The Luke and Pete Show - I was actually talking about mountain biking the other day

Episode Date: July 14, 2022

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Peloton all-access membership separate. Learn more at onepeloton.ca slash running. Hello and welcome, a very warm welcome to the Luke and Pete show. I know Pete normally does this bit and I am Luke, but Pete's faffing with the aircon in the studio because it's bloody hot today. So I thought Pete, I'd just step up and just fill in for you. Thanks, Lukey Luke. I'm just hoping the attenuation of our noise gates on our microphones means that you won't be able to hear any air con noise. We're all hoping that. Cross-pollination, we're all hoping that.

I can hear you, you can hear me, and I just hope the listeners can hear us both. I can hear you, you can hear me. What a lovely Luke and Peacho family. Nice stuff, lovely. Now you've taken your little sailor's hat off yeah since the last recording uh you sound a little bit more free a little bit more exciting shortly after we did that episode and the wife i have access to walked in yeah because i think

she's used to hearing me say the out bit and then okay i'm coming now in terms of do stuff yeah and is that captain stabbing she was like in and she went, what are you doing? I'm an internet streamer now and my character is Captain Luke and Captain Luke Picard of the SS Enterprise. And all I do on my YouTube channel is I draw pictures in a thick graphite pencil of bigger boys with no clothes on.

Bigger boys with no clothes on. I hear you're getting big into the furry scene. Yeah, I am. Yeah. Brony as well. Brony. Brony. Get with it, daddy-o.

It's the whole thing. No one's a brony anymore. Are they not, no? I don't think so. Nobody talks about it anymore. They're all about big, muscular, shy horses with big, veiny hogs. Yeah, I bet. And can the furry scene be traced back to Cadbury's Caramel Bunny?

Possibly. Is that the genesis of it? I may have mentioned it before. On the show, as is my catchphrase, Eric Schwartz was the guy who used to do animations on the Amiga. I loved animation when I was a kid. I wanted to be an animator. Turns out I can't draw, so it's hard.

You're a pretty good drawer, but you're probably not good enough to be professional. Exactly. turns out can't draw so it's hard you're a pretty good drawer but you're probably not good enough to be professional exactly

and the and he would do these like animations with these these kind of bunny characters on the Amiga and they'd have

and you'd have a floppy disk you'd get them from a website and not even a website back then but a mail order kind of thing

in the back of a magazine and it would say oh X-Watch has got a new cartoon out and you'd pay a couple of quid and they'd send you a floppy disk and you'd bang it into your Amiga and it would say oh x watch has got a new cartoon out uh and you'd pay a couple of quid and they'd send you a floppy disk and you bang it into your amiga uh and it would and he'd make this little animation about um like little characters and stuff but they were mainly like quite humanoid

kind of sexy rabbits anthropological yeah okay yeah yeah yeah bipedal rabbits and they were um and they and i sort of only kind of look back at that time and thought, oh my God, he was like a furry. Like he was into like drawing sexy characters and stuff. Well, no,

I think he clearly had and there's rumours like reading up on this Eric Schwartz character from the 90s, the Amiga shareware scene back in the day, public domain scene. He,

there's rumours that he's actually, he would do other drawings and other animations for some slightly more erotic and slightly more extreme characters.

It's like Eric Schwartz Knights. Yeah, exactly. Like Robert Crumb, but if it was two Robert Crumbs and one of them was completely normal.

I just looked it up and the furry scene can be dated back to the underground comic scenes of the 70s. Nice, okay, that's fair. That's where it all started. Comics were sort of subversive back then, weren't they? They were, they were. But if you take into,

well, it's a big thing. I mean, Lawrence Levine, the great kind of, I guess, media academic, I suppose you'd call him, talks about, argues quite strongly that actually we learn a lot more about ourselves and our society from fiction,

from works of fiction, from the things that human beings engage in than we ever would from who the president was or what army fought, what battle kind of thing. So it's a big part of our culture. Why don't you read some? You're always reading those history books. I should.

I should read some. Get involved, mate. But Pete, and I think that's true of Marvel and stuff like that, isn't it? Back in the day, they're making points about stuff in quite a subversive way. But what I like about the furry movement starting in the 1970s, if what I've just read is to be taken as correct, someone just did it. And so it's like, I'm going to be brave enough to do this.

I'm into this. So I'm going to do it. I'm going to be the guy who does this. And I'm going to bank on the fact that I'm going to find some people who are going to like it. Imagine if you did something and no one came back. You couldn't find a single other human being that went yeah, I like that as well. How lonely would you feel?

Before the internet, you'd be very much kind of, it would be much harder. You'd sort of go, well, I just haven't. But do you really want to share your fetishes? Because like Is it a fetish? What? Wanting to fuck rabbits? But is that the right word? Apparently you're not supposed to say that these days, are you? What? Fuck rabbits? Fetishing. to share your fetishes because like is it a fetish what one on a fuck rabbit but is that the right word apparently you're not supposed

to say that these days are you what fuck rabbits fetishing fetish fetish you talk about

you talk about kink shame and all that kind of stuff right okay yeah but I'm talking about it you're not judging it I'm not judging it fair enough carry on

I apologise for interrupting you you carry on there's just I've looked at a little you know hundred pack of cotton buds in a boat and thought ooh like a little you know hundred pack of cotton buds in her boots and thought

ooh like a little rabbit's bum that innit clean up on aisle one no I think I think it's but I think before the internet

like imagine I don't know fetishist for me like I don't want to know what the bloke in a forum thinks about the same thing that I like you know what I mean like do you really want that in your life no I know what the bloke in a forum thinks about the same thing that I like.

You know what I mean? Like, do you really want that in your life? No, I know what you're saying. And the thing that I have to work really hard on this show to kind of overcome is my quite genuine annoyance. That when I was in the office earlier, just looking at what I was going to talk about today, I found that, I think it's the James Webb telescope, I think just confirmed. Forgive me if that's the wrong telescope, but a telescope has just confirmed.

That rabbits are sexy. That there are now four quadrillion stars observable in the universe. And I thought to myself, you know what? Take it to where's my jetpack, baby? Take it to that. Pete ain't going to want to talk about that. I want to start with the... Do you want to fuck a rabbit or not?

The Amiga floppy disc culture. Yeah, exactly. That's my big telescope. Sexy cartoon animals, mate. I think they'd tell us a lot more about space and my black hole. Put your big telescope away in the cotton bud aisle.

We don't want to see it. So I heard about this from your co-host Sarah Crudas. There's a big telescope happening. They've just found a new telescope and you put a new lens in it they've rubbed the end of it with a lint

with a lint free cloth yeah and what are you asking me what's the situation repeat what you just said really I wasn't listening it's just quite a big deal I suppose

and it's still early days and I'm not a scientist so I've got this wrong but it's quite a big deal because I think it suggests that even cosmologists and um astronomers have underestimated the sheer number of stars available so essentially it's almost i suppose the the infer you'd infer from it that it's almost

impossible for there not to be other earth-like planets out there because the numbers involved are so vast even vaster than we thought. But surely the further out you go, I mean, infinite's a funny old thing, isn't it? I mean, yeah, there is less chance, but surely the same amount of chance? I don't know anymore. Was it because the numbers involved are so massive? Yeah, it's so massive anyway. So I think it's a quadrillion.

I think it's four, and then I love that it's just a four, probably four, with 24 zeros after it, and how many stars, I think in the observable part, we can see. And the James Webb Space Telescope was launched late last year, and so I think now is when

they're starting to get the results back. Right, okay. But I think it was Arthur C. Clarke who said, we're either alone in the universe or we're not, and either is terrifying. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is quite a cool way of putting it. I just think it's fascinating how people can do who said, we're either alone in the universe or we're not, and either is terrifying. Yes.

Which is quite a cool way of putting it. I just think it's fascinating how people can do this kind of thing. And no one really... I mean, it'll get a couple of days of coverage in the news, but no one really cares that much. And to me, it always makes everything like, what's Boris Johnson done now? It just seems so insignificant.

Which I know it isn't because it affects people's lives, but you understand what I mean. Yeah, but if you're ever in a meeting and you're having a squabble with a colleague, it just fucking matters, doesn't itabble with a colleague it doesn't fucking matter does it it doesn't

it doesn't matter but isn't that something that is helpful for people do you not find that helpful where you think fucking none of this

matters anyway you said to me before and I hope I don't betray our confidence here and Rory's away so you can get on

the edit if you need to you said to me before you like seeing people being knocked about on videos because it reminds us that we're all

just meat puppets yeah that's comforting to you though right yeah but then I am in people being knocked about on videos because it reminds us that we're all just meat puppets. Yeah. I don't think meat puppets is bad to me, isn't it? That's comforting to you though, right? Yeah, but then I am a big follower of ISIS

as well, so I just love anything they do. They're the Eric Schwartz of the thousands, to be honest. Is that right? Yeah, big fan of their work. Big fan of their work.

They're all furries, a lot of them. We were supposed to start this episode. Kinky little buggers. Oh, they definitely are. They definitely are. Kinky little buggers.

They are definitely. Definitely. Fundamentally, they are they definitely are they definitely are kinky little buggers they are definitely definitely but we were fundamentally are just by their very nature kinky yeah yeah they've seen something

and gone that's not that's not enough for me I need to be worse or better take on mountain biking yeah I was actually talking about that the other day

maybe I'll come on to that another time because that is probably I mean listeners are rolling their eyes about that rolling their eyes about me talking about mountain biking. We were supposed to start this episode, as we promised on Monday, of you talking about your beach hut on the holiday. Oh, yeah.

In Cornwall, was it Cornwall? It was in Cornwall, yeah. What part? Oh, it was near, where does everyone have their stag do's? You should know. Where does everyone have their stag do's? You came back yesterday? You should know. Where does everyone have the stag do's? You came back yesterday, you should know.

Because we went to Bath, because it's a, I didn't realise how long a fucking journey it is. That's not in Cornwall. Huge. I know. Went to Bath for one night, then drove to Cornwall. It was near Newquay.

It was Lusty Glacier. Okay. Lovely, lovely beach. Okay, right. Had a little cabin. Nice down there, isn't it? I'm just kind of careful about how I describe the cabin because

there's not many of them and I probably could get in trouble yeah my big three in I'll do it

in descending orders of problems number one one thing that I found was oh I tell you what the sea

Luke the sea there's a lot of things in the sea, Luke, the sea, there's a lot of things in the sea that look like your glasses when they've just fallen off your head. Oh, I tell you what, there's a lot of things in the sea

that look like spectacles when you've just lost them off your fucking head. Went, went jet skiing for an hour and a half, glasses on, just absolutely

panning it through some pretty I'd done it before about 15 years ago in Cape Verde very still waters beautiful kind of East African

West African island and like that was really easy and fun but this one was like a bit more intense it was like

a lot of big waves and a lot of like impacts on your lower back smashing all the waves it was loads of fun I had an absolute ball managed to sort of get through all that without losing my specs I got off the jet ski like impacts on your lower back, smashing over waves. It was loads of fun. I had an absolute ball. Managed to sort of get through all that without losing my specs.

I got off the jet ski in a little wave, took me over a little bit and my glasses went absolutely... And you not found them? Not found them. I looked for ages, like just going up and down the beach like a weirdo. Just trying to find some spectacles. So quickly. It just went bang. And I was like, ah. But I was trying to also style it out that quickly and so fast that stuff it just went bang and I was like but I was trying to

also style it out that I hadn't fallen off the jet ski I possibly could have had a better chance of grabbing them there were a lot of people around

yeah there was a lot of people around so you just enlist people to help you that's even worse why what's more important to you

your pride or your glasses clearly my pride and this is the result you've got I'm wearing me spares so yeah that was one number two of your glasses? Clearly my pride in this game. Well, there you go then. I didn't find them. And this is the result you've got. I'm wearing me spares. Yeah. So yeah, that was one.

Number two. Sorry, were these prescription sunglasses? No, these prescription glasses. That's bright, isn't it? On a summer's day in Cornwall, you've got no sunglasses on. Well, I'd left my prescription sunglasses

at a school. I just don't want to put it on the thread. If I put it on the thread, it'd never know what's going to happen. I left my prescription sunglasses at a school. I just don't want to put it on the thread. If I put it on the thread it'd never know what's going to happen. I left my prescription sunglasses at a school.

Listeners won't be able to see what I'm doing here but what have you because I can't remember the name of them but what about so this is me doing the glasses. Yeah, little foldy

down ones. I bought some and I ordered them to an Amazon locker and because of various reasons that I'll come into I didn't have time

to go and collect them from the post office slash Amazon locker thing so there are a pair that I own technically but they're in a post office Amazon locker okay cool

so that's number one that's number one shit show second one is the double Chinese conundrum I ordered some Chinese got to order in in in in Chinese. Got to a hotel

in the New Forest. To a beach hut? Oh, no. So we're now in the New Forest. Fucking horses everywhere. What's that about? It's wild horses there, mate.

It's insane. Wild horses just rolling around. Brilliant. It looked like a fucking weird film like Guinness or something. I'd never seen

something so weird. Or Lloyd's Bank. Or Lloyd's Bank. Both excellent sponsors who'd be welcome here. Excellent sponsors in our place of work. Yeah, got to the hotel. Fucking ridiculously nice hotel in the middle of the New Forest.

Fantastic stuff. Couldn't get us in the restaurant. Couldn't get us any food to the room. I was like, well, you possibly could have mentioned that when we checked in. Mid of the night as well. Well, exactly. So I drove to, I phoned up a Chinese, I went, did my usual order,

Christiana beef, lemon chicken, egg fried rice, rang up and it was the only one in the area. Yeah. So I drove in there and went to the Chinese and said, we've got no record of this order. I was like, what? He's like, we've got no, and there were orders that were kind of quite similar and I was like, what? He's like, we've got no, and I was, and there were like orders

that were kind of quite similar and I was like, maybe they misheard me. I was like, all right, okay, I'll reorder my order. I want this,

this, this, this, this. Uh, paid, sat down, and I was sort of looking around

and then I looked over the road and there's just another Chinese. Ah. And I'd actually ordered it with them. So you had both? So. You've got to take both, surely.

I wasn't going to. You of all people. You of all people. Our listeners should all be fuming about this. I explained to the one the other way

and she went, oh, you've already paid now, just stay here. She was really conspiratorial. She went, just stay here.

Big rivalry, I reckon. Oh, it was crazy. I thought I was going to start some kind of turf war. But you've mugged off that business there.

They've cooked up all that food. I know, I know. So I came out and I got my Chinese and I was like, and I put the Chinese in the car and I look back into the other Chinese.

And they look at you and you're like, they know it's me. They know it's me. I'm proud of him. I've gone all hot. Bearing in mind, they're just like, you know,

they don't know who I am. Don't tell me. Car won't start. And so, but it was just like, a mum, like the other Chinese was absolutely bouncing, loads of people in there. Nobody in this Chinese. It mum like the other Chinese was absolutely bouncing

loads of people in there nobody in this Chinese it must be the bad Chinese well no wonder it's conspiratorial I'm quite big down that part of the world you're never going to go there again

exactly I'm going to make sure you never go there again and so I'm like and so so I had to go in and pay for my food so I had double Chinese

on a Saturday night lovely and how did Sarah feel about that she was confused, especially because we didn't really have any plates to eat. We just ate spoons. Is that her default position, though, confusion? I think Sarah's default position on this is a bit weird

because she genuinely thinks that you're not allowed to eat other people's food in your hotel. I was going, I mean, basically, they've not let us have any food. They've let her offer anything. They've not really offered anything because I was going to go to the front desk and ask for a plate and some cutlery.

I think that's a fair request, isn't it? A bit passive-aggressive. What do you mean? After you've already asked them if they serve food. Yeah, I'm just going to eat the soil out of the new forest then. I'm going to find one of these horses, I'm going to eat one of them. I've got a story about that in a minute.

You stomp down there after asking if you can have food and they say no, and angrily ask for some cutlery and crockery. It's quite passive-aggressive. I don't think it's passive at all. I think it's just like, I want some food. I've bought some food.

They offered to book us a table at a pub down the road. I'm like, no. I'll go and get a Chinese. I'll go and get two Chinese. This guy's, there's only two people in that room. What would you have done

as you finished the two Chinese? They said, oh, by the way, we've put you in that restaurant. Oh, no. You've got to go down there. Incredibly. And the final one was, I got to the beach hut.

Beautiful little kind of shack and there was a loft there was a loft Luke there was a loft why is there always a loft with you there's always a loft with me yeah

so I pulled opened the loft pulled down the ladder I don't think you should be doing that didn't say don't do it have they made it clear that it's off limit no

okay it was just a loft and I was like I want to see what's in the loft turns out it was like like, so much documentation, like boxes, you know, those big filing boxes with just loads of kind of lifeguard training manuals and questionnaires, and just, like,

and it was just all over the loft, like absolute mountains of it, you know what I mean? Like, almost structurally problematic You know what I mean? Like almost structurally problematic amounts of documents, right? I'm Pete Donaldson. And this is American life. This is jackass. And so I put my foot through the ceiling.

What? I put my foot through the ceiling, Luke. Did you own up to it? Nope. Pete! For fuck's sake! How did it manifest itself in the floor below? So,

there was, so there were, some of the loft was boarded to cope with the structural weight of this, of all of these boxes. And so, I managed to find a one

that looked like boards, but it wasn't. It was actually the underside of the ceiling. So, all through the house was plaster boards, You've got no way,

you cannot have an aggrieved tone while telling this story I demand that you have a respectful tone here and I went to put my weight on it and it went crack foot through the ceiling

oh fuck did it come out of the ceiling? my toes did yeah your toes? on your bare foot? yeah my toes did how big is the hole?

so it was because it was all boards basically I spent the like Your toes? Your bare foot? Yeah. My toes did. How big is the hole? So, because it was all boards, basically, I spent the, like, Sarah wasn't at me. I'm not happy. I wasn't even there.

So, the fuck goes through, and I managed to extricate my foot from the boards and from the bathroom, effectively, and it was good because it was the best room to do it in because otherwise I would have had to deal with some cracked plasterboard and some plastering and stuff.

You're losing your deposit, you know that. Anyway, I got in the bathroom and I was like, fuck. And structurally, it wasn't too bad. I was able to push the boards back up so that they roughly in approximation kind of looked like a ceiling again.

Listen to yourself. There were some big chunky splinters that I did need to go to the DIY shop, glue back into the ceiling and then paint over the top. She's a nice holiday for Sarah, isn't she? She's a lovely type. Why, isn't she? She's a lovely time. Why are you like this?

Why are you like this? I think by the end it was quite... Are you going to show me a picture now? I'll show you a picture of what it looked like at the end of my business. So yeah, no, it was good. It's not good. It's good days, good times. Have you had any correspondence from the proprietor?

Well, you will, it'll surprise you because I always talk about how awesome my Airbnb rating is. And my Airbnb rating is very much kind of predicated on me. Like, if it's my Airbnb booking, I won't put my foot through the ceiling. But if it's someone else's, I'll put my foot through the ceiling. I'll just feel someone else's, I'll put my foot through the ceiling. I'll just feel for Sarah.

She's had to worry about, you can't see her because you've lost your glasses. You've overloaded her with Chinese food she probably doesn't want. And then you've rounded it all off with a lovely little foot through the ceiling. Yeah. But the worst thing was,

I was like, I'm not going to pay all that money for a paintbrush. I'll just use my thumbs and my hand to push the paint back on the ceiling. And that was a false economy because it just got everywhere. And they had this kind of e-cover, kind of not quite chemical washing

up liquid. So I couldn't even wash it off my bloody hands. What is happening here? It was terrible. So you made a decision to paint over, but you didn't buy a paintbrush. You used your fingers. What do you think this is yeah what do you think this is what do you think this is that's worse

than not doing anything about it yeah the best thing you could have done is just called up and said sorry about this but then you can't

explain why you're in the fucking attic so you can't front up to it because you shouldn't have been up there yeah I'm trying to find

a picture of it but I can't sit to find a picture I took some pictures and genuinely Sarah looks a bit glum so I'm presuming that's after it happened

but did you call up the owner and go listen I am working on a magic trick I'm doing my best oh dear what an idiot but it's

it's fixed now and no one seems to have noticed well that's not the main thing well that's something at least that's something at least it is the main thing though

isn't it it's fine looks like a normal normal just a normal ceiling you know I tell you I'm being totally honest

I don't think I'll be able to tell I don't think you'll notice the only point is I used gloss paint instead of matte paint so there is a bit of a but if they haven't

been there for a while they might think that someone handyman's done that wait no wait handyman has done that a footy man a footy handyman

has done it I thought you were going to say this is the measure of how far I've fallen with my expectations of you I thought you were going to say this is the measure of how far I've fallen with my expectations of you I thought you were going to say

when you said I didn't get a paintbrush I thought you were going to say I felt like because I didn't damage my foot I should repair it repair it my foot yeah and that tells you

everything you need to know about it just pour it into the top of the like into the into the ceiling from above can we have a quick ad break can you not break

anything in the ad break and when we come back we'll do some battery brands and I'm sure people will want to hear your take on it Pete okay we're back

with the Luke and Pete Shaw and since it's a Thursday we're already doing bloody batteries Lukey Moa have you got the email box ready

I have got the email box ready we keep finding them we keep finding them there We keep finding them. Bloody finding them. There was some absolute controversy on Twitter, I seem to recall, last week. You, Luke, are bad at describing things. What happened? Somebody got in touch that came in with a battery brand

a few weeks ago, or a couple of weeks ago anyway, where you assured me it was Al Maplow on Twitter. Thank you, Al. For the avoidance of controversy here are the new players in the game from yesterday's edition of the Luke and Pete show, Cheers. The dinosaur in the pub, Dad. Yes. And he, and basically, I hadn't

seen the picture of the batteries. You had seen the picture of the batteries. Because you couldn't be asked to look, that's why. I don't know where they are. They're in the running order. You just got to click on the batteries. No, but it's because you couldn't be asked to look. That's why. I don't know where they are. They're in the running order. You just got to click on the link. What? The battery pictures are on the link.

No, they're not. All right, I can't remember. Big fat liar. Anyway, you found them because you had access to the, because you were searching for them. You were searching for Taddyran brands. That's my job. That's your job, but you had access,

so you need to let me know. You need to be my eyes and ears. That is not a AA cell. They are, somebody pointed out, 3.6 volts battery, which is higher than a AA battery. I literally said 3.6 volts on the show. Did you, though? I did.

People can listen back. I'm not listening back. Either way, they're slightly smaller than a AA. You can't play with people's emotions like this. You're playing with people's emotions because you're not describing them right and I thought that was

a double A you said that was a double A cell it's not a double A cell it's way too small and I I erroneously put it into the hall of fame

it's out then it's out it's out I'm so sorry Al we love you dearly but thank you for giving us the rules are rules

they can't have it Chris has got in touch this week with a new player. Felt like getting a new player into the game. It's not a new player. We haven't decided yet. That's what he said. He can fuck off.

This is a raise I had to do. But I must do my due diligence. Found these beauties in a toy Simone bought my son over a year ago. We don't know who Simone is, but thank you, Chris, for that bit of information in your life. Finally had to replace the batteries and found a set of Zerns super heavy duty of course a

new player we shall see Chris is all over the place here so that's Z E R N E right yeah super heavy duty yeah and I like the fact that why do

batteries brands always just put super heavy duty on them super heavy duty sadly Chris they're not new players because check this out Jeremiah our friend

Jeremiah sent some Zern super heavy duties in on Christmas day last year Sadly, Chris, they're not new players because, check this out, Jeremiah, our friend Jeremiah, sent some Xern Super Heavy Duties on Christmas Day last year. Oh, good times. And what I liked about Jeremiah's entry back in the day, on Christmas Day, is that they came in a space sword. Wow. I don't know what that is. I guess it's a knock-off lightsaber probably.

I guess so, yeah, yeah, yeah. So, unfortunately, Chris, you are not the first person to send in Zurn Super Heavy Duty. Jeremiah is. Hello, Jeremiah. Thank you for doing that as well. Thank you very much, Chris. Phil has come in with Kiho.

K-I-H-O. Yes. Following my success with the Awa family, I'm hoping for a repeat with these babies. Kiho. Love the weird 70s colour scheme. It's right up there for me. This is unearthed in a video conference remote control in the depths

of Kentucky. Cheers, Phil. I think that video conferencing sort of technology back in the day, you will sometimes go into a meeting room and they'll have an electronic board on the wall and no one will know how to fucking use it. It'll have weird electronic marker pens

that are connected to it no one really knows it has a proprietary VGA input that nobody can connect to with their laptop I love all technology

that they thought this is going to last for 20 years and they've nailed it into the wall they screwed it into the wall and now it's just used to you know

for nothing for nothing for nothing a friend of mine runs a rollout of that kind of technology now for Microsoft. Okay, yeah.

And it's like properly advanced. Yeah, mad. It's like a life-size Zoom call, I suppose. Yeah. Effectively. Yeah. But I thought exactly that when he was telling me about it. I thought, in a few years' time, people aren't going to be doing this shit.

They're either going to have rejected it entirely or they're going to be on the metaverse, baby. Anyway, Kehoe, Phil, thank you for sending these in. You are not a new player here either. Our friends Felix and Isaac have also sent them in. But the first person to send Kehoe's in was our listener friend Stanton, who sent them in all the way back in the summer of 2017, right at the very start of the Luke and Pete show.

So Kehoe are almost as old as the Luke and Pete show itself. Lovely stuff. I like to, I don't, I didn't mind that even though we didn't manage to get a new player. I think it's nice to sort of respect the amount of time we've been doing the feature. Yeah, exactly.

Jack, don't sit, don't sit. Long time listener. First time emailer. Emailing all the way from hot and humid Taiwan. Can you imagine how fucking unbearable Taiwan is right now,

that part of the world. We recently took a break from filling our faces with street food, delicious, to purchase a new TV. Cue strange looks from the girlfriend

when the first thing I did was check the batteries. Yong Hua, super power batteries. Are they a new player? Keep the good work. Jack, did a little sort of

throaty burp there. I said that apology. No worries. I went... This is a controversial one and I'm going to need a read from I said that. Apologies. No worries. I went... This is a controversial one and I'm going to need a read from you on this. Alright.

So, Yonghua Superpower Batteries courtesy of our friend Jack who sent them in at the end of June. Yeah. Just getting into them now. If you are taking Yonghua

as one word, as in his photo here, Peter, see that? Yeah. Then they are new players. Okay. But, here's where it gets complicated.

If you look at what our friend Yannick back in May sent in, also Yong Hua, but with a space. I think that's a new player and I think that's fine. And also they've got a Super Heavy Duty in there as well. So it's essentially the same name, but with a space in between Yong and Hua and therefore a different product. So it's a new player. Yeah, I'm having that

so Jack you have got a new player into the game well done it's not because of the space it's because of the super heavy duty oh fine

so one out of three we've got a new player in there thank you very much for that Jack and thank you Peter as ever for being an excellent arbitrator

of whether batteries are new players or not get us an iron egg will ya yeah in the Taiwan street market have you been to Taiwan?

I have, yeah. You like it? One of my favourites. Do you like it? Yeah, it's like... What's good about it? It's a mix of China and Japan. I mean, they occupied it for a bit, Japan.

I don't mean what's good about it. Foreign rubbish. What's fucking good about it? What do you particularly like about it? I like the fact that it mixes the grit and rawness of China and the efficiency and the organisation of Japan. The trains run, the food is, the street food is fucking delicious and kind of out there,

and it's tiny and manageable, and it's just fucking great. Home of 50% of the world's semiconductors as well. Apparently so. For a bit. And what I read geopolitically is anything to go by. Don't forget we visit in there any time again soon. Hello at LukeandPeter.com is the email address to get in touch with us.

I would like to round off today's show, Peter, if I may, with an email from Doug, who's from New Jersey. Oh, yeah. There was a band in the cartoon Doug that had a genuinely good song. Killer Tofu.

Yeah, it might be that. Ooh-wee-oo, Killer Tofu. That's it. Yeah, that's it, yeah. Good song. There Tofu. Yeah, it might be that. Ooh-wee-oo, Killer Tofu. That's it. Yeah, that's it, yeah. Good song. There we go. Roger! I'm Roger the shitbag.

I'm green, for some reason. That's enough. Or blue, I don't know. That's enough, okay. How do you feel about New Jersey? Because that's where our listener Doug is from. I ain't never fucking been there, but I'd love to fucking try somebody at Pizza Pie.

Thanks, that's exactly what I was hoping for. That's all right, cool. While we're on that subject, by the way, one of... Listen, allow me to make this link before I do Doug's email. Right. He's not from New Jersey.

Right. He's from New York City originally. Okay. But he played someone from New Jersey. Okay. Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnut. Oh, yes. Passed away. Didn't someone else out of Sopranos die? Ray Liotta's died as well. Was he in Sopranos? No. No. but he played someone from New Jersey Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnut passed away didn't someone else

out of Sopranos Ray Liotta died as well was he in Sopranos no he was a gangster but Ray Liotta died obviously James Gandolfini died a while back

I think there was someone else as well anyway we're losing a lot of people losing a lot of people I like that story where he sort of like you know

week one of recording with the Sopranos he said to one of the writers he said if you if you Paulie the writers he said if you if you Polly Walnuts he said

if you write if you kill me if you write a scene where I'm killed you're getting killed it's lovely it's lovely stuff

he also famously refused to sign on for every new season before he got a cast iron guarantee that his character didn't become a rat which is a good classic

yeah classic so he was and he would hang out in like Hollywood cafes where all the big swingers are and didn't become a rat. Which is a good classic. And he would hang out in Hollywood cafes where all the big swingers are and just get paged every 90 minutes. So it sounded like he was important. Yeah, he also...

I feel sad. It's kind of interesting because one of the big storylines of Sopranos is that he tries to find an assisted living facility for his mother in the series.

And it's like a comedy, a bit of comedy because he's a bit of a comic relief, isn't he? Yeah. And he's trying to make fun of the place

where he really loves his mom and all the rest of it. And I won't spoil what happens because you guys should watch it. And if you've already watched it,

you'll know what happens. But I've read when I found out that he died, which was a few days ago or maybe about a week ago now, he died in an assisted living facility.

And I just thought, doesn't life come at you fast? Like, doesn't it come at you so quick? That actually, although he always looked really old because of that, the way he looked. Yeah.

He wasn't actually that old, but obviously when he passed away, he was. And apparently he used to, because all of his hair went grey kind of about, I mean, a season or two in.

But he had to maintain the wings. So he used to, what he used to do as part of his process before every season, he used to do his whole hair black. Yes. And he would dye in the wings. So what he used to do as part of his process before every season, he used to do his whole hair black and he would dye in the wings. Because they weren't there anymore.

Because it was all grey. Yes. So I mean, anyway, there we go. He also, apparently there was a lot of Woody Allen movies, but I've not seen him in any of them. Anyway, so that's a man who's not from New Jersey, but I wanted to crowbar a link in. Doug is a man who is from New Jersey

and would like to follow up on a piece of content, if you can call it that, we mentioned about the Mall of America. Do you remember the Mall of America? Yes. So we were talking about how... Malls were bigger than the 80s, 90s. In America, they just put malls places and they're massive. And Mall of America at one time

was actually the biggest mall in the world. Doug says, Hello gentlemen, the Mall of America property was once home to the Metropolitan Stadium, the original home of the Minnesota Twins and the Minnesota Vikings.

I'm guessing they built it there because everyone already knew where it was. Thanks for the laugh, Doug. So that's a correction, but he's done it in

quite a nice way. That's nice, I like it. What's the Minnesota, oh, their baseball team? Their baseball team, yeah.

Minnesota Twins, Vikings, NFL. Still not clear why they're called Twins yeah Minnesota Twins Vikings are NFL yeah still not clear where why they're called they used to be called the Washington Senators

because Minnesota is known as the Twin City I see okay why is it called that then let me know why let me know why Minnesota is known

as the Twins I think it's like I feel like it might be to do with the same way Budapest like different sides of the way Budapest, like different sides of the city.

Budapest is Buda and Pest. Right, okay. Minna and Sota. I don't know if it's that, I don't know if it's that, but there's two kind of conurbations in one, I think. Well, follow up on an email, please. Let us know.

I could just make it up or you could actually tell us. And I want to end the show by saying that the guys who go and watch the Minnesota Vikings, because of course, NFL is a winter sport a winter sport and baseball is a summer sport in the US. When you go and watch the Minnesota Vikings,

some of the temperatures they put up with are absolutely ridiculous. I mean, you talk about going to a game, going to watch a Premier League game or whatever, or a Football League game in January in the UK it does not even come close you see people there with like icicles on their beards and stuff in like minus 25 temperatures and stuff

to watch the Vikings and the Vikings are fucking playing it's crazy maybe they've got a new stadium with a roof on now I don't know let us know about that as well

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you've been through recently I might work on my own DIY my own house to be honest oh you've been doing the fence haven't you fucking fence yeah alright don't get big in fence

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