The Luke and Pete Show - Pete’s Car Club

Episode Date: January 11, 2024

The day we never thought would arrive is finally here! The tax man has finally caught up with Pete Donaldson…Today, Pete tells us all about that before the wife Luke has access to provides live feedback to some of Luke’s complaints on the podcast. Plus, we get an update on the most (de)pressing story on The Luke and Pete Show right now… Pete’s new car. Is it still in Southampton? Listen to find out!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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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I am Pete Donaldson. It is Thursday, the 11th of January. I'm joined by Mr. Lukey Moore. You all right, Lukey Moore? So nice to see you, Peter. It's nice to see everything, I think. Is that what you think when you wake up in the morning? Yeah. Tell that to a man who's just had a corneal operation.

I wouldn't say that because it would be insensitive. Well, if you were a doctor, sure, but if you're just walking past the ward, shout it in. What? So nice to see everything. So nice to see everything now, guys. Who's with me? As you're walking past Moorfields, you shout it, honk it through the letterbox. Too high risk at Moorfields.

That's going to have both categories, isn't it? it it's gonna have people who've recently gone blind right okay yeah fair dues yeah i guess it's very much a um two different waiting rooms in moorfields it's kind of like oh you're in trouble oh yeah everything's going to be fine it's just a bit of dust what weight room you what waiting room you put me in doctor oh for fuck's sake not b i don't want to be in b wasn't there there a kind of condition you could get in your eye if you worked with metal quite a lot? That tiny, little, minuscule, almost imperceptible to the human eye, literally.

Whoa. These metal fragments would go into your eye and therefore you couldn't get a CT scan because of the magnets. Wow, I didn't know that. Because it would pull all of the metal fragments out of your eyes. Sure, you want that, right? Make a terrific, not in such a spectacular fashion one would suggest.

Goodness, we got them all out. Who said that? Oh, dear. Wow. I had a, so Morford Eye Hospital is the one I'm thinking of. It's part of. Old Street, innit? Off the Old Street roundabout.

The most confusing and violent roundabout in London. Ignore that, because it's therefore not the hospital I'm thinking of. Oh. And that anecdote will no longer make sense. Okie dokie. So, Moorfield's Eye Hospital was the one that says at Old Street tube station,

a light here for Moorfield's Eye Hospital. Yes. Massive letters. I was thinking it's the one opposite King's College Hospital. Right. Next to the Morsley Hospital. fields eye hospital yes i was thinking i was thinking it's the one opposite um king's college hospital right next to the maudsley hospital the maudsley hospital is interesting or at least it it is or at least it used to be the hospital where they do all the pioneering brain surgery okay in the middle of london that just seems very um could you know would you not want something a

little bit more relaxing like i don't want my surgeon who's going to mess with the old CPU to be kind of getting on the tube and getting off at Russell Square and getting really angry. Well, if he's getting off at Russell Square, he's nowhere near King's College Hospital, so he's in big trouble there. He's getting fit. He's running.

He's running. He's running. He knows the importance of cardiovascular health because he's a doctor and makes perfect sense. Exactly. He's probably. He's running. He knows the importance of cardiovascular health because he's a doctor. It makes perfect sense. He's probably getting off at Denmark Hill. Right. Okay.

Possibly getting the bus down from Elephant and Castle, but we digress. Anyway, the Morsley Hospital, yeah, they do all this brain surgery stuff. And the reason I know that is because in the late 80s, my father, who is still with us. Who art in heaven. Who art not in heaven in heaven no not the big father who tells right okay all the time and as you can see everything all the time yeah um my actual father right he

had brain surgery at said hospital in the late 80s in the late 80s when when we weren't even doing it right that's amazing what a testament to the skills that pay the bills in the 80s well when was the last time you met him? That's right. The only time I met him, he told me off. No, he's on great form. He remains on great form. Good stuff.

The point is that he is epileptic, my father. And back in the 80s, they were doing a number of different procedures to try and work out with a lot of epileptic patients. Because basically what epilepsy tends to be, or at least in this case, procedures to try and work out with a lot of epileptic patients where the because basically what epilepsy tends to be or at least in this case i'm not an expert but i have lived in a family with it for for a number of my whole life and actually stuff um epilepsy never saw it present itself but it was a so there's very there's many different forms right like this so anyway so this particular form that my father suffers from is they were trying to work out what part of the brain it originated from.

Right. And if it was a certain part of the brain, they could potentially try and neutralize that to stop it happening. And if they were able to do that, they'd learn a lot about it. So basically, my dad, which is an amazingly brave thing. I thought that then and I think that now. He volunteered for it. Yeah. So anyway.

Oh, no. We've got to zap the bit that makes you proud of your son. Yeah. Oh, don't give the guys a spoiler. Yeah. And then after we had it done, he just kept being really disappointed with me. It's a side effect of the surgery, Dad.

So I started podcasting. Blast through infinity and come round the back. And every morning I check whether he's become a Patreon member or not, and he hasn't still. No, so basically they had this thing down, but back then obviously it was far more primitive than it is now. Oh, good God.

Brain surge in the 80s is a chilling sentence, isn't it? Great punk album. I bet recovery was just, have a ciggy. Yeah, well, no. So what's interesting, I think, is that my parents took a decision, even though i think i was eight or nine years old took a decision that i should be made aware of it i should be told about it i should be a part of it as much as possible i didn't hide it away from me which i

i i didn't really think much of at the time but now i'm actually very grateful for that and um so i went up it was obviously up in london he was an inpatient so he's there for a while and we went to go visit him and what it basically amounted to is having a basically

you're squeamish and you're listening to this then you know you might want to you know fast forward the next minute or so but it's basically a flap

on the top of his head opened it up and then they put like you said a CPU like a computer unit on the top of his head like that

right and he had to have it on his head for like a day because that's when they could get the scan going on right and then they did all the run all the tests around the got all the information and then inside they found out that actually it was operate it was initiating in lots of different parts of his body of his brain sorry and so they couldn't do much about it and they but they were able to adjust his medication to to further it. So rather than it being like something that actually interacted with your brain itself, it was like a very, very internal scan.

Like, wow. He's still got the scar on top of his head. Yeah. So it must have been like some kind of like radioactive dye or something. How does it, I don't even really know how they measure synapses. No, I think it just, I think it went,

I don't think it could penetrate through the skull. Through the skull, so it had to, fascinating. And obviously the other thing you've got to do, I'm not sure how many people know this, maybe it's not still the case, like I said, I'm not an expert, but back then at least, you had to remain conscious the whole time. Yes, yeah. Because otherwise they'd go, no, there's no issue.

So he was conscious the whole time. It's an incredibly brave thing to do. I'm really proud of him for doing it. And he's in, you know, at touch I'm really proud of him for doing it. He's in touch wood at the time of recording. He's in good health and he's fine. But it was just a mad time looking back on it.

When you're eight or nine, I don't suppose you really care too much about it because your mum would just say, oh yeah, it's all going to be fine. Don't worry about it. It's quite weird seeing him though. When you're a kid, it's kind of like you would sort of think, yeah, my dad's got to go and photo brain scan. You don't really know the it's kind of like, you would sort of think, yeah, my dad's got to go in for a brain scan. And that just, you know, you don't really know the ins and outs of the risks, I suppose, do you? But like getting the old brain popped out.

So, yeah, I thought that, I wonder what the thought process for my parents was. So was it like, they got me to go and see him because they thought it was important that I knew about it. Or they got me to go and see him because there was risks and they wanted to make sure that he saw me before something bad happened. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean, I guess opening the brain...

I mean, nothing bad did happen ultimately. No, I mean, opening the brain, I guess, isn't... I mean, it has its own risks, but I mean, the thing is, though, the 80s, though, that's the big variable, isn't it? Like, it's very, like, you know, popping the old sunroof open in the 80s.

It's just, I don't know, man. The fucking surgeon was probably on a BMX. I mean, I guess. He probably had one of those,

he probably had one of those Walkman, they probably didn't, they probably, they probably had a Sony Walkman or a Talkboy. Yeah, I mean,

he's probably like recording the surgery and that. But yeah, I guess like, yeah, the 80s thing is, is quite a big kind of variable. But to be fair, he's probably recording the surgery and that. But yeah, I guess the 80s thing is quite a big kind of variable. But to be fair, hospitals were probably cleaner back then, weren't they?

Probably wasn't a massive risk of MRSA back then. Well, the NHS was probably funded then. Yeah. Let's leave it at that. Well, it existed. Mind you, it was probably under Thatcher, wasn't it? So maybe it wasn't. Thatcher!

Who knows? Thatcher! Who knows? But I don't know anything. I can't remember. I was too young. I remember it being odd at the time. But I just, like, when you were young,

you don't have a huge amount of in-depth exposure to other families, do you? No, yeah, this is normal for me. Yeah. If you've grown up, people listening to this will have grown up with a family member with a condition or an illness or whatever. If it's always been there, you just adjust, right?

Yeah, I mean, when I eventually grab myself a burn, so to speak, from the ether, from the stock, they're going to have to deal with me, Sammy, Lola the dog, Sarah, and Mr. Donut, who will be arriving before the baby. Has Mr. Donut arrived yet or not? I've not bought myself Mr. Donut. I've got bigger issues. It's tax January, Luke.

Oh yeah, I forgot about that. It's tax January and I'm considering paying everything in full on time this time. I momentarily forgot how you live your life. Because they did send what can only be described as collection agency. Did they really? They did.

I didn't realise they did that. You were so smug about this like six months ago. Oh, you could just do what you want. It's fine. It's the government. It's like student loans. They'll never find you. They find you and they sell your debt to an agency.

Yeah. Wow. Seriously though, mate. They're not getting all the money back there. The agency's taking a cut out of that. Outrageous. That's not the point in this scenario. It is the point though, isn't it?

I don't mind paying them six months too late. I do resent paying a collections agency. What I like about this is that at least most woolly, progressive, liberal, woke losers do things like desperately, frighteningly pay their taxes. You're not even doing that. No.

Look, I'll defend my right to be shit and admin to them. Are you Wesley Snipes? Are you the Wesley Snipes of UK podcasting? No, because I'm not willfully avoiding, evading or not paying them. I'm just sort of going, well, there's nothing in the cupboard, lads. How would you describe it? What? I know, bearing in mind I know exactly how much you get paid,

because it's exactly the same as me, what are you doing? What do you mean, what am I doing? What do you mean? Why are you not paying it? I've got 400 quid broadband every month. Is that said to the debt collectors do you want to stream a movie i can get you anything anything as long as i can get the proper mirror for pirate bear that's somehow available on my on my line i don't think i don't think loudly announcing that you're also a big fan of piracy is the best way to adhere yourself to those types look it's not even they're

the types that haven't even been able to be police officers it's how it's how it's how a lot of like you know bundies and so it's how a lot of serial killers got got away with it agencies don't talk to each other so the piracy agency is not going to be talking to the the tax evasion uh agency is that but they're talking to you tax evasion agency, is it? No, but they're talking to you. I'm not evading my tax. I'm telling them what I'm owed,

but I'm just, oh, fuck. So you're going to drop it all to them at the end of the month? I will be dropping it all at the end of the month. I'll tell you what, though.

That'll teach them, won't it? That'll teach them. What do you mean? Six months extra stress for you unnecessarily and then you're going to pay it anyway. Oh, no, I've paid that one,

but Luke, I don't mind reminding you, you've got to do it all oh no i've paid that one but luke i don't mind reminding you you gotta do it all the time this tax thing it never ends it never fucking ends it's every every six months isn't it it is tax doesn't have to be taxing but it is in my case it is i'm gonna i'm gonna file my because obviously for those listening we are pete and i are technically self-employed so i'll file my tax returns straight away in April so I can get it back as soon as possible so I can show a mortgage provider what I'm earning

so that I can hopefully move house. Right, okay. I thought you've just got this beautiful pile, you know, the Christmas tree out the window throwing guy. I mean, you've got it all going for you. You've got room for your big car. That's all changed, hasn't it? What do you mean it's all changed now?

The Christmas tree de-fenestration's changed. You need a place to put the Christmas tree in the garden, don't you? It's in the garden already. It's in the garden already. Imagine how happy I was to, A, no longer be able to do the highlight of the year, which is push the tree out of the window in front of my son for the first time and B this is what daddy does have to carry a really heavy massive annoying Christmas tree

through the entire house and then down the stairs and out into the garden and replant it so we can use it again next year because apparently one Christmas tree at a time is saving the planet

how easy is it to replant it does it ever go wonky donkey or just you've not put enough soil on one side or how big is it

not my favourite oh you're not even getting involved with it you'd put it there's a gardener within the home right it's very very enthusiastic and she's taking care of that oh well there you go then don't worry about that then that's absolutely fine yeah i don't i know nothing about gardening but i don't think that taking the christmas tree out from its natural environment shoving it next to a radiator for six weeks and then putting it back in the garden thinking it's going to grow again will necessarily work. I'm not an expert.

It's like the snow. They're pretty hardy. They're evergreen after all. But I would say like maybe it's a little bit like the snowman story, the allegory. You know, bringing it inside for a bit of warmth and then it melts. Because it's not designed to be warm.

It's supposed to be there. If you love a Christmas tree, let it stay outside well all the time in many ways um i've got a sort of post christmas sort of festive um garden um adornment let's say um i've created what can only be described as an unsightly pile of boxes um right uh it's pushed up against the gun it's not anytime soon luke it's it's i've basically got about three months worth of boxes that i've just kind of pushed into the corner of the garden yard we don't have any grass um and it's and it's and it's unsightly it's a real mountain so well i was hoping that all of this unseasonably wet weather, or seasonably, I guess, wet weather,

would allow it to be kind of like melted by the time I got round to putting it in bags and taking it to the tip. But so far, it really hasn't. And it's also coincided with the weather getting very cold. So I don't really want to go out there and stamp on boxes and put them in. It's an awful job.

It is. And it calls to me at night. It's like, is it Ed Gallenpore with the heart? That one, what was on The Simpsons and the TV show that I just watched. The House of... The Raven. The Raven. No, I think it was like, is it the Telltale Heart or something?

I don't know. I don't know. Do you want me to Google it for you? There's a heart that's kind of Lisa Simpson. Yes, it is it the telltale heart or something i don't know do you want me to google it for you there's a heart that's kind of lisa simpson yes it is the telltale heart short story about grandpa i don't know it i'm not familiar right well it it calls to me at night uh the the pile of cardboard that um is just getting bigger and bigger and sarah is adding to it with glee i'm adding to it with um a heavy sadness in my soul. But it's not getting any easier, Luke. Let's stick a picture on the socials. If nothing else, to sort of go, hey, look, we got something out of it. While you were talking about that,

we're recording from our respective homes today for those listening. While you were talking about that, I just got a WhatsApp from the wife I have access to saying, the first thing I hear when I walk in, oh my God, are you complaining about me making you take the Christmas tree outside? Yes. Trust me, I was hoping I was strong enough to do it myself

because I knew you'd be a total pain in the arse about it. There you go. What I like about that is, I think she says it's true. What I like about that is, your good little partner has access to the podcast just by listening to you uh but i'm ensconced on um the in a in a shed in an apology in the apology cabin aka the grief shed yeah the grief shed um so sarah has to actually download

to be fair it does add one to our listening figures um but she does listen um regularly to find out what i've said about her her and then to not really tell me off, just look a bit like the cat that got the cream, the cat that got the content that she'd heard what I said. That brings us nicely up to date because we do want to get the best, the most pressing update in the Luke and Peach show universe at the moment. Put a little D in front of that pressing, mate.

D. Just bang it, just slide it just slide it slide it slide it along it can be both it can be both um well i put a um i put a request out on instagram as i do periodically for people listening and what they want us to talk about today yeah and this was by far the top of the pile right but we're going to do it just the other side of the ad break so stick around the other side of this ad break. So stick around the other side of this. We've got batteries. We've got a couple of other bits, but we're also going to do an update on the biggest, most depressing aspect of the Luke and Pete show universe.

And that is Pete's Toyota Century. See you in a minute. Go back to school with Rogers and get Canada's fastest and most reliable internet. 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. Welcome back to The Look at Pete Show. I am Pete Donaldson. Welcome to the show once again after that excellent set of adverts. What was your favourite one? Oh, probably the one about, I think we're doing one about the NHS, some kind

of mental health initiative, I think that's the last one I voiced. That might be on the look and picture, or there might not be, I don't know. Either way, I've read it. Any erectile dysfunction stuff? No erectile dysfunction right now. Surprising. No, no, no, no, sort of Noom, we've not had any calls for Noom through

after our big chat. See, that's fine, because that would annoy me, because you slated Noom, and I wasn't a not had any calls for Noom through. That's fine because that would annoy me because you slated Noom and I wasn't a part of that. I didn't slate Noom. I'm actually using it. I'm still using it now. I just said that I was being balanced. You were being very pro-Noom and I was being non-balanced. I was bringing up negatives that I'd made up about the company.

Right, let me make this absolutely clear. Newman, not getting any of the fucking credit for this, but I am already eight and a half pounds down using... That's excellent. Well done. Are you considering a doctor's trip like me? Well done. Probably carrying bloody big trees through your house.

That's how I lost every single eight pounds. I'd shit myself inside out, carrying a massive tree through the house. What do you want to do first, Toyota Century, batteries or emails? I mean, to be honest, Luke, there's not much of an update. I got a lovely message from the East Coast Japanese organisation. Love the Abrandge Abound podcast and heard in the recent episode that you've just got a Toyota Century.

Great choice. We are an East Anglian-based Japanese car club in Suffolk. I would love to have you at one of our events. You've got to go. You have to go. If you don't go, this show is done. You have to go. Well, look, what I first would need

to enjoy the joys of the East Coast Anglian car company was to actually have a Japanese domestic market car because at the fucking moment, it's down in Southampton with some potential amateurs in my opinion and that is very rich and that is very rich coming from me so you still not take it so i've produced a rule and i've been fortunate enough to receive a video tour of the 20th century which we'll share on socials for people to see but we can't give people a proper update as yet, chiefly because you cannot provide one because you haven't taken – the lobster is not in the pot, so to speak.

The lobster is not in the pot. It's swimming around near the lobster pot, so to speak. Well, it's near the cage, lobster cage. It's in the lobster cage. What bait did you put in the cage? I don't really know what lobsters eat. About £6,000, wouldn't it? A lot of cash.

A lot of bloody cash. So have you got a timeline for us or not? Not really. Just got to wait until these lads are getting it to an MRT centre, I suppose. Because at the moment, they're saying things like, oh, the lights aren't coming on. And I'm like... Yeah, but lads, even I know it's been like even i know as a man who

doesn't know cars it's been at sea for two months and it did have a new battery before so you know probably chances are it will it chances are it'll probably have a flat battery lad so maybe give it a charge that's what i'm saying look don't use that tone with them because that's my i would never use that tone no with below i'll tell you what you do here's what I'm saying. Don't use that tone with them. I would never use that tone. With Bilal. I'll tell you what you'd do. You'd go, you'd call him up and you'd go, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry. I'm just so sorry about

this. But I understand. Please invoice me for the time for your friend to come and collect it the second time because you couldn't find the car the first day that you went to pick it up. I'm so sorry. My pathetic battery in my pathetic car because I'm'm a little slug, isn't working. So if I give you £1,000, could you possibly give it a new battery for me? Oh, God.

Yeah. So just stuff like that, really. It's idling. I can't remember the term for it. It's going in idle. It's going in idle all the time. I was about to get back to me. All right.

I can't remember the term for it, but there is one, and maybe our listeners will know Shy kids getting out. The meek shall not inherit the earth. It's that people who deliberately but subconsciously surround their lives with extra complications and challenges and make things hard for themselves because it gives them a purpose.

Yeah. Yeah, shitheads. I'm a shithead. Is it like Munchausen by proxy where you surround yourself with pain and illness? But my illnesses are all clipped by me. Munchausen by proxy is you injure other people, sadly, usually children, to get attention.

Right, okay. And Munchausen syndrome is when you injure yourself to get attention. Which is the one where you pretend, though. Isn't that... Can't you still use that as Munchausen is the one where you pretend though? Can't you still use that as Munchausen though, where you pretend that someone's got an illness? It's just hypochondria, isn't it? No, you pretend that someone else has got an illness, so you

can claim money, or be the good guy, or etc, etc. I was about to say, what? Like in that TV show, but I realised that's the twist at the end of the entire series, so I'm not going to say it. Oh. I'm not like you, Dom. I don't spoil a TV series. Interesting. The house of usher i've been watching uh quite recently yeah good against it's based on the um the works of the poor the poor man and uh it's good yeah it's all right

actually it's a follow-up to something on hill house it's like a horror kind of collective of actors who are really good really good stuff right. Yeah. I'm watching Traitors, of course. Is Traitors the one like a reality TV show with Davina McCall? No. Good. Well, I have no further

questions then. No, it's like a I suppose you would call it a reality TV show though. It's a game show, I suppose, but it's Claudia Winkleman. All right.

Jesus Christ. They've practically got the exact same hair. I can only feel the questionsman. Alright. Jesus Christ. They've practically got the exact same hair. I can only field the questions I'm being asked. Good God. Yeah but like it's not Hollywood like big budget triple A release is it? Like drama.

You know. It is a reality TV show with bloody one of a BBC One mainstays or ITV mainstays. Good God sir. Can I ask you something? Do you think Claudia Winckelmann really looks like Paul Reilly? Who's Paul Reilly? Oh, Paul Reilly who wrote the Ramble theme back in the day.

Yeah. I haven't seen him for a long time, but yeah. I mean, it's all air with her, isn't it? Heavy eye shadow, the hair. It's all hair and eyes, isn't it? Yeah, it's very much... She's really good on Traitors, though. She's great.

She's great on everything. She's great on everything. But yeah, it's all hair. You just don't know what she's up to under all that hair. My friend's ex-girlfriend is the director of Traitors. Ah. I mean, it's a TV show. I'm still unaware as to precisely what it's all about. You would love Ah. I mean, it's a TV show. I'm still unaware

as to precisely what it's all about. Mate, you would love it. You and Sarah would fucking absolutely love it. Yeah. It's brilliant, mate. We've got the seventh run through of The Office to go to. Oh, sorry, yeah. Don't put it ahead of that. There was a TV show we were watching where the world was going to hell

and this girl, this young girl, quite out of generation, a TV show she should be watching, but this girl who was like, I don't know, probably like 15 or whatever, she was obsessed with finally getting to watch Friends. Like, she'd watched all her Friends and she just wanted to watch the last series.

It was a TV show. Again, I forget what it was, but it was basically the end of the world and everything was fucked and the apocalypse had come and nuclear war was breaking out and all that stuff. But she just wanted to watch the final episode of Friends. And as the world in front of us goes to shit,

me and Sarah, every night, we watch a 20-minute, 21-minute episode of The Office US because it just makes us happy. It's comforting, isn't it? I've gone through it three times with her, I've gone through it like six times in total, seven times in total It just makes me feel good. I'm the same with Midmorning Matters, with

Saxondale, with Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares just the only the UK one Yeah, okay, fair I told you before, me and Adam Jarrell of the Offensive and Jackie DeRippipper and Boom Fame, we've got a really strong but admittedly quite complicated

podcast idea for that TV show. It's got absolutely zero chance of finding any audience whatsoever, so I can never get it greenlit internally at Stack, but it will be so fun to do. So once I've made my dough, that's what I'm going to do. That's going to be your vanity project, is it? Yeah. My 15th vanity project.

After the album. He's done five albums. Yeah. Oh my God. Yeah. I bloody love to do it now. So I do retain a kind of fantasy where I have loads of money

and I've got some, I've actually genuinely got some quite talented musician friends. Yeah. And where I, we all hole up in a nice studio for like a month and put an album together. I have loads of money and I've got some, I've actually genuinely got some quite talented musician friends. Yeah. Where I, we all hole up in a nice studio for like a month and put an album together

and it'll be awful. Why don't you do it? I haven't got the money and I can't just take a month off. Just, just work in the evenings. I'll just do it in the evenings. I get pissed off after two days

but anyway, I just have to go home. I always have, I always have, when I sort of, I sometimes think as an older man, you know, I've got no musical talent.

I don't know, I couldn't write music. I couldn't do the actual thing of writing songs. But sometimes I'll go, you know what, that'll be a fun little song. Like the last one I thought was like a song about some bastards turning my mum into a vape shop. Right. So like a woman who's never vaped in her life, but some bastard has been around and they've turned my mum into a vape shop. Right. So like, a woman who's never vaped in her life, but some bastard has been around, and they've turned my mum into a vape shop, and she smells, like, wonderful.

But she's now a vape shop. And I thought, that would make a good song. And then I think about it again, and I go, it would be unlistenable. It would be like the band, I think it's a band called Let's Wrestle, who did a song all about wrestling. Remember them? It would be unlistenable. It would be like the band, I think it's a band

called Let's Wrestle who did a song all about wrestling. Remember them? It would be like them. It would be absolutely unlistenable. Do you remember that band

Bob was in, Super Tennis? Yeah, that's, yeah, but they were good, weren't they? Yeah,

they were pretty good, yeah. But they always dressed like 80s tennis players. Yeah, that's good stuff. That is very much,

that is very much, That song was called Super Tennis Thing. That is very much, you know, East London, 2005. Like, just fun times. Great stuff. Some people feel very strongly about kind of any kind of humour and music, don't they? They do. But then when they hear humour and music, they go, oh, oh. But there is some bad stuff, but there's some good stuff there's good

stuff but i think you've got to come with it from the music side rather than the comedian yeah like mccluskey for example they're very funny but they're also like a brilliant kind of yeah yeah i was listening to permission to land the darkness uh this again great example good example good album justin hawkins is the best channel on youtube in my view he is he has been for a long time he's uh he's's so good he's really I can sort of get I get the feeling that Capranos

fancies a bit of that you know oh I can see that yeah I can see him being a slightly less obnoxious Jarvis Cocker maybe

he's been popping around doing a little bit of presenting here and there get him in Donny he'd probably do something I tried to get

Justin Hawkins to stack I could not get near the guy you tweeted him didn't you you were just tweeting him as a result I did like two months of like proper back channeling I tried to get Justin Hawkins to stack. I could not get near the guy. You tweeted him, didn't you? You were just tweeting him.

As a result of tweeting him. I did like two months of proper back-channeling, like speaking to agents. I just couldn't get near him. I just thought, do you know what? I'm just going to tweet him. Might as well. He's not interested.

That's fair enough. He's doing his own thing. He's busy. He's in the darkness. Capranos could do something for stack. Capranos! Listen, we've got to do batteries, mate. Rory's very passively, aggressively highlighted

how part of the battery brand section in the running order. Yeah, I mean, he's doing that, but I mean, by virtue of the fact it's a Google doc, it's a live doc, I can see the production team writing that and it's kind of, it's obstructing what I'm trying to do.

Neither of us look at the running order. Hello! It says, Kent, the Wi-Fi I have access to and I just acquired our first child, which means we've got to fill her with batteries. We have loads of new gadgets, and more importantly, those gadgets contain off-brand batteries.

There were a couple I recognised from the show, so I won't waste your time, with GP power cells. However, nestled in a new smoke alarm, that is not a child's accoutrement. That is just general home safety house if you haven't already have you you do have to have them but you should have them anyway that's just having a house uh which sounds very much like the sort of battery tom of finland would put in his his uh i think it's weed weed aroy isn't it weed a roll weed a roll i think that last letter is an I though, Pete.

Well, I don't know. In the running on it says, in the email, it says, so I'm just going off what the actual emailer says himself. Regardless of that, I think it's Belgium. I think you can say that at any point in the podcast, Luke. Yeah, true. I say something, you say, regardless of that, I'd like a move with Sean, please.

I think it's possibly Belgian or Dutch as a brand, it seems to me. It's got a little circle on top of the eye, hasn't it? Yeah, it's got a positive on one eye and a negative on the other eye. It's very clever. I think it's a new player, and it is a new player. I love it. Good on you, Kent. I don't think we've ever had an email from a Kent before either.

I don't think we have. We've had a review of cunts. Right. Andrew from Japan. I don't think we have. We've had a review of cunts. Yeah, 100%. Andrew from Japan. Hello there, Luke and Pete. Found these babies at my local supermarket here in Japan. Hopefully Aeon Top Value can make their way into the battery, daddy. They've been working hard, powering my Game Boy Advance,

and in turn helping me work through Zelda Four Swords. Aeon, just a massive department store. Big fan of uh of aeon tokyo hands and a couple of other places that i can't remember now but i i love it i love a japanese department store i love a japanese andrews he's knocking about he's knocking about japan playing zelda four swords and his game boy advance oh god it's Soy boy or not? Why would he be a soy boy? He's just buying batteries for his Game Boy. You would know.

I'd be a proud soy boy. It depends on what he's getting up to in Zelda Four Swords. I'm not really sure what happens in that game, but if he's helping a farmer get rid of a craw. Yes, soy boy. A ghoul. It might not, but it might just be something charming, a charming little side quest.

Peter. Hello. Joey Barton told me you're a soy boy. Joey Barton. it might not but it might just be something charming a charming little side quest Peter hello Joey Barton told me you're a soy boy Joey Barton is being poorly advised he's off out

in his own he's not even he's not even trying to he's not even got a PR team behind him he's just this is what he would have been doing

about 10 years ago when he got obsessed with Morrissey when he had his PR team behind him I forgot about that do you remember and he had his PR team going. Yeah, I forgot about that. Do you remember? Yeah.

And he had that PR team trying to make him sound more interesting. Now even the PR team won't touch him. He's gone bloody mental. Well, what I would say is he's being represented by one of the world's biggest agencies because I had that podcast on my desk to potentially be produced. To pick through the bonnet.

That would have been a cool PR shit show that you would have to deal with well the answer was no because I've got some prescience if not that much

anyway listen we're digressing here it's my fault Aon Top Value are also new players so that's two out of two

congratulations to you Andrew and bearing in mind Aon's like I don't know like a phoenix you know it's a big department store

how have you never not had let's move on Rob Andrew. And bearing him on like eons, like, I don't know, like a Fenix. You know, it's a big department store. How have you never not had an... Let's move on. Rob. Hello, Luke and Pete. My name is Rob and I hail from the Gold Coast, Australia. I was originally helping out my mother and came across what could be described as the mum of a battery daddy. An off-brand Tupperware container

filled with loose batteries from various bulk sales over the years. In this container, I came across an eight-pack of Jay Burrows high-performance alkaline batteries, which sounds almost like Mumford & Sons. Like Mumford & Sons high-performance alkaline batteries. This is a new player. Thanks for all the laughs, Rob. It's a lovely off-brand Tupperware contraption. Does anybody actually bother with official Tupperware?

If you've got official Tupperware does anyone if you've got official tupperware in there in your house do let us know hello at lukepictureshore.com i wonder if there's any if there's people who are really into the brand tupperware it has to be tupperware now but so i thought like everything now that is like that could be called tupperware yeah well no i i mean i i reckon it's one of those Hoover things. You're not allowed to actually... You shouldn't be calling it a Hoover. It's a vacuum. I reckon Tupperware's probably still got the licence now.

Are they still a company? I reckon they've probably got the original and the best, and it's a quid extra. Oh, yeah, they are. No one's going to buy them. They're 86 years old, and I'm just looking at them now. They're still pulling in hundreds of millions a year. Good on them.

What are they branched out to do? Surely they must be branching out on new stuff. We must be having new food. Put your couscous in here. New food that we weren't eating back then. Modernising. I never knew that the guy who founded them was called Earl Tupper.

Okay, yeah, that makes sense. That's where Tupperware comes from. I don't think I've ever heard the second name Tupper. Well done. No, I don't think I have either. I mean, he's dead now. He's dead now. But he invented Tupperware, couldn't he?

In a massive Tupperware coffin. Jay Burrows. Is that what we said? Yeah, I've forgotten. Jay Burrows, high performance. Just look for Burrows, I guess. Then new players as well. Oh my God, Rob.

Three out of three. Rob, I am so excited about the possibilities of the battery daddy in 2024. Every single battery so far has been new. Honestly, man, it's incredible. Congratulations to everyone who got involved. This has been the Luke Pitcher for a Thursday. Keep your battery bands coming in because if we're going to start the year like this,

we need to keep this up, to be quite frank. We've set the bar. We've had some Saudi investment and we're performing at a higher level now, a Champions League level. So we need your emails with your battery information in. I mean, what's annoying is that

we haven't had any Saudi investment and no one respects us anyway. True, true. You lose all the respect when you take the Saudi money. We haven't got any respect so why don't we just take the money? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean probably because our respect is worth nothing. Yeah, true. We've got no respect in the bank so the Saudis

can't buy the money. The Saudis are literally like why do we want to wash ourselves through you? You're going to make us dirty. Yeah. We'll come up smelling the shit. Anyway. See you on dirty. We'll come up smelling the shit.

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