The Luke and Pete Show - Noom year, Noom me

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

It’s 2024 and Luke’s on a health kick. Pete doesn’t need a health kick, however, as he’s losing enough weight stressing about how to get access to his new car.He tells us all about that and Luke tells us about the new Mickey Mouse horror movie. The lads then stick two fingers up to the haters and prove that the battery feature still lives on, stronger than ever, in 2024.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] 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.***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.

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I know we've already bashed out a show quite recently, but I think it's up to us. Be straight with people, Pete. We're in the New Year. What? Be straight with them. We pre-recorded that one because we had other stuff going on. We did pre-record that one, but it's fine. It fine it's fine this is the first real one isn't it this is the first real one in the new year um what what have you already achieved this year have you like

because it i think the positioning of christmas and new year is quite useful if you want to sack off the rest of the week i think yeah because monday is obviously new's Day, and then I think people just sort of go, eh, I'll start next week. I don't know why. It just seems to be the rules. I think, I feel like a million bucks, because every time I get to sit on a show with Peter Pumps Donaldson, I've made it. Big Daddy Pumps, yeah.

What did Josh Homme say? You think, what's the Josh Homme song? He said, put some clothes on, bassist. I think I ain't worth nothing, but I feel like a millionaire. Ah, there we go. No, the other guy was the naked one. Who was the, no, the other guy, as I was saying, he was saying put some clothes on. Oh, that's what he was saying to the guy.

That guy's also been cancelled, by the way. I can't believe you've embarrassed everyone again. Yeah, I think he's fucked off somewhere, isn't he? Yeah, I think it, I don't want to bring the tone down quite so early on. It's not what our listeners want, but I think it was some kind of domestic abuse. Oh, good, good, good, good. Yeah, there's been a lot of...

That was his particular flavour. Little bits and bobs. I think wrestling's had another kind of reckoning over the Christmas period. Yeah, and then we've got the... The way you said that was like, you've been wrestling at home over the Christmas period. I've been wrestling with my memories,

wrestling with my emotions. Wrestling with my emotions. Wrestling with some of life's worst decisions. To answer your question, I'm kind of a little bit loathe to say this because I think it's going to probably die a death. I'm about a week into being much healthier. Okay, yeah, nice. I had a bit of a... New Year's Eve is an absolute washout

when you've got a seven-month-old kid. So that's a non-event, right? You're basically just sitting there getting angry with the fireworks and all they're going to wake up your baby. So that was never an issue for me. It didn't need to be 1st of January or anything like that. No. As soon as I got the kind of Christmas stuff out the way,

I was like, look, you need to make some firm and frank decisions now about where you're going with this. Because you're not getting any younger. None of us are. And so none of us are? None of us is? None of us are. None of us is not one, isn't it? Not one of us is. It should be years, really.

Anyway, doesn't matter. So I've decided to try and get cracking with that. i'm using the noom app it's a little bit annoying when you do the job i do that they don't come in and sponsor because i am perfect for them bit fat could do better will do better because i'm one of those kind of aggravating characters that will do stuff yeah and um they don't want to know do they they just don't want to know it needs what they so they need to um you're the sort of person who i think having like a separate app, I suppose,

kind of bringing a new app into your life in 2024 isn't really what usually people would do, if that makes sense. Like people would be like, I'm going to stay off my phone. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that. I think we've been sponsored by Noom, but you will have to remind me what Noom is. Have we? In which case I've got a lot of time for him. Yeah, we've definitely been sponsored by Noom before.

I've definitely done a VO for that. Right, okay. I don't get involved in the sponsorship side, so I don't really know. I'll get a script up and do a tagline at the end. Get a bit of alibaba. So Noom is like a psychological way of looking at it, so it's more of a big picture type thing than just a logging of food.

What I need, what I found I need is actually accountability. I need accountability because what will happen is I need to always remind myself that the kind of perfect is the enemy of good, if you know what I mean. I'm always a bit like quite binary with it. Right. And if I go to the pub and have four pints and a packet of pork scratches with a mate, what I can tend to do is step off healthy eating boulevard, straight into the bus stop of regret, and before I'm lost at sea again.

And if you can't mix your metaphors on a new year, when can you do it? Beer is very much the thing that unlocks the... Bad decisions. It's a trigger, Pete. It is. It's a trigger. Oh, hello, four pints in the local pub. Goodbye, six months of good health decisions yeah that's what

it is like i've ruined everything now yeah but yeah but i don't i need to get out of that mindset i think a lot of us do a lot of us listening will be familiar with this they'll be relating to it luke noom takes a psychology based approach to helping people eat healthier you know instead of instead of setting strict inflexible rules noom gives you the knowledge you need to build sustainable eating habits so no food is completely off limits. And it also electrocutes you. That's what it is. That's what's been happening.

That's what it is. I thought it was a power cut. It basically makes your phone so hot, your phone starts to emit some very distasteful chemicals. And you don't want to eat anything after you've eaten a bit of hot lithium. And what happens at iFarm with my new map is that if I... They're not going to be sponsors again after this.

If I eat a burger, when I pick the phone up, it just goes, CUNT! You fucking worthless shit! And if I eat an apple, it just gives like just like sex noises in my head

he goes oh daddy yeah yeah be nice to me daddy yeah you put all your all your words in that turn you on

and it tells you yeah my words so the words just so you know what's your unsafe word keep going free bar

free bar Pete Donaldson yeah and the crazy world of arthur brown so it's going okay yeah you know baby steps and all that the big the biggest enemy to a writer is a blank piece of paper and all that um i'm not a writer i'm just a fat man but we'll we'll get there slowly but surely so i'll keep people people appraised if they're interested. But that's really been my focus.

That's been your focus, right. And the broader focus has actually been, you know, Luke, just make better decisions. Like, you know, take control, take responsibility and make better decisions. Don't like do something stupid and then regret it later. Just take decisions that are good in the moment i'm not saying i've done anything bad i haven't really done anything bad but i mean in terms of my health and my diet and my decisions it needs to be better so that's what i'm working on how about you what have you achieved have you taken delivery of a brand new imported car yet this year um uh yeah so it arrived um on the 24th of um December, rather unhelpfully as discussed.

It's made its way off, I believe, the cargo freighter and onto the docks at Southampton. So it's there. Don't say cargo freighter like you're some kind of import expert. Just say boat or ship. I may as well be. But I've had to employ a bigger boy to actually get the car to where it needs to go How did you find them and why was that?

I just googled Southampton because I mean loads of cars come off the boat at Southampton so I just thought well there's got to be someone who deals with this sort of thing and I just threw them a couple of hundred quid and went can you just get this to an MRT centre please? I'm just, I'm having, I'm busy. All right.

So hopefully that will be sorted. I've paid the tax on it and we're cooking, Luke. We're cooking. Do you mind sharing with our lovely community how much it's set you back so far? We're into, I think, four grand, I think, all in, which is not bad. Still not got it. Still not got what? Still not got it.

Still not got it. Still not taking receipt. Is it going to be like on that Alan Partridge Chatshow episode when Roger Moore never turns up? Yeah.

It's the... It's the Chizik roundabout. It is. It's going to be exactly that. It's just going to be me going, I've just got gotta fill in another form but look i don't have time to think about it and so if it turns up good if it doesn't turn up well you know i i always need a little project to sort of keep me going but i'm in a position

where i just don't have time to even deal with the project but it's nice to have a project on the burn i think a little bit it's not it's not involving like work i suppose it's good yeah it's nice to have a project on the burn, I think, a little bit. I agree with that. It's not involving work, I suppose. It's good, yeah. It's good to do that. I think that when... I'd love to come visit you at some point, and when I do, I'll bring the family to come visit you,

and then maybe we can take a quick spin. We can go do some donuts. Yeah, definitely. With Mr. Donut in the back seat. With Mr. Donut. Mr. Donut, who is not in my house. I'm going to have to purchase... You can't have been a good boy this year, then.

I'm going to have to purchase Mr. Donut myself, I think. Probably. You can start a GoFundMe if you want. Get Pete Mr. Donut. Get Mr. Donut out of that terrible facility with a lot of promotional statues. That would be fantastic. Tax-deductible, get it in the studio, Mr. Donut.

A producer Charlie wants his redesign. I want Mr. Donut in the car now. That's your non-negotiable. That's my non-negotiable. Whatever. I used to have reservations about acoustic panelling. Now I don't care what it sounds like. I just want Mr. Donut in the car now. With a microphone in his hand.

He'll suck in all the echo. Yes. Won't he? He will. He'll make it it you have to broadcast through the middle of a mr donut yeah exactly exactly speaking of um of of this kind of thing well not really um i don't really do links is um is um is there any interest in your part of the um the disney copyright on the first of a mickey and minnieiring. That is to me, that is like a pretty interesting thing. Like it is because obviously,

um, they can't do nothing about it. I mean, I think they can do a lot about it to be honest, because I don't think the rigor in which people kind of, um, play with licensing, like,

you know, like, so basically, um, it's all out of copyright now. Winnie the Pooh went out of copyright, I think, two years ago or a year ago. And that's why we got

the Winnie the Pooh horror film. The story is, with the Mickey Mouse thing, is Steamboat Willie, a 1928 short film featuring early non-speaking versions of Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The copyright has expired

because they are, the rights, you can only hold the rights to characters for 95 years which meant the Steamboat Willie thing entered the public domain

on the 1st of January of this year so they can now be legally shared performed reused or repurposed and sampled

basically by anyone and the only thing that Disney can do is essentially reiterate that that's only the first version of those characters yeah the Steamboat Willie guys

you can't do it with the more recent. And this is an extension. I think it should have gone out in 2004, I think. So it was extended by a good 20 years. The UK did that

with the Beatles, didn't they? I think it was 50 years in this country. Right, okay. And they passed a law to say it was enough 75. But what they're doing is kicking the can

down that street, baby. We're going to have them eventually, and I'm going to do some rapping all over Hey Jude. Motherfucking Hey Jude. Listen, you could do no worse to Hey Jude than Paul McCartney's eventually and i'm going to do some rapping all over hey jude motherfucking hey jude listen you could do no worse to hey jude than paul mccartney's done in his later years i swear to god his

performance of that at the olympics went on for about 25 minutes i would say that i would say that like um with this with this mickey mouse thing like i just think that because they can only use the original steamboat willie mickey mouse characters i just think that because they can only use the original Steamboat Willie, Mickey Mouse characters, I just think that people will fall foul of the Disney Corporation. They will basically say, this is too close to the new one. Because, I mean, the thing about the new one and the old one, they look quite similar. So where does... Did he have a slightly longer nose?

I kind of forget, to be honest. Is he exclusively having to pull a Steamboat? It's Mickey Mouse, but you can only use it pull a Steamboat? He's only, it's Mickey Mouse, but you can only use it in a Steamboat setting. Yeah. I don't really know. I think what it will come down to though, Pete, won't it,

will be the Disney attitude, their kind of appetite for challenging. Because if it's a massive influx of things over and over again, public domain is difficult for that kind of thing because in one calendar year, if they get 2,000 uses of it, what are they going to do? Challenge every single one. It's a full-time job for a massive team to do that.

Oh, Luke, if I can give you a little bit of information, we do a WrestleMe YouTube channel for the wrestling podcast we do. And, oh God, the WWE will try and ban us a WrestleMe YouTube channel for the wrestling podcast we do. And, oh, God, the WWE will try and ban us from using certain footage. And then once we've argued fair use and got through that process, because we do have fair use and fair dealing in the UK and the US to use it, they'll just do it again with the same footage. And so our editor has to constantly just send letters back

or emails back going wrong wrong the same boilerplate kind of copy and pasted kind of information and that's mainly his that's that's his main part of his job just fighting these fires we spoke to youtube and youtube sort of went well it's a legal matter isn't it i was going well it's a legal matter whether're misusing your copyright protection things. There must be some, you know, double jeopardy thing. You can't get tried for the same copyright crime twice or something. My God, it's endless. So much of law is like the big person bullying the little person with more money, right?

Hugely, hugely. And, you know, they sort of said, oh, you should just talk to a lawyer and send them a letter. I was going, I don't think threatening to sue the WTO is going to work in this. I think they'll probably call our bluff, you know. Yeah. I wonder who's got deeper pockets. Hmm.

Is it the man who's doing free noom reads, or is it Vince McMahon? But Vince McMahon might be sick and tired of legal stuff by now. That's true, yeah. He doesn't want to see the inside of another courtroom. This is boring. This is absolutely boring. He's not involved now, is he, Vince?

Vince is not involved anymore, is he? No, no, he's very much in charge again. Large and at charge, in charge again. He's now UFC took over and he grabbed those reins back with gusto. Very much at large. Did you see, Pete, you remember I was chatting with Marcus earlier from the Football Ramble for those of you

who don't listen to it what a joy one of our co-hosts on the Ramble or the host I suppose he was talking to me about Cilla Black yeah

and it reminded me what is this recent because obviously Cilla Black had a bit of a I mean he got his he got hers she got hers rather before Christmas

everybody suddenly became incredibly aware of Cilla Black's Crimes Against Music and just general presentation. But we've been a long-standing objector of her work. A lot of people didn't like her because she was one of Thatcher's lot. Right. Well, we are one of Thatcher's lot.

In Liverpool, that's obviously very unpopular. I see. Right, okay. I think she liked Thatcher, and so then people didn't like her. And I think she also was like, you know... I think she stole a lot of Dionne Warwick songs as well, didn't she, or something like that?

She did, yeah, I think. And she was horrible to people she worked with. Yeah. It seems. I also heard that she used to poison small birds in her back garden. Well, look, who else is going to poison them? That's what I would say.

Say what you want about her. Say what you want now. Exactly. That's the vagaries of British broadcasting law, your libel law and all that. Anyway, it reminded me of something that you did where she just died and you made a joke about her. Didn't make a joke about her.

What happened? You remember this, what I'm talking about? Yeah about yeah i can't quite remember so you just tell me what happened the day after cilla black died we had a um read that that had to go out before the football ramble and i said hi i'm cilla black and did the and just basically told them about the you know the the you know a competition to win something. Said goodbye, I'm still a black. And certain members of our colleagues... Was that me as well? No, mainly the other one.

Okay. Just wanted me to explain the joke. And I was going, well, it's not really a joke. And he's going, well, we'll get rid of it then. I was going, but it's not really a joke, so don't worry about it. And it was this real kind of like, it was an interesting little exercise.

It really was. And you've not deviated at all from that course since then, have you? No, I think you should. As soon as people die, you're allowed to be silly about them. So the old adage, don't speak ill of the dead. I didn't speak ill of the dead.

I pretended to be the dead. In many ways, that is a mockery, though, isn't it? In many ways, that is continuing their legacy. She's not dead to me. I'm still a black. Certainly a surprise surprise. No one expected it. No one saw it coming.

Do you think you'll be remembered the same way Scylla's been remembered? Depends on if the hard drives are discovered. What? But the thing is, you say it like it's something horrible, but it'll just be memes. It will be memes. It'll just be pictures of the dogs, to be honest. My life has just become, it's like a sort of weird sort of cancer or a moss growing on my soul.

Just my life has just been taken over by, like my phone has just been taken over by pictures of, there's so many outdoor scenes scenes so many more outdoor scenes than i would ever um having enjoyed if i didn't have dogs i'm just like i just wouldn't go outside otherwise did you keep your fit um yeah i think so well i you know before christmas i was a bit worried because i'd lost um a stone in weight and um i mean it's mainly because i i think it's mainly because i just haven't been drinking and drinking is such a big like a big component of why have you stopped drinking i just don't have the opportunity really it's just not something that it's just not something that i've uh of um that i've been doing recently all that much so i think that was the i

think that was the main catalyst and i've not really been eating big bowls of sweets but then i'm sort of asking myself well well, why haven't I been? Have I lost my appetite? Am I ill? What's going on? I just maybe just eating all the sweets. I've got a friend who I talk to about that kind of thing, going back to the health thing again.

He always says to me the same thing. And he's like just a normal bloke. He's like, yeah, mate, you've got to remember, the worrying will kill you. The worrying will kill you. You get to 70 and you've been worrying your whole life, you're going to die. Yeah.

You'll get some kind of stress-related dementia or something like that. I mean, I'm not a medical professional. I don't know how it works. But presumably, it's not good for you, is it, to be worrying and stressed all the time? And that is very much my baseline is just constant. There's a bear at the door. You know, there's constant worry, fear about the future.

No wonder you're stressed then. Yeah. I'm just not eating. I'm just not eating because of all the stress. Get someone to take it away. Just get someone to get the bear off, yeah. I mean, look, I wish I could be someone who didn't set strict inflexible rules. I wish that Noom gave me the knowledge I needed to build sustainable eating habits.

You have lost a bit of weight and now you've got the old moustache back. It's a bit Dallas Buyers Club, isn't it? Yes, it is, I suppose, yeah. I think you look great with a moustache. I've always been very supportive of you. You say what you like about me. I've not always covered myself in glory with my treatment of you. I admit that.

But I've always been very, very supportive of that moustache. Yeah, I'm going to keep it, I think. You should. Until I don't. It've always been very very supportive of that moustache yeah I'm going to keep it I think you should until I don't until I don't it's very very full it's got body it's got depth

it's outstanding I look like the man out of Friday Night Dinner yeah you do a bit actually yeah I look like the man out of Green Wing who uh

what's his name Mark Heap is that his name yeah he's fucking good that guy he's really good he's one of those ones where he's in everything

and he's excellent in everything he does. He plays the same character, a creepy little monster, but a creepy tall monster. But yeah, he's so good. Why isn't he in more stuff? He's in everything.

He's in space, isn't he? But he's not well-known, though, is he? No, no. I suppose. He's in Spaced. Yeah. He's in Brass Eye as well. He's the lizard man

in Jam. Do you remember he came around and the lizards were coming out of the telly. That's like a proper weird show, that. I forgot about Jam. That's Chris Morris as well, isn't it? It started on Radio 1. It was brilliant. It used to be so offensive on Radio 1.

It was so awful. Looking at his filmography, he's actually in loads of stuff. I'm just talking absolute shit. He's in so much stuff. He's actually in Midsommar Murders and Death in Paradise. He's in everything. Speaking of that kind of interesting radio comedy, I listened to Rob...

I quite like Rob Brydon's podcast. Okay. It's an interview show, presumably. It's really basic. It's been going for a long time, hasn't it? I think it's one of those ones where... Oh, it's an interview show, presumably? It's really basic. It's been going for a long time, hasn't it? I think it's one of those ones where, oh, it's still gone, is it? It's got about seven producers. Don't know why.

Spotify for you. The premise is just that he literally unashamedly does a few minutes about the person he's excited to meet. I don't know if it's a conceit or whether it's real. He just starts the Zoom call and chats to them and then the show ends when he ends the call so it's quite an organic way of doing it the reason I like it is because Brydon

although he does talk a little bit too much maybe for an interviewer, it's more of a conversation and he he's like quite an authentically warm person Rob Brydon he seems like he's genuinely quite positive about people. He actually is interested in them, which is why I like it.

Anyway, the one I listened to just yesterday was the one with Stuart Lee. Okay, yeah. And it's really, really good. I find Stuart Lee a really interesting character. I don't know if you do as well. But he doesn't do an awful lot of press or a lot of interviews, but he does. He's super honest and that really appeals to me

so he was talking about when he first started working so his first comedy job writing job was on Partridge right okay yeah because him

Ian Herring him and Herring used to do Partridge used to do I think they did Day to Day as well yeah so he was talking

about how Patrick Marber yes had a Patrick Marber yes right so Patrick Marber moved into theatre didn't he and started doing a lot of theatre stuff

a lot of serious theatre stuff but what Stuart Lee was saying which was quite interesting I thought was that he was saying

like he's totally I'm paraphrasing a bit but he was saying he was totally baffled about how the most popular kind of comedy dramas now

don't don't follow the established understanding of what makes a good comedy drama. What he was basically saying was that Afterlife, which is the biggest show on Netflix in terms of comedy dramas, is astonishingly bad. It's really difficult to understand. And the example he used would be like, if you were a creative writing teacher or something,

how you would get across what the importance of creative writing is to a bunch of students when actually the most popular show in the world is... Is that. Yeah. It's difficult to understand where to go with it. I just thought it was quite interesting. He was quite interesting on the kind of punching up, punching down as a comedian kind of punching up, punching down

as a comedian kind of debate as well. And the other thing I liked about him is that I'm not really a big stand-up comedy guy, but he's clearly got such an amazing passion for that discipline and the history of it. And every comedian that Brydon would list off, he would know who they were, he'd know their act,

he would talk about how they did what they did. It was actually a really interesting, in-depth chat about the things that make people laugh, you'd know their act, you would talk about how they did what they did. It was actually a really interesting in-depth chat about the things that make people laugh, which I know sounds a bit cringe, but it's actually really interesting. But maybe it's just your, I would say, your slight reluctance to join in with all of the stand-up fun.

It's just that you don't maybe understand the craft as well as Stuart Lee. So maybe if you became Stuart Lee, you'd probably like stand-up comedy more. That'd be good. Yeah. I wouldn't mind that. There's part of me that the thing about the dichotomy of man and the dichotomy of me is that I would like to be super successful and really wealthy. That appeals to my personality for obvious reasons. But I also am really seduced by the idea of being

like really well respected and everyone think I'm brilliant but not really be that well known and what I've done is I've achieved neither of those things I think it's one of those things where it's like

it's a shortcut that is probably quite attractive to like like serial killers it's a shortcut they're like I want to be respected I'm going to kill a lot of people it's the shortcut it's a shortcut they're like i want to be respected yeah i'm gonna kill a lot of people

like it's the shortcut that it's the shock the psychology the absolute psychology of like people who assassinate famous people like presidents and stuff is exactly that right they they have a you know obviously i'm not a psychiatrist but but essentially what what is the way the way it's kind of presented that i as i understand it is that they think they have some kind of ability or intelligence or kind of thing that people aren't respecting. And so they feel upset about that. And then they see someone who has achieved it, invent all these reasons why they're not worthy of it,

and then essentially kill them. That's fair. The great example would be Lee Harvey Oswald killing JFK. Classic example. Classic example of him seeing someone who has got everything in his mind, got everything handed to him and all this kind of stuff and he wanted to be destined for greatness but never was.

So he just, as as you say shortcutted it essentially I would definitely point people towards the seven part epic series on the rest of his history about JFK assassination very very good

very good anyway let's have a break yeah let's get out of here and we will be back in a second to do a couple of battery brands and then that'll be it

I think I reckon yeah so if you don't like battery brands I'm joking keep listening I'm going, keep listening. I'm going to say something absolutely outrageous

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on Rogers Internet. Visit rogers.com for details. We got you. Rogers. I'm scared. Well, it depends on what has been done in the edit. I was very clear who I meant. You're in Rory's hands. I think we'd be better off not seeing any more. And so, yeah, we'll see if Rory's edited out

and had the stones to keep it in. Yeah? All right? It's my new pace. I've kicked into fifth gear. See how Rory's going to start the year. Absolutely raucously awful. Hi, look at Pete, says Tom.

Are these any good to you? It's like he's trying to get rid of them. Considering I just had to replace them in a remote I've had for about two months, I'd say they're taking the Michael with this name permanently. Triple A's, your classic 3.5 volts, permanently now replaced. Permanently batteries. They're a new player.5 volts, permanently now replaced. Permanently batteries.

They're a new player. We've never had them before. Lovely stuff starting the new year with a fabulous flurry of a new blubbing battery. There's a caveat which is that it's very hard to search the word permanently in an inbox with 7,700 unread emails in it. Permanently un battery, maybe? I don't know.

Yeah, I could do that. Hang on a second. Let me have a look. I am permanently putting all these batteries up my bum. Yeah, it's a new player. It's definitely a new player. Congratulations to you, Tom, in Vancouver. These are good to us.

I'd love to go to Vancouver. I'd love to groove in Vancouver. Definitely, definitely. Big time. Big time. Hello to Eric. Eric Inokunawa, which is a wonderful kids TV show

that we should make somehow. Yeah, definitely. I've been on the lookout for a new long skinny torch for work because the one I've used for years wasn't long enough for some jobs and just annoying to use. What job does he have?

Surgeon. I saw a cheaper one at the supermarket today and figured, why not? If it's shit, I can just fix it up a bit or use parts from it to still get my money's worth and that Eric it's me and you

together holding hands kissing in a convertible car because that is the sort of thing that I do

and then fail to do the whole fixing it up a bit or use parts from it and the caveat is that the car is actually still at Southampton Docks the car is actually still at

southampton docks the car is still at southampton docks with a man called bill out um uh yeah uh so when i armed it to get a look at its juicy bits i found that it had um some uh self-branded batteries y'all were talking about having being found in a commercial product i doubt they're new players but even if they're not i still get the privilege of helping make the next idiot who sends them in feel at least one number dumber than me. I'd definitely buy some Luke and Pete's show batteries, as long as they're not shit ones, of course. Maybe to save on battery explosion lawsuit hassles.

Try doing up some hand-drawn Luke and Pete's show batteries to print on pit t-shirts. That'd surely sell better too as well. That's it. Put me down for one t-shirt. Fuck the fire hazard batteries. Cheers from Okinawa, Eric. If you think we are sending a t-shirt with a battery

crudely scrawled on it to Okinawa, not even on the mainland. We can only muster for this show every so often. We can't do that kind of stuff. We've always got enough on.

Eric, why don't we, I'll back you 20 quid. Just get your, go down to Uniqlo or, what's that? Who says backs these days? What? Backs. Why don't we... I'll backs you 20 quid. Just get your... Go down to Uniqlo or... Who says backs these days? What?

Backs. Backs. Backs. Bank transfer. I know what backs is. I used to work at Lloyds TSB. It's an interbank transfer. I'm just saying,

these days people say Venmo or PayPal. They don't say backs. Is it Okinawa? The Cashless Society down there. Can you get PayPal in Japan? I'm pretty sure you can. You can get PayPal, but I'm just saying that it's mainly, you know,

it's mainly the old green. You stick with backs or chaps. There's a man, I think, on the Thousand Yen Note who I think might have discovered syphilis. Anyway, Eric has got some batteries and they're called Lux Pro. I feel like they may have been seen before the Lux Pro, but thank you for getting in touch, Eric.

Well, they're new players, so you're wrong. Oh, they're new players, I'm wrong! How are we starting with three new players in 2024? We thought this feature was dead and buried. It's two so far, but carry on. Good stuff. Yeah, well, I'm hoping that with the third one, Lacan, who's got in touch here,

Lucan, rather, from New Jersey. I don't celebrate Christmas, but I've been enjoying the recent episodes of listeners' family stories around the holiday times. I waited until after Christmas to write in, hoping to get a battery inducted into the Lucan Peach historical archives. What do you reckon?

Like, people who don't... It's interesting. People who don't celebrate Christmas because it's not their... presumably their religion or they just don't deserve it for whatever reason. They surely must have more respect from actual Christians who know the reason for the season, if that makes sense. They probably respect someone opting out of Christmas because they don't follow that religion. That someone does, like me, who does Christmas,

but doesn't actually follow the religion. They must have more respect for them, surely. So do you think then, so if we have people we know that are Christians, committed Christians, do you think they're behind our backs, they're sneering at us for celebrating Christmas? Well, I mean, it's the same person that we know. He's good at sneering.

He's a good sneerer. I wasn't thinking of anyone in particular. What I would say is this. What I would say about this, about the Christians, you know, and bear in mind... I tried to say that in the break, but Rory handed it out. No, what I would say is this. Oh, you want us to celebrate his birth.

As soon as we get past that, the Christmas tree's up to celebrate his birth. You're talking about his fucking execution. God, make your mind up for crying out loud. Straight away. All of a sudden, we're doing eggs. You sound like that Tory MP

in the Tesco car park. Oh, that was Jake Berry. Was it, right? Okay. Jake Berry. That was, I mean, that was bad. First of all, he's a moron.

He's doing a bit of stand-up. He's doing a type five on Easter. Doing a type five there. His social media team have said, I'll tell you what, get him going. I'll tell you what, get him going. I'll tell you what.

Take a selfie in Tesco car park on the 1st of Jan, talking about how the world... I don't shop in Tesco. I shop in Sainsbury's. I'm a waitress, man. Well, don't do that. Drive to Tesco. The world's gone mad

because there's Easter eggs for sale already. Mate, you're a fucking lawmaker in this country. Get on with your job. Get on with your job. Get on with your job. Stop it. They just, but they just, you know, they're out the door and they're just a bit like, I need a career.

I'm not good at anything else. They're not good at that. They're not good at that. True. Anyway, back to Luken's message. I bought some glow sticks from an anime convention, Anime NYC a few years ago. These glow sticks are popular

in Japanese idol and otaku circles and me being a massive weeb, I decided to purchase a pair at the convention. They glow in different colours, usually to associate your sport to a particular performer's colour scheme within a group performance. Interesting. I think I've seen I think we got handed one of

those at a club once and it was yeah waving them around how did it make you feel? well I just felt I just felt like

I was part of something I suppose which I frequently don't to be honest inside I found these thumb cells and decided I'd rather go shooting you guys an email

in the hopes of submitting a new player thanks for the podcast it really helps me get through my overnight shifts for my regular job and on my drive to my students homes for music lessons on the weekends wow he's working hard he's got an interesting uh interesting job and you know interesting and a great mechanical keyboard as well there's no denying that his um their uh anime nyc um kind of like lamp in front of that

beautiful mechanical keyboard is absolutely brilliant. He knows what side this bread's butted on. Thumb cells. Thumb cells. Another new player. Three out of three to start the year. Can you believe it? I cannot believe it.

I genuinely thought this battery feature was on its arse, but we have found ourselves three new players. And it's just a great way to start great way to start 2024 yeah fantastic well thank you very much to Lucan to Eric and to Tom

in Vancouver for submitting all those I said Tom in Vancouver and I kept thinking of Tom of Finland right okay do you remember Tom of Finland

yeah it was like a sexy kind of was he Norwegian no ha ha ha ha ha ha Right, okay. Do you remember Tom of Finland? Yeah, he was like a sexy kind of... Was he Norwegian? No. Fucking end the show. Yeah, that's enough. End the fucking show. See you on Monday.

Fuck off. And we may be starting with fucking three new battery brands, but that was atrocious. Goodbye. The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack Production and part of the Acast Creator Network. Perfect for streaming lectures all day or binging TV shows all night. Save up to $20 per month on Rogers Internet. Visit rogers.com for details. We got you. Rogers.