The Luke and Pete Show - You Ain't No Skunk, You Skunk
Episode Date: August 16, 2021Welcome back to another week of LAPS episodes, guys! Luke is back after some time away and he's telling stories about little critters making big smells.Elsewhere, they're asking that age-old question:... What would you do if your son was at home, crying all alone on the bedroom floor 'cos he's hungry? And the only way to feed him is to sleep with a man for a little bit of money? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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All right, here we go.
I'm warmed up now after that Capital One business.
Let's do it.
Pete, can I...
I want to keep that in because you sounded orgasmic.
What would you do, Pete, if your son was at home,
crying all alone on the bedroom floor because he's hungry,
and the only way to feed him is to sleep with a man,
and for a little bit of money but your daddy's gone
so where's the lockdown in the lockdown i ain't got a job now so for you this is just a good time
but for me this is what i call life ooh with my consumption of uh strip clubs look that is my life
a lot of people listening will remember that song. Yes. What they won't remember is that
is an autobiographical
account of your
life Pete Donaldson.
Yeah exactly.
It's all about me.
Smoke and rock
and stripping.
City High Donaldson.
City High.
That was that band
wasn't it?
In and out of lockdown.
That's what they say
about you.
What happened?
They're the sort of
act that may have
there was a London
festival.
Hello by the way
this is Luke Beecher.
Pete Donaldson with you.
It's the 16th of
oh god August
Jesus Christ
and yeah
we're in a situation
where we're talking
about City High
there was a festival
at weekend before last
that was in London
and it was like
the home of like
R&B
and kind of like
dancey acts and stuff
and nobody turned up
none of the acts
turned up
I remember Maya
from
yeah
she was one of not MIA I remember Maya from she was one of
not MIA
a different one
no
she was one of
all I wanted to do
was boom boom boom
no no no
she's actually really good
yeah she's very popular
with the hipsters
but this one was the one
who did the Rugrats movie
song and also
she was part of
Lady Mamalade
with all of the
Christian Aguilera
which I'm just
a tiny little
little bird
hey I'm Lady Mamalade yeah I went back from the mic because I was just going to give it some all of the Cristiano Aguilera tiny little little bird tiny little bird
yeah
I went back from the mic
because I was just
going to give it some
so
she was in the country
she didn't manage to get there
because of a COVID thing
she was pinged or whatever
and literally
none of these acts
turned up
some people just turned up
and they played 10 minutes
it was apparently
the fire festival
of London
how have I not heard more about it?
I know, I know.
What's this got to do with City High?
It's the sort of band
that would have played that
or not played it
in this particular case.
They only had one song, City High.
What happened?
Creative differences?
Yeah, I don't know really.
I just thought,
we've come,
listen,
we've done what we came here to do.
Yeah.
You'd think that they'd have more
in the tank though,
that's what I don't understand.
Yeah.
Confusing.
Yeah, very confusing.
Yeah welcome to
the Luke and Pete
show for a Monday
and Pete how
pleased do you
think I was that
when I was off for
a week the show
came out late?
Yeah yeah I mean
you were in what
do you call it
Suka?
No what do you
call it you were
in when you're
happy?
Oh yeah.
Is it Suka?
You can get
Suka from something. It's like a kind of like sustenance. Yeah yeah. Sucker suka? You can get suka from something.
It's like a kind of
like sustenance.
Yeah,
it's a sucker,
sucker.
I was in clover.
Clover,
that's it,
yeah.
That's annoying.
You thought I didn't
do anything.
What do you mean?
What,
just look on your podcast app?
He probably does nothing,
so I just carry on
as I normally carry on.
And it fell over
because I am
the organised one.
You don't edit the show,
I edited the show. I've organised for you to edit it. Right, I am the organised one. You don't edit the show. I edited the show.
Well, I've organised for you to edit it.
Right, okay, fine, fine.
I mean, what I would say is that when you click publish now
and it says this has been published,
there's a secret handshake there that makes you think
that's probably been published.
Not even that secret.
Not even that secret.
It's quite obtuse.
If you were going to do a secret handshake,
say we had to have a secret handshake here. Wouldn't do it with the back end of certain systems that we've Not even that secret. It's quite obtuse. If you were going to do a secret handshake, say we had to have a secret handshake here.
Wouldn't do it with a back end of certain systems that we've got to deal with.
Wouldn't do it with any back end.
Could be problematic.
It's a workplace.
Because you know that,
have you ever seen that video of that basketball coach?
I think he's of a high school
or a college basketball coach in the US.
And he's got a big cohort of basketball,
well, maybe,
big cohort of basketball players.
And he's got an individual complicated handshake with every single one of them.
Yes, you see that when he teaches at schools and stuff.
And the video shows him doing it with every single one of them.
He doesn't get anything wrong.
What would yours be?
With me?
I just don't want to touch anyone.
No.
Can't do it in COVID now, can you?
Yeah, I'd put my hand on my chest and just do a little nod.
A little Japanese bow. I'd be my hand on my chest and just do a little nod a little Japanese bow
I'd be underwhelmed by that
why
well yeah but
I'd be saying sweet nothings
as I did it
I'd love
ah pleased to meet you
yeah
it's quite Japanese
yeah
quite on brand
quite on brand
I was in the US
that's why I wasn't here
last week everyone
yes
I didn't want to make it clear
just in case you were
I don't know
a terrorist risk
an Air Force One.
I was allowed to go there.
I've ticked all the boxes.
Did all the admin.
Don't know the eyes.
Oh and believe me
there was admin.
Was there.
Is it a pain in the arse
to get in and out
and all that stuff?
Bearing in mind that
whether you've got COVID
it's very binary isn't it?
And we've got systems that
make it clear
whether you've got it or not.
Yeah.
So why these can't be
employed at AirPods
I don't know.
Yeah I think to be fair,
I think it's probably,
so the British are being harsher about it
than the Americans are.
Yeah.
So coming back into Britain
was quite tough.
Right.
And getting on a British Airways flight,
because I guess all the responsibility
has been devolved to the airlines.
Yes.
You kind of understand.
That was quite tough.
So I was only able to go
because I'm the husband of an American national. tough. So I was only able to go because I'm the husband
of an American national.
Yes.
So I had to show
our marriage certificate.
But you had to show
COVID tests,
had to show...
So America won't recognise
our vaccines.
So they don't need to give a shit
about the vaccine.
That's right, okay, yes.
They're coming back in,
they want to know
if you're double vaxxed,
they want to know
if you've booked your day two
test to release thing,
they want to have
a passenger locator form.
You had to wear your mask
the whole flight.
That's really interesting
that they don't allow you to,
that they don't accept your vaccines
because you've been in a situation where,
it's like you've been vaccinated.
It would be quite political if they allowed,
if they didn't ratify certain vaccines for America,
but accepted foreigners,
the foreign version of it, so to speak.
Interesting.
But I think it might be because,
so I don't think America distribute the AstraZeneca vaccine. No, no, no. And that's what I've got. Interesting. But I think it might be because, so I don't think America distribute the AstraZeneca vaccine.
No, no, no.
And that's what I've got.
Yeah.
So maybe something to do with that.
Actually, wearing the mask on the flight wasn't that bad.
No.
It actually helped me sleep better, weirdly.
Do you have it over your eyes?
Yeah, no, because you know that on the plane,
the air's really dry.
Yeah.
But the mask on, it's kind of less dry.
Moistening up.
Yeah, that makes sense, I suppose.
It could be a coincidence,
but I slept very well on both
flights and it doesn't normally happen.
Did, like
Mr. T used to do on
the A-Team, did your partner give you
a glass of milk or a beef burger?
How'd I get here?
You ate the beef burger. It happens every time, Mr. T.
I'm an American now.
Speaking of when I was an American, so something happened
which I thought you might be interested in.
So we went over there
to surprise my father-in-law,
Elsie.
Shout out, Elsie.
He'll be listening.
He always listens to
the Luke and Pete show.
I'm imagining you
jumping out of a snowman
even though it's summer.
It was about 35 degrees.
It wouldn't be very
well thought through.
He'd have to get back
quite quick.
Yeah, yeah.
No, we surprised him
and he didn't know
and it was great
and it was a great
birthday present for him.
Fun.
It was his birthday.
So anyway,
and what we did on the first night we were there
is we had a nice fire pit in the garden.
It was a beautiful evening,
and the garden's big,
so got the fire pit out,
and Evan, my brother-in-law,
Mimi's brother,
is an outdoorsman.
Yeah.
So his job is tracking animals
in different parts of the country. He's doing, I think he's doing tortoises So his job is tracking animals in different parts of the country.
He's doing, I think he's doing tortoises at the moment.
But he's done loads of different stuff.
Sage, grouse, all sorts of different bits.
Anyway, the point is, a lot of the time it means that he has to live outside.
So he's got like a converted car thing where he sleeps in his car if it's cold or whatever.
Anyway, they made up a big chili and a cobbler and some corn
and we cooked it all
on the open fire
and it was a great evening
right
it was really griffon
we had a lot of nice food
and we'd just sit around chatting
so
about ten
when it was
it had gotten dark
and their garden's big
one of their dogs
Aspen
legged it down
to the bottom of the garden
and all this commotion
started happening
and
to cut a long story short or or to turn a long story boring,
as my dad would say, he'd killed a skunk.
Oh, wow.
He'd chased after a skunk like it was a squirrel and killed it.
Yeah.
Have you ever smelt a skunk?
No.
Stinky dog now.
Nothing on earth can prepare you for how much it stank
so basically right
if I said to you
you're in a social occasion
and there's a horrible smell
so someone dropped their guts
or whatever
I know what you're thinking
because you're British
so you never would have seen a skunk
so you'd be thinking
that's annoying
it stinks
oh yeah
what an annoying thing
no no
your eyes are going to hurt
I'm going to tell you now
night's over
the night's over
the night is over
right
even though it was outdoors
the night is over
because the dog
now smells of skunk
imagine
right
an overpowering smell
that inhibits
everything you're wearing
and everywhere you're going
and it stinks of
rotten garlic crossed with gas going and it stinks of rotten garlic
crossed with gas.
Right.
And it was
mad.
I just was not prepared
for how something natural
could produce something like that.
Up time skunk
gonna give it to you.
Don't believe me,
just smell.
Don't believe me,
just sniff, baby.
Oh.
Do you know what I thought to myself?
You know when you saw the hippo
get hit with the tea tray
and you thought,
I'm never going to see that again.
I'm never going to see that again, yeah.
For about five minutes, I was thinking, that's really annoying
because I was having a really nice time, and now this skunk's ruined it.
The second thing I thought was, I wish Pete was here to smell this.
Because I'm not going to be able to articulate to him properly
how badly it smelled.
I mean, people listening will know.
If you've got a skunk story, email it in,
hello at lukeandpeach.com.
Larry,
the great LC,
said to me,
that was only a juvenile skunk.
It gets worse than that.
And I was like,
get out.
It can't get worse than that.
Everyone get on the fire.
This is a great way
of describing it.
It's outside.
The next day,
it still smelt outside.
So what happened? It just popped it or something and it just went everywhere. They get scared and it still smelled outside. So what happened?
It just popped it or something?
It just went everywhere?
No, it gets scared.
It fires that out.
It just fires it out.
Oh, lordy.
That's horrible.
But did Big Larry get his birthday fun?
Yeah, he loved his surprise.
He loved the excitement of his skunk getting popped.
He had some time off work, so we spent some time together.
It was great.
My point is
just the
the kind of
you know
the interesting part of the story
I suppose
is just the fact that a skunk
got involved
and I wasn't expecting it
part of the party
yeah
you see a lot of different
you see a lot of different animals
around that you don't see here
so you see chipmunk
chipmunk
they're quite cute
yeah they're cute
you see skunk
you see raccoons
yeah
which are
I mean
everyone hates raccoons in the US,
but I've never really had my bin
turned upside down by them.
And I just think they're really cute.
Yeah.
So I'm cool with raccoons.
You get possum as well.
You get all sorts.
I saw a couple of turkey vultures
while I was out there.
Oh, weirdly, speaking about,
sorry to bring it back to chipmunks,
we talked about chipmunks a little while ago.
A lot of them have got the plague in California.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We talked about it on the show a couple of shows ago.
Yeah.
Apparently in Lake Tahoe in California,
one of the beaches was closed down
because a number of chipmunks tested positive for the plague.
You don't need that from Chippendale, thank you.
No, and I think...
No, thanks.
I think given the 18 months that the world's just been through
I think apparently July
was the hottest month
since records began
Covid
forest fires
in California
obviously
and elsewhere
Afghanistan
Afghanistan
the fall of Kabul
what else do we need
plague
yeah
that's just on the chart
isn't it
plague
I'm glad I got Covid out of the way
by the way
a truly seismic event happened
and I'm staring at the evidence right now out the window.
You drove into the office today.
I did, yeah.
Can I just say, when you turned up,
and I hope you don't think this is me being disrespectful,
when you turned up this morning,
I think you looked the most stressed I've ever seen you.
You looked white.
I'd just been told that one of the dogs had gone missing.
Oh, he's back now though, right?
Got out of the side gate yeah Buckley
is he the old one
yeah
he loves a stroll
bless him
so yeah
I'm going to
stop buying wicks
and get a gate latch
because
they love a stroll
right but he's back now
he's fine
so that's why you're stressed
not the drive
no the drive
is pretty stressful
but it was like
it took longer than
obviously it takes longer than you envisage.
You can't really, you know, you do two hours of driving,
you're like, bloody hell, I'm knackered now.
It's really sort of concentration.
It's a bit of a pain in the bum.
But, and also I listened,
I tried to listen to something a bit more involved,
but then I just turned it over to,
five hours stressing me out
because of the Afghanistan airport situation.
So I was like, this is horrible.
So I turned it over to my favourite radio station.
A radio station,
I think I might want to reinvigorate my radio career.
I would like a job on Chris Country,
the Christian country music station
that is in the UK.
That's one of those in the UK?
One of them in the UK.
DAB?
DAB, yeah yeah I don't know
I don't know why
I've got access to it
but it has become
rapidly my favourite
station
simply because
all of the songs
are fucking ridiculous
from start to finish
fucking ridiculous
they're all
God-fearing songs
but also drinking songs
yeah
it's all about
drinking too many shots
and having
unprotected sex
but also
God is good
God is glory.
It's very
very bizarre.
I want to be clear
And they're all presented
by people from like
Birmingham.
Yeah I want to be clear
with our listeners
because I'm not sure
this myself.
Are the songs
American songs?
All American songs
though there are
an increasing amount
of bands who you know want to take the, the old country dollar, the country cousin dollar, and move out there and do shows out there and become quite big names.
There's one song that really makes me laugh, and it's a little bit like the Billy Joel We Didn't Start the Fire, but for stuff what southern folks would like.
It's like, chicken on a sunday in a nice
car race and it's just like this is pathetic i think that's a song i think that might be
the name's gonna escape me now there was dirt on daddy's clothes it's not helping me think we
didn't we had it all but we didn't have much that's a a famous song. Is it? By the son or the grandson
of a really famous country act.
We had it all
but we didn't have much.
Justin Moore.
Oh, no, it's not what I'm thinking of.
There's a famous song
about what would have happened
if the South had won the Civil War.
Right.
It talks about all the things
that are great about the South
in the modern day.
Yeah.
So basically,
it's American country song.
Yes. Presented by Capital Radio DJs. Yeah. So basically, it's American country songs. Yes.
Presented by Capital Radio DJs.
That sounds jarring.
It's bizarre.
Is it jarring?
It is jarring, yeah.
It is.
Could you do it?
Oh, it'd sound worse than them.
Because they sound slick.
As slick as dead as oil ranch. How do they do it?
They go,
What's an oil ranch?
Oh, you don't know.
They go,
Hello there. That's not Birmingham, is it? Coming up next. Straight an oil ranch? Oh, you don't know. They go, hello there,
I,
that's not Birmingham,
is it?
Coming up next,
that's West Country.
Alright there,
alright there.
Coming up next on
Chris Country,
we're going to have
Justin Moore
with a song called
We Didn't Have Much.
Hello, I'm Irish now.
But the lyrics,
do you want to hear the lyrics?
I can see why that's confusing.
Do you want to hear the lyrics
from We Didn't Have Much?
Tonka trucks and GI Joes
Jumping those hills with a Luke and Bo
Plaster cap guns and a swimming hole
Don't get no dirt on your church clothes
It's so shit!
But this is released in 2021!
You could write...
Fucking hell!
Remember when you used to do YouTube videos for our channel?
That's the kind of song you would do.
I kind of want to write a fucking country song.
Dog barking in the yard at a truck we don't know
All we had was us We had a little bitty house and a lot of love We had it all We didn't have much I kind of want to write a fucking country song. Dog barking in the yard at a truck we don't know.
All we had was us.
We had a little bitty house and a lot of love.
We had it all.
We didn't have much.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not great, is it?
I can still hear grandma reading that red leather book of John.
When I used to manage a band, right,
there used to be a weird combination of,
so one of them really liked pop music.
One of them really liked pop music one of them really liked um like punk yeah
the other one
really liked like
um like power
pop type kind of
super furry animals
yeah
gawky that kind
of stuff and
one of them
really loved um
metal like really
loved metal
was there a place
where they could
all agree
yeah they used to
bring all these
different things to
the table it was
quite interesting
uh but at one point
I remember one of them
brought a band
called Striper
to the table
and this was back in the day
so he made CDRs
of a Striper album
gave them to all of us
yeah
and
I don't know
it wasn't the kind
the era where you would
just look on the internet
for everything
I started playing it
and the album was actually
an album called
I think it was called Soldiers Under Command.
Oh, they're like a Christian heavy metal band.
And it was Christian metal.
And I remember thinking, like, this is really odd
because aesthetically it's basically just like glam metal or whatever.
But the lyrics are all about God.
Yeah.
And it's a very, very strange thing.
There's something about Christian music that is...
Look, I need to clarify this,
because Christians obviously can make great music.
You know, amazing blues musicians, gospel, that kind of stuff.
But I'm not talking about Christians who make music.
I'm talking about Christian music.
Yes.
Which is...
Difficult sometimes.
Universally shit. it's always shit
and I'm not even
talking about when
you know
you know
Hellhounds on my tail
Robert Johnson
one of the greatest
blues musicians ever
that's a song about faith
but it's not a Christian
blues song
we're talking about
DC talk
yeah
yeah exactly
so I wonder why that is
because the other thing
about it that's interesting
is I do this album listening session with my friends once a week,
every week, never miss it.
We've done 100 records now.
And what's fascinating is,
one of the records we listened to was by the Congos, right?
Yeah.
Heart of the Congo.
It's a classic reggae record.
I think it's one of Lee Scratch Perry's first productions or or whatever all of it is about it's basically christian music but become reason for
some reason because it's really authentic reggae it sounds really cool yeah if if if we listened
to a christian metal album i just don't think it would there'd be no i wouldn't feel there'll be
any merit to it i don't know why it's cynical it can appear cynical
at times I think
no I don't think it does
I think they're authentic
I think they believe it
oh no
there's just too much money
in me mate
that's what I mean
I just don't buy
country's massive
well country's massive
and Christian countries
are just as big
I imagine
but I just find
the music
and the reason why
I enjoy listening to it
and I listen to hours of it.
You know, when I'm driving,
I'm all listening to it.
I probably took about six hours to get in this one.
It's Chris Country.
And all I'm doing is listening to that.
And the thing that makes me laugh is like,
it's very comforting.
And it reminds me of being on holiday.
It reminds me of being in like Texas or something.
Yeah, I can see that.
So it brings back the time when I could travel.
So that's why I love it so much.
And yeah, I've decided I'm going to be a big country star.
The generation, I'm not sure that'll happen.
The generation of us that we are is like,
it's funny, isn't it?
Because I drove down to the West Country a couple of weeks ago
and I was flicking through the channels
and I flicked onto Kistery, you know,
the old school Kistery station.
And they were playing,
I bring you flowers in the boring rain.
And it was wicked
and I listened to it
for about another hour
hoping for another good song
to come on
but one didn't
I could have just put Spotify on
but I didn't
because the radio's different
anyway
Tim Gaines
recently issued a statement
in regards to his departure
from Striper
my recent demise
within the Striper camp
came about because
I actually have testicles.
I stood my ground
when I was taught
to give up the woman I love
who is now my wife
or get fired.
What an ultimatum
in 2017 for Striper.
For a Christian band as well.
Christian band,
I know, right?
Crazy.
Let it,
let little,
little dogs lie?
Let things lie.
I thought you were going to say
let love in.
Let love in, guys.
It's let sleeping dogs lie.
Let sleeping dogs lie. But also, as we
know, if they're pissed on the bed. You lie
down with dogs, you get fleas. Exactly.
Let's have a break, Peter. Yeah, we've got about
five minutes left of this show. We're nattering like
bloody buggers.
And we're back. It's the
Luke and Pete show, part two, on your
Monday. What have you got on the
email train, Luke?
Climb aboard it.
Don't get your legs caught underneath the tracks, please.
Will there be a buffet car?
There will be a buffet car.
You're serving up more emails.
Yes, please.
Very expensive emails.
Chicken sashimi.
Raw chicken sashimi.
Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com is the email address.
We are at LukeandPeteShow on Twitter and Instagram.
We don't
do much tweeting or
Instagramming but I
mean it is worth
following us for the
time that we do
true what a
rigging endorsement
for our social media
that is I've got an
email here from
Daniel who says
good afternoon Luke
and Pete I hope you're
well I'm a couple of
episodes behind and
I've just listened to
the episode sunburnt
nostrils a colleague
I have access to
recently ran in the Suffolk Backyard Ultra.
Now, Sunburnt Nostrils,
for those of you who haven't listened to that episode,
is based on the fact that some people
do an ultramarathon in Death Valley.
Just a quick recap.
And the sun is so hot and the heat is so intense
that the reflection from the asphalt on the road
reflects up their nostrils
and gives them sunburnt nostrils
on the inside of their nose.rils and gives them sunburnt nostrils on the inside
of their nose anyway daniel picks up the story again by saying a colleague i have access to yeah
as i said recently ran in the suffolk backyard ultra although it's slightly different to a usual
marathon i thought you might be interested the difference is this the competitors have to complete
4.167 miles or seven 7km for your European listeners,
lap every hour to stay in the race.
So every hour they have to have done just over 4 miles.
At the Suffolk Backyard Ultra, the winner ran for 81 consecutive hours,
beating the previous record of 75 hours, or 312.5 miles.
They would have to eat and take power naps
between laps in order to keep running.
A remarkable achievement of human endurance,
Daniel. I mean, that is incredible.
I mean, that's, that is...
I think something should be taken
out of people's hands.
I don't think you should be allowed to do that.
You shouldn't be allowed to do that, I don't think.
So Pete, on that basis,
so 4.1 miles an hour isn't that tough.
That's a fast walk.
Right.
To put it in perspective,
if I go out for a walk,
I normally do about three and a half miles an hour.
A lot of people will do four miles an hour.
I remember Sir Ian Botham,
used to famous on his long walks to John O'Groats,
used to do
about four and a half
miles an hour
so what I'm saying
is it's not
an unachievable walk
knowing that
what could you do
I could do
well I'll do three then
no but I'm saying
how many hours
could you go for
oh
in the current shape
you're in
oh god
three maximum
three hours
yeah
you reckon three hours just walking oh I'd be done In the current shape you're in? Oh, God, three maximum. Three hours? Yeah.
You reckon?
Three hours just walking.
Oh, I'd be done.
I wouldn't be able to walk for the rest of the month.
But yeah, I think I can do three hours.
You could do more than that.
I couldn't. I couldn't.
I'm not very fit, Luke.
That's why I got a car.
I reckon I could do...
I reckon I could probably do eight.
Right.
Eight hours.
All right, we'll start now and come back.
A day's work.
I don't think...
I mean, I did about a 30-kilometre walk in the lakes
with Mimi a while back.
Admittedly, I wasn't checking my pace,
but at the same time,
it was a lot of undulating hills and stuff.
I reckon I could do eight.
I mean, let's agree that 81 is mad.
Yeah, no, that's...
Because that is 24.48.
That's three and a half days.
But what's the power naps between laps?
How long are they?
I guess if he's doing
four miles in an hour,
I guess what he's probably doing
is he's running,
say he's running
at eight minute miles,
he can do the miles
in what, 40 minutes?
Yeah.
And then do 20 minute nap,
I guess.
Nap, right.
Yeah, because I find
that you can nap
for like five minutes
and back on top.
It's funny that, isn't it?
Do you remember that TV show,
that show they had back in the day,
they'd never been able to do it now,
called Shattered,
where it was like you stay up for as long as you can.
Right.
And the one who stays up the longest...
Wins.
Basically gets a big prize,
a lot of money at the time.
You'd start being quite delirious after that, wouldn't you?
So it was in 2004, I was looking it up now,
the 10 contestants were challenged with going in without sleep for seven days
while their actions were constantly monitored.
Over the seven days, the 10 housemates had to endure daily performance testing
and a variety of challenges,
and they were competing for a potential prize for under £100,000.
But if they closed their eyes for over 10 seconds, any of them,
£1,000 was taken from the pot.
But you could kind of them, £1,000 was taken from the pot.
But you could kind of surely open your eyes,
because some people can just sleep without their eyes closing, no?
It's not great, though, is it?
It's not ideal.
One of the things that,
so this is the interesting thing,
one of the things that came off the back of it
and why I don't think it'll ever be done again
is apparently, although research had been done
into the effects of sleep deprivation,
no one really knew what to expect.
And there was a lot more hallucinating
than they thought.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
You got loopy after a while, didn't you?
Contestant Chris believed himself
to be the Prime Minister of Australia.
Yes.
Dean and Jonathan were convinced
their clothes had all been stolen.
And Claire began telling fabricated stories
of when she was arm wrestling
Irish boxer Joey Ruin,
none of which happened.
Lovely.
And finally for now,
Jimmy became irrationally angry
when the others refused to put on their Japanese armour
and play with an imaginary ball.
That sounds like an excellent shot.
So the winner endured 178 hours of sleep deprivation.
Right.
There we go.
That's just too much, isn't it?
I wouldn't want to do it.
No amount of money could get me to do it.
No.
I mean, you just know for a fact that
if you had heart palpitations in the next month,
you'd be like, well, I've fucked it, haven't I?
I've absolutely fucked it.
I think you probably have to be a little bit weird
to agree to do it.
And the other thing they did apparently as well
is they did an hour-long challenge every day
where one person had to do a challenge for an hour,
which essentially was designed to help them go to sleep.
Right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So like counting sheep on TV was one of them,
listening to a bedtime story, cuddling a giant teddy bear, and a face massage.
But you would, oh, mate.
But you would, that's the thing about sleep.
There is nothing more delicious than sleep when you know that you're allowed to go to sleep. But you would... That's the thing about sleep. There is nothing more delicious than sleep
when you know that you're allowed to go to sleep.
But you know what's interesting, Pete?
It's a really interesting reflection
of what the internet used to be like in 2004.
Yeah.
Where it was that Wild West kind of quite quirky,
really interesting place
before it's become that total hellscape that it is now.
That TV's like a reflection of that
because although that's probably quite dangerous
and maybe, you know,
I don't know the science behind it,
but perhaps rightly so it shouldn't
be done again
and created by people
who don't sleep
due to chemicals
yeah
the executive producer
was like
I don't fucking sleep
anyway
but it's
at the very least
it's an interesting
idea for a TV show
right
isn't it
I mean it's quite
a cool thing
well did you
did you watch
you probably didn't
watch the clip
I sent you
a documentary
a Japanese TV show I can't watch just to I sent you, a documentary Japanese TV show?
I can't watch, just to put it in perspective,
and everyone listening will realise why,
I can't watch anything you send me unless I'm on my own.
Well, that's fair, but, I mean,
the WhatsApp preview was a link to Dailymotion,
which doesn't hold hardcore pornography, however much you look.
No, it's not about hardcore pornography,
it's about the fact that you might
it might be something
really weird
and inappropriate
well it was called
Documentals in Olympic
yeah that's probably
why I didn't click on it
I'm watching
Boardwalk Empire
with my wife
I'm not clicking on that
good show
great show
oh but if bloody
oh no no no
I've not finished it yet
what?
I'm only three episodes in
don't be piping up
with anything Donaldson
it's just Game of Thrones
all over again
you and your bastard dragons
oh dear
alright then
yeah
basically it's a TV show
where a lot of Japanese
comedians
are just in a room
by themselves
right
and they have to
make each other laugh
by doing like
little jokes
and stuff like that
and the first person to laugh
gets thrown out
nice
until the winner is...
Do it on this show.
Yeah, exactly.
Be there for eight hours.
But this guy's one little skill,
he calls it the...
He calls it the In Olympics.
And it's basically a room full of very unhealthy looking men.
And this guy, probably the least unhealthy looking man,
a Japanese chap, big, uh, glasses.
Yeah.
Um,
So any of them laugh, they're out.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So this, uh,
He's trying not to laugh now.
It's everyone's trying not to laugh.
After this man has done this thing with his body.
Um,
here we go. Look. So this man, uh, thing with his body. Here we go, look.
So this man is trying to make people laugh by doing the following.
He's taking his top off.
He's wearing red briefs.
Red pants.
Yeah.
Can someone say, ready, go?
You'll figure out the rules.
Here we go.
Ready, go.
He's a man.
He's just pulled out his pants really quickly
and just spread his cheeks.
Yeah.
And he's called up the N-Olympics
and the alarm's gone off
because someone's been spotted laughing, basically.
I would not be able to not laugh at that.
No.
And some of them are...
One man was laughing at him
because he had a toilet roll in his cheeks.
One man is pretending
he isn't laughing
so he tries to turn it
with a yawn.
He's decimated the field there.
What a power move.
What a power move.
Pull down the kegs,
just pull it apart
and then look.
People were expecting
something different.
They were.
That's why.
Yeah, they were.
That's the key to great comedy
isn't it?
Expectation versus reality.
Or just show them your anus.
Yeah.
Let people look up your anus.
Get your bum out.
Get your bum out.
That's about all we've got time for for today's Luke and Pete show. How could we possibly follow that? your anus. Yeah. Let people look up your anus. Get your bum out. Get your bum out. That's about all we've got time for
for today's Luke and Pete show.
How could we possibly follow that?
What an ending.
In many ways,
it was entirely predictable
that it would end with a Japanese man
getting his bum out.
Not just the bum though, is it?
It's the anus.
It's the anus.
I mean,
you just feel like you're a bit assaulted
when you see a man's anus.
Yeah.
You just do
I can remember once
being on a WhatsApp group
squeeze this in before we go
so to speak
a WhatsApp group
where I was supposed to go
on the Stag Weekend
and I couldn't go
for whatever reason
it was years ago
but I was left on the WhatsApp group
yeah
and so all the stuff
that was happening
was contextual to them
in whatever
Eastern European city they're in
yeah
but it wasn't to me
yeah
at one point
photograph of an anus
anyone you recognise?
loads of laughing
emojis for everyone else
for me
I'm just sat in the office
context is everything
yeah
but you won't open
my whatsapps
pathetic
I learnt my lesson then
that's why I won't do it now
disgusting
I'll open yours
when they're not links
if they're links
I can't do it
just check the site
Dailymotion's not going to show anything.
YouTube's not going to show anything.
Yeah.
If you see 4chan.org, you've got issues.
The people I'm with, I'm worried about the contextual...
Live leak.
No.
No.
Lemon party.
Lemon party, yes.
All right.
We'll be back on Thursday with more Lemon and Peach Show.
Yeah.
And if you'd like to get in touch with the show,
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until Thursday and
we'll see you then.
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