The Luke and Pete Show - Welcome to Spook Fest 2022
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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
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
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
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.
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,
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.
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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,
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
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.
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
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,
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.
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,
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
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,
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
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
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.
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
if you're taking this
into London
the circle line
London's probably
one of the better ones
because the trains
are newer
right
so if you're going
to choose to die
on a
on a
on a
on a
on a
on a
on a
line
in London
I would choose
the Victoria line but the
Circle Line isn't the
worst one.
The efficiency of the
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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,
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,
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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,
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
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
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
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.
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,
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
Nokia
is it?
Matrix
because they sold them afterwards
John had one
they're definitely Nokias
okay
anyway it doesn't matter
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
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,
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
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
film opinion I have
is that
do you know the film
Gladiator
yes
you must have seen
Gladiator right
yeah
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
who wants
men to
who wants
men to
experience
he won best actor
at the Oscars
did he?
for that film
fuck off
he did
for that?
yes that's what
I'm saying
Jesus Christ
so 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 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.
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.
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,
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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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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
don't answer that
I know where the time goes
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