This Isn't a Prank
The Luke and Pete Show
Stak Production
4.9 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
The lesson to take from today's episode is that algorithms will be the death of us all. And what's more, no-one even seems to care. Luke and Pete discuss that, as well as the radicalisation of people they have worked with that used to be normal, before getting stuck into an amazing email about a prank that wasn't actually a prank.
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| 0:00.0 | It's the Luke and Pete Shaw with me Pete Donaldson and Mr. Lukie Moore. |
| 0:14.1 | Everything's good in the hood. I don't know why I launched into that. |
| 0:21.2 | There's a lot of like on YouTube on my algorithms. I don't know why I launched into that. There's a lot of like, on YouTube on my algorithms, I don't know why, |
| 0:24.6 | but there's just a lot of people complaining about YouTube algorithms. |
| 0:29.3 | There's a lot of people talking about Donald Trump. |
| 0:32.7 | There's also a lot of sort of good news stories from the slightly sort of militaristic sort of YouTube accounts |
| 0:42.7 | talking about, you know, Russia is about to fall. The economy's in the toilet. They finally |
| 0:47.9 | turned a corner there. Ukraine is on the march. And I'll be watching a lot of these sort of |
| 0:52.8 | videos and stuff. And it very much seems like |
| 0:55.0 | that's not happening because they've been saying these things for the last two years. And |
| 1:00.8 | I just think that I am in a position where the algorithm is serving me things I want to hear |
| 1:06.2 | and not actually serving me in the truth lately. And I feel like I'm being looked after and cossettant. |
| 1:14.4 | Algorithms will be the death of all of us. |
| 1:16.7 | Yeah. |
| 1:17.0 | Simple as that. |
| 1:17.6 | And I think it's also such a pointless extinction. |
| 1:21.7 | Like, we are basically going to suffer the most pointless extinction in ever. |
| 1:28.5 | Because if you look at all the other extinctions, |
| 1:31.8 | I can't remember how many they've been, |
| 1:32.9 | but they've been like, I don't know, say four or five or something. |
| 1:34.9 | I can't actually remember. |
| 1:37.1 | You know, archaeologists and historians and fucking paleontologists, |
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