The Luke and Pete Show - The Hitchhiker's Guide to Petey D

Episode Date: May 18, 2023

Pete bought a new car and he’s too embarrassed to admit what brand it is. Given that his old car was a Fiat 500 you can only imagine what he’s bought now.Despite his embarrassment, Pete amazingly picked up a hitchhiker while driving it home from the car dealership. We hear all about that on today’s show and we also get a surprise visit from Sammy the dog. Adorable. Want to get in touch with the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We still on the juice We still Luke and Pete in Pete and Luke here for another Luke and Pete show The juice is tea in my case It's tea, very milky tea You go on cycle and off cycle with juicy milk don't you?

Yeah. Look at my mug. Best day ever. It looks like the way you were holding that best day ever, it looked like it was coming out of your neck. Your head was just a big cup. Jughead. Jughead.

How's it going? You okay? Yeah, fine, yeah. Staying out of trouble. Staying out of bother. Did you see that? I don't believe that for a second did you see that

video that was doing the rounds the other day of a of a zookeeper trying to get a hippo back into the enclosure I did not see that I'm thinking

I'm thinking aesthetically it's the same sort of vibe as somebody on a on a packed Tokyo metro train

getting pushed onto getting pushed onto the Metro. Yeah, so the hippo, it looks like, I mean, to my, you know, obviously I'm a layman in this kind of field. To me, it looked like a kind of adolescent one just acting up or whatever. And one of our listeners who's, I can't find their name now, sadly. I will find it.

The hippo video. Yeah, he sent the hippo video basically saying, oh, it's Sam Westover. Hello to you, Sam. He said to us, does this zookeeper need a metal tray? Yes, to give him a little bunk. Because obviously the famous Dorsland story

of seeing a hippo being hit in the face by a metal tray. But it was quite, because I know this is probably statistically led and it's to do with different environmental factors but hippos are very dangerous right they're very they got they got teeth like big big pegs aren't they yeah and i think if you get in between them and the water they do no like it baby why do they get so aggressive when they're not when they're denied water for a bit it's because i think they want to be able to it's not the drinking water it's the

water they need to go to feel comfortable is that's not the drinking water, it's the water they need to go to feel comfortable. Is that Sammy the dog? That's Sammy the dog. He popped in to say hello. Oh, he's a good little boy. Hello, little fella. Does he do any barking?

He does constantly bark, the little bugger. Why's he not barking now? He's very much found his voice. Well, because he has respect for the studio. He has respect for the Luke and Pete show.

The Luke and Pete show the Luke and Pete and Sammy show got more respect than some of our producers at Making Boys in the background have you ever had to

put him back in this enclosure with a tea tray or not no anyway so this video is in some kind of

zoo I don't know where it is there's a path that people are walking up and down and the camera is filming along the path, and then to the right, it's quite a low-level fence with a hippo

with its two front legs up on the fence. And this zookeeper on his arm is trying to push him back in. I don't know why no one's helping him. I don't know how dangerous it is. It's a brilliant video. I'll be totally honest with you. You make it sound like when the lady at Titanic is having sex and she puts her hand on the window.

It's like that, but outside with a hippo. Okay, good stuff. Yeah. Do you remember watching Titanic? It was such a big event, wasn't it? It was. I don't think I ever saw it in the cinema. I was reminded a couple of days ago of...

My partner hates superhero films, and i'm not a big fan but like i'll i'll dip a toe for a good one like guardians of the galaxy something which the new one's come out quite recently i need to go and watch that but um because they're too long and silly and nonsensical but um that's why those are the dragons were so good yeah just solid anti-anti it's like it was i to you before, it was like a Marvel movie set in a fantasy world with all the boring bits taken out. Anyway, carry on.

All the boring bits taken out. But we went to the cinema to watch Morbius. Why the fuck did you do that? I don't know. That's like a meme, isn't it? Isn't that a meme? I was like, say it.

Because I find films very forgettable at the best of times. I'll watch a film and then a year later't it isn't that a meme i was like i was like say it like because i find films very forgettable at the best of times i'll watch a film and then a year later i can't remember a single part of this plot but i was reminded of the film morbius and i was like we went to the cinema to watch morbius why did we go to the cinema to watch morbius apparently under um apparently it's the one of the worst superhero movies ever made. Yeah, and yet Did you like it? I don't think it was, I didn't think it was terrible, you know,

perfectly watchable I think, but I think with bearing in mind that like, she wouldn't, she, Aaron does, Sarah wouldn't watch what was the film I really wanted to watch? Suicide Squad, the second Suicide Squad film that looks bad as well

the second one was good with John Cena in it was good it was a good film it's just imagine I just don't imagine the part that you've got access to

thought her life would turn out this way you pleading with her to watch a DC Comics superhero sequel by saying it's got John Cena in it

it's got John Cena in it but like it started and we saw like I think there's, like... You're such a non-virgin virgin. It's like it started and there's this kind of, like, creature that looks like a moth or something and she just went, and we turned it off.

And I watched it on the plane and I was like, that was a really good film. And just... And yet we watched Morbius. Or Morbius is what it was called. it's called morbius morbius right morpheus is the character in the matrix that's true yeah okay which presumably you also do like i didn't mind it i've only seen the first one but yeah awful stuff titanic was a massive deal back in the day i remember my friends thanks thanks for that luke well a lot of our listeners won't remember peter that's a good point actually Titanic was a massive deal back in the day I remember my friends thanks for that Luke well

a lot of our listeners won't remember Peter that's a good point actually yeah so you know you're 42 now mate you need to get with the program you need to be down with the kids

and not just the ones that go to Maserati garages on the weekend my friend's sister was so obsessed with Titanic that she used to watch it over and over

and over again every time I went to their house, she was basically watching it. It was obscene. She had like the collector's edition DVD with the little film still you get of it and all the rest of it. It was a massive

deal, right? I just feel like looking back at it now, it seems quite quaint. Yeah. Do you know what I mean? The world's changed so much now. Well, do you remember like,

but do you remember when these films just sort of came back, it came out and they were just like in, flipping, like, you'd only get like a couple of blockbusters a summer. And, you know, now there's way more films and then, you know, and they're marketed a lot more aggressively.

Like, you'd have a film like Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, and you'd have a kid on going live reciting the entire script of the film that they'd watched at the cinema and just somehow remembered. It's incredible. I remember seeing Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves and thinking it was amazing. Yeah. And loving it. I think it was really cool and then i watched it about five or six years ago and genuinely was of the opinion it's one of the worst ones i've ever seen

the the fluctuation was real yeah i was so it was it was in my mind it was great i wanted to watch it to see if it was still great. Normally, if something dates really badly and I now think it's not very good, I turn it off. Yeah. But this was so bad that I had to carry on. But speaking of, I had a bit of a film marathon weekend a few weekends ago, where I watched about five films across a weekend. I'm just trying to remember what they were.

So I watched Signs, which I think is fucking brilliant. Have you seen that? I've not seen it. Is that the one where the aliens come down and have a chat through a language or something? No, that's Arrival. Good. All right, not that then.

Signs, is that the one with Geordie Foster and the big satellite dishes? No, that's a different film. Shall we go through all the films in existence? Is that the one with Buster Keaton and the big clock can you just let me I'll answer the questions that you've got so Arrivers is a Dennis Vilnius film

which weirdly enough I also watched that weekend and it's brilliant Signs is a Shyamalan film which I think is probably his best film and Mel Gibson plays a lead in it and Joaquin Phoenix is in it and it's about a farmer in the middle of rural

Pennsylvania who starts getting crop circles up here in his hat in his fields right okay and it's about and it's an interesting I think it's really interesting because it's about the nature of faith right because Mel Gibson plays this Episcopalian priest

who loses his faith because his wife is killed in a car accident. And then this stuff starts happening and he starts to question his... It's really good. It's a really brilliant atmospheric film. I also re-watched Midsommar because there's a new Ari Aster film coming out I really want to watch. So I wanted to watch these other two to get myself ready for it. And I watched Midsommar.

Have you seen that? Yes, I have. I watched it on Holland in a Hotel. It was, yeah, it was very full on. Fucking intense. I had to watch three episodes of The Inbetweeners afterwards as a palate cleanser. To calm yourself down.

Yeah. So you could get to sleep. But for those of you who've not seen Midsommar, I don't think this is a really big plot point necessarily. Anyway of you who've not seen Midsommar, I don't think this is a really big plot point necessarily. Anyway, if you've not seen Midsommar and you want to watch it and you don't want to know anything that happens in it, then skip this bit.

But there's a part in it where they perform this ceremony where these old people chuck themselves off a cliff. Do you remember that? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And I was... They call it a certain name. I'm going to tell you what the name for it is,

because I think this is a really interesting anthropological kind of thing. So within the movie, it's called, it's called, there we go. Where is it? It's called Atestupa, right? Which is a literal translation to, is clan precipice. And the idea is that certain clans around certain parts of Scandinavia, when the members of their clan got too old, they would become a burden on the family and the class.

And rather than live on for ages, they would ritually kill themselves from chucking themselves off these cliffs. Right. And Ari Aster included that scene in that film because he he said you know he actually said in some press interviews this is based on like an ancient tradition back in kind of medieval times in in scandinavia and that we wanted to um we wanted to uh you know to kind of replicate it and and you know talk about it because it's interesting which it is of course and atastupa is now a word that's used in scandinavia um or in sweden i think for it's now

used as like a a metaphor for like insufficiently funded old people care so you're just on me so the link is like you're you're not looking after them properly but actually what what is doubly interesting is there's a load of associated locations in Sweden that are alleged to be these precipices, these cliffs that these things used to happen in. But recently, this was accepted to be like a medieval practice in Scandinavia. But fairly recently, in the last 150 years or so, historians and anthropologists and researchers have found out that the sources that all these things are based on are actually untrue and it's complete myth yeah it's all um it's all just a you know it's a culturally thing it's a cultural thing that's taken like a huge amount of um of capital but actually didn't exist at all but in other cultures i think in japanese culture and but i

think some kind of inuit culture there has been stuff like that that has been reported and gone on in the past where they don't want to You leave them out Say again? You just leave the old people out or something

In Japan that's apparently what allegedly has happened in the past right? Right Again I think that was discredited again in Japan but again I don't know like it's all

But weirdly it kind of makes sense right yeah of course it does yeah because in times of famine or hardship or whatever exactly yeah I mean you think you would eat them that's what I would do give them a

little chomp I was thinking of what I was about to say then was I'm not saying it's acceptable and I wouldn't it's an awful thing and you've somehow made it

work mutton dressed as fam yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah come on exactly that's what you're here for I'm a great lover it's an awful thing and you've somehow made it work mutton dressed as fam eh come on exactly

that's what you're here for I'm a great lover I'm a great lover of old people so I would never want to see it happen speaking of eating though Peter

our friend Chris got in touch on Twitter saying been re-listening to some old pods and it's not just chocolate that Pete

talks about being on the streets around where he lives at 13 minutes 35 seconds of the Ducks Pete talks about being on the streets around where he lives. At 13 minutes, 35 seconds of the Ducks versus Peas episode on the 24th of March, 2022, Pete talks about how there's always so much bread on the streets around where he lives. Yeah.

Do you live in a Willy Wonka's factory? It's just kind of like Nutella on toast. No, it's just like until you get dogs, you don't really sort of look at how much food is on the floor. It's, you know, it's just absolute, it's absolutely killer. It really is. The only place,

the only time I see food around on the street where I live is when a fox has torn through the bin or something. Yeah, yeah, fair. I'll tell you what it always is. Eggshells. Eggshells, yeah, they never, yeah. Tea bags. They always pull them out.

They always pull them out. They don't like the tea bags. They don't like the egg shells, but they certainly even strewn around. Yeah. Coffee grinds. Yeah. And peelings.

Nappies. What, in the food bin? Come on. Where would you put nappies? In the bin bin, probably. What? In the bin bin? Put them in the microwave and smell them.

Do people know that story? You haven't told that story have you i mean that makes it sound like i was up to it i can't remember wasn't there somebody was you told me the story was he putting them in like even wearing them i think so it's nice and warm oh yeah somebody was stealing used nappies warming them up in the microwave and then putting them on. You told me that story in the pub out of nowhere, in your typically vague way. Yeah. And I remember vividly at the time. You were telling me about losing a loved one,

losing a grandma. And I was like, well, I'm going to trump your story, mate. What is this man talking about? But apparently that was a fetish that someone you knew or heard about had. I heard about. I don't know how he's wearing a nappy, by the way, a baby's nappy. He's not going to fit it on, is he? It's a good point, actually, yeah.

Well, you could tape two together and have the poo on each butt of cheek, I suppose. It might have had men involved. It's a lot, isn't it? But that's the thing, And it's usually men. I think men really invest in their fetishes to a massive degree. And as long as it's not... Look, as long as you're recycling,

I don't mind. Yeah, getting more use out of it. Yeah, exactly. Exactly. You don't want them living in your neighborhood, do you? The microwave nappy man. Do you think you're the most marginally problematic person

on your street? What do you mean? Yeah. Eccentric. Eccentric. I don't know. Damien over the road gives me a run for the money because he's got alpacas and he buys a lot of cool stuff, the car boots and stuff.

But he's quite handsome and tall. That's where we differ. And his family love him. And he's got his own key. And he's an ex-counsellor. He's got his own key. But do you think if people were putting a top three list of eccentrics on your street, you'd be up there?

There's a guy who's got like a top floor room in the loft, and he's got like a red light in it. And when he's got the red light on, you know he's DJing some balleric sounds. I think that's pretty kinky. Do people still say balleric sounds. I think that's pretty kinky. Do people still say Balearic sounds? I don't bloody know. All sounds the bloody same, doesn't it? I just think I would love to know

whether people are happy generally that you live on that street. That I live on the street. I don't know. I bought the sausages for the coronation party. Oh, not told you about my car luke oh yeah you see you got a new car right got a new motor got a new motor dave what's wrong with the old one too small too small too messy too messy well i cleaned it up actually um so i spent a good

week cleaning it up getting a new battery um there were some um light damage to the sides of it. So I sanded and spray painted, primed and spray painted that away. And I thought I'd done a pretty good job. And I've got no history, as anybody who's been listening for a couple of years, I only learned to drive about a year and a half ago, and I've got no history of ever buying a used a used car yeah because you kept asking me how to buy one yeah yeah so i'd bought one i'd bought the fiat 500 and and and that served me quite well but but it is a go car and you can't really put much in it and and so right so i went to a car dealer

you told me you told everyone listening to this show that you were going to get a particular brand of car that you found online, and I told you not to do that. A Kia Sportage or something. A Kia Sportage. I don't know why you told me not to do that, because out of the thing that I did buy, that would have been the most sensible option.

I went to the dealership and handed over the Fiat, and he took one look at it, and he went, and I just presume that you go to a dealership and handed over the Fiat and he took one look at it and he went... And I just presume that you go to a dealership and they go, right, this is the amount of money I'm willing to spend on this car and then you haggle or do whatever. So I was prepared to haggle, right? And he said he didn't want it.

I can't sell that. I'm like, what? And he's like, yeah, I didn't want to. I mean, he said, there's clearly been a lot of damage and the front of this bumper is full of filler. And you can see where the scratches. Oh, because they know about cars. Don't they?

Because they know about them. Well, he said it's full of filler. And I felt like going, I bought the filler, but I didn't fucking use it because I thought I was going to get away. We're not using the filler. I should have used the filler. You wouldn't even have known.

Oh, really? And so I'd fucked the job a bit. I mean, to be fair, the things that he was pointing out, I was going, yeah, I mean, that is fair. I mean, I'd done that rather poorly. I'd left fibres from the J-cloth in the paint. You know, like when dad's in the 80s as we spoke about before like having little uh bits of uh toilet roll yeah on their on their on their wounds when they when they've shaved

it looked a little bit like that and so like he said yeah it's not for me it's clearly had a bit of a bump and uh yeah it's clearly full of filler and i felt like i was trying to pretend that i hadn't touched it i was like i don't know what you're talking about. So what did you do with your old car then? Well, he basically went, look, I'm a nice bloke. You're a nice bloke. I'm going to ring around, see if anybody... And I presume this is all part of the dance and it'll be on his website next week or something.

And so he's like, I'll ring around, see if any of my mates want this Fiat 500 and I'll see if I can get you a price for it, which is very kind of him. But obviously, you know, I was going to buy a car from his lot. So, you know, it worked for him because then he gets to get rid of one of his cars. And so, yeah, so he managed, like about an hour later, he's like, yeah, somebody I know wants it. And I'm like, right, okay, this sounds like a continuation of the dance. And so, yeah, so I managed to part exchange my car.

How much for? I think the car, I think I got about cracking on for eight and a half for the Fiat. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Because it's automatic and it's, automatic, and it's relatively recently. It's 2017 or something. So I don't know cars,

but I know that's kind of what ballpark I was looking at anyway. And so I dropped another grant on a car. Then I'm not going to tell you what brand of car it is. You're going to have to figure it out one day because it's too embarrassing. I'm going to see you drive into the office aren't i at some point well then you'll find out what car it is because i'm not telling you what kind of why are you embarrassed by it because it's just embarrassing and i uh why'd you buy it then well because i was like is there a sticker over

the label like a surprise car i looked at the car and I went what is it BMW Mercedes oh fuck but I literally just went do you panic why can't I have that because like I budgeted for two or three grand

to get a bigger car so I was like right for so for two or three grand I could get I could get that car and so I've got this

car that may or may not be too big for my road to the park what are you doing with it then it's too big it's too big Luke the car's too big where have you parked it

it's on my street but I mean next door I have to move his van every time I park it is it the limo from the first Die Hard movie Next door has to move his van every time I park it. Is it the limo from the first Die Hard movie? It may as well be a hearse. But, yeah, it's a little bit embarrassing. But I was like, look, I... What did Sarah say?

Similar things. And my mum said similar things. Right. And I thought, that just seems like good value to me. That just seems like good value. Yeah. I've already taken a quick fit because it's pulling to the right a little bit. But other than that, it's fine.

You sent me a photo the other day when you bought this new car saying, and literally the message just said, bought a new car, picked up a hitchhiker on the way home. We'll tell you later. Oh, yes. Yeah. And I was so excited for that. Yeah, so on the way home, from the dealership,

I stopped off at Wick's to buy a light switch. It's a car too big for the Wick's car park. It's a car too big for the Wick's car park. And it's got roomy boot, but it's still not as much room as the Fiat, weirdly. I don't know how that works out. But, yeah, and this guy just came over. Like, quite, you know,

seems to be a well-brought-up lad who looked completely normal. Didn't look particularly down on his luck. But he'd spent the whole... He was like basically, excuse me, is this the best place to be to get hitchhiker access to London? Because I'm trying to get back to Bristol.

I've been on a year-long trip around Europe on the kindness of strangers, basically. Is he British? Yes, yes. Travelling around Europe around europe on the kindness of strangers basically i've just been uh yes yes yeah traveling around uh around europe uh just just hitchhiking everywhere basically and uh i went ah no you probably need to be over on the arterial road because this is this is basically the the retail park so people are just probably shopping from from locally uh so you probably best off getting on the road he said can, can you take me there?

And I was like, I wasn't used to driving this car. So I'm like, I don't know how really to drive it. This is the way back from you buying it. This is the way back from me buying it. So I kind of get where I need to be and sort of park up and stuff. And it turns out he sort of spent a year in Japan in the middle of nowhere as a monk he uh he spent a lot of time around europe this year so he's just kind of like

just kicking around really he had to get to bristol he was trying to get to bristol so he's kind of at the end of his big long year-long journey across europe and stuff but it's very unlike me to be picking up um picking up uh passengers picking up uh hitchhikers it's not a thing that happens very often i just drove him around the corner of the arterial road and stuck him in a shell garage he's probably still there he could he could have walked there couldn't he he could have walked there yeah but uh i mean i guess that's not i guess if you're committed to the hitchhike you've got to uh you've got to kind of be yeah i don't think you have to like hitchhike to the toilet and stuff like that i think you could just do some walking right i mean hitchhiking itself

involves some kind of walking doesn't it yeah but he was interesting enough but he gave me his card and stuff and and i took a picture why's he got a card i don't know well i guess if he's explaining what his what his hustle is i mean it's probably a better story than just i need to be in bristol now bruv can you get me there like it's a bit less it's probably a better story than just, I need to be in Bristol now, bruv. Can you get me there? Like, it's a bit less in your face, isn't it? And what was his name? I can't remember. But it was on the card.

I've sent the card to Rory to put up. I've sent the picture to Rory to put up. And he wasn't a fan of any of your podcasts, no? Why would he be a fan of any of my podcasts? Well, I just think he might not have much else to do if he's fucking talking around you. That's a good point, actually, yeah.

That's a good point, actually. Perfect environment for a listener. Well, he did say what do you do for work as a help out at a podcast company and he,

it makes it sound like a charity mission, help out at a podcast company and he goes, and he said, well, if you, he said, if you ever need

someone to interview... That's what everyone fucking says. Have you mentioned the word podcast in a fucking job conversation? Everyone goes, I've got an idea for a podcast. That's how I started a lot of mine. So are you going to tell us what car you've got? Are you going to do a reveal on the social media? I don't know. I just can't understand why you'd be so embarrassed about it. I just think it's funny if you've got. Are you going to do a reveal on the social media? I don't know.

I just think it's funnier if you find out. I just can't understand why you'd be so embarrassed about it. I just think it's funnier if you find out. Okay. I don't know what's happened. I reckon the guy who works at the car lot has just got rid of a car that he could never sell before to anyone else. Yeah.

Now, look, it's a 10-year-old car and one careful old man owner, apparently. That's what I was told. No, a second careful, not very careful old man owner. It's so big, Luke, I can't fit it on the street. Oh, dear. I've only given a van a little bump with my bumper because I didn't know how long the nose was. So it's just a great start all round, really.

But it is embarrassing the nose it's not a fucking concord the schnoz is it the schnozer let's have a break Peter

we can ruminate on that stuff in the break and then when we come back we've got some batteries to do because it's Thursday and we've got to squeeze them in

before we go lovely we're back it's Thursday on the look and picture we are doing a buttery brunch Mikey has come in with one rather rude email We're back, it's Thursday on the Lookabit Show. We are doing a battery brand.

Mikey has come in with one. Rather rude email. Just said, No beds, obscurity and voltage in one little fucking package. I give you E-Megaton. The little bastard from a clicker long since binned. Keep up the funnies, you twats, Mikey. I like it.

And he sent us, yeah, a picture of a... It doesn't look like a AA or a AAA. It looks like a chunkier lad. But either way, it says E-Megaton or just Megaton. It's just absolutely... The actual graphic design on this looks like you or I have done it on paintbrush. I think it's just Megaton. It's just absolutely... The actual graphic design on this looks like you or I have done it on paintbrush. I think it's just Megaton. And I also think it's got the SS symbol on it. I think a lot of batteries,

you could argue, have the SS logo on it. Oh, because of the lightning bolt thing? It's the lightning bolt, yeah. Okay, well, it's supposed to be a Nazi battery anyway. And it's the first of its kind, so it's a new player entering the game. I don't particularly like Mikey's tone, so I'm sad. I do. I'm sad that he...

Puts you back up, I love it. That he's got a new player entering the game, but he has, so good on him. Congratulations. All right, then. Hello to Jim in Melbourne. Oh, sorry, no, sorry. Dave from South Africa. Hello, second submission incoming. I needed to, no, sorry. Dave from South Africa. Hello.

Second submission incoming. I needed to change the batteries in the air conditioning remote control for the first time three years after installing. Air conditioning remote controls. Ripe for this kind of behaviour. Definitely ripe. I offer to you, for your consideration, Blitz Super Heavy Duty. Yeah.

Thank you very much for sending those in, Dave, from South Africa. The way you said that is like he's the only Dave from South Africa the way you said that is like he's the only Dave in South Africa but I doubt that's the case but you are not the first person to send those in

the Blitz batteries have been sent in a number of different times just looking at the email now at least five times that I can see and probably more than that so I'm afraid not

yeah never mind and finally for now jim in melbourne good day gents i love the show i'm a long-time listener who's never had enough battery juice to get in touch until now i just cracked open the compartment on a shawl velvet smooth which is basically a rotary sander for home pedicures and found four completely unbranded white double a's i don't recall you having heard you mention any batteries without a brand before, so I wonder whether I'd found a mysterious new player.

Of course, I understand that searching for your past emails for something that doesn't have a name might prove challenging, so big apologies for that. I don't know whether this helps with the provenance, but the device itself was bought in the UK and then opened in Australia. The batteries are made in China, but have English, French, German, Dutch, Spanish, and Italian writing on them. Scholl was founded in the USA, bought by a British company, then a German company, and then became British again in 2021. I'll let you chaps take it all from here.

Well, you are the big boys of the battery world after all. Keep up the good work, Jim, in Melbourne. And, I mean, it's a white label battery, Luke. Have we ever had a white label battery that has no other writing apart from the necessary Ts and Cs? Not to my memory, and I think it's an incredible discovery. I think really, Peter, I need to invoke your wisdom here. What's your course of action?

What do you think you're going to do here? What do I think? I think this is fine broadly, but it doesn't set a precedent. It kind of closes a door on other white label, other unbranded batteries, I suppose. Yeah, I think we just say that Jim in Melbourne is the first and therefore a new player to enter a completely unbranded white battery,

and that's it. Yeah, well, thank you, Jim. I didn't see this happening. I didn't see this happening on a random Thursday in May, but we've kind of, we've got the brandless branded battery. Incredible, incredible stuff. Great stuff.

Thank you very much to everyone who sent batteries in. Always interesting to hear from you. Before we go, I do want to end on this, Peter. Our friend Murray flagged this up on Twitter. It's a letter to the Sunday Times. I just want to read it to you. This is like the kind of pedantry

that is like, makes you proud to be British. Okay. Listen to this, listen to this letter that's been sent into the TV section of the Sunday Times. In the run up to the new series,

I'm a Celebrity, it's stated that the show takes place in the South African jungle south africa does not have any jungle the tropics extend just over 23 degrees north and south of the equator kruger national park where most of this is filmed is roughly 24 degrees south kruger is classed as a savannah biome with grass coverage and woody vegetation which we loosely call bush Sheila Knight

I like it it's great it's accurate it's good stuff it's absolutely great yeah it gives me vibes of no I didn't see

in Fightin' and Enter the Dragon I saw him fight in the way of the dragon in the office great pedantry if you've seen pedantry of that level

anywhere else let us know hello outside of Luke's tweets dot com yeah just go to my Twitter account just go to your Twitter great pedantry if you've seen pedantry of that level anywhere else let us know hello outside of Luke's tweets dot com yeah just go to my Twitter account just go to your Twitter

something doozies that's all you'll need find my most pedantic tweets and send them in I'll be happy to live them again take us out of here Peter

alright then let's get out of here we'll be back with more Shaw for you's on Monday have a lovely weekend,

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Yeah, apparently there's some other guys, isn't there? I don't know if they're any good. Are they good? Probably good. Probably better than us. Probably good, aren't they? Probably go to watch our fucking arses, eh? Yeah, we'll be back on Monday.

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