The Luke and Pete Show - Hot Boss

Episode Date: June 20, 2024

Pete reveals his secret obsession with weird influencers, from people who don't chew their food to those who love a bit of public role play in WeWorks across the nation. Meanwhile, Luke questions why doggy daycares always seem to have the best social media strategies.Plus, Pete concludes that smoke alarms are just a constant reminder of our own mortality and Luke calls bullshit on polyglots.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.

When I die, will my loved ones miss me? Will the answers no? Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. I'm enjoying that little rap you did there. It's like there was those old men, wasn't it? Yeah. What are they called?

Pete and Baz. Pete and Baz. For some reason I was thinking Bigsy. Who the hell is Bigsy? When we went to go and see the Shardtons at the Troxy, you and I. Yes. And you were watching the Newcastle game

on your phone the whole time, all the posters in the toilets were for Pete and Baz. Oh, yes, they were, weren't they? What's that going to be like? It's one of those kind of PAs, isn't it?

The sort of PAs that people used to get upset when Ian Brown did one. Remember, he came on and did... Are they writing their own tunes or not? I can't tell. I thought it was like a little bit

like when the Iron Shake and a couple of other wrestlers go on Twitter and just do like character pieces. Yeah. I get the sense that

it's just young people. Yeah, exactly. No one's writing our stuff. Ian Brown was on stage not that long ago.

He was to a backing track warbling over some bollocks, wasn't he? The thing about Ian Brown's fan base is they will not go for that. You know what I mean?

They will not go for it. He's gone a bit kind of COVID sceptic. He's gone nunchucks. Nunchucks. Nunchucks till Tuesday, hasn't he? Certain people do go,

as they get to a certain age, do go nunchucks, don't they? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They go kind of like provincial town karate dojo. Leilani Dowling. Yeah, that was a weird one.

I've only just heard about it today. She's quite a big deal in that scene. Yeah. Basically because she's an attractive woman and basically most of these conspiracy theorists are kind of BO smelling men. Yeah, well, I guess so. I only just found out and I only found out most of these most of these conspiracy theorists are kind of BO smelling men yeah

well I guess I only just found out and I only found out because she did ITV celebrity wrestling back in the day and somebody posited that she maybe took

a chair shot to the head that's why she suddenly became kicked in the head by a horse kicked in the head by a horse yeah and she's suddenly a COVID conspiracy theorist

yeah she's apparently I don't know if she's married to but she certainly was in a relationship with the guitarist from the cult oh that's interesting remember the cult theorist. Yeah, she's apparently, I don't know if she's married to, but she certainly was in a relationship with the guitarist from the cult. Oh, that's

interesting. Remember the cult? Yeah, I remember the cult. That seems a bit old school for her generation.

Yeah, I think she likes older men. And the reason I'm saying that is because I'm an older man. No, she's older

than me. She's older than us. So we're out of the picture, mate. Okay, right. And we're not B.O. Smiling Conspiracy Theorists either.

Good point. Or millionaires. But she was married to the guy who was married to Raquel Welsh, who I presume is much older. Right. Okay, fair. Nice.

You've got a tight picture, guys. The reason I know this is because I don't think Raquel Welsh was a page three girl, was she? Was she not? Am I thinking of someone else? Am I thinking of Linda Lusardi? Yeah, I mean, that is quite the confusion.

Is it? Yeah. I just thought, yeah, I don't know. Raquel Welsh is like quite a famous Hollywood actor. Right. Ever been on page three? I think she might have been. It's beneath her, mate.

But anyway, the reason I know this is because I said to you before, I have a morbid fascination with those types. Right. And I suddenly saw Leilani Dowling who I vaguely remember in the 90s or whatever in that glamour model scene and I was like

why does she keep popping up as she's one of the mentals chemtrails somebody else that you don't recognise I think Shea Givens ex-wife yeah

that was quite a big one for a little while she was actually radicalised by seeing him eat his dinner on telly she was like I can't do this anymore I'm obsessed with this I'm not obsessed That was quite a big one for a little while. She was actually radicalised by seeing him eat his dinner on telly. She was like, I can't do this anymore. I'm obsessed with this... I'm not obsessed.

I've literally watched one video about him. But he's a beaver. Yeah. The guy doesn't eat, chew his food. He started chewing his food. What? Tell people... That's going to sound very abstract to a lot of people listening.

Tell people what's happened. He's got a blog, presumably from Essex, who's got turkey teeth. And his whole vibe is, his whole thing why he was quite well known is that he doesn't chew his food and quite quickly We have really hit like critical mass. It really is, yeah.

That is the most weirdest affectation that anyone could have. He's disgusting to watch. I hate people who eat with their mouth open. That's the big crime for me, is with their mouth open. I don't mind if you don't chew. I mean, he's disgusting to watch. I hate people who eat with their mouth open. Yeah, see, that's the big crime for me, is with their mouth open. I don't mind if you don't chew. I don't care.

But just chew with your mouth closed, please. But now he's started chewing his food and I don't know why. His whole USP has gone from me. He's changed into sort of being quite a braggadocious influencer who talks about being on private jets and shit like that. He's forgotten his roots.

He's forgotten his roots, He's forgotten his roots. Yeah. It's very bizarre. I just watched a video of him now and he's not swallowing stuff super quick anymore. No, he's chewing stuff. Do I want,

this is the question I have to ask myself. Has he had a health scare? Do I want, maybe. Do I want to live in a world where a man who is an influencer for just swallowing food?

I think I prefer it than the others. Do you know what I mean? The ones that work hard, the ones that do... The hustle culture stuff. The hustle culture stuff, anyone who interviews anyone on the street about how expensive the car is. Anybody who sits in a well-lit podcast studio

and is rude to attractive young women, talking about their sex lives and stuff. I find that sort of stuff... Is that a thing? Yeah. What's your body count? What's your body count? You ever analed?

And they're going, oh, yeah, I've kind of done that a few times. Yeah. That's a podcast. That's a podcast. Very popular ones as well, yeah. You ever analed?

Fuck you now, Pete. I'm really tired today today I can't have that we're both really tired I know Vish was really tired on the old football round we were all just

sleepy boys I just slow down you start going even more weird and the pressure's high on me to keep up with you on the show

it is I have to be the translator you're hot and sweaty I'm the translator you are the translator I feel like I'm at the UN translating different delicate negotiations.

There was a man, I saw this polyglot, where he was like, he looks very bizarre. Like the world's most, you know that bloke who used to be on the cigarettes with the throat cancer? And he had an incredibly wiry little shitty moustache. He was one of the five. Matthew Monaghan, true detective.

One of the five pictures they used to use on the cigarettes. I presume they still do. And it was like this bloke who looks like... He had a Salvador Dali moustache and a massive tumour in his throat going, don't smoke, you idiots. I'm going to Google it. Yeah.

And the hair is unbelievably wiry and thin. You know, wiry and thin. It's weird. Anyway, he looked like him and he would be saying that he could speak, I think, 24 languages. Is that possible? Well, I guess you could approach that, I suppose.

Really? How? Just having a lot of free time, I imagine. I've long suspected there is an upper limit of how many languages you can genuinely speak. Right. Well, he was sort of saying that, yeah, I learnt Slovakian in a

weekend. And lots of the commenters, and he speaks a bit, and lots of the commenters are going, I'm Slovak. That was just mumbling. Yeah, because that's what I think. I think the barrier to entry is pretty high.

And so if you're not tested regularly with native speakers, I think it just depends on what you consider to be a language being spoken. If you live in like the Alps, if you live in like Switzerland or something, you can probably do French, German, English quite easily. Would that be fair? So there's obviously French-speaking parts of Switzerland, German-speaking parts of Switzerland. Yeah, and English is everywhere.

I've got some good friends who live in Geneva, which is obviously quite near the French border. What a quarter. That's the short title. And they've lived there for a while, and they've all got perfect French, and their kids have got native French, right? I don't think there's any need for them,

mean for them to speak German or anything. It never comes up. But my point was just going to be that if I go to, so I went to Lanzarote for a week in March, right? You can get by in Spanish. It's like super easy to just make an effort. The reason most British people don't do it

is because they're self-conscious about it. But I wouldn't ever say I could speak Spanish. I can go to a bar and say hey to someone and order something and get by. If that guy's doing that and then saying

he can speak Slovakian and he's talking absolute shit. Yeah. Even Brussels will say that his German ain't that good and his German,

I've seen it in, I've seen it firsthand and it's decent. Yeah. He wouldn't even claim it I don't think. So I think it depends on how high an opinion you have of yourself and i also don't think that there's room in one person's

brain to do 20 languages fluently well it's over the brain there was that tv show that sort of um basically studied they got like 100 people or something and they just basically sat them down and tested them on like a million different things. And what came out of it was that, I just remember one bloke in particular was, he was like, I think a laborer or something. And they sort of figured out that he would have been the best to learn languages. And so they taught him Arabic in like a few days, a decent amount of Arabic.

And he could do it? And he could do it. And he just had that kind of brain that allows him to absorb that and use that and have the confidence to do so. I've got that kind of brain that allows him to absorb that and use that and have the confidence to do so I've got that kind of brain but for snacks

but that's what I always sort of think maybe I'm just thick I don't know why no no I don't know why because your memory for facts figures and names is really good

and I think and that always astonishes me so I think maybe it's good compared to you it's not making good outside of the studio

learning a language would be right up your street. It's like if you and I, you could do 50 keepy-ups and I can only do two. Right. It doesn't mean you can be a Premier League footballer. It just means you're better than me.

It's good you've been paying attention. But why are you so tired at the moment, Peter? What's been keeping you up at night? The Euros fever? Euros fever in the moon, yeah. And the dog's getting up at five o'clock.

I don't know what business the dog has getting out at five in the morning. It was cute to see one of your dogs at a Euros-themed doggy daycare. Yeah, doggy daycare is expensive, but ooh, they spend time with the socials. How much are you paying? It's chunky.

Because I usually am in work Mondays and Fridays, so I've just done those days and it's cracking on I think it's like it's like 400 quid a month it's expensive and how much do you reckon

of that's going on socials yeah and accoutrement like little football just a warehouse and then loads of social media managers honestly

that's all it is and I think people are happy with that because like I don't know what it is about Essex, but they like stuff like that. They like a bit of kitsch.

They like a bit of bouj. They like a bit of, you know, there was a dog kennels that we were going to stay Cape Samian one time. And it had like little chandeliers.

Wow. The dog doesn't care. Who's that for? Who's it for? The dog doesn't care. Unless it was made of Who's it for? The dog doesn't care. Unless it was made of sausages. Dangling sausages. Which I would like to see.

Just be teasing him. I didn't bring any pepperonis. Oh. Oh, they'll bring them tomorrow. Bring some pepperonis in for the Euros. For the Euros. Yeah, because that's your thing. Yeah. I don't know what that chandelier would be for.

Other than just for people spending money for the sake of it. No, yeah, exactly. I just think that, yeah exactly I remember Jules had a doggy daycare for her dog and it was like properly comprehensive like they filmed

themselves picking the dog up and they film what the dog's up to you get an update because my nursery for my son you get that

yeah we get videos of Sammy doing this and that you sent me a property the other day of him dressed as Harry Potter yeah they'll have like the dog doesn't want Harry Potter. Yeah, they'll have like...

The dog doesn't want to be doing that. Sometimes they'll have their doors on. It's mad. For Oktoberfest. Because the thing is, whenever you see these Instagram accounts,

for example, of pets doing this stuff, I said this to you before, the cat's one, something needs to be done about that. Cats won't do anything, though. Cats won't do anything. No, but that's the thing.

So what I'm saying is, it's all very well and good looking at that stuff. Oh, look at this cat going surfing or whatever. He loves it. If you know anything about cat behaviour, just a little bit, it doesn't want to be doing that.

So all this stuff is existing for the human person. Correct, yeah. And it's the same with a dog. It's bougie. If you designed a doggy daycare just with the dogs in mind, it's basically a field and a nice warm bed. Yeah.

That's it. Yeah. And food. Yeah. But they get that. Yeah, but they don't want to be dressed up as Harry Potter. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. And food. Yeah. But they get that. Yeah but they don't want to be dressed up as Harry Potter.

Mummy and daddy need the Harry Potter picture. Mummy and daddy need to know that they've joined Slytherin? Gryffindog. Gryffindog. Yeah.

What were the other ones? Hufflewuff presumably. Hufflewuff. Wufflepuff. Wufflepuff. Wufflepuff. And Slytherin I guess. Slyuff. And Slytherin, I guess.

Slytherin. Slytherin. Not sure. What's the other one? Ravenclaw. Ravenclaw. Ravenpaw. Ravenpaw.

Nice, yeah. I almost guarantee. What was the name of the one? Huggle. No, Doggle. I'm going to find out. Hufflepuff. No, the actual one that Sammy was in.

Oh, Gryffindog. Gryffind Sammy was in. Oh, Gryffindog. Gryffindog, right. Yeah. Gryffindog. And he had a Harry Potter scarf on. They superimposed the glasses on him. Yeah. They're using Photoshop as well.

It's the absolute luscious to print money, this. Yeah, yeah. Oh, that is crazy. While you're doing that, I was going to say to you a big update from my end, Pete, is that... Oh, before I tell you that, I'll tell you I went to Canterbury the other day.

You didn't tell me that, no. And I went for lunch at a nice restaurant called the Fordwich Arms. It's actually a pub, but it's a gastropub. And do you ever do that thing? Presumably you do because you live in Lyon Sea and it's a similar kind of principle. Hufflepuff.

Hufflepuff. Nice. What about Slytherin? What's the Slytherin one? I'll find out. Thanks. So when I went to Canterbury, I was like, okay, right.

So I'm going on a day trip to Canterbury for lunch. That'll be fine. In my mind... Slobbering. Slobbering. Good. That makes perfect sense, actually.

That's a really good one. That's a really good one. It's good. It's good. It's solid. When I was going to Canterbury, I was thinking, well, Canterbury's in Kent.

Kent's a home county. It borders London. It'll be a piece of piss, right? So I went there. Obviously, it was fine. Got a train for St. Pancras. Boshed down there. Got a cab

because it's in a small little town. By the time I finished what I was doing, boozing, it was about 8.30pm. So I thought, right, I'm just going to call a cab, get a cab back to the station.

Got a cab back to the station. I missed the train by about a minute. Hour for the next train. Sat on the platform for an hour. What are you doing on a train in an hour? Surely you could go to a pub or something. Surely there must be something going on. Do you know what, though?

It was probably 15 minutes in the cab from anywhere. Yeah. Train station. Okay. And I was like, well, by the time I do that, I've come back again. I don't want to miss another one. Yeah. And station. Okay. And I was like, well, by the time I do that, I've come back again. I don't want to miss another one. Yeah.

And then my phone battery ran out. Oh God. So you've got nothing to do. You're just looking at the vending machine. Not only that, but I couldn't hire a line bike. Right. So I had to get the night bus.

Night bus. Yes, please. First night bus in probably five plus years. I wouldn't be able to even get a night bus because I wouldn't have my cards with me. Yeah. So luckily I had my, I don't always take my even get an iPod because I wouldn't have my cards with me. Yeah, so luckily I had my... I don't always take

my card out now because I've got Apple Pay. I think most phones nowadays do do low energy mode where they're... I had it on low power mode because I realised

the mistake I've made. But I think once the battery's gone I think you can still access the cards which is quite useful. Oh, right. The NFC sort of power

is still in there. That is quite useful. That is quite useful. It would have been more useful four days ago. But it's quite useful. Oh, right. The NFC sort of power is still in there. That is quite useful. That is quite useful. It would have been more useful four days ago. But it's quite useful to know going forward. Yeah, okay. All right, we sort of trailed off into that brick, but that's absolutely fine.

Can happen. People know that it's a brick. They know by now. They know by now. 100% they know. If you can hear any sound, it's because somebody is relaying a floor, I think, upstairs.

But I want to know, in my mind, the machine they're using is the size of, do you remember Bertha from BBC television? Yes, some people think it's a dream. Some people think it's a dream. Like a machine that big. I want to know what machine they're using to relay some tiles. What did Bertha actually make?

He made everything. She made everything. From toys to calculators to rakes. She made everything all the time. There was always a problem going on, though, wasn't there? And that's, you know, it was basically just a love letter to the Industrial Revolution. The guy who invented Bertha,

he also created Postman Pat and Charlie Chalk. That's a good hit, Ray. I mean, Charlie Chalk's a big drop-off, but he was a... I like Charlie Chalk. He was a big idiot. I. I mean, Charlie Chalk's a big drop-off, but he was a... I like Charlie Chalk. He was a big idiot. I used to really like Charlie Chalk. Charlie Chalk was like... Charlie Chalk, Charlie Chalk.

Got a wacky way of walking and a wacky way of talking. Charlie Chalk, Charlie Chalk. And Bertha, lovely Bertha. Sometimes we think it's a dream. There used to be a rhyme when I was a kid about a similar character called Charlie Chunk. Charlie Chunk. Charlie Chunk

produced some spunk then gave it to his mother something, something, something and then she produced another. That's outrageous. You don't know what you're saying when you're that age. Intergenerational incestuous

birthing, I suppose. It's not good. It's not made clear what Bertha gets up to but she really just gets listed as the following. Bertha is the title character, an old machine at the factory

who has been modernized over the 50 years she's been there. She helps the rest of the Spottage Wooden Company factory during each episode in some way or another. In some way or another. I mean, she's the whole thing. She's the one who brings life to all of these products. Is there something in the idea that back when these shows were being something in the idea that back when

these shows were being made in the 80s they're about things that people who made these shows knew about because the people who made these shows

were also quite normal and not live in this weird metropolitan middle class kind of thing. Oh right, you say like it's a bit I'm the son of a toolmaker

kind of thing. It's a bit like that but it's a bit like if you're Ivor Wood, right? Ivor Wood is made and actually it doesn't make any sense because I, if you're Ivor Wood, right? Ivor Wood is made, I don't know, actually,

it doesn't make any sense because I was going to say, Ivor would maybe have made Postman Pack because he knew about it and he made Bertha because he had some experience in the factory.

And then I just read his write-up and it says, Son of an Ambassador. He's something like that, wasn't he? His family moved to Lyon after the Second World War. He studied fine art in Paris

and then worked on an ad agency in Paris. So probably not. He's Don Draper, basically, wasn't he? He's basically Don Draper. And do we

still see people now who think they want to be Don Draper or has that passed? It's all Peaky Blinders now, is it? But I don't think anyone who would think that they wanted to be... Isn't the whole kind of influencer kind of grind kind of people, they're kind of like that, aren't they? I'm

obsessed with this guy who is, I think he calls himself Hot Boss on Instagram. Hot Boss? And you know, like a lot of- How do you find these people? They just come up on my algae. Hot Boss, he's a bloke who basically, he's a big, muscular man, tattooed man,

but he wears like suits and stuff, and he pretends to be a hot boss that women can't resist but he's filming these kind of little tableaus in clearly what is a fucking WeWork and he's walking in with some papers and he's going, right, have you got those figures for me? No, well get them to me, thank you

and then leaves. Just an idea of a guy who, but he's never worked a job. No, exactly. He thinks that's what bosses do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's constantly getting a job. No, exactly. He thinks that's what bosses do. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And he's constantly getting caught pulling his trousers up. Oh, sorry, I'm just getting changed for the big gala dinner tonight and all this stuff.

And it's just this kind of silly little story. Why can't I find him? I know, I tried to find him again, but he just came up my arm and just as quickly as he arrived, he disappeared. Because a lot of Instagram is videos of books and women getting in lifts and going, what would you do? And it's just that, but in male version. And I find him more charming.

Mine isn't that. Mine's steaks being cooked. And houses. Like, nice houses. And AI. What took me a depressingly long amount of time to realise are AI models. Right, okay.

So the AI models of houses. okay. So the women who infiltrate in my search function on Instagram now aren't even real human beings. Right, yes, okay. Does that happen to everyone now, presumably? Yeah, just like greasy looking people have just kind of started appearing. But the really good ones,

you can't really tell if they're real or not. No. Yeah, you see a lot of that in like the older generation sort of Facebook space nowadays. Like there'll be just some absolutely mad

sort of fake images floating around. There we go. There we go. Let's do some batteries Peter while we're here. Hot boss. Oh,

and the other one you should follow is a man who's constantly getting pantsed. Yeah, you showed me that one. That's not going to be

on Instagram because you don't have to show cocks and balls. No, you don't have to show cocks and balls on Instagram. He's like an OnlyFans guy for the gay interest fellas and ladies and whoever.

Gay interest people? The gay interest people. What does that mean? People who are interested in gay content, I suppose. Or is it just a man getting pantsed? It's a man who just constantly cannot stop having his pants falling down. So he does videos where he builds fake pants

that fall apart at the slightest touch. Touch. And he's flapping about everywhere before you know it. He has these little videos where he'll be presenting the weather and suddenly his pants will fall down and everyone can see his junk and his pillows.

The thing I dislike about it, I'm perfectly happy James Bond has never done that. It's not, it's not, maybe not targeted at me. I understand his content and everyone.

Yeah. Every single one of them is the same. There's no variation in the content. No, he didn't know. The end result is the same. The end result is the same. He's jizzing out of his penis that has just fallen out of his pants. That's no variation of the content. No, he didn't know. The end result is the same. The end result is the same.

He's jizzing out of his penis that has just fallen out of his pants. That's always how it ends but how it starts is very different. He does like a little stop motion one

where his pants sort of become and then he's just like behind the like direct this commentary about how he made the pants open and how his willy

sort of flop out and stuff. Is it all about the journey? Yeah. How many of them have you watched? I've watched like a good two years

of content on Twitter. I'm not a subscriber but on his Twitter it's very compulsive stuff. Yeah. He's brilliant.

Do you reckon he makes a good bit of money? I reckon he probably does, yeah. I reckon he probably, well he's very popular, he's got 40k followers on Twitter.

Pants dude. Pants underscore dude on Twitter. I mean dude. Pants underscore dude on Twitter. I mean, don't watch it near anyone. Pete's watched two years of it so you don't have to.

So the first one is, it's Twitter so you can't get me IT. The first one is, video is Harry Potter. He's dressed as a farmer in one of them.

He's dressed in, he's getting caught. Clone, he's a clone of himself and they're both getting pantsed. He should be doing Harry Potter.

He should be doing Harry Potter. James Bond, do-do, do-do, turns to him and he's got a gun and then his pants fall down. Do you think it should be

limited to adult-themed entertainment? He should be doing Harry Potter. Yeah, good point actually. But Harry Potter's kind of ubiquitous now, isn't it? There must have been all kinds of parodies. It's become be doing Harry Potter. Yeah, good point actually. But Harry Potter's kind of ubiquitous now, isn't it?

There must have been all kinds of parodies. It's become part of the fabric. J.K. Rowling, given her proclivities, will be tying herself off in knots watching that. Well, he can't see his face.

Apparently Warner Brothers may be trying to extricate buy her out because she's a genie. Of her own shit? Yeah. That would be interesting, wouldn't it?

That would take some money, but Warner it? That would take some money. But Warner Brothers probably have it for a bit. Do they? Well, they... Is she a billionaire? I think she's one of the world's richest people. She's not a billionaire. She is.

Well, all right, she's cracking on. But Warner Brothers are a big company. They're not going to buy out her whole thing. And she will have made that money and invested it. So, like, that money's gone. But, you know but going forward, how much gas is in that tank? What I'm saying is that there's no amount of money

that exists for her to divest from Harry Potter, is there? Well, you don't, yeah, but you don't know how much money is there for her in the future. She might be seeing diminishing returns from the new Harry Potter stuff. The cast of the films, which is a huge part of the thing of disavowed their relationship.

But it's not about the money, is it, for her? No. It never is with those people who are very double-doonish. No, but my point is, my point is, if you created the world's most best-loved

children's book series, you're going to be wealthy anyway. Why on earth would you ever divest from it? You created it. Because you get more money. And you'd get more money and you'd get more money than what you got if you kept

going down the route that you're going with fewer and fewer titles, fewer and fewer IPs and stuff. But yeah, there would be an amount of money that she would take.

Because everyone knows she is connected inextricably linked to that product, isn't it? She's never out of work though, is she? She's still writing stuff. Yeah.

She sometimes pretends she's someone else so that people don't judge her. And then at the last minute, I believe, she goes, yeah, that was me. And Robert Galbraith. She writes a Robert Galbraith. A man's name as well. A man's name.

Anyway. A bit rich. Some of the chat she's been coming out with, isn't it? She is a bit rich. Presenting as a man. Right. James, Battery Brands. James has come in with one.

Hello, gentlemen. I have for your delectation the rechargeable battery supplied to me for my electrical tester EBL, complete with oddly romantic love heart style stickers and the heartwarming message, share love, share happy. What a suite of batteries. Do you like to see some batteries in a smart charger being recharged, do you?

I do, actually, yeah. They're in there. It's almost like seeing a little fox cub in its home. Do you like it? Is it diminishing returns if you keep recharging batteries, though? Yeah, I believe so. They've only got a set amount of charges.

How many do you reckon? I reckon it's 100 times. 100 is quite a lot, though. That is quite a lot, yeah. Yeah, okay. I'm speaking to someone about to change the 9-volt battery in my son's nursery's smoke alarm

this morning at 4 a.m. You've had trouble with that smoke alarm. Is it one that's, like, connected to the electrics? Because we've got three of them. Well, we haven't changed the battery. We know it's connected to the electrics. No, it still needs the battery

because there's a backup in it. Oh, okay. Oh, yes. No, it's just that every six months it just beeps because it needs the battery changing. That must remind you of your own mortality yeah

how old your child is another six months River I am constantly I am constantly reminding my own mortality but what I don't like about it is

it never needs changing the day oh no no it's always middle of the night no it never ever once do you know what I'd love?

Just once, if the bash of the smoke alarm needed to change at 1pm on a Wednesday afternoon. Is it because it's cooler? Do you know what I'd say, Pete? Cooler at night. I'll do that. Yeah. I'll do that now.

I'll do that now, yeah. Well, just set yourself a little alarm. You're usually very organised. Why do it at 1pm on a Wednesday? And what you could do is have to creep into your son's nursery with a chair. Why are you creeping if the alarm's going off? No, it's not.

It's every so often it's just going, like that. It's like washing machines nowadays are quite annoying. Like, I've finished. Yeah. I've finished.

I've finished. Needy. Do you remember when everyone thought that everything would be connected to the internet? Yeah, and every washing machine, fridge,

toaster. Never seen a Hoover connected to the internet. People were like, oh yeah, the great thing about connecting your fridge to the internet would be that

it would tell you when you need more milk. I just open the fucking fridge. Just open the fridge. I like those fridges you get in America that are like, they're fridges you would buy

like a can of cork or a Modelo or something in. And instead of like clear glass, they've got a screen, like a massive plasma screen that's the size of the door oh yeah with a picture oh i've seen that i've seen that be like and it's uh even for me that's who loves who loves

uh climate change um um uh that's that's a bit much from um the only thing that kept me going when i was stuck on canterbury west station for an hour the other night was the fact that it had a fully working, pretty well stocked vending machine. Vending machines are back in the UK. I buy a Rockstar every morning from Lee Station. It's great stuff. Prawn cocktail, grab bag of Walkers.

Yes, please. Yes, please. I had, what else do I have? Can of Pepsi Max Cherry. It's a good haul so far. Anything else? I think I went for a regular Twix. There we go. Come on.

That wasted about four minutes. And then I had 56 minutes to go. Anyway, EBL batteries from our friend James. You are the second person to send those in, James. Our friend, our good friend Jamie sent those in. Did he mention the stickers? About a year ago. Jamie didn't mention the stickers. But I'm very, very pleased that James did.

Appreciate the sticker photo, but that doesn't mean they're new players, I'm afraid. You're the second person to send in EBL batteries. It's good work, though. Thank you, James. Sam has come in with some brandless batteries. Just wondering if you've had any brandless batteries. I can see you clicking on the same video link.

I'm trying to figure out what the hell's going on here. I can't access that. I can see you clicking on the same video link. I'm trying to figure out what the hell's going on here. I can't access that. I can't access that either. Either way, shall we not admit brandless batteries? That seems like

a... Doesn't make any sense. It seems like when they suddenly... What football team? Is it the new Dutch manager just kicks the ball

in the air really high? Oh, Arnie Slott. He's going to do Liverpool manager. Liverpool manager. That's right. When he was elsewhere, he would kick the ball in the air really high. Oh, on the slot. He's going to do Liverpool manager. Liverpool manager. That's right. When he was elsewhere,

he would kick the ball in the air and they'd manage to score a few goals. Marginal gains and all that. We're not having it. Sorry, Sam. I think it's a rubric I'm not prepared to cross because I think if we accept that, we accept anything. I'll be honest with you, Sam.

We've not watched a video and we're probably not going to watch it. No. Maybe he's popping up his bum. It needs to be. Could be. In which case, we probably to watch it no maybe he's popping up his bum it needs to be could be in which case we probably will watch it

exactly yeah and at some point if at the end of the video the cock and balls flop out we know we're dealing with a real pro there is a bonus follow up email

Oliver who sent in the pathetic Uniros last week guys you asked and I'm trying to deliver here are the RC cars that my underwhelming

battery submission used to control they were my older brothers so I was already allowed to drive them and I'm trying to deliver. Here are the RC cars that my underwhelming battery submission used to control. They were my older brothers, so I was already allowed to drive them, but I did get to watch him race them around a track at Crystal Palace NSC. Great memories, and now I get to rip them around my driveway outside Boston MA. Cheers, Oliver. They're good, classic RC

cars. Very reminiscent of my childhood. I remember my friend Dave Watson at the end of the road used to have one of these and he used to race it around real fast. It's trucking time! That's what the front of the car says. Do you know what his one was and my friend's one? It was a petrol one. Oh, nice. A tiny little

combustion engine in there. It was absolutely pro. It was so fucking fast. And when stuff went wrong, you could no fix it. You just needed someone else to fix it. You're not going to fix that. No. It's got a tiny internal combustion engine in it.

That's not a capacitor issue, is it? No. It's difficult to fix. So in my memory, he only really took it out and drove it maybe once a year. Yeah. Because it was impossible otherwise. But it was off-road,

so you'd take it down the park and it'd go and do everything. Did he get it serviced? Did he get a new fan belt in there? He probably should have. Yeah. His was the dad who let the tree fall on my head and knocked me out and made me sick. Nice.

Okay. Yeah. You just had some kind of issue with your brain. The petrol car may have actually been involved in that. Might have not been paying attention because we were doing that. Because you were doing that. A tree fell on your head.

Yeah. You never know anyway let's get out of here let's get out of here lest the sound from upstairs envelop and engulf us all I hope it isn't annoying people

I think it'll be alright I think we've got a pretty severe sound envelope on this sound gate I don't know what that means noise gate right we'll be back on Monday

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