The Luke and Pete Show - The birthday paradox

Episode Date: August 17, 2023

Lad Moore takes us on a trip down memory lane as he regales Pete with stories all about his experience living with 30 other chaps while at university. Explains a lot…Once the nostalgia is over, we then try to finally prove the existence of the Birthday Paradox. The result was absolutely fascinating…Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A very good morning to you. It is Thursday the 17th of August. I am Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Luke Eber and we are doing the Luke and Pete show. I nearly said the Luke and Mo show. What a situation that would be. What a situation that would be. How are you doing, Lucky Bear, on this beautiful day in the nation's capital? Yeah, it's all right, actually. Not too bad. I am in the nation's capital. You are in what I would call a London overspill area. A bolt hole. A silo. Out towards a grief hole.

A silo. A silo. Out towards the east coast of this fine and fair country. Presumably you can see just absolute barrel loads of sewage from your window. No, I just went for a quick run for Sammy down to the benches near the end of our road and you can kind of look over into the, some people call it the sea, I call it clearly a river. Just as the river turns into the sea, the estuary if you will. Idyllic.

Idyllic, that's beautiful. But the tide's in and the thing about where I live is the tide is always out so it's just mudflats just right the way cockle pickers

mudflats little kids stealing crabs you know those little kind of can you steal a crab do they belong to someone else

they belong to the queen the queen's crabs the queen's got crabs the I would say that like you know those little kind of like, you buy them at seaside kind of like conveniences and they're like little strings and they're like, they're apparently to catch crabs and I've never indulged in catching.

Little line, yeah. You just hang them over the pontoon or whatever. Yeah, so what's the crab going for there? What's the crab sort of scene? Well, you used to put a little bit of, so you get those lines, and they're almost wound up like a yo-yo. And then on the end of one, you put a hook.

Do they come with a hook, the ones you've seen? I don't know. Yeah, so if not, you have to put your own hook on them. And what we used to do, was we used to steal the bacon from our parents' fridge and chop it up into little cubes and put bacon on the end of the hook and then you go crabbing and catch the crabs.

And the crabs just go, hmm, give me that bacon. So what do you do with the crabs once you've got the crabs? Just hang out with it for a bit. The crabs go, ooh, this is a delicacy I've not been used to in the ocean.

In the ocean. Pork? Cured pork. I mean, I think smoked pork. It's not something You sort of see What do we do with the crabs Basically from my memory

You basically put them In a bucket of water And look at them Yeah And then When you get to the end of the day Smash them on the wall Put them back in

Nah well some people Slowly smear Smear their bodies on the wall Yeah the naughty kids Would be like tennis rackets Smacking them into the wall Right okay Like all that kind of stuff

But I wasn't I genuinely was quite a squeamish child so I would never have done that and I'm an animal lover anyway I just don't know where I'd start with that yeah you just look them

in the bucket you just put them in the bucket just hang out with the crabs try and get the biggest one you can and then just show your mates and the thing is what's actually quite innocent about that whole thing

I was thinking about this like it wasn't even like we had a camera phone to take a photo of it like oh look at the biggest crab I caught you basically just go and tell your pals at school on monday i'll port this crab and it's the size of a fucking volkswagen yeah yeah and everyone says oh amazing and then that was really it that's all that's all that happened yeah i would um i'd recommend crabbing to any um child as a hobby is it cruel it's not cruel is it really i don't know i mean

it's probably you probably upset the crabs a little bit but i mean we eat crabs and nobody seems to complain i i'm i'm a big fan of soft shell crabs and that that's truly the cruelest of all the crab concoctions yeah and so crabs can breathe i mean at least some species of crab can breathe outside of the water yeah yeah i don't know i don't think you're killing them or upsetting them by them breathing air. I think they can all do that, can't they, pretty much? Yeah, I'd say so. I think they can at least survive for a decent amount of time on the land.

It's just one of those kind of, like, seaside-based pursuits that, not having a family car, we never really sort of indulged in. Like, we'd visited the seaside maybe once every two years. It wasn't a... How far away from the seaside were you?

Very close, turns out. Very close. Having my car made me realise how close we were to the sea. You could just jump on your bike and cycle down there. Again, if you were never... Nobody did it around where I was, but I mean, yeah, you could get there probably in about 20 minutes on a bike or five minutes on a car. Yeah. On a car. why would you be on a car on a car in a car

we used to cycle down to the beach all the time yeah and and then when when when i got to kind of like i don't know 18 or 19 and i moved out to go to uni my parents moved to into quite a nice part of town was even closer to the sea so it's a big part of it and the thing is we used to um yeah just jump on our bikes go to the little kind of i mean you just could you just use the word estuary there would you would you not have called that a creek when you're a kid i mean can you call the creek like i mean it's well it's like a little bit off the river that's like a little bit muddy and you know tidal and it seems quite dangerous and there's a shopping trolley in

there and some bigger boys who started a fire that's a creek to me no yeah i mean this is the river i mean like you can see like musk ships coming from china every day like past my window so it's like it's it's the river proper it's not like an offshoot or anything so could you get one could you instead of when you when you go to j in a few weeks... Get a boat home. Instead of doing... Yeah. Get a boat home. That would be a great adventure. It would be very tedious, I think.

It would be like those incels on that ship in Italy. I haven't heard about this. You remember we've spoken about before, those incels that went on the ship around Libya to stop the migrants. But they didn't bring any kind of resources. They didn't bring the things that they needed, but they did bring several gaming PCs

and satellite internet connections because they're incels. And in the end, this boat that would spend its time patrolling the waters of North Africa, they would try to sort of prevent small boats from escaping. They had to be rescued themselves because, as we said before, they're fucking idiots. So, yeah, it's good stuff.

It's a timeless Luke and Pete Shaw trope. I love that the thing that they wanted to stop happening, they had to, you had to have happen upon themselves I love it careful you dance with the devil long enough as soon as the music stops speaking of which if you wanted to

if you wanted to catch a sea freight cargo ship from the example I've got here is from Beijing and take it all the way back to london it would take you around 40 days yeah i mean i suppose but anyway day day x day maybe a morning less for you because you just jump off at um it's swim over yeah i've got me uh i've got my paddleboard guys uh just let me off here i'll uh i'll scoot over to chalkwell i get a fish finger sandwich beautiful

be like a 70-metre drop into the ocean from there. That would be an incredible... I wonder... I mean, I presume... It's not open to... Unless you've shipped yourself. Could you not ship yourself?

Yeah. Well, I think it would be... Yeah, you've got to be very careful. You know, anyone who's seen season two of The Wire will know some of the risks involved in travelling and shipping containers.

But the people who work on board those ships, because they're so massive, I mean, presumably they don't get any kind of facilities because they're treated terribly. Because I think a lot of sailors are treated really badly because they're hired from countries where there are no employment or protection.

They're like Philippines and stuff like that. But in theory, there could be amazing amounts of facilities because really it's the size of a cruise ship. Oh, it's massive. But I mean, I imagine every place that could house a baccarat room for the boys probably is taken up by another case of stuff, you know, another car. Of Chinese kind of manufactured goods. Odds and sods. of Chinese kind of manufactured goods. Odds and sods.

What would your rider be for 40 days on a cargo ship from China to London? Very much like the Flat Stanley from the book Flat Stanley. It would be a salad sandwich with a salad cream on and a cigarette case full of milk. That's all I'd need. That's all you need. That's all I'd need to mail myself.

That's why you're such a great hire. You're so low-maintenance. Very resourceful. And just whatever rat I can catch, really. I mean, I'd probably go with Sammy, because, I mean, Bonoteros are ratters by very nature. I think he'd have a lovely time on a ship. Perfect ship's dog.

Yeah, exactly. And you could keep that travel pillow around his neck. You could keep that travel pillow. Has he still got that on? He's not. We took it off. He's, yeah, his little, it's hilarious, his little testicle pouch,

his little ball bag. You're obsessed with it, aren't you? It's absolutely obsessed. Like, I just. How many times a day do you look at his sack? How many times a day do I give it a little flick? No. I have been known to go,

diddly diddly, because it's funny is that molestation I don't know and if we have to ask that question I don't want the answer and you're doing that

and there's another dog walker walk past I've got a note from the vet I've got a note from the vet but you do have to they said keep an eye on it

so I've been keeping an eye on it and it's a tiny little yeah not 24 hours a day. No, it's just getting smaller and smaller. It's just, it will just, he just won't have any nudges soon. Like, he won't look like he's got any nudges. It's absolutely fascinating. I love it.

Same with my two cats. I didn't realise when I had the cats done that they take the nuts out of the sack and then just stitch the sack back up. Yeah. Well, yeah. So it's like... Less of a wound, I suppose, yeah. Do you know how they do it with sheep?

Have you ever heard that? Isn't it pull it down, tie it up, and then it falls off? Boo! Yeah. That's the famous nursery rhyme. Disgusting. I mean, that's got to...

It's the elastic band, I believe, isn't it? Yeah, until it just necrotises and falls off. I mean, that's got... I mean, for a couple of days, that's going to be bloody sore, isn't it? I don't think they notice. And that's why they're silly. That's why they're silly billies. And that's why they'll follow anyone, anywhere.

But I'm pleased to hear that Sammy's travel plans have come off. He's had a lovely time. He's had a great week, vintage. Is he able to lick his nuts now then? Is he fine with that? Yeah, he's allowed to access them. He's probably a little bit confused. He's got an obsession with this.

I never saw him as being the sort of dog that can really smell all good because none of the other borders we've had are that good. Are they smelly dogs, are they? No, no, I mean as in they're able to sniff things out. But he's got an obsession with a particular plastic corn on the cob that I have tried hiding in every room of the house and he just finds it every time. See what I thought you were going to say there?

He's got an obsession with a particular plastic corn on the cob that I actually really like and I want it for myself. So he's constantly arguing, yeah. But I feel like if I throw it in the bin, it, he'll just be barking at the bin forever. But if I get rid of it, I just feel like I've taken something that he really loves away from him. But if he has this con on the cob,

he squeaks it, he barks at it, he runs around the house like it's the best thing in the world. And that is absolutely fine. But this is a recording studio, Luke. and upstairs sarah's got a recording studio so it's quite difficult to have a dog that's running up and down the house screaming um with the aforementioned scream it's it's uh by the way um speaking of that you know that you know all your neighbors and your friends with them one of them is is two-faced writing you anonymous notes about the noise created by your dogs. Right, yeah. Has that resolved itself yet?

That was a long time ago, and they've not said anything about this new one. He's been doing most of the barking, so maybe they've slipped down. But he's not got powerful lungs yet, because he's only a puppy, right? It's quite loud, Luke. It's like a big scream, as discussed on the previous show. So what happened was was a friend of mine um he is a really good friend uh in his local village with the guy that runs the community newsletter right and so it's like a friends of the church thing or whatever and they live in a small village in the west country and this guy from no he doesn't get paid or

anything it's like a community spirit thing he does a newsletter or like i guess it's like a leaflet thing i suppose it is like a small newsletter that he is dished out outside the church to any villagers or any residents to find out what's going on in the community and so it's just things like oh and then on saturday the 12th or whatever there's going to be a fate and the kids are going to be doing this and there's a charity drive for that and oh by the way did you know that this road's been closed for refurbishment or they're going to do it they're going to put speed bumps that kind of shit right it's like a community um it's a community service essentially and um what's happened is he's obviously got a correspondence

address on there and because they're so old school it's like a postal address because the residents a lot of them are old and um the email thing probably wouldn't work and he keeps getting letters from people correcting every single spelling mistake and grammar grammatical error he's made in his newsletter and to the point where he's like really he got really pissed off about it. And the return address on the letter was from like a Mrs. Smith or whatever. And the return address on the letter doesn't exist.

Right. So he went to find the road that they sent the letter from. So he'd go around and say, look, do you want to have a chat about this kind of thing? Because it's quite passive aggressive what you're doing. And it was like some kind of name for a road, like say 42 so-and-so road. And he walked down the street

and the numbers only went up to like 30. Why would they go to all the... Like, just don't put an address on it. You know what I mean? You sound absolutely insane. I think they might be a little bit questionable. Right, okay, yeah. They might be insane, I don't know.

But the fact that you're doing that anyway, you're not even acknowledging they're doing that for a community service thing. I mean, you could probably forgive the odd spelling mistake, sure. Well, I would say that first year university in the halls of residence, there's a guy called Buzz. Lovely lad, very tall. Buzz? I saw it got on him, Buzz it do you know why he was called buzz uh he was called uh buzzard his first name was

buzzard uh oh no his first name wasn't buzz the second name was uh nicholas buzzard nicholas buzzard um i used to live with him nice lad anyway he, he had non-diagnosed dyslexia, I think. And he took it upon himself to write. He fancied himself as a bit of a writer. And he took it upon himself to write a newsletter about the halls of residence, which is a lovely thing to do. But he also had a bit of a streak in him that was, at that point in his life, was very arrogant.

bit of a streak in him that was at that point in his life it was very arrogant so right he just would not even consider getting the old microsoft paperclip involved he would not even consider and that was probably the golden era of having a bit of a spell check here and there or even just giving us someone else to read over so the newsletter was just absolutely mad. Right. And what kind of stuff did it contain? Just news about what's going on. Who threw a telly

out the window last week. All that good stuff, really. Pete. It was not me. It was not me. But yeah. But you were never involved? I was never involved

in the television throwing out the window. There's plenty of little little crimes. No, I didn't involved in helping them with the news. No, I didn't need to get involved. You could do some of your Simpsons characters that you used to draw. I could do some of my erotic family guy daubings, yeah. Were you still doing cartoons,

or had you grown out of that by the time uni came along? I think I'd moved into the discipline of animation animation technicolor the golden age of um the moving picture i'd moved very much into uh animation at that point um there's still some bits were you in one-eyed willie i was in one-eyed willie uh no a little later a little later i was one-eyed willie but i was very much in the uh in the sphere of just trying to get my animation career off the ground which you know just been flourishing ever since, really. In our halls at uni, the first time around, it was all,

obviously it was single sex, it was all guys, and actually we had a pretty good... We had girls and boys. Girls and boys. I'll tell you, we didn't have that.

We didn't have that. And we had a pretty good... Oh, sorry, no, it was Borstal I was in, not uni. No, but we had a really, actually quite a nice hall of about 30 chaps,

and we all got on pretty well, with the exception of one or two. Chiefly because in the upstairs floor, there was a load of exchange students from Portugal who were just astonishingly good at getting weed. So that helped us out a lot at that point. But anyway, at one point, I remember we decided to have a Vietnam War themed weekend. Okay.

Where we watched like, Vietnam War movies and we, people, some people dressed up. I think this is why you are how you are. This, your form of,

yeah, very male, very, very big, big dog in the eye. That actually happened. You say that, right?

You, I'll finish that story in a minute but there's a slight digression I went to a mate's surprise birthday party a few weeks ago and I've known him

since I was a kid and his older brother was there and it was quite funny because his older brother started chatting to me I haven't spoken to him

for like 15 years or maybe even longer and he's a nice fellow and stuff we're just chatting away and he kept saying to me oh you're still a massive lad you're still a real man you're a massive lad still you're still doing all the football stuff and all you're going to the pub all the time and i was thinking to myself what story have i told myself about what i was like because that's not my impression of myself right yeah but he was like completely convinced that's not my impression of myself. Right, yeah. But he was completely convinced of it. Convinced that you're a mad lad.

And so maybe you're onto something there. But anyway, so in the halls, we had this Vietnam War themed weekend. And obviously there's a scene in The Deer Hunter where they play Russian roulette. Now, we didn't play Russian roulette, because that would be men's thing. But we did play cards, right?

We played poker or whatever. And that was the equivalent of the gun. and instead of shooting ourselves in the head we did whoever loses the poker game has to shave their head right okay yeah so we did that a kid lost his poker game he had to shave his head and then we thought oh you know what we'll all shave our heads so we all shaved our heads right and that's just how it went um then we started playing this game of like truth or dare or whatever and this one guy had to run naked to the roundabout on the street

get a flower from the middle of the roundabout and run back again right and I know this sounds mental like an American pie type story but I promise you it's absolutely true right and so this was the fourth that had to be done and if you did a certain thing I can't remember which you had to do that and he was the first one to get it so he had to do it he stripped off biggest penis i've ever seen right okay so absolutely gigantic appendage

so big that you um all felt a bit weird about everything and just wanted to turn all of vietnam stuff off basically basically so that everyone was like well obviously none of us out no basically now none of us can get naked now none of us can because we're like 19 years old it's like a really important thing at that right like now you wouldn't give a shit right you wouldn't care i mean to be fair if i do you know if i am caught in my house with a 19 year old boy with a massive cot then that's the thing but back then when we were all 19 it was astonishingly

emasculating. Right okay yeah yeah yeah because you're like right now because none of the rest of you are naked so I guess you don't see what the first person to get naked has an unfair advantage so to speak on the old agreement.

And you all feel slightly emasculated. But Pete, it was so good. Why have you got all dewy-eyed? No, he's a friend of mine. It's a thing now. Everyone knows it now. It was just a thing. But all I'm saying is it was unveiled in the most dramatic way possible. It's a friend of mine. It's a thing now. Everyone knows it now. It was just a thing. But that was,

all I'm saying is it was unveiled in the most dramatic way possible. Did it, like, very much like the last helicopter? Did it start

sawing me around? Did it start sawing me around? He took off. Wow. Good stuff. So I don't know what reminded me of that

but that was our halls were our halls were good fun and that was a particular moment that stands out not sure why

but there you go and Peter let's have a break when we come back we should we should deliver the payoff to our birthday paradox

yes conversation from last time out because people have been in touch as ever the Luke and Peter community has not let us down and we've got some results to deliver so we'll see you the other side of this for that lovely oh we got the battery brands every single thursday we talk about all things batteries if you found something in a bit of um remote controllery uh do let us know if you found an interesting brand that you need

everyone to hear about get in touch or you found it on some Chinese made electronica on your cargo ship journey

yep maybe you found an old toy car in an old what do they call those big metal crates shipping containers

aren't they shipping containers there we go Andy has got in touch hello the little Pete please find the attached ultra powerful sports direct alkaline plus battery sports direct alkaline are we having that i mean you're the expert on sports yeah i mean i would say that i can't the the um cardboard packaging certainly says sports direct on it um it really

is a logo that that just strikes the heart of every free man doesn't it really it just really does meet you got it is a hateful logo it's shit it's you know i bought a um a got stung by a wasp a few days ago and i went to the chemist and i bought a um really 1970s looking sting stick away i just presume it's just a bit of ammonia um honest in a stick and you rub it on the on the thing and it calms it down um but the graphic design was exactly the same as the sports direct logo it was about as poor um but sports direct alkaline ultra performance i don't think we can have that because the actual i don't think sports direct is actually written on the battery itself and we don't have proof of that it just says alkaline plus ultra

performance and it looks like uh old ashley's at his at his sports direct stamp out so uh we're not going to be accepting that one unfortunately uh andy but uh try again next time thanks andy i mean i would say we're not typing sports director search if it's been sent in before there's about 40 emails about how bad it is working at Sports Direct. That's everything they deserve. Matt says, Hello, The Look With Pete. Another Hail Mary attempt to enter a new player into the game. My company-supplied new Bluetooth mouse arrived this week,

and while sitting here on a Thursday watching the rain fall in Perth, Australia, it struck me to rip open the battery compartment of the aforementioned budget office equipment to reveal a pair of initiative alkaline triple A's. Could my dream of entering a new player finally be coming to fruition? Yeah, Bluetooth mouse Initiative Alkaline AAAs. They look nice. I like the simplistic design and the weird wavy kind of...

Is it kite? It looks like a kite on fire. Yeah, it could be. Actually, we did have a bluetooth mouth a bluetooth mouth and you could stream any music you wanted if you wanted to sound like john legend you could um stream john legend and your mouth would work i'm sure it'll appear at some point surely well your mouth does the sound well yeah just like a little electronic um well there's a speaker in the back and uh there's like a little kind of three

sort of piezo kind of is it piezo or like mortar that move your mouth up and down like that yeah

it'd be good it's a frightening thought you know doing somebody well Nina Conti well for example initiative alkaline they are a new player never been sent in If you're not doing somebody well, Nina Conti will, for example. Initiative Alkaline. They are a new player.

Never been sent in before. Nice to hear from someone in Perth as well. For some reason, I always associate pearl farming with Perth. I think a friend of mine moved to Perth and became a kind of pearl farmer or something. I mean, listen, get back in touch, Matt, if that's the case. I could be completely wrong. But in the meantime, enjoy your win. You've entered a new player into the game.

Initiative Alkaline are a brand new battery, my friend. Well done to you. It's good stuff. All right, moving on to Rory's submission for this week. Hey, guys, Rory again with another submission. Durabase. He's got a lovely again with another submission. DuraBase. He's got a lovely stack of 10 or 12 batteries in a row and it's a lovely yellow

and white DuraBase setup. Yeah, and that is a man's thumb, can I just say. It's a thin fingernail, nicely done. Nicely, you know, the cuticles are looked after. I like it.

Yeah, but it's a man's thumb. It's a man's thumb. Unrestakingly a man's thumb. DuraBase are indeed also a new player. Okay, good stuff. Lovely. Well, congratulations, Rory. Two new players today.

Rory, of course, famous from a week or two ago sending in some Mustangs, which I don't think were new players. Doesn't sound like it. He is emailing us all the way from Switzerland. Some more power to his elbow. And we're pleased it's not producer Rory sending the batteries in because that would be a conflict of interest.

True that. So first things first, you promised this, you trailed this before the break. Can you explain, as featured on a previous episode, a birthday paradox? I'll deliver the message right here we go so basically um the birthday paradox is a counterintuitive i guess what would you say like a a kind of um a mathematical problem i suppose that you know essentially what it says

is despite say again quirk the mathematical quirk is a quirk. So despite there being 365 days in a year, 366 in a leap year, of course, you only need 23 people in a room, I suppose, for the probability of two of them having the same birthday being over 50%. It feels like it's wrong but it's not because um you're basically doing i mean the mathematical thing is actually fairly simple but i'm sure you can work it out when i say to you that you know you're not just comparing one with

loads of the people you're comparing like one with two one with three one before then you're going two with three two with four two five so essentially what it comes down to is to give us a 50% or greater chance of having a birthday paradox example among our listenership. We asked people to send in their date of birth. And then we took the first 23 birthdays we were sent and thought, we'll see if we get a duplicated birth date. we'll see if we get a duplicated birth date so thank you to craig chris peter dan ian carl tony sam ollie georgina mark james andre jason matt matt lee darren carl dennis will rafael peter and vincent for all sending their birthdays yeah and if you are a advertising executive who wants to advertise with the Luke and Pete show, that's the demographic. There's one girl. That's the demographic.

The show will not succeed. And I am actually quite intrigued and delighted and very proud to say that Kyle, who was the ninth person to email in, and Tony, who was the 15th person to email in, both share a birthday of the 17th of February. So it actually only took us 15 people to find a duplicated birthday of the 17th of February. So it actually only took us 15 people to find a duplicated birthday of the 17th of February. Unlucky to everyone else who emailed in, you're either too late

or you don't share a birthday with someone else. Dan and Ian, Dan's birthday was the 8th of Feb and Ian's was the 9th of Feb and Peter's was the 6th of Feb and Chris's was the 3rd of Feb. So we came pretty close elsewhere. We have Matt on the 8th of July,

Lee on the 10th of July and that's about as close as we have Matt on the 8th of July Lee on the 10th of July and that's about as close as it got only one April birthday and only one January birthday amazing yeah but Carl and Tony

17th of February we solved the birthday paradox in under the expected amount of people 15 we needed that's the quality of our audience well done everyone

thank you for everyone who got in touch what do you think about that Peter I think it's amazing I genuinely thought it was... Because, you know me, I'm a pessimist. I'm a glass half empty of cynic.

And I just thought, well, you know, chances are we wouldn't be lucky enough to pull out two birthdays in the first 23 people that turns up in the email. But, yeah, it turns out. I mean, Kyle was the ninth person and Tony was the 15th. So it took 15 emails to get a match. Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

I don't know how many people emailed in total, but I'm pretty sure. I mean, people were still doing it today. So it's pretty, which is pretty ambitious. I was thinking to myself, do you think we've only got like 20 listeners? It feels like that sometimes. It's not true.

It's not true. But anyway, the birthday paradox has been proven exclusively on the Luke and Pete show. I'm happy to do any kind of press interviews about that. I'm speaking to Jim

White on Talk Sport tomorrow morning. He's going to cover it. I'm going to do plenty of stuff on BBC News as well to show that the birthday paradox is indeed true.

We've proven it. You can't question it anymore. Peter, when's your birthday? April the... 30th. 30th.

And when's mine? Actually, you didn't know what mine was. Why should I feel bad? I knew it... 30th. 30th. And when's mine? Oh. Actually, you didn't know what mine was. Why should I feel bad? That's my life, innit? If you can do the month, we're even. See, you haven't got a clue. That's the thing. You don't take any interest. You've not even got a single solitary clue. October. The what?

Well, it's not the 27th, because that's my mum's. Well, we just learnt from the birthday paradox that it could be. And it's not the 27th, because that's my mum's. Well, we just learned from the birthday paradox that it could be. And it's not the... Actually, yeah, and it's not the 11th, because that's my sister's. So I think it might be the 20th. I don't even think it's October anymore. You're tricking me.

I don't even think it's October. What do you think it is, then? I mean, I've just said October. I think it's probably something like February. Or... No, it's not near mine. This is how little interest you take in me as a friend. It's not interest. It's your fucking birthday.

It happens every fucking year. I've got more interest in your hair. At least that changes. We've had October, February and June so far. Do you want to settle on something and have a guess? Take your balls out the something and have a guess take your balls out the bathroom June 2nd you're basically giving yourself such a small job June 2nd

it's September 20th I'll not remember it I don't know when he's born I know my family and I had one space left I had one two byte number, had one two-byte number. No, one byte. No.

How many bytes is in a... I had a figure that was free when my nan died. Didn't need to know that one anymore. August 16th, that went out my head. August 22nd, that's been replaced by Sarah. So I've only got a finite amount of time. There's a limit. There's a ceiling.

Do you know what day your nan sadly passed away? Ooh. I don't of town. Time. It's a limit. It's a ceiling. Do you know what day your nan sadly passed away? Ooh. I don't, actually. I remember I did an X of M podcast on that day. That's all I remember. Right.

Is that how it works? So you actively are able to remove something from your brain, but you didn't remove No, I didn't remove from your brain. Because you still remember

when your nan passed away. Yeah, I was as surprised as you were, to be honest. Yeah. No, I just, it's the reason why, like, I sort of given up trying to learn, like, language, like, any no, I just... It's the reason why... Do you remember it when she was alive? I've sort of given up

trying to learn, like, language, like, any kind of foreign language. It's just like, I cannot keep it in. It takes me so long to access that data, and unless I'm surrounded by it every single day,

it just doesn't go in. I've just got one of those brains that just doesn't work. I'll tell you what. It just doesn't work, man. Nan was by far the toughest Christmas present.mas present what are you buying them they've got they don't want anything do they and like nah i mean i'll probably say like the

last good present anyone bought their nans was probably like an ipad but then look into the future it's not it's not a good thing because they just spend all day on their iPad. My granddad is always easy. He loves golf. He loves tech. He loves cricket. He loves any kind of sport, really. He loves to read Wilbur Smith novels. Write something on a golf ball.

Get something monogamous. Yeah, it's easy. And he also loves wine. So you don't even got to think about it with my nan I just remember endless tours of M&S trying to find a cardigan

or something I love my nan dearly she was amazing but it was nothing for me to buy her they've already got everything they don't want anything anyway let's get out of here

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