The Luke and Pete Show - The battery daddies

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

Blink 182 are back, baby! But do the pop-punk icons know more about pop-punk than Petey-pie Donaldson? He once listened to a Propagandhi album after all… Elsewhere, we find out Captain Kirk regretted going where no man has gone before and - going where no podcast has gone before - we start a physical collection of new player batteries, thanks to an amazing gift from one of our lovely listeners.Do you have a new player to add to our battery daddy? 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 Little Capitia, it's Monday the 24th of October and I am Petey Party Donaldson, I'm joined by Lukey Lovely Moa. How you doing man, you alright? Yeah, thanks man, am I lovely to you, am I? Is that how you feel about me? Yeah, cos you're everything to me. It's National Bologna Day. That's Michel Branche

and it's everywhere, not everything, isn't it? Ah, shit. I only have a yellow card cover. Oh, Blink 182 are back.

I'm throwing all things at you. It's National Bologna Day. It's a bologna day. It's, what else? It's Blink 182 a bat with new music uh yeah all kinds of things just stop just stop okay just stop that's enough do you want me to sneeze again like i did on the last show i saw the video reintroducing blink 182 to the world and i was

very happy to see it seemed to bring a lot of people a lot of joy and and i'll be honest with you now let me be honest with you right now so, it's something of a shit though, isn't it? Well, let me be honest with you right now. So you may say that and you may well be right. You are much more versed in this stuff than I am. But I would be happy to admit that Blink-182 were a band that I was actually quite sniffy about when I was young and at uni and some of my friends liked them and I was kind of a bit dismissive about it. And I have to say I was totally wrong on that.

Oh, really? I think so, because I think on reflection, they're actually quite good. And I think they're very kind of self-aware, didn't take themselves too seriously. They've got some absolutely banging tunes as well. I think you have to kind of at least acknowledge that, even if you're not personally a fan of theirs.

And I've grown to love them over the years, and you will too. That's Blink-182, back next month. Are they back next month? I'm not sure. I don't know. I mean, they,

I would say that I was also sniffy about them because I was into, you know, pop punk at the time and they were seen as very much the commercial side of things

along with Oh, were they? Okay. And a couple of others. You know what I mean? Yeah, of course. So, but, I mean,

you cannot get away from the fact that songs like Damn It, etc. are very very very good punk rock songs but uh they're back and um i mean these kind of like pop punk bands have kind of continued their trajectory of not really doing pop punk and this last uh this this sort of new single is very not very punk rock at all really and very naff. You know, the drums aren't particularly big even though they've got probably

one of the most talented drummers in modern music and the guitars aren't big and there's no pace to it. And yeah, it probably tried to modernise a little bit too much for me. I haven't actually heard the new song. I've just seen the video, the comeback video,

which is really funny. Yeah, I're not gonna like it you're not gonna like the song the comeback video is i'll put it back running around with uh very sort of like uh just very sort of late 90s uh people dancing around in bunny costumes at the fair i think that's uh pretty much it so it's more i mean on one hand you're saying they tried to modernize but on the other hand from that what you're saying there. So it's more, I mean, on one hand you're saying they tried to modernise, but on the other hand, from that what you're saying there, it sounds more the same. The video's a throwback, but the song isn't. I mean, the song sounds very naff.

It sounds a bit like Imagine Dragons. It sounds like one of the piercer Imagine Dragons tracks. Okay, right. Thank you for that review, impromptu as it was. Will you be going to see him on their no doubt lucrative world tour? I will not, no. You'd be interviewing him in another life

wouldn't you you'd be up there probably yeah I think my last interview at Absolute was with Blink 182 when they had the block out of

Alkaline Trio in it I'll tell you what back in the day if Blink 182 were up for interview and Pete Donaldson wasn't selected there'd be diva behaviour

all over the place hey mate I'd be getting the most punk rock of t-shirts out yeah big selected, there'd be diva behaviour all over the place. Hey, mate, I'd be getting the most punk rock of t-shirts out. Yeah, big time. Yeah, I'd be making sure that they knew

that I knew my stuff. What would you do? Would you wear like a real kind of one for the heads type t-shirt? I'd be wearing a fucking propaganda t-shirt

and sort of going, look, mate, you might be talking to fucking him from Magic or from Capital Radio over the next few days. And yeah, you might be having a better time. And yeah, they might have more listeners.

And yeah, it might not be such a waste of time. Good if you listen as well, probably. And yeah, and they'll probably have a nice time. And you probably have a bit of food in the room and a cup of coffee that I didn't make out of instant coffee in the lean-to. But I have listened to a Propaganda album.

That's my message. All right? And therefore, we have a connection. This ain't my first Punk Rock Rodeo. This is my second Punk Rock Rodeo.

In many ways, it doesn't matter what I ask you because those squares out there won't understand us anyway. Right, guys? Yeah, exactly.

Yeah. And what do you think of Fame Academy slash Popeye? That's what they used to do when we used to do an interview. You'd write your questions and then the PR team,

the marketing team, the team that are disposed to getting your radio station mentioned in the hallowed pages of, I don't know, the fucking NME, circulation 30,000, like 30,000,

like nobody's reading it, or a newspaper, they'll come down and go, right, here's some questions. Can you slip them in there? Because they'll get us headlines. They'll get us in the mirror. They'll get us in the sun.

They'll get us in the NME, right? And the questions always went like this. What do you think of Pop Idol? What do you think of Harry Styles? What do you think of Game of Thrones? What do you think? It was just absolute asinine shit every single time and sometimes they'd overstep the mark a little bit and sort of go so biffy clairo where did you get your name from i got that's not gonna get us into

a newspaper that's gonna make sure that they never on their fifth album want to be interviewed by this station ever again what's how did he come up with your name? Fuck me. Fuck me, guys. So in many ways, the propaganda t-shirt was the kind of, the fig leaf, if you like. Almost the Trojan horse. Exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah. The Trojan horse to get you in there and go, so they look at you and they go,

immediately they're on side, they go, this guy looks like one of us. This guy looks like one of us. And he didn't buy that. Do you like Harry Styles? He's flipped it on us, guys. He's flipped it on us. Ah, no, he's been to Hot Topic and bought a propaganda top.

Yeah. Oh, he's bought a brand new Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction T-shirt from Top Man for £75. Someone's distressed it by tearing some holes in it. Okay, well, listen, Peter. It's a marvel that you're no longer doing that job. I mean, you obviously enjoy it very much.

I actually thought the best interview I ever saw you do was with Amanda Iannucci. You had time to get your chops out then. You had time to get your chops out then, didn't you? Got to get my chops out. You did. I felt like you're a man who understands comedy to an extent. And I think you were able to kind of share some common ground

with one of the great comedy creators of our time in Amanda Iannucci. And I actually really enjoyed the interview, and I think we should probably re-up it. It's probably on the internet somewhere. And yeah, in the comments on YouTube, there's just a lot of people slagging me off because I talk about batteries every now and again.

Yeah. As discussed on the last show. Where would we be without batteries, though? Where would we be without batteries? We'd probably be tethered to a plug socket, I imagine. Forever. One of our lovely UK plug sockets. There'd be no kind of portability anywhere.

No, no, no. Speaking of which. Very static lives. You've got to take on the recent behaviour of Elon Musk. Speaking of batteries. What's he been up to? He's pulling the Starlink stuff over Ukraine

and he's better than Putin now. He's not now, isn't he? He's changed his mind on that. He's flipped-flapping. Right, okay. Did he buy Twitter in the end? I find it hard to keep up, to be honest.

It's quite interesting because what I read yesterday about this Starlink thing, so for those of you who aren't across the story, he basically started supporting Ukraine by funding Starlink. I was Putin, mate, not Stalin. Say again? That's good, actually. That is sharp.

That is sharp. Again, politics, yeah. Absolute Radio's loss is very much Luke and Pete's show's loss. He started funding the Starlink network to help the Ukrainians and he said he's going to withdraw that and he said

I wouldn't do that. Well interestingly enough I read yesterday or I think it was yesterday that now what an amazing surprise the Pentagon

are talking about funding Starlink themselves. Okay. So it means Elon saves a load of money. Everyone gets to

still support Ukraine, but just America. Basically, the American taxpayer foots the bill, essentially. And other than that, he's just been hanging out a lot with Kanye West, who seems to have gone completely tonto. Isn't he buying, not Signal,

what's the one where... Parler. Yeah, I think he said he's announced he's... Yeah, again, we've spoken about Kanye a few times. Speaking of this kind of thing, have you managed to check out any of Adam Curtis' new series yet? I've not, no. Every couple of years, he'll just sort of surface

and basically make you watch something for three or four hours, won't he? He's got a new series about Russia called Trauma Zone. Which is about essentially what happened around the collapse of the Soviet Union. It's on BBC iPlayer. It's very good. It's called Russia 1985-1999 Trauma Zone. And the footage he has access to is

absolutely astonishing. So for those of you who aren't aware of his work, he basically does almost a montage collage I suppose of archive footage and uses it to tell a story about something so he's done it on lots of different things and he's done this on

like I say 85 to 99 in Russia obviously originally Soviet Union and threw it into Russia and he does it only by trawling through 35 years of I guess in this case 15 years I suppose of archive footage only by trawling through 35 years of, well, I guess in this case, 15 years, I suppose, of archive footage of the collapse of the Soviet Union in every different territory and compiles it all.

And the only thing that knits it all together is the occasional kind of flash bit of writing on the screen saying, oh, this is what's happened here. This is what's happened there. And you use that to tell a story. And ultimately, it looks to me like it's full of footage that's almost been discarded by bbc reporters in the past it's never really been used because some of this may start out of focus or it's a weird shot or it's got no context yeah i think he's a true artist the way he does that like the way he can

almost it's almost almost like a completely new genre of documentary. It's incredible. Is it almost like Michael Banyabat, who does the Wrestle Me edits on YouTube? I would say it's very similar. Michael's obviously taken some influence. Or the other way round, who knows? Yeah, I do fancy that, actually. But again, with those documentaries, they're always a lot longer than I expect.

And I'm always like, where am I going to find time to do that exactly? Because it's not something that I don't think my partner would be into. No, this one's several episodes long. It takes a lot longer than I expect. And I'm always like, where am I going to find time to do that exactly? Because it's not something that I don't think my partner would be into. Now, this one's several episodes long. It takes a lot. Well, this is the other thing about it. So the Wi-Fi I have access to has got no interest in it either. So it'll be me just watching it on my own.

But the other thing about it is that, I don't know if you feel this as well, but generally speaking, when it comes to a lot of TV these days, you get the occasional appointment to watch thing, but a lot of it almost feels like it's designed to be on just as a nice gentle thing, like in the background or when you do something else.

This obviously does demand your undivided attention for quite a long time. So in a way, I think that's probably quite good as well because it's something that really pushes the genre forward and makes genuinely really thoughtful stuff. I think he's amazing. I don't necessarily agree with all of his ideas. I think he's obviously

got a very specific take on how things are. But in terms of the work he produces, it's absolutely amazing. I can't recommend it enough. For those of you listening in the UK,

it's available for free on the iPlayer. You can watch it whenever you want. And you do sort of think who is going to be paying for that, you know,

if the BBC didn't exist. It's a great example of a licence fee, for sure. It just would not exist. And the BBC having those archives. It's a great example of licence fee, for sure. It just would not exist. And the BBC having those archives as well, they've built up over that amount of time. What happens to them when the BBC gets sold off piecemeal?

There's almost a very deliberate reference to that at the end of each episode as well. There's a big thing that flashes up that says, with thanks to the teams across 35 years who show all this footage in, in Russia or whatever. And the interesting thing I think as well is that essentially the way he's making this, why I say it's almost a completely different type of documentary maybe is

because there's no exposition and there's no kind of, some of his early stuff, there is voiceover, but there's no voiceosition and there's no kind of some of his early stuff there is voiceover but there's no voiceover in this he's ultimately making a documentary with entirely

second kind of with entirely primary sources with no secondary source over top so basically what he's saying is

and this is a bit of a nerdy point but I personally find it interesting he's not saying I want to make a documentary about Russia

so I'm going to go to Russia he's almost turning it inwards going I want to make a documentary about Russia, so I'm going to go to Russia. He's almost turning it inwards, going, I want to make a documentary about Russia. I'm going to build you a totally new story about all the stuff we already know but have discarded, which I think is a really kind of incredible, philosophically quite a really interesting thing to do.

Yeah. Anyway. I completely agree. Anyway, let's have a break. That's our recommendation of the week. It is. Let's have a break. When we come back,

I know I've got to do this battery box opening thing at the moment, but when we come back, I just want to talk about a couple of other things. So don't go away. We'll see you in a minute. We're back with Luke and Pete Shaw. I'm Pete. I'm joined by Luke.

We talk about all kinds of stuff from batteries to films to Adam Curtis documentaries to space. Hey, space. Where no man has bornly gone, et cetera, et cetera. See, William Shatner's been slagging off your best mate, space. He's been giving it a right old booting. Shatner's a character, isn't he? What's he been saying?

Well, he's one of the few people who have actually been to space, hasn't he? Because he went up with Bell and Bolt. Who did he go up with, though? Amazon Block. Bezos. Oh, okay. Because I think Bezos

Is legit space I think there's a lot of Controversy around Branson Isn't there? Right okay So he went up And actually goes high enough Essentially

Lemmy makes the point That when When they landed After they took Captain Kirk into space Captain Kirk is I think trying to talk And Jeff Bezos

Is just Kind of ignoring him a little bit and sort of obsessed with getting a bottle of champagne opened I'll write that it is a funny clip anyway yeah this is the quote about William Shatner

going where very few people have gone on the I don't know what is it space one or something I don't know what I'm fucking called this is what he said when he went into space Blue Origin isn't it? gone on the, I don't know what the, is it Space One or something? I don't know what it's fucking called. This is what he said when he went into space. Blue Origin, isn't it? Blue Origin, right, fine. Isn't that the drink that KSI's made?

I saw a cold, dark, black emptiness. It was unlike any blackness you could see or feel on Earth, blah, blah, blah. Everything I thought was wrong. Everything I expected to see was wrong. I thought that going to space would be the ultimate catharsis of that connection I'd been looking for between all living things, and being up there would be the next beautiful step to understanding the harmony of the universe. Beautifully written, this. It was among the strongest feelings of grief

I have ever encountered. The contrast between the vicious coldness of space and the warm nurturing of Earth below filled me with overwhelming sadness every day we're confronted with the knowledge of further destruction and earth at our hands etc etc

it filled me with dread my trip to space was supposed to be a celebration instead it felt like a funeral Luke Moher he's having a go at space mate I think everyone should

just sack it all off now he's kinda in there's no point don't do it don't look at the picture from above because you're going to be depressed just stay down here and if you can't see a tree on fire now don't worry about it if your feet are wet now don't worry about it stand on a can it feels like um when there was that those reports that mother theresa had like like essentially forsaken god on her deathbed.

Right. That's a curveball. That's... Listen, you're looking for... Pull back and reveal. Yeah, you're looking for someone to PR the old space missions, are you? I'll tell you, Shatner, oldest man in space, Captain Kirk, he'll do it. Brilliant.

Let's get him on the phone. Get him in, do it. He said what? He said what? It's surprising, to say the least. It's very surprising to hear him come out with that stuff. It's fun. He is known as being a bit of a cantankerous

old fellow. There's a big section in his... It's always a great tell. There's a big section in his Wikipedia called Relationships with Other Actors. Goes on about 15 paragraphs. People slagging him off.

Pete, speaking of boldly going into new frontiers, I've got a new Twitch channel, haven't I? Oh, yeah, you've been Twitching and stuff. You managed to get your camera and stuff set up. So loads of people who listen to the show will know that I am a fan of the video game PUBG. PUBG! I've been doing a little bit of streaming on PUBG. It's been fun. I've actually

with your help I should add actually. I've managed to work it all out and get up and running and get streaming. I had quite a few people on the old stream the other day. So it's worth checking out if you like watching a man in his 40s not really being very good at video games but playing badly in an entertaining way,

you might enjoy it. It's my, the Twitch channel is Luke Aaron Moore. So if you want to check it out, go and do so. What time, have you got like times when you usually stream?

So I do, I do evenings. I'm doing Mondays at seven, but I probably will do some stuff. So if you, if you listen to the show now, I mean, it'll probably be tonight.

I've been doing stuff later in the week as well, but it's mostly midweek evenings when I just want to have a little bit of a wind down from work and I've got nothing else going on I will normally do it

he's he's tonight on the stream he's promised that he's just going to play PUBG without any clothes on in the game not in real life

in the game and and he will only use the pan so that's that's what he's made all the way through the stream. He's just going to be using a pan,

and he's just going to wear his pants. I mean, ironically, I do sometimes. I'm not doing that because I can't remember what the buttons are. So, I mean, that does sometimes happen. And then my conceit is, so if you play PUBG, it's a battle royale game, right? And you get three casuals a day, which basically means it's a far easier mode to play.

But you only get three in a 24-hour period. So what I do is three and out. So we start the stream, everyone joins, and I play three casual games on my own and see how long I can last.

And once it's done, it's done. That's the conceit. So there's no kind of like squads? Are you kind of like... I'm in a squad, but I'm on my own. You're in a squad, right. Yeah, I don't know...

But you're on your own. No, but what I mean by that is I don't know the people I'm playing with is what I mean. Okay, that makes sense yeah so it's lots of fun last time

what did we chat about last time it's quite funny actually because one of the chatters on the stream came in and said oh I'm watching you do this while I'm making

macaroni cheese right I guess for dinner and then this guy this user called Prince of Macaroni came in and said what

what did you say it's like an amazing coincidence I'm the Prince of Macaroni yeah Prince of Macaroni came in and said, what? What did you say? It's like an amazing coincidence. I'm the Prince of Macaroni. Yeah, Prince of Macaroni. Exactly. So he wanted to have a say in it. It's worth checking out.

It's a bit of fun. If you like that kind of thing, come and join. You'll be very welcome. It's a very welcoming community and it's just a hobby. It's a bit of fun. So Peter,

the main event of this episode is presumably opening this big battery box. I've got it here. Yeah, I think so. I mean, you should do this on stream, really, because it's a very visual item. But get it open for crying out loud. Why don't you commentate? Because I've got a pair of scissors here.

Why don't you just commentate? Lou's got a pair of scissors. When I open an Amazon package, I'm very much... Who's it from, Pete? Or any of their package. Can you read that? Noah Roth, I believe, in Lincoln. Is that in California or something

Lincoln Nebraska baby Nebraska chillier than California thank you very much to Noah he sent this on a considerable expense to himself

I presume yeah thank you very much Noah of Lincoln what's Lincoln like why don't you give us some Lincoln Nebraska tips Pete

and facts while I'm doing this I'll try and get the I'll try and get some sound effects for me actually opening it here. Fun facts! Okay, cool. There is a museum

in there that has the biggest amount of elephant skeletons. Wow, that's actually a surprising fact. In Waterloo, barbers are forbidden from eating onions between 9am and 7pm. One of those rules that never left the statute book. But I wonder why they brought that in the first place.

Yeah, good point. Yeah, good point. Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in the state, in the place. Okay, listen. Norris included a little message. So I've got it open. There's a little letter in here. I'm going to read it.

Hey lads, who better to field test a battery daddy than the battery daddies of the UK? Also enclosed is a hodgepodge of euros, oh euros, around 7 euros 50 and a £5 note from 2002. Hopefully it's enough for you lads to get a pint. Thanks for the

years of entertainment, Noah Roth. Look at that little envelope here. Inside We don't need a patron. There's a little envelope with bloody five quid in. That's cracking stuff. A five pound, which we can no longer spend because it won't be

in legal terms anymore. Oh, that's all right. No, we can still use that five pound. Stick it up on the studio wall. There's a nice... And then there's some coins here. Like a bad bar. Some Euro coins,

which will be usable and are going straight in my pocket. So thank you very much, Noah. Appreciate that. Noah, that's smashing stuff. What a lovely thing to do. Send us a battery, Daddy. And some coins. Tell you what though, Pete. Also, he's also

included four AA KCs with new player question mark on the back. So instead of, I mean, are we counting ones we buy? I can't remember now. I can never remember the rules, to be honest. It's always like batteries they've found. But I guess if you find them in the shop, is that all right? That feels all right.

So he's attached a... He's sent us, all the way from Nebraska, a massive box with some cash in, a battery daddy, and some special batteries that he's bought. And I think, I've just done a search, and they are new players. This is God-level stuff from Noah.

I mean, not to say that because he's sending us money to pay us off. He sent a battery daddy. Pete, explain to everyone what a battery daddy is, please. I'm going to open it up properly and hold it there for everyone. It's basically a big case with specific holes and vestibules where you can put little batteries. You can put your batteries in. And they come replete with loads of batteries. It's just called the battery daddy. It's where daddies keep their batteries. You can put your batteries in. And they come replete with loads of batteries.

It's just called the battery day. It's where daddies keep their batteries. Or where batteries keep their cells, so to speak. Yeah. There we go. What would you call it? It's like a briefcase for a battery infuser. There's no batteries in it, big man. Oh, I thought there was.

You can buy them with batteries in. It's got a charger in it, though. It's got a battery charger in there as well, so you can buy them with batteries in it's got a charger in it though we were having a bit of a it's got a battery charger in there as well so you can have lovely

so why don't you put the new players inside the battery daddy and we get it filled up I will it's a good idea start off the double A so I just pop them open

pop them in the battery daddy and we're away and they are new players as well I've searched so this is like I said this is an amazing contribution from Noah this is. This is like proper

friend of the Luke and Pete show status. Out come the Casey batteries. Pop them in there. Just like that. They fit perfectly. Great to see. This is fucking premium entertainment, this. I've never had so much fun on a podcast before.

In they go. There's the fourth one in there. We're up and running. This is like a dad buying you a sticker album and buying you a pack of stickers to get you started. There we go. Exactly.

Holding up to the camera. Fantastic. Four batteries in the battery, daddy. And we're away. Great scenes. It's just great stuff. I also really cut my finger quite badly on the scissors.

Oh. How did you manage to do that? You're weirdly hapless sometimes. I wasn't looking at what I was doing, to be perfectly honest. So Noah from Lincoln, Nebraska, thank you very much indeed. We do very much appreciate that. The Battery Daddy is the only way to end Monday's Luke and Pete show. We've never reached such heights.

I would also like to give Noah special credit for the way he packaged that Battery Daddy in a box. Beautifully done. Absolutely spotless. Expert use of bubble wrap. Great to see. And it meant that no nefarious DHS driver

DHL? DHL driver could get hold of the five euro knot. Exactly, which can't be spent anyway. Bit of ASMR to end with, mate. I think you can spend it. Take it to the bank, change it in for a new one. We'll see you on Thursday.

Thank you very much for tuning in. Thanks for sitting through us opening the Battery Daddy. In many ways, the culmination of everything we've been trying to achieve on this Luke and Pete show. So thank you very much to Noah, and thank you very much to everyone listening out there as well. There will be room for more batteries on Thursday. You can also send them in physically

and we'll pop them in the battery, Daddy. And when we get it filled up, maybe we'll give it away as a competition prize. How about that? I mean, for perspective, we need D batteries,

we need 9 volts, we need triple A's, we need double A's, we need all of them. If you've got batteries and you want to send them in, we will fill this battery, Daddy, with new players

and we will auction it off probably for charity and that will be a fun thing to do. What a legacy project, Pete. It's what I dream of when I wake up in the morning every day.

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