The Luke and Pete Show - Welcome to Spook Fest 2022

Episode Date: October 31, 2022

What’s the best way to celebrate Halloween? Eat loads of American Candy, of course. Because that is definitely going to help Pete’s stomach problems…Speaking of Halloween, we marvel at a mass gr...ave containing over 600 monks. Elsewhere a listener, unexpectedly, informs us that we played a part in the birth of their first child.Have we played a part in one of your major life events? Email: hello@lukeandpeteshow.com or you can get in touch on Twitter or Instagram: @lukeandpeteshow Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Welcome to the Luke and Pete show. I'm the Pete part of that collective. I'm joined by Luke Moore and it's Monday the 31st of October or should I say spook fucking fest 2022 2022 That's what they've renamed it to Exactly I always thought that Halloween was the 27th Of Because you never really Sort of celebrated it Slash got involved
Starting point is 00:00:33 Yeah Back in the day When I was a kid And the 27th was my mum's birthday So I always assumed We didn't do Halloween stuff Because it was my mum's birthday But
Starting point is 00:00:41 No 31st of October turns out That's a weird thing Yeah You can only have room For one celebration On one day my mum's birthday. But no, 31st of October turns out. Yeah. You can only have room for one celebration. On one day. We only really started
Starting point is 00:00:50 becoming a Halloween nation pretty recently because I think, I guess we get a lot of cultural crossover from the US and in the US it's obviously a much bigger deal.
Starting point is 00:00:58 Isn't it? Yeah. And Big's right because there was a BBC poll. You know, at the end of the 20th century where they did that top 100 living Britons and it's now been 100 years since the BBC,
Starting point is 00:01:11 they did a little poll where they said, look, we want to rename Halloween. And everyone emailed in and wrote in and all these people kind of had their say. And the winner came back as Spooky Fuckfest. So that's what it's got to be called from now on. Spooky McSpookfest. Yeah. So we are what it's got to be called from now on. Spooky McSpookfest. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:01:25 So we are... How do you... Because I guess it's a bit of a non-negotiable, living with an American, that you have to at least eat at least one candy corn bowl per year. Well, I think what's kind of interesting is that when she first moved here,
Starting point is 00:01:43 she moved in the summer. This is the first Halloween a few months later I think she was genuinely disappointed how little a deal it was like how few people turned up at the house and stuff because like people go all out in the US they dress up they go trick-or-treating lots of stuff goes on it's a big deal whereas here it kind of passes by without any real fuss I mean on where the street where we live it's got a lot of kids around and you might get the occasional knock on the door but i remember
Starting point is 00:02:09 the wife i have access to had a whole bowl of like sweets and chocolate and candy and stuff and like no one really came so it was down to the big man to polish it off sarah's only bought um a couple of bags of um weirdly all american um candy you know, like a lot of Tootsie Rolls and stuff, which is basically just like, it's like chocolate-flavoured taffy, isn't it? Yeah. Tootsie Rolls, it's kind of an interesting... But you do get saltwater taffy in the kind of place
Starting point is 00:02:36 around where my wife is from anyway. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So they're quite big on it in, like, I think Massachusetts and Rhode Island and around there. Oh, and any tourist trap as well will have one shop that just sells different flavours of taffy. I can imagine you being a bit of a Swedish fish guy though, right? Lower Swedish fish, they're nice. They've got a lovely texture to them that you don't always get.
Starting point is 00:02:59 It's almost like, you know when Percy Pigs did a vegetarian option, a vegan Percy Pig? That kind of vibe but beautifully yeah I do it's quite floral Swedish fish big fan how would a vegan Percy Pig greet it but people saying oh it's not as good
Starting point is 00:03:12 or well I mean people just fucking whinge at everything won't they well yeah is it allowed probably isn't it probably fucking allowed isn't it but on the on the
Starting point is 00:03:23 Swedish fish thing I presume it's like it is because in America they have far more lax food standards, right? So they will let you probably use a lot of different ingredients that you cannot use here until we're left with you. Yeah, a lot of naughty stuff, yeah. Yeah, but I guess now, like, we do get quite a lot of imported American candy,
Starting point is 00:03:42 not just from those kind of, like, weird tax write-offs that you see on Oxford Street. You do see proper American candy, not just from those kind of like weird tax write-offs that you see in Oxford Street. You do see proper American candy, Twinkies and the like, being sold in like Tesco's and Sainsbury's these days in the little American candy section for like, you know, three quid more than it would cost up there.
Starting point is 00:03:58 But you are, so presumably those have been cleared by the EU food standards, safety standards, because they've been on the shelves for quite a while. So they can't be using anything particularly nefarious. I mean, where I worry is the ones that I had in California, those Mexican, like, spoons, plastic spoons, filled with, like, this kind of, like, sweet, spicy stuff.
Starting point is 00:04:22 Though it was delicious, but it didn't look like it'd been checked by a lot of people. It looked very DIY. Well, I think your stomach is essentially like a barren wasteland now anyway, though, right? It's like I Am Legend. You've got a little Will Smith and a dog walking around. Just running around. My lower intestine.
Starting point is 00:04:41 I always find American candies a bit of a mixed bag because I really love their peanut butter M&Ms. I don't't know why and i suspect this is probably a food standards thing the reason we don't have all those flavors of m&ms is it must be because like the recipe won't quite work with the chocolate that we have to use and stuff because yeah they don't really taste like as good as the m&ms in terms of quality we have here, but they do have loads more interesting flavours, particularly peanut butter, which is the absolute GOAT of M&M flavours. Well, the thing that gets me is that in America,
Starting point is 00:05:13 there's 15 kinds of Slim Jims, and we don't even have one Slim Jim. And it's like we have a pepperami, and it's unlovable. We don't even have one of those... You don't really see the thick ones anymore, or the ones in a bun. Remember the pepperamis in a bun? I love those things.
Starting point is 00:05:26 They were a little sandwich for Petey. You're the only person in the world that thinks that's good. That's why this continues. Pepperami wide, boy. Yeah. I'll tell you something now. Pepperami had a moment. They had a moment.
Starting point is 00:05:40 They had those adverts that everyone loved with the little kind of crazy little pepperoni and they started to get big for their fucking britches quite frankly and started bringing out a lot of different products the wide boy the pepperoni in a roll
Starting point is 00:05:53 the different flavours the one with the black packaging that was really spicy and people weren't there people weren't here for it they didn't want it I think they were I've always been
Starting point is 00:06:00 they were humbled by the customers of the UK everyone took the piss out of Jackmate on Jackmas Happier, one of our fine stacks there. But he said that he used to take the condom off the pepper army and chew on the condom. No, I think it was that he didn't know it had to be removed. I think he ate it at the same time.
Starting point is 00:06:21 No, no, no, no. When he'd eaten it, he would chew on it like chewing gum, which is exactly what I do. It's what i do i don't you pay for it you chew on it yeah sorry jack yeah probably right actually i was just saying i make this up but was there someone that we knew i mean it might have been jack but possibly not who used to eat the red bit of the baby bell as well oh Oh, yeah, that rings a bell. Or did they chew on it? That's something I had in America, wax lips. You don't see them in the UK.
Starting point is 00:06:52 They've never come over. Like classic fairground wax lips where they have this sugar and some kind of petroleum wax that you, they're just these big stupid lips. And when you're finished with with pretending that you've got big lovely marlin raw lips you um you can chew on them you can just chew it into a little ball ball and and then spit it in the bin it's disgusting yeah but but like it's not it's not edible it's just not edible but it's sweet that should not be happening i mean as you've
Starting point is 00:07:23 described it's made isn't it made of paraffin wax or something like that? Paraffin wax, yeah. And so... It's delicious. So I guess in a way, then, it's no different in principle to chewing gum, right? No, yeah, exactly. Yeah, I guess you shouldn't be swallowing chewing gum, Heath.
Starting point is 00:07:39 I can remember at school, the science teacher, the actual science teacher, used to say to us when we were caught for chewing chewing gum that she knew for a fact that it was sticky ribs together. It's like, how far away from scientific principles do you want to be by saying shit like that?
Starting point is 00:07:54 How is it in your ribs? Yeah, just say what actually happened. It's probably horrific anyway. At least it'll be vaguely believable. True. True that. I completely agree. Absolutely ridiculous thing to say. Anyway, it is Halloween.
Starting point is 00:08:09 I saw a really spooky Halloween story. Is it spooky or is it just a little bit weird? Earlier, I mean, it's probably last week, I think now, that in Pembrokeshire, they were digging out some foundations for a department store, right? Right. Or for a um a department store right right or they were oh they'd knocked the department store down they were going to replace it with something else they were doing something to the land under an old department store anyway and they found 300 skeletons underneath
Starting point is 00:08:36 that's too many skeletons it's like they're having a big party down there unbelievable yeah so you find but i guess if you find one you're going to find a lot more. So they found out... Well, yeah, I guess. But they found out that there was a Dominican order of monks at a place called St. Saviour's Priory. But this... I mean, they were founded,
Starting point is 00:08:57 I think, in 1256. So they were saying that dating the skeletons, they date back at least 600 years, essentially. Yeah. And there's quite a lot of ranges and types of people there. There's a lot of wealthy people buried there. There's a general kind of normal people buried there as well.
Starting point is 00:09:14 Or it could have been a mass grave after a raid on the town in the early 15th century. But it was used as a burial site up until the 18th century. It never came up before. That's amazing. That's a Halloween story for you right there. Isn't it? I like the idea that you,
Starting point is 00:09:33 I mean, when you start digging, you find one hand and you're like, I might just, I would just cover it back over with some soil and get someone else
Starting point is 00:09:40 to do that bit of the job because then they can discover the horrors of how deep this actually goes. What's your cut off though? So clearly there there's a cut off here if it's 600 years old i don't mind it if it's someone that's been buried two weeks ago i'm not i'm not going anywhere near it well there was a man found on uh in japan in universal studios uh japan he was found just in a hedge um and it's rare that he'd been dead for a couple of days. Yeah,
Starting point is 00:10:05 he'd been dead for a few days. That wouldn't be nice. There was a really horrible story about the lack of humanity and I think it might
Starting point is 00:10:13 have been LA, maybe, could have been New York where a guy died on a circular route of the subway and he just sat there. He just sat there, he was going round and round and round. Yeah, I think people just thought he was asleep or whatever and he was sat there he just sat there he's going round and round yeah
Starting point is 00:10:26 i think people just thought he was asleep or whatever he was on there for like days and no one really kind of checked that is depressing it's not that is depressing i completely agree i mean that is oh i mean imagine not seeing your family member for ages and then get on the subway i better go visit him because he's going to be on the subway route near his house right oh i guess so yeah oh there he's over there oh he's dead to be honest the subway route near his house, right? Oh, I guess so, yeah. And you get on and go, oh, there, he's over there. Oh, he's dead. To be honest, if he's the sort of person who's doing laps on the fucking Yamamoto line, if he's the sort of person who's doing laps, I don't think he's probably particularly well looked after. I don't think anyone's going to be looking for him.
Starting point is 00:10:57 No, but I think he was on it to do a normal route, and he died on it. Right, okay. During his commute. Oh. Yeah. I don't like that. I'll tell you what, though. What it made me think of was it's a circular line, right? and he died on it right okay during his commute oh yeah I don't like that I'll tell you what what made me think of was it's a circular line ride
Starting point is 00:11:09 if you're taking this into London the circle line London's probably one of the better ones because the trains are newer right
Starting point is 00:11:18 so if you're going to choose to die on a on a on a on a on a on a
Starting point is 00:11:21 on a line in London I would choose the Victoria line but the Circle Line isn't the worst one. The efficiency of the
Starting point is 00:11:29 Elizabeth line surely cannot be ignored. Well so I've not. You'd be shot left and right like slicing through London constantly. You'd probably get
Starting point is 00:11:40 like five or six times across London before you discover that you're dead. I've not partaken in the Elizabeth line yet so I can't comment but what i would like to say anyone listening to this friends and family if i do have to die on one of the london underground lines i would like to out of respect die on the victorian line because the mvp of the of the underground
Starting point is 00:11:57 it's quick it's reliable few stops you can go from victoria up to um hybridsington in on a good day 12 minutes that's an incredible shift yeah that is you gotta you gotta yeah but but people sort of forget that um people forget like how crap the tube used to be like the northern line you would every time you got the northern line you'd be waiting 10 minutes for a train. Like when I first moved down. You'd hardly ever be on. It was atrocious it used to be. So,
Starting point is 00:12:30 I think people should be thankful for how good it is. One of the things they must have done now though to save money, I think, particularly on the
Starting point is 00:12:38 Victoria lines, they've definitely turned all the kind of cooling systems off. They must have. It's just so much hotter now and I think they must have just said that we need to save money
Starting point is 00:12:46 because financially it's in a bit of a difficult spot because of COVID. I just, I don't think, but I don't think it was ever, but it wasn't ever heated or air conditioned, was it? No, but there are, if you, so basically down some of the platforms at the end, there'll be these cooling vents
Starting point is 00:13:02 and they would be pumping out quite a lot of cool air. it's not air con it's just like it's just like a cooling vent um and they seem to have been completely turned off now well i mean if you're going to hit your climate emissions targets that those are the sort of things that go first unfortunately i think it's because they're trying to save money i think they came very close to having to close the whole thing down a while back didn't they because of? Because the government were holding them to ransom because of the way the financing works. Anyway, that's boring. I'll tell you what's not boring. I finished that Adam Curtis series.
Starting point is 00:13:32 Oh, yeah? Trauma Zone. That was bleak. Yeah, I mean, you did tell me one particular scene that put a down on my day, I must admit. Yeah, it's difficult to kind of really maintain positivity when you've got scenes like, you know,
Starting point is 00:13:49 rural people having to dig up old World War II soldiers to see if they've got anything of value on their corpses because they're so poor. It was really, really awful. But it was a really interesting and revealing explainer. And I think what he's going to try and do, so basically this series, on the BBC iPlayer,
Starting point is 00:14:06 available to everyone for free, it's set from 1985 to 1999. It's seven episodes. And I think what he's doing is setting the scene for how Putin came about. Because the very final episode, really only the last half of the final episode,
Starting point is 00:14:19 Putin starts to make an appearance. It's all about the oligarchs and how they took advantage of the collapse of the Soviet Union and all the rest of it. But it's using completely archived footage that has just been discarded by other BBC journalists. So it's really compelling.
Starting point is 00:14:30 It's almost like, I said this to you before, it's almost like a completely new type of documentary. It's brilliant to watch. But very, very tough going in places. I also didn't fully, I mean I knew he was an alcoholic, but I didn't know quite the extent of how much of a pisshead Boris Yeltsin was
Starting point is 00:14:45 my goodness me he was just so many clips of him just falling out of his plane he's standing there giving an audience to like troops and
Starting point is 00:14:53 stuff and there's not one guy each side of him holding him upright right yeah at one point he walks past like a military band
Starting point is 00:15:00 just picks up the baton he starts conducting them screaming into the mic, singing. There's a lot of stuff going on. It's a really fascinating documentary. It's well worth watching.
Starting point is 00:15:10 I would recommend it highly to the Luke and Pete show family. And I would highly recommend the film I saw on Friday night which was fucking brilliant and if you've listened to the Luke and Pete show over the past couple of weeks you'll know about it at high volume.
Starting point is 00:15:24 Banshees have been a show. Oh yeah, is it good? Banshees have been a show oh yeah it's a good really good really really good stuff um obviously those two and the director is very good um very uh theatrical it sort of reminded me of like you know irish i mean the to be honest the only irish player i really um know anything of brian friel very brian Brian Freely, all about place and about belonging and about friendship. Yeah, it's really good stuff. I've heard great things. I'd definitely like to see it.
Starting point is 00:15:53 And read that advert that was really loud for people. People should know that we run a pretty tight ship and we don't have any control over that, so we have to just get it sorted out. It's not our fault. Sometimes they're really quiet, sometimes they're really loud, and we ask and ask, and it's just, I don't know why, it's not our fault sometimes they're really quiet sometimes they're really loud and we ask and ask and
Starting point is 00:16:05 it's just I don't know why it's sometimes loud and sometimes quiet tell me why oh well that's what Pete says tell me why
Starting point is 00:16:11 he calls up the company response and goes tell me why like that and they're doing very quietly so they've got to lean in and they go
Starting point is 00:16:18 tell me why all right let's have a quick break when we come back we'll do some emails because we've got a few to get through actually so let's do those
Starting point is 00:16:24 and we'll see you on the Because we've got a few to get through, actually. So let's do those. We'll see you on the other side of this. All right. All right. It's Luke and Pete Show. I'm Pete. That's Luke. Let's do some emails.
Starting point is 00:16:36 What email would you like to go to first, Lukey? Sorry, I would like to do an email from John and Lauren, who have emailed in with the title, The Luke and Pete Show played a role in our child's birth. Yes. So this could go either way. Let's check it out. Get that baby out of here.
Starting point is 00:16:49 Get it out of them. Get it out. They actually included a photo of their beautiful, cute baby as well. So good on them. And they say, I presume it's John writing this. So I'm going to assume it's that. Hey, gents. I was recently talking to my friend about the birth of my first child,
Starting point is 00:17:08 and he thought you might be interested in this story. months back my wife began having contractions and after about eight hours it was time to head to the hospital due to an excess of people at our chosen hospital we had to drive about 15 minutes farther to our new destination i had been listening to your show and it automatically came on when we hopped in the car i asked my wife brackets who was in quite a bit of pain if i should turn it off to which she replied no they're funny to listen to well fast forward about five minutes to where Pete is talking
Starting point is 00:17:29 about Baileys at which point my wife screams out turn it off turn it off it was at that moment of utter terror I was reminded
Starting point is 00:17:36 just how much my wife hates Baileys Irish cream anyway our baby came out healthy and on time and my wife and I would like to have a good laugh
Starting point is 00:17:44 about your involvement in our trip to the hospital thanks for continuing to make us laugh cheers john and lauren ps here's a bonus pic of our son everett and he is a lovely uh cute boy so congratulations he looks very clever he looks you know he's got a looking in going hi guys now if you could stop talking about barelys in front of my mother mother i would be very and a great name everett don't hear a lot of them it's it's it's rare that you it's rare that you have a uh a child's name that isn't it mad or be um really common um so everett ticks a lot of boxes for me great stuff is that a compliment well done do i you said that what do you mean you're not you meant well there. It's rare. Did that come across well? It's rare, and it's quite rare, and it's not common. And it's, yeah, not rare. Okay, so what you mean is, you mean it's rare,
Starting point is 00:18:33 but it's not also common as in frequency? But it's not one of those rare names that is like fucking Keanu or something. Oh, so you mean. You know what I mean? Keanu's a bad example, because I guess nowadays you would get it. Have you seen Matthew Perry's been slating Keanu Reeves in his autobiography
Starting point is 00:18:47 but is Matthew Perry in a bit of trouble do we need to be sympathetic towards him I think he is well he put it in his book I mean I guess yeah yeah
Starting point is 00:18:54 look fine but he but it's just I like to think that he wrote his autobiography but hadn't because if you don't sort of consume
Starting point is 00:19:02 like Twitter you don't consume social media like you wouldn't know that Keanu, you don't consume social media, you wouldn't know that Keanu Reeves is beloved by a lot of people. Things he's been through, the fact that he rides the tube on the Metro, complains about the air con on the Victoria Line, etc.
Starting point is 00:19:21 He's quite beloved by people, isn't he? But I remember a time when he was treated with slightly less kid gloves back in the day. Remember when he was in that band Dogstar? Yeah But I remember a time when he was treated with slightly less kid gloves back in the day. Remember when he was in that band Dogstar? Yeah. I remember seeing them in Reading and he basically,
Starting point is 00:19:32 and people throwing stuff at him and he was treated as like being a bit of an airhead and a bit of like, you know, good looking but a terrible actor, et cetera, et cetera. Well, he's not a very good actor
Starting point is 00:19:40 in my view. No, he's pretty poor. But he's kind of beloved he's a bit of a darling these days I think Matthew Perry's just doing a joke he would have done
Starting point is 00:19:51 in the noughties or in the nineties but he's kind of he basically said that it's upsetting that River Phoenix is dead and Keanu Reeves
Starting point is 00:20:00 is still walking around which is just Keanu Reeves what would Donson deserve that? A, it's a bit strong, and B, yeah, it's just a bit strong, isn't it, really? I think that, but you think he's essentially not realised that people actually quite like Keanu now.
Starting point is 00:20:18 Yeah, yeah, I just don't think he's had the update. He's not read the memo. There's a bit in the first Matrix movie, which is obviously pretty iconic as a film, where he first finds out that shit's going on, and he's in his office, and he gets a package, and inside the package is a mobile phone,
Starting point is 00:20:36 and it rings. Sony Ericsson. Yeah, there's a Nokia, isn't it, famously. It's a Nokia. Is it? I thought it was a Sony Ericsson. Look at the screen. It's a Nokia. Is it? I thought it was a Sony Ericsson look at the screen it's a K
Starting point is 00:20:45 Nokia is it? Matrix because they sold them afterwards John had one they're definitely Nokias okay anyway it doesn't matter
Starting point is 00:20:55 it starts ringing and so the scene's weird he's got to try and get out of the office people who are listening who've seen the movie they'll know what I mean and at one point Morpheus
Starting point is 00:21:04 who's the Laurence Fishburne character says to him you need to get out the office now you've got that window climb down that scaffold but he's on about the 50th floor right yeah so he's gonna do it and there's this one take where in one one scene where he just looks in and kiana reeves just looks to him around just says to himself this is insane and it is the worst take of anything. Like, I cannot believe they let that in. Like, it completely takes you out of it. Like, it's so bad, the way it's done. And for the budget they had,
Starting point is 00:21:33 and for the vision they had, I just think to myself, is that really the best take Keanu Reeves did? Because if so, we need to see the others. We need to see him. Because it's almost like someone's replaced, like, lobotomized him. Check it out, honestly. It's really bad. I don't know why it's almost like someone's replaced like lobotomised him check it out honestly
Starting point is 00:21:46 it's really bad I don't know why it's never really talked about to me it seems crazy the other kind of controversial maybe
Starting point is 00:21:53 film opinion I have is that do you know the film Gladiator yes you must have seen Gladiator right yeah
Starting point is 00:22:01 back in the day I feel a bit like Russell Crowe growled his way through that and everyone thought it was amazing and i'm not sure he's definitely done much better he's definitely had much better performances than that um but all of a sudden no one really seems to mention it but i remember when he was uh when that film was released and it was and nobody was necessarily talking about his performance he was treated as just you know big lad
Starting point is 00:22:26 who wants men to who wants men to experience he won best actor at the Oscars did he?
Starting point is 00:22:34 for that film fuck off he did for that? yes that's what I'm saying Jesus Christ so he won best actor
Starting point is 00:22:40 I have my revenge in this one yeah and Joaquin Phoenix didn't win best supporting actor honestly I don't understand I'm not saying he's a bad actor He won best actor. I have my revenge in this one. Yeah, and Joaquin Phoenix didn't win best supporting actor. Honestly, I don't understand why.
Starting point is 00:22:49 I'm not saying he's a bad actor. I think he's a good actor. He's done some great movies. I really like the film. I just think that it's completely kind of been, I don't know, like airbrushed out of history that he won the Oscar for that and it wasn't that good. Genuinely, it genuinely wasn't that good. Yeah, I like it.
Starting point is 00:23:07 Given that, like, I imagine, what year was it? 2000. So he's up against Javier Bardem, Tom Hanks in Castaway, right? Yeah. Ed Harris was in that movie about Jackson Pollock that year, and Geoffrey Rush, who's also a brilliant actor, was nominated that year, and he won it. Like, to be fair, in To be fair, the following year,
Starting point is 00:23:28 he didn't win the Oscar for A Beautiful Mind, and he's much better in A Beautiful Mind than he is in Gladiator. Gladiator's just obviously a blockbuster where he just has that presence. Fine, but he grounds his way through every fucking line. So anyway, I don't know how we got onto that. What were we talking about? Keanu Reeves. What were we talking about before that?
Starting point is 00:23:41 Who knows? Who knows? Congratulations to John and Lauren. They're son son everett well done everett well done little baby everett incredible um one more email to squeeze in before we go this is from our friend max who says um a while back you guys were talking about um office etiquette help um because fellow listener uh was starting a new job and asked about it uh and he said and max says i thought i'd tell you about a couple of the interesting characters i've encountered working office jobs hopefully usman can take some lessons from these rogues um first was a lad called
Starting point is 00:24:15 sean who one day decided to change his screensaver to a bikini clad woman bent over uh when challenged by the manager and told it wasn't appropriate for a work computer, his response was, what's the problem? You can't see anything. And so a supervillain was born. You can't see anything. Ridiculous.
Starting point is 00:24:37 Max also says, the second was a guy named Tim who had an interesting side hustle of buying Xbox Live Codes from a Tesco in Jersey, VAT free, of course, and then selling them on eBay for a profit. He was apparently making hundreds of pounds a month.
Starting point is 00:24:52 The problem, though, was his side hustle took up about 75% of his time, so he was sacked for not doing his actual job. That's quite innovative. Yeah, I like... There was a recent case of... There's a guy I know called Liam who works for a company in Kyoto making video games. And he made one called like a golf game, basically.
Starting point is 00:25:12 It was unique, reviewed really bloody well. Anyway, you can, if you dick about with credit cards, online credit cards and ISP isp um isp stuff and and and vpns and stuff you can access the steam um uh library for argentina right and argentina has a very weak um financial situation at the moment so all of video games priced accordingly um the cost of living's um a certain price and how much money people are bringing in is much lower so the video games are like a couple of dollars compared to $20 and so people
Starting point is 00:25:51 sort of like started buying certain games you know really really cheap but a weird quirk of the Steam system is that they don't necessarily they just look at popular games that are really sort of got a bit of buzz around them and it doesn't matter where it's from so weirdly some of these games that are being bought for like a couple of dollars instead of being pirated in argentina actually helps them
Starting point is 00:26:12 in america so it sort of jumps up the leaderboard because people are downloading them really really cheap in argentina which obviously doesn't help the software companies uh bottom line but it does help with the marketing of the game so it's a a nice little kind of swerve on there. This is a stupid question, but if you were buying that from Argentina, would you get a Spanish language version or would they not bother with that? No, I think most languages, most versions will ship
Starting point is 00:26:36 with every single language in there. There's no point in making, they'll have every language on there. So those who are unclear about what Tim, Max's friend Tim Hill, or colleague Tim was doing, was he's basically buying things up saving i guess the vat would have been 17 and a half percent then or whatever it was because jersey and the the island of jersey wouldn't apply the vat so he's making a 17 and a half percent say margin when he sells them on but the thing is if they're second hand i suppose if they're unused it doesn't really matter because i'll say they're second hand maybe
Starting point is 00:27:03 you'd have to do them at a discount anyway but i suppose if they're unusedhand, I suppose if they're unused, it doesn't really matter because as I say, if they're secondhand, maybe you'd have to do them at a discount anyway, but I suppose if they're unused, they can retain their price. I actually admire the entrepreneurial spirit of it, but clearly, you've left the back door open there. If you're going to get fired from your actual job for doing it,
Starting point is 00:27:15 that's not really what you want to achieve. It's not ideal. It swings around about is what I'm trying to say. All right, Peter, I think we should wrap up there. Maybe people have some opinions
Starting point is 00:27:24 on what I think about Keanu Reeves and what we both presumably think about Russell Crowe and Gladiator is that a hot take who knows it's so it can't be
Starting point is 00:27:33 hot because it's a 22 year old take so very lukewarm people may have their opinion on it but we will of course be back on Thursday for more of this
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Starting point is 00:27:49 all the visual aspects of our show and the stuff that we refer to up on the old Twitter and the Instagram, so do check that out. Anything more from you, Peter? No, let's get out of here. Right, we'll see you again soon. See you on Thursday, in fact. Have a good one. It'll be November next time we see you. Bloody hell, where does the time go? Jesus Christ November next time we see you bloody hell where does time go
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