The Luke and Pete Show - Wait, does FIFA make batteries?

Episode Date: October 6, 2022

What other podcast could go from dissecting the Prime Minister’s shambolic media relations to uncovering some of the world’s rarest battery brands in the time it takes to say, ad-break?We’ve got all that on the show plus a belated tribute to Coolio and the under-appreciated legacy of Gangsta's Paradise.Want to contact the show? Email: [e-mail] or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We're back with the Luca Pizzor. I bet you weren't expecting that when you clicked Let's Listen to Luca Pizzor on your phone. It's Thursday. You've heard about what it's all about already because you've read the synopsis. We don't even know yet. I'm Pete Duddleson.

I'm joined by Lukey Moore. Get fucked. Something we did not talk about last week the synopsis we don't even know yet I'm Pete Duddleson I'm joined by Lukey Moore get fucked something we did not talk about last week was the sad loss of one

Koolior Koolior oh yeah yeah that's a good point and I'm and I'm bringing this up only because somebody pointed out

that he him and a porn star once tried to run for office in 2020. Make America fucking awesome again was their tagline. And Sherry DeVille, I must admit, I'm sure this sounds like a work,

but I very much am unfamiliar with Sherry DeVille's work. But she wanted to be the president. And in 2020, America will have the opportunity to elect a candidate for president that will actually bring real change. She has a doctorate and the campaign kind of website is still up there. Fuckingawesome.com forward slash Paul Stafford President but the running mate Vice President Coolio

the voice of a generation who died last week sadly along with Virgil the WWE wrestler the personal bodyguard of the million dollar man Ted DiBiase

would you bearing in mind how Liz Truss and Quarteg are doing on the front bench of the UK's

set up would you take Virgil the personal bodyguard of the million dollar man Ted DiBiase Ted DiBiase is the only

autobiography wrestler's autobiography I've read right it's diabolical. It's diabolical. I think he may have been accused of taking or profiting from some pretty dodgy tax stuff

in America quite recently. But he's a million dollar man. This book is like 200 pages of how much he hates his dad. That's it. Okay, good stuff. He's a man of God now. I think we should definitely come on to,

I know the problem is we're talking about what the dickheads in charge are up to. It all moves so fast that by the time the show comes out a few days later, I feel like it's going to be out of date. But anyway, there's a lot to unpack there. First of all, the Coolio thing. Well, the great thing about the American system, of course,

there's lots of bad things about the American system, is that anyone can run for president, right? If you want to do it, you can. If you can get enough support, in theory you can you can do something now i know these days it's very tough because you need loads of money and all the rest of it but i like that it's still an option yeah on coolio i don't i think i saw a lot of the um the tributes i saw a lot of the um the kind of um obituaries about him i don't think what was talked about enough was in 1995 gangsters paradise came out which was like his breakthrough hit and it was part of the movie with michelle five for dangerous

minds yeah no one really i felt like articulate enough just how big a tune that was like that was absolutely massive in the uk yeah i mean it was everywhere it was it was number one for like what felt like half a year i seem to recall i'm pretty sure i am pretty sure it went to number one for a long old time in the uk it definitely was number one in the us i think it sold like millions and millions of copies in the u.s alone it was gigantic and also it is a bit of a classic it is yeah i don't know why would you say that that it isn't just because it's kind of no i just people focused a lot on the fact that he had done this big brother thing and done these other things and they talked about as they always do which is kind of a little bit dog whistly a little bit kind

of microaggression talk about his legal problems and all the rest of it. And fair enough, you know, you do get caught trying to smuggle a loaded firearm in your hand luggage at LA International Airport, you are going to look like a prat. Level to prat, yeah. But I just think in terms of recording artists, I mean, the other songs he did were absolutely fucking abysmal, but Gangster's Paradise was fucking brilliant.

And I think people need to say that out loud a bit more yeah completely agree so i don't think it's follow-up single too hot or that one um one two three four get your woman on the floor he's gonna live long in the memory he should have he should really have taken uh more songs from ste Wonder, I think. Yeah. And he was very inspirational, I think, for men who have gone bald a long time ago, but they're making the best of what they have, I think. I kind of divert from you on that, because I feel like people, he was flying the flag for hair people,

men who need to make a decision, and they just don't. He was. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But by the end he had one, one strand left.

Bless him. Yeah. Yeah. Good on him. Good on him. The El Trevino. Um, yeah.

So, I mean, it's sad to see him go, you know, um, the world is, is a poor, probably a poorer place for it.

I don't really remember him in Celebrity Big Brother because I don't really watch it. I imagine he probably did something controversial, did he? I don't know. I don't know. I think think isn't this year they're

doing like a I'm a slur really get me out of here mega show where people who've already been on the show

that's right it's like a best of I think yeah sort of coming out back like who's that fucking weirdo

Diane oh is he doing it Paul Burrell Burrell's back I think who else is doing it I'd have to have a look to be honest but yeah that is Paul Burrell. Burrell's back, I think. Who else is doing it?

I'd have to have a look, to be honest. It's a proper motley crew of people like, oh, I don't really remember this person at all, really. Yeah. Well, that's just the nature of it, isn't it? I remember someone we know getting offered to do it and they didn't want to do it because their career is still doing well. But the one thing I thought was surprising,

and maybe this makes me sound out of touch, particularly with the cost of living crisis, but given the level of money they'll give to people to get them on it, this person got offered, I think, 70 grand. Yeah. And it's like a big undertaking. It's a long old job.

Yeah, but you make... It's like strictly, it's like you have to... No, but they control all your endorsements for like a year undertaking it's a long old job yeah but you make it's like strictly it's like you have to no but they control all your endorsements for like a year afterwards I think do they though?

yeah so I know for a fact they do on Bake Off because I know somebody does the Bake Off thing and I think if you get to the final six or something you are tied up

for a year through the BBC yeah but that's a non-celebrity edition like it's just there's no way an agent would sort of go you're only going to be working for ITV for the next year that would be crazy Yeah, but that's a non-celebrity edition. There's no way an agent would sort of go,

you're only going to be working for ITV for the next year. That would be crazy. I suppose it might just be separated out to things that are related to I'm a Celebrity or something. Yeah, exactly. But people, you know what? I'm not someone who's that snobby about TV. I will pretty much watch everything. I think it sounds crap, I'll say,

but I'm not snobby about it. And I'm a a celebrity is genuinely really fucking popular yeah and but it i mean it's it's it's better than those those shows that are really uh has it married its first sight australia or those kind of shows where it's it's uh it's we've talked about them before but they're're so unbelievably thin and kind of like set up by the producers and sort of pre-written. I cannot understand that they're... Yeah, but I'm a celebrity,

it's not like that, is it? Say again? You're talking about constructed reality shows there, right? Yeah, yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. So I'd prefer that, I'd prefer I'm a celebrity that's got a bit of honesty to it than those kind of shows. it than those kind of shows

but then those kind of shows like I was listening to one of the Crooked Media shows some kind of pod save thing and

they were they were just talking unironically about how much they love watching you know Married at First Sight or whatever it is

and it's like oh no they're watching Love Island like the UK Love Island I'm just like it's like, oh no, they're watching Love Island. Like the UK Love Island. I'm just like, it's, I mean, they don't say anything.

They're just kids. Yeah. It's just, it's bizarre. So I think that, well, I think Love Island's got a lot of questions to answer generally

for obvious reasons, but the constructive reality stuff, like Married at First Sight, 90 Day Fiancé, then the UK ones like, yeah, Only Way is Essex and all the rest of it it's quite interesting how they're written, produced

and broadcast as almost to be like crack cocaine TV it's basically TV for I've watched some of these programmes myself so if I'm criticising anyone watching it I'm criticising myself as well but it's like TV for stupid people but purposely so so what I mean by that is if you take an episode say 90 day fiance it'll be two

hours long right yeah and it's broken up by ad breaks because it's an american show but the way it does things is you'll get a section of say 13 minutes and it'll take you through a tiny little bit of a narrative and then it'll repeat that narrative entirely after the ad break to remind people what's happened move it forward another couple of steps then repeat it again and what it's actually doing is it's taking a saga which has absolutely really no content in it it's it's the idea of a man meeting a woman or vice versa online in different countries there's a bit of bureaucracy a bit of admin involved i don't know whether someone's going to turn up and whether they're going to get on or not and that whole thing is the same every single time and it's stretched out across three or four two-hour episodes and then

the whole cycle just repeats it's just very it's very people don't really seem to care like it's spoon-fed to them to such an extent they haven't got to think yeah and that's why i find it quite interesting but then people go online and sort of talk about it and I'm not saying you know people can be into whatever they fucking want but I just I just think

this kind of like quite thin watery gruel that they're sort of serving up seems very I just don't there's like a lot of

very intelligent people who are really into it and I'm like what are you getting out of that I'm getting like I'm just bouncing off this and I can't figure it out and i'll i'll maybe nail it eventually but i'm just oh jesus 90 day fiance is all about that all about the um the memes and the moments

and the things so what they do a lot of a 90 day fiance is they will really lean into say someone who's not speaking english as their first language having a big argument with an american person and saying some quite oddly syntax things yeah there's some famous stuff a nightly fiance with a guy who's i think he's from macedonia andre i think his name is off top of my head here so i might be getting some of the detail wrong right there's a there's a there's a couple of famous moments from him one is when he's with his fiancee she's american she's pregnant and she's she's shouting at him for whatever reason and he shouts back at her don't terror don't terrorize me with your pregnancy right which is a famous line and the other thing is that like

he hates their family and all the rest of it because it's all family kind of rouse and stuff yeah and they have a first birthday party for their kid and he wants to kick all the family out because they're annoying him and he shouts get the fuck out of my house get the fuck out of my birthday house like and these moments are kind of what props it up because people think it's amazing and they share the memes they share the gifts and all that kind of stuff so it's partly that and speaking of every reality show peter i did want to get your um your thoughts on the absolutely disastrous and i make apologies if this is a bit out of date now because i do think we should cover it um anyway the absolute disaster that was um the liz trust local radio campaign uh media media run to me that was

absolutely astonishing knowing a little bit about how the media works that was so ill-advised it was like unbelievable yeah and and and a couple of people embarrass themselves on on online sort of saying that uh liz truss is gonna you know she thinks she can have an easy time because these um these local bbc radio uh journalists are um a lightweight effectively and uh i think soft touches basically took that to heart and uh and really sharpen the old knives and it was just a really great morning for uh for social media because it's just clips of trust who is i mean remember like what was like three months before like she took office like i'm i'm fucking excited because it's gonna be like this constantly um i didn't foresee uh her being able to do quite so much damage as

she's done to the economy so i'm a little bit like ah i am enjoying this to the to the to the degree that i thought i would um but it's this could actually be very messy with putin readying uh what he's readying and uh this could actually be quite problematic and so like her appearances on on on these kind of like uh you know these magazine shows in the morning where there was just absolutely taking a task and take it down and i think you were sort of saying at the time the BBC never really get that much access anymore every TV or radio show they'll sort of say

we reached out to the government for a response but we didn't get one the government aren't bothered about having a right to reply on a lot of this stuff and so making appearances on shows.

So these kind of shows are sort of saying, well, we're not going to get her again. So what's the point in talking about very small local issues? Why don't we just give her fucking two feet tackles and just absolutely destroy her? But because she's limited as a politician,

she just fucking stacked every single last one of them there wasn't a single one where she came out with any redeeming features and there was like 10 interviews or something yeah and the way a little bit of work yes you're spot on there and i think what i would add is that the way it was scheduled was specifically designed for her to be sat in a room and move from on line from one local BBC region to the next. They were like eight minutes apart or something. And she thought she could just get away with it. And I found it fascinating for all those reasons.

And you're right. I think the BBC point is a really good one. And I think that's part of the wider culture war that we're living through where this iteration of the Tory party, particularly, think the BBC is the enemy and hate them and therefore there's a big kind of almost like a cold war

between the BBC and the government at the moment so the amount of times I listen to Five Live quite a lot when I'm cooking and the amount of times they'll do a big story and it'll be a big story I mean ultimately really the nation's public service broadcaster there's a lot of problems with the BBC and there's no time to go into it now

and everyone's got an opinion on it I get that but i do think it's a pretty watertight argument to say a drive time program on a national five lives as a national radio station a public broadcaster and they'll be covering at the top of the hour things like the mini budget which is the thing that's caused all this problem and no one from the government is there to represent them on that show that's that's scandalous actually and so but the amount of times you now hear as you say well we approach someone from the government but no one was available for comment it's ridiculous and there's so many people working the treasury for example that they could easily to do it but they're all just so scared or so incompetent or or so disdained for the bbc it doesn't happen which i think it

partly informs this decision by the media team of Liz Truss who on one hand do want shooting because it's so short sighted it's unbelievable but on the other hand I think there's only so much you can do I think a lot of people glamorize the idea of a media expert or a spin doctor or a director of communications because of Campbell because of the thick of it you can only work with what you can work with you and I know this as well as anyone like if you grab someone you've been told to work with and have to put them in the studio and get something good out of it you can only work with what you can work with you and i know this as well as anyone like if you grab someone you've been told to work with and have to put them in the studio and get something good out of it you can only lead them to water you can't make them drink so there's no prep they could have done to make her good but they massively underestimated the fact there's a

lot of good local people working at a local level in the bbc who are gentle and kind and make this kind of feel good community spirited radio 99 at a time but still do have some chops right so they're not going to let you get away with any old journalists they've all got journalistic backgrounds pretty much to a man and and they um i mean this will this will have been booked in like you know um you know weeks weeks before um and she's you reckon it would be weeks before i don't think it would have been it would have it would have been as soon as they knew the reaction was going to be to this thing, did they? No, but I think,

but surely that would have been an appearance on all of these stations would have been, because they wouldn't have chosen to do this as a way of seeing off criticism of their economic policy. No, but I think they would have said, got to the point, the reaction was so bad, Pete, I think when they got to the point where they would have said,

look, we've got to do point where they would have said, look, we've got to do some kind of media. Right. I don't know, I just thought, I just thought it would just be like some kind of like, hello to the fucking new prime minister

kind of like soft focus bollocks that would have been penciled in. And then they, because she's been missing for the past five days, or she had been missing for the past five days, she was in a situation

where she, they couldn't really cancel it. And so, and they thought, well, look, it's local radio. It's radio. No one's going to be listening. And fundamentally, in the grand scheme of things, not many people will see it. But it was just fucking great.

Oh, but it's on BBC Sounds. And all these other Germans know that. It's funny because my friend who I used to live with, actually, he basically runs BBC Radio Solent now and he's the nicest guy in the world and a really great

great pro but he's also you know he's just really nice by nature he's really well suited to Radio Solent I think he loves

working there and stuff but I also when I lived with him he was like a beat journalist he was like proper broadcast journalist he would be going everywhere and he would be like,

you know, if someone had done something ridiculous or terrible and it had been a politician, he would be the one like waiting outside their house and fucking asking them the tough questions and stuff.

So they've all got it in them is what I'm saying. And I think it was criminal to underestimate them in that way. Massively. And sort of, you know, like I would trust them more than I would trust someone

like fucking Peston or something. You know what I mean? Because they've got ski in the game, right? They don't want to lose their status, yeah. Exactly. It's access, status, personal reputation. But these guys are just like, right, we get one shot, and then it goes back to business as usual next.

And everyone, every single horse just went absolutely in with two feet. It was fucking brilliant. And isn't it really interesting as well? It's a great point you make there and you set that against hey how say your pestons your kunzbergs of this world of this world uh who who really were actually quite aggravatingly poor in things like covid yeah where they would take like five minutes to ask five questions at once and giving boris johnson every opportunity to kind of squirrel out, squirm out of any,

anything, and then do this entirely self-serving way of doing the job via like social media, rather than doing things properly, like Coonsburg always does and not questioning sources, all that kind of usual shit that people criticize them for. It actually sets in stark contrast to how they were, you know,

the prime minister of this country was completely skewered by with respect to them some relatively unknown local journalists operating at a local level it's quite an interesting turning it on its head you know good on them good um right by the time this show comes out she probably won't even be fucking prime minister anymore um anyway let's have a break i think what the economy needs is another prime minister i just think they need that kind of lack of stability. I think we just need another one. Should be changed every other week, I think. Yeah, I think so.

I think so. Right. Break. We're going to hit a break and we'll be back with some batteries and then we're going to fuck off forever. Well, in a few days anyway. Welcome back to the Luke Pete Show. Pete and Luke with you and it's thursday so we are doing

battery brands if you found a little battery in a air conditioning unit in a hotel in an unlovable part of your world uh we want to hear from you if it's a battery brand that sounds a bit weird that we probably haven't heard of before steve nickel has got in touch hello chaps i recently received a mini flashlight from my employer as part of their truck driver appreciation week wow i love it i know i love initiatives like this it's like can we have some more money nope yeah you can have you can have an email about us appreciating you though and a mini flashlight i was super excited uh not the magnificence of said item but at the prospect of it coming with some obscure battery. That said, I present you with the

Ledlenser Ionic AAA with the hope that it might qualify as a new player in the game. Impeccably written, Steve Nicol. Not that what he says, although we are from the same part of the world and we are the same age. There we go. That sounds like a double bluff to me. Doth protest too much, Steve Nicol.

Yeah, is Ledlenser Ionic AAA a new That sounds like a double bluff to me. Doth protest too much, Dean Nicol. Yeah. Is Ledlens' iconic triple A a new player? I don't think they're called iconic. They're ionic, aren't they? Not iconic. What did I say? Sorry, ionic. I'm not trying to be a pedant.

I just have to specifically type it into the search. So I need to know. Ionic, fine. Yeah, in which case they are a new player. Completely new. Never heard of them before. Never seen them before. They look brand new to me as well, to mine eye.

Great find. Triple A is a great find. Well done. A LED lens. Yeah, it's nice stuff. And a rugged looking flashlight as well. What's your opinion of the flashlight, sorry? You think it's a good look?

It's got a little trouser clip. Nice to see. Or a little pocket clip. Practical. Practical. Nice stuff. Michael Dunn has got in touch. Hi, guys. After our Acoustic Solutions TV in the bedroom decided to die after 14 years,

I was taking the batteries out of the remote control and found they were still the original ones and were AAA FIFA power super heavy-duty batteries. That's brilliant. What have they been up to now? Have you ever come across these before? Or have you found a new player? I almost certainly think, Michael Dunn from North Shields,

that your Acoustic Solutions TV in the bedroom, it's sad to hear about its demise, but it's provided us with a brand new player. FIFA Power Super Heavy Duty, Luke? Yeah, they are a new player. Congratulations to you, Michael. Well done. Great find.

I've never heard, I mean, you're much more au fait with electronic than me, Peter, but I've never heard of Acoustic Solutions before as a brand either. I think I have heard of Acoustic Solutions, but I mean, FIFA power, it doesn't look like an officially licensed FIFA product. It's not, is it?

Good on them. Yeah, but FIFA are famously relaxed about that kind of stuff, aren't they? So, sure, it wouldn't matter. That's correct. Oi, oi, oi. Right, on to the final and third admission. Georgie.

Hello, Georgie. Hello, Luke and Pete, says Georgie. I've got so much love for the show. It's made me miss the UK less after moving out to Australia. Oh, Georgie. These batteries come out of my work mouse a few months ago. I've been hauling on to them out of fear that they are a popular Australian battery. They are. Wink wink, AAA batteries.

W-I-N-C with a little dot at the end. Wink. Yeah, another new player. That's a hat trick. Unbelievable. Fantastic. It really happens. I think it's the second time we've had a full house, unfortunately.

To be honest, it's a weird one because when I first chatted to you on the show about this fact that you see these different battery types, I mean, it was literally, I think, over three years ago. And we are getting people, and it's by far the most emails we get are about this, right? So submissions are the thing we probably get most commonly in the email inbox, right? So three years later, we do two shows a week. Three years later, we are still getting three batteries in one show that we've never seen before. Yeah.

I don't think people talk about this generally enough. It's not even a thing, is it? But it should be because who the fuck has ever heard of so many brands of one type type of thing yeah yeah well what do you mean like we're we're the only people doing it no no no well yeah but i mean that's because you know that's not something to be fucking proud of but i think i think i don't i can't think of another say commercially available item right that is has so many different types of the same thing if you know what i mean. That's true.

Okay, that's fair. So even like crisps, which are fucking everywhere, right? If I said to you, what are there more brands of, crisps or batteries, you would say crisps. You'd be wrong. You would be damn wrong. Yeah, I guess so, yeah. And in many ways, that's the space this show occupies.

And they do the same job. Like there's very little variation between how much, they'll all be pretty much the same job. Like, there's very little variation between how much... They'll all be pretty much the same inside, and give or take an hour of flashlight here or there. It's fascinating. It's not fascinating at all. No. But we're doing it.

But the unfascinating nature of it, it's so unfascinating, it almost becomes fascinating. Everything's cyclical. At the start of the battery section, and by the way, well done to Michael, to Harry, and to Georgie. Sorry, not sorry, Steve, Michael, and Georgie. Harry was the emailer before. At the start of the Steve email, you said,

an unlovable part of your life. What's the most unlovable part of your life? And you can't say this show. What do you mean, the most unlovable part of your life, what's the most unlovable part of your life? And you can't say this show. What do you mean? The most unlovable part of my life? Yeah. Oh. As you can probably tell from my delivery today,

just general allergies. You've got allergies again? Even in September? I've got the old sniffles. I don't know. I haven't had time to hoover the bedroom, so I've got the old sniffles with the old dog dogs in it. Speaking of the old allergies,

a weird thing happened the other day. We ran out of Sanex. You know Sanex? Is that like a nose? Is that like something you sort of pump into your nose? No, it's a shower gel. And I do a bath foam as well, I think. For me, it's the only shower gel

my skin's terrible like it's i get sunburnt really easily it's really fair really sensitive yeah and um and if i use say a very you know like you go by a link shower gel for a pound but it's obviously full of chemicals it really aggravates my skin right so i use sanics because the only brand i found that's actually fine on my skin and we ran out of it and um so i ended up we ended up having to use this dove soap soap cream soap bar that we had in the um in the cupboard yeah just while we waited for sunnix to be delivered and uh the wi-fi i have access to come out in hives from dove which apparently is the kindest soap on the market it's supposed to be ph neutral and all that business, isn't it? Googled it. Really,

really controversial stuff about Dove. People are saying that all sorts of people are having problems with it. It's a word of warning. Sanic's good. Dove, not so good, Peter. The most unlovable part of your life is your allergies. Soap of the week.

Yeah, why not? How many brands of soap are there send in your contenders for brand of shower gel or soap that we've not seen before let's get out of here Peter we will be back on Monday for another one of these who knows what's happened in this mad world by then

what we do know is though that we probably won't talk about any of it so see you then have a lovely weekend Peter anything to add from you maybe the email address for them to people yeah hello

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