The Luke and Pete Show - Don’t put silver balls in your ears
Episode Date: August 10, 2023Luke and Pete both share a house with people and pets that don't respect them. Today, in hearing all about that Pete ends up doing an impression of his dog and telling us about the creative way he sto...pped the pup he has access to from licking his own nethers.Elsewhere, we hear about an extremely valuable arcade machine that was found in the street and marvel at Matt Hancock’s latest venture into content creation.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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it's the luke and pete shaw on thursday the 10th of august my name is pete donaldson i'm joined by
mr lukey miller lucky mill how the devil are you sir not bad how's it going we're both tired boys
i think yeah what's your excuse um my partner got back from a trip from Mallorca.
I think it was Mallorca.
Yeah, Mallorca.
Late last night.
And then I was up with the dogs quite early.
So one dog gets up quite early when she sees the sun rising.
And the other one sleeps in.
But if you're up with one, you're up with both.
Yeah.
They just need dinner.
I did tell you about dinner. need dinner I did tell you about
dinner
breakfast
I did tell you about
I did advise you
to not get
one dog
because I need to tell the truth
on the other
because it would be confusing
when it comes to meal times
great for riddles
yeah really good
it's really up my riddle game
it really has
and so
one gets up
and it's bark bark bark
then the other one
just goes
alright I'm getting up.
I'll get up then.
I'll do some barking.
Do they?
Well, one of them doesn't bark
because she's a bit older.
But Sammy is very much the barker.
But it's not really just his age.
It's not really a bark.
It's more of a shriek.
See it?
Ha!
It's like that.
Ha!
I'm like, mate, I've just fed you. I'm working. What do you need from me? He's like that I'm like mate
I've just fed you
I'm working
what do you need from me
he's like
and I've no idea why
no idea why
yeah
well
probably
I've just cut off his balls
so
yeah that's part of it
that was the weird thing
so he had his
he had his testiculars removed
his particular testiculars
and
I thought the scrotum would be tightened up.
Like, I thought they'd sort of do something.
It's just flap around like a tobacco pouch, is it?
Yeah, it's flapping around.
It's hilarious.
It would probably start to shrink.
It will start to shrink, yeah,
but it is bloody funny.
Yeah.
Speaking of people in the house that don't respect me,
or you,
yeah, my son gets up very early.
He gets up at like, sometimes, well, to be fair,
he's all right from 9pm-ish through to about 4am.
Yeah.
Which is pretty good going.
And then he's just up there, high-performance podcast on,
cup of coffee.
I'm like, why are you sitting in the uncomfortable chair again?
Rise and grind, Luke.
Yeah, you know, he looks out, he doesn't call me Luke.
coffee. I'm like, why are you sitting in the uncomfortable chair again? Rise and grind, Luke. Yeah, you know, he looks
out, he doesn't call me Luke, he looks out
and he's obviously reasonably
at like 5.30 in the morning
this time of year, he's going, well, it's light
outside, so why would I not want to
get up? It's a good point, actually, yeah. And I'm saying
to him, yeah, but, you know, I promise
you, you won't sleep till 8.30 when it starts.
I spoke to
an American a few weeks ago and they were going,
I love this country, but it just gets too light too early.
It's funny, isn't it?
In that way, I thought they'd be broadly in the same ballpark.
I don't really know how it works.
I found it very interesting when I was in Iceland in February.
It didn't get light until about 10.30 in the morning.
And then up in Scotland in July, up on Skye,
it doesn't get dark
until like 11pm
right yeah that's fair
which is really weird
I've been
I've come out of a bar
at 2am
with my reputation
and it's been
absolutely
it's been light
it's just very very weird
very strange
it's always quite depressing
looking back on it
when you used to go out
on the big
on the big one
and you'd still be out
and it'd be getting light
you'd start hearing the birds you'd start hearing the birds I don't want to be here I don't want to be here I've when I used to go out on the big one and you'd still be out and it'd be getting light. You'd start hearing the birds.
I don't want to be here.
I don't want to be here.
When I used to go out,
I used to,
certainly in Leicester,
when I was absolutely S-faced,
I was,
I'd try and climb on like buildings
in the town and stuff
and I remember the sun coming up
and I was still on the top of a building
and I was like,
I need to go home.
This is,
this is.
People listening to that
will think it's a bit like
Dawson's Creek.
It's romantic.
No,
it's burglar.
It's not,
it's just you.
No,
I was just.
Covered in that
anti-climbing paint
on the way down.
Yeah.
I used to love doing that
but it's so dangerous.
That's how you tell
the difference
between someone
who likes to have a good time
and someone who's got
proper sesh fiend
is the sound
of birds chirping
and it's starting
to get light
doesn't affect them
doesn't phase them
no
but for me it's like
oh no
I need to get home now
yeah
I need to be home
and just get home
as quick as I can
pretend to myself
this didn't happen
and then wake up
at 11 and go
that's not too late
I can probably just
about get away
with a normal day now.
Have a day, yeah.
But some people just crack on through, don't they?
Straight through crew.
Yeah.
I sort of woke up on Sunday
and I remember that Sammy had sat on the bed
and his little bum had made a little mark on the bed.
Poo?
Clothes.
And I was like, you know what?
At least it wasn't me.
No one's going to believe that.
No one's going to believe that.
She didn't. He did a little poo. He to believe that no one's going to she didn't
he did a little poo
he did a little poo
he didn't do a poo
just his bum
his bum had done some pooing
and where he'd sat down
he'd clearly
done that little thing
where he'd sort of scoot along
which is
which is funny
on the bed
on the bed
he respects nothing
obviously I've never owned a dog
so
if you
if you take your dog out for a walk
right
and he does a poo
yeah
and it's like a messy one
do you not give it a wipe?
nah
it's usually fine
it usually just dries out
I guess
but yeah
for some reason
he just has no self respect
do they lick their own bums
or not?
I think that's a bit of a misnomer
I don't think he really sort of
cats do
he has a good go at his
his testicle scar
he has a good go at his stitches
he's not supposed to have
a cone on for that
he did have a cone,
but then he just kept walking into stuff.
Yeah, that's what my cat did, yeah.
And so he got one of those inflatable...
It looks like he's going on holiday.
Like a travel pillow.
To sleep on a plane?
Yeah.
Oh, nice.
And he just sort of separates.
And that kind of helps.
I might get one myself.
He's taken to it like a duck to water.
It's Christoph.
And if he was in water, he'd presumably float.
So he's still licking his nuts
even though he's got that on. He's still licking his nuts.
Shall we see how much we can do about your dog licking
his nuts? I think we've exhausted
it. Do another impression of your dog barking again?
Ha!
He's got a bit of Tom
Jones about it.
Yeah, he's got a bit of Tom Jones
about it. So Peter, Rory's back from his holiday now. He is, yeah. But he's not listening to this record because he's got a bit of Tom Jones about it so Peter Rory's
back from his holiday
now he is yeah he's
not listening to this
record because he's
got to catch up on
all his work yeah
he's so he didn't
listen to the second
show that we recorded
last so that would
have been Monday's
show we did loads of
stuff on him didn't
we did a load of
stuff on Rory and
he's not listened so
that'll teach him
no exactly and on
the first piece of
shit I just really
haven't caught him
no don't
why
because we need him
we do need him
on Monday
not Monday
last Thursday
I bet you
£10 a ball
left on the table
for pool
that's right
and you didn't
take it up
because you don't
want to spend time
with me in it
I want to play
the pool
and I want to do
the darts
but we need a third
we need that ring toss
thing someone who I think owns a pub in East London said that they said that they've got one I want to play the pool and I want to do the darts but we need a third we need that ring toss thing
so someone who
I think owns a pub
in East London
said that they
said that they've got one
it's like a mini one
I mean like
I'm one from the ceiling
the PDC got in touch
they were
offering us darts
didn't they
the PDC
yeah exactly
you should definitely do that
I've got a dart board
at home now
yes you have
yes we both have in fact
we should be practising
oh good ok
we've got no excuses
and how's it all going with the tax bill?
Still remains half unpaid.
I paid half of it.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'll give them the other half.
They're not on your back, no?
I've not had a text.
Do you reckon a payment of any kind
triggers some kind of system
where they don't get in touch with you for a while?
Oh, do you reckon what?
Could be.
So if you send them a tenner...
If they've got a system,
they probably know to look how much money you've given them.
It's like the old,
you know that kind of funny meme thing about how,
you know,
someone was on Facebook saying,
I haven't paid my TV licence,
I forgot,
but I've been watching TV for the last three months.
Right.
Do you think I'll get in trouble?
Yeah.
And someone replied saying,
the BBC couldn't find 40 paedophiles in their own building
for the entire 1980s.
I think you'll be okay.
They're going to find you.
Do you reckon it's the same with tax?
It's such a big system that it's impossible to...
I don't think anyone should go down with that idea
under the auspices of that.
But you're saying that...
It's not like student loan.
You just move a few times and they forget about you.
But you appear to be doing that.
No, I don't.
I just couldn't afford to pay him.
So I was just like, all right, I'll just do it next month.
Okay.
Take the fine.
Because if you get in trouble on the old tax front,
they do offer you a monthly thing, don't they, after all?
Do they, right?
I think so, yeah.
Yeah, but you've got to ring them up and go,
can I pay a bit this way?
Do you know how I know about that?
Why?
Which person do we both know that would fall foul of that?
Think about it now. From the rambleble think about it now right yeah yeah i thought yeah okay
what he just forgot to do it or he didn't have the resources or he didn't put enough away
delete any of those things couldn't he yeah he got his foot in a bucket and fell downstairs and
all of those one of our other friends
sometimes hears about it
from that friend.
Right, okay.
And has to somehow
take responsibility
for trying to sort it out,
as you can probably imagine.
Oh, wow.
That's not his job.
Moving on.
Good.
Speaking of
thousands and thousands
of dollars
or pounds,
did you see this story
about this arcade machine
that someone left
outside their house
called Disco-Tron?
Sorry, Discs of Tron.
Disco-Tron.
Such a dad.
Oh, Disco-Tron.
It's like a 1983
arcade game machine
based on Tron, right?
Which, by the way,
is a Disney film.
I didn't know
that was a Disney film.
Tron?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, someone got rid of it because obviously it's massive
and they didn't want it anymore.
Yeah, it was in someone's garage, wasn't it?
It was worth $10,000.
Yeah, so it was just...
Imagine being like a big retro video game enthusiast.
Imagine being someone who just really knows their stuff.
You've just won the lottery seeing that.
Well, yeah.
And so the daughter of the who's uh sort of was was riding around on a
on a bike and she said dad uh there's a there's a big arcade machine that you probably like
there's just been left in the street and he's like yes dear it goes out he goes that's worth
10 grand yeah but i kind of thought they were really expensive anyway um yeah the problem with
cabinets is that everything was made in the 80s everything had uh capacitors that go
bad things that explode things that get too hot uh electricity is very expensive like there's there's
so many things that can go wrong in those cabs especially the more complex ones like this one
was like a big kind of surroundy kind of uh games machine so it wasn't just like a uh stand up and
play like one-armed bandit kind of configuration. It was like a whole thing.
And so these things are just really heavy,
they get really hot,
and they were made in the 80s,
so they shouldn't have lasted this long. Sounds like me, actually.
Yeah, they get really heavy, really hot.
I am all those things.
And according to the article I read about it,
it had obviously just been kept in a garage somewhere
because the person who looked at it estimated
it had been played less than 3,000 times.
It was in mint condition.
Right.
Had every original piece
and all the lights and monitor were working.
Yeah.
So like it's a great,
it's a holy grail find.
I popped round to the guy
who runs the video game shop.
Like there's a video game shop
about 300 yards from my house
and I just never go in there
I just never
for whatever reason
I mean it's all retro stuff
so there's
you know you don't see
new stuff in there
but like
it's all retro stuff
and he knows
and next door
you used to have
like an arcade
so it was like
25 old
1980s arcade machines
like your Chase HQ
your Operation Wolf
your Outrun
stuff like that
Operation Wolf
what a classic
I forgot about that
that's the one with the gun
and the sequel
Operation Thunderbolt oh I don't forgot about that. That's the one with the gun. And the sequel, Operation Thunderbolt.
Oh, I don't know about that one, yeah.
And he had, like, loads of
cabs, and it was called Neon
Knights, and it was brilliant.
But he got rid of all of them, and
I said,
what made you get rid?
And he went, the electricity.
Just the electricity.
And those aren't, like like flat panel TV screens.
These are cathode ray tubes, lights, flashing lights,
things that go wrong, things that go...
So even just to turn all his gear on in the morning.
Yeah, it was just absolutely ridiculous electricity.
And so the economics of it is that if I buy one of those things
that's got a coin slot, I just take all the money every day.
There's no rent paid or anything like that.
I think with those
you usually just put them on freebies.
So he would just...
It wouldn't be a coin thing. It would be like
you just come in here for £7
I'm going to come and play all the games.
If I owned an arcade back in the day
you just purchase the machine
and then you take all the money
or I guess rent
there's probably
like a rental scheme
I guess as well
it's kind of
fascinating
because we went
Wi-Fi of Accenture
and I were in
Torquay a while back
and we had some
time to get before
we went for dinner
and me being
American
doesn't really have
an idea of like
a seaside kind of
arcade in the uk yeah they have
different things in the us but so we went in and we played the bullseye fruit machine for like two
hours and it was really good fun yeah um but i was thinking to myself and we won a bit of money we
lost a bit of money against a gambling machine i guess and it wasn't like an arcade machine
i was thinking like you would probably if you had people playing them all day
absolutely money spinner that's why they're there you could pull some pull some decent cash You would probably, if you had people playing them all day.
Absolutely money spinner.
That's why they're there.
You could pull some decent cash back.
From what is essentially a gambling addiction issue.
Yeah, issue.
I would very much like, you've probably never seen one,
but you know the pachinko parlours in Japan,
where it's just, it's a little bit like a cross pachinko,
it's like a bagatelle game.
Ball comes down from the top of the thing and it sort of bounces off little pegs
and it falls in.
Oh, I know, yeah.
And so you go in,
you give them 20 quid or whatever
and they just give you a big bowl of silver.
Like that?
Yeah.
I mean, a fucking cacoph silver. A lot. Yeah. I mean,
here,
a fucking cacophony.
So loud.
So they give you
these little steel balls
but they give you
absolutely loads of them
and for every ball
it's worth a cent
or a pence or whatever.
And it's so loud
so people just get the balls
and put them in their ears.
So you walk around
and it's like,
how can everyone
Don't do that.
How can everyone
manage this cacophony? It's because they've all
got silver balls in their ears.
As doctors listen to this, just take your own earplugs.
Just take your own earplugs. Don't put silver balls
in your ears. Don't put silver balls in your ears.
They put them in the machine
and they turn the dial. I don't really know how
it works, but they turn the dial and you
get more balls back than you put in.
And then you have to, because
gambling is illegal in Japan, you have to, because gambling is illegal
in Japan, you have to exchange
all of the balls for a voucher
and then you tottle off around the corner to a different
company, it's completely separate,
and you exchange your
voucher for the money.
So it's like a Baltimore drug deal? Yeah.
Yeah, pretty much. You get a little talk.
You give your money to a kid, he runs that way,
tells that guy, he tells that guy, brings the drugs and no one ever sees the money being exchanged for the drug. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get a little talk. You give your money to a kid, he runs that way, tells that guy,
he tells that guy,
brings the drugs
and no one ever sees
the money being exchanged
for the drugs.
It's almost like
how they used to do it
when they didn't have
a license to sell alcohol.
Alexandra Palace,
have you remember that?
No, I don't remember that at all.
You used to go in,
you'd buy 10 vouchers
for £10
and then little tickets.
You'd go to the bar
and it would be like
five tickets for a beer.
Right. And you'd give them the tickets. So you to the bar, and it'll be like five tickets for a beer. And you give them the tickets.
So you're not technically buying.
I mean, that just seems like,
the admin to set up that scheme
would mean that loophole would just be closed so quickly.
I think it was Alexander Palace.
It's kind of a weird situation.
Changing the subject ever so slightly,
when I was looking through things to talk about today,
just thinking on the way in what we could talk about,
I saw on TikTok a Matt Hancock video.
He's still doing them.
He's still doing them?
Was that when he was on the beach?
On the beach, yeah.
Was he singing?
He was singing, wasn't he?
I was like, this must be old.
It's recent.
He's still doing it.
Even on holidays, he's producing content.
What a content monster.
But the thing is, the universe has decided,
and people may think this is a bit rich coming from me,
but the universe has decided
that people don't want to hear any more of his shit.
Right, yeah.
So why is he still doing it?
I don't know.
I just think he's got a commitment to the content.
He's still an MP, by the way.
He's still an MP.
Is he?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I thought he'd...
Yeah, and he can get away with that. Well, he's just making politics pal, by the way. He's still an MP. Is he? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he can get away with that.
Well, he's just making politics palatable for the youth.
He's still an MP,
a member of Parliament of West Suffolk.
So he's not been any kind of by-elect or anything like that.
So apparently he's still representing his constituents,
as is the great, your friend of mine, Nadine Dorries.
Yeah.
Said she was resigning, and apparently, since she
said she was resigning, with immediate effect,
and to now, she's still
not put her papers in, is longer than
Liz Truss was Prime Minister.
What I don't get is that
the Prime Minister
could do without these distractions.
So why doesn't he just, like,
maybe he just doesn't need another resignation.
He's got no power, has he?
Yeah.
He's just got no actual power.
Yeah.
But he can't even stop people climbing his own house.
I bet you,
I first saw that happening.
I saw people climbing up onto the roof of his house.
Yeah.
Which I thought actually was...
Crossed a line, did it?
Did it cross a line?
I think it's poor form.
I think it's poor form.
I'll tell you why.
Right. Because I think that's poor form I'll tell you why right
because I think that
if you want to be
you want to take the high ground
about all the awful shit
they're doing
I don't think it's the most
helpful thing to us
to do awful shit
well as a previous
building climber myself
well exactly
exactly
obviously
that's why I brought you in
I mean
there's no guarantee
it was the house
he was residing in
at any point you know what I mean it's his main residence it was the house he was residing in at any point.
You know what I mean?
It's his main residence.
Yeah.
He's probably got a few, hasn't he?
He lives on Down Street,
because he's a prime minister, obviously.
He's probably got a few, hasn't he?
Do you understand what I mean, though,
or do you not share that opinion?
I think...
So where do you draw the line?
Where do you draw the line, yeah.
Okay, so climbing the house, that's one thing.
Osborne's Wedding.
Where do you stand on that
happiest day of their lives
I think that that was
probably
I think that's probably
poor form
right
but I think
throwing a milkshake on Farage
decent yeah
that's fine
yeah
no but my point is this
it's interesting isn't it
because what we're talking about here
rightly or wrongly
are politicians that we don't personally like, right?
So that's fine.
Right.
But at some point, there is a line, isn't there?
If someone walked up to, say, Sunak,
I mean, it's actually quite mental
that the Prime Minister could have that lax security anyway.
That does seem strange.
Probably because he's decimated the public purse
and there's no one around to do it.
But if, for example, if it was a politician you didn't like,
is it fair game, even though they've...
So say, okay, say like Priti Patel,
who's explored some horrendous policies.
Her and Bravman have done some awful shit, right?
Someone punches them in the face.
Well, of course not.
Okay, so there is a line there.
Milkshake in the face.
Yeah, that's fine.
It's boiling hot and they've been blinded.
It had little nuts in it.
Everyone's got an idea of where the line is drawn,
is what I'm saying.
And I think you can't afford, in principle...
Shout it through the letterbox.
Fuck off.
3am.
They're on their own at home.
Fuck off.
They've just watched a horror movie.
They're unsettled already.
But my point is that I think you can't afford to kind of,
you can't afford to let people get away with shit
just because it's politicians you think are dickheads.
I guess is what I'm saying.
I think you were hoping for me to say that there wasn't a line,
but I think there is a line.
I'm surprised you think there is.
Yeah, I think there is a line.
And it's climbing the house.
No, that's fine.
That's fine.
I'll decide where the line is.
But there is a line.
I just think if you're at home on your own
and you're thinking,
someone on the roof
of my house
that's quite unsettling
isn't it?
If
I mean
we might not have
lost Rod Hull
if he'd had a bit of help
that's all I'm saying.
That was a Man United
game I think he was
trying to get
something from.
I wonder what
Man United game that was
it was in Europe
wasn't it?
It was in Champions League.
I think it might have been
yeah.
I wonder whether they won.
And this brings me on
to my next question
on this subject. On terrestrial presumably as well. Would have been, yeah. I wonder whether they won. And this brings me on to my next question on this subject.
On terrestrial presumably as well.
Would have been ITV, wouldn't it?
What year was it?
Should he have really been
running a digital signal
by then anyway?
No, I think
because it would have
had to have been terrestrial.
He wouldn't have been
getting sky through an aerial,
would he?
There's enough time past
that we can joke about this
because it was 25 years ago.
Yeah, it's fine.
I'll try that.
I don't think any of the family
would listen.
We have, on
occasion, on
Wrestle.me, had
contact from old
Wilder Spot
wrestlers' sons,
and then they're
invariably, like,
wild with their
suggestions.
Oh, really?
Absolutely wild.
So here you go,
the Rod Hull thing,
on the night of
17th March 1999,
Rod Hull was
trying to adjust
the television area on the roof of his bungal 1999, Rod Hull was trying to adjust the television area
on the roof of his bungalow
at half time
during Inter Milan
versus Man United
in the Champions League.
The year Man United won
the Champions League,
of course,
when he slipped and fell
and suffered a severe skull fracture
and chest injuries
and was pronounced dead
on arrival
at a local hospital
in Hastings.
So he fell off a bungalow
and fractured his skull.
It was pretty severe.
Yeah.
I thought he went through
a glass roof. It doesn't say that in. I thought he went through a glass roof.
It doesn't say that in that report.
I mean, it's possible.
And then, because what I wanted to ask you about was,
for example, the Just Stop Oil thing.
Right, yeah.
So they're doing a load of basically annoying shit, right?
Yeah.
And you could argue philosophically
they're doing more harm than good to their cause
because people just think they're such dickheads
and they're not going to get anywhere.
But here's the thing.
A lot of the debate about this
and a lot of the complaints about this are like,
well, don't do it here because it's inconvenient.
It's like, well, what do you want them to do?
Do you understand what protesting actually entails?
It's the Hurricane Rainbow armband, isn't it?
It's just like, what do you think a protest is?
What do you think this is for?
It is to inconvenience
and pressure governments
to make changes
that need to be made.
Exactly.
Because,
I don't think anyone's saying
that if Just Stop Oil
sat in the corner
of an empty building
in the middle of nowhere,
anything would happen.
No one would even know
they're doing it,
would they?
That's the point.
I'm just looking at
our album artwork.
They've been at us.
It's orange.
They've turned it orange.
I think that was done
because no one could find
an orange podcast at the time.
Nice, I like that.
That shows a level of thought
that I wouldn't usually
level at this show.
It wasn't you or I.
No, okay, fair do.
It was someone much better
informed than us.
And then Peter,
finally for now
on the politics side of it
because people will find it tedious.
Have you seen that basically Donald Trump has descended
into really just a mob boss now?
Yeah, I mean, we're obviously recording this on Monday
and the show goes out on Thursday.
So things may very well have changed.
He may very well be enjoying...
Wait, my turn's a good bloke.
Between now and Thursday.
He might have been visited by three ghosts
and he might change his ways.
But I think very much he's staring down the barrel of some pretty hefty charges.
And he's been tampering with witnesses.
A couple of things he did, what I enjoyed from the footage,
was wrapping his knuckles on the desk in the courtroom while staring at the attorney.
Which is a classic mob boss move.
And now he's just going to all these,
on his own personal social media
and just intimidate witnesses.
Yeah.
In plain sight.
Even the mafia did that at home later on
when no one was around.
The thing that gets me is like that he,
you expect so little from that man
and you expect so little from that breed of politician that when he does
these things that are literally against the law you just almost think well he's going to get away
with it because he he's just the guy who does this sort of thing and everything's been eroded
you're right it's a massive test and and it's hard to preside over a country uh in in i mean
and god knows how much presiding that man does
because he is,
you watch some of his
and you're like,
who is running the country?
Who,
Biden's?
Biden's,
you've got McConnell
over the other side,
you're like,
what,
what is happening?
The world's going to shit.
We've got these old men
who just keep
falling off stuff.
So the talk about Biden
is that,
like, legislatively
he's a very successful president, right? He's got a team
around him, very competent, they've passed a lot of legislation,
very impactful stuff,
job numbers are massive, that's the chat.
But obviously, it's all packaged up
in, like, a very old guy who
has had a lifelong stammer as well,
by the way, which people don't make a connection
between. Oh, okay, because he's old, they just assume that he's
old. Yeah, he's had that stammer for basically his whole adult life. And then on the other side, you've got't make a connection between. Oh, okay, because he's old. They just assume that he's old. Yeah, he's had that stamina for basically his whole adult life.
And then on the other side,
you've got people like, yeah, I mean,
I think I genuinely believe,
I felt the same with Liz Truss.
You put Trump in a room of a selection of voters,
I think he'd be the stupidest person in there,
which is kind of wild to think of.
The thing that gets me is that he,
after his speeches, you do have to sort of. The thing that gets me is that he, after his speeches,
you do have to sort of decode them a little bit.
It's going, what was he referring to there?
And it'll just be bits of Fox News he's watched.
Yeah.
Or something that happened to him in the 80s.
Yeah.
It's really bizarre stuff.
Very strange.
I think it's a big test because, you know,
if people can behave with impunity
just because they're super powerful,
that doesn't bode well,
does it?
Well,
he,
I mean,
he's literally just trying to,
I mean,
his only,
I mean,
he,
like you said before,
he could be president from jail,
but he needs,
he needs to get the presidency.
Otherwise he's really,
so,
you know,
there,
there are some things he could do to limit his exposure to some of these
things if he's president.
But if he's not,
he's in all kinds of trouble.
But obviously it's political risk for Biden's lot
because they're like, well, you know,
it'll just be seen as a political incarceration.
But I guess the right are always going to think that whatever happens.
Yeah, because I guess just the optics don't look good.
The idea, I know it isn't like this,
but like the idea on paper of quote unquote
jailing your political opponents is a bad look,
right? It's Putin-esque.
It's not like Putin and Navalny,
is it? It's completely separate. If the guy's going to do
loads of crimes in plain sight,
you're kind of damned if you do, damned if you don't.
If you let him get away with it...
You have to do something.
The key thing is, you're right to
tack on to this, because the key thing is
when he's president
it's an impeachment process which is
so flawed, because it's so politically partisan
depending on the makeup of the different houses
when he's not president
he's in theory subject
to any kind of
legal process that anyone else would be, although his lawyers
would kind of argue against that, because obviously they would
and then this January 6th thing comes down
to First Amendment freedom of speech
versus political,
basically incitement to violence
because freedom of speech,
it doesn't cover inciting violence.
And whether we like it or not,
forget all the rhetoric,
forget all the media coverage,
in the Capitol,
on January 6th,
the Capitol riots,
people fucking died.
People actually died.
And they died at the hands of people
who professed to be the party of law and order,
the party of Blue Lives Matter,
all this nonsense.
So the whole thing is completely fucked,
and if you look at Trump's comments
and his behaviour leading up to that,
to me it's like open and shut.
You can talk about,
oh, he didn't actually mean it,
but he said it.
Apparently Pence rang him around Christmas
wishing him a
happy Christmas
and a happy New Year
and he just went
yeah yeah yeah
and Sue was like
oh can't you pretend
that I won the election
I'm ringing you
to say happy fucking Christmas
you melt
it would be a happy Christmas
do you know how
anyway that's a good break
when we come back
we'll do some batteries
because we've got
our friends here
Katie
and James
and interestingly named Hammy'll do some batteries because we've got our friends here Katie and James and the
interestingly named
Hammy
have sent some
batteries in
so we better get to those
good old Ham
we're back
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Looking at magnet fishing.
Looking at magnet fishing.
Hi, Logan Pete, says Katie.
This is Katie from Chicago,
soon to be from somewhere near London due to work.
I'll give you a battery submission in exchange for advice
about living in the UK and an explanation on how anyone affords to live in london i present
to you a i present you a just in case triple a just in case just in case so it's a great battery
it's a brand new player so congratulations to you katie for sending in a new player just in case AAA yeah and the photo she submitted
she's got a cat in the photo
who looks exactly like
one of my cats
wow
what do you reckon
he's been popping up
in Chicago
could be
the other day
Cheese Wells
or whatever they call it
Cheese Curds
Cheese Curds
is that Chicago
or is that Canada
that's Toronto isn't it
ah shit
it doesn't matter
deep dish
the other day I was in't matter deep dish the other day
I was in the living room
yeah
I was in the living room
and I heard cats fighting
really badly
I was like fuck
one of my cats getting hurt
walked all the way
through the house
downstairs into the garden
just both of my cats
fighting each other
fucking pointless
finally had enough
what are you doing
I said what are you doing
and they both just like
stopped it
and just wandered off
you gotta live together guys
but Hercules had just
had a mouth full of
Magnus' fur
so like really
so really going for it then
yeah
nice I like it
so anyway new player Katie
congratulations to you
she says
advice on how
anyone are forced
to live in London
well Pete doesn't live
in London anymore
no got out
but you did for a while
and I do still live in London.
Any advice for Katie?
Shoplifting, drug dealing, any of those really.
It does help. Climb a building
and scream
how much money you want people to give you.
I would say that
you
don't always have to shop
in Sittingsbury.
It's not helping. It's like the Tory MP telling the young person how they can afford a house. You don't always have to shop in Sittingsbury. It's not helping.
It's like the Tory MP telling the young person
how they can afford a house.
You don't always have to pay the fare on the bus.
Sneak on, sneak off.
Depends, doesn't it?
Depends.
That video the other day about the police grabbing that lady and her kid.
Yeah.
And she had bought a ticket.
Yeah.
So you've got to be careful.
Exactly.
So what message are they sending?
Don't buy one.
Don't worry about it.
Honestly, I would say to young people, presumably Katie's are they sending don't buy one don't worry about it honestly I would say
to young people
presumably Katie's young
I don't know
she might not be
coming to London
is
it's
quite hard
and housing is a joke
and everything's expensive
and if you can afford to
sorry if you can help it
move to somewhere else
just commuting
I would say
like
like mould is a big thing in london it is
apparently all of a sudden yeah and i would say that my uh flat in soho that i um lived in um i
i didn't have mold but i made mold for poor cleaning practices so So I like to think that I took my mouldy destiny
into my own hands
and sort of introduced mould to the house
by not necessarily keeping the bathroom dry enough.
Well, don't do that.
That's the same.
You used to use your oven as a cupboard.
I did use my oven as a cupboard.
And to eat takeaways every night.
I still do that.
And when you lived...
I have three this weekend.
Sarah was away. In a weekend? Yeah. Which ones? Let me guess them. I can guess. All right, Friday night. I still do that. And when you lived... I have three this weekend. Sarah was away.
In a weekend?
Yeah.
Which ones?
Let me guess them.
I can guess.
All right.
Friday night.
Chinese.
Yeah.
Saturday night.
Chinese.
No.
Okay.
Pizza.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And Sunday night,
last night.
Chinese.
No.
What?
Burger.
What do you mean,
burger?
Burger.
Where from?
A burger shop. I don't know. It's all fucking burgers. She just went into the liver and just went, burger. Burger. Where from? A burger shop.
I don't know.
It's all fucking burgers.
She just went into the liver
and just went burger.
Burger please.
Yeah, burger me.
I use Honest
for my burger orders.
Honest Burger.
What do they have?
Do they have ones that like
piss about with peanut butter
and stuff?
Nah, nah, nah.
Peanut butter and jelly.
I do a tribute burger,
a chilli burger.
They do a chicken
and truffle and pesto burger.
Nice.
And they do rosemary
salted chips.
And do you know why I use Honest in Norbury?
Right.
Because.
They treat me with a bit of respect.
They take the order serious.
Right.
They don't put gherkins in.
They package it up properly.
Yeah.
Good box.
Nice.
With some air vents.
And they really say,
they must really say to the delivery driver.
Don't piss about.
Fucking get out there now.
Because the other day,
I'll tell you something now.
The other day, I commented this you something now. The other day,
I commented this to the wife
I had access to at the time.
You sound like Kevin Keegan.
We're still fighting for this trifle.
She was very impressed
because she said,
I want Mexican.
I said, I'm not having Mexican.
I'll get you a Mexican
because there's a Mexican near us
and I'm going to get an honest burger.
So I'll fancy that.
Fine.
So we did hers.
All good.
Honest burger.
Check this out.
I ordered a burger and fries from them with some good on this burger check this out I ordered a burger
and fries from them
with some chipotle mayo
as a dip
I ordered it
at 8.28
they dispatched it
at 8.35
nice
well that's London
for you though
that's the good thing
there's just so much more
choice
Susan Perb
Susan Perb
so yeah
you probably can't have
that many takeaways
if you haven't got any money.
That's the thing.
That is true.
Anyway, good luck to you.
But well done for moving.
Yeah, good luck.
Good luck to you, Katie.
Listen, I'll tell you what.
You've got a new player entering the game.
Yeah.
It started well.
It's a great start to your career.
Dear the Luke and the Pete,
while on holiday in Japan,
yes, Pete, I hope you made it or make it soon too,
at 6 a.m. before my friend is awake,
I finally find the time to send in the batteries
that I found in my parents house
I wanted to partake
for three years now
I've been going through
the back catalogue
in 2020
and listening since then
but my household
only had standard
energisers
Duracell and Panasonic
and since
my fellow Germans
have been quicker than me
with the cheap brands
Jaa
and Gut
and Gutstig
which I took out this email
I present to you
the following
in red
Sonderpreis Baumarkt yeah that's In red, Sanderpries Baumarkt.
Yeah, that's a new player, obviously.
Sanderpries Baumarkt.
That's obviously a new player.
Nice.
And Grundig, classic, absolute German,
like German radio company from the 1930s.
They went insolvent in 2003.
Why has nobody licensed the Grundig name?
It was huge, big in the game.
Sonderpries Baumarkt, right? licensed the Grundig name? It was huge, big in the game. Someone did with Toshiba, right?
Yeah.
Grundig are not new players.
Sonderpreis-Bohmarkt are,
that means
special price hardware store
in English.
Nice.
Okay.
And finally for now,
James has come in
with Judo.
They were in the remote
for the aircon
that I panic bought
during last year's heatwave.
I'm not sure why it warrants having a remote
when it only really works if you're a couple of feet away from it anyway.
So, yeah, good stuff.
Judo's not a new player, I'm afraid, James.
I like the text work.
I like the font.
I like the type of face.
It looks nice.
It's like green and gold as well, which is pleasing.
Bit of a tribute to the original Man United kit.
But not a new
player I'm afraid.
So look,
Hammy and Katie,
congratulations to you.
Commiserations to you
James, but thanks
for playing.
Always nice to hear
from listeners when
they've got batteries
in their greasy mitts.
Smashing stuff.
Well we have been,
let's get out of here,
we have been the
Luke and Pete show.
I've been the
Pete compliment of
that and Luke's
been Luke.
We'll be back on
Monday for more of
this.
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