starting point is 00:29:12 I mean, look, it's horrible, isn't it, having that? Yeah, it's horrible. And it's horrible having any sort of disease. But I think if you're diseases on rarediseases.org, that's a bit badass. That's a little bit badass. It could actually literally be a badass. The visual snow has been considered
Starting point is 00:29:26 to be the same condition as hallucinogen persisting perception disorder so those of us when I think of
Starting point is 00:29:34 rarediseases.org I think of sweet Mary Jane yeah I think of someone coming back from the tropics with some kind of bug under their skin
Starting point is 00:29:41 yeah and they've got to somehow get it out. It's wiggling underneath the surface. Using an ibis's beak. Yes. That would be the perfect tool to get a botfly larva out of your head. Bit of Vaseline on the noggin.
Starting point is 00:29:56 Starve it of oxygen. When it pops up for air, bin chicken right in there. A friend of local bin chicken. Exactly. Useful. He gets a meal out of it. Very, very useful. He gets a little botfly in there. Bang. A friend and local bin chicken. Exactly. Useful. He gets a meal out of it. Very, very useful. He gets a little
Starting point is 00:30:08 botfly worm out of it. What are you paying me in? I'm paying you in botfly larva. It's a win-win. Exactly. It's a bin bin. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:17 It's a skin skin. We'll be back on Monday. I'm keeping that sound effect. Keep it in. We'll be back on Monday. We'll be back having lots of fun.
Starting point is 00:30:28 But in the meantime, if you want to get to the show, it's really easy. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com. That's how you can get in touch with us. We also have a Twitter as well. What's that? What's that about, Luke? At LukeandPeteShow. That's where people send information about batteries usually. For example, shout out to Sean who found
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Starting point is 00:31:18 We don't spend any time together. I've not had a shower. I'm going to go for a shower now. Bye. Enjoy it. This was a Stakhanov production.

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