The Luke and Pete Show - Keep my Swedish indie club out of your god damn mouth
Episode Date: April 28, 2022Pete has been getting recommended indie clubs again - shock! However, this recommendation didn’t come from an expected source. The lads also discuss a new harrowing, yet thought-provoking Netfl...ix documentary and Luke’s cat makes a surprise guest appearance!Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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                                         Oh, it's the LukaPete Show.
                                         
                                         It's Thursday the 28th of April.
                                         
                                         Luki Moa, what are the scores on the board?
                                         
                                         How's your week?
                                         
                                         How's your week been going?
                                         
                                         It's been pretty good.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         It's actually been pretty good.
                                         
    
                                         When you said to me,
                                         
                                         what are the scores on the board,
                                         
                                         I was thinking for the first time in ages,
                                         
                                         I don't know what to say to this.
                                         
                                         I don't know.
                                         
                                         Am I keeping score about something?
                                         
                                         What's going on?
                                         
                                         What is happening here?
                                         
    
                                         Review your week out of 10.
                                         
                                         My week out of 10?
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         What's it been like?
                                         
                                         It's been okay.
                                         
                                         It's been okay.
                                         
                                         Fine, okay.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, I'll tell you what I did do.
                                         
                                         Okay.
                                         
                                         I don't know why I do this.
                                         
                                         And so I have, first of all, this first part,
                                         
                                         I know why I do this because otherwise I'll never get around to doing anything
                                         
                                         and I forget.
                                         
                                         So I've got a notepad with a list of things I've got to do on it.
                                         
                                         And I've got a little box that I keep in which is non-work stuff.
                                         
    
                                         Right.
                                         
                                         Which if I see and it looks quite interesting,
                                         
                                         so I don't forget, I'll make a note of it.
                                         
                                         So, for example
                                         
                                         I really want to go
                                         
                                         and see that film
                                         
                                         The Northman
                                         
                                         which was The Northman
                                         
    
                                         is that the one
                                         
                                         with Skarsgård
                                         
                                         it's like a Viking epic
                                         
                                         yeah exactly that
                                         
                                         so I'll write that down
                                         
                                         in a little non-work box
                                         
                                         so that if I'm thinking
                                         
                                         of things I want to do
                                         
    
                                         or something that
                                         
                                         the Wi-Fi I'm actually
                                         
                                         suggesting
                                         
                                         I want to see the big Viking
                                         
                                         and I've got a list
                                         
                                         yeah I've got a list
                                         
                                         he does look really hot in it
                                         
                                         I've got a list I interviewed him he've got a list, he does look really hot in it. I've got a list of them.
                                         
    
                                         He's very nice.
                                         
                                         Nice guy is he?
                                         
                                         Yeah,
                                         
                                         he recommended a Swedish
                                         
                                         indie club for me.
                                         
                                         Oh,
                                         
                                         for fuck's sake.
                                         
                                         So one-paced,
                                         
    
                                         it's unbelievable,
                                         
                                         Dawson.
                                         
                                         He was saying it was great,
                                         
                                         yeah,
                                         
                                         it was close when we got there
                                         
                                         to be fair,
                                         
                                         so he should really keep
                                         
                                         on top of things.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah,
                                         
                                         that's poor by him.
                                         
                                         That was one of the things
                                         
                                         that me and Mark experienced in Dallas.
                                         
                                         We went to a park in Dallas looking for a particular
                                         
                                         resting shore, and the guy said,
                                         
                                         just look for Big Tex.
                                         
                                         I was like, what the fuck is Big Tex?
                                         
    
                                         And look, I got your computer there.
                                         
                                         Type in Dallas Big Tex, right?
                                         
                                         Okay, hang on.
                                         
                                         Imagine if you would just getting into a park
                                         
                                         and expecting to see... Oh, I know know what it is i've seen it before
                                         
                                         yeah the big tall mascot expected to see big text now he was very he said you don't know i said
                                         
                                         what's the big text he said you don't know what big text is oh my god it's been there since like
                                         
                                         the 50s yeah but it burned down like five years ago and i don't think they've for whatever reason
                                         
    
                                         it wasn't there it burned down quite uh spectacularly
                                         
                                         horrible video of big tech's massive cowboy massive 100 foot cowboy uh burning in the wind
                                         
                                         burning in the breeze at one time because of his oh that is absolutely chilling i'll just look to
                                         
                                         the front of it on fire jesus it looks fucking awful horrible isn't it um but they said i'll
                                         
                                         just look up a big text i was like all right yeah cool look up a big text what a big bloody
                                         
                                         100 foot cowboy he wasn't there he'd been taken away for whatever bloody reason
                                         
                                         that's a shame i forgot i was gonna say sorry we i'm just saying we don't have those kind of
                                         
                                         i remember the video sam max hit the road there was this the world's biggest ball of twine you
                                         
    
                                         know i mean it's some like little towns and and kind prefectures. They do it quite a lot in Japan.
                                         
                                         The world's biggest chest of drawers.
                                         
                                         Yeah, just something massive.
                                         
                                         So I've seen it now.
                                         
                                         And people, you know, attracted to that part of the world just to see this bloody.
                                         
                                         I remember when the Japanese government were handing out grants to different prefectures and towns and villages and cities in Japan.
                                         
                                         One of them, I can't remember which town,
                                         
                                         just spent it on a massive 100-foot fiberglass octopus.
                                         
    
                                         Because when they don't know what to do with something,
                                         
                                         they just create a mascot or create something stupid for someone to boost tourism.
                                         
                                         And it fucking worked because people love big stuff.
                                         
                                         We should do that more.
                                         
                                         Remember the Angel of the North?
                                         
                                         What a big fucking boom that was
                                         
                                         to wherever the hell in near gate 10 it is we we we went um the wife i have access to and i went to
                                         
                                         the west country for a little break yeah x more i think i talked about at the time yeah and this
                                         
    
                                         was slightly different because it's a private venture of very much of a hobbyist right but i
                                         
                                         can i remember reading up about it after we saw it I think it was a guy and his son or something
                                         
                                         they built a massive
                                         
                                         Star Wars
                                         
                                         AT-AT or something
                                         
                                         and just put it
                                         
                                         on the side of the A road
                                         
                                         and people who love
                                         
    
                                         Star Wars
                                         
                                         just turn up
                                         
                                         to look at it
                                         
                                         so it does kind of happen
                                         
                                         but it's very much
                                         
                                         a kind of
                                         
                                         eccentric venture
                                         
                                         if you like
                                         
    
                                         but anyway
                                         
                                         so you interviewed
                                         
                                         whichever the scars guard whichever the scars whichever
                                         
                                         scars guard it was he screamed at you keep keep my swedish indie clubs out of your goddamn mouth
                                         
                                         and anyway so i want to see that so i wrote it down that i wanted to see it and i've got a list
                                         
                                         so i've just looked at it the northman i want to see um there's a new motown documentary i want to
                                         
                                         watch um there's that that truffle hunters documentary which i missed at the cinema which
                                         
                                         is now an iplayer is a story of ill documentary all that kind of stuff nicholas cage
                                         
    
                                         one about the pig no that's not a documentary is it anyway but i flicked open netflix a couple days
                                         
                                         ago yeah and i don't know whether to be offended by this or not but i can't really be offended by
                                         
                                         it because it worked because i watched it straight away and it said luke you might like this new jimmy savel documentary
                                         
                                         which for no reason i think i was at a loose end for like an hour i was like yeah i'll watch that
                                         
                                         i press play and i watched the whole thing two long parts two feature-length parts
                                         
                                         my goodness me i know this is not a new thing to say but my goodness me what a story that is yeah a horrific
                                         
                                         story of course but i'll tell you what hasn't been talked about enough in my opinion i haven't
                                         
                                         watched that yeah clearly jimmy saville was jimmy saville a predator a horrific person yeah all the
                                         
    
                                         stuff that he you know he's subsequently been found out to have done i don't think enough
                                         
                                         introspection and reflection has been done about what britain
                                         
                                         did as a society to enable that kind of stuff because it is fucking absolutely horrific it's
                                         
                                         basically in plain sight for 50 years yeah and no one did anything about it on that documentary
                                         
                                         peak they were showing clips of him being interviewed on prime time television saying
                                         
                                         basically what he was doing and everyone just laughing about it.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         And, yeah, that was shocking.
                                         
    
                                         And just...
                                         
                                         Have you seen it?
                                         
                                         Yes, I have.
                                         
                                         Oh, you watched it as well?
                                         
                                         Okay, right.
                                         
                                         It's that kind of disarm...
                                         
                                         It's that kind of...
                                         
                                         The thing that surprised me is
                                         
    
                                         A, he had an astonishing career
                                         
                                         for someone who didn't have
                                         
                                         any discernible talent
                                         
                                         apart from being a presenter.
                                         
                                         You know, like, he had... discernible talent apart from being a presenter.
                                         
                                         I think he was quite a good presenter.
                                         
                                         He was one of the most famous people in the UK.
                                         
                                         Do you think he was a good presenter?
                                         
    
                                         He clearly had to be because he has to hold it together but his bumbling
                                         
                                         fucking mumbling
                                         
                                         weirdness was so bizarre.
                                         
                                         It's this sort of bizarreness where you're like
                                         
                                         this is just...
                                         
                                         He was fucking mainstream but he was a dribbling fucking maniac right and and that kind of subversive um
                                         
                                         hypersexual kind of disarm it is disarming disarming kind of um sexual uh uh it's not
                                         
                                         sexiness but you know what i mean kind of like pretending he's sexy do you know what I mean? Kind of like pretending he's sexy.
                                         
    
                                         Do you know what I mean?
                                         
                                         His whole thing was like
                                         
                                         putting people on the back foot,
                                         
                                         like getting in people's fucking faces,
                                         
                                         kissing people on the lips.
                                         
                                         This kind of like,
                                         
                                         this disarming kind of sexual undercurrent
                                         
                                         that was in plain sight.
                                         
    
                                         I found it astonishing
                                         
                                         because I don't remember any of that.
                                         
                                         I do not remember him
                                         
                                         constantly talking about fucking young lasses. Constantly talking about this. astonishing because I don't remember any of that. I do not remember him constantly
                                         
                                         talking about fucking young lasses.
                                         
                                         Constantly talking about this, talking about that.
                                         
                                         I cannot remember any
                                         
                                         of that. It was absolutely
                                         
    
                                         bizarre.
                                         
                                         And some of the clips
                                         
                                         were just, you know, it was an incredible
                                         
                                         set of... And a man
                                         
                                         who just... There's one
                                         
                                         shot of him
                                         
                                         when he's like
                                         
                                         probably about 20
                                         
    
                                         and then after that
                                         
                                         he looks about 50
                                         
                                         like he's so old
                                         
                                         it was very hard
                                         
                                         to pin down
                                         
                                         what age it was
                                         
                                         yeah
                                         
                                         what period it was in
                                         
    
                                         because you can't tell
                                         
                                         how old he is
                                         
                                         always had his
                                         
                                         fucking top off as well
                                         
                                         his disgusting
                                         
                                         fucking rapey
                                         
                                         little fucking top
                                         
                                         always in a string vest
                                         
    
                                         always in a string vest
                                         
                                         I tell you
                                         
                                         comes out of it badly
                                         
                                         oh Thatcher she comes out of it badly oh Thatcher
                                         
                                         she comes out of it
                                         
                                         very badly
                                         
                                         Edwina Curry
                                         
                                         she was mouthing off
                                         
    
                                         this week
                                         
                                         you were like
                                         
                                         oh you saw that
                                         
                                         on the fucking documentary
                                         
                                         yeah Thatcher's ink man
                                         
                                         but the thing is
                                         
                                         isn't it really
                                         
                                         I almost think of it as
                                         
    
                                         and I'm not looking to
                                         
                                         absolve him from any of the blame
                                         
                                         because clearly he is
                                         
                                         the fucking main person
                                         
                                         to be blamed here
                                         
                                         but I kind of felt
                                         
                                         I came away from watching it
                                         
                                         and people listening
                                         
    
                                         if you've got access to Netflix which is fucking anyone you can kind of felt i came away from watching it and people listening you've got access to netflix which is fucking anyone you can watch it um and i came away from the two part of
                                         
                                         thinking wow this is like just a little bit short of like almost like mass hypnosis yeah like once
                                         
                                         you know all the horrible truths you can see it in a completely different context and it becomes
                                         
                                         quite difficult to watch for all the reasons you've said. But at the time, clearly, almost the entirety of society,
                                         
                                         apart from the poor victims and a few kind of brave journalists
                                         
                                         who were trying to do the right thing and get it heard,
                                         
                                         he had managed to almost hypnotize everyone,
                                         
                                         from TV executives to police officers, quite senior ranking police officers,
                                         
    
                                         to journalists
                                         
                                         to all these other people and it was interesting i found that what andrew neal who was one of the
                                         
                                         talking heads said he's you know an interesting character for a number of different reasons
                                         
                                         i know some people wouldn't wouldn't be a fan of his at all and i understand that but he said
                                         
                                         something interesting at the end he said and he was talking about himself to be fair as well
                                         
                                         he said as a profession journalism let the country down.
                                         
                                         We are responsible for not holding him to account,
                                         
                                         although obviously he's ultimately responsible.
                                         
    
                                         But I've come away from it thinking, God, that's so frightening.
                                         
                                         It's so frightening how so many people can be almost tricked by it.
                                         
                                         And I wondered also whether that would be possible now,
                                         
                                         because maybe we're a much more cynical generation these days and because of the internet and all the rest of it i mean basically it was the internet that brought him down right because people were sharing their stories in a
                                         
                                         much more connected way and he wasn't able to be as isolated as he was so that's what kind of
                                         
                                         brought him down so maybe it couldn't happen so much to that scale now i don't know i mean women
                                         
                                         women are just frequently not fucking believed and and and there'll always be a story i think but
                                         
                                         yeah i i think you're right though.
                                         
    
                                         I think it makes it a hell of a lot more difficult.
                                         
                                         But you like to think that we wouldn't be...
                                         
                                         It was mania, wasn't it?
                                         
                                         It was absolutely bizarre that he managed to kick off
                                         
                                         for such a long time.
                                         
                                         And that was the thing that surprised me,
                                         
                                         that sexuality that he constantly...
                                         
                                         That's the thing, Peter.
                                         
    
                                         I think that's the key nub of the issue, right?
                                         
                                         Because people will say,
                                         
                                         oh, he had like a double life.
                                         
                                         And you think, well, not really,
                                         
                                         because it wasn't like he was...
                                         
                                         We're not talking about like a Don Draper type character
                                         
                                         who's ostensibly very charming and very handsome
                                         
                                         and very kind of Bane.
                                         
    
                                         And you think, oh yeah, of course.
                                         
                                         He's a fucking bogeyman.
                                         
                                         He's a fucking bogeyman.
                                         
                                         Exactly.
                                         
                                         He looked fucking terrified all the time. I'm a 41-year-old man yeah of course he's a fucking bogeyman he's a fucking bogeyman exactly he looked fucking
                                         
                                         terrified all the time
                                         
                                         I'm a 41 year old man
                                         
                                         and I know he's dead
                                         
    
                                         right
                                         
                                         and maybe it speaks
                                         
                                         to me as a kid
                                         
                                         I used to watch
                                         
                                         Jim will fix it
                                         
                                         or whatever
                                         
                                         but I actually found
                                         
                                         it distills
                                         
    
                                         and the weird
                                         
                                         sinister background
                                         
                                         of him looking
                                         
                                         into the camera
                                         
                                         quite hard to look at
                                         
                                         and they didn't need
                                         
                                         to sort of dress up
                                         
                                         they didn't go
                                         
    
                                         put like drones
                                         
                                         underneath any of the footage
                                         
                                         it was just fucking
                                         
                                         chilling
                                         
                                         you sounded like him then
                                         
                                         oh now then
                                         
                                         I thought you'd have
                                         
                                         an impression of me
                                         
    
                                         but like just seeing him
                                         
                                         on fucking TV AM
                                         
                                         just being like
                                         
                                         I can't remember
                                         
                                         what fucking show it was
                                         
                                         where he was
                                         
                                         in that
                                         
                                         sleeping blanket
                                         
    
                                         it's this eccentric
                                         
                                         old fucking idiot
                                         
                                         who comes on
                                         
                                         oh with Selina Scott
                                         
                                         with Selina Scott
                                         
                                         who just
                                         
                                         and he just does a shit joke and everyone goes ah yeah and and you just get
                                         
                                         away because ah it's just old jim just jim being jim in it like and he was getting employed up
                                         
    
                                         until like not that fucking long ago and and and the thing that surprised me it didn't surprise me
                                         
                                         actually the he was still he clearly had fucking pretty decent legal counsel the best you know in if you're going
                                         
                                         to be a pedophile if you're going to be uh do the things that you do that you know there are there's
                                         
                                         a echelon echelon echelon echelon of uh of legal representation that is your only fucking answer
                                         
                                         and he used it like he used it repeatedly uh to quieten people and uh so i mean that was the side of things that i just
                                         
                                         assumed that because the women weren't being listened to but it was actually quite a little
                                         
                                         bit of legaling as well of kind of you know part of the reason yeah no you're right but part of
                                         
                                         the reason was that women and girls weren't being listened to but um it was also i feel like it was
                                         
    
                                         also the lack of connectedness and coherence
                                         
                                         between them to be able to build a case right so the reason i mentioned the internet is because
                                         
                                         people started sharing stories on things like frenzy and reunited and all that kind of stuff
                                         
                                         saying that you know this and there was clearly a body of evidence here like a
                                         
                                         a full kind of picture of information that could be used in a coherent way which the internet enabled but yeah I also
                                         
                                         it kind of really
                                         
                                         made me think as well about how
                                         
                                         accepting Britain is
                                         
    
                                         of an eccentric now that's not to say there's anything
                                         
                                         wrong with being eccentric and it's not to say that
                                         
                                         people who are eccentric are problematic I don't believe
                                         
                                         that at all and I don't think that's the case
                                         
                                         but we are so predisposed to really
                                         
                                         like love eccentrics in the UK
                                         
                                         that I also came away from
                                         
                                         it thinking that was part of it as well yeah okay yeah they they will be i've been indulged
                                         
    
                                         i mean that's how i'm in my bloody career you know but um well steady on
                                         
                                         how can you come away from that conversation saying that that's how i made my career i mean
                                         
                                         you haven't run a single marathon disgrace i mean it was a harrowing uh harrowing documentary from start to finish i will say a little bit of
                                         
                                         levity uh it reached uh our shores uh when a mate's just in the documentary saying that jimmy
                                         
                                         saville's funeral was lovely that's that's what put it on my radar you had a mate who was a talking
                                         
                                         head from the time so a contemporaneous talking head head, when Jimmy Savile's funeral was covered in the documentary,
                                         
                                         who basically went,
                                         
                                         oh, Savile, what a legend, great funeral.
                                         
    
                                         It was a really classy funeral.
                                         
                                         I cannot think of anything...
                                         
                                         Funnier than your friend being in a Peter's documentary.
                                         
                                         Coming close to dating worse than that.
                                         
                                         So the thing that got me...
                                         
                                         The first feeling was mirth
                                         
                                         and sort of like,
                                         
                                         ha ha ha, oh dear, that's awkward.
                                         
    
                                         And the second one was like,
                                         
                                         knowing full well he was up there in Leeds
                                         
                                         for a radio feature.
                                         
                                         You know, he was a sidekick on a breakfast show.
                                         
                                         I'm not going to detail who it is
                                         
                                         because it's not fair at all
                                         
                                         that he's been pulled into a fucking...
                                         
                                         Well, you can just watch it.
                                         
    
                                         Right, you can just watch it.
                                         
                                         You know, you'll find out who it is.
                                         
                                         But yeah, he was sort of pulled into it.
                                         
                                         He was told to go up to Leeds and do, you know,
                                         
                                         it was called Jimmelfixitgrimmage,
                                         
                                         or the Jimmelgrimmage, I think they were calling it.
                                         
                                         Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         So when he died, obviously,
                                         
    
                                         is Leeds, Leeds or Scarborough,
                                         
                                         he's in Marnie or whatever, right?
                                         
                                         And so there was, you know, the casket was,
                                         
                                         and people were sort of filing in and filing out.
                                         
                                         And his, because the show was all about 80s nostalgia,
                                         
                                         because of the ages of the DJs,
                                         
                                         he'd been told to go up north.
                                         
                                         And I don't think, it wouldn't have been his decision,
                                         
    
                                         because, I mean, you know,
                                         
                                         because it's a pain in the arse to go up north for a day day or whatever but he's all to go off and to do it and he was obviously featured
                                         
                                         on the news because you know if a news just if you're doing a radio feature and someone shows
                                         
                                         the camera in your face saying what do you think of the of the of the casket viewing or whatever
                                         
                                         and he said it was really quite classy really quite classy um and it's really annoying because that that kind of the dj who would have made him do it
                                         
                                         is such a difficult personality such a difficult person anyone who worked with him many people
                                         
                                         didn't have a lot of good things to say about him and that show kind of cast such a long shadow
                                         
                                         and and and it ends up with you know a guy I know featuring slightly
                                         
    
                                         on a Jimmy Savile documentary
                                         
                                         saying that it was
                                         
                                         a lovely service
                                         
                                         it was unhelpful
                                         
                                         you don't want it
                                         
                                         you don't really want it
                                         
                                         I think
                                         
                                         I think you feel it
                                         
    
                                         particularly keenly
                                         
                                         because I think
                                         
                                         it could have easily
                                         
                                         could have easily been me
                                         
                                         dressed in a gorilla suit
                                         
                                         saying
                                         
                                         no I thought
                                         
                                         Osama Bin Laden's
                                         
    
                                         sea burial was
                                         
                                         was really classy.
                                         
                                         No, I know that we're an international...
                                         
                                         I saw a turtle's head.
                                         
                                         I know that it was a pair.
                                         
                                         I know that we're an international show
                                         
                                         with an international audience,
                                         
                                         so I apologise for being so parochial about that,
                                         
    
                                         but he was a massive figure in Britain.
                                         
                                         If you don't know who he is,
                                         
                                         if you're listening in the US...
                                         
                                         Give it a Google.
                                         
                                         It is really a chilling, harrowing story,
                                         
                                         but it's worth checking out.
                                         
                                         You should better watch it on Netflix.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I didn't know you'd seen it.
                                         
    
                                         I didn't know we were going to go on such a deep dive
                                         
                                         because I wasn't sure that you'd watched it.
                                         
                                         But I found it very affecting
                                         
                                         and well worth a watch if you can stomach it.
                                         
                                         Because I know a few people said to me,
                                         
                                         I don't know if I fancy that.
                                         
                                         Because I've got a running joke, right,
                                         
                                         with my dear old mum.
                                         
    
                                         So, you know, because Jimmy Sabo presented Top of the Pops in the 70s,
                                         
                                         and that's the age that my mum was kind of a real pop music enthusiast as a young lady.
                                         
                                         And it's funny, we've got a running joke, me and my mum,
                                         
                                         because every time there's like an old episode of the Top of the Pops on,
                                         
                                         I always say to my mum, oh, I saw you on telly earlier,
                                         
                                         because all the girls look exactly like my mum, I saw you on telly earlier, because all the girls
                                         
                                         look exactly like my mum does in all the family
                                         
                                         photos. So I called
                                         
    
                                         my mum and said, mum, you've got to
                                         
                                         watch this documentary because you're in it.
                                         
                                         And she was like, okay, what is it? And I
                                         
                                         messaged back saying it's
                                         
                                         Making of a Monster, Jimmy Savile.
                                         
                                         She replies back saying, fuck off, what are you trying to say
                                         
                                         about it? And anyway,
                                         
                                         yeah, so that's basically why I
                                         
    
                                         asked my mum to look at it.
                                         
                                         But anyway, let's get a break.
                                         
                                         Let's have a quick break, Peter.
                                         
                                         Let's take a little bit of a pause from talking about genuinely really horrific predators
                                         
                                         and come back and do some battery brands and get back on track.
                                         
                                         How about that?
                                         
                                         All right, then.
                                         
                                         We're back with the Luke and Pete show.
                                         
    
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                                         I like the one about the glove that's covered in butter
                                         
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                                         Yeah, I think you voiced that one excellent.
                                         
                                         I did, yeah. Thanks, mate.
                                         
                                         Also, it's a lot easier when it's a product you use regularly, isn't it?
                                         
    
                                         You can really invest yourself into it.
                                         
                                         It really is.
                                         
                                         I hope there wasn't an advert for that documentary.
                                         
                                         Why?
                                         
                                         Because that could happen.
                                         
                                         I mean, that could happen.
                                         
                                         Well, yeah.
                                         
                                         I mean, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         But also, like, I mean, the documentary exists.
                                         
                                         We're kind of recommending it, I suppose, aren't we?
                                         
                                         Doing them a favour, Netflix.
                                         
                                         They can send some money our way, can't they?
                                         
                                         They've got a fair amount of cash.
                                         
                                         Got a lot of debt.
                                         
                                         Anyway, it's Thursday, just after the ad break.
                                         
                                         Just after the ad break, yeah.
                                         
    
                                         So that means one thing and one thing alone, doesn't it, Lukey Moe?
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         It does. Batteries. Batteries!
                                         
                                         If you are a fan of batteries, or if you've just found some in an old remote, get them in.
                                         
                                         Hello at lukeypeachshow.com. The rarer, the better.
                                         
                                         Andrew has come in with some JCB Zinc AAAs.
                                         
                                         Tidying up the office today, and I found a beautiful pair of AAA cells
                                         
                                         in an old Universal TV remote.
                                         
    
                                         JCB Zinx.
                                         
                                         I remember hearing a listener attempt
                                         
                                         to new playstats with some JCBs before,
                                         
                                         but I wasn't sure whether they were Zinx,
                                         
                                         so I thought these puppies were worth a shot.
                                         
                                         Andrew Lavers, what do you reckon?
                                         
                                         New players?
                                         
                                         Yeah, so we've had quite a few JCBs in the past.
                                         
    
                                         No Zinx?
                                         
                                         But they've all been JCB Alkaline or JCB Ultra Alkaline.
                                         
                                         Oh, lovely.
                                         
                                         The ones that Andrew sent in are JCB Zink.
                                         
                                         They're AAAs.
                                         
                                         They look very different.
                                         
                                         And because his photograph includes him,
                                         
                                         and very lovely clean fingernails,
                                         
    
                                         I think I'm going to let him in.
                                         
                                         Fair do's.
                                         
                                         Fair do's.
                                         
                                         New player.
                                         
                                         Congratulations.
                                         
                                         I'm rumbling in this JCB.
                                         
                                         I'm five years old, and my dad's giant sitting beside me.
                                         
                                         Do you remember that song, Nisloppy?
                                         
    
                                         The JCB song?
                                         
                                         Yes.
                                         
                                         Who was it?
                                         
                                         Oh, do you know who?
                                         
                                         I'll tell you what.
                                         
                                         Here's a great bit of music trivia for you.
                                         
                                         Nisloppy with the JCB song.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Can you tell me who their guitar tech slash roadie was?
                                         
                                         I mean, would they need a guitar tech?
                                         
                                         How many songs do they have?
                                         
                                         Do you know?
                                         
                                         No, I really don't.
                                         
                                         And it was his favourite band growing up
                                         
                                         and he reached out to them
                                         
                                         and became their guitar tech slash roadie.
                                         
    
                                         Oh, so now I'm thinking
                                         
                                         it's not going to be a famous person.
                                         
                                         It's going to be one of your mates.
                                         
                                         Who is it?
                                         
                                         Is it Vish?
                                         
                                         Ed Sheeran.
                                         
                                         Ed Sheeran?
                                         
                                         Yeah. Wow. The writing was on the wall there, wasn't it? Is it Vish? Ed Sheeran. Ed Sheeran? Yeah.
                                         
    
                                         Wow.
                                         
                                         The writing was on the wall there, wasn't it?
                                         
                                         There you go.
                                         
                                         The man influenced by Nisloppy.
                                         
                                         Good God.
                                         
                                         Just saying.
                                         
                                         I'm not ascribing a value judgment, mate.
                                         
                                         I'm just letting you know it's a good bit of trivia.
                                         
    
                                         Good God.
                                         
                                         Every time I hear an Ed Sheeran song, I think,
                                         
                                         yeah, I can see why he's the most successful singer-songwriter,
                                         
                                         but I don't want to listen to any of them.
                                         
                                         The thing is, let me tell you something right now.
                                         
                                         He's so prolific.
                                         
                                         He writes for everyone, and he's brilliant.
                                         
                                         It's just fine.
                                         
    
                                         It's just fine, isn't it?
                                         
                                         There's nothing bad about it.
                                         
                                         So I think it's a great litmus test of what type of person someone is right because if
                                         
                                         they profess to hate quote hate ed sheeran i think that's performative yes i think it's affected and
                                         
                                         i think you're saying that for a reason you've got a motivation for saying it right if you love him
                                         
                                         good luck to you i don't see how you can hate it i just it's not enough in there to be like oh my
                                         
                                         god this fucking hate. People love it.
                                         
                                         He speaks to a lot of people.
                                         
    
                                         I know plenty of people who are really into it
                                         
                                         and he seems like a lovely, genuine chap.
                                         
                                         So good luck to him.
                                         
                                         But he did start out with the great Nisloppy.
                                         
                                         I'm now worried that I've got that wrong,
                                         
                                         but I'm pretty sure I haven't.
                                         
                                         I thought you would know that fact.
                                         
                                         No, let's have a look.
                                         
    
                                         It would be in the Wikipedia, wouldn't it?
                                         
                                         You think so? No, it's not on look. It would be in the Wikipedia, wouldn't it? You think so?
                                         
                                         No, it's not on the Wikipedia, but maybe that's the case.
                                         
                                         Maybe that's the case.
                                         
                                         I think it is the case.
                                         
                                         All right, then.
                                         
                                         Andrew Burke has got in touch with a Petzl Core rechargeable battery, PETZL.
                                         
                                         Hi, guys.
                                         
    
                                         Further to my failed attempt in having the chimpanzee double plus inducted into what I would consider
                                         
                                         to be the only
                                         
                                         widely recognised
                                         
                                         credible and accepted
                                         
                                         official database
                                         
                                         of battery brands
                                         
                                         in the world
                                         
                                         I'm back for another crack
                                         
    
                                         and this time
                                         
                                         I have a picture
                                         
                                         please see
                                         
                                         the Petzl
                                         
                                         core rechargeable battery
                                         
                                         which I found
                                         
                                         in an old headlamp
                                         
                                         all the best guys
                                         
    
                                         keep the good work
                                         
                                         Andrew
                                         
                                         Andrew
                                         
                                         sorry
                                         
                                         so Peter
                                         
                                         I've just
                                         
                                         so I've just I've just whats So I've just WhatsApped you
                                         
                                         a picture of the Petzl Core
                                         
    
                                         that our friend Andrew has sent in.
                                         
                                         Let me have a look.
                                         
                                         It is a new player.
                                         
                                         It's not been sent in before,
                                         
                                         so it ticks that box,
                                         
                                         but I just want to make sure
                                         
                                         that you are happy with the type of battery it is
                                         
                                         because I don't recognise it.
                                         
    
                                         What?
                                         
                                         Now, what's going on there then?
                                         
                                         It looks like a fucking big sim card.
                                         
                                         It looks like...
                                         
                                         Oh, yeah. I don't think we can have that
                                         
                                         because that's a lithium.
                                         
                                         I think that's lithium.
                                         
                                         Because obviously
                                         
    
                                         what you're doing there is...
                                         
                                         That's not even a double A, is it? I mean, it's good that it's branded. We enjoy that you're doing there is, yeah, that's not even a AA, is it?
                                         
                                         I mean, it's good that it's branded.
                                         
                                         We enjoy that kind of caper.
                                         
                                         But yeah, it's not AA.
                                         
                                         It's not your standard battery size.
                                         
                                         It's just a random lithium ion rechargeable battery that you've got a little plug for.
                                         
                                         You plug in like a shitty USB.
                                         
    
                                         It looks like the battery used to get in a big chunky mobile phone back in the day.
                                         
                                         Yeah, it looks like a camera battery, doesn't it?
                                         
                                         But fair do's that, oh, that's a really good idea, actually. I back in the day. Yeah, it looks like a camera battery, doesn't it? But fair do's that,
                                         
                                         oh, that's a really good idea, actually.
                                         
                                         I'm enjoying the form.
                                         
                                         I'm enjoying the form factor.
                                         
                                         You're really chuffed with it.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I'm like, oh, whoa.
                                         
    
                                         Yeah, no, we can't accept that.
                                         
                                         It's not one of your big five or whatever,
                                         
                                         AA, AAA, Ds, whatever.
                                         
                                         It's just not one of those big boys.
                                         
                                         But thank you for bringing that to our attention.
                                         
                                         I like the fact that you can plug,
                                         
                                         you think that that battery would need a charger that you would slice it into,
                                         
                                         but you actually just pop a little USB cable into the side of it.
                                         
    
                                         Fantastic.
                                         
                                         I mean, it's a great bit of innovation.
                                         
                                         You've enjoyed it, Pete, as a punter.
                                         
                                         Andrew, you've enriched my life.
                                         
                                         Yeah, but you can't accept it as a gatekeeper, can you?
                                         
                                         Sometimes you've got to separate the man from the job, haven't you? Yeah, true, true.
                                         
                                         And you can enjoy it personally, but you can't accept it professionally.
                                         
                                         Unlucky, mate.
                                         
    
                                         Sorry to hear that, Andrew.
                                         
                                         Yeah.
                                         
                                         Josh, Josh Bavington Barber.
                                         
                                         Hello, Pete.
                                         
                                         After a previous mention for the new player, Golden Power,
                                         
                                         which included a compliment for my lovely hands and fingers,
                                         
                                         I thought I'd chuck these 90s raw wrecks, heavy-jokey double A's into the ring.
                                         
                                         My wife recently found out that Polly Pockets are worth a small fortune
                                         
    
                                         after a tip-off from a friend.
                                         
                                         She was sorting them out for a sale and asked me to put some batteries
                                         
                                         in the 1993 Polly Pocket bare window house
                                         
                                         after struggling with a particularly stubborn screw.
                                         
                                         Upon opening, I exclaimed,
                                         
                                         No old batteries!
                                         
                                         My wife I have access to knew immediately and replied
                                         
                                         The Battery Podcast
                                         
    
                                         which seems to be a common nickname
                                         
                                         for yourselves along listeners' partners
                                         
                                         I don't hold out much hope
                                         
                                         knowing the large following of battery fiends
                                         
                                         among your listeners
                                         
                                         but vintage new players would be a real coup
                                         
                                         Thanks for the good work
                                         
                                         and may the new players continue
                                         
    
                                         in this ever-growing lithium age
                                         
                                         Josh Bavick and Barber.
                                         
                                         Raw Rex, Heavy Duty.
                                         
                                         They look absolutely ancient.
                                         
                                         It looks like one of them is on the turn.
                                         
                                         One of them is actually starting to expand.
                                         
                                         Yeah, yeah.
                                         
                                         They are new players.
                                         
    
                                         Congratulations to you, Josh.
                                         
                                         You've not only got one of the best names we've heard recently
                                         
                                         of people emailing in,
                                         
                                         you've also got a new player entering the game.
                                         
                                         So congratulations to you.
                                         
                                         That's the good news.
                                         
                                         The bad news is I googled, when I saw this,
                                         
                                         Polly Pockets on eBay,
                                         
    
                                         because my sister used to have loads of them,
                                         
                                         and I can't find any of them that are valuable.
                                         
                                         They're all selling for about eight quid.
                                         
                                         Yeah, I think true collectors know what they're all about.
                                         
                                         But yeah, I just always thought the disposable,
                                         
                                         mass-market, cheap Japanese, Chinese sort of stuff
                                         
                                         that came over in the 80s
                                         
                                         wouldn't really excite anyone.
                                         
    
                                         But no, I mean, it turns out a lot of toys from the 80s, 90s
                                         
                                         really do tick a lot of boxes for people.
                                         
                                         I only...
                                         
                                         And my mum and dad used to say this all the time.
                                         
                                         I wish I'd kept my, you know, action comics comics.
                                         
                                         I wish I'd kept my DC comics.
                                         
                                         I wish I'd kept all the stuff we had when we were kids.
                                         
                                         I wish I'd kept them.
                                         
    
                                         But, you know, it's annoying, isn't it?
                                         
                                         Shit doesn't get kept, does it?
                                         
                                         That's not how the world works.
                                         
                                         It doesn't get kept, yeah.
                                         
                                         No, so by the way, look, I mean, just looking at this now,
                                         
                                         if it wasn't for your quite harsh judgment of our friend Andrew
                                         
                                         and his Petzl Core Rechargeable, we'd have three out of three.
                                         
                                         But as it stands, we've got two out of three, which is not too bad.
                                         
    
                                         So that's the second week in a row we've had two out of three.
                                         
                                         The new battery brands are still coming in. people are still sending them in four years on and we're
                                         
                                         still seeing batteries we've never seen before it's incredible to consider really yeah i look i
                                         
                                         i like rules in our game i like to be the the the the the creator of the umimeters of this particular
                                         
                                         game. And I
                                         
                                         think it's important to have rules,
                                         
                                         regulations and
                                         
                                         a quality level when it comes to
                                         
    
                                         the old battery brand.
                                         
                                         I hope Andrew
                                         
                                         Burke understands. No, not Andrew Burke. Josh
                                         
                                         Bavington-Barber. I very much enjoyed
                                         
                                         looking at the raw Rex heavy duties.
                                         
                                         Yeah, absolutely.
                                         
                                         I think everyone
                                         
                                         wins here.
                                         
    
                                         Oh no, Petzl
                                         
                                         car.
                                         
                                         The guy's listening
                                         
                                         to get some
                                         
                                         unbelievable
                                         
                                         entertainment for
                                         
                                         free, you know,
                                         
                                         and we get just to
                                         
    
                                         chip off and
                                         
                                         muck about for
                                         
                                         the afternoon.
                                         
                                         So look, that's
                                         
                                         that.
                                         
                                         We should wrap
                                         
                                         up.
                                         
                                         We're running rapidly short of time.
                                         
    
                                         Rapidly short of time.
                                         
                                         Busy boys.
                                         
                                         We will be back on Monday.
                                         
                                         We are going to at some point
                                         
                                         go through the emails from people
                                         
                                         who started listening to our show
                                         
                                         because of that big billboard.
                                         
                                         I've got to go and feed my cat
                                         
    
                                         because his stomach is on a fucking timer.
                                         
                                         It's unbelievable.
                                         
                                         Time of recording is now what?
                                         
                                         Five past five?
                                         
                                         He gets fed at 5.
                                         
                                         I'm glad that your cat gets fed the same time as my dogs.
                                         
                                         That's quite nice. We both
                                         
                                         know, if we're in the house, we both know what we're doing at that
                                         
    
                                         exact same time. 5 o'clock, we've got
                                         
                                         I'm pushing a tablet into some meat.
                                         
                                         Well,
                                         
                                         the lads here, they get
                                         
                                         it's kind of interesting for them because
                                         
                                         if we're both, if the wife I have access to and myself are at work, they won't get fed until we come home.
                                         
                                         Fucking whistle for it.
                                         
                                         Yeah, so basically they get it around 7.30 when one of us gets up.
                                         
    
                                         They always get their evening at 9pm.
                                         
                                         It's generally 5 o'clock if someone's in for the middle one.
                                         
                                         But if we're not in and they have to wait, then it kind of gets a little bit confusing. Right. I don't know what they do when no one's here at 5 o'clock if someone's in for the middle one but if we're not in and they have to wait and then it kind of gets a little bit confusing right and but they i don't know what they do when i'm not when
                                         
                                         no one's here at five o'clock yeah um they probably go and hassle all the other fucking houses um
                                         
                                         but but yeah they're like you can set your watch by you sit there watch by their little stomachs
                                         
                                         it's kind of mad um but there we go anyway so it's goodbye from me and magnus who's sitting
                                         
                                         there waiting patiently uh goodbye from you and Magnus who's sitting there waiting patiently.
                                         
                                         Goodbye from you and your gigantic elbow which looks worse and worse every time I see it.
                                         
    
                                         I'm just taking a screenshot of it.
                                         
                                         It's terrible.
                                         
                                         How do you do screenshots on the Windows machines?
                                         
                                         Is that it?
                                         
                                         Do it now because you can also get a screenshot
                                         
                                         of my cat licking its bum.
                                         
                                         Oh, you missed it.
                                         
                                         Got it.
                                         
    
                                         And yeah, we're back on Monday.
                                         
                                         Have a lovely weekend.
                                         
                                         All that usual business
                                         
                                         and we'll see you then
                                         
                                         thanks very much
                                         
                                         for listening
                                         
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