The Luke and Pete Show - Hello 2025!

Episode Date: January 2, 2025

Thanks to a LAPS in judgement regarding the use of protection spells, both Pete and Luke were cursed by the lurgy witch over Christmas, which means they couldn't record the final episode of 2024.Never fear, they're starting a brand new year with some great brand new stories (that MI6 agent who zipped himself into a sports bag in a bath in Pimlico)[e-mail] if you've had a memorable new year - let us know!1850 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Find your push. Find your power. Peloton has everything you need. Whenever you need it, find your push. Find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at OnePeloton.ca. It's the Luke and Pete show. I'm Pete Donaldson. I'm joined by Mr. Lukey Moore and I am in what can only be described as an apology cabin, but not the apology cabin down the end of my garden. No, no. The apology cabin in 2025 in an Airbnb in Whistable in Kent and Lukey Moe is with me. Luke, how you doing? I'm not with you. I want to make that very clear. No, but if we were together I think we'd be having a jolly old time because to be quite frank we could power off our respective responsibilities on partners and me and you could just Bert and Ernie

in a bed because we're both seeing like, what the shit are them hormones? That's true, that is true. Speaking of apology, Cabins, we should make an apology to our listeners for not delivering a show for them on Monday, Peter. I know, yeah. Because quite simply, for the first time

since we've been doing this, not one of us, but both of us was bedridden sick, not like Bert and Ernie, set in separate parts of the country. You had, or still have, the remnants of a chest infection, and I had like an appalling winter flu that like I've never had before. So we just simply could not deliver a show.

Now normally we plan ahead if we're gonna go away, or we work something out, but with both of us absolutely bedridden, there's nothing we can do. So we're back today, but Peter is in a different place. We probably sound slightly different. I would add Peter, if I started the, and I mean this with love and affection as always.

If I started this year stuck in a cabin with you, in Whitstable, I'd have to, and someone said to me like in a year's time, that's what's going to happen. I'd have to be thinking how's that how's my life panned out that way? But are you in good form? Are you in are you in positive spirit at the start of the new year? That's not like I'm I'm in positive spirits. I'm feeling okay. Absolutely answers my question. I come I'm in positive spirits. I'm feeling okay to be honest. That absolutely answers my question. I just think I've been sort of wandering around this this little town of Whitstable eating as many oysters as I can and hoping against hope that that's the thing that's going to solve all of

my physical disabilities at the moment but I mean I can't climb stairs at the moment that's like as an asthmatic that's like oh right is this the end is this how it is all ends Peter can't climb stairs. How many. That's like, as an asthmatic, that's like, oh right, is this the end? Is this how it all ends? Peter can't climb stairs. How many stairs are there in the cabin? Well, there's none in the cabin. It's outside in the garden, but only thanks to a little TP link extender, Wi-Fi extender, have I been able to extend Wi-Fi into the cabin. Wasn't working when I got here. It's working now. You're welcome here, B&B, five stars, thank you very much. That's the kind of problem solver you bring.

I mean, you very much make the problems, but then you do, to be fair, at least 50% of the time solve them. I think the issue with me being unable to breathe effectively and sort of climb stairs, it has sort of limited my mooching capacity in the Airbnb. There is an attic and it's a juicy one, it's a lovely juicy attic.

But I don't think I'm gonna get up there to be honest. I don't think I can find the energy to get a tall sort of cupboard clamber on top of that and throw into the loft. Because it's really galling and really annoying actually because the one little bit of mooching I've been able to do was an old suitcase on top of the cupboard I was using to store some of my clothes.

There was a real king's ransom of prophylactics, Viagra and antidepressants as well in the ... What kind of guests were they expecting? What kind of guests were they expecting? I mean, I presume it was left behind by somebody who used to live here, but it seems like a very professional kind of place. No, they expected you, they Googled you before you turned up

and they thought that's what he needs. And insulin needles and blood testers. I might test my blood to see how the Christmas, how my Christmas shenanigans have got me, have got me food-wise. If you, if you expire in an Airbnb's attic in Whitstable on New Year's Day, and for some reason in my mind, I'm picturing it, you've got an orange in your mouth, I think that's quite fitting. Yeah, I think that's how you'd solve Gore, I think that's a, that's fair. It's a proper like, I think that's how you'd solve Gore. I think that's fair. It's a proper like sort of mad person's death, isn't it?

And he wasn't discovered. And due to the unique way that the awning in the roof, he was never discovered for weeks and weeks and weeks. But it managed to preserve his body and his quite too much erection that he had at the time. Like the Mary Rose. Yeah, beautiful. He's preserved its silt for 500 years.

I like the idea of some people who used to know you, going, oh, what, and his body wasn't discovered for that long, do people just not care? And someone said, no, no, they tried to find him. They looked everywhere. They just didn't look. Yeah, they just, you know what he was like, he squirreled himself

Squirreling he was he was five houses along In an old duffel bag it all back Yeah, German that much German that man who was found in the bath in the sports back I do like that story and like a lot of stories like that excites in the sports bag. There's a certain, like, that story, and like a lot of stories like that excite mainly men of a certain age. It's, there's something about the mystery. It's the same type of men who are obsessed that Kirsty McCall was decapitated by a speedboat. Correct, absolutely spot on.

Yeah, yeah, exactly. It's men of a certain age who are like, it's a little bit kinky, it's a little, there's a little bit of mystery in there, but then there's also that kind of nerdy kind of logistics of how you would manage to close up a big, you know, head sports bag over yourself. If you were in, like, would you use like a,

I don't know, a key chain or a safety pin or something? How would you do it? Isn't there, isn't there like legit, I mean, I'm making this up. I'm basically freestyling this But but isn't I I'm sure that the guy who got found in the sports bag it was in Pimlico wasn't it? Yes, he was he was an analyst for the for the for MI6 wasn't he? Yes. He was here Which which adds another another bit in it

It was taught there's some there might be some Russian involvement. I don't know how far they got with that, but that's what people are saying. Right, okay. Well, interesting, very, very interesting. It's just a confusing thing for the Russians to do, isn't it? Yeah, it seems, it doesn't seem like their usual MO.

They usually like pushing money off building E, aren't they really, that's kind of their, I mean- Or poison. Or poison, yeah. If somebody said, Pete, do you want to go onto the roof? Obviously, I'd be thinking, do you mean into the roof? Because if so, I'm definitely there. But if someone tried to cajole me onto a roof, and you know, bearing my other things I've

done in my life, I'm not getting on a roof. There's no way I'm... I don't want to give you a choice, mate. No. That's a good point, actually. I don't think the Russian agents in question sort of come up to you and go, Pete, it's really great to see you and thank you for inviting us into your house. Would you mind standing by that window, please?

Yeah, that's a good point. I don't think politeness is the hallmark of their work. No, I wonder if they've got like a kind of maneuver that they sort of, in their training, how best? Because I don't think it's anything that you kind of, you know, hand to hand combat, you would necessarily train for. Like what is the best way? Do you lift with your legs?

Do you go for the trunk? Do you topple them over? I don't know how it kind of all works, I suppose. It's all very much geared up to look like someone's taking their own life, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's, yeah, I doubt you would. This is taking a dark turn already. We're only seven minutes into the new year. Get yourself some quiet.

And I like making you laugh because your lungs literally cannot handle it. I can't handle it, honestly. I've got a certain amount of laughing I do before it spills into lung laugh. And the lung laugh will not, my bronchial... By the way......, bronchial flowers will not allow it. By the way, I just looked up this guy who died in a sports bag, right? Yeah. His name was Gareth Williams.

Guess what year that was? 2007. Well, see, I thought it was much more recent than it was and it was 2010. Right, okay, yeah, that's fair. To me it felt like it was much more recent than right and it was 2010 right okay. Yeah, yeah, that's fair Yeah to me it felt like it's about five years ago Yeah, well, I think Nova chocos. I mean when when you start to see like the truth from like official inquiries from like Scotland Yard and stuff

Yo, it's got off come on the Nova Chuck thing and the perfume bottle of stuff But that will have been god that would have been like 2017 probably like a long time ago. Cause these kind of like inquiries take a long time. Did you know one of the Novichok people? Do I, sorry? Did you know one of the Novichok people? No, I knew somebody who was one, the woman who died's cousin, I think.

Oh, right, I can't, I knew you had a link to it somehow. I just wondered if you'd been helping the police with their inquiries at any point? No, I'd like, even though I look, probably look like an amalgam of both of the men who were just in Canterbury to... Yeah, and you spend most of your time on the dark web. I mean, to be honest, if you go to Canterbury, Canterbury is very nice, but like, I mean, I wouldn't say that it's, you know, I think that was the joke at the time. Like it's not really the place for anybody to spend a lot of time, but it, but it is

worth visiting. I don't think, I think the criticism of people at the Canterbury got at the time. It is worth visiting. It is a nice place in Kent. Down the road. Am I going to have a look at it? That's the takeaway, is it? Get an Airbnb.

Anyway, Peter, this is the first episode of 2025. And as is the custom, we would all love to know, you know, how your, the frame of mind you've got going into the new year, what your big plans and ambitions are for the year and, and how you think, how you think you're going to set about achieving those plans and ambitions. What's the, what's the general vibe you've got at the moment? Well, I think that the most unwelcome addition to the itinerary in the facilities rather at this Whistable Airbnb was a weighing scales in the shower.

And let me tell you, Luke, I am career worst in certain aspects of my life. All best, depends where you look at it. Or best, I feel like Yokozuna before he died. Do you know what I mean? I was just saying, in some cultures, it's really good to be big. It's really good to me.

I can carry a bit. I'm only a little, I've only got little arms. But yeah, I mean, I'm looking at it as I've gone, this is the biggest you've been. So maybe I could sort of make some modifications in in that direction Maybe maybe I'll stop drinking Except I won't I won't do all those things. I won't I won't lose any weight I won't stop drinking because as discussed on previous shows. I've got a two-year old

Were you drawn to those scales like a moth to a flame Yeah, I was sort of like, well, also because they were quite retro and I was like, I wonder if these guys still work. And I stepped on it. I said, well, clearly not because that number is wrong. No, were you completely Billy Bollocks, were you? Or did you have your clothes on? I was completely Billy Bollocks.

I always wear, like, always wear yourself before you've had your first meal or coffee or poo just to make everything fair. Completely Billy Bollocks. And yeah, it's, yeah, it was a very, very underwhelming numbers coming up. But you know, we... Did you leave your glasses on? That's a good point, actually.

Yeah, you should adjust for glasses. No, you actually do this. Imagine, if you will, a man skinny in arm and muscle, very lean in muscle, but very sort of like podgy around the midriff and the sides with no buttocks to speak of. It completely Billy Bollocks without his glasses on, sort of doing a kind of like folding himself in half, trying to look at the scales.

I just see the number, you had to bend over really close. In a rented Airbnb in Whitstamall. It's a really, imagine if anyone walked at that point. in a rented Airbnb in Whitstamall. It's a really, imagine if anyone walked in at that point. Good God, looking like I'm trying to see myself off on some skills. It's really getting off. You know what?

I ended the new year in a pretty depressing way because I've been so sick, as I said, and obviously then that means that the WiFi I have access to has got to take responsibility for looking after our son, right? So, and luckily he's sleeping pretty well at the moment, but he's not in nursery, so it's pretty full on. And I've not been able to do anything.

And because I've been part of this flu thing, I've had to bring this cough, she's been sleeping in the spare room because we haven't got a spare bedroom. Yeah. And so as a result, New Year's Eve, she was in the living room and I was living in, sleeping in the in the in the main bedroom. Right. And do I say that right? Basically, what I'm trying to say is she's sleeping in the living room.

I'm sleeping in the bedroom. Trouble in Paradise 2035, starting at right. Yeah, trouble in paradise. But if paradise is my general immune system, which I do call paradise usually, but now it's become some kind of a Hades. But anyway, so I was, picture this, right, so I've been so sick, I haven't been out of the house for like four days at this point. It's New Year's Eve, I've managed to have just about muster enough to have a quick curry after putting the boy to bed and about eight o'clock I'm like look I've got to go to bed I'm absolutely on an absolute shit state. She's like yeah fine all right so she's up in the living room watching telly or whatever

or reading and I just get into bed right. So New Year's Eve I from 8 o'clock through to whatever I basically binge listened the BBC sounds podcast series about the IRA agent steak knife and it is and it is like the most Alan Partridge way oh my Oh my goodness. I haven't seen it in the new year. That's absolutely spectacular. Yeah, okay. We're dreaming of stickler. There was a point after about an hour and a half, I was just lying in the pitch dark, listening to endless, like, Northern Irish accounts

of brutal murders and thinking, what are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing with your life? So, can't be more depressing than my one, mate. No, no, I was in the house and Sarah had invited some of her friends around, so I was very much not the life and soul of the party. I think in big parties I can kind of go missing anyway, but it was, I was not unwelcome.

You're not a big game player when it comes to parties. No, I sort of retract into myself a little bit. I'm not one of the necessary whole car. I have to be very close friends with people, I think, if I wanna get on my show. I think I can sort of. So it's a big house party, it's all kicking off, and it's a brilliant party.

What's your kind of approach? What are you doing? Yeah, I'm just finding someone, pinning them to the wall, and just chatting at them about their life and stuff rather than, you know, holding court and sort of, you know, putting a lumpshank on your head and don't know. Never. No, because you're two have been doing it to me.

My experience of you as a big party is, I don't see any of you apart from maybe a quick catch at the corner of my eyes, you're walking from somewhere to somewhere else and then you leave without saying goodbye I just know no I what I see from you is a concerned plants in my direction What's he doing? What's he doing? Or I'd love house party around share share movers that would be lovely that it's I could do is I'd wear you've got a lovely kind of sort of jungle but I quite

interesting wallpaper you know it's quite leafy I would wear it again that's stuck with you that wallpaper I think you've been around there for ages. It's lovely I did it's a real and sort of statement a piece of a big part of that And I would wear a shirt Like a Hawaiian shirt that had the same design on it and I'd blend in and you think I've gone home, but I'm not I'm sticking It's that I'm crawling at the wall into the loft Nice like I'd like you to get up in my loft. I think you get genuine enjoyment out of it. I could see you on one of the crawl boards, just sitting there, legs crossed,

just pouring over stuff. Just go through your old tax returns and stuff. Just picking apart the Xbox 360. Yeah. You know. Old boxes of forms. Leafing through an old 2008 diary. Have you ever kept a diary? No, I mean a diary when I used to have a physical paper diary for where I was supposed to be at what time and stuff. Oh, right. To be fair, you still have that. You've always got your little book around with your thoughts. That's a notepad for notes about people who've wronged me.

Oh, right. It's like a Death Note book. There's a lovely- The Pete Donaldson chapter's fucking massive. There's a lovely- I'm going to have to get another file of facts for this one. There's a lovely. The Pete Donaldson chapter is fucking massive. There's a lovely, I'm going to have to get another file of facts for this one. There's this lovely. No, I just have a very, I used to have a very kind of. Sorry, go on.

No, no, no, I was just going to say there's a lovely video where a man draws people on. What was the thing where you just click a button randomly and it would just connect you to a random sort of web camera around the world. It was just like chat roulette. And he would sort of sit there and he would draw the person on the other end. He sort of said, I'm gonna draw you. And then the person like, oh, like, and he'd do a pretty good job of them.

And then, so they'd be like really, really excited and like screenshot and stuff. And then he'd close the book and it would just have Death Note written on the front, which is I believe an anime where if you get written, if you get drawn or written down in the death knoll book they're going to kill you. It's chilling. The people just go, oh no.

So I remember the video, there's still a video up on YouTube of Ben Folds doing chat roulette with his piano. Have you seen that? Was that Ben Folds or was that somebody else? I can't believe I remember that wasn't it? I think it was. He was in disguise for a while, but I'm pretty sure it was him. People would pop up and he'd write a song on the spot about them.

Nice. Okay. Yes, I do remember that. It was very... That level of talent, you're never going to be short of work in your life. It's for some reason you could just do that anywhere. I'd pay good money to have him follow me around. Yeah, people would always be in need of it. Peter, I was going to say something else but

I've completely forgotten what it is now. Sorry, Lukey. Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll do our first new batteries of the new year. Beautiful. Sounds good. What matters is that you have something there to adapt with you, whether you need a challenge or rest. And Peloton has everything you need. Whenever you need it, find your push, find your power. Peloton. Visit Peloton at OnePeloton.ca. Welcome back to the Luke and Pete Show and it may very well be 2025,

but there's still batteries to get through. We're going start this year with some winners I reckon in my humble opinion. We've got Dave, we'll see. Dear the look of the Pete's after what can only be described as a catastrophic leak brought down half our lounge ceiling trashed the carpets of three rooms and destroy a lot of furniture. We're slowly getting back to normal. If something like atrocious like that happens to you, whether you're Dave or not, is this an opportunity to kind of like, I don't know, change up some of your decor? Or do you just not really, do you just kind of want it the way it was and you won't feel like you've been kind of robbed so much? I'd

feel like I'd sort of- I would definitely take the opportunity, wouldn't you? Yeah, I think so, yeah. I'd maybe get some of that wallpaper. Or a nice, fluffy rug. Have I told you a story about that wallpaper, by the way? I think there was something lining it up, took a long time or something. Well, no, we had to, it's a very intricate design

and it only repeats once every four rolls. That's right. So that's, they've got you locked in there. When I did the square footage, so I had to measure up the square meterage or whatever it was for the decorator and then put the order in. So I did that.

And then to cut a long story short because of some tedious maths situation, I basically, I had to order, I had only ordered a quarter of what I needed. Right, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because it doesn't match. Yeah, that's, that is annoying, but it's even more annoying for me in the, like, I hear about these things months after you've processed them. I want text from you, I want you to get on the shore when you're going through something like this we need like emergency Luke and Peter in the middle

of when you're angry anyway the deck we were away right and the decorator put the first load up so it was already up yeah yeah so you've only got about 25% of what you need. And I was like, are you joking? He's like, no, no, because it repeats so infrequently, you need to buy, you've bought 25% of what you actually need. I was like, oh, right, but that stuff I've already bought

has already cost me 500 quid. Yeah, and that feels like something that should possibly have been explained. Was it explained anywhere on the website? 2200 quid in wallpaper it cost me. Oh, that's that. It was absolutely enraging. Does that mean you have like a load of spare rolls then?

Yeah, look up in the attic when you're next up there mate. It's full of boxes full of offcuts of wallpaper. I was trying to think of like ridiculous ideas as to how my wife could use the wallpaper Yeah, look up in the attic when you're next up there mate. It's full of boxes full of offcuts of wallpaper. I was trying to think of like ridiculous ideas as to how my wife could use the wallpaper in other ways so we didn't waste so much money. Yeah, I mean, those dishes she made at home, those delicious meals she made down the wall, pet fudge.

You know what, to make a point, I was so angry at the time and it was and I gave I mean the Wi-Fi I've access to is much better interior decorating than me. So I let her Do the do the thing have a choice and that kind of stuff I said, yeah you choose it cuz you're better and obviously I'll have a look at it And if I don't like it, I'll say but otherwise I'm happy for to defer to you But I was so angry about the wallpaper in that room that I ended up trying to work out It had been cheaper just to have wallpapered it

in 20 pound notes. It probably wasn't. It was nowhere near. It was nowhere near. The math just didn't work. I abandoned it. But I worked about it. Five pound notes?

There's just no point to me, mate. Five pound notes potentially? Yeah, maybe. I didn't look at five pound notes. Could have done. Anyway, go back to Dave. Sorry, Dave, sorry. Yeah, Dave, we're ruining 2025 already, you know,

and our battery hole. Yes, as we replace various bits of electronica, my new Skyremote came with these generic double A cells. I'm not holding out much hope, but are they a new player? A picture of the league damage is also attached. That's what we like to see, Dave, thank you. Keep the cracking working, congratulations. It looks terrible.

Typically it looks. I would say it does look, it's fallen down in a modular fashion. You know what I mean? It's just one big bit of heavy plasterboard. You think that like, I don't know why, but you think that like with plasterboard, there could be a lighter version of it for overhead uses. Because these things happen quite a lot. You know, it's not like it's something that doesn't happen.

Vish, like Vish got bonked on the head with it from the Ramble. Yeah, I remember that. I think the other thing about it is though, it doesn't, it looks quite contained from the photo. I agree. But you know, water damages like man, it just gets everywhere. Well talk to my trousers Yes, so the the batteries that Dave found were multi comp pro which you know I'm gonna stick my neck out here. I don't remember as ever having a multi multi comp pro

Yeah, they're brand new players. Congratulations to you. I'm sorry about your feeling but What a way to start the new year things looking up for you and for us because we're starting the new year with a brand new players, congratulations to you guys. Sorry about your ceiling, but what a way to start the new year, things are looking up for you, and for us, because we're starting the new year with a brand new battery. Cracking stuff, well done mate. Let's move on to Joe from The World's Message. A vash of my joy when opening up the back

of a reasonably priced motion sensor from AliExpress to find the absolute beauty that is the Spiderfire CR123A lithium. Firstly, is it that the spiders are on fire or did they start the fire? Regardless, I was overjoyed to find such a magnificently named battery. I was hoping it might make its way into the battery daddy. Thank you for all the great content across the all-stack, across all the stack podcasts. Cheers, Joe, from the Wirral Spiderfire CR123A.

It's an absolutely insane name for a battery. It really is. I mean, the CR123A is the size, so I think they can be forgiven for that, but Spiderfire, the picture of the spider that is kind of on fire, is a lovely bit of work. And a lovely little bit of hand modeling. You've only got seven legs as well. Count the legs on that spider.

One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. Oh yeah, why's the other one gone? They're having a bloody... And the actual typeface is like something you see on Prince of Persia. It is. That leg's definitely burnt off and it's a Prince of Persia font. And it's also a brand new player We've never had to preposterously named spider fire before so we're two out of two. Yeah, I think it's Japanese actually I think you can say Japanese on there. Ri something who

Goo Doesn't matter don't know what that means. Anyway, Ben Hello chaps vending machines are often mentioned when Pete confabulates about his Japan travels. Well, I've been coming for over 20 years and now reside here, but I've never stumbled across one of these before. Yes, is this the battery grandaddy spotted in Takasaki, Gunma, a Hitachi battery vending machine with some rather sad and leaking Panasonic double A's and the like.

It blew me away to see this and remind me what state my life is when the first thing I thought I was your show. Naked Toyota Sentries and Jet Skis have a similar effect. Could this be the latest import for Peter Collection? Surely one of a kind in Essex. Ben in Saitama and yeah, he's attached to basically a picture of a vending machine that just vends batteries and not technically a battery submission this time round.

But I do like the idea that somewhere in some weather-beaten, lovely 1970s designed vending machine from Hitachi, they're selling some very unlovable looking sort of sun-faded, rotten batteries. They're very cheap prices, as to be said. It's amazing that, so there's no new player here. I mean, it's rightly in the battery section,

but there's no new player to speak of here. Hitachi and Panasonic wouldn't be new players anyway. But I love this vending machine. I love the idea, Pete, of you importing one, putting it on the high street in Leon C maybe, just chaining it up, and just checking it once a week and getting your money, because I reckon that you'd make some good money out of that,

and I'm not even sure, I mean, you probably would need a license with the council to put it there, but I mean, what duty would be payable? I mean, this is a great new project for you, I think. Well, I think what you've got to think about these vending machines, you know, vending machines are ubiquitous, obviously, in Japan, and they run them. And this battery vending machine, I mean, you're looking

at like two AA batteries, you're looking at, it's the best part of like 1.50, really. It's really, really bargain basement kind of cheap, cheap, cheap with the week end factored in as well. I think like filling one of them up very much like the you know like remember in the Argos catalog used to get those kind of red sort of chocolate dispensers and you'd get you'd fill them up yourself and then you'd put two peas in and it was a toy that you got from like for Christmas and it was full of full of chocolate and you would put a 2p in and it was a small blob of you know small square

portion of dairy milk chocolate and very much like that I'd I fear I might be getting high on my own supply because I very much enjoy the vending process so much that I'd sort of... yeah but like no one would get close down there, you do pop a pound in and you grab your own battery. Yeah. And what I do is I position it like directly in front of, you know, a defibrillator, as you see outside music and stuff like because people be so excited to have a heart attack. Well, yeah, exactly. Well, no, I mean, you know, it would just make the defibrillator absolutely inaccessible.

Just I think that would be just a lovely, you know, it would just make the defibrillator absolutely inaccessible. Just, I think that would be just a lovely, you know, state of an on progress and capitalism and et cetera. But I think, yeah, I think that'd be, I think that'd be lovely. And I'm my own little sort of battery fending machine for, and I'd fill it up on Christmas Eve and people just absolutely jodzing for, do we really run out of batteries anymore though?

They're so, like shops are open like Again I mean Christmas Eve be a perfect time for you, but Boxing Day making sure it's full You asked that question about batteries my son got a couple of toys this year for Christmas. No batteries in them Oh, what would you mean? No batteries in them as in like you needed to fill them up. So you needed batteries in the house Yeah, yeah, that's not included right? Okay What would you mean? No, but she's in Amazon like you needed to fill them up. So you needed batteries in the house. Yeah Included right, okay So these and his boxing days absolute crucial time for you and your new vending machine on the unsee high street

Yeah, but you're talking like You're talking as if like you you didn't have batteries in the house Like please tell me odd batteries in your battery daddy to put in the toys Whilst down at my parents, so I didn't anticipate the need for it. I thought these days batteries were included in toys. Right. I mean, so basically, I'm on the show every Thursday with you talking about batteries, and it should be drilled into you that you need access to batteries all of the time. Yeah. And this is what's happened. I think you've let everyone down.

I need you and your battery vendor machine. Have you ever seen one of these vendor machines in Japan? Yeah I think I don't think I've ever seen a battery one but I've seen like they're all pretty much the same design. They're all sort of dispensing roughly the same way and whether it's a kind of hot sweet corn soup or I don't know a crate or a pair of pants or you know all that kind of non-sweet food you've got to get or gatcha pot stuff like it's it's all pretty much the same design and like it's it's fascinating that they're still so incredibly ubiquitous profitable but yeah it's it's a big money spinner is it I think it I think it can be if you choose you if you've But yeah, I don't have a vending machine. Is it more of a traditional thing though? It's not a big money spinner, is it?

I think it can be if you've got a high footfall sort of area. There's a lot of hustle culture on TikTok and Instagram. And a couple of years ago, people would be talking about running their own vending machines as being their big way of making, what they call it? Yeah, side hustle. What's that thing where you're making money without working for it?

Or it just comes in while you're kind of doing something else. Podcasting? Podcasting, passive income. A lot of the passive income for us, we're talking about vending machines being the, really sort of like route one, what did people like pop? What did people like pop? How does it actually work?

So if you and I had a spare 500 quid each, and we could buy a vending machine for a grand, and then we just spoke to like a local train station, so how can we put this on your train platform and we can fill it up ourselves, as long as we went back and collected it every week, would we start making money, do you reckon? Well, I mean, it depends on how smashable, up-able.

If you look at the one at Leon C. M. Trin's dish, and someone's always put their hand through that, just don't give us a glass. I don't really care. Just have a little speaker that says, there's snacks in here, there's Rockstar energy drink, do you want one? And I go, yes.

And that won't work, man. People are very visual, aren't they? Yeah, I know, but like I don't want, like I know it's gonna be grotty food. I know there's a risk of me putting my hands in this when I get out of the drawer. So like I think that, I think that seeing the product is just not helpful for me.

It just encourages people to smash mash when they translate. But that one's always smashed. Well, I've seen some of the machines now that have just got like computer screens advertising the stuff rather than the actual perspective. Yeah, yeah, again. I agree though, that's kind of,

I feel like you haven't got that product. You've got a picture of that product. We haven't got that product. It's like buying a sofa. You haven't got that product. You've got a picture of that product. We haven't got that product. It's like buying a sofa. You haven't got that product. You're gonna make it while I'm waiting. Yeah, you got like 12 weeks for delivery. Yeah, exactly.

On that delicate note, Peter, a good five or six minutes on vending machines. I think we should get out of here. We should remind everybody that they can email us on hello at lukeandpeacher.com or we are on all those social media places You'll find them if you search hard enough and we will be back on Monday won't we Peter? We will yes and Will be you sort of approach the looking picture of any machine

You'll be quite startled that it's got one of those little card readers on it You know I can use my my debit card and you'll press for some reason a green button to start the process and then it'll ask you to type in the button that corresponds to the look and be sure episode you want. And then you'll have done that wrong somehow. So you'll have to go back to the vending thing that says, no, tap your card.

And then the card won't tap properly and you just won't get the episode you want. So up yours dollars. That's what That's we should only do our podcast episodes from vending machines. Exactly. Definitely Vending machine tour if you will right? Yes, we'll be back on Monday. Look after yourselves Try not to get any lung lung bone or best illnesses and yes, have a lovely weekend Let's say goodbye lucky more See you later long-born or best illnesses. And yes, have a lovely weekend. Say goodbye, looking more.

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