The Luke and Pete Show - Mug Wars

Episode Date: January 6, 2025

This week, Donny shares how his infamous “C*** mug” kept making surprise appearances during adoption meetings, leading to a frantic mug switcheroo every time it landed in the wrong hands. Of course, this sparks a full-on mug-off: Who’s got the best collection? Does Luke have a serious mug hoarding problem? And why does tea taste better from a stolen mug?The lads then turn their attention to the gentrification of Margate, posing the question: is it a seaside gem or... just a sh*thole?Plus, Pete reflects on the whirlwind of heartfelt congratulations (and a few dubious comments) he’s received about his family’s adoption journey…thankfully, the adoption council wasn’t made up of you lot!If you've been to Margate and loved it or hated it, we want to know why! Email us at [e-mail] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

My child has four legs and fur. It's the Luke and Pete show. I'm Pete Donaldson. I've just realised I'm drinking out of a massive dog mum cup that for some reason lives in my house. And I do have quite a decent range of weird cups that I've got from various different places. I'm a mug collector, I'm insatiable for it. You do love a mug Luke and probably one of the first meetings we had with social workers of which there have been hundreds. It means him and his partner, not him and I by the way. No exactly, me and Sarah had to have a lot of meetings with social workers. Adoption.

We didn't have a biological child and then have to have social workers around. Let's make that very clear. Anyway. That's not a laughing matter, by the way. I don't know why I laughed at that. Stop laughing at what I did to my non-child. No, the cup that I would occasionally bring out by accident was one that had the C word on it, basically saying everyone's allowed a cunt or

something. And the amount of times we'd be having a meeting in the front room of our house with five or six social workers of varying degrees of seniority and I'd look over and the most senior one, always the most senior one, would have a cup that had the C word on it and I would with lots of sleight of hands I go you know what I'll do you want to refill and then when I refill it... Portray over yourself. No I've spilt now. I'll change it.

I'll have to change this mug. Yeah and I never got rid of it and it happened so many times, so many times. My, it's quite prescient that you've brought this up because the mug situation in my household is very much the Achilles heel in my tactic of trying to declutter our home. Okay. And what I mean by that is that I would say that the wife I have access to is, I wouldn't say she's a hoarder, but she likes to hoard more than I do. I love that you're having a deal with me. I love that you're having a deal with me.

You're Sarah and I'm your partner. You clutter my mind and she clutters both my mind and my home. Every time I try to make a, I think it's a fairly respectful point that it would be nicer to have a slightly less cluttered house to live in, she'll just'll just say but what about all the fucking mugs you've got and that's all she's got You go somewhere and you bring back another mug. Yeah I love I love a mug souvenir But like is that that is the only part of your life that she could point to But is there any sort of part of you that can sort of say listen right? You've got the mug thing

That's that's nice. She's the only part of my life. She can be bothered to point to I'm sure there's loads of other stuff Yeah, has quite unkempt. You're a hair hoarder You're a body though only on my head yeah, okay? Well, I'm sorry about you you mug hoard. We've got this thing where I'll occasionally go around the neighbour's house and I'll always leave my mug over there and he'll keep taking pictures of himself drinking out of the mug going,

this tastes so sweet. And then over Christmas, he left one of his mugs over my house and that's all I'm using. It does feel better when a stolen mug is being used. I have to say. I mean, that's the kind of entertainment that's being wheeled out where you live every week. I can't believe more people aren't keen to move there.

It's the place to be. It's the new Margate. I've never been to Margate. I've never been to Margate. Apparently everyone says it's very nice, but everyone I've actually seen who's been there sort of go, well, I mean, there's some bougie shops, but it's a bit of a shittle. I mean, I have been to Margate and it's very kind of... I might be wrong here, but it's very kind of old fashioned English seaside, what delays would call faded seaside glamour,

but it's also, I think, been slightly gentrified or regenerated to some extent. Co-opted by the London elite. My next door neighbour, who is a very nice older man, who is very passionately involved in the arts, I believe he has a studio in Margate. Right, okay. And I think it's the kind of place that doesn't mean anything to anyone listening, I get that, but just for my own purposes to let you know, it makes me think if he's got a studio there, it must be quite nice. Do you think that when sort of like gentrification happens,

all of the kind of middle-class graphic designers move to places like Margate and everyone talks about it being an up-and-comer and sort of being this kind of new bougie sort of place to live. But because their skills are very much based in the virtual, physically it doesn't get any better. I know what you mean. Yeah, all they're doing is driving up the prices of consumer goods. Yeah, and do you not think that if a load of carpenters or brickies left London, the town would be genuinely rejuvenated? Pipe fitters, etc.

Maybe that's kind of one of the good unspoken things about a lot of Eastern European immigration coming in in the last decade or two where you get like they're doing a lot of like my house I think you know it's my house or I would say this internally looks very nice. The reason it looks very nice is for two reasons. One is because my wife's got amazing ideas around what it should look like and two because a team of three amazingly talented and hard working mold ovens came in and did it to such a high standard that it's genuinely made our lives better. I think if you were to extrapolate that across like all of the places that Eastern European builders, decorators, painters have come, I mean it's probably gonna be a big part of it you know. When I see that the street I live on people

aren't moving because the stamp duty is ridiculous and it takes so long and so what they're doing is extending their homes instead. All of that is being done still by Eastern European builders. I've seen it, I watched a video of a man basically saying look we got quoted this amount of money for our extension out the back of our house. I went on YouTube as a rank amateur and I made my extension for under 10,000 pounds. Now for an extension. No, for an extension. It looked like he was doing it properly. He looked like he knew things about insulation.

For 10 grand, get fucked. He wouldn't even have been able to buy the materials for that. Well, he did, he did do it. You can't say he didn't buy the materials because the materials are there. Apparently the most expensive solo thing was the planning permission. The permission you have to get is like a grand and then everything else is just everything else. But it looked like he did a lovely job. I mean, he didn't factor

in presumably the time he had to take off work to do it, but you do have to think about that kind of thing. Is it actually good? Is it actually good? It does look good. A friend of mine, a friend of mine who is, excuse me, he's just moved back from Germany to a place in Wiltshire. Not an expensive town, he's not moved back to, you know, Bristol, well, Bristol's not in Wiltshire, but you know what I mean, he's not moving back anywhere,

you know, size of the expensive. And he's just had, it's a nice house he's got, he's had an extension built, quite a big one, but I was astonished the amount of cost must it money it cost Yeah, it was It was in the six figures. Yeah Anyway, by the way, before we move on to that a couple of Corrections clarifications maybe but a bit of unfinished business one is that I'll get this one out the way quickly on

Thursday when you were still in On Thursday when you were still in Whitstable you were talking about Novochok and talking about Canterbury Cathedral, it was actually Salisbury Cathedral. It was Salisbury wasn't it? And I normally pick up all your mess and I didn't pick that one up, I don't know why. I didn't think it occurred to me. Quite a lot of listeners got in touch about that. Yeah but like did they get in touch via email? How did they get in touch? Because I'm absolutely impervious to sort of people getting in touch. I get instant DMs about it and I see it on the Luke and Pete show channel on the Ramble Discord.

I see. OK, right, OK. That's absolutely fine. And the second thing is that it's very much kind of left on a cliffhanger, really, that you're in which the ball with a shonky connection. You felt sick. You were going to go up into the attic. Yeah. As we hear today show on this, on this beautiful January, Monday, you're

clearly back in the apology cabin. Yeah. Talk us through step by step. How you went from Thursday, Whitstable, possible attic, sick to Monday, apology cabin, everything's back to normal. Was it an eventful story or not? Not really, because I think because of my lung issues at the moment, I can't climb-

Lung issues? Lung issues, I can't- The Pete Donaldson story? I cannot climb stairs. I went to the doctors, I went to the doctors to get some, basically, you've got a little request form on the NHS app, and if you've got like asthma,

you can just basically request your normal drugs and I went look I've got I think I've had Covid but it's landed on my chest and I'm fucked and I can't climb stairs and I feel like shit and I'm dizzy all the time anyway I then so I went on the NHS app and I said look give me my normal stuff but chuck in some chuck in some Prednisolone, will you? Chuck in some of that sweet nectar. Chuck us in a few, will you? And, um, and they said, no.

I'll meet you round the back. They said, no, you have to go and have an appointment with a doctor. I was going, I am the best doctor for me. I just need some, I just need some Prednisolone. I'm doctor feel good. I had it, I had it when I was like 10. The last time, it's actually quite disconcerting being asthmatic and I've never needed anything to control my asthma apart from my asthma drugs.

But it's never been, it's always been pretty well controlled and even like flu, chest infections have been absolutely fine. But this time round, for whatever reason, I can't climb stairs. So I'm like, and I'm finding it very hard to breathe so do like a do let's do a podcast I think. Hear this wheezing mess but I sort of said look give me some prednisolone I've had prednisolone when I was a kid and they said no you gotta get the doctor so I went to the doctors and they said you need prednisolone. So thanks thanks thanks for making me walk up a hill. I think you should have said to the person who refused to I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it'd be and that all your problems would be fine wouldn't it? And also you're in a you're in a technically clinical environment so it doesn't count. Yeah, can I have a lot of sharp?

Can I have a stabby stabs? Yeah. Are you are you gonna say to the medical professional in question? Are you gonna stop me doing this if not? I'm taking that as a tacit prescription I'm gonna take this heroin. Dirty brown. Some dirty brown with a can of Monster and you can't stop me. In fact just to bounce me out. In fact I'm gonna drink the can of Monster, use the can to get it in me. Lovely. Beautiful. Beautiful. There must be a name for that. There must be. What? The Monster. The brown monster. The Monster battle. It's like a battle between the Monster and the brown. The Monster and the brown monster the monster battle. It's a it's like a it's like a battle between the monster and the brown The monster you brown I remember once I'm now I'm making very speed ball it Kind of but listen the working man speed ball. I

remember once and You are gonna try and besmirch me here I'm sure but you won't be able to because if you ever you're about to say is not true. I remember being a music festival once and going, yeah it was in in in butlins in those chalets. It was a TP. It wasn't the year you were there actually. Okay right. I was there. We have been there at the same time but it wasn't the year either. Yeah. And I was chatting some people, 15 years ago chatting some people and they were going back to their

chalet or whatever to listen to music and that's kind of the thing isn't it? People who don't know what that festival is that's kind of what people do after. Especially the winter one, sometimes you have like parties and people get invited in and stuff. Yeah yeah so we went back to a chalet and I remember seeing on a Butlins, I mean it's Butlins furniture right? It's Butlins.. It's like fucking MDF plywood fucking Chester drawers or whatever but it's quite big I remember someone had in in in cocaine and ketamine someone had laid out a massive C right it for cocaine I mean I mean that makes sense okay right it was like probably an inch thick. Hmm So much like a graffiti'd see an inch stick probably about a foot high. That's gonna get blown away

What if someone owns a drafty dog? I was thinking that I was thinking if someone knocks that yeah You're gonna be a noise and that looks like that feels like a whole probably days consumption for the whole chalet presumably I Remember no consumption at all for me, but I I witnessed it happening. I looked at it. Yeah. Weird. So I don't know what I got onto that but anyway. How are you feeling now after your prescribed medication? I feel like back then ketamine wasn't really a thing. Cocaine was obviously, as you know Luke I trust the straight but I do trust the street. I think like cocaine was obviously a big thing,

but ketamine just didn't seem as big. And we got absolutely layer bets by the whole thing to bring up a horrific story. But certainly the Daily Mail parented readers, the Daily Mail reading parents who had children around about the 90s and noughties were scared away from drugs for the longest time and ketamine being known as a horse tranquiliser really put me off, put my friends off, nobody did it because it's horse drugs.

I don't think it is a horse tranquiliser. No I don't think it is either. I think in the same way Daily Mail scared us away from balloons and hippie crack. I've seen one of my cats off his tits on ketamine after some surgery. It was a party. It was absolutely hilarious. It's good, isn't it fun that like drugs work on different things? Because like Prednisolone works on animals as well.

Because I may have been trying to buy it online. Oh my goodness me Peter, for god's sake. Animal grade Prednisolone. How's the Chinese takeaways going? How's the Chinese takeaways? I had Thai over Christmas. That's a good one isn't it? That's a nice little mix of like the sweet pineappley kind of Chinesey flavors and the you know the

the lovely curries of South it's oh it's go lovely stuff so I'm here for a little while try and just I think I'll get a tie tonight I'm going for tie tonight it's a government incentive. I'd get a tie tonight. Can't be Morrissey these days can you? He's done. No he's done he's cooked. Peter let's have a quick break. When we come back, we've got quite a few emails and I'd like to start the year off right. I know this isn't the first show of the new year, but you know, we're still in the new year. No, it's January the 6th, Luke. Do you want to hear two noises that sum up January 6th birthdays?

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Oh probably just some cigarettes. Also do you want to spin the bit time before we go for a break? Just get me a big pack of cigarettes mate. Was Alex Turner implicated in the attack on the Capitol building on January 6th or was he not part of that? What do you mean? Is that the impression? What? That was January 6th wasn't it? Yes it was. Oh God. Hang on. Aren't we due a January 6th? Aren't we due a... Oh yeah, we will, we're recording in the future. Help, this one has taken over my body. I thought we'd future climbed.

Ah, let's take a break. My God, it's time for emails on the Luke and Pete show. Hello, LukeandPeteShow.com. If you'd like to get involved actually the batteries might be batteries actually Come on mate It's just normally now it's a Monday so I'm gonna start with a couple here that are just very nice emails I think he's like to hear them the first one from Naomi. She says Over the moon about Pete's baby. We all know what a wonderful father He will be love and best for the new year ahead Naomi. That's nice

Just delete that so I don't read it again And this is another one here says Pete my wife and I both love you across various shows We both think you seem such a decent lovely guy and assure you will make a fantastic dad We were delighted to hear of you and your partner finalizing your adoption. So I just wanted to drop a line to congratulate you. All the best. You'll do great. From Grant and Anna in Glasgow, who brackets our WrestleMe and Luke and Pete show listeners.

Lovely stuff. Isn't that nice? That is really nice, to be honest. Right, good. Got that out of the way because Kent Wagenshuts wants some advice. Okay, right. Okay, yeah, I've got it. I'm ready for it. I'm ready. Yeah. The Luke and the Pete. some advice. Okay right okay yeah I've got it I'm ready for it I'm ready yeah. The Luke and the Pete, lovely to hear from you both. Pete fret not there is almost no

joke too dark for me and I am somewhat embarrassed that I didn't consider wheeling around an active crime scene. Now since you are both admitted fathers I need your advice. My wife gave birth to our daughter Ren 14 months ago. Ren's a lovely name. Lovely name. 14 month old daughter Ren. We don't have much family in the area but the Wi-Fi I have access to whose mother lives close by and is willing to help out. We are incredibly grateful for the free babysitting but she has become obsessed with our daughter and has increased her presence in our lives by exactly 6,300%. Yep, bring it on.

I like that he's calculated that. Bring it on. Now, Ken also goes on to say, we don't align politically. The story is so typically American. It is difficult to maintain consistency with regard to diet and lifestyle, and our routines are frequently forgotten when we're not around. It's very rare for a day to go by where she isn't texting

to see if she can come over and take Ren somewhere. The mother-in-law is currently on vacation and texts multiple times per day to say she misses Ren, asks the face time, and sends pictures of kitschy tourist merchandise she wants to buy for her. Now, we know it's a good problem to have, but our obsession has become overbearing

and a constant annoyance. We hope that the birth of another local grandchild in March will divide her attention, but there are no guarantees. So, my accessible wife and I are wondering just how we can tactfully fire my mother-in-law before things go totally sour. Thanks for your time and attention, Kent Wagenschutz. Peter, it's over to you.

It's tough, isn't it? Because from the outset, it is the dream. But also, not from the outset, it does become rather cloying and rather kind of like obstructive if you're trying to get things done effectively. The thing I've noticed about having a small child in my life is that older ladies come out of every wall, crevice, alleyway to see baby. Baby needs to be seen by older ladies. Milfs in my area coming out of the walls coming out the walls like zombies and they just erode and there's people in my life who I've not

spoken to and some people I've never spoken to because they're on Ceryside who are just just carpet bombing clothes appearances phone calls it It's good stuff. It's all good stuff, but it is an astonishingly interesting And fascinating phenomena that that babies just kind of attract people You've never met I found it impossible to keep up with who was Kindly donating gifting cannot cannot stop. I've got so many pictures of different outfits on my phone. Take a picture of that because Sosa sent that and I'm like, that's never going to get to the person who needs to. Then you feel pressured to make sure they're seen wearing it.

Yes, exactly. Even if it's just once, you know, because otherwise you don't want to be ungrateful, you know. Yeah. So I mean, I'm very fortunate because we love both the grandmothers and they're not that close by. So when we do see them as a real treat treat they're always very helpful and that's great but I think you've got to go straight with it I think you've got to go you've got to say look This baby's been telling tales so it's say you're a real shit She hates ya

I would sit down I would go to their house I would sit down and I would just very clearly and honestly and respectfully just say back off. Get your hands off the merchandise I made this you didn't make this get out. Yeah and I'll wet myself on the way out. Look it'll it won't last very long children get heavier more problematic you know they start smoking. Maybe just photoshop the pictures of them like smoking or swearing or doing graffiti. Let's see you step up when they're truant in and vaping. Exactly, yeah, yeah. You're gonna drive them across state lines for procedures? Are you gonna get them out of jail you gonna do that

are you gonna help him get the steroids stuff for PT you gonna get PT some street prednisolone do you know how many tablets you gotta take six tablets a day six tablets all at the same time just make one bigger pill they're tiny yeah scalable tablets I'll tell you what why do they they do that? That's weird. I think because as discussed, I had them when I was a child. So presumably you give them a little one little one or two little tablets for a baby, scaling up to the magnificent six for a an increasingly heavy man.

That doesn't scan in regular life. You don't have like a child's portion in a restaurant and then have, I'll have four child's portions for dinner. You have a bigger portion for Adam No that would be insane no I completely agree but I guess it means that they can just deliver the same amount of tablets I'll probably just skim a bit off the end Listen Kent we've got no advice for you my friend

we like that you're getting in touch regularly and we'd like to hear from you this is one you're going to have to deal with on your own my friend because we've got our own problems to deal with I have, my lungs and all the other stuff I've obviously got going on. Did you see that John Waters was uh did you see that John Waters thing where he's talking about um I'm a great uncle I'll take you across state lines I'll I'll get you an abortion. My favorite um John Waters quote I probably I'll probably get it wrong but it's something along

the lines of um he was asked in the interview what he thinks about hackers. Right, okay. Actually, cute hackers. And he's like, I'm not interested in that. And now people are like, well, no, because you probably should be, because it's very countercultural, it's kind of punk, it's the sort of thing that you feel like you would be into. And then it drills down into it.

And basically what John Waters said is like, yeah, but I don't like they're always dressed in tracksuit bottoms. Feels to me, if you're taking down the government, there should be a look for that. And none of them have got a look, so I can't get behind it. He's such a star. It will be such a day. I remember him

famously sort of back in the day, just talking about what it was to be like a gay man in like the the 60s and 70s and stuff and he sort of said i don't want gay pride i want to be a fucking outlaw i want to be dangerous i want to be scary i want to be disgusting it's such a he's such an interesting interesting comment you are all those things you are now all you're scary you're disgusting so i'll speak for you my bronchioles are disgusting i'll tell you what, you're talking about the nice messages from Naomi and Grant and Anna, the listeners. If you ever put something up on YouTube, I mean, you are opening yourself up.

And I mentioned briefly, we're doing Japan's banned silly baby names. So you can't call your baby Pikachu anymore in Japan without having a very good reason for naming it Pikachu. What would the reason be though? Oh, my dad's a Raichu, I don't know, my dad's a Pikachu, I don't fucking know. My dad is the CEO of Game Freak Incorporated, I don't know. But yeah, so you can put that out there and naturally if you're talking about having a kid, you know, people are going to be very nice in the comments and it's much appreciated

that everyone's been really been really lovely about it. Apart from three days ago Omega 2 1 XX on YouTube said as much as I like Pete and Chris the Broad in Japan podcast IDK I don't know about Pete having an adopted kid don't ask why just intuition as a dad wish them all the best despite that. That's really unkind. I was like I mean here kind of agree with it but like what a... Well I said to you looking back on it I'm not proud of that. What a... I thought you know like even for the internet I thought that's a bit strong mate you know what I mean. As a dad. As even for the internet, I thought that's a bit strong, mate. You know what I mean?

As a dad. As a dad. And I imagined that kind of, you know, that picture of, Kevin, whatever his fucking name is, he's a meme. He's like a, he's a TV actor. And he's sort of going, just me. It's just me having to think about, it's just little old me having to think about,

just little old dad. And I was like, oh oh my god I'm never shocked I'll watch any old shit and I understand that you put yourself out there and YouTube is you know they're just you know it's drive-by shootings in your YouTube and they say whatever they want and it never ever never really gets to me but that was a bit like alright mate that's awful I'm sorry you had to go through that and I think you know what's what's clear to me is that YouTube have absolutely no way of being able to stop that, Pete.

They know it all, yeah, no. They can forensically take out a second of copyrighted recording music instantly. But they can't stop that stuff, mate. So you just have to deal with it, I'm afraid. No, they can spot that I've got dual AdSense accounts and banners for our company name. Oh yeah, they can do that very quickly. And then underneath, to be fair, a couple of people piled on, so I went, what is wrong with you? Quite kindly. You or that commenter?

The commenter. Lee Selfoware potassium said, this comment comes across pretty weird, mate, which is absolutely fine thank you very much the second sentence upset me unless you have some personal knowledge of Pete to make that judgement on don't make it sound like he knows me for fucks sake seriously if he does want someone who's got some personal knowledge of you come and see oh yeah if you said it I'd be like yeah fine absolutely fine you've got a million different reasons to think I can't look after a child a million different reasons I don't actually it's happened now in it it's good job the adoption council when people say that

people watch any old shit mmm when people watch a child well we'll see what he really means that because I'll give you a little insight into that mmm when I first got to know you we first started to record at your house, in I want to say, was it off the Holloway Road? Oh God, would it have been? Yeah, we've had a few around there, yeah, yeah, maybe Highgate. And I turned up early to your house. Kentish Town, Kentish Town, Kentish Town the first time. No, it wasn't Kentish Town, it was the place you were with... Phil Clifton.

With... huh? Phil Clifton, Phil Clifton, the British member. No, no, it was when you were living with... Phil Clifton. Phil Clifton. Phil Clifton. No, when you were living with your ex-girlfriend. Oh, well that would have been Highgate. Highgate. Highgate. That's right. Anyway, doesn't matter. I came to your house early for recording because that's part of my irritating personality. Just toxic professionalism. And you were watching a video I think of a man who had tried to jump off a cliff and it had gone wrong Right, can it ever go right? He had died

He died I said Peter I can't believe that you will watch that kind of stuff And you said to me I need regular reminders that we're all just meat puppets No I think I just said meat I'd never use the word meat puppets Meat, sorry meat yeah Just meat And I thought okay that's the kind of guy I'm in. This guy's dangerous to know. It's life-affirming. This guy's brave enough to do the stuff that I'm too scared to do. Yeah. Like watch a video on the internet. Peter before we go I'd like to squeeze this email in. Squeeze the email meeting.

Yeah, he doesn't, he's not emailing us any meet. He's just called Luke, he's not giving us a surname. But I just thought this email was fascinating. It's rare that I'll put an email in for someone who's just because of who they are. But I'm making an exception for this. Because he says, hi lads, UK CEO of the company Sum Up here. Sum Up, I know Sum Up, have I used Sum Up? Oh yeah, it's the bloody, it's the old ding dong,

we've got your card, Alan, yeah, thank you, lovely. Yeah, and he's like, I've emailed him before, I mean, I've had listened to the Ramboy and Luke and Pete show, I've emailed him before in great depth about related stories from the show, being of the same age, an Essex boy, and spent my formative years stacking shelves at ASDA. But I want to say thanks for the shout out although my title sounds grand I can honestly say I've failed upwards

I don't remember mentioning him. We mentioned some up an iZettle. I think I said I'm a iZettle man but to be quite frank it was the only other payment system I could remember and to be able to sum up the the one that I the Christmas I see a product on they seem to be everywhere the Christmas miracle I performed resetting the Bluetooth setting on a contactless card reader was actually from sum up if I'm looking at the pictures there we go was like so much so you know well well done it was actually sum up I was thinking of I'm not an eyes that'll man I'm a summit man, and that's not me changing my Opinion some freak stuff. That's what you know Yes, get us some free get some advertising. You've only had some free advertising. Why not? Why not pay for a promo?

Yeah, Luke if you're serious about how much you how avid you are to use your word Yeah, I've been yeah as a fan of these two shows. I've been great You know what you do, you know, you are, as a fan of these two shows, you know where you need to do people. Avid, great video editor, you had it in your pocket. Speak to your marketing director. Speak to your marketing director. Speak to the head of your agency, speak to the head of your buyer agency, get a conflab together with the head of the fucking creative agency and get some copy out.

Just paypal, paypal, look a picture, we don't have a paypal, just send us some money and we'll talk about it a bit more. Alright, let's cut out the middle man. The people, the people, the people. I think I might be literally in contravention of our contract of Acast. Look, Acast are catch up, right? They should be listening. If they're not listening, we are allowed to make as much money as we can.

Also, by the way. On this podcast, and if they're not listening, they should be listening, alright? Technicality as well, we're recording this but their office is still closed for Christmas technically correct. So lovely beautiful Beautiful Let's go what we're doing all right. This has been the look of Pete Shaw fun sure Fetid Two fucking feted hot water bottles that have been left under the bed too long. Oh god. Is that what they feel like?

Would you like to see an extra of your own lungs? Surely you would. No, I think I'd be... It was hard enough looking at my own shoulders to be honest. Would it look like one of those photos you see on a cigarette packet? Yeah, it was like really, really needlessly matey. We're just mate. We're just mate.

We'll be back on Thursday. Get your emails in. Hello.littlebitchshow.com See you later, we're just mate. We'll be back on Thursday. Get your emails in hello.oobiecho.com See you later Luke. See ya. You big meat bag. The Luke and Pete Show is a stack production and part of the A-Cast Creator Network.