The Luke and Pete Show - Gangster Barack Obama

Episode Date: May 30, 2024

This week, Pete is certain that Pizza Hut is the home of good pizza - Luke strongly disagrees - which leads to a discussion about the etiquette of discussing other people's food. Elsewhere Luke reminisces on doing door to door sales in New Zealand and Pete has a crack at impressions while slagging off Luke's milky teas.Plus, has Pete imagined a football themed greek restaurant? If so, why?Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow.***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.

Thanks Taylor that's how Dave Grohl ends every recording session with the Foo Fighters I'm Pete Dunne well not anymore actually he's passing anyway

it's the Pete Show is he doing this he is doing it no way to start a podcast to be quite honest touching tribute concert wasn't it

exactly to both our Taylor and their Taylor all of the Taylors in the world if you actually get in touch hello look at pete show.com who's the best taylor let us know i've got a friend called taylor who's really into jujitsu right okay so we got a fighting taylor it's an opening for you there our taylor is producer taylor we've got taylor the drummer

who's no sadly no longer with us um i i don. I think you should have to know Taylors to understand them. Yeah, I don't think you could just suggest random ones. It has to be one that you've, I would say, broken bread with. Okay, right, that's fair. Could be a cup of tea. Could be a beer. Could be you've been around the house for a lovely little biscuit. Your tea is the colour of the middle of a French bread.

You want to see it? Here it is. That's bad stuff. People get very upset about silly things like roasts and the correct way to eat stuff. And I find that sort of chat quite tedious. But your milky teas are, as they say, got me. Yeah, so everyone says it.

So, Pete, you've been up against it for a long while now, talking about how you don't like the fertilization of food and how you eat this and where you go for that. And I do kind of get it. I would probably say... You're a little bit like that, I would say. I don't like the gatekeeping aspect of it all. Oh, you're not even eating at this place.

Oh, you haven't had a fucking tarragon with your fucking whatever. Yeah, I don't care about that stuff. I think it's tedious. I think it's the last refuge of the um conversationally unimaginative but the problem is everyone's got a button that can be pushed haven't they and so um and yours is my tea yeah i think i think everyone walks past your tea and goes what's that what's happening there what's happening there then is it you know what i would say to them? He's dropped a tree-bore strong mint into that to make it so white.

Yeah. You know what I'd say? Whether it's you walking past me at my desk or my wife or the great Barack Obama walking past and got an opinion on my tea.

Look, why is that tea so white? That's my impression of Barack Obama there. I think he sounded a bit like a gangster there. Hello there, I'm Barack Obama. I do crimes. Some people would say he does.

Hey, a lot of... Can I just finish my point? All right. My advice to them would be, don't worry about it, mate. Don't worry about it. You're not drinking it. Yeah. Why do you need to have an opinion them would be don't worry about it mate don't worry about it you're not drinking it yeah what

why do you need to have an opinion on what someone else is consuming because there's less milk in the fridge for the rest of us because i i remember yeah well that's probably fair i should start bringing my own milk in maybe it's a compromise it's a detente um i um i was always brought up to um to think that you know commenting on other people's food is rude, right? Yes, I agree. And so I remember I had a job at, I'm going to say where it was, when I worked at Sky, did some stuff with Sky Sports Team and some other stuff. And there was a massive canteen at Osterley.

You've probably been there, right? It's quite famous. Yeah, I used to do Challenge. Continuity stuff there, right? Challenge TV. famous. Yeah, when I used to do Challenge. Oh, because you did continuity stuff there, right? Challenge TV. Yeah, to be fair, good food there. Great range. So I had quite a lot of posh graduates there.

Right. And some of whom were in my team, some of whom weren't. And sometimes you'd go up and choose the food you wanted because, of course, there was loads of different food on offer. And sometimes you'd sit down one of the big long benches with your team having lunch and one of them would go, oh, that looks terrible. Right, yeah.

Before you'd even eaten it. It is quite rude, isn't it? Yeah, it's quite invasive, isn't it? Yeah, I remember walking through Euston Station and Michael Owen was waiting for his train and he eyeballed the sushi that I'd bought for the evening. Yeah, he proper like

stared at it and I was like, I never liked you anyway, Michael. I'd eat like you even less now eyeballing my food like that. He's a brilliant finisher as well so he wouldn't have

snaffled it all I reckon. In the box. What were you doing on the same train as Michael Owen? Why was Michael Owen getting the train? He was just standing

on the concourse waiting for his train. Probably thinking about what films he wanted to watch when he got on it. Do you remember a mutual friend of ours was hit on by Michael Owen?

Oh, I don't remember that at all. Fantastic. Outstanding, by the way. Say again? Outstanding, by the way. Wasn't that part of his sexual vernacular? And this person

that was hit on by him at an event, they were all standing around eating era. Part of his sexual vernacular. And this person that was hit on by him at an event, they were all standing around eating like, you know the kind of event where waiters come around with food or whatever? Yeah, vol-au-vons. And they were both, one of the foods was like a mini cheeseburger. I believe our American cousins call it a slider. Right, yeah, okay.

And there was one onael's plate and one on this person we know's plate and michael started to hit on this aforementioned mutual friend of ours peter and um they responded by giving him the two fingers up eating their own mini cheeseburger in one grabbing his mini cheeseburger one eating that one as well and walking off. Wow. Yeah. Marcus Speller, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, it wasn't Marcus. It wasn't Marcus. I don't think Marcus is Michael's type. Even Michael,

I mean, I have very little appetite for small talk at the best of times, but Michael Owen dispatching it, like he could say all of the things in his head and it would take him an hour. I think it would make you look like some kind of Peter Houston-off type character. Some kind of like awesome Wales type anecdotalist.

Holding court. Do you ever just do that on YouTube? Do you ever just go back and watch all the great guests in the golden age of British chat show television? No, Luke, because I've not finished watching all of my Black Belt barristers or the lock man stuff. Those guys.

A confusing sentence. But some of the anecdotes, some of the chat is amazing. And it makes me, it does make me think that I don't know why this is the case, but they didn't used to patronise audiences on telly back in the day.

No, right, yeah. Just get on with it. I saw one with Michael Parkinson, I might have said it to you before, where Michael Parkinson, the chief, the absolute doyen of chat show hosts, the flagship show on whatever it was at the time, BBC ITV, Saturday night, 8pm, an hour with a Holocaust survivor. Right, okay.

Yeah, that's strong stuff, isn't it? No, it's Anton Deck, who. Right, okay. Yeah, that's strong stuff, isn't it? No, it's Ant and Dec who are great, by the way, but it's different. I think we can agree it's different. I guess they, and also I imagine you could, there were so many Holocaust survivors still alive then

there'd be more of them to choose from, I suppose. Now, I mean, that's why we're not doing them anymore, I suppose, because people get older, I suppose. Now, I mean, that's why we're not doing them anymore, I suppose, because people get older, I suppose. Although I did read one, I literally read an interview with a Holocaust survivor in The Guardian this morning. Right.

Yes, obviously. I mean, they were obviously very young when it happened now. But we're not going to talk about the Holocaust today. Look, that's not my intention. We're not here to talk about that. No, my intention was to talk to you about, I think our listeners will, so there's a few things that our listeners will want us to follow up on that we haven't followed up on in the past and we should have done.

And I will. One of them is in the form of an email, which we'll come to. One of them is a couple of things I need to bring up. But before we do that, I think our listeners will be very interested to know that for the first time ever uh last week you and I appeared on a panel together about podcasting we did sorry I just muted my mic briefly there because my dogs have decided to go absolutely crazy they just love the idea of me and Luke being on a panel no it's just um my partner decided to throw some treats out

of the window. Is that a myth? The postman thing with the dog? Oh, no, no, definitely not. I mean, I don't know what.

Is it the fact that it's a postman or just that someone's coming to the door every day? They just love new stuff happening. That's why I see a

lot of myself in them. They just get very excited when the dog goes because it's like, oh my goodness. Like Michael Owen exactly

something new is happening so yeah there's a lot of that kicking around so what was the question yes we were both on a panel about sports

podcasting sports broadcasting at the podcast show this week and I found it really odd to sit opposite you

in a nice comfy chair in front of an audience the doyen of uh sports podcasting yeah but but also but also not like just basically start like interrogating you yeah or okay kind of like you know because because for me a lot of my broadcasting career let's be absolutely honest is you saying something stupid to me going why have have you said that? And interrogating it. Can't do that in an industry panel. Gervais without the money,

isn't it really? It's Gervais and Parkinson without the money. Yeah, you're Carl. Yeah. I'm not even Gervais, so am I. Right, okay. Not just because of the trans stuff,

but because I'm not as talented as him. No. I don't have the money. But it was quite a challenge to sit there and have to earnestly answer your questions.

Because most of your questions are mad. Yeah. It was a bit like you, but a bigger boy, yeah. People would take, I thought we've got half an hour to fill here. This might be, you know when you sort of go, I think there's enough in these questions, but then you start off and then you're like, I don't think we've got enough questions sorted.

But then turns out we very much had and i got about three questions out and you're such a good talker luke you managed to you know just make my job very very easy as usual charlie who was also with us at the time said a similar thing he said um it was actually quite relaxing because i knew that you would never stop talking so it's good it's something you really rely on you hang your hat on it's like it's like it a lot easier for me. It's something you can really rely on. You hang your hat on. It's like playing with... What is it when you... I guess wrestlers talk about it quite a lot. It's like if you're wrestling such and such,

it's like having a day off because you know they'll lead and you know they'll do a great job and they'll make you look good and then they'll make them look good and they won't hurt you. So it's very much like that. For example, talking about football with Andy Brassel.

Exactly, yeah. Exactly. He'll always have something to that for example talking about football with Andy Brassel exactly yeah exactly he'll always have something to say you can throw anything at Andy Brassel throw anything football at me and you have got

three seconds before the word penis is coming out my mouth that's what I do it yeah exactly and not just the word penis either don't be so surprised

if a penis just popped out your mouth you might even see the word penis made flesh. Exactly. Yeah. Exactly.

But the podcast show, which was an industry show that happened last week, I made the most of my time. Got a lot of steps in, wandered around it, spoke to a lot of people. I also went to Pizza Express for lunch on one day on my own and Oaxaca on the other day on my own. Now, if you're going to Pizza Express for lunch on one on one day on my own and oaxaca on the other day on my own now if you're going to pizza express for lunch and i know they do quite thin soggy business there's two kinds of pizza isn't it it's fine there's pizza hut which is like nice peter and then there's the the those

kind of pizza express sort of places which is just a very thin soggy bread with rocket there's too much rocket yeah a ball in that. It's basically an old-fashioned pizza restaurant with more rocket. Yeah. But I don't think you can get away with saying Pizza Hut is good pizza. But it's just more what we understand of what pizza is. This whole kind of renaissance of bread with a little bit of tomato and a tiny bit of cheese on it. I mean, come on, this whole kind of like renaissance of bread with a little bit of tomato

and a tiny bit of cheese on it. I mean, come on, stop messing around guys. What do you think it should be? What would you say in an Italian restaurant? It's just cheese on toast.

And I don't know why people, I don't know why people get upset about it. I don't know why people sort of say their pizza or cheese on toast is better than other places cheese on toast.

It is cheese on toast. So just make the cheese on toast and shut up about it. All right? Yeah. That's actually a really good slogan for Pizza Hut. That's the good name of some of the very best royals we've got, all right? Yeah.

I think that you can definitely discern between different pizza places, though, Pete, and people will have their own. You can. I told you before. It's Pizza Express, not Pete-sa Express. Peter Express. It's Peter Express. Peter Express, you just get an apology. own you can't i told you before it's pizza express not pete sir express peter express peter express you just get an apology something gets knocked over and then and then you haven't got to pay the bill no that's that's your express sorry there's no there's no food uh coming out because uh our chef our head chef pete is uh he's just watching car stuff on youtube yeah

in in the local little, I don't know what you'd call it, a little hamlet kind of thing where I live. It's Dunwich Village. Dunwich Village, nice. The place where all the posh people live, which I can't afford to live in,

but I can afford to walk there with my wife and son for lunch in about half an hour. And it's a beautiful little hamlet, like I say. It looks like it doesn't even, it's not even in London. It's got white picket fences

and it's got different places to go and eat and stuff and it's got a couple of very nice pubs it's got a very nice family-run italian restaurant which has been there for years that everybody goes to it's super cheap and like it's the kind of place you walk in there it's about 10 quid for a pizza the pizza's massive they churn them out about 10 minutes because there is no excuse not to because it's pizza it takes about about 40 seconds to cook and it's all fine. There's a pizza express across the road. I don't know of anyone that's ever been in there. I have no idea how it's still open.

It's not as good as, yeah. But maybe people who aren't from the area look at that pizza express because that's what chains are for, aren't they? They're sort of like, right, I'm guaranteeing a certain level of service here that I'm accustomed to and that I love yeah the only place

Time Pizza Express was ever open in Dollar's Village was the week and a half that Rocker burnt down right okay and had to replace a lot of stuff

and it was closed that's the only time and then there's also a place called The Real Greek have you ever been to The Real Greek never been to The Real Greek

is that the one that's like a football thing isn't there in South London there's a football Greek restaurant that's also got a lot of football stuff in or something like that. Oh, keep going.

I think it's like going Peter Beasley's Boots or something. Have you ever had one of your dreams? I think I've had one of my dreams. It's the Greek Peter Beasley Fusion restaurant that I'm obsessed with getting off the ground. What's going to happen is I'm going to take the piss out of you for this

for saying you're mental. You're going to back down. In a couple of days' time, people are going to show the restaurant does exist. You're absolutely spot on, and you're going to get upset with me for not backing your corner. So do you want to back yourself now instead? No, not on this occasion, no. I would like to say that I am so far away from the trunk of the tree.

This branch is bowing under my weight, and I'm scared of hitting the cards below. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, the real Greek is like a little meze like small plates place which by the way I don't like small plate restaurants

absolute scam okay the small plates generally tend to be the size of plates normal sized plates in other restaurants and you have to buy

about three times as much anyway is it tapas small plates is just tapas then yeah yeah it's like a Greek tapas place

we went there because my son's eating lots of different types of food now he wanted to go and try them on some other stuff ended up feeling like I ate nothing

I basically just ate flatbread and hummus and a little bit of chicken and it cost 71 quid that is punchy it's absolutely ridiculous that is punchy absolutely ridiculous

so I wouldn't recommend the real Greek anyway Peter another thing I think our listeners will want to know is um by the way did you spend much time at the podcast or did you just kind of pop in and pop out again because you live so far away well the second um the first day I was there for like an hour to be honest I sort of saw it there was so much stuff there that I that didn't sort of apply to us do you know what mean? It was like Microsoft manufacturers or other production companies.

And it's kind of like, unless I know people, I mean, I think it's sort of changed slightly. I think a lot of people didn't bother displaying this year. I saw some people that I knew, but I mean, I could see them anywhere, couldn't I? How would you describe the podcast show to people who just listen to podcasts? Just a lot of penguin stands. Are you familiar with a penguin stand?

It's like a stand you put on the floor and then you pull it like a little sort of tab and you lift up the thing and it's got vinyl logos and stuff. Is it called a penguin stand? I didn't know that. It's called a penguin stand, yeah. I used to have to travel around the country with my little penguin stand

when I used to work for a local government. Doing what? Just advertising the lawn scheme, helping people move out of London to better places. Were you good at that? In the UK. Well, I wasn't. I was a weird poster boy because I had a Geordie accent.

I lived down south, so I was basically saying, why don't you just move out of London? Why are you here then? Yeah. you yeah yeah weird why why do you think how on earth did you end up with that job because you're not a natural salesman no i'm not and uh i think it was because they just ran out of things for me there's only so many times you can update a uh a website that never changes i was basically there to do the website and uh i ended up being a bit of a marketing guy but um was this the same time you were doing the CD-ROM? That was after the CD-ROM for the zoo.

That's the thing I went straight into after my failed attempt at doing TEFL in Japan. I went straight into this job after doing it. It was like the first... I was down in Bromley for like a week and managed to sort of get a job straight away. I'm certain that wouldn't happen nowadays. Good God.

I didn't know you went to Japan to do TEFL. I didn't go to Japan. I tried. I did one interview, but didn't prepare, didn't sleep, didn't do very well in my interview. What was the interview like? It was just like coming up with a lesson plan

to teach Japanese children how to speak English. And I had very little experience. And back then, you just couldn't Google anything. You couldn't get a handle on a country. You had to sort of do your own research a little bit. It was really, there wasn't that many resources around, really. There was like a little Yahoo forum, and that's about it, really. So what did you do then?

Well, they just said just said nah you're all right and so i turned my attention to to working in london because i knew i wanted to be in london but i'll be in between those things you do this you get to develop a cd rom for leicester zoo that that was a couple years before that that was inside my university course and i never did that anyway again didn't prepare didn't sleep my goodness me did I tell you about you know I told you about a time when I lived in New Zealand

and had to do door to door selling was probably my lowest was it like selling like vacuum cleaners or something wasn't it there was kitchen

scissors that's what they give convicts that's what yeah it was bad that's what men who pretend that they've been to prison

say at your front door and then shout at you when you don't have the money my worst, possibly one of my lowest ebbs, I was in New Zealand, I had no work visa, I had no money.

You were up and got the Aussies quite recently about overstaying their visa. No, but I was allowed to be there. Not doing work you weren't. String him up. We'll talk about this afterwards. So, okay, while I admit I was doing something

that isn't particularly honourable. Imagine getting held up at the border because you haven't got a work visa, but you've been working. We'll talk about this later. No, we won't. No, we won't. No, all I'm saying is I'm not denying the charge.

I'm saying that what I've been accused for isn't the same as what I was criticising Australians for. I wasn't overstating. I was just there with no means of earning money. And I'll say now what I said then to the New Zealand authorities. I mean, it's rugby league and rugby union, isn't it? It probably is. But listen, New Zealand authorities,

do you want me scrounging or not? Then let me get on with it. Let me do my job and I'll let you do yours. And the job was that I had to sell this stuff, right? And they dropped me in the middle of this industrial estate and got me going around businesses selling stuff. And I'm actually quite a good salesman, so I managed to sell it all.

And I didn't go back to the office because I didn't want to give them the money, their share, I just wanted to keep it all. Right. Okay, again, more crime. Which is a short-term play. But if they're going to hire illegals, it's on them. Right.

And at one point, a woman, older woman, kindly woman, clearly did sincerely feel quite sorry for me because it was raining outside as well. Okay. I was having to use one of my own umbrellas. In your cellar umbrellas. And she just looked me in the eye, said she didn't have any cash with her,

but she shook my hand quite tenderly and just looked me in the eye and said that is a terrible way to have to earn a living and she was trying to be nice yeah but it was like she was eating dog dirt that was her job

and I eat dog dirt for money the week before that I think I'd broken up with the girl I'd been seeing over there and I was really upset about it right so the whole thing was just abysmal and I think it would appeal to you

because you think of me as being someone who's outwardly quite confident and who batters everyone into submission. I was very, very vulnerable then, Pete. You'd have loved to have known me then. When you're being horrible to me, I'll just think about you in the rain talking to a lady who eats dog dirt.

I've added that detail in, but it'll very much be bad. In my mind, she's got dog dirt down her top. There's nothing wrong with a little anecdotal flourish, mate. Exactly. That's fine. I'm guilty of that myself. Anyway, then I had to take all the money that I had basically in change

back to the flat I was sharing with my two mates. Yeah. And then we had to count it all. We had to get it changed into notes because the landlord wouldn't accept the change as pay for the rent. Good God. He was like what do I do with this? I was like go and get it go and get it in notes. It's legal tender

you have to accept it. Yeah I said Magna, I just like shouted Magna Carter at him. Yes So anyway that was that but let's have a quick break people we come back there's a lot of other things I want to talk about so don't go anywhere and you can hear them the other side of this.

All right. We're back with the old Luke and Pete show. We're doing this again. And every single Thursday, we talk about all things batteries. If you have got a battery for us, take a picture of it. You have to either own or have access to the battery 24-7. I'm not having you taking pictures of batteries in bins. You can't just walk past the shop window.

Batteries in shops. We're not having any of that. batteries in bins. You can't just walk past the shop window. Batteries in shops. We're not having any of that but it's hellolookandpeatshow.com The person who has done just that is Matt. Oh Matt, I've just seen

I've just seen your Oh, actually we'll start with Michael's actually. Hello Luke and Pete. I've attached an image of a recent battery found for your review. I was playing in a

Warhammer tournament that uses chess clocks to keep track of each player's time. My opponent and I were shocked when our clock started to malfunction and made a loud ticking sound as if it were counting down to an explosion.

Some kind of satire on how riveting the clock found the Warhammer round. What a great story though. I actually love watching people play Warhammer. I don't think I've ever sort of watched it with any... I've seen... Obviously, I've played a few games of role-playing game. I don't think I've ever sort of watched it with any... I've seen... Obviously, I've played a few games of role-playing game. I presume it's the same,

but is there a little kind of like quadrants you sort of move your pieces around and stuff? Yeah, it's quite different. First things first, right, there are an astonishing amount of rules. Oh, yeah. I mean, like the Dungeon Master's Guide and the rules. The Dungeon Master's Guide is absolutely massive.

You'll get your two RPG Dungeon Dragons thing. and the rules. The Dungeon Master's Guide is absolutely massive. RPG, like Dungeons and Dragons thing, like people would be familiar with watching them play at the beginning of Stranger Things. It's not the same as Warhammer. Right. Warhammer's basically turn-based and board-based. But it's amazing. I'm actually very excited.

I was thinking about this just a week or two ago. I'm actually quite surprised that to my knowledge, and it might just be that I'm out of touch, but there's not a mainstream appetite and audience for watching that kind of stuff on TV or YouTube or whatever. I mean, there probably is, I just haven't discovered it,

but it's actually really fucking interesting. But anyway, carry on. There's quite a lot of people who sort of do role-playing on like Twitch and stuff. But I find a lot of their stuff a little bit theatre kid. You know, there's a lot of theatre kids kicking around. I'm like, shut up. It's like, are you going to do that

or are you going to stand outside the London Dungeons dressed as a fucking mystical barber? Anyway, turning the clock off did not stop the incessant ticking. So I opened the battery compartment to pull out the power source. I was pleasantly surprised to find batteries marked with the amusing name Burst-O.

Luckily, they did not live up to their name and we were able to finish the game without incident. The picture also includes a Tianqiu battery but that feels like

law hanging fruit. I'd say the reverse to be honest. Well, look, let me put you both out of your misery because Burst-O, you're the 10th person

to send those in Mike also no dice there and your initial instinct is spot on because Tianqiu we've had 46 of those so far well I mean a little bit of salve to the wounds is that the Tianqiu battery has

a little figurine as its logo which could resemble a it's not stormtroopers what are the ones with the big has a little figurine as its logo, which could resemble a... It's not Stormtroopers. What are the ones with the big power armour? I think it's got a power iron chest to me. You are? Yeah, maybe. Being, yeah, a bishop.

A bishop, sorry, yeah, maybe a bishop, yeah. Anyway, well, never mind, Michael from Ottawa. But thank you for getting in touch. Have another go, why don't you? Good day, sir, says Matt. Please accept this submission. I'm hoping to make it into the daddy of all battery daddies. These nan feng were inside my stud finder.

I love a stud finder. I love the noise it makes when it finds a stud. I love the noise it makes when it finds an electrical source. It's very exciting. Rest assured, when I changed the batteries in said stud finder, I was sure to follow the dad rulebook and swipe said stud finder across myself That is textbook dad banter. Correct. She responded in kind by rolling her eyes and saying the new battery I just put in must be faulty.

Textbook marital bans. I'm sure you'll agree. It's just solid work, Matt in Edmonton. I wish I was there. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. Keep the good work and thanks for all the content. Sent via the BT email app, which sounds very old school to our British ears.

It's like Baby Reindeer, isn't it? Presumably not from there. Yeah, exactly. Lovely. So the stud farmer chat and the electrical stuff chat just always reminds me, taking us all the way back to New Zealand again, where I was before,

when I worked as an electrician's labourer for a bit. And that massive Maori guy got thrown across the room by an electrician. I told you that. Didn't use the stud finer, did he? It was brutal. He was just pulling wires out with nail pullers. I bought a welding machine, Luke.

We'll touch on that in the next show, but I bought a welding machine. And that We'll touch on that on the next show, but I bought a welding machine, and that's the image I'm sort of getting every time I think about opening the box. Before we do, though, before we talk about that, Matt, you are not the first person to say nan feng yin. You are, in fact, the 20th person to do so, so some pretty poor efforts so far.

What have we got last? Yeah, well well here's one that's not i don't think it looks like a normal double air battery but i might be wrong uh it is might just be a lithium one perhaps um uh hello you wonderful podcasters this is from alex i recently dug up my portable fan because of the lovely warm weather we've been having in essex lately lately this is when i realized it has a rechargeable battery slot, and I thought, this is my moment. I got the battery out, and it is branded as follows.

Pannies. P-A-N-Y-Z. Pannies. Could be nothing, but I thought I'd send it in. Nonetheless, have a good rest of your day, boys. I know we, for a little while, didn't accept the old lithium cells, but we've become a little bit more desperate as we get along with the two. But this one looks like a perfectly normal battery to me.

I don't know what you're thinking. It does look like a normal battery. It's not AA. It's slightly bigger, I think. And what I would say is that we do have to start accepting these because people aren't using AA batteries anymore. They are using these reusable lithium batteries.

Sustainable. As we said on the show last week, why aren't some enterprising YouTubers finding old cells in discarded vapes in the street and charging a car? I said that. I've just given Mr Beast the idea that he needs to make more billions of pounds.

Before I rule on this, what do you make of the way our friend Alex here is presenting that battery? He's presenting it in a very polite way, isn't he? It is. It's almost, it's not apologetic. It's not apologetic. It's kind of like beckoning us, kind of dozo style, kind of like, come with us.

May I present to you a battery? Yeah, exactly. Come through to Battery Avenue. Enjoy. Yeah. Rock down, dude, to Battery Avenue. Rock down to Battery Avenue. We've got power to go all night.

Yeah. Love it. Anyway, Pannys, P-A-N-Y-Z. yeah rock down dude to Battery Avenue we've got power to go all night yeah love it anyway Pannies P-A-N-Y-Z Alex I'm delighted to tell you they are a new player so we round off the three this week

with a new player courtesy of our good pal Alex and his Pannies battery cell we may not have the right hole size available for this cell in the Battery Daddy but we do want to drevel so we can't dremel it so we can't what did you say you'd bought earlier that you're worried

about you're going to kill yourself with uh bought a um like a like a stick welder like a welder that welds why have you done that um i've installed a fence in my backyard and I need to sort of make sure the two bits connect. Could use a screw. Got excited. Bought a stick welder. It just reminded me, the other week I went down to see my parents for the day

and I didn't see, I didn't see my dad all day because he and his mate were looking for a blade for one of his saws. There you go. What? Like it shot out over a wall or something.

It was in one of their workshops or sheds between the two houses. They weren't sure where. Right. And they spent all day looking for it. And they eventually found it about 20 minutes before we were going home. So my dad had time to give his grandson a quick hug and a kiss and say nice

to see you and then that was that. Run a serrated blade round his back by accident. Take the blade out of your own dad. It's just great

dad behaviour. I'd occasionally see him in the background of the room through the window pulling some bag out or moving a box. That was basically

it. I'm just worried about the rift that could have been because these things kind of, if you, they can come between friends.

They can come between friends. You think that your friendship is solid enough to, what's a saw blade between friends, but perhaps not. And I think the certain type of saw blade for the saw he's got, it can be quite expensive. Tell a lie, he did actually find the time to pop in for a glass of water

and give me a leaflet for an 80th anniversary D-Day celebration. Lovely. Spitfires at the Roo. That's textbook dad stuff. That is good stuff. Take that with you. Have a look. See if you fancy going to it.

Me and your mum are on holiday that week, so we won't be there, but pop down if you want. You guys go. Yeah. You guys go to the Spitfire Festival. He's always thinking of his little Lukey. That's what's nice about it. Good stuff.

All right, Peter, we've probably run out of time for this week, I'd say, so we should probably reconvene on Monday, I would suggest. All right, then. we've probably run out of time for this week, I'd say, so we should probably reconvene on Monday, I would suggest. All right, then, let's do that. We'll be back on Monday. Look after yourselves.

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