The Luke and Pete Show - The best year of your life

Episode Date: December 23, 2024

Luke’s been drooling all over himself on the train up to some important meetings - nice. Speaking of drooling (stay with us), Pete has some truly lovely news to share… We also get to the very bottom of the TikTok algorithm, continue to snoop on listeners’ LinkedIn profiles and take some fish to be fried. Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram for tales of festive cheers, beers and rears.***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.

Hey it's the local paint shop, hey Donaldson with you, what day are we talking about? You there boy, what day is this? It's Monday. It's Monday, it's Monday the something of something. Monday the 23rd of December. I know you've wrapped your hand in because the office is closed now, but there are people listening that are still going to work. Some of them might be listening on the way to work, so we need to give them some respect.

I think I'm going, I think I'm doing the rambler there. Oh, hi! Hi, I'm going to work, thank you. I'll be listening to this going. You're not going in there, are you? Er, maybe not actually. I'll be down in the, apology, Kevin, won't I? Oh, very nice. In my 3D printers and my paint. That's where you spent Christmas Day, isn't it, as well, this year?

Just, oh, nothing. It has to happen. It has to happen. In the words of 50 Cent, I can't believe my grandmother's making me take out the garbage. I'm rich. Fuck this. I'm going home. I don't need this shit. When did he say that? He tweeted it in 2010. The best old tweets are Wayne Rooney's aren't they? Oh yeah, real. Do you want to lift him up?

Then he had an argument with himself, threatened him to knock himself out. Yeah. Um, which is only like better, only slightly better than getting knocked out by David Bardsley. It was Phil Barsley. Phil Bardsley. Who's David Bardsley? Also a football player. Older, older, more Bardsley. Yeah. Yeah. My brother's dad. Right. And also Dean Windus is one talking to himself on Twitter. We didn't understand how it works. That's a good point actually. Yeah. Yeah. Did he go mad Windus? Did he go like kind of Southampton, ex Southampton player? Oh, I don't think he's got, no, I don't think he's got that. Like kind of like conspiracy theorists. Has he had his demons?

I'm going to say something to you now, Peter. Right. Which as you well know is our code for you to move on. He's had some issues. He's had some issues. All right. Fine. What's Matt Tiss up to these days? He seems to have been welcomed back into the fold. Has he?

I mean, I think the problem is with Matthew Tizian, certainly even people who are coming into an industry, the sports broadcasting industry, quite young, they may have forgotten that he went conspiracy theory, you know, pencil something or something else crazy, right? Now he was in a situation where, so they were finding out all about Matt Letizia. Oh, Matt Letizia is available. His agent has said he's available for doing something. I'll just watch some of his, what he was like as a player. And then you watch that and you sort of go, oh, oh, he's brilliant absolute star one club man brilliant and then they bring him in and that's how we you know we forget all of the you know chemtrail stuff he talked

about. What I don't like about it is that he promised us a newsletter and he did four of them which basically lasted for about I don't know seven or eight weeks and as of January of this year, he just completely wrapped it up. Has he stopped doing Twitter? Has he left Twitter as well? No way, surely he's well into Twitter now. I thought he'd be massively into it for crying out loud.

It's the home of free speech for crying out loud. We're missing out things. The fact that the Matricio no longer does a newsletter means we're missing out some of the following entries Peter. Yeah 6th of January Watched our daughter play hockey at lunchtime followed by a dash to st Mary's with my niece and husband to watch Saints play Warsaw in the FA Cup Then I picked up a tight Akeba on the way home, which was excellent And if you're in Ramsey, I'd recommend if you're in Romsey, I'd recommend it. Oh

No, wait. No, he's he um, he's, he is in Twitter. He's, uh, he's, he's chilling with CBT. Oh, of course it is. No, it's not CBT. That's your, that's your do for your moped, Pete. Oh, sorry. CBT, CBT, CBT. You did the CBT, right?

I did a CBT. I did, I did CBT on a CBT. How did it go? See the CBT. Floppy. So he'd been too floppy. I went, you know, do floppy. And he's never like that.

How is, how is the Chinese moped out of interest? It's still smashed up on my porch. I'm the jet ski man. No, no it is. But with a Chinese moped? With a Chinese moped, Wang Yi 125. I'm thinking of getting a bike. Tell us more. Because I can just scoot.

Because basically the only reason why I had the scooter is to scoot down to the down to the train station. And the thing about like a big hill. How long is the train station? It's probably about a quarter of an hour, 20 minute walk. Describe the walk. It's beautiful, it's through a nature reserve. You're not taking the scooter for the nature reserve are you? No, there's a road that goes next to the nature reserve. Surely you prefer to walk through the nature reserve? Well it depends on what the weather's like. It depends on how late, obviously not. Right, okay. And so yeah, I need either drive halfway down the hill

and run the rest of it, or walk the rest of it, or I was thinking, well, I'll just get a bike down and... But you took a push bike? Yes, a push bike, just a little push bike down the hill. I mean, going up the hill will be a nightmare. But you regularly must leave yourself far too short time for the train station journey. You're just going to adjust that for your bike? You're going to be like, oh it's a five minute cycle so I'll leave and you're going to be

late again? No, no, I've never been, I never miss my train, but it is usually quite tight. But that's what I'm saying, I just need a bike to, I just need something that will propel me down the hill faster than I need to be. Would you go e-bike? It should be expensive and stealable, aren't they? I live all year, I'd have got me Wangi. You're both going to get stolen.

You're going to lock it up at the train station all day. It's going to get stolen. I'd just get a crap one. Just get a crap one. It's a false economy. You're going to keep getting it. I know someone who goes for about six bikes a year, it seems like. Well, that's me. so just go down the garbage. Then Billy Smith goes through bikes that you wouldn't believe.

He cycles everywhere and he's always got a new bike whenever I see him. Yeah. Has he got insurance? What for a push bike? It's just a price you have to pay. It's just price doing business in London, isn't it? Well I'm saying that, I'll just get one that's really unattractive. I'll cover it in leaves and twigs and mud.

If you walk around central London and you see a push bike chained to a lamp post. It is your civic duty to steal it. Because that's not how we work. The Chancellor's Arch Ben Barry Smith. Wherever you are. And he's had it new. Wherever you are. He's had it off you new. When he came to visit me and he lives a long way away from where I live. Hillie is well down there.

He's cycled. He's crazy. He's crazy for a bike. I mean, I love a bike, but I'm a limelad. You know that you're a limelad. Yeah. Me too. I got a limed here today. Did you really? Well, from from hybrid. Yeah. Fuck it. That's under three minutes. It's not worth it. I don't think you get to say you're financially is not worth it. You don't get to say you're limed in which under a three minutes. I'm not. Cause I'm a human forestman. Oh, you are a forestman. I'm part of the hot forestry commission. It's cheaper, isn't it? It is way cheaper. I don't know how they get it. Even if you do line pass? Even if you do line pass it's

still cheaper but they are a bit shittier about where you park. Peter, how's, okay, how is your, the question I had in mind to ask you today, as I thumb thumb the caffeine in caffeine. Chewing gum that I gave you on the last show. How's your year been? What do you mean? Well, you know what I mean? Right. How are things at home? How are things at home? It's fine. Have you had a good year? I've had a good year. How does it rank alongside other years? What's the best year of your life, do you reckon? I reckon, uh reckon 32 was pretty good. So that would have been 2013. Yeah, 32 was pretty good.

Got out there, traveled a bit, started a new job on the radio. You started an absolute radio in 2013? Yeah. What show were you given? I was given Weekend Evenings, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. And was 2013 for sure? I said I don't want to do Fridays.

I said I didn't do it in the end. I bet that 2013 was without question the first time you broke the no repeat guarantee. The first time, yeah. Do you remember the first time breaking the no repeat guarantee? The no repeat guarantee, the NRG Hymen. Yeah. Yeah. You can't get it back. Did you remember doing it? What song was it?

I think it was the Clash at Rock the Casbah, which I played before the news and after the news because I wasn't really paying attention. But some Clash fans said it was the best show they'd ever heard. They loved it. They enjoyed it. Double-bubble on the PRS. But is it unfair of me to say that it seems quite brave for someone to give you a job where you're doing national live radio on your own with no checks and balances and there's no one there to help you?

Because I'd be terrified doing that and I'm more reliable than you. You'd think that that would be... No, I'd prefer it for no one in the room because then I can... You could script your links and you'd sit down and play you know, play the, rock the cast bar twice. You'd surf the internet. I was surprised when I first saw that they didn't have producers in there. Yeah. It's all... Because we do talk radio, there's loads of people. Yeah. It's just one button roll really, I suppose. Bang, bang, bang.

When I was on, I went up to the BBC last week to do something. And I had to go out to Media City in Salford. Yeah. Which is an amazing place. It was great. I'd never been there before. It's great to visit it. I couldn't be less BBC if I tried as a broadcaster. So, but I was able to go to a media city in Salford, which is an amazing place. It was great. I've never been there before. It's great to visit it. I couldn't be less BBC if I tried as a broadcaster. So, but I was able to go up there and it was fun.

And on the way up there, it was the day after all those big storms. So the trains were a bit fucked and I got to the train station really early to make sure I could get a train. And when I got on the train, I got a little, Oh, here's the touch, right? They abandoned all the ticket restrictions because of the train situation. And all ye hope. Kind of as well. So I got in premium.

I just jumped into premium. Is premium as in like, is that first class or is that, is there a premium, is there a spot between coach and first class? Is there like a premium? Yeah. What does that do? They found it. They found that spot. They found that little space. They squeeze that in there. That's where they make all the money in it most. Premium economies where all the money's made.

Right. Well like, that makes sense. It's kind of like first class but no food. I guess. Right. Is there any food on first class that anyone will want to eat though? On the fancy west coast I think yeah yeah anyway so I got on the train I was tired get on the train with my day saver smoked a smug derrick I didn't smoke a rick not in premium and that's got on the bus with my day so we're not on the train yeah okay just just a good on trends not canon it's not canon if you say and I fell asleep okay got on the train with

my mattresses yes CBD gummy yeah the CBD gummy. Yeah, I had a CBD gummy, fell asleep. And no, it was a busy carriage and I had a solo seat. So I fell asleep. And then the next thing I know, I did a little calculation, I reckon it was about 45 minutes later, the next thing I know, someone coughed really loudly quite near me.

Right. Which woke me up. Yeah. And I woke up with such a star that I smashed my knee on the table and everyone looked at me. And then I realised I had drawn all down my t-shirt. And the person from the BBC you were meeting was next to you. They weren't. They weren't. But there is a slight chance, a slight chance, someone's going to be a nice Luke football rapper. And look at him. Look at the state of him.

Look at the state of him. Well, on a similar thing, I can finally talk about it, look at him. Oh yeah. Got a baby. Pete, you can't follow up my story with that. That's got a baby. That's a big headline story. Well, it kind of- You've become a parent. It kind of is connected. It's amazing. It kind of is amazing. It kind of is connected because drooling, drooling, drooling, a lot of drooling. Very, very problematic

on trends. Um, yeah, got a baby. Um, I didn't, you know what I didn't really plan on talking about on this show, but on this show today, but you mentioned something that kind of is the same in my situation. We adopted a baby. So it's been a long road. I think I'm going to press a button to this. I can't press the ding. You can't just say I've adopted a baby without me giving you some kind of sound effects to celebrate it, okay? All right, here we go. Do you want the Baldy bottle? Mossad. Okay. All right. Here we go. Do you want the Baldy bottle? Mossad. They're not a member of Mossad,

but they are a lovely little thing. And what's that for every? No, it's just great. Every bottle. You've done an amazing thing. You and the wife you have access to, partner you have access to, have adopted a baby, and you've given a baby an amazing home.

Well, let's not go that far. You've given a baby a home. Correct. And they're fed and watered. It fills my heart with joy to hear that you've done it. So good for you. Thank you. But another way. Oh no. Why do you win? Cause I'm in the same terrible situation as you are. It's kind of like it's, it's been a year we've been with her for a while. We haven't been able to talk about it. But things have moved on.

I've made that sound like it's you and me. It's not you and me. It's not me and you. It's been there for a while and it's been there for a while. But we can't talk about it. We can now. But that's not what this show is going to descend into. But what, and it was a long crappy process that was, it was easier for us, I think, because it wasn't like what we'd done after, was it when you'd jab knitting needles in your stomach

and get all the chemicals and stuff to make babies if you're a little older? What's the thing that everyone does to have a baby? What's the thing that everyone has IVF. Right. So we didn't go through any of that. And so be respectful. It's neat. It's neat. It feels like it won't be knitting needles. Fine. There's big old needles in the belly in it to stimulate something. Anyway, so you didn't go through that and this is always going to be our first plan. So we, so emotionally it was a lot easier to get.

We weren't sort of grieving that process ending. So we were jumping. So that bit was quicker. But God, you got fill in a lot of forms. Yeah. To me, everyone, imagine looking like me and trying to adopt a baby. Yeah. How many forms you got to prove you're not a nonce. Good God. Look at me. How many galaxy ripples you got to eat? How many galaxy ripples you got to eat? I don't think you should be prove you're not a nonce? Good God. Look at me. How many galaxy ripples you got to eat? How many galaxy ripples you got to eat? I don't think you should be saying nonce. They can't get me now. It's final. I don't care.

I'm not. I'm literally proven. There was a form, right, where it said, do you have any dangerous weapons in the house? Right. And one of them was gun. I was like, do not have a gun. They went, do you have a sword? And I went, Oh, I've got a sword. And they went, Oh, I've never filled in the sword bit before. And it was because Sarah had bought me a samurai sword. Not on the same day. No, no, just a lot of that. Just a lot of that kind of what I've got to take a box. The stuff you have to think about that you don't normally have to think about.

Yeah, I've got to explain what Bitcoin is. To prove my income. From the outside looking in, it's been a very, very long process. You guys have had the patience of saints and you have done an amazing thing. But the thing that, why I'm bringing it in here, and I probably should have thought about how I was going to explain this, but... That's Luca Piccio style Luca Piccio style and it's very much off the cuff but um a couple of times Ramble or Luca Piccio or Abroad Japan or rest of me listeners have seen me out and about in town and

They've done this wonderful thing where they say hello to me and stuff and I'm with a child And they look at me and just as they're sort of walking away They sort of look down at the child as siftily sort of go, do I need to call someone? There's just a little, there's a little bit of that. And I go, I'd like that to end please. I'd like people to know that I am legal, I'm the legal guardian of a child. You're doing yourself a huge disservice. I have always called the authorities on their behalf and they've asked me to.

No, it's an amazing thing. I know I keep saying it. We can talk about, you know, watched a lot of The Wiggles, watched a lot of Rather Noisy Lion and Mr. Tumble and now I can finally talk about Mr. Tumble. Format King. Format King. But we talked about him before and The Wiggles and all that stuff. So that's the reason why. You watch a lot of The Wiggles. You watch a lot of the wiggles. I watch a lot of the wiggles by myself to be honest.

That's what I'm saying, I've never had another pair of them. She's very musical. There's also a um, no what's that, is it Miss Emma? Miss Rachel? Right. There's a Miss Rachel tribute act. I don't even know who Miss Rachel is. Um, it's this very sassy New Yorker, possibly Midwestern tune. Oh, American YouTuber? Yeah, she's married, I think, to some kind of theatrical man. And her and her very millennial looking friends and friendship group do songs.

She's from Maine, apparently. She's from Maine. And she, yeah, she does, she does songs and stuff, teaching kids words and stuff. And there's a tribute act to Miss Rachel. Right. Who does the old theatre. I might know you'd have had, you'd have had your family on YouTube watching it and all that kind of stuff. I don't think my son's ever seen YouTube. Yeah, but it's, but it's just, it's YouTube. It's clips of, you know, Pee Wee Herman, which we like, clips of Mr. Tumble.

Because a lot of these kind of like TV shows, they've got YouTube channels that just 24 seven just broadcast Tumble, Wiggle, all of them really over and over again. And and I'm fine with it. It's like Paw Patrol, Paw Patrol. Not really gotten to that yet. Yeah, I'm hearing good things about that Australian dog. I think people will be absolutely stunned to know that you've learned to maintain your

output of broadcasting. Saying every last thing in my head. Every last situation that I've experienced. Not knowing that you've gone through this process as well. I hope it inspires some other people to get involved in that process as well, Peter, because it's a really important thing, isn't it? Yeah. I mean, and I will, if anybody needs to talk about it, I'll give them the truth. You're going to, you don't get a sword. Don't get it. You're going to be inundated now with people who want, I'd love it if it inspired a revolution of people adopting children. Yeah.

Off the back of your. And they could be called Peter's children's. They could be, couldn't they? Peter and Sarah's children. You've got an episode of that's life. That's Life and everyone stands up behind they go thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Sorry, everyone who's at any point been pissed off or let down by Pete, do you want to stand up? And you're just looking around. Oh that'd be delicious. Well I've never met him. I've never met him. Yeah, actually I was on a train and you put your leg on. Shut up! Shut up. Oh good. Oh good. It was only a matter of time before we made a reference to Kinder Transport, wasn't it? Let's be honest.

Oh no, that wasn't what I was talking about at all. No, but that's what that man did. That's what that man did. Good block. I want to say his name is Nicholas something. Nicholas Trin. Can't remember. Nicholas, yeah. Let's have a break while we process this news, Peter.

When we come back the other side, promise you Pete will still be a parent and we'll do some emails as well. Who about the Luke-Pete Show? I'm Pete Donaldson, John Mr. Lukey Moore and every single day on this show when we get round to it we do an email or two. We'll read out some emails. There's loads, loads of good ones here. What about this from a Grimsby home fry tip. Before I do that actually, on the way back from Affer mentioned trip to Salford, I got back quite late and the wifi I have access to said can you just get

something for dinner on the way home. Got back. The trains were atrocious that day. I'm so sorry I got through that. That's alright. Drool or not drool. Yes, I made it worse for the people around me. The only place that was open was the fish and chips shop I never go to. Oh, the bad fish and chips shop. I never go to it. Where they fry the fish the wrong way.

Dirty oil. Dirty oil? Is that on their Google reviews? Dirty oil, cashing and... Gives you the... it's only cash. It's only cash, yeah. I don't know why they get away with that. Them and barbers, I do not know why they're the ones who get away with it. Yeah, I do not know why they're the ones who get away with it. I think Turkish Barbas have turned a page too, but I think most of them do not do cash only. I think, but you'll occasionally see, Birkensted train station used to be cash in hand, which is...

That's insane. That is insane. How far are you going back at 1950? What do you mean? I was in like, how far... You used to be cash in hand. What year was Birkenstead train station cash in hand? No, no, I don't mean the train station cash in hand. I mean the, the, the fish and chip shop next to Birkenstead. I was going to say. I'm a surgeon. It's built in. Because they've got some sum up exists now, doesn't it? Which I think has got very competitive

fees, which is why a lot more people use card. Oh, right. Okay. I think. Sum up. Yeah. And... Give me the And, um, sum up for crying out loud. Anyway, this fish and chip shop, I'm an eyesettle man. Are you really? Only does cash. So, um, I then had to go and get cashed in there. Anyway, I had fish and chips from it. I can't even remember what I was saying. Oh yeah, that's right. Because it, cause there's an email about the Grimsby home fry. And I thought to myself, I did an email about fracking, dirty oil, fish and ships.

The problem with this fish and ship shop is it's only got, genuinely, I think about six customers. Yeah. And a couple of them are in there whenever I go in there. Oh, what? They just come in and they never leave. I can't tell California. I just don't see how it exists as a business. But anyway, I thought I thought to myself when I was in there,

they must live above the shop and own the building or something. I thought to myself when I was in there, if I was going to bring something to be fried from home here, I wouldn't be coming in this place. Really? Nah. Not with that oil. That's the sort of place they would use. Is there any rules about having to dispose of oil when you're finished with it? It's an ungodly amount of oil, isn't it? I think you have to get someone to come round with a van, surely. What? Oh, gets rid of it, Yeah. Yeah. And big vats.

Cause you know, clean it, can't you? It's in putting your car. Oh yeah. You're supposed to clean it. Yeah. I think they do use it for biofuel now, but the, um, there's a kitchen nightmares episode where Gordon Gordon says to, um, one of the particular restaurants, Doug, you need, if you're going to use a deep fat fry for some of your food, fine.

But you need to change it all every week. Yeah. Every week, every week. Yeah. Every week. Every week. Yeah. That seems like a long, cause I'm, I should, I reckon I should have a big, um, chip pan. I think we should bring chip pans back. We used to have one.

Such a big feature. With a little metal net. Little metal net in there. Yeah. The amount of times I used to come around from the pub and cook myself deep fat fried chips. Why were the chips so, why did, why were chips better, why are chips better now than they were back then?

You used to be able to buy frying chips and oven chips. Oven chips were a fairly new thing then. Yes they were. Frying chips you'd either chop them yourself or you'd buy them as frying chips. I remember because I used to work in the frozen section at Safeway for a bit and there was very distinct different product.

Oh so you'd go straight from the freezer to the fryer. Correct. Oh, interesting. Anyway, Ross Blintouch, Grimsby Home Fry, he says, I was born and raised in Grimsby and I've never heard of a home Fry despite sampling many of the town's excellent chippies over the years. This leads me to two questions. One, which chippies offer this service? Would love to try it. If you're out there from Grimsby and you're listening, tell

us which fish and chip shop specifically. And two, is this age related? Because I'm coming up for 37 and the wonder if this is either an older or younger person's game given I haven't lived in the town for almost 20 years. I do still spend a lot of time there visiting family and a chippy tea is always top of the agenda. I'm back home next week and I'll be sure to ask around and report back. Cheers Rob. To me it seems like it's an old person thing. Yes. Yeah, I would agree. Not a young person thing. No way on earth is it a new fangirl. It could be, I mean, outside chance it could be a TikTok thing.

Right. Okay. I mean, what are the major TikTok things these days? Are they still eating Tide Pods? I hope not. Is that everything? I think so. They're always chomping down the old Tide Pod. What is it? Divide chocolate. That's the big thing in it. Everybody wants a bit of that Divide chocolate. Do they? I'm sure it was like six months ago. It's like this pistachio-y sort of thick chocolate. They open up and it's green in the middle. It looks like weed.

I've never even heard of it. Anyway, speaking of TikTok things, have you seen that documentary that Matt and Emma Willis did about smartphones? Oh, where it's like a school where you're not allowed to have a smartphone. Yeah, but they were talking about, they've actually got a lot of kids to get involved and they talked about it off and the personal experience of their own

kids or whatever. I mean, it looks bad. I think it's only surely a matter of time now before that smartphones are totally banned. There's going to be a generation of children going, Oh, we have smartphones all the time. And totally banned from under 16. It's got to be. Yeah, got to be.

Yeah. That's it's, um, it's, there is no reason. You can just air tag them nowadays. Can't you, if you need to know where they are, get yourself an air tag. We just did a notification because I said air tag. Little, little, little, little notification. Well, a friend of mine who's got older kids was saying to me, yeah, like it's all really good talking about banning the smartphones and that kind of thing, but my daughter's

class progress, homework, everything's fine. Yeah. Cause everyone just adopted without even asking like what, what that would mean. Needs to be an iPad solution in my view. It's been an iPad first solution. Doesn't there? Yeah. Has to be. Get some E Ink in there. Anyway. Get some dumb, get us a dumb terminal. I haven't been on TikTok for a long, old time. My only kind of concept at TikTok is John Ravidic. He will send me the more insane people on there. But it's kind of like the nice thing about TikTok, I would say, is that the algorithm is mainly kind of managed by the Chinese. So they don't really know that the algorithm doesn't really sort of do the same thing over and over again. So you do actually get some quite interesting

crazy people. How does the algorithm actually work? Well, do you know like on Instagram, if you like something, you just get the same thing over and over again. But I think the algorithm on that app isn't quite as refined or it isn't certainly sort of well versed in Western kind of tastes and how that algorithm would work for Instagram or YouTube or whatever. But there on TikTok, like you'll still get these quite interesting characters. Are you on TikTok? No. Do you look at it?

Every now and again when John sends me some... You've got an account, but you have to have an account to look at it, don't you? Yeah, I think so. But it's no... Not scared off my nose, at it? Um, every now and again, when John sends me some, some, you've got an account to look at it, don't you? Uh, yeah, I think so. But it's, it's no, not scared off my nose, is it? Right. I find myself too, too, too fast, too furious, baby. Yeah, that's me. No, I, I end up deleting the apps because I'm fed up of spending so much time on them. Yeah. Well, how about, um, look on TikTok now. What's the front page of TikTok for old Pete's algorithm? Just come back fire. It's a man on a ring doorbell tripping over and smashing his head through a front door. Is it real? Probably not. Go away, go away. Right. That's my neighbour with a Ferrari F1 car for some reason. Somebody cutting some hair.

Lady in a swimsuit sort of having a little tender smooch with a man. Yeah. Should we stop now? There's a man selling wholesale Prime. There's a lot of that going on as well. People do buy a lot of- Prime's good done though, isn't it? Sell toilet roll, they sell Primes,

anything the kids need. Kids need a poo. You know that algorithm on Instagram? It's backfired for me. Do you know why? Because that trope we've got between us where I send you something every day from it. Yes. Guess what I'm getting now? Oh, you're just getting that, sir, because you love it. Yeah, but I don't love it.

Well. Should have thought of that, shouldn't I? Yeah. Enjoy your Christmas. Let's have another email from, do you remember Das Crappo, Pete? I don't remember Das Crappo, but I bloody should with that name. Week or two ago, you started, you started, we had to go, basically you started snooping on someone's LinkedIn. I see. Yes, I do remember actually.

Yes. Das Crappo. I wanted to know why he had so many, how much head trauma, why he got so much head trauma. But he's not emailed in again. Oh, right. Perhaps. Okay. Sensibly.

He has emailed in again, but that's not the email I'm doing now. Right. Okay. Sensibly. He has emailed him again, but that's not the email I'm even doing now. Right. Okay. So DasKrapo justifies the fact that his email is DasKrapo because he says, as Mr. D kindly pointed out shortly after reading my electronic email, don't use your real email to convert to podcasters because they'll snoop your LinkedIn account. Ah, nuts. Never mind.

But the man who's linked to account, you did snoop. Was not even him. So I, my, my sleuthing has come up short. The legendary Kent Vargen Schutts. Yeah. He's in my back. Right. Yes.

Okay. Oh, did I, so I missed his, I took the wrong name and then looked for the wrong name. Let me break this down for you. Okay. I'm confused. Yeah. So Kent Vargenanshuts, he's coming in a minute. Forget him. He's the guy who's LinkedIn you snooped. That's fine.

Kent Varganshuts. But the reason that DasKrapper got back in touch was to send a battery in. Oh, so he wasn't talking about, he wasn't the one, right. Okay. I see. Yes. I think it's, I think it's a, I think it's a she actually, but anyway, whoever they sent an email in about batteries, then we said, what a terrible email address. Why don't they use their real name? And they're because otherwise people sneak my LinkedIn account. That's a joke I went really really swimmingly well, please I did it. Now we're gonna do Kent Barker's shirt. Okay

What's your name again? Are you back in the room? Yeah, I'm going to go on your LinkedIn. Full-time carer of a child Kent says hello both the Wi-Fi access to you and I both baby through you the the Wi-Fi access to laugh very hard when I told her about my last email, how I'd already set in the batteries before and that Pete was now scaring my LinkedIn page. See what is LinkedIn? Hooray! As Pete surmised from my work history, my concussions are completely non work related. Right. The biggest one came in 2011 when I was hit by a truck while riding my bicycle. Oh dear. I don't want a bike anymore. Do you want to say something now to Kent? Would you like to apologize to Kent? Why didn't you do a wheelie over the top of it? Disrespectful. He says, since concussions

can compound on themselves, even relatively small bumps to the head can have a rather severe result. I can think of at least four soccer related incidents which eventually led to my having to leave the sport. I was rubbish anyway, but playing was the highlight of my week. To make matters more complicated, I have a seizure disorder. Would you like to apologize again to Kent? I haven't really said anything about seizure medicine. I don't know if I have to put that in there. I don't know why. Well, Kent's had to deal with it his whole life. And even though concussions are rather

poorly understood, my current neurologist hypothesises that my seizures and concussions are working in tandem to further their own agendas, the end result of which I can only guess. I mean, that's terrifying. Yeah, so he's got two guys in his head. He says, keep up the good work. I look forward to the new pods each week. And as you may have seen, I am open to new work. Right, yeah. Because of the LinkedIn. Right, okay. I didn't see that bit, but good God. I mean, look after yourself for crying

out loud. Don't backtrack. I'm now worried about the two, the twin exhausts in his head firing off different things. Could cancel each other out. Could cancel each other out, yeah. Did he backdoon? Double doon. Double doon. Double doon. That's it, Peter. We've got to end on the Kent note. Kent, stay in touch. Yes, Kent.

We love your emails. We'd love to hear from you. Kit was posted. We also love that your wife laughs at you because that's something that we can both relate to. Yeah, correct. Our wife's not yours. Yes, okay. Well, if they knew us, maybe they would. Yeah. We love your emails, we love to hear from you. We love that your wife laughs at you because that's something that we could both relate to. Our wife's not yours. Yes, okay. Well, if they knew us, maybe they would. All right then, we'll be back on Thursday. Or Boxing Day! Boxing Day! No boxing, Ken, no boxing.

That's the one thing you can't do next to soccer. Is he hoping we'd be more sympathetic? Probably not. Yeah, I shouldn't have said the wheelie thing there. You get excited, don't you? You get excited. It was a light touch. You get excited to live as well. We'll be back on Thursday.

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