The Luke and Pete Show - Mr Karaoke Hostess Bar

Episode Date: October 27, 2022

We’ve got a new Prime Minister, for the next couple of months at least. I'm sure he'll be respected and won’t be labelled a **** on the BBC, right? Maybe not. As well as hearing more on that, we discuss whether the day has finally come for Pete to replace the Fiat and a listener sends in a very unusual eBay listing.Spotted anything unusual on the internet? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Luke and Pete Show, it's Thursday 27th October, I'm Pete Donaldson and I'm joined by a lovely furry Luke Moe, he's got a bit of a cold though so apologies if he sounds a bit sniffy. Yeah, alright, is that an impression of me is it? Sounds a bit likey. Yeah. All right. Is that an impression to me, is it? Sounds a bit like this, don't you? We did a lovely little live Twitch stream last night. I had a lot of fun, Luke. I quite enjoyed chatting while the football was on

and broadcasting to literally nobody because I put it on a private channel. Pressure's off. Relax. Just enjoy it. Pressure's off. Just enjoy it. Pete, did it make you respect me more as a broadcaster?

Yeah, it made me respect me more as a broadcaster yeah it made me respect you more as a broadcaster you can't even convince yourself of that the way you said that sentence

I looked out the window there was a squirrel jumping around on the fence and I thought that's more interesting than pretending that I respect no that is more

interesting definitely that is more interesting yeah it was fun we might do a bit more of that in the future for those listening who are football fans

look out for updates of us talking about football on the football streams while the games are happening why not yeah

oh no what's up I've rubbed chilli all in my eye that's a disaster isn't it oh dear will he get through

the rest of the show stay tuned to find out you can do it with one eye I could do it with one eye you don't do it with one eye. You don't read the running order anyway. I don't need the death perception.

Yeah, but I print out the running order on a really long bit of paper. You know, those old ones you got on a dot matrix printer that's completely endless. Like Jack Kerouac did. Yeah, and I sort of spread it out and I don't even bother pulling the paper towards me. So I need to be able to see uh in in in like in the in the in the future i'm so tired yeah you're okay

um we had a late night last night because uh jim can't work an ethernet cable so i was so tired you know on the road so my point about jack carowack there is that you know on the road that classic piece of like mid-century American literature the sort of thing that people sort of go you should read and then I look at it and I go

I can't be arsed yeah it's one of those things where like when you read it as a young person it's kind of really fascinating and quite interesting

I think if I read it now I wouldn't chime as much but anyway the point being that Jack Kerouac famously wrote that story on one continuous manuscript which came up for auction being that Jack Kerouac famously wrote that story on one continuous manuscript,

which came up for auction about 20 years ago and was sold for, I think, about $2.5 million. Wow. Okay. So one continuous, as in piece of paper, that was just really, really long. Yeah. I'll show you. I'll send you a little pic. Okay.

Yeah, so it's quite interesting to think that he wrote it in a way that is, you know, essentially like the style of the... So basically, I'm mumbling my words here, but basically the way that Jack Kerouac wrote, he wrote it in a very stream of consciousness way. That's kind of what he's known for. And I just think it's quite interesting that he wrote it all in a continual manuscript, one piece of paper as well to show

that i guess that shows that he really commits to that style i suppose where would you even buy that though where would you even quite just want an endless an endless yeah that's a good point i didn't think about that i've never i've never considered that question it's a very good one where does he buy a piece of paper yeah but i guess he's if he's writing on the road he's in the back does he travel by car i presume is he kind of like i don't think he was writing it on the road i think it's just called on the road and he wrote it afterwards oh i thought it was like that was the whole thing he's kind of okay right fair but i just i just the idea of him with a big roll of um basically toilet paper under his arm that he's scribbling down at every junk show he

can he can manage maybe maybe it is i think that would be a little bit of a stretch though i think i think in many ways i think i think sort of the little um lucan peter we did a couple weeks ago where i detailed where i went on my road trip very similar in style as impactful and in impact yeah exactly exactly, exactly. Someone will turn that MP3 into an NFT and sell it in a few weeks' time. Yeah, definitely, mate. You should definitely do that. So he wrote it in three weeks in April 1951,

and he typed it on what he called the scroll, a continuous 120-foot scroll of tracing paper sheets that he cut to size and taped together. The roll was typed single-spaced without margins or paragraph breaks oh so he typed it so it was just a constant feed of paper yeah wonderful i like that um level of engineering you'd have to be very specific and very um delicate and specific with your uh taping i suppose otherwise it'll just get jammed in the jammed in the old typewriter. Then you'll be in trouble. Listen, when people discuss that great work of semi-fiction, people rarely talk about the logistics

behind how it was actually done. And I think that's a shame. I think that's a real stain on the conscience of the commentariat. They haven't covered that vital part of the production of the book. I think you totally spot it there. And I will be creating a compendium

of Luke and Pete's show Running Orders. Actually, we can't because it's a Google doc that changes every couple of days. You have to go through the revision. And I'll be selling that. Yeah, I'll be printing that out and selling it.

If I've met a human being less likely to be putting together any kind of compendium of Running Orders, it's probably you. Who's the second? are best you are at best agnostic when it comes to running i can't i cannot uh i cannot be offended until i know who's second yeah i was not sure who's second actually let's just say if there was a mount rushmore

of people who would at least likely to do this you'd be on there on your own i'm i'm not i'm the sort of person who works like this just in a constant sense that i can't spend any time relaxing because there's always work to do yeah but i am unwilling to prioritize or organize my life yeah that's how it goes unwilling is definitely right um Speaking of great organisation, we should probably address the fact that we've got our new Prime Minister in Great Britain North 9 I think for October and November. Yeah, it's like a little calendar thing. You tear off a leaf and you get a new one every month pretty much

in the UK. It's quite exciting. And Rishi Sunak who is the current Prime Minister for those of you who aren't following the tedium that is British politics or you live abroad and don't give a shit the thing that really made me laugh about this well the thing that most springs to mind

because quite a lot of it made me laugh is did you see on the BBC News channel they did a I think it's called a word cloud right where it's essentially you put rishi sunak's name in the middle and then using some kind of algorithm from social media or from the internet um it produces a word cloud of all the different words that are associated with him and people have used like this is kind of like people um founded words basically these are the words that people are using to describe rishi sunak yeah the bbc haven't come up with this content this is what's out there this is how people are describing

yeah and the bigger the word the more frequent it comes up so like there's some words they're like okay and capable and strong and one is liar and one is um posh um what the bbc didn't realize and what they let slip through the net was both the words cunt and twat yeah which i think it's funny but i don't understand should the bbc be in a position where they are moving words that are actually in there yeah so like so like the words in there a lot of people have called him a cunt a lot of people call have called him a twat. A lot of people have called him posh. And a sly idiot. I don't think that the BBC, in the state that they're in and the criticism that's levelled against them at every juncture from every corner of society, they should be censoring stuff like that because it's out there.

The word's in the word cloud, so then it should be used. If you censor twat, before you know it, you're censoring arrogant backstabber and the whole edifice starts to fall down. What's your cut off? What is your cut off? Maybe the solution is what they did, which is to, I think, asterisk it.

Yeah. Yeah, no, I completely agree. Yeah, I think they did right. It was in there. I think that's defendable, in my opinion. Did you see that Rishiishi shinnok uh is known slightly differently over in japan right i posted this on a 30 run so basically in japan there's these places called um snack bars which are basically like they're hostess bars where um

salary men they sit down after after you know 12 hours at work and they sit down and they smoke cigarettes. I'm listening. And these relatively good-looking women sit down next to them and engage them in polite conversation. I'm still in. And light their cigarettes. It's indicative of a wide issue with the patriarchy. It's not sexual necessarily. Right. not sexual necessarily right it's just it's just a part of their entertainment uh nightlife thing

where boring men uh bore off at women who uh you know get tips to to basically talk to them basically it's it's like a it's like a very my marriage then effectively it's kind of like your marriage then it's it's not a nice place i um uh chris broad from roger i'm a dramatical once and i was very uncomfortable i left within left within about half an hour. And that's shit. That speaks to your character because you are an honourable, very nice chap.

It's not honourable. I just don't like being waited on at the best of times. You're uncomfortable in quite a lot of places is what I was going to say. I am, yeah. I'm uncomfortable

in my own skin. You're uncomfortable in your own house to the extent that you spend a lot of your time in your own shed. I do, I do, yeah. Anyway, carry on. I'm's only gonna get worse as i get older so rishi sunak uh in in japanese katakana uh which is the writing uh alphabet that allows um the japanese to describe

uh romaji um um uh english words or borrowed words effectively so um uh so if you mcdonald's would be mcdonald's and like a million different syllables but it's a way of sort of every syllable's got a got a um got a sign and so his name in katakana was rishi sunaku now sunaku is the shortening of the word snack bar so and that's what everyone calls snack snack bars so basically rishi sunak was known for a very long time as in japan as being Mr. Karaoke Hostess Bar which is a wonderful it's like being known

as Mr. Saturday Night Mr. Karaoke Hostess Bar it's really really good stuff he won't like it they've basically they've shortened they've shortened

they've removed one of the K's out of Rishi Sunak so now he's just Rishi Sunaku which now avoids the unfortunate implication on this stage if he sticks around long enough which we don't know if he will or not if he sticks around so now he's just Rishi Sunaka which now avoids the unfortunate

implication on this state if he sticks around long enough which we don't know if he will or not if he sticks around long enough to do

a state visit or whatever it is a visit to Japan I love the idea of the briefing so Prime Minister this is the schedule as one final thing

we just need to sort out so if you don't mind just listening to this everyone's been calling you Mr. Snack Mr. Kara snack hostess bar yeah karaoke hostess bar are you okay with that because i we feel like if you make a big deal out of it it might get worse

you best just ignore it and hope it goes away it was like it was like uh when japanese uh commentators in the world cup couldn't say the word eric backer because backer means idiot or twat what were they saying they were just saying his number or just not I mean I don't think Eric Backer

was doing many many things in the World Cup I think they were fine on that note when we were doing our private test stream for the Manchester City game

last night when they went to play Dortmund so on Tuesday night as you're listening to this one thing that was amazing was that because Pete Donaldson, my esteemed co-host, takes on everything in a completely unique way

when we were talking about the game and stuff that was actually happening Pete was using the numbers of the players rather than the names and it was fucking exciting because it was a bit like watching a football match combined with going to the bingo yeah well wasn't that how they sort of

used to they used to use like quadrants and stuff back in the day yeah they used to go square number one yeah

back to square one and all that stuff so I'm bringing it back a little bit I mean it was mainly I'm bringing it back mainly it was missing

because I had a very small mobile phone screen that I couldn't really see properly so I could only see the play I never thought I only see the play.

I never thought I'd see the day when the Donaldson runs out of screens. I'll be honest with you. I know, I know. I've got so many screens in this bloody room, but you always need one more, and you always need one more that's bigger. You always want one screen short. So, Pete, how's life in Donaldson world?

I know you're in your shed at the moment. You're having a nice time. It's in your happy place. What's going on generally? How's life? How's life?'s life fine i've uh what is it i've i've parked my car uh there's there's a big like kind of like crab apple tree outside the uh outside the house can you use the crab apples for anything or they just kind of too sour they just i mean they're they're they're pretty rancid at the moment they are just they're falling off trees and just splattering all over everyone's cars. Horrible as well, crap.

Yeah. And so I had to take, this morning I had to go and take the car for a bit of, there's like a little pressure washer in the garage quite near our house, and I just put my couple of quid in and just absolutely burned it off. But I didn't realise you're not supposed to apply wax to your windscreen. So I started driving and it suddenly got very, very cloudy. I was like, oh no! I mean, that's just a common sense thing, isn't it?

Well, I just assumed it's not going to do any harm, but it did do some harm. Nearly crashed it at school. Do you know, like back in the day, before they had proper special effects, if a particular Hollywood actress or something was... And this is an awful sign of the times, but quite an interesting point, I think.

If an actress was, they perceived her to be getting old or she wasn't quite as young as she used to be, one of the things they would do is they would put Vaseline on the lens. Yes. To soften it. Is that what you were doing?

To make yourself look like a sexy driver? Pretty much to me. Who's that hot guy in this Fiat 500? You can't see where he's going. I'm in a little bit of a... I don't mind talking about this because I listen to Sean Five Live with Ellis James and John Robbins

and all John Robbins does is talk about leasing or buying a Kia Sportage. I'm thinking of leasing a car, Luke. What do you mean? I'm thinking of leasing a car. I got spoiled when I was on holiday with a bigger car. I leasing a car, Luke. What do you mean? I'm thinking of leasing a car. I got spoiled when I was on holiday with a bigger car. I've got a car, but it is very small, and the dogs don't really fit in it properly,

and it's actually quite uncomfortable on long journeys. And I do take it on quite a lot of long journeys these days, so I might get a slightly larger car. So you're going to sell your car and lease a new one? Yeah. Yeah, that's good. Leasing seems to be the... Is that a good thing to do?

That's what I do. Because I'm so... Is that what you do? So you lease a car? Yeah, pretty much. How does that work then? So there's a bit of a deposit and you just pay an amount every month

and then after three years, they go, do you want another one? Yeah, you kind of have options. I think it obviously depends which place you go to, but you have options where you take a newer one or you buy that car outright or you sell it or whatever

there's like a lot of different options you can take but I've done that for years and it works fine for me you haven't got to worry about it if you if you absolutely sort of wipe it out

and smash it up what happens do you have to pay for the whole thing oh no they just say oh don't worry about it mate do you want another one what do you think happens

how does it work if I absolutely total a car? If I total a Kia Sportage, what's going to happen? Excuse me, I'm looking to lease a car with zero consequences

for my own actions. Is this something you can help me with? Oh dear. Where are you going to fucking get it? Narnia? Yeah, I don't know.

I'm just, I'm completely, I watched a man on, I tell you, if you've ever been on YouTube, I think I've found the most boring corner of YouTube, and it's men, British men of a certain age, reviewing car leasing deals online. That's amazing. There's something out there for everyone.

Just men going, this is the hottest deal for the car leasing thing and they're just listing toyota corollas you know it's just like what like what is this what is this about but this is what you're doing for research though is it so it's obviously serving a purpose yeah but it's boring on it i'm watching i'm like this is so so i think it's it's a really kind of um hassle-free option i i can't say that i'm an expert on it but i can speak for my own experiences and it's a really kind of hassle-free option. I can't say that I'm an expert on it, but I can speak for my own experiences, and it's been fine for me. I mean, the one I do, you get your name on the car.

It's like your car. Right. You get your name on the pink slip, as it were, and as long as you pay every month, it's kind of no big deal. Also, one of the things they do as well, my one, is you get a service every year as well. Right, okay. And most of the stuff's completely covered.

I think the only time, I've had it for mine for almost four years now, the only time I've ever had to pay anything was about 200 quid. It was all included as part of the deal. And the one thing that's interesting to our listeners about the situation with you leasing a car is that you know that that's one of the only places really in the UK, culturally, where you can properly haggle over a good deal right okay yeah which is a nightmare for you it's a nightmare fuel for you that if i do it on email i'll do an email i did i could do it on email absolute coward i'm an

absolute hag look i can have the best of more for email i'll do all of it i'll do all the histrionics i'll do you'll have me paying more. Yeah, yeah. Out of principle. My one, I remember when I did mine, I even made to get up and walk out and left and waited for them to call me and they called me back the next day and I got a better deal. Got to do it. I know you got to do it.

They've got wriggle room. I look back, right? Look at our Prime Minister he obviously married into an ungodly amount of money with his partnership but he made a fair amount of money respectively in the city in his 20s

made shit loads of money there now my understanding of the city is that a lot of these deals and a lot of these things, how it works, they appear to involve managing relationships and almost being like a PR person. deals going uh negotiating like all of this stuff that requires a certain amount of steel determination but mainly charisma in many ways yeah and i can't help but think that that man has no fucking charisma he's also very small much is he very small is he very small he's a very very small man and um physically i mean i don't mean morally i mean i don't really maybe he is morally as well i'm not sure but he's very small man in in terms of his physical presence as well which i don't know that is of interest but it feels like it might be but the thing the thing about

him is he's very he's clearly very bright um a good degree in ppe from oxford and fulbright scholar and all the rest of it and then obviously became i think a fund manager in the city didn't he for some hedge fund or was a partner somewhere and he was at Goldman Sachs for a bit as well. But you're right. It's kind of interesting because you would expect someone of that level of success to be very, very good interpersonally, and he doesn't come across like that. He comes across as a bit kind of wooden, you know, a bit strange.

What I'm trying to say is, like, someone like, you're talking about interpersonal skills. Here I am. Get me, get me involved, for crying out loud. I'll tell you what, as a little audition,

I'll go and get you a new car. I'll get you a good deal on a lease. And if people think I've done a good job on that, put me in the cabinet. Yeah. Okay, fine. That's a deal.

I just, I just don't like, I just don't like, I just don't like the idea of walking in and going, and just being a hard ass. Just, I would just prefer it if the prices, that's why I like I just don't like the idea of walking in and going and just being a hard ass just I would just prefer it if the prices

that's why I like Japan the prices the prices there's no tipping everyone gets paid a relatively fair wage just fucking get it done I hate the time

but I see it as a game to be played I hate screwing people over you're not it's a game to be played they expect it like basically I know they do

if you go into a car showroom for whatever capacity to get a car whether it's a lease or buy whatever and you walk off paying the fucking listed price they cannot believe their luck they are in the pub on friday laughing at you and you can't let that stand you cannot let that stand you've got to play their game but they work in a car dealership i don't care like they can laugh all they want at the end end of the day, they spend most of their time talking about fucking Bluetooth connections and stuff. To be fair, that is true.

So you'd rather chuck someone like an extra... You can easily get a grand off a car, easily. Right. Yeah, okay. Yeah, I mean... So they give you an offer. I email in with my email address that, like, strongboy99.

Strongboy99 at gmail.com. Soyboy99. Take no prisoners 79 at gmail.com. Beatacock at hotmail.com. Bigdog underscore yard at gmail.com. And I go, listen, I like the look of this car, and I like the look of you, but I don't like the look of this deal.

You're going to have to sweeten it. You're going to have to pour some semolina into this fucking mix, mate. Is that known as the sweetest thing, semolina, is it? The sweetest. Is semolina rice? Yeah, semolina's like sweet rice, isn't it? I would just start with sugar, though.

Don't put sugar in your gas tank. That's the last thing you want to be doing so I think it's a very good idea I think I speak on behalf of the whole Lucan Pizza community when I say you should

absolutely try and go and lease another new car I think that would be a good thing to do I would personally not mind if you spent loads of money you didn't need to spend on it

I think it would be a good entertainment but I think for your own sake you need to get in there you need to put your sunglasses on you need to stroll in there like Vince McMahon walking down the aisle. And you need to fucking say, I'm here to do business.

What are you going to do for me, boys? Yeah, exactly. What are you going to do for me? But the problem is, the way I fall down is when they start asking me questions about cars specifically. Because I don't know anything about it. Right. So I'm the worst combination of ignorant and belligerent. What do you look for in a car?

Like cup holders and fuzzy dice? Not really. I just got the car that I thought looked all right and it's comfortable for long journeys because we mostly do long journeys in it and it was big enough and comfortable enough and all that good stuff. I'm a tall man.

Exactly. That's part of it. That is definitely part of it. I could even get in your Fiat 500, I wouldn't have thought so. Anyway. I've offered. You won't go in? Fiat 500, I wouldn't have thought so. Anyway. I've offered, you won't go in. No, it's true.

You did try and give me a lift somewhere once. I didn't need it. I didn't want to take it. Let's have a break. When we come back, we'll do some more of this, but we might do an email or two as well. So stick around and we'll see you in a sec. Lovely stuff.

Hey, we're back with a little picture. Oh, we've got to do batteries, haven't we? Sorry. Hey, we've got to do batteries. We are the Battery Daddies. If you saw on our socials recently, we have taken receipt of a Battery Daddy. Or certainly... I mean, is the Battery...

I guess the Battery Daddy is just the suitcase. The little armoured suitcase for your batteries. I almost sliced my finger off trying to open it. That's true. Yeah, you did slice your finger off, unfortunately. So, RIP Luke's fingers. Right, what have we got this week? Dan Barrett.

Thank you, Dan Barrett. The backstory in this battery submission is that my wife had a small kitchen scale that went dead. She opened it up, took the batteries out, and walked over to the trash. It was at that point I leapt into action and flew across the room, saving the batteries from the bin. My wife looked at me like i was a crazy person and i explained the

battery cult i belong to on a podcast dan barrett uh excellent work uh you do indeed belong to a battery uh cult free gore which um is a lovely design i'm enjoying the font i'm enjoying the flair they've got with the R. And super heavy duty. Free goes super heavy duty. Any love, Luke? It's a great story, Dan. Thank you for sharing it. Thank you for intervening in your callous wife's actions to be applauded.

Sadly, Freego's not a new player. We first came across Freego's from our friend Oliver back in April of 2018, can you believe? Right, okay. Well over four years ago. So it's not a new player. We've had quite a few submissions since, but thank you very much for sending it in. Yeah, and I like in the background, you can clearly see that he's outside,

like he's been banished from the house. If you're taking the fight with that battery, you're doing it in the garden, kid. You're doing it in the garden. And beautiful macro setting on his phone. I can see every last fibre of his fingerprint. To be applauded. Anyway, Darren.

Darren from Sheffield. Hi, battery daddies. Years ago, I bought one of those mini tactical flashlights from Amazon. It's one of those that come with a strobe effect to ostensibly blind any assailant before you can bash their head in with the flashlight's chunky steel bezel. Anyway, I noticed the flashlight power was finally on the way out, so it came time to change the batteries,

and I was greeted by these LYW beauties. Hopefully a new player, as I can't recall ever having heard them on any episode. Keep up the good work and severely underappreciated work of cataloguing strange batteries. Darren from Sheffield, LYW. Yeah, so Darren... Reminds me of that band that I think Bam Margero was in. That's CKY, isn't it?

Yeah. He's in a bad way these days, Bam. He's in a bad way, yeah. Darren, you are the third person to send in LYW. LYW's in, sorry. Our friend James sent them in in July of 2018, and it was also followed up by Valkyrie22, whose real name is is unknown who

sent some in on uh the 1st of may 2021 so you're the third person to send those and i'm afraid not a new player never mind never mind but it's good to see the shenzhen liya wang a battery company um represented once again still going uh hello to uh curtis curtis mac uh while his battery submission is almost certainly not allowed for a number of reasons, A, it's not a battery in my possession, and the brand is named after the product it came in, I simply found it hilarious to see, and I thought it was worth sharing.

While looking for a replacement drive belt for my old Sony Walkman. That's what I like to see. That's what I like to see. It is people who are going around eBay looking for very specifically taught and sized little rubber bands. It's good stuff, enjoyable. Because they're the first things that perish. The second things that perish is the horrible rubber coating

that people put on, like non-slip coating that manufacturers put on laptops in the late 90s and early 90s it starts to rot and it comes off on your hands and it becomes very sticky. It's bloody horrible. So you respect the fact that our friend here Curtis

rather than saying look it's a Sony Walkman from presumably the 90s I'm going to probably buy another device to play music. He's searching through eBay looking for something to fix it with. They were the best ones nowadays the only sort of tape

drives you can sort of buy they're all based on the same one or two sort of cheap Chinese models like the actual innards of them they're always built around the same little thing because there's no point in recreating them with a wheel when there's no need for them. But they're very cheap and they're not particularly well made

and the sound reproduction isn't very good. Same with CD players. They're all built around one or two very cheap-to-make little devices, little bits of engineering. And so these ones came from a time where um sound quality actually mattered and you know it's a you sound like you're yelling it's pono certainly do upon closer inspection in the sunny watman double a uh hall i found the seller was not only selling a very old battery but a very exploded and disintegrating battery at that i

love that the seller had the chutzpah to list and sell a leaky, acidic mess of a battery. Hopefully, there is an equally insane buyer that would take their offer. So basically, this person is selling a genuine Sony Walkman AA battery, right? Yeah, it's amazing. And it's exploded. It's all over the place. The top has come off. The brilliant part of the eBay listing is there's a photo of an exploded Sony Walkman battery, as you rightly say,

and it says, genuine Sony Walkman AA battery. Please read description, right? You scroll down to description. Please note, this battery is leaked. It's in poor condition and not usable. Thanks. What a salesman. Why are you selling it then why are you selling it because everything's like do people sort of take off the plastic and uh i could

probably lowball this guy i reckon um yeah people take off the plastic and and put and put a fiver for one double a sony walkman battery that's exploded like it's completely unusable do they take off the plastic and wrap other newer batteries in them? Maybe. That would probably work. I think you should buy it. Buy it. I'll pay half of it. I'll give you £2.50. Buy it.

We can see what it looks like when it turns up. Because that is a genuine AA Sony Walkman battery, mate. I mean, if he's selling that at that price, he clearly knows something that we don't and you see this

on Facebook Marketplace all the time the amount of NES and sort of Game Boy games that just people are selling them for like

50 times what they're worth and they just haven't they've just heard that retro games are big and they've found a couple in their kids stuff in the loft and they just

put them on eBay put them on Facebook Marketplace, and it's just absolute dog shit. Not a day goes past when you're not on Facebook Marketplace. Correct. It's become my top three, really. Kotaku for video games, Reddit for all kinds of nonsense, and Twitter and Facebook Marketplace.

Is it fair to say the car booty stops over the winter months, so you kind of just switch to Facebook Marketplace? Well, you can't trust the weather, really. If it's not bloody freezing, the rain is absolutely delightful. But do they still run them? Yeah, they still run them, yeah. They just have a lot of plastic sheets over stuff. Fine.

You're pretty dedicated to go there. Correct. I would say. And I am. Anyway, thank you very much Curtis

for making us aware of that. I will do my very best. I mean he's emailed all the way from Calgary in Canada.

I'll do my very best to get Pete to buy that battery because it's still available for sale at time of recording. You could go and

get it and we could put it in the battery daddy. That's what we could do. We could put it in the battery daddy that's what we could do we could put it in the back that's where it that's where it belongs but would it leak over all our other battery collection if sorry that might yes it would yes it would be disgusting okay we might have to seal it first but anyway let's get out of here and that's enough for for one thursday show we will be back of course on monday after after a lovely weekend we hope for a nice relaxing weekend. Monday's Halloween,

so maybe we'll try to have a couple of spooky stories if Pete and I aren't spooky enough for you. So we'll see you then. Hello at LukeandPete.com to email in with your battery observations and with your other emails as well. We'll try and get to some of them

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Peter say goodbye I wish I hadn't gone on Facebook marketplace there's a lovely Atari ST on there this might take it through

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