The Luke and Pete Show - What does the dog say?
Episode Date: October 12, 2023Hulk Hogan content is back on the show. The man might have been able to wrestle for 400 days in one year, but he doesn’t know what noise a dog makes. Interesting.Plus, Luke tells Pete about the time... he met Laurence Fox and we hear a story about a dog that got pictured driving a car.Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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All right, mate.
How's your hangover?
It's just getting better.
Weird, isn't it?
It's like the worst thing in the world,
and then a couple of hours later, you're like,
I had a hangover for a very long time.
Yeah, it was ill-advised.
What indie club were you at?
It's not an indie club. I was in the city. What indie club were you at? It was not an indie club.
It was in the city.
What, in the financial district?
In the financial district.
What were you doing there?
Just having a drink.
Who with?
A guy called Damien and my friend Alex.
Oh, it's always Damien and Alex, isn't it?
Oh, it's Damien and Alex.
He got me some trousers.
Right.
So that was cause for a celebration, was it?
That was cause.
You turned up with none. Wetting the trousers' head. Oh, yeah. Let's get pissed. I got some trousers. Right. So that was cause for a celebration, was it? That was cause. You turned up with none.
Wetting the trousers' head.
Oh, yeah.
Let's get pitched.
I've got some trousers,
finally.
Yeah.
Demian is a very tall man.
He's quite big
and he's given me
these trousers
that he reckons
I can get tailored,
which, you know,
on a similarly sized man,
I would have no issue with,
but I just think
the knee's not going to be in the right place.
It's just not going to work.
But I'll have a go.
How old are they, though?
They're new trousers, but he's put on a bit of timber,
so he can't wear them anymore.
They don't have a knee, do they?
What?
They're trousers.
Yeah, I know, but I just think the cut will all be wrong,
and they'll have to really think about things.
They could probably just take a few inches off the bottom.
Yeah, but then they'll be big guy trousers, but like with my legs in them.
Why are you doing it then?
Because he insisted and I just, I'm a people pleaser.
He's a bigger boy.
So next time you see him, you're going to get right in your head about whether you're
wearing his trousers or not.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh dear.
But it's just another bit of admin that I didn't need.
You know what I mean?
Like I've got, I've got, he's going to be asking, have you got them fixed yet?
Have you got them fixed yet?
And I'm like, ah, I'm not going to get
them fixed yet.
Just leave it.
The next thing you
want to do is say,
I don't want them.
No, they're nice
trousers.
You just said they're
not going to fit you.
I just think the
tailoring will be all
wrong, but I'll have
a go.
I'll report back.
On the Luke and
Pete show, this is
the Luke and Pete
show.
I'm Pete Donaldson
and I have two
pairs of new
trousers, Luke.
Oh, there's two of
them now.
Two pairs of new trousers. You know what I really absolutely avoid like the plague and I have two pairs of new trousers, Luke. Oh, there's two of them now? Two pairs of new trousers.
You know what I really absolutely avoid,
like the plague and I'm terrible at,
is the admin of sending back clothes
that I've bought that don't fit me.
Yes, and that...
To the point where my wife just does it.
I think the share price...
I must have contributed to the increase
in the share price of a few companies
by not doing that.
Like I'd miss the cut off
and it's like 30 days you get to send back. the increase in the share price of a few companies by not doing that. I'd miss the cut-off,
and it's like 30 days you get to send back.
I think technically you can probably go further,
but you probably have to argue the toss.
There's an enterprising Instagram company that I bought a couple of shirts off,
completely the wrong size,
and they do this thing where
they don't give you a return form,
they just sort of go,
email us and we'll send you a return form.
They don't reply to that email. They probably legally
have to, don't they? They don't
reply to that email. It's just all those
dodgy dropshippy Instagram Chinese
places, I guess. Right.
What is dropshipping?
Buying
bulk items cheaply
and then just, not even, I think
taking receipt of the goods,
just sending them straight to Amazon
and Amazon just sending them out.
Well, how do you get money then?
You just sell them separately for profit?
Yeah, you just, yeah,
you're just getting them cheap online
and then basically sending the package
to Amazon to send out
to furnish and service the order.
Well, Amazon don't have any
kind of beef with that?
No.
All money, innit? Yeah. All money, baby! have any beef with that. No? All money,
innit?
Yeah.
All money,
baby.
All right.
Recently on the Luke and Pete show,
we spent a lot of chat
about me being up in Newcastle.
We then spent a bit of time
talking about Ricky Lambert's
conspiracy theories,
which I then followed up
with quite a lot of my own
conspiracy theories
about,
you know,
kind of encounters
with unexplained phenomena
and stuff,
which I think is, um, is a little bit less sinister.
It's more a genuinely held interest in unknown things rather than thinking that at some point,
you know, everyone's going to come and take my kids away or whatever.
You're a fact explorer.
I am a fact explorer, actually.
Thank you very much, Peter.
Grabbing that fact just before the big ball rolls down the hill and crushes you.
Exactly.
Exactly.
And then we also
discussed
the sphere
didn't we
we did discuss
the big sphere
you kind of related it
to Liam Neeson's
film Taken
yeah
and then we talked about
how a lot of sheep
ate 100 kilos
of cannabis
you know what
that sounds like a good show
solid
well I feel like
that's pretty solid stuff
solid stuff yeah
proper
Luke and Pete Shaw
meat so to speak.
And then, obviously, as you would have heard in the intro,
Pete's got a bit of a hangover today
because he's hanging out with the cooler kids again.
Yeah.
What was your poison?
What was your drink of choice, Peter?
Just endless beers.
Because someone has to drink them.
Someone has to drink them,
and it was me on this occasion.
My endless beers.
As the song goes.
Endless love, Peter.
Endless love.
You know it. I'm trying to find that
Hulk Hogan clip of him
doing an impression of a dog. Oh, yeah.
Hulk Hogan's a regular
contributor to this show. Not literally.
As in, we talk about him a lot.
And there was an amazing clip that Pete showed me earlier
of him trying to do an impression of a dog.
Yeah. And being unable to do so,
one would say. And you'd think that
kind of thought process
would be automatic for most people.
Yes.
It's one of the first things you teach a baby.
What noise does a dog make?
Woof, woof.
What noise does Hulk Hogan think a dog makes?
If he wants to be the big dog,
barrrr!
Play it again.
If he wants to be the big dog, barrrr! he thinks a dog
sorry is that Sammy
yeah go
Baru
Baru
it reminds me of
when Donald Trump
I think it was when he was
running to be president
or when he was president
I can't remember
he went off
on about
he was talking about
how a particular type of people
were treated probably his family or whatever uh because he's obviously grievance motivated isn't
he and he started saying and they were treated worse than a dog and um talked about all these
different things that happened to which point everyone just went these days like most people
treat their dogs pretty well yeah no one does no, no, no. What are you doing to dogs?
Yeah.
What are you doing to dogs?
Because most dogs get looked after.
Not all of them.
And that's a tragedy,
but most of them,
most people love their dogs probably more than,
um,
more than their own family.
I remember I was up at a,
um,
a former Premier League footballers house interviewing him once.
And,
um,
uh,
when I got there,
he was like,
I'm really sorry, but i just want to let
you know earlier this week our beloved dog passed away and we've had him for like 14 years really
sad so if you think if everyone's been a bit kind of morose around here he probably wouldn't have
said the word morose but you know what i mean uh he said that's why i just want you to know
and i said oh you know it's terrible when a pet dies isn't it you know it's almost like losing
a family member isn't it and he went oh it's much worse than that i you know, it's terrible when a pet dies, isn't it? You know, it's almost like losing a family member, isn't it? And he went, oh, it's much worse than that.
You know, I haven't had a lot of experience in this area,
but you do sort of think that, like, they had their own agency.
You know what I mean?
Humans have, to a lesser extent, to a lesser or greater extent,
have their own agency.
That's why people are more sympathetic to a homeless dog
than a homeless person, because there's a implied understanding,
wrongly, usually,
that the human's got itself in that position.
Right.
The dog hasn't had a choice in it.
But do you not think that, like,
you don't really see homeless dogs anymore?
You just don't see strays?
No, but I mean a homeless person with a dog.
Oh, right, yeah.
Yeah.
That's why homeless people get the...
I wouldn't call a stray dog a homeless dog.
That sounds weird.
A little knapsack.
A person with a dog.
Yeah.
Well, they rent them out, don't they?
They pay a quid a day or something.
Because you just make more money.
Oh, is that true?
Yeah.
Well, the dog's trained to just sit there.
Yeah.
There's the guy who just goes and sorry dogs.
That sounds like a right-wing conspiracy theory.
It's not a bad one, though, is it?
It sounds like they were
some GB news.
Speaking of that,
have you seen what's happened
with Lawrence Fox?
Was he live-streaming
him getting arrested?
I seem to recall.
Bit of that, yeah.
Yeah, bit of that.
Nice.
It was an amazing insight.
Pete, just describe
who Lawrence Fox is
to our American listeners.
Right-wing actor
who has made a name for himself
while destroying his own career by being a grifting right-wing maniac.
I would say, imagine how hard one person can take a divorce.
It's always this.
It's a similar.
It's the double dune.
They're all just double a dune.
I actually met Lawrence Fox once.
Did I tell you that?
Yeah.
So do you remember the pub opposite Capital Radio everyone used to go?
Yeah.
The Garrick?
Yes.
The Garrick.
We were in there once.
Or we were walking across to go in there.
And there's all these photographers outside.
Just standing there.
And that's weird.
Because he would have been Billy's.
He was married to Billy Piper at the time.
Billy Piper's.
We went in there and they were in the pub.
Right.
And some people were talking with him, I guess guess because a lot of the on their staff probably would have known him in a bit or whatever or would have
interviewed him at least and they were chatting and i was in a little but not a little actually
quite a big circle of people that were just chatting to him and at the time i mean it's
tempting to backfill a narrative isn't it because you don't really know what's going to happen in
the future yeah but at the time i don't remember thinking anything other than it was just vaguely
interesting he didn't seem mental or anything.
No. And you see with these sort of characters
and it's very funny when they get
fired from their one job doing their one grift
that
I do find their
opposition to this stuff disingenuous.
They don't care.
They're doing it for money.
It's a performance in itself.
Because he's a professional actor.
And I'm going to come on to the point I was actually going to say about Lawrence Fox, which I found fucking funny and obviously terribly tragic. they're doing it for money. It's a performance in itself. Yeah, exactly. Because he's a professional actor.
Yeah.
And I'm going to come on to the point I was actually
going to say about Lawrence Fox,
which I found fucking funny
and obviously terribly tragic
because of the absolute state he is.
But one thing that was actually
quite almost poignant
was that like,
he took a bit of time out
on Twitter
for more of this nonsense
to put quite a heartfelt thing
about Michael Gambon,
who died.
Who's obviously a great actor
passed away recently
and Lawrence Fox
had worked with him
and what he didn't realise
he was doing Fox
when he was writing
this kind of
quite heartfelt thing
about how great it was
to work with him
and how amazing he was
I was like
what you've done there
is you've essentially
opened up a portal
in what your life
could have been like
if you weren't a complete
fucking idiot
because obviously
not a bad act.
I mean, he got work.
He was working in big mainstream dramas and stuff.
And now all he's got is that Hunter Biden DVD,
straight-to-DVD monstrosity the Republicans put out.
And just an endless array of grievances.
But what he actually did
that made me think about him in the first place
was just that he went on some fucking YouTube show
saying,
I implore everyone
to speak to this person I know
who's got loads of money
who said they'll put the money
behind the counter of any hardware store
to buy angle grinders
to take down all these ULITS cameras, right?
And then he just doubled down on it
and went,
and the clip's out there online
if you want to watch it.
He then said,
oh yeah,
I'm actually looking forward to doing it myself
and getting arrested so I can have my day in court
and explain how much of a nonsense it is.
And then just got arrested.
So what do you expect?
Don't film it, and then film a response going,
oh, look, can you imagine what the police are doing?
Well, yeah, I can actually, because you just...
Did he film himself cutting down a Euler's camera?
No.
Right.
He essentially filmed himself fully intending to commit a crime.
Crime, yeah.
Come and get me.
Yeah, so the police were like,
okay, well, that's conspiracy to commit criminal damage,
so we're going to come see you.
You're the most public man in the UK.
So it's not going to be difficult to find you.
It's not that you're fucking anonymous
or some kind of fucking IRA terrorist to balaclava on.
He's starting to look like,
he looks like a little mouse anywhere, but he's starting to look like he looks like a
little mouse anyway
but he's starting to
look a bit like
Tommy Tippy from
the 70s do you
remember like that
like I do a lot of
people listening won't
remember that no but
if you google Tommy
Tippy the 70s you
don't see the the
logo all that much
anymore but I used
to have a jumper with
Tommy Tippy on the
front and he looks
like him it's
difficult to to
search that now
because Tommy Tippy is now the leading baby looks like him. It's difficult to search for that now because Tommy Tippy is now
the leading baby brand, isn't it?
How did he take over?
What's Skellings and Tommy Tippy's
club?
We use the Tommy Tippy
Perfect Prep Machine
at home with our baby.
A Tommy Tippy Perfect Prep Machine.
Which, if you are not a parent,
you'll find very boring,
but if you are a parent,
you'll know exactly
what I'm talking about.
If you're bottle feeding a baby,
that's the fucking
Rolls Royce baby.
Perfect temperature,
perfect amount
every time.
Just press a button.
It's like an espresso
machine for babies.
It's amazing, mate.
What, you put the milk in
and it comes out
and they're like a...
Put the bottle under,
press the button,
exactly the right amount
of boiling water,
put your formula in,
put it back under,
press the button again,
exactly the right amount
of cool water.
Perfect temperature,
perfect amount.
This sounds like
that could be done manually.
Well, if it's in the middle
of the night.
If it's in the middle of the night.
You've got to boil water.
You've got to scald it out.
Yeah, good point.
Wait for the kettle to boil,
et cetera, et cetera.
Baby's screaming, mate.
It's a perfect prep machine.
I'd love to hear
what you're going to do.
What's your solution
when you're slagging off
the Tommy Tippy perfect prep?
Get them on chicken dippers as soon as possible. So you open the door, chuck a carcass in, what's your solution that you're slagging off the Tommy Tippy perfect prep get him get him on
chicken dippers
as soon as possible
so you open the door
chuck a carcass in
yeah
cut the door
just let him go to town
on that
yeah
yes
what was I going to say
so Lawrence Fox
Lawrence Fox
and the weird vicar
I'm very much enjoying
the weird vicar
Calvin Robinson
Calvin Robinson
he's not actually a vicar
is he
I think they may have
I think he used to write for video game magazines he did I, he's not actually a vicar, is he? I think they may have,
I think he used to write for video game magazines.
He did.
I think he used to write a bit of video game stuff.
Um, but he,
uh,
hilariously,
he's very down about losing his job.
Um,
and usually at this point,
so to say,
you know,
it's never nice when people lose their jobs,
but in this case,
it is nice when they lose their jobs.
Um,
but he,
he's very upset because he doesn't know how he's going to make rent
because he's lost his job on GB News or whatever.
And it's like, you have to diversify your grift, sir.
Like, you cannot just be lazy and just do one job, effectively,
because knowing what your right-wing nonsense is like, of like right wing kind of like nonsense is like,
you're going to overstep the mark at some point.
And it's going to become too spicy for the spiciest demographic
and the spiciest.
Well, the money men, basically.
Yeah.
And who's to say you're not going to get,
the advertisers are going to pull and your particular brand
of this weird stuff, you're going to be left on your ear, unfortunately.
So you cannot just have one job.
Totally.
So Calvin Robertson is a colleague of Lawrence Fox's at GB News,
or erstwhile colleague,
and he wanted to become a Church of England vicar,
but was rejected because of his madness
and because of the fact that he was very, very,
I don't know what you'd call it really,
but he basically submitted a freedom of information request
about why he didn't get in
and they released a lot of information
and there was a lot of concerns
about the kind of nature of his politics
which weren't aligning with what the church wants to preach.
And that's exactly like fine.
Yeah, of course.
So he then became a member of the free church,
which is like a different thing.
Right.
And so he wears the
dog collar and stuff
but I don't know
how serious he's taken
because it's not really
my area of expertise at all
but he's
the bishop of London
basically blocked
his ordination
yeah
I think
anyway
you're right
what
these kind of idiots
don't understand
is that the money men
who are putting the money up
to make this happen
to i.e. pay them
to do this stuff
so they can make a profit
off it,
they only want you to go so far.
Yes.
The quiet bits can't be said out loud.
As soon as you say the quiet bits out loud,
you're gone.
You're gone.
So if Lawrence Fox wants to, you know,
make some kind of dog whistle point about women,
those awful people who are funding it
aren't going to say anything.
If you go on live TV and say the stuff he said,
they're going to go,
we obviously can't be alarmed with that.
Get a brain in your head understand what we're
all doing here
say traditional people
next time
which is what they
always say
and it'll be fine
and then Calvin Robertson
came out
because he's so used
to being able to say
whatever he wants
he came out and
supported Lawrence Fox
you're gone as well
there's always another
fucking idiot to come along
don't worry about that
we'll be fine
the grift will be fine
exactly so I think I'm not sure we're going to be long for this but I actually think without getting too high minded about it Yeah, see you later. There's always another fucking idiot to come along. Don't worry about that. We'll be fine, thanks. The grifter will be fine.
Exactly.
So I'm not sure we're going to be long for this world.
But I actually think, without getting too high-minded about it,
I think that all this stuff is a very convincing symptom of late-stage capitalism.
You've said this quite a lot, and I agree.
It's the collapse of the Western liberal order, I think.
The whole thing just seems like we're living through some kind of history here.
Yeah.
And I think that it's going to
be horrific to see how it pans
out. I hope not, for the sake of our children
and our children's children.
And our children's children, whether they have
access to a Tommy Tippy perfect
prep machine or not.
On much more familiar ground, Peter, would you
prefer to talk about the fact that
a motorist has been fined
after a, this is over in Australia.
After a...
I guess it was a speed camera.
Right.
Photographed a car going too fast.
Look at the photo.
Oh, my God.
It's a dog driving.
A dog is driving.
It's a dog driving the car.
That's not even a self-driving car, is it?
It was in Slovakia, apparently, not Australia. Nice. It's not a self-driving car. Police in Slovakia find a man whose dog was seen sitting behind a dog driving the car. That's not even a self-driving car, is it? It was in Slovakia, apparently, not Australia.
Nice.
It's not a self-driving car.
Police in Slovakia find a man whose dog was seen sitting behind the wheel of the car.
A moving car.
Presumably, he's...
Got it on his lap, maybe?
On his lap, yeah.
Yeah.
It was absolutely...
But it looks entirely like a big brown dog is driving a car too fast.
He's off to work.
He said that the dog jumped on his lap, but he wasn't sure he could do it.
But the dog looks very comfortable there.
Yeah, he looks very relaxed.
He's sitting there.
He's going,
Aroo.
He's going,
Baroo.
Baroo.
He's having a lovely time.
Has Hulk Hogan only ever seen cartoon dogs?
Yeah.
It's hard to see where Hulk Hogan takes any of his inspiration.
He invented dogs.
He invented dogs. invented dogs he constantly lies
it just makes me laugh
that he
he's only ever
interviewed
by people
who have no idea
about wrestling
so when he says
that yeah
Mark said yeah
I pulled the giant's
head off
and then put it
back on his shoulders
like they sort of go
oh okay
nobody challenges him
that didn't happen
that didn't happen
you weren't at SummerS't happen you weren't at
SummerSlam 93
I'd love Mark and you
to interview him
Baru
would you do it
have you got the opportunity
Baru
he's very
not
good
it'd be great content
it would be great content
but he is
he did say the N word a lot
he did say the N word a lot
so you don't want to endorse that
makes it difficult
no yeah it's true
and also
what are you getting
out of him
he just lies all the time
for wrestling
that's ideal
I'd love Mark Haynes
to take on the role
of like a
barrister
yes
yeah
no he didn't
none of that happened
didn't happen
yeah
I would say that
and then
Hulk Hogan
did a big leg drop
on him
well Disco Inferno
wrestler you will not remember from the 90s or the 90s there was a wrestler called Disco Inferno would say that and then and then i'll go to do a big uh leg drop on him well uh disco inferno uh
wrestler you will not remember from the 90s uh or the north there was a wrestler called disco
inferno yeah uh and it won't it won't surprise you to learn that uh it was a saturday night fever
gimmick and uh he he mentioned uh wrestle me uh he was agreeing with us actually it was quite nice
disco inferno real name gl. Good stuff. He still
pods. He still pods here and there.
Does he? Great to see. He agreed with one of our points.
Does it give you a
real buzz to hear that?
Yes, it does actually. Especially Disco Inferno.
Can I just take you back to the Garrick pub?
Yes. Did you frequent?
I did, yeah.
A little too early, really.
What do you mean? We'd finish the show at 11 and go straight there.
So we'd wait for it to open, basically.
So you'd be done by the time I got there?
Well, the rest of the team would go straight to the pub.
I would go for a sleep and then turn up about 4, 5 in the afternoon.
That's not like you.
What do you mean?
I'd like you to do something different.
Yeah.
To be a bit different.
Good point.
But I used to get sleepy.
So I was ready for the night out.
By the time I'd arrive at like four or five in the afternoon,
everyone was absolutely Johnny Hammond.
And what time was the call time for your breakfast show the next day?
Well, it was only, that's a Friday.
That's a Friday thing.
Oh, so Saturday before.
Call times were like, you know, five.
And who's the most tragically famous person
that you had drinks with in the Garrick?
I've already put Lawrence Fox and Billy Piper out there.
Yeah, no, I don't think I ever drank with anybody
well-known in the Garrick.
Don't say it.
Don't say Alex.
It's Alex.
A really, really good recent Clash of the Titles episode,
one of our film podcasts with Alex and Vicky and Chris.
They were doing
Eddie Murphy films. They were doing
48 Hours
with Nick Nolte and they were doing
Beverly Hills Cop 1.
It's just called Beverly Hills Cop, isn't it?
Well, you need to know which one. There was
three of them, weren't there? Beverly Hills Cop
and they
made the point that Chris reckons
that Axel Foley
might be a gay character
yeah
I can see that
because
he has no love interest
he has
some friends
that are women
and
they
and he's very
homophobic
in it
right
because Eddie Murphy
that was his shtick
at the time
very homophobic stuff so you reckon they wrote it as, that was his shtick at the time. Very homophobic stuff.
So you reckon they wrote it as a character?
I haven't heard that one.
The last one I've heard was the Charles play and Megan one.
Right, nice.
So are they arguing that they wrote the character like that
without Eddie Murphy realising?
I think someone could make art and it be interpreted
in a different way, I suppose.
But yeah, I think it's all tied in with the racist idea
that audiences would not go along with a black man
having a relationship with a white woman at that time in film.
You think of the 80s as being progressive.
I mean, it wasn't.
It was a vast swath of America.
So it would hurt the chances at the box office,
and it later went on to be the biggest film,
bigger than Ghostbusters 2 or Ghostbusters, whatever.
But yeah, it went on to be a huge, huge hit.
But they say because of these choices being made,
they reckon that there was possibly something there
for this kind of homophobic, self-hating gay character
in the shape of Axel Foley.
I do want to go back and watch 48 Hours, though.
I don't think I've ever seen 48 Hours.
I've seen another 48 Hours.
What did you think the chance was?
Did I watch the first one?
You didn't think you watched the first one.
You watched the second one.
I didn't think I watched either of them.
Apparently the other 48 Hours was a rip-roaring failure
because they edited half an hour of the film off
a week before it got released.
A week before it got released. I think that kind of stuff happens
more often than you think, doesn't it?
That's very close to
broadcast, isn't it?
That panorama
Dispatch is about Russell Brand.
Told you that was being edited
right up on the day. Oh, I bet.
As they get there. So I guess with
the movies, I suppose they've
got to print it and they've got to print it
and they've got to send it.
Back then they would have done it anyway, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it's a film,
so I guess it's probably a little bit more,
a little bit rarer.
I'm fascinated.
Yeah, I mean,
I haven't seen 40 Hours,
I don't even know what it's about.
It's just a buddy cop,
you know,
white old cop,
young black guy,
policeman.
Do people still call them buddy cops?
Yeah, I think so.
Buddy cop.
He's one of the first ones.
Yeah, it's a buddy cop action comedy film.
I cannot recommend...
I can't believe I haven't seen it.
It's right up my street.
It's really, really good.
It wasn't this week, it was a few weeks ago, but...
Is it problematic though now?
Everything's problematic now, isn't it?
I suppose.
I watch The Office every night.
Don't open with that.
Everything's problematic now.
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Hello, it's the Luke and Pete show.
I'm Pete Donaldson.
How you doing?
Watcha?
What getcha?
Before we get to batteries,
would you be pleased to learn that I managed to successfully reschedule a visit from Essex Water Board today?
Why are they visiting?
They're looking at my pipes,
because I think they're ripping out lead pipes for free,
so I thought I'll have a bit of that.
You're red rag to a bull stuff, aren't you,
talking to me about water companies?
I know, right?
I just thought I'd pique your interest.
I saw a little update about that.
Have you seen that the water companies now are saying
that they want to replace all the stuff
and do this sort of sewage stuff out um but you need to pay more right okay and then someone went
on and said i thought fairly pointed out you've had more money for 34 years and you've paid out
over a billion pounds um last year to your dividends why aren't they paying for it? I do find
it hilarious that
people at the top of the tree,
like, it's the last
thing to get reduced, isn't it? It's the last thing
to get, like,
if you are running a business
that you can't afford, you know, you can't
afford to do the thing that people are literally
paying you for, the last thing to
go is the... I know it's quite obvious and stuff, it's an obvious point to make, You can't afford to do the thing that people are literally paying you for. The last thing that goes...
I know it's quite obvious and stuff.
It's an obvious point to make.
But that's not running a company.
That's stealing, in my opinion.
It is.
No, it is.
It is.
And it's almost like, as someone else pointed out, right?
We don't choose whether we need water or not.
No.
So you've already got a customer base.
It's not as though you're ever going to run out of customers
for water
the problem is Peter
I think people always
say straight away
I'll renationalise it
have you seen that
absolute shower
pun intended
that are supposed to
be in charge of
doing the government
stuff
it's not going to
get any better
the geezer who
runs the government
at the moment
just announced
after however many
years
and however much
land bought up
and however much buildings destroyed they and however much fucking buildings destroyed,
they're no longer doing HS2 to Manchester,
in Manchester.
He announced it in Manchester without telling anyone.
And what we're basically saying now
is Britain can't even build a train line.
That's the one thing we were good at.
Back in the Victorian times,
Britain has got a pretty checkered record
to say the least about the stuff it got up to.
Fair enough.
The one thing we were pretty good at was building fucking trains.
And now we can't even do that.
So it's just, if you've seen,
I know it's probably an unhelpful comparison,
but just for illustrative purposes,
have you seen how quickly China builds train lines?
Yeah.
I know there's a lot of employment law issues.
And also, I think there's quality concerns
about a lot of Chinese infrastructure, I would say.
But you're right, it can be done.
Japan's a very good example.
Japan's extension of the Shinkansen line
took no time at all, under budget, on time,
all that stuff.
It's laughable if you take into account
how big, how small the UK is.
Yeah.
How far is London to Birmingham,
Birmingham to Manchester?
Yeah.
If you speak to an American about that,
that's not even a journey.
And I find,
uh,
people who are obsessed with trains so charming,
and I just want them to be happy.
Nice types.
Because nice types.
They deserve more.
They deserve more.
They deserve more
than the bloody train museum in York.
They deserve more.
All they want is some tones.
Rrr,
toot,
toot.
That's a Hulk Hogan by you.
Rrrr. Baroo.
Baroo. Train sounds like that.
Do the batteries, Pete. Alright then.
Errr. Ray
Grant. Hi, good gents. Most
importantly, love the show and great that we now get the visuals
to go with the audio. This is my third and hopefully
lucky entry
into the wonderful world of batteries. May I
present to you rather
Just High
Just High man
there's a battery brand
called Just High
Just High
yeah
and a big
shout in about
how many milliamp
hours you get out of it
800 apparently
I think
that seems high
but yeah
good stuff
Just High
I presume it's a new player
because it sounds bloody mad.
Of course it's a new player.
Of course it's a new player.
I cannot believe there's a battery out there
called Just High.
It looks like a battery from the 70s as well.
Yeah.
It's still in pretty good shape.
And also, I don't know whether it's on a seat,
a van or a train.
It looks like it might be a seat on a train
in presumably Wollongong, Australia,
just south of Sydney
that's where Ray
hails from
but good to see
the train seat as well
that's my favourite
battery for ages
yeah it's good
absolutely classic
design as well
stick that on the
Instagram somebody
doesn't make any sense
to call a battery that
just high
yeah
agreed
Andy
you know the drill
baby son
endless new toys
endless battery opportunities
please let there be
a Lord above
who grants me
a new player
three circles
and it's like a
it's like a
fucked up
Olympic logo
kind of a link
it's like a chain
three links in a chain
sadly though
for you Andy
you are the fourth
person to send
in three circles
and you're only
the second Andy
actually
what a shame
Andy McLaughlin
our friend Andy McLaughlin
sent these in on January.
Patrick Sketch, the pleasingly
named Patrick Sketch, sent them in
in September, and
Chris Arch was the first one to send them in
back in 2021.
So you're not a new player on there, I'm afraid,
but nice effort nonetheless.
Indeed. And finally for now, Jim.
G'day, gents. Love the show. Appreciate
the nonsense. In May, I sent in some unbranded batteries.
Well, I've only just gone and found a second unbranded batch.
Weird.
It is weird.
I mean, they're green, they're brandless,
and they're buggers, according to Jim in Melbourne.
These were found in a set of solar fairy lights
that had recently died.
It's technically rechargeable, but under your recent edict,
one-shot rechargeables do qualify.
Dare I dream of a second new entry?
I think Jim previously sent in
some white brandless batteries,
which we did allow in.
Could we get some confirmation
whether Jim in Melbourne painted them green?
Well, the plot does thicken though,
because amazingly, these green brandless ones whether Jim in Melbourne painted them green, every lime green. the plot does thicken though. Right.
Because amazingly,
these green brandless ones have been submitted before
by Sam
on May the 6th.
So,
they are technically allowed,
Jim in Melbourne,
but you've been beaten
to the punch
and you're going to have to
be content with the fact
that you've sent some
white brandless ones in.
Yeah.
The green brandless ones
have already been sent in by Sam.
I'll tell you what, for any battery photographer out there,
Jim's done a lovely job of putting a mirror behind the green brandless battery in this shot.
So you get to see the back and the front as well.
It's a lovely tip from a seasoned battery hunter.
I'd love to see that tactic employed more often.
Exactly, true.
Very pleasing.
I also found a twit tree of warriors in a cheap torch.
They're lead-based and I have a Chinese URL on them,
which my antivirus software has flagged as a phishing pitch.
Great work.
Great work.
I cannot tell you how many people have sent in warriors.
Warriors.
Yeah, come out to play.
It's about fucking 500, so no chance on that as well
but Jim thanks
for your passion
for the art
and the craft
love it
and great photography
if you've found
a battery brand
in your bits and bobs
trinkets and toys
just give us an email
hello at
lukenpeatshow.com
you can also get in touch
we're on twitter
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we're on bloody youtube
we're on everything
these days
just have a search
for the lukenpeatshow
not the one with
the other blogs
who do it
called the lukenpeat
I take pictures of Pete surreptitiously and put them on the instagram yeah it's very upsetting or whatever it is these days. Just have a search for the Luke and Pete show. Not the one with the other blogs who do it called the Luke and Pete.
I take pictures of Pete surreptitiously and put them on the Instagram.
Yeah, it's very upsetting
for a man in advancing years.
You're used to it though now.
Yeah, I'm used to it now.
I probably won't do one today
because you've got a hangover.
I'll be honest with you.
It's not kicking the puppy, is it?
It's not kicking the puppy, is it?
A-roo!
No, a-roo!
Right, we'll be back on Monday.
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