The Luke and Pete Show - Unidentified flying Donaldson

Episode Date: October 5, 2023

The first five minutes of today’s show are spent talking about Luke’s idyllic trip to Newcastle. Then the lads start talking about conspiracy theories, obviously…Speaking of which, is it possibl...e that the link between four separate UFO sightings is Pete Donaldson? Listen to find out more!Want to get in touch with the show? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow.We're also now on Tiktok! Follow us @thelukeandpeteshow. Subscribe to our YouTube HERE. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:30 Pete Donaldson with you. John by Mr. Lukey Moore. And it's a big shame because, Luke, I am about three quarters of the way through some prawn cocktail quavers. And I know for a fact, for the next half an hour, I'm just going to be looking at them going, how can I get the remaining quivers
Starting point is 00:00:46 into my mouth without anybody noticing put them behind you and I promise you you'll forget about them within 15 seconds that's how the visual mind works we're on a zoom Luke I'll be able to see them better that's the last thing I need go and get yourself some quivers
Starting point is 00:01:02 Luke you are currently in Newcastle doing some manoeuvres for the football ramble how is it in the greatest night out
Starting point is 00:01:12 in the world well according to Mika Richards it's great I've had a lovely time do you know what I really love it here and I love it because
Starting point is 00:01:19 the people are super friendly I'm staying right on the river which is nice and it's a very eminently walkable city, isn't it? Which you can't say about London, mate. It's a 15-minute city. It's so really... It's a 15-minute city.
Starting point is 00:01:32 Don't get Ricky Lambert on that. What's Ricky Lambert been saying about the 15-minute city? Oh, mate, he did a protest at Liverpool Town Hall about the 15-minute city. I don't think he knows what they are. I don't think the Tory conference knows what they are. There's a lot of chat about Labour wanting people to go to the shops that they tell you to go to, and it's like, that's not what anyone said,
Starting point is 00:01:56 you demented, lying thieves. They are demented, aren't they? They're not even calculating. There'll be two people who are calculating about it and then the rest of them will just go they said what so there's a lot to unpack already here
Starting point is 00:02:12 you're in Newcastle what do you want first, do you want my impressions of Newcastle do you want what I've been up to or do you want the 15 minutes that you can see as a theory explanation because I can do any of those alright okay we'll start with Newcastle then move on to RL Celebrate. Okay, right. So,
Starting point is 00:02:28 what I like about it is that several times already since I've been here, I've been asked to do stuff and told the plan, and I've instinctively thought, oh, that's not enough time. Looked at my phone and been like, it bloody is enough time it's
Starting point is 00:02:45 a four minute walk away you know what i mean and that just doesn't happen in london london you have to legislate 45 minutes for for everything you want to do and that's been the case um constantly since i've been up here which has been great um so yeah i love it here people are so nice like for example we needed somewhere to record the ramble this morning and the guy behind the reception was like oh the bar doesn't open till 12 get yourself in the bar pull the door shut behind you record never as long as you want so lovely stuff friendly like imagine how difficult that would be with an email and a fucking permission and i tell you what i tell you what though i think i do think that in in many ways in the way that Vladivostok has little to do with the Kremlin most of the time, they get away with being a little bit more liberal, a little bit more.
Starting point is 00:03:31 Well, they certainly used to before the invasion. They got away with being a little bit more liberal, a little bit more like your Silicon Valley or your California when it comes to. Because they're just so far away from HQ. when it comes to... Because they're just so far away from HQ. So I don't know what hotel you're staying in, but I imagine the HQ isn't in, you know, Chinatown in Newcastle. So, like, I imagine the manager of Newcastle has a bit more autonomy than his counterparts down south.
Starting point is 00:03:58 And he's bloody using it as well. And he's bloody using it. He's getting some man with a beard to record some stuff in a kitchen. I didn't have any shoes on I kept going to get I kept going to get
Starting point is 00:04:09 paints yeah yeah no I didn't I didn't to be fair to be fair you are a man
Starting point is 00:04:15 from down south so he probably thinks he's they're probably not going to raid the bar yeah he probably thinks I'm a millionaire um
Starting point is 00:04:20 I so and then um so yesterday as people there's some crossover between these shows so I guess people
Starting point is 00:04:26 wouldn't know by now a lot of them anyway that we did a football ramble record with our friend Jules Breach at St James' Park which is amazing
Starting point is 00:04:34 first of all I've been in there it's amazing I'm looking forward to the game later because we record this on Wednesday so this show comes out
Starting point is 00:04:39 Thursday but tonight as we record this the Newcastle game is happening which is the reason we're up here Hang on, so this is the first time you've ever been inside
Starting point is 00:04:48 St. Joseph's Park? Yes, I've been outside it and I've been to Newcastle a bunch of times, so it's been great and they're pumping up here, they're absolutely buzzing for it and then I tell you what, if one could think of a more idyllic evening than this, I'd like to hear about it I then, after I finished work
Starting point is 00:05:03 had a shower got changed walked five minutes up the river to jules breeches hotel had a lovely dinner with jules a couple of beers um and then walked back and um watched the uh watch the footy so it was good beautiful that's absolutely fantastic do you want to hear about conspiracy theories no i want it i want to hear so basically i think i'm right in saying that there's um this has been like an adoption of like an american as you know as usual kind of concern pushed by like fringe media and the usual kind of far right kind of dickheads the libertarian mania yeah what the government want to do is force you to live in one place, have permission to go
Starting point is 00:05:45 elsewhere, you know, need to get a fucking chip to go and do something like it's some kind of mad, you know, post-apocalyptic, you know, The Last of Us type scenario. I mean, anyone who's seen the C2C ticket machines, I can't even gain
Starting point is 00:06:01 a permission slip to get on the train. No one's going to fucking be able to do it. No one can do anything in this country what are you fucking talking about there's no plan that can be put in place there's no overarching plan even if there was some kind of idea that this was a good idea for the elites for the people who were in charge all that stuff they could not implement it because this country is far the only thing they could do in a post-luxury post-eliptic environment scenario is accidentally release the fucking pathogen that caused it that's the only thing they're going to do so anyway the point is i think there was a report that was released and it was a study on i think it was i think it might
Starting point is 00:06:41 have been oxford where they said what would be good for people for quality of life, for air quality, for convenience, for mobility, for people who've got different abilities and everything, would be if people could get everywhere they needed to get within 15 minutes. And as a part of that, we could filter traffic and we could pedestrianize places and we could limit speed limits, all that kind of stuff.
Starting point is 00:07:04 Ultimately, they can't do any of that stuff without consent anyway. and we could limit speed limits, all that kind of stuff, right? Ultimately, they can't do any of that stuff without consent anyway. And a lot of it's quite a good thing. If you could get into a situation where if you needed to go somewhere, like the doctor, or you needed to go take your kid to school, or you needed to, I don't know, go to work, whatever it may be. Obviously, because so many people work from home now anyway. It'd be quite good to get there in an environmentally friendly way quite quickly, right?
Starting point is 00:07:26 No one's saying you can't go to London for a day trip if you want, although the people who are complaining about this are fucking terrified of London, let me tell you that. There's no way they're coming here or going there, because I'm in Newcastle.
Starting point is 00:07:36 And the point is now, like, councillors are receiving like death threats and all this kind of stuff. But the Ricky Lambert thing folds in. Ricky Lambert, for those people who are listening who don't know, is an ex-football player and a moron
Starting point is 00:07:47 who now lives his life through conspiracy theories, which in many ways is a sad story because I think he's been exploited due to his relative lack of intelligence, in my opinion. That is my opinion. He's now leading marches on Liverpool Town Hall because they're going to turn Liverpool
Starting point is 00:08:02 into a 15-minute city. I don't think, as I said before, I don't think he even knows what it means. It's just become this thing that there's so much mistrust of the government in like a post-COVID environment
Starting point is 00:08:10 that anything they suggest or anything that leaks out outside of the official channels, which, let's face it, is fucking everything because the government's incompetent and can't take anything through the Commons first.
Starting point is 00:08:20 They have to leak it to the media. People think it's a conspiracy theory. I can't sort of think that, if I wanted to get involved, because I feel like if I wanted to get involved in this kind of level of curtain twitching maniac conspiracy theory stuff, I don't know where I would go first.
Starting point is 00:08:38 You know what I mean? Like, obviously, Twitter, they say, is full of it. X is full of it. Facebook is full of it. Like, it's all full of it. But maybe I would find it very hard they say is full of it x is full of it facebook is full of like it's all full of it but maybe i would find it very hard to find the the really good stuff do you know what i mean the peanut butter jelly sandwich kind of like resource the the where people are getting them from because i
Starting point is 00:08:56 hear like the the guff i hear like the smoke signals um uh on twitter or on facebook wherever so i see maniacs but i don't know where they're going to get it. Because I've been on 4chan, I've been on different places, I don't necessarily see all this stuff. And it's all... Because even those people are intelligent enough to sort of go, you're being a weirdo. So I don't know where these people are getting them from.
Starting point is 00:09:18 I don't know where I'd start. I think what's more concerning is that it it now seems to be that like you know a massive percentage of stories now that are in the media are linked by certain people back to some kind of conspiracy like it can be anything it really can be anything you know the two things i would say just off the top of my head bear in mind we don't plan for the show, I have no idea where we're going with it. So just off the top of my head, the two things I can think of around the concerning development where everything that someone just doesn't like or doesn't agree with is some kind of conspiracy, I would use would be the Russell Brand thing, which a load of people started saying on Twitter is a conspiracy to take attention from the fact that the government want to sneak in 20 mile an hour speed limits through the back door. Right? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:10:11 That makes perfect sense, Luke. Luke, that makes perfect sense. And the other one is the XL bully dog thing, which you'll know more about than me, but I saw a lot of idiots saying, oh, yeah, they want to take your pets away now. It's like, well, I don't think that's the case is it no they they just don't want a very specific uh version of a pet which has been bred to kill
Starting point is 00:10:31 toddlers to already circumvent existing laws around dangerous dogs in the first place to not like can you imagine given what we know about this government and indeed any recent government in this country organizing some kind of situation where everyone's pet had to be confiscated. Yeah, I mean... Good luck with it. Come to my house. Where are your two cats? Don't know.
Starting point is 00:10:50 Haven't seen her for two days. Stick around. You've got a cup of tea. You'll be here a while. Isn't... At the Tory party conference, wasn't Brevin stood on a dog's tail? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:01 What a metaphor that is. Oh, Lord. It really is good stuff. In a metaphor that is. Oh, Lord, it really is. In that metaphor, Pete, the dogs are refugees. Yes. Nice, lovely stuff. She's just a jackboot of racist policies, isn't it? It is pretty much, yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:20 Anyway, look, to take it back full circle, I'm enjoying being up here. Last time I was up here, I was with you. I met your mum and dad. It was a lovely experience doing a live show here. It was when Leicester beat Southampton 9-0. And I feel sad that you're not here to come to the 24-hour Greggs with me, mate.
Starting point is 00:11:37 I'm absolutely gutted. Because the draw was, go up there. We've got some tickets for you to go watch the match. I was like, fuck off. I had a three days of first aid lesson. Was it lesson? Like certification. You just swung on batteries again.
Starting point is 00:11:59 For a project I'm working on. So I've got to go through three fucking nights of um of of of um first aid four hours per night but you have to do it because you get your sentence reduced right exactly yeah yeah i'm allowed to play with knives again i'm allowed to play with my sword again and so like when i heard that that was happening, I was like, oh, piss off. And then I heard that you weren't going to get tickets and I was like, well, I feel a little bit better now. And then I heard that you got tickets again. And hearing, seeing all of the sights of people getting excited,
Starting point is 00:12:39 seeing even the drone display that they've been bashing out every night on Tyneside, all the, like, social media and stuff, all the shots of you and Jules in St. James' Park. I could not be... I am green with envy, Luke. I really, really am. I do feel bad for you. Got it. The thing is, you're an infuriating bloke, but you are a good person. So I do feel kind of a little bit bereft that you're not here with us, I have to say. But I mean, by the way, just to make it absolutely clear for the record,
Starting point is 00:13:09 I'm still going to enjoy myself. I'll just, every half an hour or so, I'll have a little twinge of disappointment. Have a little think. Peter, can I just bring something else to the table very, very quickly that you're going to hate, but I really want you to go with it. I want to set you a little task, and I can give you a little task and i can give you a little bit of build up and a little bit of information and i want to set you a task for next time we record um right i want you to watch a show on netflix called encounters have you heard of it no no i don't think i have okay right so it's new it's
Starting point is 00:13:41 a four-part documentary series so so hopefully it isn't too heavy. Can you write that down for me, Rory? Rory's got to write it down. Rory, can you write that down for me? I'm recording. I'm working. It's a show about mass
Starting point is 00:14:00 UFO sightings. Right? Right. So I know you're going to roll your eyes. It's not like I was walking back from the pub and i saw a fucking you know but it's like it just when it's just my eyes could not roll back i know i know but you've sometimes just find ufos so i just i just it just upsets me well there's two reasons that you might find it a little bit more interesting than the usual it's about mass sightings so it's like where and and so it's where um fine you can disregard this all you want but this is provably the case that one of them 60 people all independently reported it the same right which is way above the burden of proof for most criminal convictions in most countries, right?
Starting point is 00:14:45 Yeah. And it also links different ones all over the world. And it's not saying, oh, this is the mad fucking conspiracy shit. It's basically saying, here's a guy from NASA. Here's a guy who prosecutes child abuse cases from the Catholic Church. Bringing it all together. And the final episode, which I haven't actually watched yet is um is from fukushima right that's japan you like japan get on board that's japan i'm in i'm back in yeah okay right it's a fascinating series i'd love to
Starting point is 00:15:16 know if any of our listeners have um of of watched it as well and what they think of it because um there's some really heavy hitting nasa people involved there's some proper like i say criminal um yeah lawyers and stuff like that you know it's a pretty interesting story the first episode there's some really heavy-hitting NASA people involved. There's some proper, like I say, criminal lawyers and stuff like that. You know, it's a pretty interesting story. The first episode's about something that happened in Wales. The second episode's something that happened in Zimbabwe at a school. The third episode, sorry, the final episode is Fukushima.
Starting point is 00:15:40 I can't quite remember what the third episode is, but it's really interesting, really good. I've been to all three places. I'd probably love them. Have you really? I've's really interesting. Really good. I've been to all three places. I'd probably love them. Have you really? I've been to Zimbabwe, I've been to Wales. Okay, let me find out where episode three is, see if you've been to all of them, because you might be the common denominator here.
Starting point is 00:15:54 It might be me. It might be me, Luke. It could well be you, yeah. I don't know what the third episode is. I'll work it out. But anyway, it's a really, really good show, honestly. What is it? You mentioned a lawyer who hunts after kiddie fiddlers in the Catholic Church. Why is he involved?
Starting point is 00:16:14 Because basically in one of the episodes, there's a psychiatrist or a psychologist called John Mack who is the chair of psychiatry at Harvard. This is in the 90s. And he is asked to speak to all these kids that say they saw this thing in their school, in a rural school in Zimbabwe. So he goes over there,
Starting point is 00:16:41 and he's also got a background speaking to people about abduction. And he's also got a background speaking to people about abduction and he's saying he's saying um look my he's he's like he's basically eminent in this field so he's used to speaking to trauma victims to he's you know he's the head of psychiatry at harvard right and and he was saying these people not all of them but a lot of them including all the kids and the teachers at this school are not displaying any psychiatric characteristics of lying um trauma of whatever everything we say we can see based on the evidence is that they believe it happened and it happened so what he's trying to say is look it's not for me to say, fucking aliens are coming down and seeing us. It's for me to say what is actually happening here because it may not fit into the kind of narrow narrative
Starting point is 00:17:32 about what we want to accept and what we're comfortable with. That's not our job. Our job is to follow the evidence. And as a result of doing that, Harvard tried to strike him off. And so he hired a lawyer who was this guy who prosecuted all these abusers in the catholic church and he won the case and harvard had to back down um based on the other so that's why he's involved but he was basically comparing it saying that you know if someone
Starting point is 00:17:55 commits a murder or horrific crime if there are five independent eyewitnesses you know people have been given the death penalty for that right it's solid right so why is it not solid for this but because we don't like it or because we can't understand it or because we think it's a bit fucking hooky or kooky or whatever um or a bit a bit hokum we can't we can't live our lives like that and then they've got a nasa guy as well who says that you know this is where he thinks the investigation is going and he thinks that the a lot of unsolved mysteries in the world are unsolved because there's a stigma attached to them and serious scientists don't want to go anywhere near them because they'll get laughed out of their community.
Starting point is 00:18:35 But do you not think that when you saw the people getting given the death penalty because so many people have witnessed a crime but the crime is we know what that crime is with the ufos or whatever they call them now we don't know what that thing is so so the actual object of everyone's kind of like directed um attention we don't know what it is so the answer is still on on the question is still unanswered isn't it i suppose so it's like these people may have seen, but the question isn't whether these people saw something, it's what is this thing, I suppose. So I can get behind these people saw something,
Starting point is 00:19:12 but I just always think with the UFOs themselves, it could be just not easily explained away, but it could just be some jiggery-pokery from some government or a weather thing. I don't know. And I think that's disrespectful. And I think that's why I'll be going to the Liverpool Town Hall with Ricky Lambert on Monday and he should do a good on me.
Starting point is 00:19:31 No, I think you're right. I think the point of this isn't for me to say that I believe in what I believe, whatever, because it ain't about that. I'm interested in it because no one knows what it is. And that, to me, is fascinating. And I'm not saying it's fucking aliens. I don't fucking know it is and that to me is fascinating and i'm not saying um it's fucking aliens i don't fucking know it is all i'm saying is that um so so one of the interesting areas of research around this is the psychological phenomenon of say like mass hypnosis or something right so people right
Starting point is 00:19:55 can does the human mind have the ability to be convinced that they actually did see what they say they saw even though they didn't and that can affect a whole group of people at one time because there's a huge percentage of, say, childhood memories which over the annals of time are lost and bracketed up and confused with things like TV shows you saw or photos you looked at or whatever. I used to know someone not that long ago, actually, who was an otherwise perfectly, not in an unhelpful way,
Starting point is 00:20:24 a perfectly kind of common or garden normal person who insisted he had memories from when he was like six months old it's like you fucking did it like you obviously have been shown photos of yourself at that age from like a young age and he would insist no i can remember looking up at my mum at that age and i know from the decoration in the house and all the rest of it and he clearly didn't because obviously science says that the brain isn't developed enough that to even be possible so there are obviously a lot of things at the level of the human mind going on there with this stuff and that's why i find it interesting more than anything else i don't believe for the record that fucking intelligent aliens are visiting this this this this world
Starting point is 00:21:04 and deciding that they're going to speak to a load of Zimbabwean schoolchildren and then fuck off again. Because obviously that would be ridiculous. But my point is, in many ways, that kind of stuff detracts from what is actually a really interesting area, which is that it's all very well for everyone to sit around and be the person in the room to say, it isn't that, it isn't that, it isn't that, you're't that, it isn't that.
Starting point is 00:21:25 You're talking shit, you're talking shit, you're talking shit. Any of us can do that. That's not the challenge. The challenge is to find out what it actually is. And that's why I find the show interesting. But do you think that that lawyer who was hunting for paedophiles in the Catholic Church, he got involved because he was worried what the alien did to the Zimbabwean children? Yeah, maybe.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Could have been very much his beat. That's how he sort of entered, I suppose, so to speak. Could be. You spent a lot of time in the Catholic organisation, haven't you, Pete? You'd be better qualified to talk about that than me. That's a good point, actually. Maybe it was you. You've been to Zimbabwe.
Starting point is 00:21:59 Maybe it was me. That's why you saw that hippo, didn't you? Exactly, yeah. Correct, correct. All right, let's take a short ad break. And Rory, do write that TV show down because I wouldn't mind watching at least the Fukushima bit. And we'll be back in a second with...
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Starting point is 00:22:32 Visit Rogers.com for details. We got you. Rogers. It's the Lokey Patriot. I'm Pete Donaldson and I'm with Mr. Lokey Moore. And we're back and we're talking all things battery brands. So, yeah. Hi, guys, says Alec Lodge.
Starting point is 00:22:49 After many months of banging my remote control to get it to work, I thought I'd better bite the bullet. Don't bite your battery. And replace the batteries. Classic dad behavior. Imagine my delight when I found the possibly obscure Huazongs, or Huazongs, I think. These were almost certainly the ones that came with my
Starting point is 00:23:06 free sat box years ago which i think this is how the batteries feature started i can never remember which batteries have been mentioned on the store uh the show apart from the pair deers uh very popular um brand anyway these were replaced by some alec alkalines that i bought so i thought i'd send them in too as well although these were were bought in a 30-pack at B&Q, so I don't think they'll qualify as a new player. Loving the show, Steve, and hoping my batteries are new players, says Alec Lodge. Hua Zhong, any interest?
Starting point is 00:23:35 Look, I very much like the logo. It's almost brutalist. It is. Or spacey. Very severe, isn't it? Alec arm, as Alec accurately predicts. Hua Zhong, our new player. A brand new player.
Starting point is 00:23:47 Beautiful stuff. Fantastic. Congratulations. Congratulations to you, Alec. Beautiful. Great blue background logo with a white sort of space writing on it. It's beautiful. Brad has got in touch.
Starting point is 00:24:01 All right, lads. I've found some pure power batteries in Mozambique. AAA carbon power. I've been listening back to your show because I wanted to know the meaning behind collecting batteries. Would you mind refreshing our listeners and explaining them to me? I'm a numismatist, so it naturally caught my attention. And I can see somebody on the Google Doc highlighting the word numismatist, presumably to explain what a numismatist is. Yeah, I didn't know, so I've just copied and pasted it into Google.
Starting point is 00:24:29 I've never heard that word before, and it's a specialist researcher or a well-informed collector of coins. Ah, okay. So, obviously... Collecting small items. Yeah, our friend Brad is a qualified collector. It just started because we worked out one day, I don't know, you and I were probably away doing something, we were in a hotel and so...
Starting point is 00:24:52 I think it might have been a Christmas project for you, I think you went through a couple of batteries, it's weird how many different brands there are. Yeah, and it's been the case ever since. Speaking of collecting things you can put in your pocket, for a second, I just found that in my... It won't be able to zoom in.
Starting point is 00:25:09 But I've just found this in my pocket. What is it? It's a dog's tooth. Fucking hell, Pete. People are going to take the piss if they know you're doing that kind of stuff. What do you mean? It's a dog's tooth. Yeah, but it fell out of Sammy's mouth some months ago
Starting point is 00:25:25 and I must have popped it in my pocket. It shouldn't be in your pocket for months. It must have gone through several washes and now I found it in my pocket about five minutes ago. Pop it back in. Pop it back in, for crying out loud. Anyway, so Brad, your batteries are actually HM power, if you use the full name.
Starting point is 00:25:46 And they're new players as well. We've never had HM Power before. And Brad's emailed us before. He's emailed us from Malawi, and he's emailed us from Mozambique. So I'd love to know what he's doing over there. I'd love to hear more... Coins.
Starting point is 00:26:01 Bothering just trying to get as many coins as possible. My mum sent me a photo the other day, weirdly enough, saying that she was cleaning out a load of stuff because they just had fitted wardrobes put into the house. And so she'd go for all the stuff she didn't need anymore. And she found a shoebox for the collectible stuff from when me and my sister were kids, including little paper bags of our teeth that came out as...
Starting point is 00:26:23 Our milk teeth that came out as children're milk teeth that came out of children it's also weird it is weird she said I don't really know what you think I should do with him I said I don't know really there's a wrestler who goes very nice very evil all the time and he has and he comes out with a big jar of teeth yeah
Starting point is 00:26:43 it's like a cereal collection it's a isn't it? That's his big collection. It's a bit, yeah. It's good stuff. I like it. Oi, oi, oi. All right, shall we do a very quick email before we shuffle off? Pete, we've got another battery to do. That's why I stopped talking.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Oh, God, yes. Shall we do another battery? Sorry, sorry, sorry. I thought we'd done three. Matt, Dese Carbon Zinc. My partner, Lindsay, is from the US, and we recently visited our sister, brother-in-law, and mum in Newport News in Virginia. The five of us were chatting and keen
Starting point is 00:27:08 to broaden their cultural horizons. I told them about the Luca Piccio battery brand phenomenon. Yeah, Matt you're not impressed with that. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry to have a small part in that but you really have to choose your anecdotes better. The five of us were chatting and
Starting point is 00:27:24 three of the four of them were chatting um and they and three of the four of them seemed baffled and annoyed brother-in-law jason thought uh though reacted as any respecting uh self-respecting dad should by combing his house for batteries brother-in-law jason we salute you with both hands uh most recently he sent this desire uh carbon zinc battery with a zero percent mercury cadmium from the remote of an old DVD player. It's a good-looking battery, a lovely font on there, and it looks like it's been lightly chewed as well. Nice to see.
Starting point is 00:27:53 Something for brother-in-law Jason to be getting up with. I'm terrified that this has been entered 100 times already. If so, then let the record show that the blame lies firmly with Jason of Newport News, Virginia, and not Matt himself. Love the show. Keep up the good work. Happy to say that my partner's mum has since been converted to hunting for batteries too. Your power expands daily like a lovely battery. I would say that brother-in-law Jason is A, doing the Lord's work,
Starting point is 00:28:20 and B, Newport News. What an interesting place. It sounds like an off-license. It does. It sounds like an off-license where you buy Newports. And B, Newport News. What an interesting place. Great name for a place, isn't it? It sounds like an off-license. It does. It sounds like an off-license where you buy Newports. Apparently it's a city. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:28:32 With 190,000 people in it. Everything's 15-minute by helicopter, isn't it? Yeah, that's true. But it's funny in the US how, and you can say the same with China, and it may well be it surprises me more because i know more about the u.s but i regularly hear about places i've never heard of before in the u.s and you look at them they're like this is the fifth biggest city in virginia it's like i've literally never once heard of it being mentioned ever absolutely mad
Starting point is 00:28:58 so it's basically three times bigger than the place i grew up in, which is a pretty decent sized town. Yeah, huge. Absolutely huge. All that though is mere obfuscation before I say that sadly, Matt, you and Jason do not have a new player in the game because that's the fourth time that Dese batteries have been sent in. Dylan, Luke and Andy have sent them in before
Starting point is 00:29:20 and the earliest edition of the Dese battery goes all the way back to December of 2017. So almost six years ago. So you're not quite there yet, but keep trying and get your partner's mum on the case as well. Maybe she spends a lot of time around electronics. Who knows?
Starting point is 00:29:33 What does that mean? I don't know what it means. Explain what that means right now. I don't know what it means. I just went with it. But she might do. She might spend a lot of time around electronics. If she does, she's perfectly positioned
Starting point is 00:29:41 to be hunting for those sweet, sweet batteries. The robot mum of Newport News. Well, this has been a fantastic Looking Pete Show, even if I say so myself. If you'd like to get into the show, hello at lookingpeteshow.com is the way to do it. On the email, we've got TikTok, we've got YouTube, we've got Twitter, we've got Instagram. Whatever you've got, we will type in a login and we'll put some stuff up for you all to enjoy. Yeah. Guaranteed.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Absolutely. For sure. That's a promise. For sure. We'll be back on Monday for more stuff like this, but in the meantime, say farewell, Mr. Lukey Moe from Newcastle.
Starting point is 00:30:14 Goodbye. Goodbye, Luke. The Luke and Pete Show is a Stack production and part of the Acast Creator Network. and part of the ACAST Creator Network.

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