The Luke and Pete Show - It’s always Petey in Philadelphia

Episode Date: September 22, 2022

The lads are still stateside and Luke is helping Pete plan a road trip…. Oh dear, good luck to all American drivers.In the second half, we then bring you an extremely exciting LIVE battery brand search and read an email offering up an interesting solution to Pete’s dog barking problem.Can you help us with any of our problems? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hey, it's the Luke and Pete Show. It is Thursday and that means several things. As I always say, we talk about what's been happening in the news. We talk about things that have been happening in our lives. We also talk about batteries. Batteries you've found in remote controls for whatever you've got in your life. So look out for that after the break. But first things first, how are you doing, Luke? We're still in New York, mate. We're still in New York, mate.

Mate, we're still in New York. I'm just a bit distracted because my BT Sport bill just came through on the old email. Woof! Is it chunky? I just don't want to pay it. I just do not want to pay it. That keeps our friend Jules Breach

in good for the employer. What they should do on the bill, email us. Atomise the Jules Breach. Or just put a picture of Jules' smiling face and I'll pay it.

If you put Jake Humphrey in there, I'm fucking burning the place down. But I'm all right, thanks. Still in New York. Yeah, it's much the same as it was on Monday

because we're in the same place and because of our schedules we have to record two episodes at one time so I'm still sat at the same table. was on Monday because we're in the same place and because of our schedules we have to record two episodes at one time so I'm still sat at the same table. Still got the pencil sharpener. Still got the old alkalised water here.

Yeah, they like that business, don't they? Set 9.3 pH or higher. Which is very alkaline. I'm surprised that's even safe to drink, but you know, here we are. What's that?

It's only 2.3 above neutral, isn't it? Yeah, but I mean, the pH scale goes up to about 12, doesn't it? What is like the most alkaline thing we drink? Because we obviously drink a lot of vinegars and stuff. But what's like the most alkaline? Milk?

Oil? I don't know, actually. So, apparently, so the pH level goes from 0 to 14. Yeah. 0 is acidic and 14 is alkaline. According to this website I've literally just brought up, safe pH range is 6.5 to 8.5. So great, this is 9.3.

So I think what it is is they get to just say, oh, we can charge you $2.50 for this rather than $1. So because it's got all this other shit in it. But there we go anyway. Most fruits and vegetables, soybeans and tofu and some nut seeds and legumes are all alkaline promoting foods

but that kind of promotes I just want to know what is the most alkaline thing you can safely drink yeah well it's probably that that's probably that

9 for 3 9 for 3 on the pH scale it's quite a lot it's quite a lot of alcohol so Pete how's things with you now after we've just had a little Monday now we've got a little Thursday 8, 9.3 on the pH scale. It's quite a lot. It's quite a lot of alcohol. So Pete, how's things with you now? After we've just had a little Monday, now we've got a little Thursday. It's good. I popped out briefly to get some dinner

slash lunch. And I bought a... I went to one of those bodegas and they had just this big central kind of buffet that you just fill your own little pots out of. I saw that and you sent me a picture and I didn't like it. I did not like it.

I had a bit of meatloaf in there. I had some peppers. I had some just random oil that was just kicking around. Plantain. Plantain. I love a bit of plantain. Mac and cheese. Plantain.

I don't eat enough food like that. And I wish I did. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. All in the same tray. All in the same tray And I wish I did. Mac and cheese. Mac and cheese. Or on the same tray. On the same tray. Yeah, it did look like prison food. And actually, I was walking around.

I'd bought some toothpaste and a toothbrush from CVS. And they didn't have a carrier bag. But what they did have was a big, gigantic, clear plastic bag. So it looked like I'd just come out of prison. And I'd had all my effects returned to me. People would have thought that. They'd have thought you were at Rubber's Island.

And apparently, I've heard a rumour on the grapevine that you are, so I'm flying back to the UK tomorrow. Yes. You're not. No. And I've heard on the grapevine that you are planning to drive to Philadelphia, baby. Yeah, well, I've got a

little trip booked in October where I said I'd help out on the driving. Where are you going in October? I'm going to start in... What's south of Vancouver over the border? Seattle. Seattle. Going to Seattle to find out what this new grunge music is all about.

Heard a lot about it. And then... Chris Cobain. I just kind of wanted to help out i didn't want to leave you know i don't want to leave only one driver driving so i was like right i'll help out but the problem is i've never driven before in in in on the wrong side of the road i've never driven a left-hand side uh drive car and it's just all new to me so i thought you know what when i've not got anyone uh i care about in the car. Including yourself.

That's a bad look, yeah. Yeah. It sounds like I don't care about myself. I don't. Let's, let's be clear. I don't. The things I do with my body.

But yeah, I'm just going to drive down. I'm just basically going to start from Newark airport, I think, and just drive south. So if you're on the roads, fucking watch out. Yeah.

Why did you choose Philadelphia specifically? I didn't. It's just south of New York, isn't it? So I thought, well, I'll just drive down there. Yeah. Maybe stop in Atlantic City. Yeah. See Nucky Thompson from Boardwalk and Fire.

What do you think this is going to be like in reality? I'd be met with a knob's eye, wouldn't I? Yeah, we'd be met with a knob's eye again, wouldn't we? Fingers crossed. That'll be a fun adventure. So you've got to go all the way to Newark Airport to hire a car, have you? Yeah.

I mean, it's very... I always think this is a good idea and then five minutes in I'm like, I'm quite lonely. I'm actually quite a lonely person. But it's just a bit free love on the free love freeway, isn't it? It's a bit free love.

Are you going to get a convertible car? Route 66, yeah. Are you going to hire a convertible car? Unless the 30 quid a day car is a convert have you already booked it I've already booked it what is it

smallest one possible 30 bucks a day it's low it's low it's cheap it'll be like that it'll be like that ban and dumb and dumber

you in it it's with the company dollar bearing in mind I've only ever driven a thing at 500 I'm just hoping there's going to be transferable skills

between the two yeah I think we all are there's just a lot of like there's just a lot of variables here yeah wrong side of the road

just general automatic fine general craziness from the drivers on the roads on the outskirts of New York I mean

nobody does it better when it comes to crazy drivers people in New York they just change lanes where they want to they don't

they never really sort of indicate when they're changing lanes they just sort of go I need to be over here now and they just do it and it's like wow is that what you do

cab driver on the way back here from the airport was insane to the point of where Charlie and I were saying he must be good at this because he's still alive and he's quite old so if he's been a cab driver for 30, he must be good at this because he's still alive. Yeah.

And he's quite old. So if he's been a cow driver for 30 years, he must on some level know what he's doing. Right, okay, yeah, yeah. But on the other hand, fucking hell.

Well, he's just driving really fast, really aggressively. So he would do the thing where, so you have, say, the road splits into two and no one's going off to the right.

Right. And we need to go left, but everyone's going left. Right, okay. So he'll just tear it down the right-hand side and just cut right at the last minute. At the last minute, just kind of merge.

Yeah. And then the great thing about it was, you know, when you knew he was a real shit, when other people did that, he wouldn't let them in. Right, okay. You've got to kind of respect that on some level.

Because if he was letting other people in as well, it'd be a bit like, you know, fair enough. He was like, no. What? He would just sort of,

he would just sort of. So when he was in the right lane yeah he would just move into the left lane yeah and then other yeah when other people tried that to him he wouldn't even let him in even though his entire driving philosophy is just do what you want no well no was like relies on other people letting him in yeah or we're going to be stuck there forever basically i think the problem is in in on new y York cabs is they do a flat fee from the airport right so it's $52

plus tip and no matter how long it takes so I guess they have to to make it work for them economically I guess they have to

really push the boundaries I suppose so there you go what are you going to do so that'll be good

yeah that'll be fun do you know how long the drive is from New York to Philadelphia it's only a quarter of an hour how long the drive is from New York to Philadelphia? It's only a couple of hours I think. Again I'm not

wedded to Philadelphia I just thought I'd drive south and see what see how far I can get really. It's 95 miles an hour and 42

minutes in normal traffic. What if I end up in Pensacola Florida? What if I end up in the sea? You've gone too

far. What I think I and our listeners would like to see you do is drive all the way to the end of Long Island. Right, okay. Because that's like really nice down the bottom. Is it though?

Would it be nice, do you reckon? What? The Hamptons. It's famously nice. That sounds a bit... Not with a dollar at one, one per one. I can't be having that. I cannot be having that.

Yeah, well, it's going to be fun. I think it'll be interesting. I wish you the very best of luck. I'll let you know how I go. Will you let the housekeeper in at any point, do you think, before you go? Oh, no, no, I'll leave. In fact, they've left a little room attendant tip envelope.

Do I have to pay that? No one's been in. No one's been in, so it actually made me. In many ways, it's the perfect crime if no one's been in. Yeah, I've so it actually made me in many ways it's the perfect crime if no one's been in yeah I've sort of every night

I've been coming back to the room with like a bottle of water from the bodega from the supermarket yeah and then and then instantly forgetting

that I've done that and just grabbing one of the really expensive bottles eight dollar bottles of water from the fridge oh shit idiot yeah

that's what I get you because they try and catch you short in your room yeah and go I can't go out I can't be honest I've eaten the marathon

I've eaten the beef jerky how much is so let's see here we go it's a little quiz how much do you think I'm staying in the same hotel so

you already know I probably know how much is the is a packet of M&M's? How many dollars? They're the small yellow peanut ones, right? Yeah. Six bucks. It is six bucks.

There you go, see? That's literally six quid. That's six fucking quid. You cost a living crisis with Luke and Pete. Terrible, isn't it? Yeah. Beef jerky nine. I saw that off on the first day.

So good. How do they know that you've had it before you go? I think they, because they do a credit card run on you, don't they? They just charge it.

They kill you, yeah. Little buggers. By the way, speaking of bodegas, have you seen any bodega cats yet? No, I wouldn't want a cat running around. They catch the mice

and the rats, don't they? Yeah, but, we spoke about this before, but I've got to eat the macaroni cheese and the plantain. I don't want the cats in that.

No, but the cats are not, I mean, that's not their remit. What, you think the cats wouldn't have a little, when the bloke

who runs the place, they wouldn't have a little go at the macaroni cheese? Of course they would. Sleep on the packets of crisps. They're milk monsters. And when a mouse

comes along, I can catch it. That's what they do. We've seen some juicy, juicy rats. Have you? I haven't seen a rat. Absolute chonk.

But I've not been on the subway here yet. No. You completely, completely subway. I just walk everywhere. You're a subway skeptic, aren't you? I walk everywhere.

Not, but it's too hot. It's too hot. Well, there's two reasons. The subway's too hot until you get on the carriage itself. Are you scared of the warriors?

Are you scared of the warriors? Yeah. Secondly, it's really confusing, the subway in New York. I've never really got my head around it. Compared to London, it's really confusing. There's only like four lines, isn't there? And then the weird lines that go out to Brooklyn. Yeah, but they'll say things like,

get the L train, which stops here, here and here, and here on Saturday, and here on Friday after 5pm. And with London underground, you know it's going to stop at every stop. Well, A, that's definitely not true because some of them are a bit mad. Like, what's the fucking Oval when you've got to change at Kennington

to get to Oval? That's a pain in the butt. Oh, that's the Northern Lime because it splits. And then there's another split there now that goes to that weird little fucking development in Battersea, doesn't it? Remember?

Oh, yeah, I haven't been to that one. The only people who go to that are the people who bought the fucking expensive flats that he's clearly just built for that's not me I haven't done that

I've definitely haven't done that Peter it says here on this running order as well that you would like a story according to producer Rory who isn't with us

no he will be editing this not like he's not gone no he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not

he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not

he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not he's just not so hello to you Rory thanks for editing this he seems to think that you all like the story about the

right this is the thing there's a story here about a chimp in ukraine which is also obviously going for a terrible time at the moment to say the least that escaped from a zoo and only returned to the zoo with the zookeeper when the zookeeper offered him a rain jacket and start to rain now that's a great story we'll get your thoughts on that in a minute. Have you seen the video? Yes, I have. But I'd regret to inform you, Peter, and I regret to inform our listeners

that Rory's actually referred to the chimp as a monkey. Oh, Rory. You should have more respect for our simian. It's difficult for you to read that. I'm pleased I was able to break it to you in a very sensitive way. Yeah, I hadn't actually clocked that. That's upsetting.

And if he wants a future on the Little Peach Show, he needs to buck his ideas up, at least beyond nodding terms, with the main great apes. He needs to reset his primate exam. He does. A hundred percent, yeah. But that video is very sweet, isn't it?

It's very sweet because he's stressed out and then he's just having a lovely time and then he's stressed out and then he's

like I want to go in now somebody brings him a raincoat it's adorable it's like that story possibly

apocryphal where a bear escapes from a zoo and everyone's looking for it and they can't find it anywhere hours and hours

later and they go back and he's back in his enclosure yeah because he didn't think it was food time

I said, yeah, because most of the chimps when they would escape from Twycross Zoo that used to work used to jump on the top of their own cage and dance around going,

yeah, I'm free. Well, you're not that free. You dance on top of your own cage. What? They used to escape regularly the day in Twycross? Yeah, every now and again. Should that not be

a bit of a story? I don't know. I mean, no more than any other. They just get out, don't they? Cheeky little lads. They shouldn't get out though. They shouldn't get out. No, they shouldn't get out though they shouldn't get out regardless of your

opinion on what a zoo is I mean famously they're supposed to keep the animals in but they were more they were more trouble than

obviously more trouble than lions and tigers when they've escaped because it's just like you just obviously when a big cat escapes that's a big fucking deal

but they're quite lethargic, aren't they? They just start running around, just start walking around. I don't want to come across as arrogant, but I wonder whether it's that likely that there'll be a scenario when a big cat can get out. Because surely, I mean, it's pretty easy to keep them in. Yeah.

All you need to do is build like a rudimentary secondary enclosure. Yeah, but you've got to... But you've got to... You've got protocol to clean and fix. And, you know, there's a million reasons why someone can leave a fucking door open. But obviously it's more serious if it's a big cat.

But big cats have gone... Have escaped from pens. Or possibly a man who wanted to commit an act of espionage to give some embryos for some important species to another zoo yes and shut down the electrical fences periodically so um so luke you've been saying about me um going to drive to where i'm going to drive uh in in my little uh in my in my whip uh soon um did you get this this news story from uh uh from a website uh avis or is it avis avis avis avis um they Vancouver outlets of uh of of avis is charging a Canadian woman six thousand dollars after saying she drove the equivalent of over 333 miles per hour in her rental.

Let me see that car. Let me see it. The receipt said she'd driven 22,668 miles in 68 hours for six grand and all charged to her credit card. She would have to have maintained a speed of 536.5 kilometres per hour

or 148 metres per second to go the distance that avis's avis's bill claims she did uh it would be the roughly the top speed of the fastest drag racer and significantly more than the 176 kilometers per hour the suv that she rented is capable of uh she could drive she could given given the proper bridges being built it would be enough for her to drive from Toronto to visit her family in Cape Town

South Africa and back and still have a few thousand kilometres to spare disappointing invoice to receive yeah

no stops she wouldn't be able to stop for a sandwich or a Slim Jim I'm still in a battle with a rental car company I told you about that

didn't I I hear horror stories about this. Am I able to get absolutely bummed by dollar? They've now passed the, you know, disputed payment. Right. They've now passed on a debt collection. So you keep emailing me.

You're quite, I pay those at the first sign of danger. But I imagine you're a bit more, fuck you, right. There's no legal basis for the payment I'm not paying it right

it's a dispute of payment what is the so they can go and get yeah if they want to if they wanted

to they're going to get apply to get a court order to force me to pay it that would cost more money

than it would be to to to sell something yeah so can you get away with that

sort of thing so if they no I've paid to rent the car right I did all that yeah so? No, I paid to rent the car. I did all that. So I paid them the fees to rent the car. And then they said to me that there's a massive dent in it, which I didn't do, which there isn't.

I didn't do it. And so I said, well, I'm not paying it. I didn't cause that dent, so I'm not paying it. You'd think they'd have had this situation before. Like, whose, whose dent is this? But I think, the thing,

what I think they do is they also add massively punitive fines for that kind of thing. Right. So like, even if I had caused that dent, right,

it's one of those dents that, you know, you would just put a sucker on, suck it out and it'd be done in five minutes. Right, yeah. And that's,

that's £900. Right. I'm not paying you £900 for that. That's ridiculous. So if you want to dispute it, let's dispute it. Yeah. But then, they'd have to get a court order to force me to pay and they won't do900. Right. I'm not paying you £900 for that. That's ridiculous. So if you want to dispute it, let's dispute it. Yeah. But then they'd have to get a court order

to force me to pay and they won't do that. So they just pass it on to a debt collector because a debt collector will buy those debts up for pennies and just bank on a certain percentage amount of people who are paying it so they get their money.

Right. But there's no way I'm paying it. No. So I stand in solidarity with that. With the heaviest lady. With that drag racing old lady. The maniac. Yeah. Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. Well, nowiest lady. With that drag racing old lady. Me and Iac. Yeah.

Oh, I'm sorry. Well, now I'm worried about denting the car now. Oh. But yeah, don't do that. Slash dying in a fireball. Let's do a break. Let's do a break. In the break, let's go and dent some cars.

Let's go and dent some cars. All right. We're back with Luke and Pete Shaw. And since it's Thursday, we're doing battery practice. Have you found a bit of battery action in a hotel remote control? Luke, we're in a hotel remote control land. What's this in my right hand?

It's my remote control. What's this in my left hand? I don't want to know. I just picked up the remote control for your TV in this hotel room. We're staying in the same hotel. I've checked my own hotel room remote control. Of course you did. It's what we do. you think that you think that this is like a holiday you

think that we we just tell you guys to do this we we doctor heal ourselves if we do do this we can expend this whole thing so i think you're going to be very excited peter because you haven't opened this yet have you no i haven't i think you'll be very excited what you're going to find in this remote i've never seen before. So I'm waiting to open the remote battery section and I want you to describe what you see. And it's a MCOM's kind of universal remote. Right, okay.

Do it on the mic so people can hear it. What have we got here? So we've got a universal remote control, nice and thin, slender, modern. I'm just going to slide the battery compartment. He's done that before. Can you believe it? Two watch batteries, two Sony

CR2025s. That's amazing. I've never seen that before, have you? I have, but mainly in remotes for Apple TVs and stuff. They are on eBay and our listeners couldn't submit those. We wouldn't accept them. I think we would, but there's no branding on them.

So like, it's not really an entry, is it really? No. The only time I've ever seen those batteries before are in my bathroom scales. Yeah.

There's a lot of that going on. But you'd find one of these in a, I think it's the same when you'd find it in a computer to keep the clock going.

Oh, really? You know, like when you turn your power off your computer, there's a battery in it, a CMOS battery that keeps all of your CMOS settings,

you know, the real fucking... What, and that never runs out? Because why the barf is still... I think it might be rechargeable, but I don't think it really... Yeah, it might be a little lithium rechargeable one, but yeah, those are the things that usually go in.

You'll find them in video game cartridges or computers and stuff just to keep the clocks, keep the save games, keep everything sort of ticking over but i don't understand how they never run out well i think i think some of them are rechargeable i think some of them are rechargeable so when you power up again it recharges the battery yes yeah but but but yeah i've never seen bearing in mind that they they clearly to operate the um the uh flashy um it's not leds is it well Well, it will be an LED,

but it'll be infrared LED. They've actually needed to use two of them. By the way, a lot of the modern, a lot of the modern remotes don't use infrared anymore, do they?

What do you mean, infrared? Yeah, Bluetooth. Bluetooth, because I noticed in my one at home for my Skybox, we don't have to point it, you just press it.

Anyway, so, interesting. A little bit of an interesting twist. That was interesting. That really surprised me. But Graham, who describes himself as a bigger battery boy, has sent in an email. Pete, and I think normally you read them out and I search for them, which I'm happy to do, but there's a little story attached to this one.

Okay. So do you want to read it first? I'll read it first. Okay. I'll set myself up. Okay. I am an electrical engineer working in special effects. So I feel somewhat obligated to contribute on the great battery referendum.

I started writing an email about why birds don't get zapped on electrical lines, but I found it incredibly dull, so I trashed it. And so this is reference to the set of batteries that we had before, the VP racing batteries. Right, okay, yeah. Which you weren't quite sure what the detail was on that and whether we could accept them or not. Oh, yes, please. Right, okay, yeah. Which you weren't quite sure what the detail was on that and whether we could accept them or not. Oh, yes, please.

Okay, right, cool. So, however, as batteries are such a crucial matter to the liquid peak community, I thought I would try and help despite the risk of being incredibly dull. Look, this is exactly what I'm talking about. You're my old friend here. Thank you.

First off, this battery is comprised of six nickel metal, nickel metal hydride batteries, NIMH. Does this rule them out right off the bat? The part number appears to be, I'm not going to read out that out, but it's a 1.2 volt, 330, 3300 milliamp hour battery. I spent way too long looking for a data sheet. I could only find some information on a particular website. As I can't read Russian and the website doesn't want to translate to English on my phone, that is where I'll drop this.

So you can separate these batteries, but they are your typical consumer battery. Finally, and perhaps crucially, I'm not convinced the individual batteries are even made by VP Racing. Hope this helps. Graham from Canada. It's good stuff. So yes, they're not normal- sized batteries that you could pop in anything. They are specific to the RC

racing community. So we're not going to accept them then? No, we're not going to accept those. But Graham, we're going to accept the information that we required on this one. So I mean, technically, we've only really got two entries for the battery brands this week. Two entries in ael i've only recently started listening to your show so

this email has sent more in hope than expectation here is a picture of two batteries i found at my work desk the green star battery came from an air conditioning control uh happy hunting grounds for the lucan pete show community very much uh i've no idea where the other one came from i shall keep my fingers crossed that they are worthy of a mention on your show i feel i must point out that your shows uh should come with a warning about not listening to them uh while walking around your neighborhood because they have a tendency to make you involuntary smile or laugh uh this could be disconcerting when people are walking towards you especially if they are a bigger boy uh there's a lovely thing lovely thing to say um i don'll buy it for a second we are dour this is a

dour short thing it's like fucking it's like thick fucking treacle getting through this shot and also only associate with a bigger boy if you've got a reason to do so what do you mean in your house or yeah don't encounter a bigger boy don't don't chase them out just to just don't chase a bigger boy just so you can hang out alone. So the two batteries that Nigel has submitted are Green Star, as you said,

and Golden Power. Now, Golden Power we've seen being tossed before, so that's not even worthy of discussion. Green Star is a new player. Sounds like the sort of oil tanker that would get caught

on a bank. Yeah, it does a bit. It does a bit. In this case, though, it's not. It's just a battery that's trying to tap into the lucrative, environmentally friendly market. Correct. So yeah, it does a bit. It does a bit. In this case, though, it's not. It's just the battery that's trying to tap into the lucrative, environmentally friendly market.

Correct. So yeah, good stuff. Congratulations. Well done, Nigel. Fantastic stuff. Jor has come in with a piece of battery brilliance from a product

that arrived from Japan yesterday. Unexpectedly complete with batteries. My first submission for the big battery hunt. Big Kappa Prime W4. that has to be a new player i don't want to live in a world and look at peach your world that that isn't a new battery player so they're made in china um even though the the item of electronica was japanese the batteries are made in china yeah and they are a new player big kappa prime w4 new players. So that's two new players in the game. Out of two, really,

because there's a little bit of admin for the third one. So congratulations to you both. Congratulations, Joel. And congratulations, Nigel. Nice, lovely stuff. Great to see. Just a quick couple of points. Speaking about a massive tanker,

it reminded me of the story about a big cruise liner that someone's built. The world's largest cruise ship is going to be scrapped. Right. Right. Has it been used? No, never been used. The ship that would have become the world's largest cruise liner has been scrapped before it ever had the chance to make its maiden voyage.

And it was slated, the Global Dream 2, it was slated to carry 9,000 passengers. Wow. the Global Dream 2. It was slated to carry 9,000 passengers. It was built by the German Hong Kong shipbuilding firm MV Werften to the tune of 1.4 billion. It was nearly finished, but the company went bankrupt. And now because of the scale, because of the size, because of the state of the cruise ship market. Someone must be able to take that on. Well, nobody stepped up to buy the 20-deck,

1,122-foot-long monstrosity. It is going to the scrap heap. It's got an outdoor water park in it. It's got a movie theater. And the capacity of the ship blows the second-largest ship, the Wonder of the Sea, run by Royal Caribbean, completely out of the water. It's like so few people compared to this one. That's mad.

And it's now being started in a German shipyard in Wismar. However, that yard will soon be used to build military vessels. So that means the global dream fucking has got to get out of there. If there's any billionaires listening to the show and they want to rescue it,

I think they should do so. I think so, exactly, yeah. That's a really interesting story. That, to me, seems like an astonishing waste of time. Well, yeah, it's just going to cost too much money to finish, really. But it's in place. Everything's's there you just need the money needs to be um it needs about 230 million pounds worth of work right because there's also a situation

isn't there i can't remember the detail but when say the uk government commissions a big aircraft carrier or something the bureaucracy and then the build and the finishing takes so long that there comes a point when obviously there'll be another government in place. But there comes a point where once you go over that apex, it's actually way more expensive to fuck it off. You might as well just finish it. Even if the complete geopolitical situation changes around the world, you still might as well do it because you're committed to it. So I wonder if that's been reached on that. you still might as well do it because you're committed to it. Yeah.

So I wonder if that's been reached on that. Well, the weird thing is there's actually, you'll notice that the world's largest cruise ship is called the whatever number two, you know, Global Dream 2. Yeah. And there is a twin Global Dream being built, but that hasn't been axed yet. So I don't know how far away. So they've got a ship that's nearly done,

but it still needs 230 million30 million to complete it. And then there's one that looks like that might be okay. But can you imagine having such a huge, huge undertaking just absolutely taken to the scrapyard? Seems an astonishing waste of money. Before we go, let's squeeze this quick email in from Daniel Grice because it's purported to be a solution to your dog barking problem, Peter. Okay, yes.

If you're not familiar with that story, you should probably go back and listen to last week's episodes. Daniel says, hi, guys, or more specifically, Pete, just to let you know, you can pick up a vibrating dog collar called an anti-bark collar. It distracts a dog once it starts barking and eventually trains it out of them. That said, your neighbor seems like a twat.

So fucking... But, you know, Daniel says he knows how much you like to buy random electronics, so maybe it does appeal to you. He also says in the PS, don't use it as a sex toy, which, you know, fair enough. How would you sort of fire that off, though?

Because you'd need to know that the dog was barking wouldn't you what do you mean like no I think it's automatic oh so it listens if it's loud

if it barks it gets a little vibration probably oh that's a good idea yeah I wanted a really weird I only know what the conversation will be though

I'll say this is a good idea you know a small little vibration and the dog gets distracted my partner will say no haven't just watched total recall um i had i think it's an interesting idea i don't know we haven't vetted

these emails i don't know if they're cruel or not i'm assuming they're not i'm sure daniel's a very you know animal loving chap but i wanted a really interesting encounter with a dog in the us actually not here in connecticut where um it was really aggressive it's in the garden the garden had no fence right i was just walking down the street and it was being like quite an aggressive kind of frightened dog and it ran up and i got quite frightened yeah and it stopped and then went back again right i was like that's fair enough whatever yeah and then i told my wife the story and it was quite near where she lived and she said

oh yeah it's got an invisible fence oh it's got like a little kind of so the dog can't actually go any further I was thinking to myself

that's a really good innovation yeah so I want to tell the pedestrians because like at least for the fence you can fucking see it yeah

you know the whole point is the safety of people from the dog so it gets so far and then it gets a little electrical shock. Yeah, and it goes back again.

That's hilarious. Yeah. Cool little stuff. There you go. Anyway, on that note, Peter, let's break out of our metaphorical electric fence. We're off to the baseball, aren't we? Yeah, and go to watch the New York Mets.

New York Mets. They're the bad team, aren't they? Yeah, they are. We picked the underdogs. We picked the blocky underdogs. Yeah, we did. When do I get a chance to do a show? I mean, we'll have a show in'll have a show when will I see you again

yeah but you're going to be away so when do you actually get back into the UK back on Sunday Monday oh fine okay so we'll catch up again then yeah have a lovely

rest of the week and the weekend you guys hello at lukeandpeachy.com is the email address we'd love to hear from you join our friend Daniel who got in touch about

dog vibrating collars you really can email us about anything yeah and we are at Luke and Peter on all the social media thank you very much to our producer Rory

for digging out thanks Rory in New York having a lovely time and yeah we'll see you all again very very soon look after yourselves and each

other it's goodbye from me it's goodbye from him That's a good part of him.