The Luke and Pete Show - Powered by Lasagne

Episode Date: July 31, 2025

Today on your all-new LAPS portion: Luke meets the Bad Boy of Petanque in the flesh, there's some reminiscing about the abandoned 3D TV revolution and the lads learn about who *really* invented the telephone.Elsewhere, Luke remembers Good Shoes, Pete remembers Field Music and reveals the surprising thing they're up to now and there is a surprising plot twist in the battery chat. Could a lasagne really end up in the Battery Daddy? Tune in to find out...Email us at [e-mail] or you can get in touch on X, Threads or Instagram if character-restricted messaging takes your fancy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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It's the start of another show. A celebration of all things strange, weird. Let's face it, sexual, depressing. Is it sexual? I think it's the most under another show! Celebration of all things strange, weird, let's face it, sexual, depressing. Is it sexual? I think it's the most unsexual show I've ever been on. It's sexual, it's not sexy, it's two very different things, aren't it?

True. True. Fair. True. Yeah, we're currently moving offices at Stack Towers. We are, aren't we? Yeah, god, it's exciting. Which I mean everyone else is doing it and we stand out of the way. We are aren't we? Yeah, god it's exciting. Which I mean everyone else is doing it and we stand out the way. Exactly, yeah exactly. And Amy, who works with us, is basically posting a load of stuff

on the shared WhatsApp group saying, does anyone want this? Does anyone want that? And there's a lot of weird talk in our office isn't there? Yeah there is. And you're saying it like that, you're essentially, A, you're responsible for 90% of it, B, you're also claiming it all back. I am claiming it all back. You can't bear to see anything thrown out. Yeah, there's a wooden Good Shoes sort of thing you would send, well I know it's exactly

this because I stole it from XFM, when Good Shoes got a good album or something, they sent it to, they sent a sort of child's, sort of Good Shoes little, sort of put together thing, nice little curio, like a wooden toy, and they sent it to XFM and it just sort of sat around and I was like, I'm having that. I'm not a master stealer of things, but I thought that's nice. It's from the 2007 record, Think Before You Speak, isn't it?

Good album. Yeah. What a good album. Are you gonna make me tell you, I told a very boring story about Down Snow on Monday. Are you gonna make me tell you another boring story about the lead singer of Good Shoes? I would like to hear the story about Good Shoes.

Unless you told it on the show, that's the question. I can't remember it all. I can't imagine we'd be talking about Good Shoes, to be honest. It all bleeds into one, but the lead singer of Good Shoes is a guy called Reesees, I believe. And I was at a 30th birthday party. Oh God, it's going to have been probably...

15 years ago. 2010. Right. Yeah. The guy, my mate whose birthday it was, weirdly enough is K Tempest's brother. But anyway, he's older than me, so it probably would have been longer than that. Anyway, it was when Good Shoes was still a band, and I'd had Think Before You Speak, that'd come out and another couple of records or whatever.

And I was at this bar, I think it was the Haggiston Pub in Haggiston in East London. And I was at the bar, it's a private kind of room upstairs at the bar and the barman really looked like the guy from Good Shoes. Have I told you this story? You have, but I enjoyed it. Alright, well maybe there's some new listeners who don't remember it. And I was like, oh you really are the lead singer of Good Shoes? And he was like, oh yeah, that is me.

And to cut a very long story short, it was essentially that he was in a band that were, had been on the cover of NME and had done well and getting merch sent out and people were talking about them and he was still working full time in a pub. And that's before the band even broke up. And I imagine that continued as well. That was such a respected album as well. Not by me. I really love the song Small Town Girl. I really love the fact that they wore the heart on their sleeve when it comes to being from Morden or Rains Barber. I think it's Morden. But I thought they were one of those bands that was like, okay, it's fine.

But I mean, it's fine. I never knew why they got, I mean, you've got the Maccabees and them, I always sort of saw as being on a level. Maccabees are really well loved now, aren't they? Maccabees sawed, didn't they? They sawed. Yeah, I mean, I know Felix from Maccabees a little bit, nice fellow, he does a load of podcasts as well.

But they recently headlined a stage, I think they might have headlined British Summertime. No, it wasn't, it was All Points East, they headlined All Points East. Yeah, yeah. Which is a great gig for them, you know, I think they're have headlined British summertime. No, it wasn't. It was all points east. They headlined all points east. Which is a great gig for them. I think they're one of those bands that have got a catalog that people really like and it's aged really well and they can come back and loads and loads of people are interested in seeing them again, which is great. Well, again, they're kind of like, they got to like almost falls proportions, you know

what I mean? Like kind of that level. And and like I think with the Maccabees like They they are good. I guess they're still racing music aren't they because they went away They retired effectively and then and then they came back and started doing shows again, which is very welcome well, I think what you'll find is the Latch me has got a wave machine. Yeah, that's me. No, I'm a straight as well. I think there was a single It's right vision. Oh Yeah, good. It's really good. Sounds almost nothing like that. But the thing about Maccabees is that they, like I say, the generation probably slightly younger than us. So guys who are now in their early to mid thirties, I think they seem to love them.

Absolutely love them, yeah. Get involved, get back together, do your thing for crying out loud. You see, you sent me a link of the band Phil Music becoming a Dawes Tribute Act. Yeah, that was fascinating. Fascinating. That's brilliant. Like, bearing in mind like how, if you're familiar with Phil Music, for me, Bit Futureheads, Bit, like, by the way, just the fact they're from the North East and they're a vocal harmony group, or they were back in the day. I must admit, like, by the way, just the fact they're from the North East and they're a vocal harmony group, but they were back in the day. I must admit I'm not kept tabs, but it just seems like the Dawes, a band of course, the lead singer, absolutely Dawes, it just seems interesting that the

Dawes, it doesn't sound, vocally doesn't sound very similar to field music. Yes, I mean the story here is that they announced they were gonna do as a day job, a doors tribute act. And they were still gonna release music as field music elsewhere, right? And they got a lot of stick for it. And they did a Instagram post where they said, look, this is why we're doing this.

It's impossible to make a living out of music. We've developed loads of skills over the years, which means it will just be stupid for us to go and get another job somewhere else. So this is how we're going to do it. We've learned these skills. We're going to apply a trade like you would when they have a trade and it's necessary. And if you don't like it, fine, but this is the way you're going to be able to continue to get more field music, right? And it's almost like we're seeing now the reality of how difficult name possible it is for artists that aren't Taylor Swift or Ed Sheeran or whoever, or old legacy artists to make any money to make, to even make a basic living.

I've got a friend called Ed, he's a fucking super talented songwriter. He's been in bands which he's formed and fronted and they've done well and they've been in places like Domino Records, like really well respected labels and stuff, never made any money. And what he does is he's session guitars for, at the moment for Jesse Webb, but he was with Dua Lipa for a while and he composes and he does soundtracks, he just does loads of other stuff in the margins because essentially you just can't be in a middling band anymore. It's just impossible, right? So then you've got Kate Nash doing OnlyFans famously. She did that almost exclusively to show the plight of struggling musicians and Kate Nash is someone

who's had hits, right? Yeah. Well she has. Foundations hits, right? Yeah, I mean... Well she has! Foundations was huge. That's what I mean! Yeah. But if you look, I'll tell you what then, if you take something like Foundations, which is our big song, right?

Which, I mean I don't know if it got to... It was certainly used in The Inbetweeners 50 times, that's the first episode, I don't even recall. Well she's had two top 10 albums, including one number one album, right, which has foundations on it. It sold half a million, it sold almost a million copies, right? And she's having to do only fans because she's got no money, right? Now, if you say, look, I'm not saying the song Foundations by Kate Nash is anywhere near as big as this, but as a comparison, my friend used to go out with the daughter of Mungo Jerry, right?

Yes. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. He only did really in the summertime. Yeah. Multi, multi, multi millionaire. Never has to work again.

Yeah. Now I know that's a really, I know that's a really covered and popular song from 50 odd years ago, but the point being I think back in the day, these artists, these legacy artists, they're fucking richer than God. You look at how much money like Dave Gilmour's got or whatever. I suppose it doesn't really bear comparison though, because I suppose Ed Sheeran and the big artists now would be wealthy as well, right? I guess there's just no middle is what I'm trying to say I'm fudging the explanation but there's no middle left. You've got to be Ed Sheeran, you can't be there's no middle ground anymore there's no kind of bands that would make any money like you just

make your money from touring but I mean I guess... But even labels take you labels take parts of tour in now as well. Yeah oh yeah there will be because there's no other money to be made I suppose. Have you heard the new Ed Sheeran signal? Signal? Single? Sapphire? Like a sort of Punjabi sort of Ed Sheeran mashup tune. I've never really actively sought out any Ed Sheeran song. Have a listen, it is the worst thing I've heard in my life. Really? Even putting aside the cross-cultural, you know, sort of flavours and stuff, I think we'll look back and sort of the, it'll all come off our eyes and we'll just sort of go, oh was he a bit shit? I don't think he might have been a bit shit.

I know you've got that story about that actor saying, Jimmy Foxx saying that he, you know, can hold his own in a, in a re like a really sort of like scary room full of like, um, really talented people and big crowds and stuff. And like, he's really cool in that. And he's, he's, he's this proper, uh, authentic person. But I do hear a song like that and I go, yeah, I think he might be rubbish. I think we might look at the back end. But the problem with that is that what does that mean though? Because I don't think clearly the millions and millions of people who have connected with his music on an emotional level care that you or me or some critic or whatever thinks it's shit. Yeah, but Ed Sheeran should be right up our street.

We're mid-forties nearly. No, but we're music fans. Nearly. We're music fans, right. Yeah, well that's probably why we don't like it. Well you like the fucking Mad Caddies. I don't like the Mad... Nobody likes the Mad Caddies. Mad Caddies are very much a band that...

Nobody's favourite band is the Mad Caddies, for example. That's Mad Caddies. But your favourite band is the Mad Caddies. My favourite band is not the Mad Caddies. Who's your favourite band ever? Err, well, Pulp, innit? Idiot. Absolute idiot!

Oh dear. Mad Candies have sold a lot of records, mate. Yeah, they were popular for a very long time. I would say limited. I would say playing that Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 and 4, they've re-released and judged it up. And they've basically changed a lot of the soundtrack, which obviously means a lot to a lot of people. I it's fair to say. Is that soundtracks fucking

brilliant? Yeah well I've taken, Tony Hawk has personally seen to it that a few bands have been taken off so you know no more. What so they don't get any royalties? No more Alien Ant Farm, no more, Flogging Molly's been taken off as well. But he doesn't like them. Well I'm just saying that they're basically pretending that Scar Punk didn't fucking exist. That's not, they're trying to say it's some kind of misstep. Rewriting history. Unbelievable. Rewriting history. Running rustle over your entire childhood. Grinding. Manual grinding. Those nights at that nightclub in Leicester mean nothing. Mean nothing. What nightclub are you interested in to Scar Punk in Leicester?

Oxygen. And to be honest we only ever got two Scar songs and it was usually a Less Than Jake, All My Best Sons Of Metalheads, and that rancid track. Surely they did Less Than Jake's cover of Take On Me, no? Too late, no. And that was the wrong band. Stop getting Scar Punk wrong! Was that a different band?

Yes. Who was it? Oh yeah, fuck, it's Real Big Fish, isn't it? Did they ever do Real Big Fish Take On Me, no? No, you'd occasionally, I tell a lie, that came a little later, but yeah, but you'd occasionally get that, but it was the same songs every year. All right, listen, I want to kind of do away with protocol just very, very briefly, because I've got an important thing to say. Do you know that, obviously people will be aware of, and Pete, you'll remember that we've been talking a bit about Dave who's the bad boy of Patong.

Yes, yes the bad boy. He throws hot balls around. He does. On fire, flame balls. So he's ranked as a world Patong player because we talked about being brilliant at the world's least popular sport and he got in touch. Well, I actually fucking met him last weekend. Oh fuck, really? Were you at the Batonk? I'm in Leon Solent, back down where my parents live, beautiful seaside village of Leon Solent.

And we had set up on the beach to have fish and chips on the beach in the evening. And my family had decided that it was to be me who'd go and get them. So I was walking back up to the little high street to get them. Yeah. And I heard this, hey, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look,

look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look, look all right, how you doing? Who's this? Yeah, and he was like, Guy. It's Dave. It's Patonk Dave.

It's Patonk Dave. I was like, Dave, great to see you. And we had a little photo. Yeah. And I said to him, it was great to see him and all the rest of it. And then he was really friendly. And he was down the beach because his wife had left his phone, her phone on the beach. He had to go and find it, which he managed to do. This is, surely that's absolute bread and butter to the Patoncan people. Exactly.

He just kept throwing these silver balls until one of them hit. And my heart sank because I thought he was going to ask me to help him look for the phone, I'm not doing that. But he announced that he'd found it. And we had a very genial conversation until I said as a joke, to lighten the mood, we should have a game of Patonc. And he got a kind a steely look on his eye and he went, yeah, yeah, all right. And I said,

You couldn't handle it. Would you ask Zinny Zin Zidane for a kickabout? And I said, I should probably win as well. And he sort of went, no fucking chance, mate. It sounds like a tough guy. He's definitely a tough guy. The bad boy of Patonk. He was tattooed. He was a tough guy for sure. Right. I am going to play him. I'll give him a game. But he's emailed in anyway. He emailed him before he met me. Right. Or before I met him, I should say. And I want to give you a quick update before we go to a break because David's very much the man at the moment. He says, oh, hi guys, quick update here from the bad boy of Patong. On Sunday, 29th of June, it was the semi-finals of the European Cup for clubs, English qualifiers. And I'm buzzing to say we only went and won it. We're off

to the finals. Hey, amazing. Now, despite, despite living down in sunny Stummington on the south coast, which is the next village along from Leoncernet by the way. Mmm. Near the study centre. Yeah, it is exactly what the home of the study centre. He said, I actually play for Meadow Patonc club, which is based in Kent and officially the premier club of English Paton. Think of us as the Liverpool of the metal balls. He said, I rocked up to the venue, Oxshott Sports and

Social Club, very sorry, very expensive. And I'm in desperate need of a number two. I find the loo, but it's occupied. So like any normal Pat on player, I go for a jovial knock and joke. Are you falling asleep in there, mate? Suddenly I hear the quick rustle of paper, which seems like a panic wipe. And then the flush, the door opens and who walks out? It was Roberto Di Matteo. Wow. Roberto Di Matteo, Chelsea legend and now keeper of the Ox shot Carsey. I must say I was stunned actually. All I managed was a Oh, you? Roberto Di Matteo, Chelsea legend and now keeper of the Oxshott Carsey. I must say I was stunned actually. All I managed was a, oh you're Roberto Di Matteo. To which he coolly replied, yes that's me. Gave his hands a rinse and vanished out the toilet. He said, all that was left for me is to enjoy the lingering warmth of a footballing icon's freshly vacated toilet seat.

So a big win for the Patonc Club, but an even bigger moment for my arse. Dave, keep us posted. Let us know when you get on the big one. Has it affected your Patonk playing any? It could have gone to his head, couldn't it? Yeah, well it could have warmed his bum in a strange way. You know, the magic, you know, it's like rubbing a statue's nose. So I'm hoping to play him at Patonk.

Right, lovely. Well it sounds like you're going to get your arse handed to you. I don't even know the scoring system, but I'm already targeting getting a point off him, taking a point off him. Take one point off him as the ball slices you through the neck. Yeah, exactly. So I've just been bludgeoned to death with it. Should be prettier if you did smile, I think. Oh, Peter, you have to bring it down.

Now, remember that block who, you know, something like 20% of the blocks think they could get a point off Serena Williams. And somebody wrote, I'm about, you know, imagining what it would be like to play Serena Williams. She stands in front of me, she doesn't smile, she'd be prettier if she did so. As she raises her... No, I've got the tweet here, I found it. Yeah, imagine that, I'm absolutely butchering it, sorry. Confident in my ability to properly tennis, I take the court. I smile at my opponent.

Serena does not return the gesture. She'd be prettier if she did, I think. She serves. The ball passes cleanly through my skull, killing me instantly. Oh, beautifully written. But really, really beautifully written. That's in response to a one in eight men saying they could win a point in a game of tennis against 23-time Grand Slam winner Serena Williams.

Astonishing. Didn't they do that? And it actually happened. They did get a point. Really? Yeah, it annoyed me that. I think, yeah, it's fucking annoying. I don't know anything about it. I fucking hate tennis. I know nothing about it. You're about to get lucky, aren't you? Well, you're going to hit the net or something. It's not a victory for you is it? Exactly, I mean tennis players are like, they are accepting that they are usually facing against players who will be doing the most professional tennis player thing at any one

time. I don't even know how to hit the ball over the net. I don't know how to do it. You're asking the wrong person. No one's asking you, no one's asking you. The ball's already passed through my skull killing me instantly. Holdy dead, holdy dead. Have you done a brick?

Have we got a brick? No, I've got a brick. You're asking the wrong person. No one's asking you. No one's asking you. The balls already passed through my skull killing me instantly. All he did. All he did. Have we done a break? No. Have we come back a camera? No. All right. Let's go and move back in a second.

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crying out loud, you have to own the battery. John has got into it. Child looking Pete's. I hope the cinema finds you well. My brilliant two year old daughter has terrible taste in TV programs and despite me encouraging the classic possum pack from the 80s, not that new rubbish whereas a helicopter, she's currently obsessed with Peppa Pig. I've been trying to avoid this show as other dads have told me it's rubbish but I finally sat down to watch an episode on the condition that she tries watching Thundercats when she's a big daughter. I reckon Thundercats might be shit now. A lot of shows that we watched back in the day were absolute crap. I mean, daughter will

do a bit of Mr Bean here and there but it's me. You showing there Mr Bean? Yeah, she... For the first time she sort of laughed at Mr Bean doing some funny stuff on the high dive board... Reminds her of daddy. ...at the swimming pool and she laughed at Mr Bean then looked at me and laughed as if to sort of go, are you getting this guy? Isn't Mr Bean like one of the most successful comedy characters of all time around the world?

It's got to be, hasn't it? Yeah, it's got to be. It's got to be absolute. That's why Aigner Fodor was insanely expensive cars. You can only fit one driver in. Like sort of like weird road legal formula cars. But the rest is just Frozen. I don't know when kids get out of Frozen, but I would very much like Frozen to go somewhere very very dark at least and just never be seen again. Anyway yes I was just like this go I was delighted to discover that Pepper's dad was voiced by Richard Ridings was the voice of the Horned Reaper from the Dungeon Keeper games which are a sound like I giggled every time he spoke and I am now happy to watch it imagining

daddy pig threatening imps or telling me to torture a monk. A wonderful wonderful game. I don't know if it has to be said. Yeah, really really funny in the episode I watched they have a power cut and Pepper's dad gets a torch and this inspired me to check the battery powered lantern That my father gave to me some years ago inside I found these bad boys are extra heavy-duty personal a new player Loving the diet iron brew colour scheme regardless on them. They look fucking beaten up, mate. You need to be putting them in the bin. They look absolutely ragged. They do look ragged.

Extra heavy duty personal. I can deliver a verdict that might be controversial here. So we've had plenty of extra heavy duty, super heavy duty, industrial heavy duty batteries. I've never seen an extra heavy duty personal before, so I think they are a new player. As ever, objections send them in. Well done to John's dad for purchasing three of them and popping them in a lump. Alex says, any love for Hua Dao? Hua Dao, Hua Dao Super Energy. Not percent mercury in cadmium naturally. I wonder when the vogue for 0% mercury in cadmium happened, whether it was a big change, an EU directive or something. Anyway, I found these in a handheld fan that

my 2.5 year old demanded from the corner shop. Given the circumstances, I suspect it may not be a new player Nor Reza Mousemat for Pete this time. Yes, I was very impressed with Alex's Reza Mousemat, but yeah, Huau Dao Super Energy any interest? They're the fourth Time it's the fourth time we've had those. Yeah, so we had the Valkyrie 22 Chris Dow Jack Brisbane And now Alex has sent those inserts the fourth time we've seen the Huau Dao. So they're quite rare Chris Dow, Jack Brisbane and now Alex has sent those inserts. The fourth time we've seen the wowed Dow. So they're quite rare, but they're not a new player I'm afraid. That's a shame. All right finally for now we could be going for a one out of three or a two out of

three we just don't know. Could be a 60 percenter, could be less. Read this one next please, this is a good one. This is a completely new kettle of fish this. Okay, John Garvey, long time battery user, first time emailer. As I stared at a GP supercell, boo, that I removed from a bleeping smoke alarm in the early hours of the morning, I placed it to one side, naive to believe that I would one day submit it to the battery daddy. Months have passed, several attempts to dispose of it by the fiancé I have access to have been and gone, my inaction compounded by several attempts from my battery brethren and cell sisteren to... I can never read the word sisteren.

No, is that the equivalent to brethren? I can only presume that John Garvey knows what he's fucking doing. I thought he's made it up. No, he's made it up, yeah. To submit the aforementioned battery, the battery has now gone but hope remains. Whilst I cannot formally submit a battery to the battery daddy I'd like to submit a footnote to the fine research the Luke and Pete show listeners have contributed to the lasagna battery a lasagna battery is an accidental electrochemical reaction that

occurs when leftover lasagna or other salty acidic foods are stored in a steel pan and covered with aluminium foil. I can't claim this research myself, having had to Google whatever leftover lasagna meant. All the best, John Garvey. The lasagna battery. So yes. This is fascinating. So apparently a lasagna battery is accidentally produced when salty, moist food, such as lasagna, store the steel baking pans covered with aluminium foil, as John said there. Apparently, and this is coming from the Wikipedia page,

after a few hours, the fuel develops small holes where it touches the lasagna, and the food surface becomes covered with small spots composed of corroded aluminium. In this example, the lasagna is the electrolyte, the aluminium foil is the anode, and the steel pan is the cathode. If the aluminium foil touches the electrolyte, the aluminium foil is the anode and the steel pan is the cathode. If the aluminium foil touches the electrolyte only in small areas, the galvanic corrosion

is concentrated and corrosion can occur fairly rapidly. So it's actually technically a battery, although I'm not sure. Just made completely accidentally by discarded lasagna. I mean I guess you could couldn't you? You could plug in a you could plug in something if you had loads of lasagnas. Would you like to see a lovely portion of lasagna in the battery daddy? That's the question. Yeah that would be a little bit. I like that the galvanic corrosion which is the process in which the metal corrodes and makes an electrical charge was discovered by obviously Luigi Galvani so he probably was cooking lasagna.

Could be couldn't it? Could be. That's the very first battery could have been a lasagna. Back in the mid 18th century did you have tinfoil back then? Who knows but yeah he discovered it. He used to electrify frogs legs to make them dance. Do you know the, do you know, did he really? That's strange. Did you know that in, in like Italian American culture, they are quite pissed off that the inventor of the telephone was an

Italian. And Alexander Graham Bell basically stole it. Okay, nice. Antonio Miucci apparently invented the voice communication apparatus, as it's called, that most people now believe was the first telephone. But Alexander Graham Bell was granted the patent for it before Miucci could get the flowers. Yeah, but I think that for an Italian, the telephone would probably... it's only half

the picture, isn't it, really, because they use so much hand talking. Not as useful. So I think Graham Bell should be awarded because we're going to use 100% of it and the Italians will only use half of its capacity, really. Yeah, it's not as much use to the Italians one would suggest. The Italian Americans have taken this quite badly. In 2002, a Italian American US representative passed a resolution in the House saying that the life and achievements of Antonio Meucci should be recognised, his work in the invention of the telephone should be acknowledged. Because apparently, if Meucci had been able to pay the $10 fee to maintain the patent, no patent could have been issued to Alexander Graham Bell. It's a big controversy mate.

Yeah, I'm not, yeah. Well, didn't, was it Bar Italia? Yeah, Bar Italia was, you know the Bar Italia, the great pop song, but also the place in which you, did you film yourselves on the continent photo shoot back in the day outside Bar Italia having a coffee? We did a photo shoot with Sam Smith I think, yeah. I met someone who knows James Horncastle at the weekend, because I was basically saying I'd do a podcast and she said, oh I know James Horncastle. I went, James Horncastle has a mullet. And she went, don't ever go to James Horncastle. I was going, that'd do a podcast and she said, oh no, I know James Horncastle. I went, James Horncastle has a mullet.

And she went, don't ever go to James Horncastle. I was going, that is just a simple fact. He's got a mullet. Like there's no two ways about it. That's just long hair, isn't it? Yeah, I don't know. It's longer at the back than it is the top, isn't it? That's a mullet.

That's a dying mullet. To me a mullet is styled at the front, short, and long at the back. That's what he's got, isn't it? No, he's just got long hair. Oh, has he? Oh, okay. He's receiving, I guess.

So maybe she shouldn't have. Maybe she shouldn't have. Speaking of mullets, did you see, you probably didn't see this, but the British and Irish Lions started their tour of Australia for the first Test match last week. They won. And the pundit was a guy called Will Greenwood. Do you know Will Greenwood?

Played for him. I think he won the World Cup 2003. He's a bit of a bellend. Anyway, he is 52 years old and had taken the quite extraordinary decision to appear on television as a pundit, where he had clearly asked a barber to give him the same haircut, the mulleted rugby player style haircut that all the young lads playing for the British Norwich Lions had. Right, okay, yeah, yeah, nice, nice. And I thought to myself, you're 52 though. I think he can get away with it if you're Australian though.

He's not, he's English. Yeah, it's a shame that. But could you explain it away if you're a rugby man that you fell asleep in somebody's head like a little joke. A little funny rugby joke. He knows what he's doing. I thought it was an absolutely remarkable decision personally but there you go. I will have that and look at that in a second.

Alright so listen, one battery, not one new player, one definitely not new player, what do you want to do with the lasagna? You slop it into the battery daddy, you turn it into a sling its hook? Well it's not really a brand if it was, if you said it was like I don't know who makes, Aunt Bessie do they make? Finder's. Finder's horse meat. If Finder's horse meat lasagna, we're putting together a little battery, an inadvertent battery I'd be there but like we just haven't heard, I don't think it should go in because A it's going to make a mess, B it's unbranded So we're not having a lasagna battery

Though I do encourage people to get in touch if they've heard about an interesting battery project or interesting. Yeah, I agree All right, that's that settled then. That's it. Let's get out of here I think I mentioned Baratalia because John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television there. Oh, that is nice I knew that was in Soha, I didn't know it was there. And then I think Sky, when they released, it was either 4k or 3D TV, one very popular, one not so popular anymore. I think they had a 3D telly in Barataglia for the first time and had like a little plaque saying the first 3D television in the UK. I was working at Sky Sports when all the 3D stuff that Sky were doing coming out to get endless fucking presentations about it. Richard Keyes

and Andy Gredd in promotional photoshoots with glasses. It was absolutely crap. It was crap. I had to go to all these, like in Sky they've got these kind of like as I'm sure you know they've got these like almost like mini cinemas where they do these presentations and stuff they did have. Sitting and then fucking listening about 3D TV. Do me a favour. Scare-Berley and 3D, hooray. Right, let's get out of here. It's The Loopy Show.

If you want to get to the show, if you've found an interesting battery, we want to hear from you. Helloloopyshow.com. And we'll be back on Monday. Look after yourselves over the weekend. You doing anything fun over the weekend, Lookingmore? I think so.

I'm going holiday soon, by the way, so we need to do some extra episodes ahead of time Peter, so we better organise that. I'm off to Riga this weekend. Bloody hell. Stag do, stag do. Who stag do is it? Yours? No, it just happens to be one of the few people I've not been to in... Marcus Spellers.

Yeah, I'm having an honorary solo... yeah, Marcus Spellers stag do. Now, just one of me weekend boys trips to somewhere in Europe I don't think I thought it was I didn't think it was gonna be that stag do-y but I'm sure I'll be proved wrong. Riga in July. Yeah but like I surely there's other places to go like Prague used to be like that it's not like that anymore so presumably Riga's people have passed on to other other climes surely. Enjoy yourself on the easy jet, boy. Ha ha ha! I'm going to get on the banana boat in the bay.

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