The Luke and Pete Show - Thankful for dogs

Episode Date: November 24, 2022

Happy Thanksgiving! To celebrate the occasion Pete offers up a rare moment of poignancy as we give thanks to our pets at the start of today's show.Don't worry normal service is resumed when Luke tells us some foul stories from the days of VHS. He also tells us about a very "interesting" shop owner he met on holiday and a quick Google tells us this man actually has quite a reputation...Have you met any "interesting" shop owners? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

it's the look of Peach Short. What are you doing with your foot? Tapping away. Tapping away. While you're doing a little monkey impression. I think it was more of a gorilla impression. Yeah. It's not deep enough to be a gorilla.

It's a chimp. I can't help my lungs. It's a chimp. Alright, it's a chimp. It's an asthmatic chimp. Chimps are quite high. They've got... Asthmatic chimp. Asthmatic chimp. All right, it's a chimp. It's an asthmatic chimp. Chimps are quite high. They go... Asthmatic chimp.

Asthmatic chimp. The dog I had access to, that my heart, that I have access to, is broken by, who recently died. When he found a big rock on the beach that he really loved,

he took off. Like a chimp. Like really excited. I feel so sad about your dog dying i do too it was uh it was a difficult uh time and it continues to be a difficult time yeah it's it's a really sad thing and it's like it's not that you said something really interesting to me earlier when we were talking about it you said i said that some people who i know have spoken to and said that you know losing the the dog is actually harder for them than certain family members because they spend so much time with the dog and the rest of it. And you said that it's because human beings have got agency or are perceived to have all this agency.

And dogs haven't, so therefore you have to look after them. And it's quite poignant and it made me really sad. And the reason it made me sad is because I don't come to you for poignancy normally. It felt more impactful if you catch yourself if you catch yourself at the wrong moment when you're not expecting a bit of poignancy from me yeah peter's poignancy moment it made me feel like there is something there is something in there there's something i sat you down and gave you a little jerry spriggers thought for the day and then it just made me think about my two cats who i love so dearly

and obviously at some point they're going to pass away. But cats live for ages longer though, don't they? Don't they live to 20s, don't they? I think they live, no, no, no, it's roughly the same as small dogs.

So, but they're about 15, right? Yeah. So I think 15's probably... Really? Yeah, yeah. I thought it was older than that. And they're both eight.

Right, yeah, yeah. And they've been like such a great, they've been such great companions throughout different phases of my life. Well, I sort of look, because you've got another dog and and and you sort of go oh they are different aren't they and the love i had for buckley it's a different kind of love for lola so lola can't

replace i thought well it's all right lola will be around it's not it's not the same i mean very different energies how's lola taking it well she cut it was there was shared uh stewardship of of that dog, so they didn't spend quite as much time as they possibly could do. So I think, I mean, you know, the dog got put down and Lola celebrated by licking her fanny. So in the room. That's just what a dog does, though, isn't it?

I know, I know. I just thought, she'll never change. Why do you use a phrase like that? She'll never change. Why do you use a phrase? This is the thing, see, you pull back from poignancy and go completely the other way. The pendulum just swings. There were you use a phrase like that? She'll never change. Why do you use a phrase? This is the thing, see. You pull back from poignancy and go completely the other way. The pendulum just swings.

There were so many horrible moments in that week, or weekend, that I won't go into, but that made me laugh. That was kind of like... Well, you'll go into that one. I'll go into that one, because the dog is licking her fanny. Don't say it again. We don't do it if we could. Do you think you're going to get...

Will you get another dog, or is it just too much to think about? Well, I don't know. We don't do it if we could. Do you think you're going to get, will you get another dog or is it just too much to think about? Well, I don't know. Well, Lola doesn't like other dogs, so we're kind of stuck with this shared ownership thing.

We'll figure it out. If you're walking Lola and another dog comes towards her, she doesn't like it. Any dog she'll have a go at. Apart from like, there's a dog next door that if she sees a dog that's similar to that,

like a cockapoo, black cockapoo, she's fine with, but all the other ones. I mean, she'll have a go at like Great Danes but how does that manifest itself right

just give it having a little bark and going for them she's really she's only little she thinks because she's part of the pack and she has to be

the leader of the pack and she feels like she's defending us and I'm saying no like don't worry about it no yeah I could fight upwards of

a Labrador I reckon sorry downwards downwards of a Labrador I reckon sorry downwards of a Labrador have I got any food in my teeth by the way it doesn't matter

it's a podcast I just want to check it's not like having it and so it's Thanksgiving today it is

I'm thankful for dogs the heart I have access to is thankful for dogs are you at that place that you can at least

be thankful for the time you spent with Buckley? No, I'm still very sad. Annoyed. That will come in time, I think. I think so, yes. I think it will come in time. Thanks for sharing it with us, though, because I think that's a really nice thing to do. That's all right.

I mean, I could have gone a little deeper, but I don't want to. Showing off. Is that why you've worn a bright pink blazer today? Just to kind of lift your mood? Lift my mood, yeah. Trying to cheer myself up a little bit. Are you coming to work as well? Is that good for you?

I'm coming to work, yeah. Some people would cry off, wouldn't they? Yeah, I've just got some wires to... My wires are here. I once interviewed... Some of my wires are here. True, actually, yeah. Seek solace in wires.

Wrap yourself in them. I once interviewed ex-Premier League football player Chris Kirkland in his home not long after his dog had passed away. And he got really sad about it and I didn't really know what to do.

Did you sort of look away? Well, I'd never met him before. I was astonished how hard it hits you. He was fine about it and stuff but it just felt a bit, I felt very intrusive.

Right. But I didn't mean to, because what it was, this is basically page one stuff of what you don't do warming up for an interview with someone you don't know.

Ask them about their dog. That's a nice dog. Yeah, yeah. She's got it, actually. A puppy, yeah. A new one. All right, yeah. Oh, do you know

what happened to your old one? Oh, no. Don't say that. I was saying, no, don't ask what happened to the old one. It was just a really poor, that was one of the worst,

one of the worst levels tests that's ever been done. Can I get a mic check? Can you stop crying on the mic, please, Chris? Can you count to ten? You big, tall goalkeeper.

Anyway, Chris was a lovely, lovely man, and I'm sure he won't even remember that now. I enjoy the image of, I would enjoy the, I think you are the perfect, you're kind of goalkeeper,

approaching goalkeeper height, you would say. So I think, He was taller than me. I think having, I think you are the perfect, you're kind of goalkeeper, approaching goalkeeper height, you would say. So I think. He was taller than me. I think having, I think you interviewing, because when like Jules interviews very tall people. It's funny. Just standing on the box. It's very funny.

And it's still funny. It's still funny. Yeah, when she was doing that stuff with Mark Schwartz, she'd be doing a box the whole time. Who chose that? Tom Cruise energy. At no point did they go, Jules is five foot one. Yeah.

And Mark Schwartz is seven foot. Yeah, but I don't think they, that's not how they plan programs, is it? No, but they would sort they go, Jules is 5'1", and Mark Schwartz is 7'0"? Yeah, but I don't think that's how they plan programmes, is it? No, but they would sort of go, this is a television. This is a television aesthetic. This is going to look like Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox at the Brits. It was like Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox at the Brits. But better. Yeah.

True, it's got to be factored in. I think as long as they're standing in one place, she can always just jump on a little box and it's fine. That's true. If you look on this photo outside the studio on the wall, there's a picture of me and Chris Kirk and Arthur are interviewing, and there's little dogs in there.

The dog got in the photo. You can't really see it because the dog's black, but if you look closer, you can see it. Oh, there you go. Yeah. I don't think it is. I think it's in the drawer I just opened. Oh, really?

Yeah. Did I take it down? Because I just saw it a second ago. What? Who took it down? I don't know. It wasn't me. Why don't people respect my work anymore?

It was probably, we know exactly who it was. John. John. Was it? Of course it was. Fiddling. Always fiddling with stuff.

You're always fiddling in a different way. You're always fiddling in a different way. I lock the door. I do the good grace of locking the door. I get basically a crescent

of photocopies of your Chris Cartland picture and yeah, just have a little fiddle. Nice. By the way, you'd be proud of me. This is what happened the other day. Okay.

Which I'm not particularly proud of, but I'll tell you the story. And then it ends in quite an interesting way. Did your head shot a noob on PUBG? I've been doing a lot of that. Mate, noob in it. Have you seen that? Who's a noob in PUBG in 2022? That's a question.

On my PUBG stream, there was a video from Monday the... I'm going to say Monday the 7th of November. There's a game in that stream, possibly the first game, where I took out two squads on my own. On the stream while everyone was watching.

I probably have been proud of it in my career, but I can't think of when. Certainly not recently. If you could ask Chris Kirkland about it. Do you clip them up? Do you put them on your little... The viewers clip them up for you. What?

Do they? They put clips up there, yeah. Oh. You can clip it up. So they choose the clips they like? Yeah. And that just appears on your thing? Yeah, under the clip section, yeah.

Oh. I had no idea. But I was... Because it's live on camera and live on mic, I surprised myself doing it. Right. So I didn't know what to do. idea. But I was, because it's live on camera and live on mic, I surprised myself doing it. Right. So I didn't know what to do.

Right. So I was just like, so your face is the camera. Yeah. Imagine I'm looking into the camera. I was just like, I was like this. I just did it.

I was like, yeah, great. I was just like, look at the camera the whole time. I didn't know what to do. But anyway. There was a guy who did three, I think it was 300 goals. There was a guy who did three, I think it was

300 goals. It was a Twitch streamer. He defeated seven Dark Souls games completely unscathed. Didn't take a hit.

Right? Wow. Now, even if you're not familiar with Dark Souls, finishing seven video games without taking a single

hit in a run. Yeah, it's amazing. So each game is like 30 hours. I think. Wow. You could probably beat him quicker.

But he didn't stream it the whole time. Yeah, and he's done seven of them concurrently, and on each one he's not taken a hit. It's consecutively, you mean. Sorry, what did I say? Sorry, not consecutively. That would be even more amazing. But yeah, seven Souls games,

and Dark Souls games are known as being fucking hardest games ever. So check my stream out, Luke Aaron Moore on Twitch. It's nothing like that. Nothing like that, I reckon. So I'm in the living room and there's a basket

of blankets in the living room. And it's like one of those things where obviously the basket is there. It's got blankets in it. You regularly get the blankets out of it

and put them back. But you never move the basket, right? Yeah. And because, you know, why would you? And,

and, so I pulled the blankets out of the basket right yep and because you know why would you and and so I pulled the blankets out of the basket so I was looking for something and the basket at the bottom had got all had got all kind of

because it's made of like it's like woven how do I describe it like a woven straw straw yeah so

and it's just old and then the wife I've actually brought it over when she moved here and she'd had it for ages so anyway we ended up just we're going to

chuck it away so we chucked it away and then we hoovered around it underneath it and stuff but while I was there I was in a

bit of a roll because I moved the basket away behind the basket was a big wire basket of wires oh yeah went for all of

them baby boy went chucked about 15 out and some of them I'd never seen before I don't know what they did but every single decision I made like whacking boy. Chucked about 15 out. And some of them I'd never seen before. I don't know what they did,

but every single decision I made, like Joaquin Phoenix's character in Gladiator, thumb up or thumb down, every single decision I made about the future of each of those wires, I thought about you. It's interesting, isn't it? What people think,

like when someone sees something, they think about a single person. You know what I mean? The way your memory works. Whenever I see is it Michael Myers which one's Halloween Halloween

Halloween is Michael Myers Michael Myers Jason Voorhees is Friday the 13th yeah Friday the 13th so yes it is Halloween it is Michael Myers I get them two mixed up

one's a hockey mask one's just a big rubber mask isn't it whenever I see that mask I think of a lad called Daniel Krupa who went I know him yeah you know him and you and he Whenever I see that mask, I think of a lad called Daniel Krupa. I know him, yeah. Yeah, you know him.

And he, a couple of times, is dressed up as Michael Myers for something, right? But when I see a Michael Myers mask on someone else's Instagram page, I think, oh, they're hanging out. That's where your mind goes. So that character is always indelibly kind of inked on my head, that it's that person. But of course it isn't, because Michael Myers, a very popular Halloween costume, and he can't be everywhere in Daniel.

Don't make that mistake and it be the real one. You'll be in big trouble. Oh, Daniel, what's going on? Where's your dog? Although I think he's been killed off finally, that's now after about 24 films. I think he's finally been killed off. Jeremy Lee Curtis went for one last payday, baby.

Moderate payday, baby. Moderate payday. Speaking of memory, of children's memories. So I was in Rye a couple of weeks ago. Sussex. Canberra Sounds. You've been in Canberra Sounds, right? It's the town next to Canberra Sounds, right?

Beautiful town. I used to go there quite a lot for ATP, but I never went into the town. I did a couple of times, and you're right, it is lovely. And so we spent a weekend there and next to the place we were staying was this old-fashioned sweet shop. So you walk into the sweet shop

and it's all those jars and you buy, and it used to be you buy a quarter of an ounce or whatever it was, a quarter of an ounce, a quarter of a pound? Yeah, yeah.

And now it's 100 grams. Bloody, get Brexit done, all right? Yeah. Metric measurements these days. So we walked past it and it was open. We didn't go in.

I said to Mimi, look, we've got to go there because when I was a kid on the way home to school, in my mind, this happened every night, but it probably didn't.

It probably happened once every three months. We'd go in this sweet shop, exactly like this sweet shop and we'd get choc nibs and toffee crumble. Right.

A quarter of each and I think it'd be like 50p each. And so Mimi was like, yeah, stop, crap story shut up but yeah we'll do it

so the next day we did it we were really busy and we got there just before it closed and this is the sound I'm really busy in Raha

yeah that's what I was doing but I felt like I was busy and we got to the sweet shop and we went to open the door but it wouldn't open right

I know the top half magical sweet shop I open the door, but it wouldn't open. Right. Magical sweet shop. I know the top half of it would open. Harry Potter. Like a saloon door. Right. What do they call it? A horse pop. A stable door.

A horse pop. A stable door. And he goes, I am the sweet shop horse. It wasn't a horse. I've eaten all the sugar cubes. You can't have any of those. It turned out to be a very right wing man who wanted to have a conversation about american politics when he heard my wife's american accent okay and then obviously you know i i don't like to mention this

but i've got um you know some various informal training academic qualifications in the area right and um he started talking to us first thing he said i mean bear in mind he's a guy who's retired we found out a bit more about him he worked for the BBC he left the BBC because he was the only right wing man at the BBC and he got pissed off that kind of story

he's in his 70s right and he's opened up a sweet shop yeah to lure Americans in I was about to say I'm not going to name him but I'm pretty sure

you're going to find out who it is in the tiny village of Rye Rye sweet shop I'm googling it and he wanted to talk about it. Yeah. And guess what the first question he asked my wife, who he'd never met before?

Something about Trump? Yeah. What do you think about Donald Trump then? I thought to myself, in Rye in East Sussex, of all places, I genuinely just want 100 grams of toffee crumble. Yeah. It's all I've asked for. And it took him about 20 minutes to do it.

And the whole time he was talking about right-wing people at the BBC, Donald Trump, all the rest of it. He wasn't a bad person. And I don't think he was as right-wing as he was making out because he just did for effect. But it was just quite tedious.

And it went on for ages. And I didn't feel like I could leave. I'm looking at it. Is that the front is that the front yeah that's it that's it that's the boy

review what a selection fabulous visit the shopkeeper is delightful that was me that was that was my review the sweets were fantastic

our experience was a pleasure and we left the shop with smiles on our faces it was a kind of shop Pete that you would you would have spent about 50 quid in. Oh yeah, no doubt.

Oh my god, Grumpy Fussy Owner. Well, this has gone downhill, even from the other reviews. So that wasn't me. I don't post negative reviews on the internet. Yeah, the server was a Scrooge-like crotchety older man. His misanthropy makes me feel rather sad for him.

Misanthropy is probably... I don't want to throw fuel on that fire because it's not right. But I... It was a memorable encounter owing to the contrast of an old curmudgeon serving confection fire a stable door. Is that honestly what they're saying?

That's so funny. I requested Pontefract cakes. They were disappointing. Midget gems tasted off in a Virgo. Oh, there's no... Listen, I'm not having that. There was nothing wrong with the quality of the produce. Victor Meldrew lives in Rye. He was so grumpy. disappointing midget gems tasted off in a virgo oh there's no listen i'm not having that there was nothing wrong with the quality of the project victor meldrew lives in rye you're so grumpy

this is brilliant yeah oh lovely so anyway good what i wanted to say is it really made me laugh because this is a really i think this is a really interesting part of british society that i want to tap into because have i told you about the um stop it now have i told you what the caribbean takeaway on in West Norwood? You have not. It's a Caribbean takeaway in West Norwood, but the guy who runs it is so grumpy, he won't have anyone on the premises.

How does that work? So he's put a table across the door, and you have to shout your order in and wait on the street. Right, okay. So he basically hates the general public, but he's got a customer service role and his home business depends on it and what's actually happened it's a good thing for him but it's also ironic because because everyone has to wait out on the street everyone who goes

past thinks it's really busy right okay everyone wants a piece of it yeah so now it's like an absolute institution like every time i walk past it's on the way back from the train station to my house, there will be, honestly, mate, no joke, on a Saturday night or Saturday evening, there will sometimes be 30 people on the street outside. But that's the totality of his customers because no one's allowed inside. And I just thought to myself,

you've made yourself really popular inversely by being really grumpy. And if you had been really nice and let people back into your shop after COVID nobody would want you no

yeah and so he doesn't know treating me and keeping me now I told this story to Andy Brassel also of this parish and he told me he said where is it

I want some he did actually say that he said he would like to go there and I've eaten there and it's nice and it kind of it's a takeaway

but it's nice for a takeaway and he said to me there used to be a shop in Tooting called Mr Video where you'd rent it's nice for a takeaway. And he said to me, there used to be a shop in Tooting called Mr. Video, where you'd rent. It was like an independent blockbuster. And he said to me that sometimes you don't go in there, ask for a video, and the owner didn't have it tell you to fuck off. And I just thought, it's great. There must be people all over Britain running shops and paying the public.

So if you've got one, or you know about them, hello at lukeandpicture.com. I want to hear about it, because that is, in my opinion, one of the great bits of British life. June 2019. Somebody writing from California. The man here went out of his way to be rude. We came in and began to buy candy from him. When he heard the American accent, he started in on how much he loves our current president and why. You know you were making this up, aren't you?

It was clear by his snarky grin and persistence he was gauding us. He wasn't gauding you. No, he genuinely loves him. He does genuinely love Donald Trump. Isn't that funny that he does that with everyone? And the sweets are very stale. Popped in to buy some sugar-free sweets and some others. Never again. How long have you been diabetic?

He asked. He then commented on the side effects and said, fortunately, he never had to clear up the mess. Offensive and completely inappropriate remark. Oh my god I so want to be in this

fucking sweet shop. It sounds brilliant. I don't want to defend him because the experience I had was odd. But you know me I'm not someone who

cares about odd conversation. But his sweets weren't stale. The product in my experience was fine. It was fine. Okay well there's

one from Brighton October 27 that ends with a sentence what was supposed to be a positive family doubt for my terminally ill grandad was rather spoiled my god

it's crazy what a treat it's crazy get yourself down right just google rye sweet chop it's almost worth

a special trip and it's the one with the all of the sweets in the front those jars kick around for ages though though, don't they? You can't be...

You've got to have those sweets for, like, three years. I bought my own jar of Toffee Crumble, three kilograms of it for 12 quid. Toffee Crumble. I do like Toffee Crumble. It's so good. Peanut brittle, Toffee Crumble, toasted tea cakes,

punt frat cakes, black midget gems. Mimi had the jazzies, the little kind of... The jazzies? The white milk chocolate with hundreds and thousands on. No, it's milk chocolate, not white chocolate. Sorry, white chocolate.

Milk chocolate. Oh, yeah, okay. They're called nonpareils for our US listeners. Nonpareils? Yeah. In the UK, we call them jazzies. I like the... When we went to New York, I had a lot of good and plenties.

Good and plenties. Good choice. Delicious. Take a trip. The sweets are fine. Well, they were fine when I was there. Fine. The man is...

The chat was fucking sweet. But the thing about him was, because he was an ex-BBC journalist and reporter, he was quite engaging. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He had a bit about him. Yeah. Which is quite interesting.

Anyway, let's have a quick break. When we come back, we'll do some batteries because it's Thursday, and that's what we do on a Thursday. All right. Ta-ta. And we're back. It's the look of Pete show instead of big jars of sweets.

We've got big jars of deceased batteries found in places. Do you want to do the usual? There was a bit of controversy from our friend Tom who tweeted saying, um, referring to the latest episode he's listened to now, unfortunately I don't have it to hand, the exact episode, but he said, JA batteries,

which I said are a new player, aren't a new player. Tom says, I entered them last September at the same time. This is the thing. If this doesn't sum up the Luke and Peter, nothing does. I entered them last September at the same time

as telling you about my grandpa looking for porn on our family WhatsApp chat. Which I do remember. So whoever got awarded the J-A new player, you have to share it with Tom. Tom gets it as well. That's firmly in the Rory doing the running order for the batteries. No, because I check them, don't I?

Right. Oh, that's fair. To be fair, it's J-A. It's quite hard to find. Don't have a go at Rory as well, by the way, because he spent ages doing a lot of prep for Thanksgiving subjects and we didn't do any of them. Okay, good. Alright, that's fine.A. It's quite hard to find. Don't have a go at Rory as well, by the way, because he spent ages doing a lot of prep for Thanksgiving subjects and we didn't do any of them. Oh, okay, good. All right, that's fine. Yeah, so give us the first battery.

Yeah, oh, sorry. That's on you. No, that's on you. I was thinking about Thanksgiving. Hello, gentlemen. I moved to Fukuoka, Japan in April of this year. Luke, if I could live anywhere, I would live in Fukuoka.

Why is that? It is a little sort of coastal town on the South Island, Kyushu, in Japan. live anywhere, I would live in Fukuoka. Why is that? It is a little sort of coastal town, south, on the south island, Kyushu, in Japan, and it's fucking lovely. The food is great, the people are really lovely, very, very different. They're like kind of the northern

of Japan, in my opinion. Let me ask you this, what's stopping you? What's stopping you? Exactly. One day. I wouldn't have any money I couldn't afford anything could you legally could you could you go and live there

no I'd need a job and like imagine imagine me yeah it's hard to imagine imagine me trying to get a job at my age for me

that's a hurdle you'll find really hard to overcome I moved to Fukuoka Japan in April of this year so I knew to keep my eyes out for new players and I don't imagine many of the listeners have bought Japan in April of this year, so I knew to keep my eyes out for new players.

I don't imagine many of the listeners have bought batteries in Japan before. This battery is one I bought at a dollar store, or a 100 yen store to be accurate. Mangan Kandenchi is written in large characters on the side, but this means manganese dry battery, so I don't think that's actually the name of the brand. I suppose the real name is simply the tiny logo of the 100 yen store in the top left. Seria, with their English tagline underneath. Colour the days. Colour the days, that's nice the name of the brand. I suppose the real name is simply the tiny logo of the 100 yen store in the top left. Seria, with their English tagline underneath.

Colour the days. Colour the days. That's nice. This is my first submission, so I'm excited to see if it's a duplet or not. Thank you for all the content, Austin. Does this count as a rebranded battery? Colour the days. Seria.

Yeah, let's go. Fuck it. Seria. It's basically like having an Asda battery, isn't it? Like a pound stretcher battery or something. But is that okay? If it is, I can tell you whether it's a new player or not. I think we flip-flopped on it before, but I'm in the flip camp,

considering we fucked up on the first one, so I'm going to give them benefit without. New player. New player. Well done, mate. Seria. Colour of the days. Love that.

Love that. There'll probably be an advert for for um seria on youtube no doubt anyway anyway uh ian in cyprus uh vinnie just vinnie d uh i took our home officer's tenure box of dead batteries to the recycling and i found these three among them we've got fenya tech which i think we've had before definitely uh chameleon which i think we've had before uh vinny we have had vinny before as well though haven't we vinny d yeah thank you for sending three in at once ian in cyprus i hope cyprus is nice batteries hope so it was a nice this time of year probably quite warm still but maybe a bit windy um none of those three vinny fenya tech or chameleon

are new players we've had them all before before thank you very much for sharing with us anyway oh well never mind we have got something from Peter hey Peter I'm currently in the

sunny sunny oh dear Montenegrin capital Podroccia Podroccia Podroccia yeah I think that's fine

Podroccia oh dear do it again can I do it again no and I just realised that after a week in the country, I haven't checked a single remote for crying out loud. So I cracked open my third party Melaconi TV remote

to find a sultry pair of Verbatim batteries. Now Verbatim did, used to do VHS tapes, didn't it? It's definitely a brand that I kind of recognise. Hmm. And I was, so this is a tough one. brand that I kind of recognize. And I was, so this is a tough one. So I was absolutely sure that there's no way this is a new player because I've definitely seen the brand before somewhere, but there's no other evidence of it either in our Twitter

page or in our email inbox. And so I'm going to have to give Peter the new player status. Ooh la la. Podgorica. Podgorica. Podgorica. Podgorica. Yeah. Delicious. Podgorica. Podgorica. Yeah.

Delicious. Yeah. Anyway. So two new players, Peter. Well done. Out of three emails. Well done.

Congratulations to everyone. Do you ever verbatim VHS tapes? I do. I think that's probably where I remember them from,

yeah. VHS tapes generally were, it's kind of a wild thing because when you think back at it now, looking through the lens of the present and

speaking to some of our people listening who I know are probably quite a lot younger than us it's quite a mad phenomenon to think of how you used to

go about doing that stuff because I remember being in trouble before as a kid for taping over something that my mum wanted to watch with something that

I wanted to watch and when you think about it you had a VHS tape which had what how much run time on it? I thought it was 240 minutes or something.

Two and a half hours, I think. Yeah. So two and a half hours. On long play, it could hold a couple of films, couldn't it? So you had long play

and short play. You had video plus where you put the number in rather than set the time. But ultimately, what I used to have to do is fast forward to the end of my mum's programme,

stop it there, have the video cassette still in the video player, then use time and date to say when I wanted it to start recording, make sure I left it plugged in but on standby, and then it would possibly sometimes record it. Right? Yeah. You needed to get that, what was it called? It was a special code

you could type in. Video Plus, that's what I'm saying. So later on, we got a Video Plus VCR where for those of you listening who don't know, maybe didn't even have it

in other countries, I'm not sure, in the radio times, you'd find the program and it'd give you the channel and the time at the bottom and have like an eight digit number. Yeah.

You'd type that into your VCR. And it would record automatically? Well, it would record something automatically. It would record what was in that time slot automatically. Yeah, but sometimes even then it wouldn't be right. Right. And there would be nothing worse than being like,

right, I can't watch this tonight because it's on too late and my mum's got to go to bed. Or it's a football match. It would always be a fucking football match. And the football match would kick off at eight and you'd be too young to watch the whole thing. So you'd record the second half. No.

No, didn't happen. Didn't always work. Or it cut off the end of something. I guess you had no access to find out who won or who lost. Well, I think my dad would probably tell me anyway. Yeah, okay. But what I'm saying is it would sometimes cut off the end of a film. I remember a film, what was it?

I want to say Kingpin, but I think it might have been later than that. Right. Kingpin was quite adult, I seem to recall. Yeah, it was. It was a good movie. It was really funny. It was an oral sex adult I seem to recall yeah it was it was a good movie Faraday was really funny it was an oral sex I seem to recall

it's really funny not labour he does and he also sucks off a bull have you not seen that scene where he's doing tasks around the Amish farm

that's right and he says I've got up early and took a little bit of milk in your cow for you and the guy goes we don't have a cow we've got a bull

and he's got a milk moustache and he goes I'm just going to go brush my teeth anyway anyway cut off a film I think it might have been Kingpin maybe it wasn't

and I never knew what the end of that film was for a very long time afterwards okay because the old internet wasn't working the old internet you had no idea

I was looking for on YouTube while you were telling us about your foul VHS stories and I was trying to find that Seria 100 yen store advert

because I thought there's probably something, you know, there's probably a cool jingle because like some of the best kind of jingles are the second hand or really cheap shops in Japan. There's a brand called Hard Off, inexplicably, and they do second handhand goods, basically.

It's kind of like old guitars or chesses or whatever they've got. Air guns, big into air guns for some reason. Right. And Book Off as well. They sell second-hand books, and they're usually pretty well looked after. Anyway, this is the theme tune to Hard Off. It's not licensed.

Sounds like an elevator music. It just plays in the shop all the time. Yeah. It's fucking horrible. But I was looking for Saria, and this isn't Saria, but describe what's happening. So there are a load of, I think, actors

from a film that are on stage at some kind of event. She's got a bow tie. She's got a bandage on. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And there are some other people from the film that it pulls out. The Tokyo International Film Festival.

The Tokyo International Film Festival the Tokyo International Film Festival and then a mascot with a giant eye and a big sexy mouth and a big mouth is turned on

and he's touching touching the ankle of the lady that's what he's like the Mr. Blobby of Japan they don't help themselves the Japanese

and that kind of stuff I clicked on it and that was the first thing that came up what is that monstrosity if someone I clicked on it and that was the first thing that came up what is that monstrosity if someone was in the pub and described that scene and said that's what

Japan's like you'd go you can't say that it's racist don't be so stereotypical about people I typed in one of their more famous shops

and that was what came up sometimes people don't help themselves they don't help themselves it's like when I've been eating like absolute dross of an evening and I come in I've got a bad tummy you go Pete you don't help yourself you don't help themselves. They don't help themselves. You know what I mean? It's like when I've been eating like absolute dross

of an evening and I come in and I've got a bad tummy and you go, Pete, you don't help yourself. You don't help yourself. You've got this reputation for a reason.

You keep being sick down your front. I told you, but I did a Pete Donaldson last night. I told you. Oh, you did? You made like a horrible concoction.

Yeah. I tried to make, I started off with honest intentions. I tried to make a panko breadcrumb sea bass recipe. Yeah. And then when I got to the bit about opening the sea bass,

it was fucking off. Right. Which I guess can just happen with fish, I suppose. And so I had to improvise. So then by the time I got through the whole situation, the wife I have access to decided that she wasn't hungry anymore. So I ate all the chopped potatoes myself, chucked a load of pork mince on top and just had chili cheese fries.

And this morning I felt dreadful right okay and I thought to myself this is what Pete feels like what three times a week should have had the bass yeah just eat it anyway was it that

was it that off that it would like it just started singing do the reel yeah big mouth Billy Big Mouth it's one of those ones

where you know you pull the plastic back off the packet and you just get a whiff and you're like whoa cats aren't even having that it hits you like a ton of bricks yeah and it's funny of those ones where you know you pull the plastic back off the packet and you just get a whiff and you're like whoa cats aren't even having that it hits you like a ton of bricks

yeah and it's funny actually you said that because both my cats didn't come anywhere near it they'd normally come flying in but they didn't so that's what I went through

last night but before we go we are going to go but before we do I just want to give the last word to our friend Connor who sent us a tweet a couple of days ago

I think actually it might have been a week ago or so because we did mention it on maybe the most recent show. He said, I love listening to the Luke and Pete show, but I tend to let them build so I can listen to them for a few years. Just gone to play them November 2021. I may have left it a bit long.

So he's got a year's worth of shows to listen to. Conor then followed up four days later saying, I'm already on March. Hopefully at this rate I'll be up to date by the end of the month. What is that man going through? In a week

he's listened to six months worth of new compete shows. Yeah. I mean I've done that with better shows and even then it's bad and hard. I can't think of a better show

right now. I can't think of any myself. In four days if you go 30 so it's basically 60 minutes a week, right?

And he's listened. So he's listened to 1560 minutes of Luke and Pete show in the last four days. Listen, you need to be sectioned. You need to just go away and be protected from yourself.

What must his opinions be like now? I know. Absolutely outrageous. Anyway, let's get What must his opinions be like now? I know. Absolutely outrageous. Anyway, let's get out of here. We will be back on Monday. We hope you've had a lovely Thanksgiving. It's unlikely you're going to be listening to this on Thanksgiving Day, but if you are, good luck to you.

Enjoy your pies. If you're celebrating it. Enjoy your big turkey. And for the rest of you outside the US, thank you very much for listening just as much. Enjoy your steamed hams, asshole. Yeah, you're fucking limey. You're fucking limey. And we'll see you all on Monday. Have a great weekend. Thank you very much for listening just as much. Enjoy your steamed hams, asshole. Yeah. That's how they talk, isn't it? Fucking limey.

Fucking limey. And we'll see you all on Monday. Have a great weekend. The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack Production and part of the Acast Creator Network.