The Luke and Pete Show - What's That Cash For, Sir?

Episode Date: January 12, 2026

I know what you're thinking - if I download this episode of The Luke and Pete Show, what can I expect to hear? Well, first off you're going to hear about a really expensive tuna. After that you're goi...ng to find out all about what it's like trying to get cash out of a bank these days, a conversation which naturally evolves into Pete's latest run in with the taxman, and after that there's a bit of chat about looksmaxxing, something that you will be genuinely worse off for hearing about. But don't let that put you off! And send us your latest stories, questions and comments here: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com. DO IT NOW! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:01 We're back with the Luke and Pete Shaw. On a Monday, Lukie Muir is with me, Luke. I bring you excellent news. Okay. Good. Good. Nice to be here. Nice to see you again.
Starting point is 00:00:18 The Wakayama Electric Railway Kishigawa Line has been, has got a new cat that works in the station. A new cat called Rokutama has been appointed trainee station master of two stations. And the other cats that work on the. network have received promotions. So I would just like to congratulate the Kishigawa line, Rokatama cat, for getting its first job as a station cat. What's the cat's name? Rakutama.
Starting point is 00:00:54 Rockutama, nice. That is very nice. Yeah, fun. Good news. Doesn't absolutely everything have a mascot in Japan as well? I guess, yeah, pretty much every company. They sort of famously spend, it's a real sort of money spinner for prefectures. If you come up with a really compulsive, interesting mascot,
Starting point is 00:01:15 people will travel from miles around to come and look at your mascot, and that really does feed the coffers. That famously, that region in Cancelain, I think I can't remember, got given half a million quids for COVID preparedness. And they spent on a big fucking octopus, big squid. Big squid, a massive squid, you know, huge, gun-dam-sized robot, giant robot-side squid.
Starting point is 00:01:41 And it made them like billions of pounds because people would come and see this massive folly. I wouldn't bother. So, yeah. What, what do you mean you wouldn't bother? I just wouldn't bother going. You wouldn't, what, do you go and see the giant squid? Nah.
Starting point is 00:01:54 Yeah, but when you become a meme, they were the original memes, see? Mimers and schemers. Yeah. A bit of Japanese news crossed my desk the other day. It was the, I know what I got served it up in my timeline, but it was the record amount of money ever paid for a bluefin tuna. Do you see that?
Starting point is 00:02:12 Oh, the guy who wants the sushi restaurant. He's a guy who always pays. Kiyoshi Kimura, the tuna kit. He's kind of like, it's not worth that amount of money, but I think it's kind of inflated to sort of say, I've paid $1.1.1 million, this big chumper tuna. 2.4 million pound for one fish. 2.4.
Starting point is 00:02:30 How much sushi are getting out of that for crying out loud? It's apparently a 243 kilo fish. Yeah. But there's no way you are getting much, you know, that amount of tuna back. You're not getting that amount of sushi back in your coffers, are you? Apparently he sells each individual sushi roll for £2.40 a roll. So you've got to do the maths, really. I guess so, I guess so.
Starting point is 00:02:53 A lot. So it makes a lot of sushi. He's quite famous. He's his little chubby faces in all of the restaurants. Always with his arms out going, oh, enjoy. with all of his employees wearing hairnets going enjoy the sushi. But he's a bit of a... There's a lot of like fellas in Japan who kind of are quite public-facing figures.
Starting point is 00:03:16 And they always look the same. They're always fat blocs, smiling, going, yes, good. The bloc who owns Apper Hotel, he is... him and his wife are like figureheads of very big... Like their holiday in or like a... What's better than a holiday? in, maybe like a premier in. And he's kind of like their business hotel magnet.
Starting point is 00:03:37 And he puts a Bible in every room and also a book that he's written about how the Japanese atrocities of the Second World War weren't that bad and a lot of anti-Semitic stuff. And it's the sort of thing you get with. And his wife sells curry at the counter, the front counter. It's the sort of thing that like corporate America, or the homogeneity of, of the world would have kind of like styled out of of of a massive um chain. Well how many is he's going on a lot of hotels? Oh,
Starting point is 00:04:09 there's like, there must be like a thousand hotels in Japan with Apple Hotel. But how does his wife sell curry every single one of them? He did. She says, she wears very interesting hats as well. Um, she sells a little packets of curry,
Starting point is 00:04:20 little, little packets of free, you know, mix it, mix up yourself kind of like, um, uh, strong curry.
Starting point is 00:04:26 Um, the big, the big, the big, the, um, the double tree Hilton is that they give you a warm cookie when you check in, don't they?
Starting point is 00:04:32 Oh, you've seen that? No, why would it be warm? You know the Doubletree brand? It's like a Hilton hotel. They're USP. And I've experienced this directly a number of times.
Starting point is 00:04:42 When you check in, they do your stuff, give you your keys and stuff. And they've got this, like, kind of warm draw, which keeps, like, freshly baked cookies warm. And each person who's staying gets one,
Starting point is 00:04:55 and that's their thing. Right. I don't think that, I don't think that the, um, I don't think, what about if you're like wheat intolerant, like, you know, wheat intolerant, we don't have to have it. Right.
Starting point is 00:05:07 They don't force it down your mouth. Just say yes or no. It's just what they do. So I think it's probably one of those, like, nudge theory, psychological things where people are like, oh, a warm cookie's really nice. And if I'm going to stay in any hotel anyway, I'll just stay in that one because I'll get that cookie, you know? It's that kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:05:26 Yeah, I guess so. I think they should steal a bit of your luggage. Yeah, that'll be moving off. Just a little kind of like, just a little thing. That's my branding. We're allowed one USB charger. We're going to take out your bags. If you leave your bags with us, we're going to steal USB charger off you.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Would you get it back at the end? No, no, no, you just keep it. E-wist. Got a big bin out of the back. If you want it back, it can go out of then. Would you prefer that, or would you prefer the racist fella putting the books in the room? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:05:57 I mean, you can choose not to. read the books, I suppose, but I don't think you should be doing that. I don't think you should be doing that either, to be honest. There was a big for a in, I think, the Olympic teams. He's implicating a lot of other people doing that job for him. He's not him doing it. No, it's not. No, the Olympic teams,
Starting point is 00:06:12 I think, didn't want to stay there because of that, because he's a problem. Still got a company. It's so kind of like, you know, there's so many like companies still owned by the Japanese. It's not a problem. No shareholder goes,
Starting point is 00:06:28 Sorry, can we get rid of this absolute liability, please? I want my little book in the room. Yeah. By the way, have you seen the Stranger Things finale? It would be a strange place for me to start. A strange thing? A stranger thing to start with that one, I think. That would be...
Starting point is 00:06:48 Why haven't you watched it? Just watch it, you're fucking weirdo. There's too many episodes. I've only done two seasons of all. It's long as well. I watched the first bloody... night manager and I was like, this is...
Starting point is 00:07:00 Oh, so the second season came out over Christmas, right? Yeah. Have you watched it? Yeah. Is it good? Because I read the book. I can't really see how there'd be a sequel.
Starting point is 00:07:08 There's a bit of... There's a bit where he's kind of... He's now in charge of... He's now... I forgot out of his Shentrum. His little salad. He's making everyone salads. There's a bit where he's now...
Starting point is 00:07:21 I don't know. Because he was like a hortelier before, wasn't he? And then... The whole point is he... From what I can remember. From what I can remember. From what I can remember. I remember, I've read the book, I've not seen the series, but from what I can remember, he is the concierge or the manager at like a really prestigious hotel, but he's obviously doubling as an undercover spy.
Starting point is 00:07:37 I see, right. So now he's got a job and he's just watching people, terrorists, persons of interest for the MI5, presumably. And he's, and the thing that gets you, whenever you get, like, the lead and he's having to watch something on like a screen, and we'll get back to stranger. things, don't we. And he's watching something on a screen and he's kind of like watching cameras and zooming in and enhancing imagery and stuff like that. Like the easiest way to do something is to do it yourself. But you've always got to have like a little fella or a little lass to sort of move in and out, change camera angles and stuff. And he clearly knows how to run the system. But he's always got to have somebody, he always got to tell somebody how to do it. Enhance. Got a camera three. Yeah. Follow him. And it's like, do it yourself. You've got to do it.
Starting point is 00:08:27 joystick. Follow him yourself, Dickhead. What, he's got a little nerd next to him telling him. He's got a little nerd, yeah, who's doing all who's doing all in Hanson and stuff. I always think that. I always, I always, I always, I always think about when you know, say like there's a situation where there's someone, like someone's been kidnapped in a movie and then
Starting point is 00:08:45 they've, they, they need, they're ransoming that person. Yeah. And they agree to pay the kind of ransom or whatever. Whenever you see that articulated on a movie, The money just goes in bit by bit. What do you mean?
Starting point is 00:09:00 That's in like... Oh, yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 45s. It doesn't happen like that. You just press the button and the money gets transferred. That's it. In no way.
Starting point is 00:09:08 It's not physical. There's nothing physical at goes. You are literally moving a bit of data from here to there. I will transfer that million pounds, but it's going to be, you know, a percent at a time. Yeah. How slow is that? Maybe there's just so much money in these situations that it, maybe that's... I've never transferred more than 10 grand somewhere at a time.
Starting point is 00:09:26 That's my limit. I remember having to get a lot of cash out for something once. Nothing illegal. Right. And I don't know if I told you this. I'd get a lot of cash out. I mean, I'm talking about,
Starting point is 00:09:37 I don't know, it's just years ago, like probably five grand. So, you know, size were a amount of money, but not about anything massive, you know.
Starting point is 00:09:44 And I was in, I went into the branch of the bank and I had my idea. I knew I'd asked me for ID and I had the money. So I gave my car, gave my ID, said a $5,000 pound cash, please.
Starting point is 00:09:55 And I expected them to say, what's a nomination do you want it in or whatever and he was like and the guy was like okay and what's it for sir I was like what? See what's it for? I was like properly agreed I was like I'm not telling you what it's for
Starting point is 00:10:09 don't worry about it just give me the money then his angle was you need to fill this form in to say that you're not being pressured into doing this but you get that now don't you what do you mean?
Starting point is 00:10:23 You get that now every time you transfer I'm sure it's more than 50 quid. Like on the old... Oh no, you get that. On the app. Yeah, you do. Are you going to transfer this into Bitcoin?
Starting point is 00:10:33 Yeah, or they say, you know, criminals will ask you to transfer this now. Yeah. Like, do it, don't feel pressure. I get all that. But like, it just felt weird that... I suppose it's a duty of care thing. But it just felt weird that like...
Starting point is 00:10:46 I mean, that is my money. You're holding that money. I don't want to sound like Matt Lettissio here, you know, but you're holding my money for me, right? Yeah. This is my money. It ain't your money. so don't worry about it.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Do as I ask. I didn't put a gun out or anything. Imagine that. Put a gun out. No. But that's what it felt like you had to do. But if you start getting aggressive, I don't think they're trying to keep your money.
Starting point is 00:11:07 Presumably they've got more than whatever you are rocking in your bank account. But they do have to be careful. They do, you know, about, you know, taking out large amounts of money just in case you're going to buy loads of drugs with it or something. But the money laundering thing is interesting as well because I can remember when I bought this house the girlfriend I had at the time she was using a lump sum for her part of it
Starting point is 00:11:31 and a lump sum part of it was coming I think from her dad's bank account or something here's like holding it for her or something it was like an inheritance thing and I was just on the impression it was like oh just transfer their money into her account and we're transfer it into the
Starting point is 00:11:46 you know the whatever it's the mortgage provides holding a client account or whatever or the solicit as client account Yeah. But when he tried to transfer it to her account, he got a lot of questions about where it came from, what's it for, all this other weird stuff.
Starting point is 00:11:59 And it wasn't even like a mad amount of money. No. So I think obviously I understand money laundering is this, but I feel like you're not really that hot on like the Russians. Well, you are now, but you weren't there. You're not really that hot on the Saudis or the Chinese or all the money being laundered through London grad every fucking day.
Starting point is 00:12:17 But when the ordinary chap wants to pay a pay, a painter and decorator or whatever. Yeah. You can't do it. But maybe the painter of the decorator shouldn't be carrying around all that money. That's his problem. Well, that's his problem. That's his problem, isn't it?
Starting point is 00:12:31 If I've got a pent and decorator in the house and he wants to be paid in cash, that's up to him. Yeah. If he's not going to declare that, it's none of my business. Yeah. He might just say, you know what? I don't want to pay all the fees. I want to buy the supplies I need for the next job in cash, so I'm doing it that way. There's nothing to do with me.
Starting point is 00:12:48 Is that likely? Again, it's nothing to do with me. didn't have been. It's nothing to do with me. I'm not interested in. Presuming this, I mean, it's legal tenders. You can't be, you know, held liable. It's, it's everyone's personal kind of decision to do what they need to do with their tax.
Starting point is 00:13:05 Yeah, to declare their own ins, right? Yeah, exactly, yeah. Totally. You don't know, you don't declare your own ins. I do, I over declare them, if anything. That's the kind of thing you would say, though. That's the kind of thing I would say, exactly. Tell you what you get twitchy.
Starting point is 00:13:16 It's getting towards the end of the month, isn't it, January? I was the, yeah, the, the, I was like, can I, get a, I get a, it's really cold in the cabinet in my office and I was like, can I claim for a radiator to make my office? When you call up HMRC, it comes for all that red phone. He's back here again. He's back, yeah.
Starting point is 00:13:35 I just set up a buy yearly zoom. I'll sit down with him. Are you going to, you got a big fat bills in January, I am? Yes, yes. Have you got the money? No, no. I don't have to do install.
Starting point is 00:13:51 again. But that's my life. That's my life. Well, you just call them up and say, I can't give you the money. What are you going to do about it? Oh, you just sort of go, I'll give it in installments.
Starting point is 00:13:58 That's how it, that's how I did last time. I hope I can do it again. And they said, they just say, yes, they don't ask you what or anything like that. Yeah, I mean, they want the money. They're going to, they're going to levy,
Starting point is 00:14:07 they're going to, you know, take an extra 500 quid out of you. But it's, you know, just is what it is, isn't it? Hi, babe. Back again. Hi, babe, back again. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:14:17 You up? see. Yeah, I ring Moira Stewart and she talks me off the ledge, yeah. But seriously, do you have to pay interest on that? Yeah, I mean, you pay the fine for not giving the money on time. Yeah, but that's a fine. for fine, for the fire later or whatever. No, I don't, I don't think there is.
Starting point is 00:14:35 I think there's, there's percentages if you, if you just don't bother contacting them with a payment plan. I think that's how it works. This is, I mean, there'll be people who are like tax advisors get, you know, who listen to this going, this is terrible. But, so I got a
Starting point is 00:14:51 in my life, children. Well, it's also Pete's personal view and not mine. I'm all above boarding proper with my stuff. I'm a real goody-goody about it. I don't believe that for a second. I put the money aside every month. Investigate. Do you actually? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:15:04 A nerd. What a fucking nerd. What a fucking nerd. I'm a parent and a homeowner. So I need to take some responsibility, don't I? I've got life insurance. That's the ultimate out, in it. No suicide in the first year. Whoop.
Starting point is 00:15:20 Don't Robert Maxwell. yourself. That is incredible thing to say. It's all right. Say that to the HMRC. I've got life insurance. I got life insurance. You'll get your money eventually.
Starting point is 00:15:32 When I eat some dodgy chicken. All right. Let's have a break. When we come back, we'll try and talk about something a bit less depressing. Yes, please. It's time to get back to where we were. Stranger Things finale. Strange and things finale.
Starting point is 00:15:51 Just a lot of kids. One boy who looks like hasn't got any teeth. Bold girl. One long-haired one. Was the long-haired rocker? Is he the last season? Is he in it anymore? The tall man?
Starting point is 00:16:05 I don't know. I mean, what's the cut-off point for spoilers here? Because if you're talking about Stranger Things 4, which is the guy you're referring to, that was the maiden man. I think that was the summer of 2022. Right, okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:16:20 So I think we could probably... Was it a good guy in the end? He was awesome, he's a good character. Yeah, good guy, yeah. Okay, fine, okay. I don't, as soon as I said, have you seen the strange and things finale? I regretted saying it because I thought actually it's not fair to people who were, right, five or six days or whatever it is out from the actual finale airing,
Starting point is 00:16:38 who haven't had a chance to watch it yet, so maybe I just shouldn't say anything. Well, there's a lot of people who are, um, there's a lot of kids who are buying, like, um, uh, Sonny Watmans. Oh, really? That's interesting. because of stranger things and the whole retro vibe obviously you know
Starting point is 00:16:54 nostalgia and retro is pretty popular everywhere but see it like to be is it nostalgia exactly keeping you know keeping the whole e-bis salesman going
Starting point is 00:17:06 buying like really rough versions of like Sony Sony Walkman I used to have a I used to have a great Sony Walkman had a radio on it as well and then after that I had a discman which said it had anti-skip technology but it fucking didn't
Starting point is 00:17:23 do you remember that anti-skip technology it was a big it was supposed to be a big innovation fix or innovation but it really didn't it really didn't didn't work did it? Yeah so I can I can believe that I am I like
Starting point is 00:17:39 the thing is with stranger things is the final season and the finale and stuff it's almost just the most stranger things it could possibly be so like leaning into everything that it's been become loved for. Right, so a lot of like fan service. This is the last, this is the last season then
Starting point is 00:17:55 yeah? It's a final other thing, yeah. It's all wrapped up. It's all wrapped up. I won't, I won't say what happens but it's all wrapped up. And I found it a bit, I found it good. There was a bit of a weird thing in it that I thought was unnecessary and a bit strange. But again, it's stranger things. So maybe I just wasn't prepared to go as strange as they wanted
Starting point is 00:18:13 me too. But what's really interesting is it like this isn't a spoiler. but within it there's all these flashbacks and stuff right because as you'd expect and it's mad how young the kids look in the flashbacks to say things that happen in season one right yeah which i think was shot in 2015 so 10 years ago so i guess the kids would have been 12 or something yeah and now they're in their early 20s and that's like an obvious thing to say but it's completely wild how young they're because one of the things I felt like that was amazing about Stranger Things when it first came out is that the kids and it could actually act.
Starting point is 00:18:58 Now, I don't think generally speaking, you do get the occasional one, of course, you get your McCauley Colkin and your Haley Joel Osmond in the sixth sense and you do get them. But if you watch, for example, the Harry Potter movies, the first couple, the acting is diabolical. I think, but I think child lactors
Starting point is 00:19:14 nowadays, though, they're so good at it. They're about as good as grown-ups were in like the 80s because you get how it was honking up the screen in the 80s and surely it depends what you're in though what film you're in though yeah but I mean even like the best actors
Starting point is 00:19:30 were still not as good as you know the very minimum level that you're uh it's like Premier League football I think anyways you reckon yeah I think so I think so I just I think I love the fact that they picked some kids who
Starting point is 00:19:46 you know at least a couple of them are quite weird looking, distinctive looking, and they could actually act. Right, okay. Because I know that the kid who plays Dustin was in, like, a load of, like,
Starting point is 00:20:01 top-end musicals in Broadway and stuff as a kid. So he was in, like, Lay Miz as Gavrosh, I think, for the boy, the street kid in Lamez for years. I think he, and I think it was the year of, that Lamee Mice won, like,
Starting point is 00:20:16 loads of Tony awards and stuff. So he was like already had a pedigree. And I think Finn Wolfhard who plays Mike was in some other science fiction stuff as a kid, as a even younger kid. So they obviously just found kids that actually do it. But I can't tell you for me personally how much it takes you out of the thing if the kids can't act. Yeah. Well, I mean, why are you watching child-focused TV shows?
Starting point is 00:20:37 A lot of TV shows have kids in them, Pete. Yeah, they do. They do. But I mean, like, what was I watched? I mean, like Ozarks a very good example. They're a couple of very unlikable children. They're teenagers, right? The girl's older, isn't she, isn't that?
Starting point is 00:20:50 Yeah. But again, like, if you cast someone who's like, you know, about 12, the way that, like, TV, if you get, like, more than one season, like, they just age out so quickly and they look completely different. They do. And that is, I think that's, you know, you do have to kind of, you know, suspend your belief that the kids are still essentially in high school in this final season. Because, I mean, it's not quite as bad as Greece.
Starting point is 00:21:16 I mean, the Greece is ridiculous. Isn't one of the kid, like, Isn't there one of the kids literally adopted a child? Yeah. Yeah, so Millie Bobby Brown, who plays 11. She's been married and adopted a kid and everything. Yeah. Yeah, I see.
Starting point is 00:21:30 But in Greece, it's bad, isn't it? You know, the guy's in Greece. Connecticut is a particularly good one, isn't it? Kinicky is the best one. I mean, my goodness, me. Easily in his 40s. I think he, Jeff Connoewey, isn't it? I think, I think, by the time Greece came out, he was, I want to say,
Starting point is 00:21:47 28 and he looks older. Yeah, massively. And yeah, I guess people did back there. And there was a clip of a documentary that the BBC did back in the 80s, I think, where a man, I didn't raise how old he was until I watched the piece all the way through. He basically loves aviation and his, you know, he flies all around the world. I don't know how he does it. He must have been very, very rich indeed. But he flies all around the world.
Starting point is 00:22:12 He loves flying. His favorite thing to do is to fly. and so there's like this guy who just goes all around the place and he's famous for flying as much as anyone and he looks like a really like a really old red-haired kind of like, you know, man who's clearly in middle age and he's like 25. It's like, oh my God, it's absolutely,
Starting point is 00:22:35 because we're not, because people didn't, is it Lux Maxing? People didn't look smacks. They didn't make the most of their, of what they had. Have you seen that, have you seen that, um,
Starting point is 00:22:46 that kind of looks maxing influencer called clavicular. Yeah, he's like a, um, was he, he was on talking about, um, oh, the fucking, he was talking about JD Vance and, uh, the, uh, no, he's talking about Vance and, yeah, that's what I was going to say, he's talking about Vance and Newsom. Newsom. And it's so funny because he's like, he's basically this guy, as you'd expect, fucking influencer looks max, a fucking weird kid.
Starting point is 00:23:12 It's obviously Maga or Jason, like they all fucking are. Yeah. And he's being asked by, I think, a guy from like a really right-wing outlet as well, he was interviewing him about J.D. Vance. And he's so be human, doesn't he? Yeah, and he's saying, well, I'm just going to vote for, I'll just vote for Gavin Newsom. He's said, why? Because it's not even a contest.
Starting point is 00:23:31 Gavin Newsom's a total Chad. J.D. Vance is a, is a, is a fat loser. Yeah. All these, all chads, giga-chad stuff. I mean, it's all for, it's all 4chan Qing on stuff that, you know, Even like mogging and stuff was something you'd read quite a lot. Somebody who is more attractive or alternatively has bigger boobs than someone else who's in the same picture as them, who has smaller boobs or is just not as attractive as that person.
Starting point is 00:24:00 So they're mugging. I don't know really know where the genesis of the word mong comes from. The generation I am and the top of the person I am, I just cannot get past the idea that if I see, if I'm exposed to this, I see anyone talking about it, I see anyone in the sea, I just think instantly virgin yeah pretty much you've never
Starting point is 00:24:22 seen in person or touched a member of the opposite sex yeah I mean whatever you're into you know so looksmax.org is a website that it's worth peeking on because I mean it really is lifting up
Starting point is 00:24:37 a disgusting rock there's you know the forums are back in a big way by the way like there's not too ways about it But these are the Lux Max forum pages. Lux maxing. Lux maxing questions.
Starting point is 00:24:50 Money making and success. Cryptocurrency has got a subheading on that one. Yeah, that's everything in there. Cryptos is, I don't know how, I don't even know how people have like extended conversations about crypto. Yeah. I mean, if they talked, if they talked as, if they worked as much as they talked about it, they'd probably have a bit more, you know, liquidity. If you were Luxmax and Pete, what would you do?
Starting point is 00:25:15 Um, what have I got, I've already got the bum chin and you've already got the quiff. Got a bunch of the quiff? I don't know what you'd, I don't know what you'd do. Maybe a bit of skis. But it sounds like I'm, oh God, I'm perfect. I wouldn't know where to start. I don't know what's gone wrong? You know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:25:32 You did a limb length thing, wouldn't you? Yeah, but like, yeah. Does that count? Does that wear like platform shoes? I just wear little lifts in your shoes. Just do the old Simon Cow? No, no needs to be told. Yeah, I guess so.
Starting point is 00:25:43 I remember this is this is not looks maxing but I guess it's vaguely kind of relevant when I was I used to I used to I might mention this a couple times before in a different way but I used to have a job where part of it was to help oversee the grad program right okay so these kids would come in from uni they'd get accepted to the grad program and they'd work in different departments and you know you do a bit of mentoring and you do like um you know just like overseeing that kind of thing and then a load of them were like like a load of them were like like Like, I guess, I think about when the final year I was there, a load of them were like tech bro types. Yeah. And they would spend all their time together talking about the gym and, I guess not crypto because it wasn't really thinking them, but that type of stuff. And then they weren't bad kids or anything. They were just, and they were all British. They were just, you know, that kind of crowd. And I remember there being a situation where a few of the grads were female.
Starting point is 00:26:42 and they were having a conversation. I wasn't part of the conversation, but I ever heard it because I was in the office. Yeah. Saying that like, they were lamenting kind of like, oh, you know,
Starting point is 00:26:51 I thought that it might be a good, this grad scheme might be a good place to meet a guy and all this kind of shit. But all they are concerned with is going to the gym and making themselves look good, but none of them have got anything interesting to say. And they were having this conversation earshot of like all these other guys. And not why. One of them even acknowledged it. They were just like characters carried on doing what they're doing.
Starting point is 00:27:16 And there was also a time when we went to the Christmas party. And we, we went to a pub before and a bunch of people my age and a bunch of these grads, these young lads. And it was the first time I've ever experienced what you see all the time now, which is young people who haven't ever really like socialized outside properly. They're just all been online. Right.
Starting point is 00:27:38 Yeah. And so they would be saying like outrageous stuff, loudly about people who were in the pub. They didn't know because they just basically were treating it like a forum or a fucking social media thing. I would be really embarrassed to some of the stuff they were saying. So I think, yeah, I sometimes just feel for, and those guys would all be like in there, you know, early 30s now.
Starting point is 00:27:59 But it's obviously getting a lot worse than that now. I kind of feel for this young generation, particularly going through COVID and not really having the opportunity, you know, or not choosing to go and do stuff actually in the real world. It's a weird thing. And that looks maxing things, a massive part of that. Because they get into a rabbit hole where they see probably Instagram and TikTok and forum posts of other people who have taken probably quite manipulative photos themselves
Starting point is 00:28:22 and thinking that's the, that's the, what I have to kind of attain. Honestly, the pages, you know, there's like thousands of replies on each of these little subjects that basically children are put in there on the Luxmax.org forum. There's, um, it literally like how I whiten my teeth better than a dentist. That's worrying. Yeah. Mouth widening guide worrying. Um, this is, uh, let's have a lot.
Starting point is 00:28:50 The eyebrow maxing, mouth widening, big on mouth widening. Why do they want wide mouths? Um, the truth about steroids and peptides affecting, uh, bones and height. Good God. Is it an old person out of touch thing to say, to say that if you are doing this to essentially attract people that you're attracted to, this stuff is going to be paper thin, because
Starting point is 00:29:13 you're not going to have anything to say when you speak to them. But it's kind of, but it's, yeah, but they're like, I'm like beautiful. But it's, this has been happening, remember like you'd go, like, it'd be in like a magazine or a newspaper. In the back, they'd always be like, you know, fucking growth hormone pills
Starting point is 00:29:29 and all that stuff that you would sort of buy vitamins and stuff. But I never thought people actually bought them. Yeah, oh God, why would they have the money to advertise? Of course they do. I mean, it's like, there's like,
Starting point is 00:29:39 uh, but that's your snake oil, right? Yeah, of course it is. How to build facial bone? That's not, how do you build facial bone?
Starting point is 00:29:48 But I just, maybe it's the old, romantic, old fashioned type in me, but I just, nothing is going to make you more attractive to people you want to attract and like,
Starting point is 00:29:58 you know, being interested in stuff, reading books, having experiences, doing things. It's not going to matter that you've got abs or that you,
Starting point is 00:30:07 have your teeth whitened if you are a complete cunt. Yeah, but... In the long term. Well, yeah, in the long term. But they're not looking at the long term, are there? They just want to, you know, but everyone's conforming to the same silly, not the same silly idea about what...
Starting point is 00:30:21 I'll tell you ahead of the next episode. We'll both looks max ourselves in one area. In one area. I'm going to get in this forum, the sleep maxing playbook, understand why and how to have the best deep night, deep night rest possible with this value-packed sleep mackagite. And so the sleep has to be value-packed,
Starting point is 00:30:37 or maybe it's the mega guide that needs to be... I actually do need that. What is a peptide? I thought that was just something you'd sort of eat for if you had a bad tum-tom. Is it? I don't know. Peptides are like,
Starting point is 00:30:49 they're just like hormones, aren't they? Right, okay, yeah, I see. Good God. There's a lot of pain of stuff here as well. I'll tell you what. If anyone could get that sleep guide in the hands of my two-year-old son, that'd be amazing.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Yeah, give them some value, value-packed sleep, please. So it might have to be done like a series of pepper pig episodes, but... What if he clicks on the wrong list? and he's luxemaxing guy to neck training on nasal labial folds.
Starting point is 00:31:13 I don't want him kicking, click on any link. I'd happily not have him on the internet ever. There's nothing, I'm reading this forum, and I'm like, I think I, this is making me feel more attractive. Maybe that's like that gets you. Yeah, right, exactly. Let's get out of here, Peter. We'll be back on Thursday, will we not?
Starting point is 00:31:31 Voice maxing guide. If I had had the voice-marking guard, I don't think I'd probably have a bloody better voiceover career. In the grand scheme, we think you've done very well on the voiceovers. Exactly. I never even get asked to do them at stack, let alone anyone else. All right, then, let's get out of here. This has been the Luke and Pitcho. We're back on Thursday.
Starting point is 00:31:51 Get your bloody emails in for crying out loud, hello, at Luke Pitcho.com is the way to do that. We've also got a little battery section. The battery robot is very excited to get involved with. By the way, quickly before we go, the old live Luke and Pichu episode, as taken off massively on the Football Roundbord people are badgering me about it.
Starting point is 00:32:09 All right, okay. So who knows if that's going to manifest itself at some point? Scary. If people want to go to see us do a show live, just let us know. Little hen and chickens. Little hen and chickens. All right then.
Starting point is 00:32:22 See you later. Let's see you. The Luke and Pete Show is a stack production and part of the ACAST creator network.

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