The Luke and Pete Show - The ghost of rodents past

Episode Date: December 8, 2022

In the least surprising news ever, Pete is feeling unwell on today’s show. Whether it’s because he and Luke went out last night or because he had rotten rice and cream for dinner when he got home, we’ll never know.Elsewhere, we hear about the “unusual” gift he’s getting his mum and a mainstay of the Stak universe tries to submit a new player to the battery daddies.We still want you to send your Christmas stories! Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

you're rocking the old Lyle and Scott jumper today mate am I? is that a thing? is that a yeah it's like Stone Island but with posh holes no I don't think so

hello it's the Luke and Pete show I'm Pete Donaldson joined by Luke Moore Luke's having a diet quark for once and his big Nalgene bottle full of water and I'm drinking

it's too much liquid isn't it the Lord's milk coffee the Lord's milk the Lord's milk you know you're one of those people that go into a pub, and as soon as you walk into a pub, you specifically, Pete, you adopt the persona of a medieval gentleman.

And you say, serve me a flagon of your finest foaming ale. Is that what you do when you go into Pret? You go, can I have a portion of the Lord's Milk? A fatted calf's udder liquid. What do you do when you go into a pret? Do you go, can I have a portion of the Lord's milk? A calf's, a fatted calf's udder liquid. You fucked it. You normally really good at it. You do it every time you go to a pub.

So why are you so poor at it now? I'm pretending that I'm not. I'm not an absolute loser. Okay. Oi, oi, oi. We're in the same room for once. We're in the same room for once. Yeah.

How do you feel about that? You can smell all the smells, see all the seas. Yeah, I'm good. McDonald's this morning? McDonald's this morning and I've got a bit of a hangover. Are they sponsoring us at the moment at McDonald's?

They were. We were a McSpicy brand for a little while, weren't we? McSpicy boys, weren't we? McSpicy boys. I did like a McSpicy. It's surprising. When you see something

on the high street that's spicier than you realise, you sort of go, oh, I'm surprised that was... Yeah. I'm surprised surprised i got up there i don't think they can realistically once i go for all their user testing and their focus groups and stuff they don't really come out of anything spicy do they because they know it's too divisive people will be people will be screaming and i was really disappointed with the spicy nuggets i mean to be honest the reason i asked if mcdonald's are sponsoring us at the moment is because the um the near where I live are so poor that we literally can't go there anymore.

What do you mean, so poor? What, they just put things all in the wrong order? So there's no... Big Mac's just full of lettuce. I'm going to call them out by name. All right. Ballam High Road. Right, okay.

Stretton Place. Okay. They're the two local ones to me. They're the two local ones, yeah? No good. No. Any kind of delivery vibe or whatever they use, Uber Eats, it's always wrong. So basically, I spend all my time getting refunds.

Yes, yeah, yeah. I don't think I've had a single delivery order recently that hasn't, I haven't had to request a refund for like a pot of gravy or something. To their credit, they always do. They're always Chinese. To their credit, they always do give you the refund. Yeah, yeah, they're very good. But when you go into those McDonald's,

it's always four deep, no one serving. I'll tell you what, let me tell you something now. Last time I went to the Ballon one, I was in there for 40 minutes. I'd done the order on the screen. I could see my order on their screen, and they just weren't doing it. They weren't doing anyone's orders.

I actually had to say to the lady, this is the order, I need to go. Yeah. This is supposed to be fast food, baby this is the order. I need to go. Yeah. This is supposed to be fast food, baby. Please, can you do it? And no joke. I wasn't rude about it. Well, I didn't think I was rude about it.

You probably thought I was. And do you know what she did? Give me my 50 ice creams. But do you know what she did? What? She just calmly and deliberately just did it and gave it to me. So thanks.

Okay. So what would have happened if I hadn't said this? I'd still be there. And everyone else, as soon as they saw me do it, everyone else went, Oh yeah, I'll have the photo. And it was almost like that was what kicked them into action. Right.

I mean, because that's what the screens are for, aren't they? Exactly that. To make it more efficient. Make it easy for you. Make it easy for you. And then so I... Maybe they just forgot their raison d'etre, so to speak. Maybe they were just

sort of like, there's this, there's a gas that comes out the aircon system that wipes everyone's brains. I think that's the most likely.

I think that's probably likely, yeah. I get, get Tommy on there, get Tommy on the case. Yeah, exactly.

Um, we, I'll come on to that in a minute. We get, um, we get the idea that people don't want to

be there, right? I know you're at uni. I know that it's fucking pain in the ass. I know you're watching the clock. We've all been there, right? But I would personally, my argument is there right i know you're at uni i know that it's fucking pain in the ass i know you're watching the clock we've all been there right but i would person my

argument is just this if you're standing in a public facing role and the only thing separate and you is like 50 angry londoners it's a desk yeah just do it it's easier to do it it's less stressful to do it because you never see those public freak out videos in a restaurant. You only ever see public free cut videos in a McDonald's or in a KFC or in a Burger King. My favourite of the genre, two men having a fist fight

when another man calmly eats his meal by the table. I love those ones. I'd be like that because even though I'd be, oh, danger, I'd be also like,

it's nothing to do with me. I don't want any reason to be picked on so I'm just going to eat with me. Yeah. I don't want any reason to be picked on, so I'm just going to eat my tea. One of the best revelations that I've experienced in life is when you get through your kind of late 20s,

early 30s, and you realise that actually very, very few, if any, other human beings notice you, give a shit about you,

care about you, you can then observe human nature and you will be part of the background scenery. You won't even know who you are. I am very much enjoying

being very invisible. I was never visible really but I think, because it helps because I look like everybody and also as you get older you do kind of start to disappear a little bit.

And it's harder for me I think because I'm quite tall and big so people do tend to notice me and my frame regrettably more but it's great just observing

what's going on so if there's an altercation as in just like an argument nothing major no one's getting hurt or whatever

because I think if someone was getting hurt I would intervene if it's just an altercation something interesting like a spicy chat I'll actively

go and stand near it because I want to hear it I want to hear it and they don't know they're all fucking caught up with their own shit they don't care about you as long as you don't get involved

you can have a great old time you shouldn't lick your lips though you see that guy who's like I smack my lips I don't lick them I think he's a gay guy who's getting

some homophobic abuse from some a couple of people in a fast food restaurant and he it's not two wrong to make a right, but he did get a hatchet out and start smashing the place up.

Bloody hell. I don't think he laid a hatchet on the lads because I think they cleared out pretty quickly. But he just had this hatchet and it was just hitting the desks and the desks were just snapping in half because it was a big hatchet. And it was like a little the desks and the desks were just snapping and off because it was a big hatchet and there were

it was like a little axe sort of thing and this yeah but he was destroying the fast food restaurant it looked so badass but he said

I always carry this hatchet with me and he was on the news interview and I was going I'm not sure is that alright it's like the story

I told you before about Pete Burns who was he was um he was in the lead song Dead or Alive yes

um he used to cross dress quite a lot I'm not sure if he was I don't think he was trans but he used to cross dress quite a lot he's dead now sadly

um when did Pete Burns die a number of years ago ah but he used to live near me right and um I used to work

Scouse yeah Scouse guy yeah I used to work in um Scouse. Yeah, Scouse guy, yeah. I used to work in a job where I was chatting to someone who knew Pete Burns from back in the day. He's from a very kind of rough part of Liverpool. And he always used to dress like that, even as a teenager, right? And you can imagine a big, tall, big guy

dressing as a woman in a council estate in Liverpool in like the 80s or late 70s used to attract quite a lot of attention. And this guy who knew him back in the day, who was a bit of a character himself, by the way, I mentioned that I saw Pete Burns on the way to go and see this guy. And he said, oh, I know Pete. I've known him since we were young.

The hardest man I've ever met. Very funny. And I was like, what do you mean? He said, I've never seen someone have, and I mean this quite literally, a fight every day. But every day of his life, he was in a fight for like 10 years. And he said, sometimes I'd walk through the cancer state and he'd be there smashing the shit out of some skinhead with a stiletto. And he said, as a result, he just became the most hardened man.

So at that point, nothing betrays him. He was fine. But anyways, I was going to say to you, yesterday we put an episode out. I interviewed, or I didn't interview, that's probably a bit high-minded. I chatted to Tommy from The Interruption, which is another Slack show,

and I thought it'd be interesting for people listening to this because it's a really quirky, interesting story. And just to reiterate, if you haven't heard that, if you saw it in your podcast feed yesterday, I thought, oh, I don't fancy that because I only want to hear what Peaks up to. Absolutely fair enough. But do give it a go.

Maybe I'll be the interrupter. Maybe it's you. Maybe that's the choice. Hello, everyone. Give it a go because it's well worth listening to. It's such an interesting story. I've been fascinated with it ever since I first heard about it. So it's great to have it out there.

And Tommy and Nicky, the producers, have done such a good job. So I just wanted to say it's well worth doing it. Have you heard the trailer? Yes I have. Because you did the voiceover for the

house ad right? Yes yeah yeah really good really really good stuff the sound design once again is excellent. It's a bit of you as

well the old interrupting the TV broadcast. I think just anything like anything getting hacked anything getting kind of interrupted I just think analogue

television in the whole picture is just amazing. I just in the whole picture is amazing. I just find that whole thing absolutely fascinating. How you manage to get your head around what's happening to interrupt it. A five-year-old hack, basically. Not done with computer programs or codes. All done manually, baby. Script kiddies.

Not script kiddies here, mate. So give it a go and find out what you think because it's I think that episodes 5 and 6 are out on Monday there's two episodes dropping every Monday for four weeks

there's four out at the moment it's well worth giving it a listen Peter we went out together last night for the first time in a very long time

we did yes we had other people were there weren't they we had swigs we had some swigs and I don't feel very well

that's what happens I had too much fun. And I don't feel very well. That's what happens. I had too much fun, didn't I? But I love to see you work in a room. Work in a room? It's like seeing a really hungry person eat. It's what you're born to do. No, not really.

But I do enjoy seeing people I've not seen in a little while. You massively love to get together with the old radio heads, don't you? Yeah. There weren't that many. But they're becoming few and far between, to be honest. The old radio heads. Dropping out the game. Jumping out the game, moving to podcasting.

Yeah. And then going, why can't we get a hit? Too many podcasts. I love the idea of... Dickhead. The thing I love about your commitment is that you headed home after the drink-up last night, on the train, all the way back to Leon C. Ate some rotten rice from the fridge.

Did you? Survived it. But that's not what the aim is supposed to be. The last time we went to that party for the Christmas, all the way back to Lyon Sea. Ate some rotten rice from the fridge. Did you? Survived it. But that's not what the aim is supposed to be. The last time we went to that party for the Christmas party of the year before, they had delicious snacks. They did. And they didn't have many delicious snacks last night. And I should have eaten.

I've not got a problem with that. But the way you say survived it, like it's something to be proud of. Yeah, exactly. Well, it had cream in it. And I don't do well with cream. Christmas cream. Halloween cream. Christmas cream Halloween cream Christmas cream sour cream I just

cannot handle it if it's been out for like one second it starts to go on the turn and do you not understand what I mean if I if you say to someone in the

morning how was like how'd you get on last night I survived the night I think so it's wrong I think so it's gotta be wrong yeah never mind but you shouldn't be eating

sour cream that's aged. No. It's already been soured. It's already gone through Deliveroo. It's already been soured by life. You shouldn't be eating that late, to be honest. And then you're back on the train first thing this morning. Back on the train, baby.

I'll be at McDonald's breakfast and I'm feeling a little bit better but I'm still just... I'm tired these days. Yeah, it happens. It catches up with you. I just can't really, I can't really do it. Are you, by the way,

we're still on a shout out for Christmas emails. Oh, yes. We've had quite a few come in, but we're going to do them at some point soon, obviously for Christmas. I do keep those coming in.

We've had quite a lot. I'm off to, off to Hartlepool, as discussed on the Twitch stream that we did for the, what, was it Japan? It was Japan, wasn't it?

Yes we need to re-up this for those who weren't who weren't I almost said weren't capable then weren't available to watch the Twitch stream for the Japan Croatia game

that you did on the Football Ramble Twitch you mentioned to me because I popped in you mentioned to me that I'm going to use my words carefully here but I am going to stick by them

right to spite your own mother you're buying her a rat for Christmas. I mean, that sounds like an awful thing to do. But you're doing it. I am doing it. If I can find one. If I can look at a rat.

That's the only reason you might not do it. Exactly, yeah. If I can't find a rat on the way up to Hartlepool. Yeah, she said on more than one occasion she'd really like a rat. And researching it, they're quite like little dogs running around, scooting around. Is there a particular breed of rat you get which makes it a good pet? A fancy rat, they're called.

That's not their name. It is a fancy rat. How many more times? Fancy rat. So you're going to get her a fancy rat? It's a fancy rat. It's a ratus norvegicus domestica, a domestic form of ratus Norvegius.

The brown rat and the most common species of rat kept as a pet. But they're really clever, apparently. They're really, really clever. I like that their genus is called Ratus. Yeah. Lovely stuff. As I asked you before, did she say to you, I'd quite like a rat one day or I really want a rat

please get me one for Christmas no no somewhere in between those two pillars I would say she was saying I've always really wanted a rat they're really cute you can just sit there

and stroke them but point out to me if this is the scowl saying in passing I might want a rat one day and this is I need one now yeah it's close at your right hand okay right

so is it going to backfire oh yeah it'll almost certainly backfire but everything does everything does but Everything does. But if she is refusing to leave the house at any point in her life, have a fancy rat.

Fill it for the rats. Fill it for the rats. See her leg it. See her leg it out the road. In her nighter. Thomas! Poor lady.

Yeah, exactly. How are you planning to present the gift to her? In a cage wrapped up or? Oh, just trickle through the window. Post it through the letterbox loose. Yeah. Shout out if you wanted one.

What you could do is just leave a trail of just breadcrumbs with cheese. Yeah, just coming in. There's your open up loads of rats. Just pick your favourite. Yeah, I don't know. I've got to get older one. Pets at Home in Hartlepool. The guy was just saying,

well, sometimes they come in, sometimes they don't. Like, you don't know what's coming in. That's not a pet shop. That is a crack den. That's Pets at Home. This should be bloody knowing. I'll catch one myself.

I think if there's any brand of pet, any kind of type of store in the world where you need to have an eye on the stock that's coming in. Yeah. I think a pet shop's up there. Yeah, a pet shop's up there. But if they are just like, sometimes they get rabbits, sometimes they get rats. And I was like, do you have any indication whether you're getting

a rat this week? He goes, no. Wow. Yeah, I didn't think it was whatever head office has got. I was like, what? See didn't think it was, it's whatever head office has got. I was like, what? See, there's a big head office. Phil, we're rats. Oh, it's a fucking tiger. That doesn't happen, surely.

Like Noah's fucking ark up there. Interestingly, you've gone for the buy the rat local to your mum rather than buy the rat down here and take it up to your mum.

She wouldn't understand that accent. I was about to say, is that because it'll be a culture shock? So you are sticking with this? I'm sticking with it. I want to do it.

I want to do things nice for my ungrateful mother. But I just think, yeah, I think this will be a step too far. Bearing in mind, she's not talked to me

for about three weeks. Why not? Because we had a falling out. About what? Her not coming down for Christmas? Yeah. That's what happens

at Christmas with families. People have arguments about it. And so this is my olive branch, but the olive branch has got a rat on it. The olive branch is in a rat's mouth. And the teeth are sharp. Have a lovely rat. What would your dad think about it?

He'd just go, fucking son. Right. I'll have to walk it. I'll be honest with you. If a wish fairy came down to me a month or two ago and said, son. Right. I'll have to walk it. I'll be honest with you, if a wish fairy came down to me a month or two ago and said

what would you like to happen on the Luke and Pete show to make it more interesting I think Pete buying a rat for his mum would be up there. And not even like, I've bought one, it's an impending purchase. So I could stop at any moment. But you won't. I'm not going to. How much are they by the way? I've bought one. It's an impending purchase. So I could stop at any moment. But you won't.

I'm not going to. How much are they, by the way? I don't know. I remember buying my gerbil for like 80 pence. I reckon it's probably a bit more expensive now. What a sentence. That's the 80s though, is it? Yeah, yeah.

My friend Duncan, he was a very irresponsible gerbil owner. And if you're of a sensitive disposition, you need to kind to take this story under advice. So feel free to listen to this. If you don't want to, it's up to you, but that's fair warning. He had gerbils but they went on holiday quite

soon after he got them. So it wasn't part of his routine. He was young and he forgot to feed them. And when he came back, one of them had eaten the other one. Yeah, well you hope that one of them star Yeah. And when he came back, one of them had eaten the other one. Yeah. Well, you hope that one of them starved to death before he was eaten, you reckon?

No. No. I think that's the world in which we would love to live. Unfortunately, mate, that's not how it is. But with my 80-pinch purchase, well, two, one on 60 back in the day. They'd give you two for 150, surely. Hagging them down.

Give us a little one. Yeah, when we got them home, they were supposed to be two males. Turns out, lots of babies arrived, and I've made money on the deal. Have you? Did you sell them on? No, just...

Actually, where did they all go? Didn't my dad kill them? Oh. I think he might have done, you know, because how do you get rid of gerbils? People will be on the fucking emails now. Why? We talked about eating burgers once, and loads of people got in touch saying, you need to be nice to animals. I think my dad might have done, you know? Don't say it like that. How do you get rid of gerbils? People will be on the fucking emails now. Why? We talked about eating burgers once

and loads of people got in touch saying you need to be nice to animals. I think my dad might have killed us gerbil, you know? Because we had thousands of them and then they weren't there anymore. I don't want to hear about Stewie Dolls when committing gerbil side. Gerbil side.

Yeah, but like what can you do? Apparently mum loves rodents as well. I mean, all you can do is humanely, you know, shut them down, I think. Was it shut them down? I'm going to find out. I think a gas was involved. No.

Honestly, I honestly think that was the case. This is not a home a fancy rat should be entering. The ghosts of rodents past. The ghosts of rodents past. That was a different house. The atmosphere is going to be thick with the ghosts of past rodents. This is why therapy works. Same house or not?

Different, different. This is why therapy works though because it's like, when you talk about your past... What do you think this is?

Because I'm not getting paid for this. I'm just saying, you are in a little kind of weird way. But yeah, I just sort of think like, God, you'd mention

something and you're like, oh fuck, where did they go then? Because I'm guaranteed they wouldn't have got rid of all of those gerbils. There was like fucking seven of them. Yeah.

Little babbies. That's a shame. You could have found a home for them, couldn't you? I think that was the plan, but I'm fairly certain I heard my dad boasting at how humanely

he managed to kill them. I mean, if you're boasting about that, there's a lack of respect there, which makes, in retrospect, Shouldn't be telling your kids it. The killing's inhumane, isn't it? You shouldn't be telling your kids

retrospectively I'm sorry that everyone had to sit through that sorry yeah while you were talking about that story there I looked up the fancy rat and I found a little bit of information here they're quite independent, loyal and easily trained apparently considered more intelligent than other domesticated rodents

this is the great sentence there, how they've written this makes it sound so funny healthy rats typically live 2-3 years but they're capable of living a year or so longer domesticated rodents. Yeah. And this is the great sentence there. How they've written this makes it sound so funny. Healthy rats typically live two to three years, but they're capable of living a year or so longer. When they say that, it's like they just don't want to.

You've got it in you to live another year, but I don't want to. See you later. See you later, mate. Stewie's on the prowl. With his bag of gas. Smell gas.

So that'll be something that we'll, needless to say, developments will be watched very closely for that. And I think you are a responsibility, not just to me, but to our listeners as well, to keep us posted on that. Because is there any chance you'll deviate on the specific pet? No, I think she said fancy rat, and I've got to find a fancy rat.

There's no gerbils happening. There's no hamsters happening. I think we need a fancy rat, I'm afraid. I think if I was forced to have a rodent in the house, I would go for a clever, intelligent rat. I think they're probably better than, they're better than gerbils. They're better than hamsters.

I think that's, and I think also, you know, they're going to give you a lot more value as a pet. If you're happy to kind of, you know, pay, you know, whatever it be, the £1.80 rather than the ATP, I suppose. But you're in for a penny,

in for a pound. I'll give them a tip and get a better one give us your best one give us your fanciest rat give us your fanciest rat the one with the monocle it is 20p more

are you going to push the boat out just before we go to a break are you going to push the boat out and buy all the accoutrements that come you kind of have to

I'll have to put an Amazon repeated delivery sort of thing in there as well isn't it funny how people get vexed about certain there's a cut off

for everyone I don't think anyone knows where it is personally or individually there's a cut off where people get annoyed about

cruelty to animals. Okay yeah. So for example I personally think it's a little bit unsavoury to say the least what they do

in I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here re-animals right and I know a lot of animal charities are very unhappy about that but if you stamp on a cockroach no one gives a shit right

if you stamp on a rat people are going to go fucking careful fucking hell kinky if you stamp on a dog you might as well fucking leave the country

yeah another cat bin lady exactly it's a great example put the cat in the bin I'm not saying that there's a right or wrong here I'm just saying

there's a cut off there exists a cut off for everyone There exists a cut-off for everyone. And you never find anyone who will admit to not really liking animals. No, that is true. If you don't love animals, it must be quite... Is it a marker? Is it a marker, do you think, for something else? Yeah, maybe.

I just sort of think, well, what are you enjoying in your life, really? Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, look, we'll watch those developments with interest. We'll take a quick break now. When we come back, I've got an email or two to get through, so that'll be interesting. But, Peter, do keep us appraised, won't you, on the developments.

And please do be cruel to... For fuck's sake. Please be kind to animals wherever you can. Yes. Because that's really important. And I'm sure Pete, joking aside, will take it. Sometimes you've got to be cruel to be kind, baby.

No. That's the one exception to that rule. Okay? That's not, you can't get away with that. Judge, I was actually being kind when you think about it.

I throw those dogs in the river. Like, if you've got a mate who's got really bad BO and you just bite the bullet and tell them, that's cruel to be kind. It's helping them.

Yeah. You stamp on a rat's head, that's not cruel. That is cruel. That's not cruel to be kind. Fucking's helping them. You stamp on a rat's head, that's not cruel. That is cruel. That's not cruel to be kind. Fucking hell. Let's get a break. When we come back, of course, because it's a Thursday,

we will be going through the brightest and best of your battery brand submissions. Stay tuned. Fancy rats of both sexes commonly develop mammary tumours as they age. They're usually benign, though cruel to be kind. It's the Luke and Pete Show. Pete Donaldson with you, joined by Luke Moore.

And we are doing battery brands. Have you found a battery that has an interesting name, an interesting vibe? And it's kind of the season, isn't it, Luke? Yeah. You're opening up Chinese lights. Yeah, yeah, that's true. And Christmas and baubles that flash and light up

and rotate their colours. And you're going to be finding new batteries. The Wi-Fi I have access to actually traded out our battery-powered Christmas lights for ones that you plug in now. That's nice. So I couldn't go and look for the batteries involved because there were none. We did a big turn on in the cul-de-sac that I live in.

It's not a cul-de-sac, it's a road. But we managed to get our lights working over our side because I spent a lot of the time crimping and tightening absolute grisly soldering like fucking

national lampoons all over again poor Damien over the road his just couldn't be saved he had to buy some more such a nice community spirit at your place so you're all

turning on the Christmas lights at the same time yes so we've got a we've got a little timer that goes on at certain times and turns off at certain times how did you decide as a group as a community when to start them going on So we've got a little timer that goes on at certain times and turns off at certain times.

How did you decide as a group, as a community, when to start them going on? Oh, I don't know. I mean, it was just getting a bit silly. We still haven't put our Christmas tree up. Is it Wednesday today? Yeah. Jesus, yeah. We haven't put our Christmas tree up today, I think.

This episode, people will be hearing tomorrow. Sorry, yeah, okay. Yeah, no, but I'm just saying it's quite late. Yeah, it is, yeah, yeah, yeah. So we always feel like we're behind because 1st of December we normally do. We don't normally get back from the US until maybe a day or two after that.

And so we have to straight down to the sewing and craft superstore car park in Ballam, grab ourselves the real tree, get it back up. How much do you reckon my Christmas tree cost? I asked my friends about this. I was annoyed about how much it cost when I paid for it. I asked a lot of friends in our WhatsApp group and what they thought was reasonable.

And they came in with a number that made me feel a bit better. It's London which always adds on an extra tenner at least. Eight foot real tree. Eight foot real tree. I'm going to go for ten quid a foot. Eighty quid. That's what they said. It was actually sixty quid. Oh, that's

fine. Sixty is decent. Cost of living crisis though. Are we out of touch? Are we so out of touch? I don't know. I don't know where we're at. I'm doing the lights on one side of the road for the first time. I've had a stinker here,

haven't I? Energy crisis. I'm the one with the electricity. You're paying for all of it? Yeah. We can't share it out, can we?

But everyone else is doing the same. No, so there's only one set of lights on our side of the road and there's another set of lights on the other side doing the same. No, so there's only one set of lights on our side of the road and there's another set of lights on the other side of the road. For how many houses? Three on this side, two on the other.

Okay. You've bitten the bullet there. I've bitten the bullet there, but I've not done it. I didn't do it last year. But I've taken my turn and I should have taken my turn last year, shouldn't I? Yeah, price of energy. Price of energy. Price of energy. Have you got any renewable solutions to that in your home?

Renewable solutions? To energy? No. Big LC over in the US, he's now running his house entirely on self-sufficient energy. Really? What, like solar? Yep. And wind?

I think he banks so much solar in the summer. Really? Yeah. Has he got one of those big batteries, big boy batteries? Or does he just sell the power back to the... Yeah, he can do, yeah. Right. It stores it in the battery,

I think. Yeah. Speaking of batteries, people have sent those in. Peter, why don't you start with Joel Emery? By the way, Joel Emery... Is it Joel Emery?

It is actually Joel, yeah. He's one of the... I think he's probably the most talented writer for audio in the UK, in my view. Why did you get all emotional?

No, he's stuck in my throat so proud of working with him he's so good at the drama he wrote The Offensive he wrote Boom he wrote all of Jackie the Ripper he's a legend in the audio game

and what's he doing he's sending batteries in you know what he sent me one on WhatsApp and I said email it in because I can't guarantee

it'll get on the show otherwise and he has done so take it away Pete Donaldson. Joel Avery says, I'm sure you get this all the time, Luke, but is this breed of battery familiar to you and Pete? Ivsterai?

Ivsterai. Spell it out for me. I-V-S-T-E-R-A-I. Super Energy. Ivsterai. So I thought when Joel sent it, it might be. Do you recognise it? I recognise the logo but I don't recognise the name, if that makes any sense. Joel sent it, it might be. Do you recognise it? I recognise the logo, but I don't recognise the name, if that makes any sense.

Yeah, no, it does. It seems familiar to me. Joel, you are the third person to send Ifster Eye in. Gary Walsh and Jay Barnes. Most recently, Jay Barnes on February the 18th has sent these in. So you're in the top three. Delete his podcast. Delete the podcast.

Delete all of them. Therefore, it's not a new player. And as a result, you should be thoroughly shamed of yourself. Delete the podcast. Delete the podcast. Delete all of them. Therefore, it's not a new player. And as a result, you should be thoroughly shamed of yourself. Delete the podcast. Delete Boom. Delete the offensive. Shame of yourself and your work. Delete Jackie. Rubbish. Right.

Samir has come in with, Gentlemen, my toddler threw the remote control from my Android box across the room today and managed to do a solid job of denting the batteries inside. After I found the cover, I realised that I might be staring at some new players in Inverted Commerce, so please accept my offering of Chang Hong, super heavy duty Chang Hong, super heavy duty

Chang Hong, super heavy duty Put him in your vibrator New player. New player! Yes! Chang Hong, super heavy duty, dented to fuck thanks to Sumir's kid. Yeah, and as you just said, put him in your

vibrator. Put him in your vibrator, Samir. Great. I love the fact that he's got the great news that he's got a new player. That's all you can think about now. Yeah, exactly. Mike Rock. Great name. Hi, TheLukeAndPete.

I recently bought these batteries. I was in Wilco's and I needed some AA's. I was in admiration of their oranges and punchy full... What? I was in admiration of their oranges. Oh, it's oranges on the side of the battery design. And the punchy full of juice tagline. Please let them count. And please let them be a new player.

So they are four AA batteries that have an orange sort of texture to them. Wilco's extra, full of juice. Now Pete is doing a bad job of explaining this, but in his defence, this is a weird situation. So they're Wilco batteries. Wilco, the store that used to be called Wilkinson's, right? They changed it to Wilco because everyone called them Wilcos anyway. Their brand of batteries

are essentially just got extra written on the side of them and are pictures of oranges, as in the fruit oranges. Full of juice. I've never seen them before. The caveat is that it's impossible for me to search for that in the inbox because I'm just basically typing the word oranges in

and that's difficult. Yeah. But I think I'm going to rule, if you'll back me up on this, Pete, I think they're a new player. Well, I don't think they're called full of juice though, are they?

They're just Wilco extras that happen to be coloured with oranges. That's what I'm saying. Right. Yeah, I've not said full of juice. Okay. Yeah, that's what you said.

That's fine. I don't think we've seen them before. As a result, I'm ruling that they're new players. They're high performance for high drain devices and they're in the Hall of Fame. Great.

The Batteries Hall of Fame. Get them in there. So that's two new players out of 3B. Lovely. Lovely stuff. Just a nice way to end the show today. It's a lovely way to end the show. Stop it.

It's a lovely way to end the show. Join us next Monday, or this Monday, I suppose, the other side of the weekend, where we'll get an update on Pete's rat. Maybe. Maybe. Well, maybe we won't. But we'll get to some emails as well. We've got quite a few good ones. But keep your Christmas ones coming in. Hello at LukeandPeteShow. Maybe. Maybe. Well, maybe we won't. But we'll get to some emails as well. We've got quite a few

good ones. But keep your Christmas ones coming in. Hello at LukeandPeteShow.com Send us your favourite Christmas stories for whatever reason. And around Christmas we'll do a completely Christmas email themed special or two, depending on how many we get. And that'll be something that I'm very much looking forward to.

I don't know about you, Peter. Yeah, I want more of that, please. And I want them in my ears. On that note, we'll see you next time. Ta-ta. The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack production and part of the ACAST Creator Network.