The Luke and Pete Show - Organ Ponzi Scheme

Episode Date: June 13, 2024

We’re back with our lab coats on, as the lads attempt to devise new organ transplant procedures for the masses. Drawing ideas from The Human Centipede probably isn’t a good idea…Elsewhere, Pete seems determined to buy a marmoset from Hartlepool Zoo and we explore the fine art of buying unwanted things for people and sneaking them into their shed. Nothing but helpful advice on your beloved Luke & Pete Show… Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram.***Please take the time to rate and review us on Apple, Spotify or wherever you get your pods. It means a great deal to the show and will make it easier for other potential listeners to find us. Thanks!*** Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the Luke and Pete show I'm Pete Donaldson I'm joined by Mr. Lukey Moore and let me for those of you listening in audio format there is no other format we occasionally put video clips

up online on the socials and stuff but we are very much an audio first discipline here on the Luke and Pete show we're both wearing hoodies yeah and it is a discipline, by the way. It is.

If people want a secret to it, don't put your hood over your head. You'll ruin your headphones. By the way, before we start recording, you're always saying, can you turn your mic up? I can't hear you. I can't hear you because you're half deaf

because of a career of broadcasting. Correct. Don't put your hooded jumper, your hooded sweatshirt, and get that in the mix. That's only going to make it worse. I just think I need to go and get my... I need my eyes done because I can't see anything anymore.

Even with your glasses? My eyes have started doing... I think it's like... I was always very short-sighted, but now my glasses have started... I can't see anything really close to my face, so presumably I'm getting longer sighted as I get older. You turned the glasses against us.

It's not right. So I think I might need like very focals or I don't really know. I don't know what it's doing. Shoe lacquer should get better eyesight if it's moving further away. I should just be able to take my glasses off. Yeah, your eyes can write themselves, right? Because you have either one of them, short sighted or long sightedness, inflicts older people.

So let's just say it's long sightedness. If you're short sighted as a kid and your eyes get slowly more long-sighted, they can right themselves for a period of time, of course, and then it just goes the other way. Right, okay. Because I always sort of think, well, maybe I should get that LASIK, but I was thinking that's... I'm just going to get worse and worse, aren't I?

I can't reverse that kind of change, can I? Or can I? Can you do the laser surgery yourself, do you reckon? Could I do it like three or four times a year just to keep up with the latest eye trends that in my body what i want to know is the first person to develop the laser eye surgery who's he doing it on a brave boy it'll be pigs they test everything out on pigs tattooists do tattoos on pigs um we test all of our best valves on on pigs don't they yeah it i mean god bless the pigs they've done so much for us.

Do you think that, because you know there's talk of people getting organs from pigs, not transplanted, because there's basically a, there's a shortage of usable organs for transplant. And do you know the main reason for that?

Why there's a main reason of shortage of transplants while the shopping around people moving around to the shortage of organs to be transplanted right because we're not dying car crashes fiery car crashes those seatbelts seatbelts because because the the the people who were generally killed in road traffic accidents or road traffic collisions, whatever the official nomenclature is these days, were normally young people. Oh, nice. And impactful, quick deaths with no evidence of disease meant basically produces absolutely delicious organs for transplant.

Pre-splatted as well. You'd think if your liver had had a splatting, you'd think that would damage it in some way, but clearly not. Amazing. Do you think the people who get... Are we having pig transplants? Are we having pig corneas and stuff?

I forget. Are we starting doing that or not? Let's talk of it, right? I thought we'd already started doing all that. We'd have like the odd little valve here and there from animals and stuff. There was a guy who had a pig heart, I think, put in his body,

but he didn't live for very long. Right, okay. But I just thought, if you're a veggie or maybe your religion doesn't allow you to get involved with the whole pig meat and stuff, would you have to then find a replacement pig organ

for that pig that you've taken your organ out of and you just spend the rest of your life transplanting and transplanting and transplanting. It's like a salt train. You have to just keep finding. It's like a Ponzi scheme. It's like an organ Ponzi scheme. You have to keep finding.

And it's a bit like that lady who swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die. Yeah, perhaps she'll die. She swallowed all of the animals to get to... You could do that. So what you could do possibly... Well, an eating challenge, all of the animals to get to you could do that so what you could do possibly well an eating challenge all of those animals is basically

transplant a pig's heart into a slightly bigger animal yeah and then do that heart into a bigger even bigger animal

and before you know it you could probably invent like a human with a fly's heart oh right so it's so efficient at kind of like pushing stuff around. Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, they did that in that film, didn't they? The human centipede? He had a fly's heart, didn't he? The fly. The human centipede? The human centipede, yeah. Have you seen the human centipede?

I've seen the most important bits. It's not Uwe Boll, is it? It was the fellow who... I don't know who made it. I'll find out. Did you like it? It was the fella who... I don't know who made it. I'll find out. Did you like it? I liked the things that I saw of it. I think it's some good ideas, really.

But it is that real kind of like quite childish idea of what constitutes horror, isn't it? It's quite like... Tom Six, his name is. Tom Six. I bet he hangs out in Hollywood. The thing is... One of the horror directors.

A lot of horror movies these days, as I always say, are just a bunch of shocking scenes stitched together. Yeah. Like hypodermic syringes in a big bin. Oh, we're going to throw this bin on you.

Oh, don't throw the bin on me. We're gonna. Not the bin. What I do quite like about it is he did, he had first sequence, full sequence,

and final sequence, three films. Right. And then he released them all together called the complete sequence and then said, I've made like a centipede of my movies. What?

And so it's just round and round and round? So basically he sticks them all together, like he sticks the people together, which I think is quite interesting. Was this post-human centipede presumably? I'm not watching six hours of Human Centipede. Who's allowing him to do stuff? And also, is it like...

Shouldn't it have been... Because millipede have four limbs to every section, don't they? Right. Don't know, but I'm happy to go along with it. And centipede, I think, have two legs for each little section. Right. So therefore, should it not technically have been the human millipede? I just got a text from Specsavers, just as we were talking about it. Sorry, put me in for an eye test.

Right. Yeah, it's a good question, Peter. I think it's the kind of thing that, to be honest, quite negligent British movie press failed to ask him, I would imagine. Do you not think it's kind of like it's one of those things where they sort of go

oh yeah but centipede scans better it's just you know people kind of have that in their head and it kind of makes more sense but you're like no this is why people call

chimpanzees monkeys it's not it shouldn't be allowed that annoys me my son's got a book called That's Not My Monkey right right

you would have seen it yeah it's different animals right and you said that's not my monkey it's terrible it's too soft but they've all got different fabrics and stuff and in the uh that's so we've got that's not my otter we've got that's not my dinosaur whatever right in that's not my monkey i was absolutely sickened on your behalf to see that two of the pages in the book That's Not My Monkey feature a gorilla and an orangutan. Good God.

Good God. I mean, they're the great apes. I could understand if they were the ones that had changed from lesser apes to great apes, the gibbons, or maybe even a bonobo. But no, I'm not having that. That's terrible. Awful.

They're the biggest of all of them. The final page is That's My Monkey. His cheeks are so soft. It's a fucking orangutan. What are we teaching the kids? But they're not, what, they're like the cheek,

kind of the big plate sort of thing. Because they get, I think they get extended with, it's an adult male one, isn't it? The big ones, isn't it? They show dominance.

It is important, like our closest ancestors are respected. Yeah, I think so. And they're very knowledgeable about stuff. Oh my i was at a pet zoo over the weekend oh yeah and they were selling monkeys i had no idea you could do that no i don't think it should be happening either but i had no idea this was up north presumably it was yeah it was it was it was up north it was up north and we're at a pet zoo and uh you won't believe this they were selling

they just had a list of animals that they were happy to sell you. I mean, and they were, like, expensive. They were punchy, punchy prices. Well, they had, like, mice and rats and the usual... They had the usual rabbits, 25 quid. Giant rabbits, 100 quid. Big drop-off for the giant rabbits. African pygmy hedgehogs and just normal hedgehogs.

They were around about the 150. They're selling lovebirds. They're selling doves. Amazon parrots for a grand. Cockatiels, they're much cheaper. But then you get down to cockatoos and marmosets. They're selling marmosets for a grand each. The marmosets were cheaper than the bloody rosewing parakeets

and the macaw parrots. Awful. But do you think that if you went up there and inquired as to whether you could buy a marmoset or not, do you think they would have made you go for an extensive vetting process to make sure you knew what you were buying? I don't think there are many

rules around. I thought with monkeys, with any kind of swimming, you had to be very careful, but I had no idea that Marmosets were so easy to buy. They probably do have to go through a few hoops, sign a few forms. But when I looked, because you sent me that screenshot the other day, and I couldn't believe they were selling marmosets, right?

And for those people who don't know or haven't taken any interest in this, a marmoset is basically like a little small monkey. Yeah. It's basically like the monkey that Ross from Friends had, right? No, that was a capuchin, wasn't it? No, that was a capuchin, wasn't it? Oh, it was a capuchin. It was similar to that, though, isn't it? Similar, yeah.

Well, they're much smaller. They're about the size of a little rat, a little ratty mouse. A marmoset? Marmoset, tiny little thing. Right, okay. And so, honestly, I was perturbed by that. I don't think that's something you see every day,

and I appreciate you sharing it, but I looked up, I just Googled it, what's the know, but I looked up, I just Googled it. What's the situation, like the legality of this? And I went to a website called Born Free, which is like a charity for animals, I guess. And it said that subject to certain restrictions and in some circumstances,

the sale and keeping of primates as pets in the UK is currently legal. Yeah. I mean, if you type, and I did the exact same thing. I was like, I had no idea you could just buy monkeys and not have to have a license. But you go on these websites, and it's very much like they haven't got to the talk to the Frank. You know when you type in drugs into Google, and it goes, talk to Frank. Hey, if you're going to take them, take them in a responsible way. Test out your drugs, blah, blah, blah, blah.

Be responsible. I will be testing the drugs out. Thanks very much. Street drug taker. Like, talk to Frank and all that stuff. But they haven't got to that point with the whole animal things. They're very much like, don't do that. They're really hard work and they live for 15 years.

Yeah, the RSPCA say that. Yeah, so it's every, every post is like, don't do that, don't do that. Do you think a man like me is scared of shit like that? I wouldn't own a Toyota Century from the year 2000 if I was scared of shit like that. If I was told repeatedly

that parts were impossible to get in this country, it wouldn't be in front of my house and it is in front of my house, so up yours. Yeah, I think the one thing that really ruled you out, Brian and Marmoset,

according to the RSPCA website, is that all the other bullet points are fine. The two ones that I would say you wouldn't be able to deal with, A, they're a serious long-term commitment. No interest in that. Secondly, they're highly social. No interest in that.

No interest in that, no. Don't be talking to people in the supermarket. I'm not having that. Pete, apparently Marmosets are well-known for creating stable social groups. You're out. No. There's no way you're getting in there.

Good God. Scotch dust. So the RSPCA say it's technically legal to own a marmoset in the UK, but their position is that they're lobbying with the government of England to change that.

They don't think it should be. And the reason they don't think it should be, apparently the main reason, is because what so-called breeders of marmosets do is they mis-sell baby marmosets as pygmy marmosets so they actually grow a lot bigger how big is a marmoset gonna get but my point is that when they're babies it's just mold me baby when they're babies they're taken from their mother right which is really bad and so i think there's a really

there's a really high chance they won't survive anyway no and if not they'll um they'll they encounter real bad complications like later in life because they haven't had the sustenance they need as babies so all in all it's a pretty foul jamboree in my view no it's awful i mean if you know a marmoset breeder you i i mean i'm i don't wish to tire everyone with the with the same brush but i mean it's uh yeah how'd you get into that it's yeah well you have two mamasets that love each other very much but i just i just think you you've got to be a bit off you know i mean you've got you've got to have connections i think with the i think i think it's impossible to to to justify how you became a trader in marmoset it's almost like being being um a porn director how'd you get into that

you're wrong yeah if you're into that you're wrong simple as that we're starting for a position we're not giving you the benefit of doubt if i if i if i go and hire someone to fix my car it gets to benefit the doubt yeah get into car mechanics probably because you like cars right right okay yeah if you're getting into into porn movies or the trading of exotic animals how's that happened right i mean you i mean one is you've got i mean i guess you have to like your own um stuff i suppose haven't you you've got to like the porn and i guess you you've got to like the the marmosets in the first case but i imagine after a while, I remember Sarah went to New Zealand once and she met a bloke who had like an alpaca farm and he'd bought the alpacas to make his wife happy,

but then she left him for another man. And now this set of alpacas are just an albatross around this man's neck. Oh, that's a shame. He's really sad about it. And I just think you might start off as a really decent marmoset breeder, but I just think you're going to start

cutting corners because no one's telling you what to do. They're marmosets. They tell no tales. Yeah, during COVID as well, trade starts to dry up. You've got a load of them

on your hands. You're going to have to look after them. You're just throwing them at traffic over an overpass. Don't say that. You're just throwing them into rivers. We'll get people emailing and over an overpass. Don't say that. You're just throwing them into rivers. We'll get people emailing and complaining about us.

You can't say that. Why? All animals on this planet should be respected. I think a Mamoset possibly could survive a 20-metre drop onto a moving car. I don't think it could either. Too late. They're very light animals. You can use sugar gliders.

They're kind of the same size. They're very light animals. You use sugar gliders, they're kind of the same size. They say that about kittens. They say kittens can't reach terminal velocity. They can't reach terminal velocity. Too light. Officer, they simply cannot reach terminal velocity. I told you last time we chatted, I was haunted by the RSPCA for weeks

because I rang in a vulnerable dog. I was a soft touch. I experienced kitty litter for the first time at the weekend. Went round my auntie John's. It's not a DJ, is it? You mean actual kitty litter? Yeah. No, no.

DJ kitty litter. I went round my auntie John, who I think, it was unclear because she was so angry. I think she was resuscitated this week right and she's back at home and she's back at home what

she's her ribs are all broken and I've never known someone how old is she 86 or something is that what you look out for the telltale signs

are they never known her grandson told me that told my mum that she'd been resuscitated and she'd broken all her ribs

because they pumped her chest and she's back in her house and I've never known someone who's just come back from the brink of death so angry with her situation with how fucked up

her body has become and I was like you were dead like about five minutes ago like it's absolutely insane. But she does have cats. So I'll continue my story. The kitty litter.

Quite the digression, that. Quite the digression. But an interesting one for me, nonetheless. It's a great scene setter. It's a great scene setter. Kitty litter, I didn't know when cats wee in it, it sort of forms like a little gel. Like a solid gel that you can kind of scoop out really easily.

So you know where the wet has been and where the poop has been. It's supposed to stop it smelling as well. It's supposed to be like odour neutralising as well. Okie dokie, right. But that doesn't really work. There's someone who lives near us who we have occasionally looked after their cat when they're away. And their cat is an indoor cat and has a litter tray.

And it just makes the whole flat stink of cat. It's horrible. Right. Okay. Whereas our cats go outside. They're outdoor cats. Just put it next to the feed tray. It just smells of fish.

You can't. They won't use it. Oh, they won't use it? They're very hygienic animals, aren't they? You have to keep the food and the water and the litter tray very separate. Oh. They won't use it otherwise.

Marmosets could use the food. Could a marmoset use the litter tray, do you reckon? You could train a marmoset to do probably anything. They're very clever, aren't they? Yeah, they probably are. So Rick Edwards, who I mentioned to you before, said that his decision around which animals he would be comfortable eating and which animals

he wouldn't be comfortable eating, he judges, it's such a Rick thing, he judges on intelligence. Right. So he won't eat octopus and he won't eat pig or something like that. Okay, yeah. Would he have a pig's valve put inside him though? I think he probably would. I don't want to speak on behalf of the guy, but I think he probably would.

What about your Auntie Joan? Would she? God knows at this point. I think she's too angry to let anyone go near her. The only way you can get near my Auntie Joan is if she literally tries to die. Was she pleased to see you? In a way.

She was mainly more angry about things, to be honest. Having arguments with everybody. She is an astonishing interesting woman my mum and her never spoke for the longest time and i got to know her about five years ago and uh she's this proper commie proper really proper interesting fucking commie it's great news like she's for for my family who isn't really that opinionated about anything in particular just stuff they fucking farm out of the daily mail she at her age is still as right on as hell um was a

big part of the community for the longest time and um her getting iller and iller just meant that she just got to see fewer and fewer people and that really it didn't make her sad um although i suppose it did to a certain extent it more made her angry. She's gotten angrier and angrier. And when you were up visiting the family, presumably you didn't see much of your old man because he was up all night, was he? He was up all night.

Was he changing schedule because he's got visitors? Well, he was on his best behaviour, which made me buying him a mobility scooter, a thing that he has warned me time and time again not to do, it made it much harder to sneak it past him and put it in his shed. That's quite the purchase, that.

It is. I mean, I got like a folding one because I was like, they're both, my mum walks up the stairs like a lion and my dad just takes ages to get up and down the stairs.

Like they're just, their bodies, their legs are fucked. So they just, and my dad just takes ages to get up and down the stairs. Like, they're just, their bodies, like, their legs are fucked. So they just, and my mum refuses a hip operation. It's just coming back. Every time I go back, and I'm sure everyone's got this experience, every time I go back, it's gotten more mental. You know what I mean?

More and more bad shit's happening, and their coping mechanism, my mum's rolling down the stairs like a snake. It's horrific, right? What? And so, like, everyone's got these co-makers to go to get past the the their bodies failing and the fact that they've got um that they don't live in a bungalow etc etc and so i'm like right i'm gonna get my mum and dad a mobility scoop scooter if they don't um you know if they're never going to

use it fine but at least i can sort of say i've got it it's in the house so i went to facebook marketplace uh around the corner uh you know like when wrestlers like like six foot seven wrestlers like college football um uh collegiate uh wrestlers or football players become wrestlers and then they hit 40 and they're like well i can't do this anymore and they give up the pain pills and they become crooked gigantic balls of man yeah this was the guy i was buying the um buying the uh the scooter off and he insisted on showing me all of the features so i'm there um in in the middle like i had to get back because my dad had certain times just come back from the pub so i was like all right just show me how to use it and i'm just bombing up and down this road on a mobility scooter. This is in Hartlepool.

This is in Hartlepool. And I've got to disassemble it, put it in the back of the car, and then get in the car, run past him. My mum's like, you kept eyeing up the side of that house. Did you buy a mobility scooter?

I went, shut up. Let's get run. Get me in dad's shed. So I've just put everything in the shed. Does he know about it or not? My mum knows about it, but my dad doesn't know about it.

What's he getting the things happening she was going you've ruined the weekend son you've ruined the weekend now your dad's gonna be furious what but your dad presumably

is gonna just be confused isn't he he is gonna be confused he'd just he'd just he'd just have a better time he'd be quicker up and down they live on a big hill

next to the sea it's not ideal for them and yet my dad the pride of a man half cut walking up a hill from a shit pub a big hill next to the sea. It's not ideal for them. And yet my dad... The pride of a man half-cut walking up a hill from a shit pub. Oh, what prowl, what dignity. Get in your fucking mobility scooter and stop falling over, you idiot. Could I just go back to your mum rolling up and down the stairs like a snake?

Because that's just very hard to get out of my mind. I don't understand what you mean. I'm not trying to be cruel to anyone. She refuses to get hip operations, so she has certain mechanisms to get up and down the stairs. And I'm like, is this good, is it? Because you could just go in, get your hip operation.

I don't even think it's general anaesthetic these days. You're in and out, same day. You'll be walking around in two days' time. Like, it's just... I think that's a bit of a paraphrase of the i don't i think it is they do so many of them nowadays i'm not trying to bang i'm not well i've got a couple of points one is i'm not trying to be cruel to anyone who's got a disability of course but the turn of phrase feels like it needs a further explanation what do you mean my mom's rolling up and down the stairs like a snake

well yeah she's just sort of like flopping flopping up and down the stairs like a snake well yes you do what she's just sort of like flopping flopping up and down the stairs she's not really sort of standing on the stairs she's kind of like rolling up and down the stairs can i also just say you as a guest in a house you sound like a fucking nightmare by people interfering in the routine just turn up you look like a lawrence llewellyn Bowen. Just changing their house. I was making the most of... You do strangled London ways. I was making the most of having a driveway as well.

I was doing quite a lot of improvements and fixes to the car. I was like, yes! Goodness me. Might get the lano guard out. Were they pleased to see the back of you? I think we got on they I think we got on I didn't

yeah I think we got on we had a good time did your mum make a nice lovely Sunday roast she did she did yeah went to a car boot

went to an excellent car boot it was five quid to get in but it was bloody great up in the sea but you made some savings while you were in there well

no not really I didn't have any I bought a punnet of strawberries and then left any wrestling figures no no wrestling figures? No, no wrestling figures.

They had quite a few little, you know, little interesting trinkets and stuff. But you get to this age, you know, I am starting to sort of give up buying silly things, really. That's a shame. There was a big painting of a clown I didn't pick up last time I went to the South End one. A big what? A big picture of a clown someone had painted.

It looked like sort of college coursework. It was dreadful. But it's a big painting of a clown. How much? I didn't even ask. It would have been...

They would have paid me to take it away. Almost guaranteed. Why didn't you get it? I know, I know. Why are you so scared of me at the party? I'm a changing man.

Why have I changed? I have. Well, I'm expert at just hiding things in the shed, so it's absolutely fine. But my bully's gooted. I did say to my dad, I said, Dad, did you ever used to hide things you bought from Mum?

And he went, yeah, repeatedly. That's the man's way, isn't it? That is the man's way. Pete, we should have a break here. When we come back, we should do our batteries because we've got to do those on a Thursday. It's contractually obliged. It is contractually obliged.

All right, then. We'll be back in a second. Oh, welcome back to the Luke and Pete show. Every single Thursday, we do batteries. And if you've listened before, you will know what happens. If you've never listened before. I mean, it's fairly straightforward, isn't it? Pretty straightforward, isn't it? Martin. Hello, Luke and or Pete. I bought a sound bar in a secondhand shop thinking i had made a bargain and that my enjoyment of tv sound would never be the same i hadn't and it didn't work

oh well at least the remote control had these bad boys in it best regards martin k um all key all key a l l k e y I think we may have misspelt it in a little title. The problem with this is that our email inbox is still absolutely beset with companies in 2020 thanking all key workers because of COVID. So it's difficult to pick through the bones of the new player or not. But I can tell you that, Martin, you are at least the fourth person to send these in. Carl and Paul and Chris all sent them in

dating back to the middle of 2022. So they're not a new player, unfortunately. But thank you for sending them in anyway. Thank you, Martin. Okay, we bang our pan at you, key worker Martin K. Oliver says, Hey, lads, this is not my first email,

but it is my first battery entry. This came out of a remote control for a 30 year old remote control car my brother had and I got gifted

by my parents when they moved houses. Luckily, my kids love playing with it and it gives me all the nostalgia feels. Cheers for the show, Oliver.

I wanted to see the remote control car. Yeah, same. I wanted to see the remote control car. It's a shame that. It's always nice to get a bit of context. It is, especially because Oliver sent in some absolute stinkers,

Uniros, a battery band. It's up there with top 10 batteries you see in the wild, no? Uniros? It's surprising. My checks, as uncomprehensive as they can be, are telling me that this is only the third time we've had Uni Rosses in. That is wild.

I cannot believe that. I cannot believe that. You see a lot of them yourself, have you? I see a lot of Uni Rosses. It's the sort of ones you'd see in like stuff you buy from the CPC catalogue.

What's that? It was like an electronics thing. You buy wires and shit off it. It's like an offline, an offline maplance. Right. And they don't try and upsell you

with a hard line Speaking of that, we used to buy sports wear and sports like apparel from a catalogue back in the 90s

called M&M. Did you ever have that? M&M. I was talking to my friends about the other day and none of them

seemed to remember it. No, I don't think we had that up north. It was kind of, I'm trying to think, Kay's catalogue was the big one wasn remember it. No, I don't think we had that up north. It was kind of... I'm trying to think. K's catalogue was the big one, wasn't it? Yeah, but that's generic.

That wasn't sport. Oh, just sport. Right, okay. I remember when the La Redoute calendar... La Redoute annual came out every year. That was...

What's that? Very French. Ooh la la. Was it a bit saucy? A little bit saucy negligence oh i'm saying negligence daniel has got in touch hello chaps i decided to send this picture before using the batteries to check my prostate yeah we don't endorse that that's a shame that is a shame that's a shame for a second there daniel i'd forgotten completely what that was in

a reference to but uh great work. I fear this may have featured, but I have had a few too many CBD gummies to remember if it has cropped up in the past. The Tinko Super Alkaline, 0% mercury, 0% cadmium. Worst case, you both call me an idiot. Love the show. Have a great week, Daniel. Thank you for your entry, Daniel.

Thank you for sending us a picture with loads of tabs open on your browser, just out of focus enough for me not to figure out what they are. I'm sure we could probably retrofit that. Do you reckon? We could probably AI it, I reckon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Tin Co.

16th person to send them in, I'm afraid. Shame that. Shame that. Poor crop this week. Poor crop. But it's about to get a little bit better. It's about to get a little, little bit better, Luke. We had a previous battery featured on the show a couple of weeks ago.

Yeah, from James, I remember. James. Jim Barnes and Barnes. And we made a comment that there was someone behind him showing off their belly. Do you know what I mean? Do you remember this? Yeah, yeah, of course I do. In the picture, so Jim is showing off his battery

with the battery cover of a product, I believe a pair of trousers, I think, and a laptop. And then in the background, someone's sitting on a bed and they're showing their belly off while using an iPad. Now, the belly in question belongs to my son Isaac, age three. He was watching BattleBots on his iPad. Pete, if you're not already onto BattleBots, I heartily recommend it.

Jim Barnes and Barnes. Jim, thank you very much for the recommendation. Yeah, thanks for the clarification. BattleBots is like Robot Wars, but supercharged. Right, okay. Do any of them take flight? Is there more petrol involved? What's going on?

Yeah, all that kind of stuff. They don't fly to my knowledge. That'd be a fucking good idea, but they don't fly to my knowledge. But it's basically like a supercharger. It's basically like Americans have taken Robot Wars and gone. We can make this fucking much more bombastic. Awesome.

That's great stuff. It'd be right up your street, Peter. It would. Chris Broad from Broad Japan, his dad and him were on. They looked after one of the robots back in the day. They were Robot Wars, were they? Robot Wars, yeah.

Which one? I forget which one. It was a very famous one. Robot Wars. Hit no disc. Robot Wars. Might be, actually. Robot Wars.

Chris Broad. Dad. They... Killatron. Oh, really? Big one. Big one. Oh, really? Big one. Big one. Yeah.

Definitely a big one. That's like, that's like sort of finding out that like someone you know has a very famous sort of uncle or something. But it's, yeah,

it's, it was Killatron. Apparently it came fourth in season two of Robot Wars. That's amazing. Yeah. Great stuff. One thing I never realised

because it's hard to get perspective when you're just watching like linear TV and there's no research to be done because it was back in the 90s or whatever is how big the robots were yeah they felt small but they were absolutely massive

I was a big fan of Robot Wars me too straight entertainment no celebrities have to be involved no comedian involved just what can we get up to with a load of

hardware do you not think and also like just dads have spent months on these things to the point where to the point where

the kids aren't interested anymore and they've been dragged onto the show they don't want to be you can imagine the dad saying to the kids you just did a t-shirt yeah

and he said I'm gonna I'm gonna be down the car books i need to buy some more rotating discs to sand this uh monstrosity down dad can i can i pilot it in the show no you fucking can't the reason why i don't live with your mum anymore is because of this but you know you know speaking of that you know like i always complain about the you know the comedification of all TV. I know it's boring, but very, very briefly.

Yeah, I think this is worthy of comment. I was absolutely astonished to see quite early in the morning the other day. My son got up really early. He was having a nap. He woke up and then obviously I had to get up. Fine. Yeah. Then he was immediately able to nap and I clearly wasn't.

Annoying, annoying, that. So it's about 6am and I'm watching, I don't know, whatever TV channel, not Bravo, because that's not on anymore, but that kind of channel, right? Yeah. And Takeshi's Castle was advertised. A classic of the stony years, right? The great thing about Takeshi's Castle,

stick it on, it's there for everyone to see, it's a great unifier, it's like the Red Bull soapbox race, everyone likes it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's a lot unifier. It's like the Red Bull soapbox race. Everyone likes it. There's a lot to get involved. People like people falling over. That's fine. And all you used to have was Craig Charles

doing a bit of voiceover. Very light touch. Easy gig for him. He goes into the booth, says what he sees, gets paid a load of money, shows good. The new Takeshi's Castle,

they have a different pair of comedians each episode in a box on the screen trying to be funnier than the actual action. Tell me what the point of that is. Yeah, that's a shame. The thing that gets me is they won't be paid very much. I know those jobs. Even in Vision, you're not getting paid that much. That's the real shame.

It's like it's so short-sighted. They've gone, Takeshi's Castle's quite funny, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. Do you know what would make it funnier? Comedians. Because that's more laughter. It's basically like saying to your mum, thanks for this Sunday roast.

I love Sunday roasts. They're really tasty. Do you know what else is really tasty? A triple magnum ice cream. Two comedians. And I'm going to put that in the middle of the fucking Yorkshire pudding. It doesn't make any sense. It's mental.

How are they making those decisions? It really fucking annoyed me partly because I was sleep deprived obviously and in quite a bad mood. Couldn't turn it over. I just think that's

an astonishing like dereliction of duty when it comes to TV production. They probably sort of think that a lot of Japanese television is sort of picture in picture comedians talking about something

so they probably feel like they've got carte blanche to get involved but they don't and they shouldn't. They haven't. On that note we should leave.

Let's get out of here. This has been the Luke and Pete show. Keep your batteries coming in. Boy bellies and

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