The Luke and Pete Show - WeTransfer conspiracy theorist
Episode Date: March 28, 2022New week, same Pete Donaldson, who is back reading stuff out from Reddit. Today’s topics include - Elton John, Voldermort laughing in different languages and Wrestlemania, which Pete is lucky enough... to be visiting.In the second half, Luke has a big conspiracy theory relating to Wetransfer and the emails help us uncover that the outlaw mod hairdresser may have returned.To get in touch with the show email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Feel free to give us a follow while you're there. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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it's the luke and pete show it's a monday i'm pete donaldson and i'm back on reddit reading
stuff out from it what a great show nowadays isn't it great Great trailer. It is for you. I never go on Reddit. Apparently, schools in Florida
are required to
out students
to their parents,
which is
what they will do
in a few weeks' time.
An astonishing
Florida really is
a petri dish of strangers,
isn't it, really?
They've got a mad governor.
They've got a mad governor.
A truly mad governor.
Who I think might be
one of the worst human beings
in the world.
Yeah.
What's his name again?
Ron DeSantis.
That's it.
Yeah.
He's a scumbag.
But I just find it fascinating
that you are allowed to,
you're not allowed to discuss
same-sex issues
in school,
in Florida,
and it just seems,
I just wonder how
they're going to get around that
in the modern world.
It's kind of like fighting against the tide, really, isn't it?
It is.
I mean, imagine sort of explaining the plot to Rocketman.
Or, I don't know, explaining anything, I suppose.
You know, I always chuckle because my mum loves Elton John, right?
Right.
And she always has done.
Yeah.
And obviously Elton John is famous,
one of the world's most famous gay men.
Yeah.
And if you look back at his performances and stuff in the 70s
and the way he used to present himself and all that kind of stuff,
it's quite obvious that he was a gay man.
Yeah.
But my mum said in the 70s no one ever really considered it
because obviously he was married and stuff.
It wasn't really talked about. So the raising of consciousness in what is relatively
speaking quite a short amount of time is quite unbelievable really is it would it be fair to say
that uh in back in the day uh entertainers were a bit more song and dance we're a bit more kind of
like expressive they're a bit more because i think um Who's that guy who was at WrestleMania 1,
WrestleMania 2,
he played the piano
and was the world's most gay...
He was a gay icon.
Liberace.
Liberace, yeah.
Yeah.
So like...
WrestleMania?
Yeah, he was at WrestleMania.
Did he?
Very weird.
Yeah, very strange.
I think I might remember that from WrestleMania, actually.
And can you imagine how poorly he was represented in that?
But he was... It might uh but he uh but he was
it might be in wrestlemania three or four actually but either way um it like i think with that i
think even people like he uh would probably not would probably they'd probably sort of go well
he's an entertainer so he's allowed to wear a feather boy now and again he's allowed to sort
of put a bit of makeup on he's allowed to sort of express himself in that way because he's an
entertainer so i think that sort of thing you bit of makeup on. He's allowed to sort of express himself in that way because he's an entertainer.
So I think that sort of thing,
you kind of got away with it a bit more
without anyone actually thinking about...
But was it also the fact that conversations of that nature
just weren't as prevalent?
Yeah, and it was illegal in most places in the world, wasn't it?
Yeah, well, for a time, of course.
Yeah, exactly, yeah.
But it just seems...
The reason I'm making the point is because,
I'll use that phrase again, people's consciousness has been raised to such an extent that it just seems absolutely ridiculous that A, no one would know, and B, that anyone would care.
But then you hear those stories that you just said there, and you're like, well, fucking hell, there's still so much work to do, right?
Why are you taking so much interest in what other people are doing?
Why are you rolling back?
Just let people do what they want to do.
Why are you rolling back?
Why are you obsessed with this?
There's usually only one reason why are you obsessed with this there's usually
only one reason
why people are
obsessed with
this
and I think
do you think
that you
it's like
mean bug
in
I want to
go
we should
arrange for
you to go
so it's a
double threat
for me
we should
arrange for
you to go
and you're
wearing a
lovely t-shirt
today Pete
it's a
the queen is
dead themed
smith's t-shirt
but instead of the smith it says dusty rose's a um the queen is dead themed smith's t-shirt but instead of the
smith it says dusty rose and it says the uh what does it say the dream is dead the dream is dead
yeah what's the relevance of that son of a plumber dusty roads he uh what's the dream is dead what
does that mean uh well he's the american dream wasn't he he was the american dream and then his
son was the uh american nightmare cody roads he has just left aew the uh probably the most popular
or certainly most critically acclaimed wrestling company in town.
The road more travelled is from WWE,
which is regarded as being a massive product, as it always has been,
but one that's kind of stagnated product-wise, quality-wise.
Is it really? People don't like it anymore?
People don't necessarily like it, but the cool money,
where all the good guys, where all the great workers are at AEW
now it was started
by Tony Khan
the Fulham
he's a Fulham owner
isn't he Tony Khan
yes
Tony Khan
who's very heavily involved
in all of that
and Cody Rhodes
is one of the first
to come over
and do his thing
and help build this
basically
but he's left
AEW
him and his wife
Brandi Rhodes
and
it looks like
he might end up
in WWE
so he's going back
the other way
so he's going back
the other way
and it's weird
because he
it just sounds
very much like
he really wants to win
a WWE
title belt
which is pathetic
right
he's built something amazing
my help built something amazing
and he's going
the other way down
the Pompey Highway
towards WWE
so I
I really respect the idea
because I always assumed
that WWE
had like a complete
monopoly on all that
kind of big ticket stuff
there's been a few
I don't know what day
wrestling's on
on the telly
but there's been a couple
of instances lately
where AEW
have actually beaten WWE on the old telly which is what channel a couple of instances lately where AEW have actually beaten WWE
on the old telly
which is not
What channel?
What deal do they
have with the TV
broadcast?
Oh I don't know
I don't know what
TV channel it's on
but they've
certainly
pulled more
eyes towards
their product
compared to WWE
which is treated
as being a bit
of a stagnant
Are you covering
it on WrestleMe?
We have been
covering it on
WrestleMe obviously the Wrestlemania we have been covering it on Wrestlemania
obviously Wrestlemania we're going to be
heading out for that and so listen to
Wrestlemania for that on the page it's very good
it's in Dallas, Texas
but it's over two
nights and it's something like four or five
hours a piece
and it looks very much like
Stone Cold Steve Austin may come back
Cody Rhodes may
make an appearance as well over there.
So it looked pretty poor, line-up-wise.
Now there's rumours saying that The Rock's going to be back.
It may turn into something rather good.
But the thing about WrestleMania weekend,
something that I didn't necessarily realise,
Mark said we should do WrestleMania this year.
I said, that's a good idea.
We're going to do it the year before last, I think,
or maybe last year to launch the Patreon.
So to sort of make it clear that we are reinvesting
the Patreon supporters' cash.
Well, you're buying a pub, aren't you?
I'm buying a pub.
I'll put a picture of Dusty Rhodes up there.
Yeah, exactly.
So we're going out there.
And I didn't realise that on WrestleMania weekend
every indie company going
basically has a match.
Basically has a card.
Not in the same place.
Not in the same place
but it'll be in like
hotel function rooms
and you can literally
as Mark said
watch wrestling
from nine in the morning
to three in the morning.
What so basically
they all descend
like it's a festival.
They all descend
like it's a festival. That's descend like it's a big festival.
It's clever.
It's clever.
Yeah.
Like fringe events basically.
And so there's like appearances, but you can get your shit signed by Virgil or whatever.
Like all this stuff over one weekend effectively.
That sounds brilliant.
When is it?
That sounds fucking exhausting.
Yeah.
You'll love it though.
Start of April.
Mark will love it.
I love parts of it.
But sometimes you can just have too much wrestling, I think.
Yeah, don't say that. You're doing WrestleMe.
I know, I'm doing WrestleMe. That's what I'm there for.
I'm the one who doesn't know much about wrestling.
You're not supposed to be the head, are you?
The wrestling community who listen to the show,
and it's got a very dedicated listener base, as we know,
they accept you as an outlier
because they know
the terms upon which you're involved.
But I'm just going to be tired
because Mark's booked loads of tickets to weird wrestling.
Have you become more of an expert now?
Yeah, I think, and Mark makes a point on the show,
that I think I've watched more wrestling than most people.
You know what I mean?
Like 90% of people, it's like in America,
90% of people don't earn over 50 grand.
You know what I mean?
It's kind of like,
it's,
it's,
it's,
you're an outlier
if you've watched
that amount of wrestling.
And I think I have
watched that.
I often,
I often think
that I don't watch
as much football
as lots of people do.
Yeah.
Because I think people
assume because we did
around.
Football's,
football's very visible
though,
isn't it?
You can,
because you,
because I watch the matches
that I need to watch.
Yeah.
And I watch the highlights
that I need to watch and I read the things that I need to read. Yeah. And I watch the highlights that I need to watch.
And I read the things that I need to read and stuff like that.
But it's very difficult to watch the amount of football.
But some people just have football on all of the time.
Yeah, but I think it's helpful,
particularly for the type of show we're making on The Ramble,
to not be so all consumed by it.
Yeah.
Because you need to maintain some kind of perspective.
You need to be able to relate it back to the normal people.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because most people can't watch that amount of people. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because most people
can't watch that amount
of football.
Yeah, and also,
you can't,
and you shouldn't,
as a broadcaster,
expect an esoteric level
of assumed knowledge.
Yeah.
Because otherwise,
people aren't going to get it.
It's not as accessible,
is it?
Yeah.
I'm just wondering,
like, it's a live football now.
There'll be like,
there's all kinds
of things happening.
Yeah.
Pete, can we,
one thing we've forgotten
to do so far
that I really want to do
is a real change of pace. Okay. I'm hoping you've got your laptop plugged in so you can do it. Right. Can, can we, one thing we've forgotten to do so far that I really want to do is a real change of
pace.
I'm hoping you've
got your laptop
plugged in so you
can do it.
Can we do that
Voldemort thing?
We can do, yeah,
you can do.
Plug your laptop
in so people can
hear it.
Basically, it's a
little bit older,
it's been around
for a month or so.
It's very enjoyable.
Yeah, it's amazing.
Someone's put
together the kind a kind of
greatest hits clip of voldemort in a particular scene in the harry potter movies laughing well
not yet laughing in all the different in auto played luke i was trying to stop it people expect
more from you tech side though i can't i can't auto play something that i've just visited the
site there's no function to stop it.
You've got a new Samsung.
Of course.
There's no plug-in for your browser.
Don't blame the Samsung.
Anyway, so it's Voldemort,
but obviously he's been edited in the dubbed version of the movies
to be laughing, and you think,
okay, well, laughs are always the same, but it's not.
They've changed the laugh to represent different languages,
and there's a load of them.
So Pete, just play it
now because
let's read the
country out as I do it.
Okay.
So first up
Japanese
German
French
It's really French.
It's really French.
Yeah.
That was Vietnamese. It's really French. Yeah. That was Vietnamese.
What's that one?
Uzbek.
That's like a word rather than a laugh.
Handa.
Handa.
Yeah.
That's English.
Turkish.
Probably exactly the same.
Very similar, yeah.
Sounds like he's crying.
Italian.
I like the Polish one.
I think Polish is my favourite.
Who'd have thought they'd be so different?
Yeah, it's mad, isn't it?
So I guess what's happened there is that the dubbed version of the movie,
the voice actor doing the dubbed voice
yeah some of them
have listened to the
original some of them
haven't let's make
that clear
but do you not
reckon that they're
just doing it naturally
just getting inside
the character and
laughing how they
would laugh
no because a lot of
them are very similar
aren't they and it
all kind of like
takes their cue from
Liam Neeson
is it Liam Neeson
no it's Ralph
Ralph Fiennes
I was going to
assume he had
what do you reckon
that is
men of advancing years that's it that's it is it Ralph Fiennes Ralph Fiennes I was going to ask Timmy something what do you reckon that is Men of Advancing Years
that's it
that's it is it
I know
they're just quite similar
aren't they
they're just blokes
that blend into one
they're all quite serious
in films aren't they
they never have a laugh
I think Ralph
will be a little bit
put out by that
what does Ralph do
that makes you laugh
Liam Neeson's a lot more
gruff and a lot more
Irish
he's more gruff now but but before, I don't know.
I don't know.
I just sort of tie them together.
They would make a great double act where it was just like,
imagine Lethal Weapon, but with those two.
That would be great.
That would be really good.
That would be great.
I'd be well up for that.
When I was in Malacca, did I go to Malacca?
I can't remember.
Someone's been.
And my partner was in a TV show called White Gold.
Oh, yeah.
About, I don't know,
something in Essex.
Anyway, and we didn't realise
that there's obviously a Spanish-dubbed version of it.
So it was really weird hearing her voice,
but dubbed into Spanish.
Yeah.
And let me tell you,
they put about 20 years on our voice.
Oh, really?
You sound like a right old mama.
I would never watch a dubbed version of a TV show.
I'd always watch the subtitles.
Right, okay.
Would you not as well?
Are you an anime purist?
Isn't there like a big kind of,
with foreign films?
Well, there was a big issue around Squid Game,
wasn't there?
Okay, yeah.
Because Squid Game was saying,
like, you watch the subtitles,
there's not a lot of direct translation for a lot of stuff they were talking about.
So a lot of the nuance...
So everyone loves Squid Game.
Yeah.
But actually a lot of Korean experts, or Korean people, I suppose,
were just saying, oh yeah, but a lot of this stuff,
a lot of these implied kind of things about subtleties in Korean culture,
like class or whatever it may be,
is lost because it's hard to,
you can't just get that across in like a translation.
So, I mean, it would happen the other way as well, I suppose.
In the UK, obviously we've got a very prevalent class system,
but it may not be as prevalent to another country
if they don't know the country that well.
And so the point being that they were arguing
that if you watched Squid Game while it was subtitled,
you wouldn't have got the full picture.
But I just don't really feel that I can,
I can't be convinced that because acting is such,
the voice is such an important part of acting
and the expression that is put across
when you're acting with your voice
is so key to the performance that like,
I just don't want to hear another person's voice.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah.
It is quite discombobulating.
Unless it's those old
70s kung fu movies
where the voices would move
at different times
compared to the face.
Remember, is it Michael Ian Black?
Was he in Police Academy?
Who was the fellow who used to do...
That was his thing, wasn't it?
Who played Zed?
Yeah.
Was that his name, Zed?
He used to do the funny voices.
Yeah, he was, yeah.
His name's Bobcat Goldthwait.
That's not him.
Bobcat Goldthwait is the white guy.
Oh, you mean Jones in Police Academy.
Yes, okay.
Sorry, yeah, I got one confused there.
That is, yeah, that is,
isn't his name Jim Jones?
I don't know.
Michael Ian Black is a comedian,
but it's very much not him.
Oh, Larvel Jones, maybe.
He's definitely called Jones.
LaVell Jones sounds proper.
No, LaVell Jones in the show.
I don't know what the actor's name is.
Well, that was his thing in the police academy, wasn't he?
He would do like the kung fu pause and do...
Yeah, he'd do that amazing thing on that chat show
where he did the whole lot of love
by Led Zeppelin
with all the guitar
sounds
yeah
amazing
anyway let's have a
break when we come
back we're going to
do some emails
we haven't done
some emails for a
wee while so let's
get to some
it should be lots of
fun so don't go
anywhere we'll be
back the other side
of this
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It's the Luke and Pete Show.
I'm Pete Donaldson.
It's a Monday.
And I'm joined by Luke Moore.
Hello.
I do hope you're having a good time.
Hello.
I'm having a lovely time.
Are you having a nice time?
I'm having a nice time.
Why don't you read an email out, Peter?
Okay.
Let me just find one.
Hi, Pete.
Hope you're well.
Just following up on the below, is there any chance of
some shares across Stacks channels?
It really does help, we're so grateful.
What's that? That was an email someone sent me.
Thanks. I was thinking more of the
shortlisted ones.
The shortlisted ones from
the running order of this show specifically.
The WeTransfer link is likely to expire soon.
But you can access all the files
in this drive here.
We've got a WeTransfer Pro, haven't we?
We do, yes.
So it doesn't expire?
Some things do expire, and I don't know why.
I thought WeTransfer, if you had Pro,
you'd just have it forever.
But sometimes it'll say you've got three weeks left on this,
when I'm going, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Maybe it's just an extended service.
Maybe it's just an extended service.
Have they cornered the industry?
I think they have. I think When We we transfer has fallen over every now and again,
they are very robust Amazon servers, I believe.
But when it has fallen over,
the whole of the media landscape has fallen to pieces briefly.
Why is it still not possible to transfer a huge amount,
not even huge amounts,
like large files via email and Gmail and stuff like that um it's computationally expensive and electricity costs money storage
costs a lot of money uh and you've you know you've got to pay you've got to pay for the service you
got to pay the paper because i've got an interesting theory which is basically they don't want people
to willy-nilly just send massive files around because it'll fuck up the whole internet i mean
it's well it's expensive.
Putting a barrier in,
a kind of extra kind of barrier to market
is suitable for them.
Because if you think about it,
if everyone was sending gigabyte upon gigabyte
upon gigabyte emails all the time every day,
it would fuck it, right?
I mean, it wouldn't fuck it
because it's going in a particular direction.
It's going to a server somewhere.
It's going to sit on a different server.
But I've always seen WeTransfer, for example,
as almost like a traffic light in a journey.
So you have to break up the traffic.
You have to do something when it comes to traffic
to manage the level of traffic.
No, because it doesn't matter when you send that file.
I could be downloading it now.
I could be downloading it in two weeks' time.
That traffic will still happen.
It just doesn't matter.
Am I the first WeTransfer conspiracy theorist you've met?
I mean, what should happen is we should have decent upload speeds in this country.
All we do is we send, like an iCloud link, you send a link to,
you send like a proxy, and you sort of go,
this is the file that I've got, and if you want it, you download it directly from me.
Not a server.
The traffic goes straight from me to you,
rather than me up to WeTransfer back down again.
That's a waste for me.
That should just go straight from me to you.
How would we facilitate that?
Well, I would just peer-to-peer networking,
but our upload speeds aren't good enough.
Ah, okay.
So we can't possibly have a
system where you could access a file three weeks
from now and then suddenly my internet starts going slow and I'm like,
what's going on here then?
What's bloody going on here then? Luke Moore's looking
at that file of Pete's welly that
he sent ages ago. But not in this studio,
because you're very impressed by the upload speed here.
On Ethernet, yeah, on Ethernet. What is it?
It's 300. It's 300 down, 300
up. That's big. That's big. Put it on Wi-Fi though, you're talking 80s. What's it? It's 300. It's 300 down, 300 up. That's big.
That's big.
Put it on Wi-Fi, though.
You're talking 80s.
What's that about?
Why do they do that?
What?
Why is that?
They're pigs.
Wankers.
Hey, how wankers.
Do you want to do an email, or am I going to do one?
Yeah, do an email.
Oh, you want me to do one?
All right, okay, yeah, cool.
Okay, fine.
So you're shirking responsibility.
I'm not.
I read out an email.
You didn't like it.
All right, Jack.
Hello, Jack. He says, Jack. Hello, Jack.
He says, hello to Luke and Pete.
We'll preface this with the statement that I have no batteries to report on,
for which I apologize.
My current law teacher used to be friends with the ex-girlfriend
of Lightning Seas lead singer Ian Brodie.
Oh, I like that.
I like it.
Do you like Ian?
Have I met him?
Yeah, I interviewed him once.
Nice guy?
Yeah.
Yeah, he's all right.
And she recounted to him how she used to listen to music
while putting the washing up.
By putting the washing out, I suppose.
And so he devoted a lyric to her in the song Feeding Lazy.
Music plays on radios and Lisa in the garden
singing to the washing line.
Hope you're having a great show, Jack.
That's nice, isn't it?
I've got a lot of time for that.
Ian Brodie, do you reckon he's made a load of dough from Three Lions?
I reckon I'm almost guaranteeing that he made a load of dough.
I mean, his band were super popular.
He also produced the first Corrid album.
Less good.
That's a great record.
It's all right.
It's one of the best.
I bet you can't name three songs off it.
that's a great record it's alright
it's one of the best
I bet you can't name
three songs off it
Dreaming of You
that's one
Dreaming of You
Dreaming of You
brilliant song
but it's the only one
you can name
it's one of the great
British debuts
that record
what's the other songs
what's the other singles
from that one
it starts off with
Spanish Main
then it goes
Remember When
I Remember When
then it's another song
then it's Dreaming of You
it's got
Goodbye
is track number 6
Calendars and Clocks
is about track number
9 or 10
I can name loads of them
I can probably sing
all through them
Simon Diamond's
track number 5
I can name them all mate
don't you worry about me
I'm not even looking
I can name them
Daphne and Celeste, Save the World.
Brodie produced that?
First album was Save the World.
That was only a minute long.
Paint Can, You and I Alone, Golden Doldrum,
Song to a Succulent.
How would you describe Ian Brodie to our international listeners?
Not to be confused with Ian Brady, of course.
A different person.
He looks a bit like a wombat, doesn't he?
He looks a little bit like a little animal with little glasses
that might live on the North Yorkshire moors.
And I'm sad to say that actually he's fallen into that trap
that a lot of these types fall into,
where he's gone for the feathered Paul Weller haircut,
which, as you know, I have a huge problem with.
Can anyone imagine a worse kind of haircut choice?
No.
Is there anything worse than an ageing man who's receding
doing the Paul Weller feathered job?
Well, it serves a lot of purposes.
You just pull it forward, don't you?
You pull the hair forward.
So no one's ever going to know where your hair starts and ends, really,
if you're pulling it forwards with a feathered look
do you remember when
we found out
there was like a
kind of travelling
mod haircut barber
who used to go to
different towns
different times
everyone would know
when he was in town
to get their hair done
like an atrocious warlord
just going from town
to town killing and
pillaging
do you reckon
that there's a
if you wanted one
so you were
really serious about
your feathered
mod haircut
but you really needed
to get it done
and the mod
the mod father
guy wasn't in town
do you reckon
a normal barber
could just do it
nah it's pretty
specialised isn't it
I think that
Lemmy was doing a bit
about this
there was a picture
of him
of Paul Weller
in a Portobello
road
barber's
getting his hair done
who Weller was yeah ok and so like and that kind of hair is so kind of in a Portobello Road barber's getting his hair done.
Who Weller was?
Yeah.
Okay.
And so like,
and that kind of hair is so kind of,
you've got to be so careful with it because it is a piece of shit
and you can get it wrong
quite easily.
And Libby was making the point
that like,
God,
they're going to know
where he gets his hair cut.
So they're just going to be like
hanging around
hoping to meet Paul Weller
because he's having a,
because he just looked like a normal,
you know, he was sat, I think he might have even been sat next to, Paul Weller because he's having a because he just looked like a normal you know he was sat I think he might have
even been sat next to
you know those
barber's chairs
in the shape of a
a car
for the little kids
oh please tell me
he was in there
honestly it was in the front
of like a normal
kind of like
in the front window
getting his haircut
Paul Weller
like it just seemed
very weird
that he would allow
the barber to take
a picture of him
well that's true but the barber himself was like picture of him. Well, that's true.
But the barber himself
was like an old mate
and he used to do
mod haircuts back in the day.
He still do them,
but it doesn't pay enough bills
so he has to do
the normal haircuts as well.
I think if you can do a mod one,
you can probably do a normal one.
Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, that's fair.
That's fair.
So,
I can't remember
what we were talking about.
Oh yeah, Ian Brodie.
Yeah, thanks for sending
that email in.
I think apparently
it was referencing to songs
that reference names because we were talking about Come On Eileen a while back, weren't we? Right, that email in. I think apparently it was referencing to songs that reference names because we're
talking about Come
on Eileen a while
back, weren't we?
Right, that makes
sense.
That does make sense.
And yeah, so that's
that.
I've got one more
email here.
I want to do it.
It's about shortcut
mishaps.
Yes, okay.
It's from Alexander.
He says, dear Luke
and Pete, I'm
emailing with an
addition to the
unfortunate shortcut
stories you've had
so far on the show.
On my last day on
the holiday with a
friend in Berlin,
the same trip as where the Airbnb host had a shag in the bathroom as previously read out on the show i don't remember that um but anyway we decided to go
and see a concentration camp museum and memorial just outside the city as we get there we see no
way through to the entrance that google maps has promised which we later realized actually was poor
map reading on our part so we decided to go around another path to get there
rather than going to the further alternate entrance
on the other side of the camp.
We got the feeling the shortcut path
might not have been the best idea
when we started going through a foresty area
with boarded up, abandoned buildings.
And as the sun set,
it started to give it a very eerie feel.
Ten minutes and more boarded up buildings later,
already a bit freaked out,
we see our shortcut has led us to a
two and a half metre mesh fence,
separating us from the camp. At this point
the sun has set, and my friend didn't fancy
going past the abandoned buildings in the dark,
so we were left with no choice but to climb into
the concentration camp, something we must have been
one of the few people in the world to have ever done.
As if the shame of climbing into the camp wasn't
bad enough, my coat then got caught in the mesh
and ripped completely, leaving me freezing at the start of German into the camp wasn't bad enough, my coat then got caught in the mesh and ripped completely,
leaving me freezing at the start of German winter to top it all off.
Probably the least of the bad karma we deserve for our shortcut.
Thank you, Alex.
That is a story of a shortcut and no mistake.
Yeah, it's... Fair play to him for owning up.
Yes, yeah, I think you let yourself down.
You didn't know, though, Alex. You just didn't know.
You didn't know what you were doing.
Fair enough, and thank you for your honesty.
We should get out of here, Pete.
We've run out of time,
so the next show will be back on Thursday.
We look forward to speaking to you then.
I mean, scarcely believably, it will almost be April.
Can you believe that, Peter?
I can't believe it.
Where does the time go?
I'm so angry at it being almost April. Can you believe that, Peter? I can't believe it. Where does the time go? I'm so angry at being
almost April. I want to pull my face
off like Beetlejuice does at the end
of that film. Do you ever get that thing where you only
just get used to typing 22
when you do dates and you think, fucking hell, it's
now 23. It happens to me
all the time. When I was younger, I used
to get used to it in about two weeks. Yeah, I mean, it's not 23.
Let's make that very clear. No, but what I'm saying is by the time
I get used to writing 22, it will be two weeks. Yeah, I mean, it's not 23. Let's make that very clear. No, but what I'm saying is by the time I get used to writing 22,
it will be 23.
True.
And we'll all be
a year closer into the future.
I plan on growing three inches.
Do you?
I'm going to get my bones broken
and extended.
You've talked about bone breaking
quite a lot.
Yeah.
I'm now worried
that you might actually do it.
It would be weird
if I suddenly was taller.
No, but you're the kind of person
that's screaming in agony.
Whoa, hiccups.
You get bored a lot
and then therefore
do stupid stuff.
Yeah, I'm not going to do it myself.
I'm not going to set
a claw hammer on my own shins.
No, you'd probably get
someone else to do it,
but it would still be horrific.
Anyway.
And I'll pay a top dollar.
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