1 00:00:34,120 --> 00:00:38,720 Good evening, welcome to QI. 2 00:00:38,720 --> 00:00:41,360 Pull up a pew and assemble your amazeballs 3 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:44,680 because tonight's show is absolutely phenomenal. 4 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:48,200 Our guests tonight are the puzzling Cariad Lloyd... 5 00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:51,080 APPLAUSE 6 00:00:51,080 --> 00:00:54,320 ..the perplexing Paul Sinha... 7 00:00:54,320 --> 00:00:57,200 APPLAUSE 8 00:00:57,200 --> 00:00:59,440 ..the preternatural Josh Widdicombe... 9 00:00:59,440 --> 00:01:02,560 APPLAUSE 10 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:07,720 ..and the Pope Lick Monster, Alan Davies. 11 00:01:07,720 --> 00:01:10,640 APPLAUSE 12 00:01:12,600 --> 00:01:15,720 So, can anybody tell me anything about the Pope Lick Monster? 13 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:17,800 Well, I deny everything, for a start. 14 00:01:17,800 --> 00:01:19,120 LAUGHTER 15 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,360 And the Pope started it. No, no... 16 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,800 It is part man, part goat, part sheep, and it supposedly lived... 17 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:26,080 And part Catholic? 18 00:01:26,080 --> 00:01:29,200 Part Catholic. It supposedly lives beneath a railway bridge 19 00:01:29,200 --> 00:01:32,480 over Pope Lick Creek in Louisville, Kentucky. Oh. 20 00:01:32,480 --> 00:01:34,880 It lures people to their death by hypnosis. 21 00:01:34,880 --> 00:01:38,760 Come with me, yes, I have cake, come this way. 22 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:40,440 Is that how you get your ladies? 23 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:42,320 LAUGHTER 24 00:01:43,720 --> 00:01:45,240 It could work. 25 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,800 Our guests' buzzers are a peculiar panoply of the paranormal. 26 00:01:50,800 --> 00:01:52,200 Cariad goes... 27 00:01:52,200 --> 00:01:54,480 X-FILES THEME TUNE PLAYS 28 00:01:55,840 --> 00:01:57,600 It's a show about phenomena. 29 00:01:58,840 --> 00:02:01,520 Yeah, things are going to get weird. 30 00:02:01,520 --> 00:02:02,960 Paul goes... 31 00:02:02,960 --> 00:02:05,200 TWILIGHT ZONE THEME PLAYS 32 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:08,840 Josh goes... 33 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:10,760 THEME FROM THE EXORCIST PLAYS 34 00:02:14,480 --> 00:02:16,320 And Alan goes.... 35 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:22,680 ♪ Scooby-doo-bee-doo, where are you, we've got some work to do, now... ♪ 36 00:02:24,560 --> 00:02:26,520 Actually frightened me. 37 00:02:26,520 --> 00:02:29,120 First of all, we're going to probe your psyches. 38 00:02:29,120 --> 00:02:32,240 What do you see here? 39 00:02:32,240 --> 00:02:34,120 That's my mum that didn't love me. 40 00:02:37,560 --> 00:02:39,280 They're always about the mother. 41 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,440 Yeah, that's my dad that didn't love me, and that one's Alan Davies. 42 00:02:44,280 --> 00:02:47,240 That third one was a bit of loo role I flushed away this morning. 43 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:49,120 AUDIENCE GROAN 44 00:02:49,120 --> 00:02:51,600 That really did not take long, did it? 45 00:02:51,600 --> 00:02:53,160 LAUGHTER 46 00:02:53,160 --> 00:02:55,480 Number three is when smoked salmon goes bad. 47 00:02:55,480 --> 00:02:57,240 Yes, it does look a bit like that, doesn't it? 48 00:02:57,240 --> 00:02:58,360 So, what are these called? 49 00:02:58,360 --> 00:02:59,560 Rorschach tests. 50 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:02,240 They're the Rorschach tests, named after Hermann Rorschach, 51 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,760 or just ink blots, we could just call them, 52 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:08,440 and he published his first ink blots in 1921... Whoa! Wow! 53 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:13,120 Why did no-one talk about how hot Rorschach is? I'm sorry... 54 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,720 That is one of those ones on the X Factor, he's not good enough 55 00:03:15,720 --> 00:03:18,600 on his own, but they'll put him in a group. 56 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,680 He's so hot, I'm sorry. Yeah, he is a very good-looking fellow. Gosh. 57 00:03:21,680 --> 00:03:24,360 He was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst... Sure... 58 00:03:24,360 --> 00:03:26,960 ..and he was looking for a way in which you could diagnose 59 00:03:26,960 --> 00:03:29,800 schizophrenics, but, in fact, do we think the ink blots worked? 60 00:03:29,800 --> 00:03:32,400 No, isn't that the thing, they proved that they didn't really...? 61 00:03:32,400 --> 00:03:34,160 They didn't do what they were looking for, 62 00:03:34,160 --> 00:03:37,800 which was a substantive test to see...analysing different illnesses, 63 00:03:37,800 --> 00:03:40,680 so on, but it did allow people sometimes to tap 64 00:03:40,680 --> 00:03:43,280 into the unconscious, so, sometimes it makes people talk 65 00:03:43,280 --> 00:03:45,760 about things that they wouldn't ordinarily talk about. 66 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:49,560 As a GP, it's quite useful to get rid of a patient that you wanted 67 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:52,840 to get rid of. If they just come in for a cough or a cold, 68 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:55,600 "Does this remind you of your dead mother?" 69 00:03:55,600 --> 00:03:57,200 Is that how you get them out? Exactly. 70 00:03:57,200 --> 00:03:59,920 I would have thought it might make you stay a bit longer, I'd be like, 71 00:03:59,920 --> 00:04:02,040 "Oh, Dr Sinha's ready to chat, let's go!" 72 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:04,840 If Dr Sinha looked anything like Rorschach, then you'd be... 73 00:04:04,840 --> 00:04:07,000 Yeah, then I would be, and I'd have to get out. 74 00:04:07,000 --> 00:04:10,160 The fact is that we do have a tendency to look at images 75 00:04:10,160 --> 00:04:12,520 and try and make them into something, it is something 76 00:04:12,520 --> 00:04:15,480 called pareidolia, and it's the human tendency to see 77 00:04:15,480 --> 00:04:17,560 images where maybe they don't exist. 78 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:19,360 We want it to make some kind of sense. 79 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:21,560 What he was looking for was a way to look for depression 80 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:24,320 or anxiety disorders, violent criminal tendencies, 81 00:04:24,320 --> 00:04:27,120 and that absolutely does not work for, but it works occasionally 82 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,760 to unlock things that people can't articulate, 83 00:04:29,760 --> 00:04:31,760 that they do want to try and talk about. 84 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,680 Does anybody know where the word "shrink" comes from, 85 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,320 which we sometimes use, in terms of psychiatrist? 86 00:04:37,320 --> 00:04:39,480 Is it about shrinking your brain? 87 00:04:39,480 --> 00:04:41,720 Well, it's from a... There's a sort of pseudoscience 88 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:43,120 called phrenology... Yeah... Ooh... 89 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:46,240 And phrenologists used to claim that the shape of the skull 90 00:04:46,240 --> 00:04:48,760 indicated the personality, and they could help you shrink 91 00:04:48,760 --> 00:04:52,040 the undesirable qualities, is what they were looking for. 92 00:04:52,040 --> 00:04:54,760 Let's have a look at the first three ink blots that we had up, 93 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:57,120 and let's see what everybody makes of them. Number one, 94 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,080 what do you see? It looks a bit like a train line, 95 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:01,640 that's what I'm thinking. A train line? Like train tracks. 96 00:05:01,640 --> 00:05:04,560 Well, where they've entered the toilets, I don't know what that... 97 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,920 What I can actually see there... Yes? 98 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:09,280 Oh, God, I hope... Imagine if I found out I'm a murderer 99 00:05:09,280 --> 00:05:11,960 through this, it's going to be really disappointing. 100 00:05:11,960 --> 00:05:15,280 Imagine you found out? You'd have to have killed someone to... 101 00:05:15,280 --> 00:05:16,840 The thing is, that isn't how it works. 102 00:05:16,840 --> 00:05:20,400 However, it may work in terms of you being able to articulate something 103 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,120 that previously you haven't been able to. 104 00:05:22,120 --> 00:05:23,560 So let's have that articulation. 105 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:28,640 Genuinely what I can see... Yep? ..is I think it looks like a cat, 106 00:05:28,640 --> 00:05:31,920 in that you've got those two whiskers, and then it looks 107 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:34,320 like a bit of a cat's face below it. Right. 108 00:05:34,320 --> 00:05:37,840 And then you've... Then the rest of it doesn't look like a cat. 109 00:05:37,840 --> 00:05:39,560 It could be a cat if it's roadkill. 110 00:05:41,680 --> 00:05:44,000 Yeah, Josh, yeah, that's murderer, if you see a cat. 111 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:46,320 It's called murderer. Yeah. 112 00:05:46,320 --> 00:05:49,120 Well, it is known as the sex card. 113 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:52,720 It has the most reported sexual answers. Oh. Oh, dear. 114 00:05:52,720 --> 00:05:55,440 But also lots of people see it as an animal skin or a rug, 115 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:56,920 that's extremely common. 116 00:05:56,920 --> 00:06:00,440 So, let's have a look at number two, Cariad? 117 00:06:00,440 --> 00:06:03,080 I can see two girls looking at each other. 118 00:06:03,080 --> 00:06:05,240 Well, it is sometimes referred to as the mother card. 119 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,640 Women and children are often seen in that blot. 120 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,080 I think it looks like two people. 121 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:11,280 It's two rabbits yelling at each other. Yeah. 122 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:13,960 Number three, common responses to this blot, 123 00:06:13,960 --> 00:06:15,320 what does anybody else think? 124 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:19,680 It's surely the rear view of two gorillas high-fiving each other. 125 00:06:19,680 --> 00:06:21,600 Oh, yeah! 126 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:24,680 This might come back badly on my psychology, 127 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,960 but can anyone else see, like, a screaming rabbit? 128 00:06:28,960 --> 00:06:30,640 No, but I can hear one. 129 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,560 The Silence Of The Rabbits, the unsuccessful working title. 130 00:06:36,560 --> 00:06:39,840 Apparently this card can also induce a variety of sexual responses. 131 00:06:39,840 --> 00:06:42,520 Oh, there you go. As I said, can anyone else...? 132 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,520 A silently screaming rabbit. We know a lot about you, Josh. 133 00:06:47,520 --> 00:06:51,120 They did do Rorschach tests on senior Nazis at Nuremberg 134 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:54,280 and they asked experts to pick out the war criminals 135 00:06:54,280 --> 00:06:55,960 and it is impossible to do so. 136 00:06:55,960 --> 00:06:59,960 I love the way they thought, "These Nazi war criminals, 137 00:06:59,960 --> 00:07:02,800 "what we need to check if they're bad guys..." Yes. 138 00:07:06,120 --> 00:07:09,640 If they come in dressed up as a Nazi... 139 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,160 ..there's your first clue. Game over, yeah. 140 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:14,680 Let's just check, we will make sure than this bit of ink. 141 00:07:14,680 --> 00:07:16,040 Yeah, give him his fair dues. 142 00:07:16,040 --> 00:07:18,280 Show him the ink first before you judge him. 143 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:20,160 Let's just see. 144 00:07:20,160 --> 00:07:23,360 The Rorschach test has long been used as a personality test, 145 00:07:23,360 --> 00:07:26,320 but I don't know what people see in it. 146 00:07:28,080 --> 00:07:31,520 Where's the weirdest place to feel another person? 147 00:07:33,680 --> 00:07:37,680 Loughborough? Yeah! Loughborough's good. I don't know. 148 00:07:37,680 --> 00:07:40,760 I was going to say Salford, I don't know why! 149 00:07:42,800 --> 00:07:44,640 Bognor Regis. 150 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:47,200 Is it on your body? Does it begin with a P? 151 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:49,000 Is it perineum? Oh! 152 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,160 No, but I like your workings. 153 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,480 I love that you didn't wait for the answer to any of those questions. 154 00:07:56,480 --> 00:08:00,320 We really saw the thought process, the whole way through. 155 00:08:00,320 --> 00:08:02,880 From a doctor's point of view, it's probably the middle 156 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:05,840 of your gut, because that would suggest that you've gone too far. 157 00:08:05,840 --> 00:08:07,160 Oh... 158 00:08:07,160 --> 00:08:09,840 One way or the other, you've gone too far. That's very unpleasant. 159 00:08:09,840 --> 00:08:12,440 Can you go in both ends? Like, you know when you're building a... 160 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:16,600 Oh, like when they met at the Channel Tunnel halfway? 161 00:08:16,600 --> 00:08:18,240 When you... Exactly! 162 00:08:18,240 --> 00:08:20,920 And when you're on the beach and you're building a sand castle 163 00:08:20,920 --> 00:08:22,560 and you put a tunnel in. 164 00:08:24,040 --> 00:08:26,480 Where would you meet in the body if you did that? 165 00:08:26,480 --> 00:08:27,800 That's a curious question. 166 00:08:27,800 --> 00:08:30,840 If two people met, hand-in-hand, in the middle of me... 167 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:32,080 Yeah? 168 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:34,040 ..would I definitely have to die? 169 00:08:35,360 --> 00:08:36,520 Or could I survive that? 170 00:08:36,520 --> 00:08:38,880 I don't know, but your GP would definitely be struck off. 171 00:08:44,040 --> 00:08:46,440 OK, so, the weirdest place to feel another person, 172 00:08:46,440 --> 00:08:50,920 for example, would be on Mount Everest or on an expedition. 173 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:54,480 It's something called Third Man Syndrome and it is the sensation 174 00:08:54,480 --> 00:08:57,000 of the presence of an extra, unseen person. 175 00:08:57,000 --> 00:08:59,120 So, the weirdest place you might feel another person 176 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:01,440 is when there's actually nobody there. 177 00:09:01,440 --> 00:09:03,200 It happens in extreme situations. 178 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:05,800 The most vivid are experienced by adventurers. 179 00:09:05,800 --> 00:09:09,360 In 1933, there was a solo attempt to climb Everest by a British 180 00:09:09,360 --> 00:09:13,480 explorer called Frank Smythe, and he got within 1,000ft 181 00:09:13,480 --> 00:09:16,280 of the top and he had the strongest sensation 182 00:09:16,280 --> 00:09:19,560 that somebody was with him, so strong that he broke off a piece of, 183 00:09:19,560 --> 00:09:22,920 I don't know, Kendal Mint Cake, whatever it was, and he handed it, 184 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:25,920 or tried to hand it, to this other person. 185 00:09:25,920 --> 00:09:27,920 Probably the bloke holding the camera. 186 00:09:31,640 --> 00:09:34,440 But Ernest Shackleton reported exactly the same sensation 187 00:09:34,440 --> 00:09:36,520 in his book, South. That's really weird. 188 00:09:36,520 --> 00:09:39,400 He says, "During that long and racking march of 36 hours" 189 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,480 "over the unnamed mountains and glaciers of South Georgia," 190 00:09:42,480 --> 00:09:45,640 "it seemed to me often that we were four and not three." 191 00:09:45,640 --> 00:09:48,640 So, there was a sensation of there being somebody else along. 192 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:52,040 And I don't know if you know TS Eliot's poem The Wasteland, 193 00:09:52,040 --> 00:09:55,160 it's in there, it's inspired by Shackleton's experience. 194 00:10:06,400 --> 00:10:07,760 That's Gandalf. Shaft! 195 00:10:10,120 --> 00:10:12,160 It did feel a bit karaoke, that, didn't it? 196 00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:16,040 Yeah, yeah. TS Eliot karaoke. I want to do it. 197 00:10:16,040 --> 00:10:19,840 ♪ Who is the third who walks always beside you 198 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:23,360 ♪ Only you and I together 199 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:24,880 ♪ But when I look ahead 200 00:10:24,880 --> 00:10:27,720 ♪ Up the white ro-o-oad 201 00:10:27,720 --> 00:10:29,280 ♪ There is always another 202 00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:31,000 ♪ Walking beside you! ♪ 203 00:10:38,760 --> 00:10:40,240 So, why do you think it might be? 204 00:10:40,240 --> 00:10:41,720 Why? Because of ghosts. 205 00:10:41,720 --> 00:10:44,920 Oh, there's a bloke on Everest who just keeps turning up. 206 00:10:44,920 --> 00:10:48,200 No, it's possibly a coping mechanism of the brain to provide comfort. 207 00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:49,320 Or ghosts. 208 00:10:49,320 --> 00:10:50,560 Or it's ghosts. 209 00:10:50,560 --> 00:10:53,160 But some people think that's why we think there are guardian angels, 210 00:10:53,160 --> 00:10:54,760 why some people have imaginary friends, 211 00:10:54,760 --> 00:10:56,920 that it's to do with a sort of coping mechanism. 212 00:10:56,920 --> 00:10:58,920 The other suggestion is that there's a certain swelling 213 00:10:58,920 --> 00:11:02,120 in certain areas of the brain and that could trigger hallucinations. 214 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:03,520 If you have the Third Man Syndrome, 215 00:11:03,520 --> 00:11:05,720 it doesn't seem to cause you any difficulties later on, 216 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:08,040 although they do think there have been some accidents 217 00:11:08,040 --> 00:11:11,160 mountaineering which we might blame on the Third Man Syndrome. 218 00:11:11,160 --> 00:11:13,800 Guys going, "Come this way, come this way." 219 00:11:13,800 --> 00:11:15,200 "Give me your ha-argh!" 220 00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:23,720 But the electrical stimulation of the temporoparietal junctions 221 00:11:23,720 --> 00:11:26,400 of the brain, so, the sort of bits back here, 222 00:11:26,400 --> 00:11:27,720 these parts of the brain, 223 00:11:27,720 --> 00:11:30,920 they're hugely important in how we interpret all the stuff 224 00:11:30,920 --> 00:11:33,120 that comes into our senses. 225 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,440 Why might you, bearing all of that in mind, 226 00:11:35,440 --> 00:11:38,320 why might you be more likely to see God 227 00:11:38,320 --> 00:11:40,960 wearing one of these? Ooh. 228 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:42,480 Do you want to have a look? Yes. 229 00:11:42,480 --> 00:11:46,080 Now, can I just say that we made this? This is not a real one. 230 00:11:47,440 --> 00:11:49,320 I can see Dennis Bergkamp. 231 00:11:52,760 --> 00:11:55,640 Why might you be more likely to see God wearing one of those? 232 00:11:55,640 --> 00:11:58,640 Well, because it's not a very good crash helmet 233 00:11:58,640 --> 00:12:00,160 so you could easily die? 234 00:12:00,160 --> 00:12:02,480 Is it stimulating a bit of your brain? 235 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:05,280 Yeah, a minor electrical stimulation, no more than the, 236 00:12:05,280 --> 00:12:08,440 sort of, electrics in a hairdryer, or in a phone set, or something. 237 00:12:08,440 --> 00:12:10,480 Is it on? Yes. 238 00:12:13,520 --> 00:12:17,880 This is it. This is heaven. It's exactly like it was down there. 239 00:12:20,920 --> 00:12:23,640 I think this one needs a battery, nothing's happening at all. 240 00:12:23,640 --> 00:12:26,480 No, it's called a God Helmet. It was invented by Stanley Koren, 241 00:12:26,480 --> 00:12:29,240 a technologist at Laurentian University in Canada, 242 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:31,760 and a neuroscientist called Michael Persinger, 243 00:12:31,760 --> 00:12:34,200 and it interferes with the brain's function, 244 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,600 so it was used in experiments to see if it creates the sense 245 00:12:38,600 --> 00:12:42,840 of a religious experience, and some people said that they felt, 246 00:12:42,840 --> 00:12:45,400 when they had it on, they were in the presence of God. 247 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,040 You'd be unlucky, I think, to put that on and get the wrong sort 248 00:12:48,040 --> 00:12:49,680 of religious experience. Yes. 249 00:12:49,680 --> 00:12:52,840 Yeah, what would be the wrong one? When you wake-up circumcised or... 250 00:12:55,320 --> 00:12:58,640 I'll tell you what, if that happens, you've put it on the wrong end. 251 00:13:01,200 --> 00:13:04,120 Have you seen that documentary about Ayrton Senna? 252 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,120 Yeah. It's a really brilliant film. 253 00:13:06,120 --> 00:13:09,320 And... He was the Formula 1 guy that had a terrible accident? 254 00:13:09,320 --> 00:13:10,440 He died in a crash. Yeah. 255 00:13:10,440 --> 00:13:13,040 But he is unarguably the greatest ever driver, 256 00:13:13,040 --> 00:13:16,760 but his rival, Prost, the Frenchman, was a bit frightened of him 257 00:13:16,760 --> 00:13:18,720 because Senna believed in God. 258 00:13:18,720 --> 00:13:21,760 OK. Senna believed that God would look after him on the track. 259 00:13:21,760 --> 00:13:26,240 And Prost thought this was an unreliable safety system. Yeah. 260 00:13:26,240 --> 00:13:28,680 So he thought it made him more dangerous. 261 00:13:28,680 --> 00:13:32,000 Oh. Because he had a kind of confidence about himself? Yeah. 262 00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:34,800 Well, this guy here, this is the neuroscientist, 263 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:37,200 Michael Persinger, his theory is that religious 264 00:13:37,200 --> 00:13:39,560 and mystical experiences are actually caused by 265 00:13:39,560 --> 00:13:41,840 disruptions of the brain, so, it's actually some kind of 266 00:13:41,840 --> 00:13:43,440 electrical thing that's happening. 267 00:13:43,440 --> 00:13:46,160 Now, that may be that actually what we can do is we can 268 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,320 artificially produce exactly the same thing, 269 00:13:48,320 --> 00:13:50,880 but that there are real religious and mystical experiences, 270 00:13:50,880 --> 00:13:52,160 the truth is we don't know. 271 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,800 The thing is with this, is this a snapshot, 272 00:13:55,800 --> 00:13:57,600 like a freeze-frame? Yeah. 273 00:13:57,600 --> 00:14:01,360 In other words, could this person be plummeting at a terrific rate? 274 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,080 These wings don't work! 275 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:08,440 Catch me! 276 00:14:08,440 --> 00:14:11,320 And then really about to hit the ground. 277 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:13,120 I thought I saw a third angel! 278 00:14:21,160 --> 00:14:24,200 Now, does anyone here glow in the dark? 279 00:14:24,200 --> 00:14:26,040 Oh, I used to! Oh! 280 00:14:30,120 --> 00:14:31,640 You've just remembered? 281 00:14:31,640 --> 00:14:33,640 I didn't expect the question to come up. 282 00:14:34,720 --> 00:14:37,360 So, what happened? Well, when I was younger... Yes? 283 00:14:38,560 --> 00:14:40,360 Is this about Ready Brek? 284 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:49,240 My hair was a lot blonder when I was a kid 285 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:53,960 and we used to... Every birthday, we'd go to Newton Abbot Laser Quest. 286 00:14:53,960 --> 00:14:56,320 And not just my birthday, all my friends' birthdays, 287 00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:58,920 so that's four times a year. Wow. 288 00:14:58,920 --> 00:15:03,160 But they how UV lighting in it, so my hair glowed in the dark, 289 00:15:03,160 --> 00:15:05,200 so I was a sitting duck for shots. 290 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:08,600 I'm going to take a guess looking at that picture 291 00:15:08,600 --> 00:15:12,800 that the answer to the question "Do we glow in the dark?" is not no. 292 00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:14,120 Is NOT no? 293 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,400 No. OK. That's how to avoid a klaxon. Very well done. Yeah. 294 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:18,840 Just going to unpick that. 295 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:20,600 Human beings do glow. 296 00:15:20,600 --> 00:15:22,840 There was a Japanese study in 2009 297 00:15:22,840 --> 00:15:25,600 using special hyper-sensitive cameras 298 00:15:25,600 --> 00:15:29,480 and they found that human beings are bioluminescent at levels 299 00:15:29,480 --> 00:15:33,600 1,000 times less than is detectable by the human eye, so we do glow. 300 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,040 But I'd like a study done in a country that hasn't suffered 301 00:15:36,040 --> 00:15:37,400 major nuclear accidents. 302 00:15:43,240 --> 00:15:45,840 So, they photographed five volunteers for 20 minutes 303 00:15:45,840 --> 00:15:48,320 every three hours inside a dark room for three days straight 304 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:51,200 and they found that the light was brightest in the late afternoon. 305 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:53,440 That's when we expend the most energy. 306 00:15:53,440 --> 00:15:55,680 And the brightest part of the body, I think you can see it 307 00:15:55,680 --> 00:15:58,240 on there, was the cheeks followed by the upper neck 308 00:15:58,240 --> 00:16:02,520 and the forehead and all living creatures produce light. 309 00:16:02,520 --> 00:16:05,640 It's a side effect of our metabolism that we produce it. 310 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:07,840 There was a battle called the Battle of Shiloh 311 00:16:07,840 --> 00:16:10,400 during the American Civil War and the soldiers reported that 312 00:16:10,400 --> 00:16:12,720 they had glow-in-the-dark wounds 313 00:16:12,720 --> 00:16:16,040 and these wounds seemed to heal faster than normal 314 00:16:16,040 --> 00:16:19,760 and it wasn't until 2001 that they solved the mystery. 315 00:16:19,760 --> 00:16:21,360 The soldiers were hypothermic. 316 00:16:21,360 --> 00:16:25,280 These were the ideal conditions on the battlefield for a bioluminescent 317 00:16:25,280 --> 00:16:29,960 bacterium called Photorhabadus luminescens to get into the wounds 318 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,840 and it is not that it helped the soldiers to survive because 319 00:16:32,840 --> 00:16:37,040 it actually produces antibiotics and hence its nickname, Angel's Glow. 320 00:16:37,040 --> 00:16:39,560 And two teenagers, Jonathan Curtis and Bill Martin, 321 00:16:39,560 --> 00:16:43,200 took top prize at an international science fair for discovering this 322 00:16:43,200 --> 00:16:46,920 and it is a bacterium that lives in the gut of the nematode worm. 323 00:16:46,920 --> 00:16:48,840 They're incredible in themselves, nematode worms. 324 00:16:48,840 --> 00:16:50,160 They're incredibly microscopic. 325 00:16:50,160 --> 00:16:52,680 Can you imagine how mad that would be on the battlefield, like... 326 00:16:52,680 --> 00:16:54,760 Oh, people... "My wound is glowing." Yes, I know. 327 00:16:54,760 --> 00:16:58,720 It would be bittersweet, wouldn't it, when you go, "Ow! Ooh!" 328 00:16:58,720 --> 00:17:01,320 Now, then, what's the most terrifying thing about 329 00:17:01,320 --> 00:17:03,160 Anne Robinson? 330 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:04,840 LAUGHTER 331 00:17:04,840 --> 00:17:06,920 Where do you start? 332 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:10,160 Do you know what it is? She's behind you. 333 00:17:12,040 --> 00:17:13,880 You've got Third Anne Syndrome. 334 00:17:15,840 --> 00:17:17,240 It's her wink. 335 00:17:17,240 --> 00:17:18,800 You find that terrifying? 336 00:17:18,800 --> 00:17:22,800 There's no need to wink in society, unless you're telling someone 337 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:25,640 you don't believe what you're actually saying. Right. 338 00:17:25,640 --> 00:17:28,320 So, at the end of The Weakest Link, when Anne Robinson says, 339 00:17:28,320 --> 00:17:31,880 "Join us again tomorrow for The Weakest Link." And winks, 340 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:33,480 what she's actually saying is, 341 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:35,640 "I hope you die in the next 24 hours." 342 00:17:37,560 --> 00:17:40,000 Is it that she's sitting in fire and not burning? 343 00:17:40,000 --> 00:17:41,800 Yes, I'm going to give you a clue. 344 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:44,040 So, it is quite cold here in the studio, 345 00:17:44,040 --> 00:17:48,000 in fact, I think this studio is possibly haunted, so there is... 346 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,480 CRASHING, LAUGHTER 347 00:17:49,480 --> 00:17:51,560 I genuinely jumped! 348 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:53,440 APPLAUSE 349 00:17:59,480 --> 00:18:01,720 You've let your gender down. 350 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:03,080 I know. Josh jumped, too! 351 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:04,640 You didn't see Josh. 352 00:18:04,640 --> 00:18:08,400 He jumped as well! Old big head jumped as well. 353 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:09,480 I genuinely... 354 00:18:09,480 --> 00:18:11,640 As it fell, I thought, "What are the chances of...?" 355 00:18:11,640 --> 00:18:13,040 "Oh, wait a minute." 356 00:18:14,920 --> 00:18:17,280 So, one of the most famous poltergeist cases 357 00:18:17,280 --> 00:18:20,720 was the Stockwell poltergeist of 1772. 358 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:24,000 So, there was a Mrs Golding of Stockwell, and she was terrorised 359 00:18:24,000 --> 00:18:27,040 by a presence that smashed crockery and moved furniture. 360 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:31,120 One of my favourite books of all time, this is not my copy 361 00:18:31,120 --> 00:18:33,720 because I'd never be able to carry it around, 362 00:18:33,720 --> 00:18:37,040 is the Memoirs Of Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds 363 00:18:37,040 --> 00:18:38,760 by Charles Mackay. If you haven't read it, 364 00:18:38,760 --> 00:18:40,880 I really recommend this wonderful Victorian book. 365 00:18:40,880 --> 00:18:43,000 It's not one for the Tube, though, is it? 366 00:18:45,040 --> 00:18:46,680 Sandi, that looks like your bed. 367 00:18:49,120 --> 00:18:50,720 Sorry. 368 00:18:50,720 --> 00:18:52,040 I... 369 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:53,800 And I am a small person, but... 370 00:18:53,800 --> 00:18:56,320 I don't think you should tell people that you know that. 371 00:18:57,600 --> 00:19:01,360 "Mrs Golding, an elderly lady who resided alone with her servant," 372 00:19:01,360 --> 00:19:03,040 "Anne Robinson..." 373 00:19:03,040 --> 00:19:04,120 Oh. 374 00:19:04,120 --> 00:19:06,720 "..was sorely surprised on the evening of Twelfth-Day," 375 00:19:06,720 --> 00:19:08,000 "1772." 376 00:19:08,000 --> 00:19:09,720 250 years old! 377 00:19:09,720 --> 00:19:11,560 Her surgery is amazing. 378 00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:12,880 She looks really good. 379 00:19:12,880 --> 00:19:14,320 That she can wink at all... 380 00:19:14,320 --> 00:19:16,600 If you asked me to guess and put a ballpark on it... 381 00:19:16,600 --> 00:19:17,800 She looks great. 382 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:21,480 "She was sorely surprised to observe a most extraordinary commotion among her crockery." 383 00:19:21,480 --> 00:19:23,560 "Cups and saucers rattled down the chimney," 384 00:19:23,560 --> 00:19:26,200 "pots and pans were whirled downstairs, and every room" 385 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:29,640 "in the house was, in a short time, strewed with fragments." 386 00:19:29,640 --> 00:19:35,000 It turns out that all of this only happened when her servant was there, 387 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:37,480 and her servant was called Anne Robinson. 388 00:19:37,480 --> 00:19:41,640 And she had tied horse hairs and wires to objects in order 389 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:43,880 to scare her employer. 390 00:19:43,880 --> 00:19:48,160 And it says, "Anne, it appears, was anxious to have a clear house" 391 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:51,600 "to carry on an intrigue with her lover and resorted to this trick" 392 00:19:51,600 --> 00:19:52,880 "to effect her purpose." 393 00:19:52,880 --> 00:19:56,040 One of the reasons I don't believe in ghosts is that my gran said 394 00:19:56,040 --> 00:19:58,240 that when she died she was going to haunt me 395 00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:00,720 if there was such a thing as ghosts and she hasn't. 396 00:20:00,720 --> 00:20:01,760 Maybe she's busy. 397 00:20:01,760 --> 00:20:04,720 Maybe she has and has come back as Adam Hill. 398 00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:11,440 Of course, there are lots of instances where people 399 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:13,440 are just mucking about, like Anne Robinson was. 400 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:16,640 1804, Hammersmith was terrorised by a ghost impersonator, 401 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:21,400 so much so that a £10 bounty was offered to whoever caught the ghost. 402 00:20:21,400 --> 00:20:23,520 And there was a man named Thomas Millwood, 403 00:20:23,520 --> 00:20:25,680 who was on his way home, unfortunately he was wearing 404 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:27,960 the clothes that were common of his bricklaying trade, 405 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:30,360 linen trousers, entirely white, washed very clean, 406 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,720 a waistcoat of flannel, apparently new, very white, 407 00:20:32,720 --> 00:20:34,480 and an apron which he wore round him, 408 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:38,800 and he was shot by Francis Smith who was out ghost-hunting with a friend. 409 00:20:40,360 --> 00:20:43,240 But the huge publicity meant the culprit came forward. 410 00:20:43,240 --> 00:20:45,880 A man called John Graham, who was an elderly shoemaker, 411 00:20:45,880 --> 00:20:49,480 and he had been pretending to be a ghost by using a white sheet 412 00:20:49,480 --> 00:20:51,080 to frighten his apprentice. 413 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:52,600 Classic! 414 00:20:52,600 --> 00:20:55,240 I mean, that is route one pretending to be a ghost. 415 00:20:55,240 --> 00:20:56,600 Why do we wear a bed sheet? 416 00:20:56,600 --> 00:20:57,880 What is the reason for it? 417 00:20:57,880 --> 00:20:59,600 Why is that a thing that we all think, 418 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:01,640 "Ooh, yes, that's to do with ghosts?" I don't know. 419 00:21:01,640 --> 00:21:02,800 I'll tell you why. Yeah? 420 00:21:02,800 --> 00:21:04,680 ♪ Scooby-doo-bee-doo... ♪ 421 00:21:10,000 --> 00:21:11,760 It probably dates back to the 16th century. 422 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:13,960 So, people couldn't afford coffins, so all that used 423 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:16,120 to happen, they'd be wrapped in... In a shroud. 424 00:21:16,120 --> 00:21:18,240 ..a winding sheet, yeah, a linen winding sheet, 425 00:21:18,240 --> 00:21:20,360 knotted at the head and foot, and placed in the grave, 426 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:22,280 so, we have a notion that it's... 427 00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:24,320 Coming back from the shrouds. Yeah. 428 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:27,360 Churchyards - favourite haunt of phony spirits. 429 00:21:27,360 --> 00:21:30,760 The Dutch Renaissance theologian Erasmus wrote of a country vicar 430 00:21:30,760 --> 00:21:34,480 who fastened candles to the backs of crabs and he used to let them 431 00:21:34,480 --> 00:21:37,400 wander around at night in the churchyard, telling people 432 00:21:37,400 --> 00:21:40,360 that they were witnessing distressed souls in purgatory. 433 00:21:40,360 --> 00:21:43,000 All those distressed crabs. 434 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:44,640 I really thought you said camels 435 00:21:44,640 --> 00:21:46,600 to the backs of crabs, so I was, like... 436 00:21:46,600 --> 00:21:49,920 Candles, sorry. That makes it more... Four sturdy crabs... Yeah. 437 00:21:52,440 --> 00:21:55,360 The camels were furious, weren't they? "Oh, for God sake!" 438 00:21:55,360 --> 00:21:57,840 "We're going sideways again!" 439 00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,960 18th-century London was terrorised by Anne Robinson. 440 00:22:03,960 --> 00:22:06,200 Well, that was such a fantastic question, 441 00:22:06,200 --> 00:22:08,200 let's see what the audience think of it. 442 00:22:10,160 --> 00:22:12,240 Yes! 443 00:22:12,240 --> 00:22:14,360 That was wonderful. 444 00:22:14,360 --> 00:22:19,040 So, my next question, who invented that wave? 445 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:20,560 Ah. 446 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:25,200 I've seen the show before, it's not Mexico. It's not. 447 00:22:25,200 --> 00:22:29,960 I think it was popularised, I might be wrong, in the Mexico '86 448 00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,800 World Cup and that's what... 449 00:22:33,400 --> 00:22:36,280 Ah-ah-ah. I... 450 00:22:38,320 --> 00:22:42,040 Too late. The referee's decision is final. 451 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,840 VAR, I need on that... 452 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:46,840 What if it wasn't a person at all? 453 00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,560 Oh. Is it a country you're looking for, or...? 454 00:22:49,560 --> 00:22:50,880 No, it is in the world of nature. 455 00:22:50,880 --> 00:22:53,320 The Mexican wave was invented by giant... 456 00:22:53,320 --> 00:22:54,960 Barley in a field. 457 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:00,600 That's the name of the album. 458 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:04,640 No, it was invented by giant honey bees. Wow. 459 00:23:04,640 --> 00:23:06,640 It is an astonishing thing to look at. 460 00:23:06,640 --> 00:23:09,600 It's called shimmering and it acts as a defensive mechanism 461 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:11,480 to warn off predators. 462 00:23:11,480 --> 00:23:16,600 So, each bee flips their abdomen upwards in turn, creating a shining 463 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:20,000 pattern and it confuses and deters hornets and it forces them to chase 464 00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,080 individual flying bees rather than jumping 465 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:24,280 in and having, basically, a bee buffet. 466 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:26,320 I think it's an incredible thing to look at. 467 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:29,800 They're called Apis laboriosa, they're the world's largest bees, 468 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:32,560 they're 1.2 inches in length. Oh, that's big. 469 00:23:32,560 --> 00:23:35,720 And they live on trees and cliffs in the Himalayas, 470 00:23:35,720 --> 00:23:39,120 and they can make hallucinogenic honey 471 00:23:39,120 --> 00:23:42,800 out of pollen taken from rhododendron plants. Wow. 472 00:23:42,800 --> 00:23:46,680 It's collected by teams of Nepalese men who descend cliffs, 473 00:23:46,680 --> 00:23:51,560 look at that, harnessed to a ladder by ropes, and a single comb 474 00:23:51,560 --> 00:23:55,440 can contain more than 60,000 bees. 475 00:23:55,440 --> 00:23:57,440 Whoa. It's a beautiful thing. 476 00:23:57,440 --> 00:23:59,840 So, a Mexican wave did not originate in Mexico but, 477 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:03,600 as you say, it was really the '86 World Cup that made it popular. 478 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:05,760 But its actual origins, we're not really sure. 479 00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,040 Possibly in the '70s, in the United States. 480 00:24:08,040 --> 00:24:10,800 Yeah, I think in America they done it... Do you think they do it 481 00:24:10,800 --> 00:24:13,160 quite a lot? Yeah, because their sports go on forever 482 00:24:13,160 --> 00:24:14,760 and they get epically bored. Yeah. 483 00:24:14,760 --> 00:24:16,720 So, they find something to do. 484 00:24:16,720 --> 00:24:18,200 Anybody know what the dab is? 485 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,640 Yeah, that's that thing, isn't it? 486 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,120 No, Alan's doing it. That's a dab, isn't it? That's the dab. 487 00:24:24,120 --> 00:24:28,040 You need both arms, otherwise it looks like you're just hiding, Josh. 488 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:30,080 Half-heartedly dabbing. 489 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:33,240 It was like I was being taken into court, wasn't it? 490 00:24:33,240 --> 00:24:35,840 So, the dab, invented... Where are we going to head? 491 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,760 If it was bees that did the Mexican wave, what do we reckon? 492 00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:41,600 Is this the natural world again? It is the natural world. 493 00:24:41,600 --> 00:24:44,840 Victoria's riflebird. This is stunning. 494 00:24:44,840 --> 00:24:46,440 Look how proud he is of himself. 495 00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:48,640 Indigenously, it's known as the duwuduwu. 496 00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:51,960 It is the Australian bird of paradise. 497 00:24:51,960 --> 00:24:57,920 It's going... ♪ Da-na-na-na-na da-na-na-na-na Batman! 498 00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,760 ♪ Da-na-na-na-na da-na-na-na-na Batman! ♪ 499 00:25:06,760 --> 00:25:10,120 Oh, man, if a robin flies in now, it's going to be amazing. 500 00:25:12,520 --> 00:25:16,320 What we love is that the male does this incredible ritual and if the 501 00:25:16,320 --> 00:25:20,960 female is interested, she responds with a raspy call of, "Yaas?" 502 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,200 And then they dab together. 503 00:25:24,200 --> 00:25:27,040 All the birds of paradise, they all do different things, 504 00:25:27,040 --> 00:25:29,960 so they don't all dab. There's one that does the macarena. 505 00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,000 Yeah. 506 00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:34,040 Until you've seen a peacock Riverdance, you haven't lived. 507 00:25:35,760 --> 00:25:37,480 When did the human dab begin? 508 00:25:37,480 --> 00:25:38,520 Hip-hop. Yeah. 509 00:25:38,520 --> 00:25:40,560 It absolutely begins in hip-hop, 510 00:25:40,560 --> 00:25:44,240 so artists that have been suggested as possible originators of the thing 511 00:25:44,240 --> 00:25:46,600 include Skippa Da Flippa, for example, 512 00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,200 Peewee Longway, Jose Guapo... Yeah, yeah. 513 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,160 Rich The Kid and Migos, although, I mean, you'll know Migos 514 00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:55,240 from his hit track Slippery featuring Gucci Mane, of course. 515 00:25:55,240 --> 00:25:59,560 The controversy was cleared up when OG Maco called out Migos 516 00:25:59,560 --> 00:26:01,040 for saying they were the creators, 517 00:26:01,040 --> 00:26:03,760 when actually it was Skippa Da Flippa, so I think that covers it. 518 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:14,480 People said the show would change when Stephen Fry left but it hasn't. 519 00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:19,440 Now, please take a look at some phenomenal people at the pinnacle 520 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,040 of their field and I want you to guess the records held 521 00:26:22,040 --> 00:26:23,960 by our prestigious guests. 522 00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:25,960 So, let's start with the woman on the left, 523 00:26:25,960 --> 00:26:29,360 what do we think? She holds a world record. 524 00:26:29,360 --> 00:26:31,040 Is there any clue in the picture? 525 00:26:31,040 --> 00:26:32,120 Er, no. 526 00:26:33,400 --> 00:26:35,800 It's nothing to do with cooking at all. Is it a sport? 527 00:26:35,800 --> 00:26:38,600 It is to do with sport. Is she a long jumper? 528 00:26:38,600 --> 00:26:40,560 No, it is a little bit more niche. 529 00:26:40,560 --> 00:26:43,560 She holds the women's record for fastest marathon 530 00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:45,440 in a toilet roll costume. 531 00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:51,480 Four hours and 54 minutes at the 2017 London Marathon. 532 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:54,560 73 world records were attempted, 39 were broken, 533 00:26:54,560 --> 00:26:57,760 including fastest marathon runner in a sleeping bag, 534 00:26:57,760 --> 00:26:59,720 fastest dressed as a swimmer, 535 00:26:59,720 --> 00:27:04,400 a star, a crustacean, an elf, a fast food item, a telephone box 536 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:05,440 and a witch. 537 00:27:05,440 --> 00:27:08,640 Nicola Nuttall there, bottom left, from Pendle in Lancashire. 538 00:27:08,640 --> 00:27:10,200 She broke the witch record. 539 00:27:10,200 --> 00:27:13,800 She finished five minutes quicker than last year when her record 540 00:27:13,800 --> 00:27:16,520 was annulled cos her skirt was deemed too short. 541 00:27:16,520 --> 00:27:19,000 Do you know what would have been brilliant? If she turned up 542 00:27:19,000 --> 00:27:21,440 at the start line and Mo Farah was there dressed as a witch. 543 00:27:24,480 --> 00:27:26,320 "Oh, for God's sake!" 544 00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:29,120 "Oh, I texted you. I told you I was doing this." 545 00:27:29,120 --> 00:27:31,440 "You said you were coming as a lobster!" 546 00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:35,160 The second one is called Martin Brady and his name, Brady, 547 00:27:35,160 --> 00:27:37,520 holds a clue to his world record. 548 00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:39,280 Do you know what bradycardia is? 549 00:27:39,280 --> 00:27:40,960 I do, has he got the slowest heart rate? 550 00:27:40,960 --> 00:27:42,880 He has got the slowest heart rate in the world, 551 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,680 logged at 27 beats per minute. What?! 552 00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:47,480 Oh, my God, how is he still alive? 553 00:27:47,480 --> 00:27:50,160 So, the average male heart rate's 72 beats per minute. 554 00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,200 You can actually lower your own heart rate, do you know this? 555 00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,720 You can use something called the Valsalva maneuver. 556 00:27:55,720 --> 00:27:58,360 Yes, it's the breathing, isn't it? Yes, so take a deep breath... 557 00:27:58,360 --> 00:27:59,400 ALL INHALE 558 00:27:59,400 --> 00:28:01,600 ..then strain the muscles of your abdomen, 559 00:28:01,600 --> 00:28:04,480 as if you are producing a large... 560 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:08,600 ..thing. Oh, about time. ..a bowel movement. 561 00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:10,640 Hold the pressure for five seconds and then let go 562 00:28:10,640 --> 00:28:13,120 and if you do it a few times, it will trigger the vagus nerve and 563 00:28:13,120 --> 00:28:15,960 that is the bit that is responsible for controlling your heart rate. 564 00:28:15,960 --> 00:28:18,280 You can also close your mouth and pinch your nose shut 565 00:28:18,280 --> 00:28:20,640 while pressing out, as if you're blowing up a balloon, 566 00:28:20,640 --> 00:28:22,520 and that would be the other reason to do it. 567 00:28:22,520 --> 00:28:24,840 Oh, my ears have popped! 568 00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,800 Have you ever used it for medical reasons 569 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,320 to try to get somebody to slow their heart rate down? 570 00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:31,840 Have you ever... Usually you use medication, really. 571 00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:36,120 Classic doctor. 572 00:28:37,520 --> 00:28:39,960 Have a pill. Have you tried two paracetamol? 573 00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:42,560 Valsalva - he was 574 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:45,760 a 17th-century physician and anatomist from Bologna. 575 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,480 He's the person who coined the term Eustachian tube. 576 00:28:48,480 --> 00:28:52,280 He was an old fellow... He's not as fit as Dvorak, is he? 577 00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:58,040 He liked to taste bodily excretions to diagnose disease. 578 00:28:58,040 --> 00:29:02,480 He wrote, "Gangrenous pus does not taste good, leaving..." 579 00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:05,640 "..leaving the..." He's right. You can't argue with him. 580 00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:09,400 "..leaving the tongue tingling unpleasantly" 581 00:29:09,400 --> 00:29:11,040 "for the better part of the day." 582 00:29:11,040 --> 00:29:12,080 ALL GROAN 583 00:29:12,080 --> 00:29:15,520 It reminds me of Michael Winner's restaurant reviews in the '70s. 584 00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,800 Let's have a look at our third record-holder. 585 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:21,360 Now, here's an astonishing thing. 586 00:29:21,360 --> 00:29:23,080 That is Stephen Wildish 587 00:29:23,080 --> 00:29:25,800 and he beat Mo Farah. 588 00:29:25,800 --> 00:29:28,320 Whoa. And what did he beat Mo Farah doing? 589 00:29:28,320 --> 00:29:30,400 Most corn consumed. No. 590 00:29:30,400 --> 00:29:31,800 Yes. Sack race. 591 00:29:31,800 --> 00:29:37,920 He held the world record in 2014, 39.91 seconds. 592 00:29:37,920 --> 00:29:43,000 In 2017, Steve Wildish smashed that in just 26.3 seconds. 593 00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:44,920 What's the distance, sorry? 100m? 594 00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:46,520 It's 100m, yeah. 595 00:29:46,520 --> 00:29:48,640 So, he had tried earlier in the year but his sack 596 00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:50,520 had been deemed too small. 597 00:29:50,520 --> 00:29:52,760 LAUGHTER 598 00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:55,120 Do you know what? I say! 599 00:29:56,680 --> 00:29:59,320 In this weather, I've had the same problem. Yeah. 600 00:29:59,320 --> 00:30:01,000 APPLAUSE 601 00:30:05,000 --> 00:30:08,560 So, the man who beat Mo Farah substantially is in our audience. 602 00:30:08,560 --> 00:30:11,280 Please welcome Stephen Wildish. Oh, lovely. 603 00:30:17,400 --> 00:30:19,480 I mean, how did you know, Steve, 604 00:30:19,480 --> 00:30:22,000 that you're good at doing a sack race? 605 00:30:22,000 --> 00:30:26,520 I was unbeaten since school, so I did all the school races and... 606 00:30:26,520 --> 00:30:30,240 Right. Did your mum say, "Ooh, my boy is very good at sack racing." 607 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:32,160 Yes, she used to film the sack races at school. 608 00:30:32,160 --> 00:30:34,640 Are you allowed to put your feet into the corners of the sack 609 00:30:34,640 --> 00:30:37,120 and kind of run along, or do you have to jump? You have to jump. 610 00:30:37,120 --> 00:30:38,480 You have to jump? Yeah. OK. 611 00:30:38,480 --> 00:30:41,360 Would you mind having a go for us and showing us your technique? 612 00:30:41,360 --> 00:30:45,080 Yes! But, wait, we have to have a competitor, so I feel the only 613 00:30:45,080 --> 00:30:47,640 person I know who's been and reported at the Paralympics 614 00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,120 is Josh Widdicombe. 615 00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:51,080 I would like Josh to go. Yes! 616 00:30:56,400 --> 00:30:59,120 Don't let us down, Josh. I won't. 617 00:31:02,040 --> 00:31:04,960 I won... I didn't do the sack race, I did a race at school called 618 00:31:04,960 --> 00:31:07,280 the Dressing-Up Race. Oh, yeah! 619 00:31:07,280 --> 00:31:09,280 I won two years in a row. Really? 620 00:31:09,280 --> 00:31:11,240 I left primary school undefeated. 621 00:31:11,240 --> 00:31:13,840 I now want to see Mo Farah doing the Dressing-Up Race, 622 00:31:13,840 --> 00:31:15,280 but there we are. 623 00:31:15,280 --> 00:31:17,440 So, please be careful, both of you. 624 00:31:17,440 --> 00:31:19,080 Darling, you have to hold the sack. 625 00:31:25,720 --> 00:31:27,440 Have you got any tips? 626 00:31:27,440 --> 00:31:30,160 I use one arm out, a bit of balance. 627 00:31:30,160 --> 00:31:31,520 Whoa. OK. 628 00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:34,320 Ready, boys? 629 00:31:34,320 --> 00:31:36,800 Imagine if I win, how amazing this will be. 630 00:31:36,800 --> 00:31:39,560 If you win, darling, you'll be the world record holder. 631 00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:42,120 Oh, my giddy aunt. On your marks... Come on, Josh! 632 00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:43,400 ..get set, go! 633 00:31:43,400 --> 00:31:46,400 CHEERING AND APPLAUSE 634 00:31:58,800 --> 00:32:01,200 Thank you, Stephen Wildish. 635 00:32:07,280 --> 00:32:09,560 I'll tell you what, though. Yeah? 636 00:32:09,560 --> 00:32:11,560 About ten metres in, I thought... 637 00:32:12,640 --> 00:32:14,160 I didn't... 638 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:15,320 I dared to dream. 639 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:16,560 Yeah, you did. 640 00:32:16,560 --> 00:32:18,000 I saw the headlines. 641 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:20,680 I thought, "This is it! This is my moment!" Yeah, world record. 642 00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:23,040 I could see you were keeping a bit back for the final... 643 00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,560 I thought, "Finally, I've found my thing." 644 00:32:26,680 --> 00:32:28,080 But you hadn't. 645 00:32:30,640 --> 00:32:35,480 Right, moving on, how many crimes could you commit... 646 00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:37,360 ..with one of these? 647 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,080 Lock picking, do you think you could do lock picking? 648 00:32:40,080 --> 00:32:44,760 No, it was to do with a German criminal so elusive that the German 649 00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:48,040 police spent two years hunting what was known as the Phantom 650 00:32:48,040 --> 00:32:53,080 of Heilbronn, also known as the Woman Without A Face. 651 00:32:53,080 --> 00:32:57,280 So, between 1993 and 2009, the Phantom of Heilbronn was held 652 00:32:57,280 --> 00:32:59,640 responsible for over 40 crimes. 653 00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,040 There were six homicides, there was a school breaking, there was 654 00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:06,320 a car dealership robbery, and her DNA was found continuously 655 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:09,320 at the crime scene and they could not work it out. 656 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,520 There was a 300,000 euro bounty placed on her head. 657 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,600 They even consulted fortune-tellers and diviners, 658 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:19,240 trying to work out who this woman was and the papers declared it 659 00:33:19,240 --> 00:33:22,360 the most mysterious serial crime of the past century 660 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:24,880 and they did two years of investigation, 661 00:33:24,880 --> 00:33:27,440 only to find that this person did not exist. 662 00:33:27,440 --> 00:33:28,880 So, the DNA... 663 00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:30,640 Was it somebody in the forensics team? 664 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,640 It was the factory making the cotton buds. 665 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:34,400 Oh, my God. 666 00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:37,360 So, they used to take DNA samples, the crime team, 667 00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:38,800 with the little cotton bud, 668 00:33:38,800 --> 00:33:42,200 they had been contaminated with the DNA of the women 669 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,280 who actually made the cotton buds. Oh, that's amazing. 670 00:33:45,280 --> 00:33:48,120 And the reason the Phantom had only done crimes in Bavaria 671 00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:49,800 and not in the surrounding region 672 00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,480 is cos they got their cotton swabs from somewhere else. 673 00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:54,360 The Bild newspaper ran the headline, 674 00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,320 "Are the heads of our police stuffed with cotton wool?" 675 00:33:58,680 --> 00:34:00,920 What I like about them is that, the people make them, 676 00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:03,640 they explicitly print, "Do not insert inside the ear canal." 677 00:34:03,640 --> 00:34:05,080 Yeah, you can cause a lot of damage. 678 00:34:05,080 --> 00:34:08,120 Yes, but it's probably the only product whose main purpose 679 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:11,720 is precisely the one they explicitly rule out. 680 00:34:11,720 --> 00:34:13,360 Well, that's not where I put them. 681 00:34:17,480 --> 00:34:19,720 There's some awful DNA on that. 682 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,960 I heard a radio programme, and this doctor was saying 683 00:34:23,960 --> 00:34:27,240 that people get addicted to putting them in their ears and even 684 00:34:27,240 --> 00:34:29,720 when someone has had ear damage and it's affected them 685 00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:32,200 and you get more infections that way, they'll then go back 686 00:34:32,200 --> 00:34:34,880 to that patient and they'll be like, "I'm doing it again." 687 00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,440 But, am I right, Paul, you're not supposed to remove ear wax, 688 00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:39,280 it's there for a purpose? No, it can build up 689 00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:40,720 and cause conductive deafness, 690 00:34:40,720 --> 00:34:44,280 so you've just got to be very careful with it, that's the point. 691 00:34:44,280 --> 00:34:47,520 And addiction to ear buds can... 692 00:34:47,520 --> 00:34:49,880 Can kill. Well, can kill. 693 00:34:49,880 --> 00:34:52,440 Timpanicide, I believe it's called, 694 00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,040 killing somebody by perforating their eardrum. Yeah, yeah. 695 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:56,680 I made it up. Oh. 696 00:34:58,240 --> 00:34:59,760 You done it good. 697 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:01,760 APPLAUSE 698 00:35:03,880 --> 00:35:05,520 I'm so gullible. 699 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,920 But the Phantom of Heilbronn, I love this story because it reminds me... 700 00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:13,680 Has anybody seen The Phantom Of The Opera, the musical? 701 00:35:13,680 --> 00:35:17,040 In the original book, in Gaston Leroux's original description, 702 00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:18,320 he has a full-face mask, 703 00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,640 so why might he have a half mask in the musical? 704 00:35:20,640 --> 00:35:22,520 Kept bumping into the set. 705 00:35:25,800 --> 00:35:29,080 No, he couldn't sing. He keeps popping up in the play in different 706 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,600 places and you're supposed to think he's like a phantom. 707 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:35,040 "Oh, look, he was there and now he's over there." 708 00:35:35,040 --> 00:35:37,640 It's a blindingly obvious there's more than one of them 709 00:35:37,640 --> 00:35:40,440 to the point where it's irritating. It's taking the... 710 00:35:40,440 --> 00:35:44,520 Take your masks off. There - Dave's up there and Phil's down there. 711 00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:46,000 Stop pissing about. 712 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:48,680 "Oh, how did they do that?" He didn't do that! 713 00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,600 The only thing that kept me awake was getting annoyed. 714 00:35:53,600 --> 00:35:55,320 You must be great fun during Cats. 715 00:35:57,320 --> 00:36:00,560 "They're are just people dressed as cats. They're not cats." 716 00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:04,160 "It's not even a real train, they're on roller skates!" 717 00:36:11,640 --> 00:36:15,000 Do you think your generally challenged by theatre? 718 00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:18,360 I would love Alan to get a theatre critic column. 719 00:36:20,040 --> 00:36:23,200 "They walked on, pretending to be people they weren't. I left." 720 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,280 "Why are we sitting here? Godot is not coming." 721 00:36:26,280 --> 00:36:29,280 "He never shows up." 722 00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:37,360 Now, it's time for the point of no return journey to Hades 723 00:36:37,360 --> 00:36:38,880 that we call general ignorance. 724 00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,160 Fingers on buzzers, please. 725 00:36:41,160 --> 00:36:43,360 Please show me your best poker face. 726 00:36:44,360 --> 00:36:45,880 Your best poker face. 727 00:36:47,560 --> 00:36:48,920 Wow, that is... 728 00:36:48,920 --> 00:36:50,280 LAUGHTER 729 00:36:50,280 --> 00:36:51,520 Cariad looks possessed. 730 00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:53,000 I nearly mooned you there. 731 00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:55,640 None of those, if I may say so, are any good. 732 00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:59,160 What do you think should be a good poker face? Some neutrality. 733 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:02,720 No, so, they have studied all sorts of poker faces and most effective 734 00:37:02,720 --> 00:37:04,840 thing is a positive expression. 735 00:37:04,840 --> 00:37:08,120 So, if you're smiling and looking cheerful, 736 00:37:08,120 --> 00:37:10,920 these warmer expressions will lead your opponent 737 00:37:10,920 --> 00:37:12,160 to make greater mistakes. 738 00:37:12,160 --> 00:37:16,560 Do not date any of these people. There's a warning. 739 00:37:16,560 --> 00:37:20,360 That's a hell of a Tinder photo, that. Yeah. 740 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:23,520 The thing you don't want to use in poker is anything aggressive 741 00:37:23,520 --> 00:37:26,240 cos it makes people feel more aggressive towards you. 742 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:29,520 And what you don't want is the RBF... Anybody know what the RBF is? 743 00:37:29,520 --> 00:37:31,720 AUDIENCE MEMBER: Yes, resting bitch face. 744 00:37:31,720 --> 00:37:33,520 Resting bitch face. It is. 745 00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,000 It's a term for the slightly angry or aggressive default expression 746 00:37:37,000 --> 00:37:38,280 that some people have. 747 00:37:38,280 --> 00:37:40,120 Do you have that? I can do it. Yeah. 748 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:41,840 It's like... Oh, yeah. That's it. 749 00:37:41,840 --> 00:37:43,840 Boys can also have resting bitch faces, 750 00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:46,160 but they have a different name for it for boys. 751 00:37:46,160 --> 00:37:47,400 Anybody know what it is? 752 00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:50,120 It's RAF. It stands for... Resting angry face? 753 00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:51,640 No, resting arsehole face. 754 00:37:53,520 --> 00:37:54,560 Yeah. 755 00:37:56,320 --> 00:37:58,200 There's a portrait of Louis XIV. 756 00:37:58,200 --> 00:38:02,240 It's supposed to be the prime example of resting arsehole face. 757 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:03,600 Anyway, there you are. 758 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:07,160 The best poker face to pull is a trustworthy smile. 759 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:10,680 What is the fastest creature on land? 760 00:38:10,680 --> 00:38:12,200 X-FILES THEME TUNE PLAYS 761 00:38:12,200 --> 00:38:14,000 That man in the sack. The man... 762 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,600 Wait a minute. I'm sorry I forgot your name. 763 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:23,680 She... You might have meant me! 764 00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:25,400 Oh, no. 765 00:38:28,440 --> 00:38:30,160 Unbelievable! 766 00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:32,920 I haven't quite finished before you buzzed in. Sorry. 767 00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:36,240 What is the fastest creature on land, relative to body length? 768 00:38:36,240 --> 00:38:37,840 OK? 769 00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:39,840 So... Yes. TWILIGHT ZONE THEME PLAYS 770 00:38:39,840 --> 00:38:41,840 I'm going to say cheetah. 771 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:43,320 I just wanted to join in! 772 00:38:44,880 --> 00:38:46,600 Oh. So, yes? 773 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:48,080 Is it you? 774 00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:52,320 Definitely. 775 00:38:52,320 --> 00:38:53,600 It is a small thing. 776 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:56,680 It is a small thing. It's got to be on land, it's not jumping... 777 00:38:56,680 --> 00:38:58,880 No, on land...cos a flea jumps. 778 00:38:58,880 --> 00:39:00,760 Yeah, so relative to its body length, 779 00:39:00,760 --> 00:39:02,280 what is the fastest creature? 780 00:39:02,280 --> 00:39:05,080 So how many lengths of itself would it cover more quickly? Yeah. 781 00:39:05,080 --> 00:39:07,880 It's called a Californian mite, so it is a tiny, little thing, 782 00:39:07,880 --> 00:39:10,040 it's the size of a sesame seed. 783 00:39:10,040 --> 00:39:13,200 They have been clocked at speeds 784 00:39:13,200 --> 00:39:16,280 of 322 body lengths per second. OK? 785 00:39:16,280 --> 00:39:20,280 Now, that's only about an inch, OK? But if you imagine your body 786 00:39:20,280 --> 00:39:24,160 and how fast you would need to go, 322 lengths of your own body 787 00:39:24,160 --> 00:39:27,280 per second, it is the fastest creature on land. 788 00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:30,240 The previous record holder was the Australian tiger beetle 789 00:39:30,240 --> 00:39:34,320 and that was a paltry 171 body lengths per second. 790 00:39:34,320 --> 00:39:35,960 I was hoping you were going to say 791 00:39:35,960 --> 00:39:38,000 the Australian model Elle MacPherson. 792 00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:42,000 You said the cheetah, so, the cheetah is phenomenally fast, 793 00:39:42,000 --> 00:39:46,280 57.8mph, but 16 body lengths per second. 794 00:39:46,280 --> 00:39:48,200 Whoa, lazy. 795 00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:49,520 Yeah. 796 00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:51,480 So, 300 lengths of its body... 797 00:39:51,480 --> 00:39:54,880 Yeah, in a second. But that's only an inch, you see? 798 00:39:54,880 --> 00:39:56,840 Yeah. That's an inch, is it, Alan? 799 00:40:01,160 --> 00:40:03,200 APPLAUSE 800 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:06,320 Usain Bolt, all right? 801 00:40:06,320 --> 00:40:08,800 He does five body lengths per second. Wow! 802 00:40:08,800 --> 00:40:11,000 He's taught, though, isn't he, Usain Bolt? 803 00:40:11,000 --> 00:40:12,440 It also depends how you measure it 804 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:14,960 so cos he's standing up like that, maybe his body length 805 00:40:14,960 --> 00:40:18,160 ought to be from between the chest and the back, that distance, maybe, 806 00:40:18,160 --> 00:40:21,040 would be fairer, but even then it's 20 body lengths per second, 807 00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:25,080 so, strictly speaking, that makes him quicker than a cheetah, 808 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,280 but nowhere near the speed of a Californian mite. 809 00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:31,600 Californian mite. They are amazing - many, many more females than males 810 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:34,320 and there are some mite species where there's no males at all, 811 00:40:34,320 --> 00:40:35,360 as far as we know. 812 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:36,480 When can we go, Sandi? 813 00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:40,440 Actually, there's lots of species with no males. 814 00:40:40,440 --> 00:40:43,360 Lots of insects, snakes, fish. No mammal's so far discarded the male. 815 00:40:43,360 --> 00:40:44,400 Just saying. 816 00:40:46,280 --> 00:40:49,640 When it comes to racing on land, cheaters never win 817 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:51,440 but the mighty mite might. 818 00:40:51,440 --> 00:40:54,160 What the German phrase for the phenomenon 819 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:55,960 of encountering your perfect double? 820 00:40:55,960 --> 00:41:02,560 Oh, you only live once. Let's enjoy ourselves. Doppelganger. 821 00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:07,440 Is it not German? 822 00:41:07,440 --> 00:41:09,520 It is German but it isn't a doppelganger, 823 00:41:09,520 --> 00:41:11,160 it's doppeltganger... 824 00:41:11,160 --> 00:41:12,720 Doppeltganger...with a T. 825 00:41:12,720 --> 00:41:15,160 Both the words come from a German novel from 1796 826 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:17,120 called Flower, Fruit And Thorn Pieces 827 00:41:17,120 --> 00:41:19,080 or The Married Life, Death And Wedding 828 00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:20,800 Of Siebenkas, Poor Man's Lawyer. 829 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:22,840 Sounds like a cracking read. 830 00:41:23,960 --> 00:41:28,360 He uses the word doppeltganger with a T for your lookalike, 831 00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,240 and doppelganger is the name of a meal 832 00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,640 in which two courses are served at the same time. 833 00:41:32,640 --> 00:41:33,960 If you see your own double, 834 00:41:33,960 --> 00:41:36,120 it's traditionally an omen of ill portent. 835 00:41:36,120 --> 00:41:38,480 Yeah, it's supposed to mean you're going to die, isn't it? 836 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:41,160 Yes, it dates back to the ancient Greek idea of the shapeshifters, 837 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:43,800 the psychopomps, so it was possible that a psychopomp 838 00:41:43,800 --> 00:41:46,680 that was going to escort you from... Sorry, a psychopomp? 839 00:41:46,680 --> 00:41:49,600 It's called a psychopomp, and sometimes they come as you, 840 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,960 not always, they can come in different shapes. 841 00:41:51,960 --> 00:41:53,000 So the Grim Reaper. 842 00:41:53,000 --> 00:41:55,800 There are lots of religions with traditions like this. 843 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:59,120 The Persian Zoroastrian tradition, the deceased are led across 844 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:03,000 the Chinvat Bridge by the psychopomp Daena. 845 00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:05,720 If you've been wicked, the bridge will be very narrow. 846 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:07,000 If you've been very good, 847 00:42:07,000 --> 00:42:09,320 the bridge is very wide and you go to the House of Song. 848 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,160 I like Zoroastrianism, actually, it's one of the world's oldest 849 00:42:12,160 --> 00:42:15,200 extant religions in which men and women are treated exactly the same, 850 00:42:15,200 --> 00:42:16,960 so they've got six immortal beings 851 00:42:16,960 --> 00:42:19,280 and three are feminine, three are masculine. 852 00:42:19,280 --> 00:42:21,360 They don't have any female clergy at all. 853 00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:23,920 They do recommend you have sex three times a month. 854 00:42:23,920 --> 00:42:26,600 That's the only knowledge I have of Zoroastrianism. 855 00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:28,200 That's it. Three times a month? 856 00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:30,160 You say that like it's a lot or a little? 857 00:42:32,320 --> 00:42:35,320 Do you know what? I'm going to leave that for the viewers to decide. 858 00:42:37,960 --> 00:42:41,800 And that brings us to the extremely familiar phenomenon of the scores. 859 00:42:41,800 --> 00:42:46,320 In first place, with a practically perfect ten, 860 00:42:46,320 --> 00:42:47,960 it's Alan! 861 00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:50,480 CHEERING 862 00:42:55,280 --> 00:42:56,560 In second place, with minus 5, 863 00:42:56,560 --> 00:42:58,080 it's Paul! 864 00:42:58,080 --> 00:43:00,440 APPLAUSE 865 00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:02,960 In penultimate place with minus 6, 866 00:43:02,960 --> 00:43:04,280 Cariad. 867 00:43:04,280 --> 00:43:06,040 APPLAUSE 868 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:11,640 And, bringing up the posterior, indeed, falling over in his sack, 869 00:43:11,640 --> 00:43:14,160 with minus 12, it's Josh. 870 00:43:14,160 --> 00:43:16,920 CHEERING 871 00:43:21,560 --> 00:43:24,280 I'd like to thank Paul, Josh, Cariad and Alan, 872 00:43:24,280 --> 00:43:25,880 and I leave you with this to ponder. 873 00:43:25,880 --> 00:43:29,120 British neuroscientist Adrian Owen was told of a girl 874 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,000 that was in a coma but was still aware of her surroundings. 875 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,160 Her mother visited her every day and played the same Celine Dion 876 00:43:35,160 --> 00:43:37,000 album on repeat for months. 877 00:43:37,000 --> 00:43:39,480 It was, she thought, her daughter's favourite album. 878 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:41,720 The girl was one of the few to recover from this state 879 00:43:41,720 --> 00:43:44,680 and her first words to her mother on waking were, 880 00:43:44,680 --> 00:43:47,560 "If I ever hear that Celine Dion album again," 881 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:49,080 "I will kill you." 882 00:43:49,080 --> 00:43:51,360 Have a phenomenal night, goodnight. 883 00:43:51,360 --> 00:43:54,640 CHEERING