The Luke and Pete Show - Damn butterfly effect
Episode Date: October 17, 2022Today’s the day! Luke and Pete are back with a big announcement… *drumroll please*... legs are coming to the Metaverse!Join us in celebrating that major news on today's show. We also discuss the c...oncept of infinity and how it means that Pete will one day turn into a dog turd and hear about how we unknowingly caused an incident that sent a listener to hospital.Have we ever caused an incident in your life? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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So they took an electric car and they drove it from the north of Sweden to the bottom of Sweden.
And you've got to understand, Sweden is a long country.
And it took them 24 hours because they had to charge the car.
That's not going to work.
That's not petrol all the way, baby.
Gas all the way, baby.
That's a conversation two men were uh in front of me in a
chinese restaurant in los angeles uh about uh electric cars uh when do you ever need to drive
from the top of sweden to the bottom of sweden uh is what i wanted to ask listen it's a great intro
it's a great intro absolutely clear i don't feel like i need to kind of no look at that or speak
to that response that i just like to bathe in the splendor of that it's the look of peach show
we're back great great great to speak to you peter and great to speak to that or respond to that I just like to bathe in the splendour of that so Luke and Pete show we're back
great to speak to you
Peter
and great to speak
to our lovely
Luke and Pete show family
electric cars
Chinese food
oh
that's what I had
a couple of weeks ago
in Los Angeles
a dipped
beef sandwich
I was kind of
googling
well
beef dripping
which is
I mean it's just more
beef really isn't it
that's their kind of like what's the famous thing that...
Make it more fatty.
What's the famous meal in LA?
And one of the famous meals was that basically.
And I was like, well, I mean, again, you're just dipping it in more beef.
It was already in the beef.
It's not going to make it more beefier.
But apparently a French restaurateur chef was making a beef sandwich for a client in the morning.
And the guy was in a hurry.
And he actually, as all of these stupid stories go, and he accidentally dropped the sandwich in some beef dripping.
And the guy said, just give me the sandwich.
I've got to go.
I've got a busy meeting.
I've got an important meeting.
I've got to get to it.
Give me the dripping beef sandwich.
And then he came back and he went, can you dip it in beef again because that was delicious yesterday and therefore the los angeles dipped sandwich exists how many
years ago did that happen do you reckon i think it was the early 19th early 20th century i believe
and um did you enjoy it uh it was all right. It was just like a weak gravy on beef sandwich, really.
Yeah, I don't really understand the charm, to be honest.
But anyway, this is the Luke Page Show.
I'm Pete Donaldson.
I'm joined by Luke Moore.
And once again, we're doing what we do 10th best.
We talk about nonsense.
Stuff that's happened over the weekend,
stuff that's happened over your weeks. We read out some
emails. We occasionally touch on some battery
brands. Yeah, that's on a Thursday
though, so if you want that today, you're fresh out of luck.
No, listen to an old one.
Keep walking, Grandad.
Peter, we can
only start today's show with the
absolutely seismic news
and it is seismic news
that your friend and mind uh our
humble and very beneficial overlords at meta have announced that um leg legs are coming to the
metaverse the legs are coming to the metaverse how is that an update that comes later so like
meta creating this fucking metaverse
uh and it's a meta what you can do is you can be yourself imagine the presentation you can be
yourself in the metaverse you can do this you can interact with those people you can go anywhere in
the world it's an amazing completely freeing you know beautifully egalitarian idea of decentralization
you know the experiences you're going to be able to enjoy and you know you
won't have any legs and hang on what sorry what and it feels to me like zuckerberg and his pals
thought they'd really get that one through but they haven't yeah i think uh people were
i just think that was one of the sticks that uh people sort of constructed to beat uh the
metaverse with that nobody had any legs um i'd sort of look a little bit further afield than that.
Sort of, you know, the overwhelming fact
that even the people who are developing meta
for Facebook slash meta,
they're not even using it.
And are actually getting told off by their line managers
on publicly leaked emails to use the metaverse.
Because we've seen that you've not been using the metaverse
and you're developing the metaverse.
Nobody wants to use your fucking metaverse.
Meta?
Yeah, yeah.
Oh, it's like if you're working at McDonald's
and you're eating burgers, you're damn right you are.
Peter, can I also please critique the announcement video
which was six seconds long and said,
announcement, whatever, legs are coming to the metaverse
and it's the back of Mark Zuckerberg
and one of his female colleagues, presumably,
standing opposite each other,
almost in a kind of jousting kind of way.
And they're kicking their legs, right?
And the announcement is,
great, legs are coming to the metaverse!
Exclamation mark.
Everyone's celebrating.
Look in the crowd.
All I'll say is,
look in the assembled crowd in the video behind it.
Look at it now.
Watch it now.
It's only six seconds.
You can watch it right it's only six seconds you
can watch it right now what do you notice about that they've not got any legs they haven't got
any legs at all so that's why they're excited it's like it's like a kind of um that's that's
the thing about um governmental rule isn't it they take away liberty from you and then kind of like
feed you them back and sort of go there you go you can have them you go thanks mate way we can do
this it's like we could always do this but you took it away from us certain people are only the
ones who get legs exactly four legs concerns me a great deal no two legs good four legs bad
i just don't i don't fully understand basically when you bracket this alongside
what's going on with elon musk and kanye west at the moment yeah
i don't know where i am didn't didn't they have to edit out like in that fox news interview with
tucker carlson uh the the ye uh is it ye or yeah they call him yeah yay the yay uh interview they
had to edit out like so much anti-semitic stuff. It was unbelievable. Yeah, he followed that up last week
with going to a meeting
with a load of Adidas execs, apparently,
showing them a porn video,
shouting at them on, storming out.
It's like, what's happening?
He's like that guy from Peep Show.
What's his name?
Oh, God.
Super Hands.
Super Hands, yeah.
Yeah, with a bit more menace.
And here's where it gets like, I mean, you've got to laugh about it because that's the british way you know and this is i guess that's the role of
this show but like it's quite frightening when you see it like elon musk can start out that
horrendous russian invasion of ukraine by chucking like 10 000 of those internet capability satellites
up and starlink satellites up there for ukraine to
you know to hopefully be able to communicate with each other properly which is a good thing to do
and now fast forward you know eight nine months and he's just flipped on it he just flipped he's
got so much power that he's now flipped and said oh yeah you should just let russia do this and we
should do that and do the other like it's it's baffling and worrying how much power these
individual people have got and like i also think
that you know joking aside around around kanye west there needs to be some kind of i don't know
how it would happen but there needs to be some kind of intervention into his issues because
obviously it's i'm not qualified enough to diagnose anything medically with him but clearly there are
there are problems there well i mean the indulging of this is really problematic. But that's happened right throughout the entirety of rock music.
People taking advantage of compromised people who are seriously unwell.
And yeah, no one's ever going to get involved really because the money's still coming in.
But it's when the Adidas want to pull deals is when we're going to lose out, I think.
I just feel like, I mean, Tucker Carlson's a disgrace anyway.
He's like basically a malign presence.
He's essentially like a traitorous, malign presence in America.
Like, he's parroting like Putin, like propaganda points.
Yeah.
Every night on TV.
It's crazy.
I mean, but that's the new kind of...
Edgelord.
Say again?
The new kind of edgelord.
The new kind of edgelord. That's the new kind of conservative view, say again the new kind of edge lord that's the new kind of edge lord that's
the new kind of uh conservative view though isn't it they're they're pro trump they're pro
duma they're pro um putin which is just uh it's it's incredible what are you pro what am i pro
what am i into luke i don't actually know i'm pro the things I'm bro if you want to hear it okay like quiet weekends
doing nothing
yeah okay fair
playing pub g on my
ps5
doing my coat up
when I've got shorts
on
as I've said to you
before
it's always enjoyable
yeah
it just doesn't happen
very often
you get into a situation
where you're wearing
shorts might be
playing sport or
something but it's
cold so on your way
home you put your
coat on and you do
your coat up when
you're wearing shorts
and it feels like
such an indulgence
fancy pants
I've never really
been able to chime in
no one's ever really
chimed with me on that
I feel like it's just
me and my mate Phil
who only ever really
enjoyed that kind of
experience together
I'm sure you could
find a place on the
internet or in some
kind of German chat room
that could indulge you
imagine that I found
something so weird
that no one on the
internet is catering for
yeah exactly yeah just lads in big duffel courts in their pants effectively Imagine that, I found something so weird that no one on the internet is catering for it. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, just lads in big duffel coats in their pants, effectively.
Well, can Mark Zuckerberg guarantee me that in the metaverse,
doing my coat up when I'm wearing shorts will be such an enjoyable experience?
Well, could you wonder, yeah, I mean, I presume like your kind of,
your avatar would be coat, no shorts, like coat, no trousers,
just a big trench coat, legs it's gonna be cracking
like like a basically like a ghost of the basically the ghost in a haunted mansion yeah
exactly uh which ironically mark zuckerberg looks like he lives in a haunted mansion
um someone was saying to me uh the other day that they um so jacob reese mogMogg has very recently, I think quite recently anyway, released a book.
And someone I know, or at least someone I partly know through someone else, went to his house in, I believe, Somerset to record the audio book version of his book because he wanted to do it his his place and he said it was honestly like a massive
like gothic mansion which he lives on the top floor of right like it like probably like living
the brand and it was the weirdest most bizarre experience like it was it wasn't he didn't turn
up he lived in a nice but normal house it was like a proper i'm off to transylvania to fight
yeah it was it was really, really strange.
Like, very, very strange.
I don't know a lot about acoustic treatment,
but I'm thinking Gothic Mansions,
not the best place to record an audiobook.
All I'm saying is, I think I may have dropped the ball there because it may have been Jacobean.
Okay, fine.
So it may have been slightly more modern than the Gothic era.
Well, they're just absolutely packed with interiors.
In style.
And as we know, acoustics have improved greatly
when they moved from the classic era to the Jacobean one.
I just thought it was interesting.
And also, the other thing I wanted to bring to the table today,
and I think you'll hate this, but I'm going to say it anyway
because I think some of our listeners might like it.
Have you happened across a fairly new documentary on Netflix
called A Trip to Infinity?
A Trip to Infinity? That sounds spacey.
No, I haven't. It's basically
about the nature of infinity as
a concept of what it means in reality.
And it's essentially a really
beautifully shot
series of talking heads
interspersed with all these
different graphics that are trying to articulate
and highlight what they're
actually talking about. Because obviously the concepts are very odd um it's cosmologists mathematicians
theoretical physicists quantum physicists just basically trying to explain how they approach
the nature of infinity from their jobs uh and how it helps them what it means to arsenal the rest of
it was absolutely mind-bending uh to the point where i had to get but i'm watching it on netflix
in bed on my laptop i had to get out of bed have a little walk around the flat have a cup of tea
before i went back to bed again because i was fearing i was going to have some kind of mathematical
dream that i'd never wake up from very very odd like it was it was fascinating but odd so it was
essentially talking about how for example some people think the universe is infinite,
but it might not be.
Right.
But what does infinite actually mean?
And is it possible for human beings who,
you know,
by nature,
their concepts and their lives and their kind of experiences are,
you know,
by their very nature,
very finite.
Is it even possible for humans to conceive of it?
And does it exist in reality beyond this concept?
It's quite helpful for,
mathematicians to do equations and stuff like that right um so it was yes i mean really
that's the extent of what i can explain about it uh there was all sorts of weird shit going on
and i just thought to myself the world is just so strange like it's the strangest thing you can
imagine like really really very odd one of the concepts that really blew my mind and maybe you already knew this but it's worth discussion i think is that if the if the universe
is infinite essentially anything that can possibly happen i.e anything that isn't ruled out by the
you know the established laws of nature the laws of physics the laws of the universe all that kind of stuff anything that
isn't ruled out by that will definitely happen somewhere that's in an infinite amount of times
right so so what the example they used was you take a box as a concept and you seal the box and
nothing can get in and out of the box and you put an apple in the box right and you go back to the
apple after a day and it's going to be slightly rotted you go back after a year it's going to be
even more rotted you go back after 100 years it's going to be dust basically if you go back to the apple after a day and it's going to be slightly rotted, you go back after a year, it's going to be even more rotted.
You go back after 100 years,
it's going to be dust, basically.
If you go back after a billion years,
it's going to essentially change in format
to essentially a load of different neutrons,
protons, electrons,
they're all going to decay.
And essentially, if you wait long enough,
in theory, the universe starts again.
Yeah, i can have
that and that and that apple will at some point because the possibilities are literally infinite
that apple will turn into you yeah exactly as you are now in that box that's but endlessly
cycle through all the things that are possible that's the side of of of this kind of thing that
that fascinates me it's it's very artistic to come up with these examples i think there's something very beautiful about in an infinite world like you you can create all of
these things but actually actually talking about this stuff like yeah that is true but there's also
an infinite amount of other things that could happen as well but to choose that apple and to
choose that example it's such a lovely kind of you know you there's such artistry in making science and stuff like this uh uh
interesting for people like that so it's a very human example for a very inhuman uh kind of thing
i would say i agree i think that's something fascinating it's a shame that in the first
take apparently he chose a dog turd and they said that's your mom that's become your mom
in its entirety.
Which is true.
Technically is true.
It is true.
And the graphics girl was like, I'm not doing a dog turd.
Yeah.
To pick something else.
All right, Apple.
That's fine.
I'll do an Apple.
So basically what I'm saying is infinitely at some point,
you will turn into a dog turd.
That dog turd will turn into your mother.
Yeah.
Your mother will turn into adolf hitler
right okay yeah i guess so it would it could all happen i've accused her of being just got a white
few times she carries on you just gotta wait long enough yeah just so basically for those listening
in a little bit more of a relatable maybe enjoyable way some if this is true somewhere
else in the universe at some point in time
every single person
listening to this show
will be the sexiest
human being in the world
that's true
and the cleverest
and the what?
and the cleverest
and the cleverest
and everything
yeah
so there we go
Pete
on that mind bending note
let's take a quick break
when we come back
I do believe
we've got a couple of emails
that we'll try and get to
so it's worth people sticking around what do you think about
that all right then and we're back with luke peach show on a monday i'm pete i'm luke i'm everyone
uh if you go far in the future long enough billions of years i'm you you're me i'm a battery
i'm the lad who's flight got cancelled
or got called
to the gate
so he put his
Wetherspoons breakfast
into a clear plastic bag
did you see this
it was just before
I went away
we didn't get to it
on the show
he was having
a Wetherspoons breakfast
and he had a clear
plastic bag
so it got called
to the gate
he wanted his breakfast
so he put it in
a little clear plastic bag
and the best thing
about it is
the bloke looks
a bit like Marcus Speller.
Oh, good to know.
The most surprising thing
about that for me
is that it wasn't you.
I know, right?
Well, he's having a breakfast
but there's an egg in there
actually, there's bacon.
He's also gone for chips as well
which I know
you're dead set against.
Very, very disappointing work
I would say.
There's plenty of opportunity
in your life generally
around mealtimes
to have chips.
Yeah.
Why not gatekeep a certain meal?
I don't think traditionally a cooked breakfast, an English breakfast,
has ever really involved chips.
I don't know why people bring it in.
No.
There's a potato product available to you.
I don't know why they bring it into Chinese food.
Why are you doing that?
Exactly.
Exactly.
I think people sometimes see it as the great leveler,
but I believe I'm right in saying there's a potato product already available to you,
and that's the humble hash brown.
Exactly.
Avail yourself of that.
Completely agree.
No problem.
I was on a lot of, I'd very much like to encourage people to get involved in the old biscuits
and gravy for breakfast.
That white gravy.
I can't get with it.
With the bits of meat in it.
Oh, come on.
So my problem with the biscuit, as in the US version of the biscuit, is that my mind
is telling me it's a delicious fruit scone.
It's just a scone, isn't it?
It's just a scone.
But I'm not a big fan.
To be honest, I'd never indulge in the scone, really.
But I just think that lovely chickeny gravy, very thick gravy,
I'm a big fan of.
Yeah, have that with some fried chicken and some waffles.
I'm all over that.
That could accompany a million different meals in the British vernacular.
Food vernacular.
The arc of enjoying American food when you're visiting America is amazing,
but it is severe.
Oh, there's a lot of shame in there.
This is the best thing ever for about three days.
And after that, you're like,
I don't know how I can do this for.
Big fan.
I mean, obviously, on the West Coast,
going down to California a couple of weeks ago,
every service station I was picking up,
like Mexican sweets and stuff.
I love my sweets.
I love kind of very sour,
very aggressive sort of jelly sweets.
Chemically sweets.
Well, chemically,
but they just fucking dip it in sugar, salt,
and a lot of chili.
And it elevates the sweet flavor so much.
It makes your mouth water.
Oh, man, I love that stuff.
There was one that was just like,
it was where you'd buy the strips of mango
covered in chili and salt that you see in the service stations.
And it was just like four plastic spoons
where they just sort of scooped up some sugary crap with chilli on it,
wrapped it in a bit of plastic, and you just take out the spoons and just suck on the spoons.
Nothing could be more daunting than that.
That is the most Pete Donaldson thing to ever happen.
It was so mend and make do.
Very enjoyable.
That'll do.
That'll do.
Just wrap that up.
Donaldson will be alone in a minute.
He'll pay double that price. What are you doing? Mark it up higher than that same service station i bought you a hat luke so you know i was oh did you i haven't seen you yet i was high on sugar high on
life that is so kind of you i look forward to receiving that when i see you you want me very
much peter all right yeah well i'll wait yeah i'll wait till i see it um do you know what i'd
really love do you remember though the the most iconic baseball cap possible in the 90s
was the baseball cap with bird shit all over it.
It said, Damn Seagulls.
Oh, no, I never saw that.
Oh, mate.
Try and find one on the internet.
It was basically a blue baseball cap
and it had fake bird shit
and splats all over it.
And on the front, it said, Damn Seagulls!
There's a lot of like... It's a great cap. In those silly shops where you buy the silly clothes fake bird shit and splats all over it and on the front it said damn seagull exclamation mark.
There's a lot of like in those kind of
in those silly shops
where you buy
the silly clothes
and stuff
that are just
you know
for jokers.
There's just a lot of
there's a lot of
like t-shirts
sort of talking about
being a dad
and telling the
any potential suitors
of your daughter
that you've got a gun.
There's a lot of T-shirts that just sort of go,
I'm a dad and I've got a gun.
You know what I mean?
Like, I've got a daughter and I've got a gun.
And if you try and fuck my daughter,
I'm going to fucking shoot you with this gun.
It's all very possessive and weird.
And there's a lot of that.
And there's also one of of the ones quite a lot of
them i saw a couple weeks ago was um talking about being an old guy uh like sort of going if you if
you value your freedom thank an old guy and i'm thinking old guys now i mean you could have been
born in the 80s and you're an old guy like there's a lot of people who didn't quite know he fucking
was like just thank you thank an old guy if you if you let your freedom thank an old guy. Like, there's a lot of people who did quite any fucking wars. Like, just thank an old guy.
If you like your freedom,
thank an old guy.
It's so weird.
How many old guys did you thank?
But there's such a weird
kind of like example
of a patriarchy.
It's so fucking weird.
I love it.
I love it.
I've put a link to that hat
in the little chat.
Have a look at it now.
Hang on.
Hang on.
It's a good hat.
It's a great hat. Right, okay. That a look at it now. Hang on, hang on. It's a good hat. It's a great hat.
Oh, in the chat here.
Right, okay.
Yeah, yeah, okay.
That's a long eBay link.
Damn, see.
Oh, that's disgusting.
It's a great hat.
But they've kind of,
they've used like quite 3D paint,
so it's actually quite realistic.
Yeah, I think it's a modern,
it's kind of a modern version.
It's a modern reimagining.
The initial ones were like,
you used to buy them
when we were on holiday in Florida.
They had like little,
proper like crusty bits of acrylic
that looked like
bird shit
it was great
I remember my mum
refusing to let me have one
this looks like an
original it looks
disgusting
absolutely disgusting
I tell you what
if you bought that
and wore it on
some kind of show
you'd get a lot of
credit for that
I'm telling you
it's the kind of
thing sooner or later
Josh Winnicombe's
going to wear
and everyone's going
to go oh is he so
funny
they go I've got
this new cap
Geoffrey
I cannot wait for you to have to work with Josh Whittaker somehow.
It won't happen.
There's just so much.
You could fall into a job with Josh Whittaker.
I won't do it.
He will be at the vanguard of every job in the media environment.
And you will have to work with him at some point.
And I love it.
If I do have to work with him, I'm going to give him a dead arm fair an opening on behalf of the nation on behalf of the nation
i like lots of people but i don't like him right anyway all right fair carl watson's been in touch
let's see if we like carl watson i'll read his email you can decide whether you like him or not
um his email is titled the luke and pete show butterfly effect so in many
ways actually quite similar to what we're talking about before the break so that's why i thought
i'd bring it in he says hi chaps um second time emailer with a tale of how the luke and pete show
has been directly influencing my decisions lately and ultimately is partly responsible
for my hospitalization through some weird butterfly effect we're the dice man yeah we are a
bit have you ever read that book by luke reinhardt the dice man no it's just about a man with a dice through some weird butterfly effect. We're the Dice Man. Yeah, we are a bit.
Have you ever read that book by Luke Reinhart, The Dice Man?
No.
It's just about a man with a dice, isn't it?
Yeah, he uses a dice
to decide all his decisions.
I don't know if it's real or not.
I can't remember.
It's crazy.
Anyway, Carl, don't do that.
Carl picks up the story by saying,
I was due to be in Manchester
for a mate's birthday
on Saturday 1st of October,
but because of the rail strikes that day, I decided to go down the night before on the friday
and stay over and i thought to myself why not see what gigs are on that night and after a quick look
uh the clear stand that was ian brown playing his hometown show in manchester we all know that went
that went right over the internet the mad old bastard anyway however as i scrolled further
down i saw that 2000s indie rockers Hard 5 were playing that night
and immediately got a flashback to Pete telling the tale
of them being huddled around one computer checking their emails.
Pete, do you want to re-up that story when you met Hard 5?
A big CRT monitor, a late 90s, early noughties Dell computer,
and the three members of Hard 5 huddled around it checking their Yahoo.
Why were you there again?
I was working at XFM.
There we go.
So that's how that came to our notice.
For some reason, Carl says,
I found this absolutely hilarious
and based solely on that image,
I decided to forego Ian Brown
and warm up my vocal cords
for belting out Cash Machine instead.
So far, so good.
Well, you're going to a Hardfi gig,
so not good so far so normal
after doing a little digging it turns out this was hard fight's first gig in eight years as part
of a two-night reformation tour and while i would love to tell you they were shit they actually
sounded pretty tight all things considered and the crowd of what i assumed were hard fight diehards
were absolutely loving it to be fair i can absolutely imagine that that sounds fine um
anyway during the final chorus of the encore,
which was Living for the Weekend,
one of their big hits, of course,
the crowd around me were fully going for it
and for my sins, I took a rogue elbow to the eye socket
and found myself an A&E faster than you can say,
is that a new player?
I was thankfully discharged later that evening
with a couple of stitches and an email for you
to the practically rights itself.
Finally, how one off-the-cuff joke
from Pete has resulted
in a man he's never met
going to hospital.
I've CC'd my solicitor
who will contact you
in due course
about a conversation
for your partner with this.
Keep up the good work, Kyle.
Funny that.
I mean,
I would say
the best case scenario
you're watching Hard Fight
and I'm into that.
I'm into it.
I thought they were awful
when they first came out
and I think they're awful now.
They're not awful.
They were quite tight
they had anthems
that was all about
it was all about anthems
back there wasn't it
all about anthems
can I soften it somewhat
by saying that
they were doing
music about
stuff that was true to them
they weren't manufactured
it was pretty real
yeah
they grew up in stains
good eyebrows
that's not easy for anyone
you know
and they wrote songs
about what they know
and I respect them for that,
but I didn't enjoy the result personally.
Okay.
In my opinion.
That was very balanced for Lukey Moore.
Yeah.
Now, would it help you to learn
that Josh Whittakin was doing the PA that night?
No way.
He'd get fucking bottled off.
Oh, nuts.
All right, here we go.
Chris, we're going to round up
with this story from Chris Frost.
Thanks, Chris. Hi, folks. I've going to round up with this story from Chris Frost.
Thanks, Chris.
Hi, folks.
I've had to catch up on a few weeks' worth of episodes,
and I've just heard Luke talk about his surprise that it makes a loud bang when you get an electric shock
rather than a zap like the movies.
Well, I unfortunately have a little bit of experience in that area.
I was around nine years old when I got a PS1 for Christmas.
After a while, the ball bearing that held the discs in place
fell into the machine.
Okay.
What's that?
I was thinking, the ball bearing. What, the bit in the fell into the machine. Okay. What's that? I was thinking, the ball bearing.
What, the bit in the middle of the CD-ROM kind of thing?
The ball bearing that held...
Oh, I guess, yeah.
It sort of grips the...
Grips it, I think?
Does this involve our friend putting his hand into a PS1?
It's a top loader.
Anyway, I turned off the power and took the machine apart,
mending said contraption.
I wondered whether the thing would work with no top on,
so I proceeded to plug it in.
Whoa.
Nothing bad could happen from that.
As I pressed the power button,
the full force of 220 volts went through my 10-year-old body
and threw me the full length of my bedroom.
Looking into it, if Sony had opted for a DC system,
I wouldn't be here today.
As AC tightens your muscles,
luckily it threw me away from the source
with just a sore head.
Chris, is there that many volts going through the fucking,
going through that at that point?
Does a PlayStation need 220 volts?
Good God.
Good God.
But that's just a standard level for electrical current.
Why is that going through the system to the point where you're pressing
the button on the power button, though?
Why is it getting to the power button?
Or anywhere near the power button though why is it getting to the power button or anywhere near the power button
this whole thing
the story that
Chris is talking
about refers to
when I saw that
big Maori guy
fucking thrown
across a room
by a bug
that was one
I know I always
talk about this
and I apologise
people are bored
by it but I
cannot stress enough
that was one of
the most insane
things I've ever
seen chiefly because
it's one of the
only things I've
seen where I thought I don't know what's happened there i have no idea what's
happened he's living for the weekend he's fucking he's like tell you what he's lucky to be living
at all blowing up tonight yeah that was 2003 and i'm pretty confident when i say this that was 2003
if he's continued living his life with the same attitude for 19 years he's definitely dead the man was ripping out cables with a pair of wire
clippers with a pair of um uh what's it called nail pullers yeah i like it straight metal nail
not for me i like it well uh this has been the luca peach show for another week uh we'll be back
uh week i mean it's monday isn't it uh We'll be back on Thursday with more of this trash to be
quite frank.
We should do another
email special.
We did one of those
a few weeks ago.
Let's get through
some emails because
those two emails have
made me salivate at
the very idea of more
of them.
So look after
yourselves.
Don't pull anything
out of a wall.
Don't think that just
because your
PlayStation is like
small and cute and
grey, don't put your fingers in it
i mean this may sound hypocritical because i do a show with pete donson but don't take the lids
off electrical items and put your hands in them i was watching a bjork uh little video of bjork
um opening the back of a sony trinitron um tv uh from back in the day on monitor um and i i don't
like if you're going to get blown up you're going to get blown with your hands in the day, a monitor. And I don't, like, if you're going to get blown up, you're going to get blown with your hands in the back of a CRT,
an old telly, because those things retain,
even if you've unplugged them, they retain a lot of power,
a lot of energy.
Do you remember the sound they used to make when you turned them on?
Boom!
Yeah, it was big, big, wasn't it?
So, yeah, check that video of Bjork opening up a video of Sony Trinitron,
and we'll see you
on Thursday
farewell
ciao
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