2 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,000 I 3 00:00:36,750 --> 00:00:38,149 Welcome to 4 00:00:38,149 --> 00:00:43,990 Tonight gone a bit random everything has and just when you're least expecting it bibble four of them come along at once, huh? 5 00:00:44,109 --> 00:00:49,329 Yes, so in no particular order all sure carpets. Delisa. Chippanda 6 00:01:05,849 --> 00:01:16,870 Buzzers I have just put my personal playlist on random shuffle. Yeah, the whole show is random. So here goes to Lisa goes 7 00:01:25,879 --> 00:01:36,299 Sally goes I have eclectic taste 8 00:02:04,450 --> 00:02:08,530 It is the very first one in the world where we just asked the audience to stay home 9 00:02:08,569 --> 00:02:13,009 Because we are doing the very first show with a virtual audience. Let's hear it for the people at home 10 00:02:13,009 --> 00:02:20,689 Tell me something that is truly random 11 00:02:22,129 --> 00:02:29,259 Worth it just just for that elections unless you're in Central Africa 12 00:02:33,180 --> 00:02:39,699 I mean, I think you know, it's a pretty general thing. I like to think Africa led the way we led the way we inspired you 13 00:02:41,620 --> 00:02:49,099 If you put your finger in your ear and scratch, yeah, you get the sound from pac-man what? 14 00:02:52,699 --> 00:02:54,699 705 people are doing this 15 00:02:56,780 --> 00:03:04,460 I can hear I can hear it. Yeah, that's have it confirmed by musical maestro. No, it is absolutely not I can confirm that is musically 16 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:13,340 Something 17 00:03:15,620 --> 00:03:21,659 Question is really about random playlists. So, you know, for example on Spotify, you can have shuffle or random, can't you? 18 00:03:21,780 --> 00:03:25,939 So the thing is that people thought that the random function didn't shuffle the songs 19 00:03:26,460 --> 00:03:30,460 Randomly enough and it turns out the system was entirely random 20 00:03:30,460 --> 00:03:33,500 But we can't process that because our brains look for patterns 21 00:03:33,500 --> 00:03:36,080 And so what happens is if we hear a song three times in a row 22 00:03:36,599 --> 00:03:40,080 Which could happen if the song list was in time random 23 00:03:40,080 --> 00:03:44,560 We feel that some are being played more than others some being ignored some possibly being blacklisted 24 00:03:44,560 --> 00:03:51,479 And so they had to change the algorithm to make it seem more more random than it actually was 25 00:03:51,479 --> 00:03:57,599 I just thought of something that's random and that's birdsong. Is that entirely random? It's stochastic. Okay 26 00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,080 We've tried to stamp out on this 27 00:04:10,800 --> 00:04:12,800 Knowledge 28 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:27,839 Not stochastic no, anyway, um, I forgot what I'm gonna say now. Oh, yeah 29 00:04:28,959 --> 00:04:31,439 Something amazing from stoke stoke. Yes 30 00:04:31,439 --> 00:04:33,439 Is 31 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,199 Presumably darling Williams what number of sounds that they can make 32 00:04:39,199 --> 00:04:45,759 No, the thing is that it's one of the reasons why birdsong is so relaxing because it's slightly random 33 00:04:45,759 --> 00:04:49,680 It's like if we listen to repetitive beats eventually gets on your nerves or a drill or something 34 00:04:49,680 --> 00:04:56,240 It's exactly the same every time but birdsong it varies ever so slightly just slightly enough 35 00:04:56,800 --> 00:05:03,120 So that we love it my favorite birds obviously is the great tit not just for the I mean i'm with you bill not just for the 36 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:05,120 the reasons 37 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,120 those base reasons 38 00:05:07,439 --> 00:05:09,680 I know the cock. Yes the cock the big 39 00:05:11,360 --> 00:05:14,399 How have we gone down the road of innuendo so soon 40 00:05:14,959 --> 00:05:18,079 So soon in the great all the birds in the world and it's great 41 00:05:18,639 --> 00:05:19,600 Listen 42 00:05:19,600 --> 00:05:23,519 It imitates the alarm calls of other birds, right? It's brilliant 43 00:05:23,600 --> 00:05:26,560 So when it goes to the feeder on you in your garden it goes 44 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,040 And does the alarm call and all the birds go and they all leg it and the great 45 00:05:32,079 --> 00:05:34,079 And just eats all the food 46 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:47,199 The sound of a dove cooing in your um roof make you go insane. What about crows? 47 00:05:47,279 --> 00:05:49,680 I used to have crows nesting out of the bat five in the morning 48 00:05:49,839 --> 00:05:51,839 Ah 49 00:05:52,079 --> 00:05:54,639 You have a lot more attacks by birds 50 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:00,800 If a true bird attacks are on the rise, it's because humans presumably are encroaching more and more I would imagine on their territories 51 00:06:01,199 --> 00:06:05,600 I also think there was the whole lockdown thing and nobody went outside for a while. They had the place to themselves. Yes 52 00:06:06,319 --> 00:06:11,759 That's true animals turned up everywhere in the there were sheep walking the streets in wales and did know 53 00:06:13,120 --> 00:06:15,519 They were standing outside the subway waiting for it to open 54 00:06:20,319 --> 00:06:24,720 The national lottery, what do we reckon random or not random gotta be random surely 55 00:06:24,959 --> 00:06:26,319 Yeah, no, it's totally random 56 00:06:26,319 --> 00:06:28,319 So what's the sensible technique if you're going to play the lottery? 57 00:06:28,319 --> 00:06:32,800 Lots of people do buy lots and lots and lots of tickets just buy them all buy them all 58 00:06:35,040 --> 00:06:38,959 No, you need to play the numbers that nobody else does it doesn't mean you're more likely to win 59 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:41,279 It just means you're less likely to share the prize 60 00:06:41,360 --> 00:06:46,959 So people tend to play numbers with their birthday in so anything over 31 is a very good idea people 61 00:06:47,360 --> 00:06:52,720 Weirdly seven still regarded as a lucky number. So don't play things with seven in don't play last week's numbers 62 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:59,040 Apparently the germans had the time to do a study and they found 12 000 people who were playing last week's numbers 63 00:06:59,199 --> 00:07:05,279 I mean, I don't like the germans particularly i'm not having a go in any way of the germans sounds like don't get me started 64 00:07:07,600 --> 00:07:13,759 Having this zoom audience feels like there's another studio the show going on that people are laughing. Yeah 65 00:07:14,399 --> 00:07:16,399 Anton decker next door 66 00:07:17,199 --> 00:07:21,600 I like the fact you can hear things through I did a show in the west end once and the theater next to me was 67 00:07:21,759 --> 00:07:28,660 Les Miserables and um during the death scene, I deliberately engineered it so my entire audience sang la bamba 68 00:07:36,879 --> 00:07:39,680 So during this heart-rending death scene you could just 69 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,279 Apparently it was a highlight for the stage management every night 70 00:07:53,439 --> 00:07:58,399 Random playlists are programmed not to be random. So you think they're random how random is that? 71 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:03,360 But why is young people's music so bloody repetitive? 72 00:08:04,079 --> 00:08:08,800 How young do you mean? Are you talking cardi b or like best of cbbs like oh 73 00:08:11,199 --> 00:08:16,000 You're talking very young people are you talking are you talking the hit parade? Yes the hit parade 74 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:18,560 The top 10 the most 75 00:08:18,620 --> 00:08:22,899 Repetitive music ever. Mm-hmm is south african music called quaito 76 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:28,319 Okay, and the whole song has like one lyric like there was one which was just traffic 77 00:08:28,879 --> 00:08:32,799 Corp corp traffic corp corp for the whole song 78 00:08:32,879 --> 00:08:39,279 But you know, it's got lots of instrumentals and the lyrics don't matter but it yeah, wow massively repetitive 79 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:42,240 Is that seriously why music's getting more repetitive because we're getting 80 00:08:43,120 --> 00:08:44,639 more 81 00:08:44,639 --> 00:08:45,919 african 82 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:49,440 More rhythmic no, but it is becoming more repetitive 83 00:08:49,919 --> 00:08:51,200 So they did a study in 2012 84 00:08:51,200 --> 00:08:55,440 They studied almost 500 000 songs recorded between 1955 and 2010 85 00:08:55,759 --> 00:09:02,639 And the most recent songs feature less variety and pitch but like the beatles said na na na na for like 86 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:05,440 10 minutes. Yeah 87 00:09:07,679 --> 00:09:14,000 But also a timbral variety which I don't even know what that is darling the time so like a string sound would be different 88 00:09:14,559 --> 00:09:20,559 Of brass or woodwind that's the camera. Well, apparently it peaked in the 1960s and it's been declining ever since and also modern 89 00:09:20,639 --> 00:09:25,120 Songs have got louder, but there is less variation in volume and sadder and sadder 90 00:09:25,360 --> 00:09:27,519 Part of the problem is it's the same people 91 00:09:28,159 --> 00:09:30,639 Writing songs for different artists. That's right 92 00:09:30,879 --> 00:09:34,320 So in 2012 three of the most commercially successful songs taylor swifts 93 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:36,080 We are never ever getting back together 94 00:09:36,080 --> 00:09:40,000 Katie perry's part of me and maroon five's payphone were all written by the same 95 00:09:40,399 --> 00:09:46,000 Company a company called paratone which is a swedish music production company and it's also a matter of perception 96 00:09:46,460 --> 00:09:51,200 Apparently people tend to have as they get older to listen to less new music 97 00:09:51,279 --> 00:09:55,840 Yes, so by the time you're about 33 you stop listening to new music altogether 98 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:02,159 They did a survey a music streaming site called deezer and they found 60 percent of respondents listen to the same songs 99 00:10:02,559 --> 00:10:08,399 Over and over again. Yeah, we crave familiarity. We do and even when it's something new. I think you want it to be 100 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:13,440 What you're familiar with just different enough to make you think it's something different 101 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,639 But if it was truly original, you'd be upset. That's right 102 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:23,759 But I also think doesn't every generation bemoan the next generation's music like people who love bethoven would be like 103 00:10:23,840 --> 00:10:25,840 Oh this is shopan. It's noise 104 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:28,080 Just like your tit song 105 00:10:28,559 --> 00:10:30,559 I think 106 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:36,000 You're going to bring out my tit song 107 00:10:38,480 --> 00:10:44,000 Fascinating because it's the same but ever so slightly varied. Yes surely young people's music bill 108 00:10:47,679 --> 00:10:52,000 Also endlessly fascinating because of the interruptions that surf is every now and then 109 00:10:57,279 --> 00:10:59,279 Welcome to after dark 110 00:11:01,279 --> 00:11:06,559 Do you know the great tit was used in brooklyn's fourth symphony, did you know that I I imagined that there was a tit in 111 00:11:06,559 --> 00:11:12,240 There somewhere there is was it an actual great tit not he didn't get a tit into the console 112 00:11:12,960 --> 00:11:14,960 right 113 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:20,159 What was your favorite band when you were a youngster hallow the jam 114 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:24,799 Oh, but I can't really listen to them now. I quite like new music 115 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,960 and I quite like now you can get a streaming service of your choice and they'll 116 00:11:30,000 --> 00:11:34,559 Show you a whole place. It's so easy to get new stuff when I was at boarding school 117 00:11:34,559 --> 00:11:38,320 We had one we had a gramophone that was given to us by a parent, but we had one single 118 00:11:38,879 --> 00:11:40,879 And it was leaving on a jet plane 119 00:11:44,639 --> 00:11:46,639 There is something called the reminiscence bump 120 00:11:47,039 --> 00:11:51,919 So the idea is that we tend to remember our young adult life rather disproportionately to other years 121 00:11:52,159 --> 00:11:56,399 So very few people remember anything really before they were five years old 122 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,840 And then we experience a bump which is sort of between the ages of 10 and 30 123 00:11:59,840 --> 00:12:02,799 Especially the years in your 20s, which we remember really clearly 124 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:07,279 And then what happens is we do remember the most recent past but there's a kind of gap 125 00:12:07,600 --> 00:12:13,759 Which fades back down to the reminiscence bump and it may be why we particularly like that music from that time. That's 126 00:12:14,399 --> 00:12:20,080 Really depressing because between 10 and 30 my life was terrible now. It's good. Yeah, and i'm not gonna remember 127 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:32,720 When is it a good idea to put a round thing in a square hole 128 00:12:33,039 --> 00:12:34,240 Oh 129 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,000 Yes 130 00:12:36,000 --> 00:12:38,000 Uh when you're dating a robot 131 00:12:38,559 --> 00:12:40,559 Yes 132 00:12:46,240 --> 00:12:48,960 Are we talking about the period between being 10 and 30 darling 133 00:12:51,519 --> 00:12:53,039 No is the answer 134 00:12:53,039 --> 00:12:59,120 Okay, here is the thing there is an actual practical application for this trees do better if you plant them in square holes 135 00:12:59,440 --> 00:13:04,480 Now this is a marvelous thing partly because it's obviously easier to dig a square hole is the first thing 136 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,480 So what happens if you plant a tree into a round hole the tree roots 137 00:13:08,480 --> 00:13:11,360 They become used to the sort of recently turned soil that they've been planted in 138 00:13:11,679 --> 00:13:16,240 And when they hit the compacted soil at the edge of the hole, they respond by spiraling 139 00:13:16,720 --> 00:13:21,919 Around the edge and eventually they'll grow into a tight ring and you can actually choke or even kill the plant 140 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:28,000 If you have a square hole the tree roots are going to do better because they're not good at turning right angles 141 00:13:28,480 --> 00:13:32,399 They just don't like it very clever who discovered that isn't it wonderful 142 00:13:32,399 --> 00:13:34,559 So if you put it in a round hole, it'll grow around like that 143 00:13:34,639 --> 00:13:36,720 But if you put it in a square hole once it gets to the edge 144 00:13:36,720 --> 00:13:37,679 It'll think well 145 00:13:37,679 --> 00:13:40,399 I just need to keep going and it'll push through the soil 146 00:13:40,720 --> 00:13:44,960 And so a square hold tree can much more easily establish itself 147 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:49,360 I did not did not know this and I I mean I did plant all that many trees if i'm honest with you 148 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,600 No, no, I mean you don't tend to do 149 00:13:51,759 --> 00:13:56,960 No, well, do you know what the guinness world record is for the most trees planted by an individual in 24 hours? 150 00:13:56,960 --> 00:13:59,519 How many do you think in 20? I'm sure it was a 151 00:13:59,919 --> 00:14:01,919 Uh drug dealer marijuana 152 00:14:02,799 --> 00:14:06,159 No actual trees by hand was his back. Yes by hand. Yeah 153 00:14:07,600 --> 00:14:13,360 Five thousand and one fifteen thousand one hundred and seventy red pine seedlings 154 00:14:14,480 --> 00:14:16,480 It's a gentleman called n chaplain 155 00:14:16,879 --> 00:14:20,480 Uh from saskatoon in central canada. This is ken here 156 00:14:21,039 --> 00:14:26,399 And he broke the previous record of twelve thousand three hundred and eighty trees which had been set by his twin brother 157 00:14:26,960 --> 00:14:28,960 Kurt 158 00:14:34,080 --> 00:14:36,080 It's one tree every four and a half seconds 159 00:14:36,559 --> 00:14:42,080 Is it which would you rather be a square peg in a round hole or a round peg in a square hole? 160 00:14:42,960 --> 00:14:47,679 The tree one i'm gonna go i'd like to be round peg in a square hole, please sandy answer two. Yes 161 00:14:48,240 --> 00:14:51,200 You're absolutely right darling. It is the better fit 162 00:14:51,679 --> 00:14:54,799 One of the earliest citations of the phrase comes from this gentleman here 163 00:14:54,879 --> 00:14:59,519 Do you remember when everybody had their portrait done from the side remember there was a thing wasn't there I can do heads 164 00:14:59,679 --> 00:15:02,799 I can do profile. Yeah, I can't do hands. No 165 00:15:04,799 --> 00:15:09,679 Or two eyes you do the suggestion of a wrist. No, I do the sleeve and then it just tapers away 166 00:15:09,759 --> 00:15:12,960 I cannot do hands you'll have to get someone else in to do the hands 167 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:16,879 They can join on and I do not do hands and I only do profiles 168 00:15:16,960 --> 00:15:20,080 What can you do the hint of a second eye? No, I'm gonna do one eye 169 00:15:20,399 --> 00:15:23,679 From the side I can do the other side of the head on the other side of the canvas 170 00:15:23,840 --> 00:15:29,279 You're hanging in the middle of the room. See one side go around the other side, but no hands one ear 171 00:15:29,759 --> 00:15:31,759 Yeah, just one. All right 172 00:15:36,320 --> 00:15:40,240 Anyway, this is a journalist who went by the mother's name of albany von blanke 173 00:15:41,039 --> 00:15:43,039 Let's just use that for book in restaurant 174 00:15:47,039 --> 00:15:49,039 Of the gilford von bronx 175 00:15:50,080 --> 00:15:52,080 Oh 176 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:58,240 All facing to the side no problem 177 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:07,279 We don't have any hands no hands you have to be fed the food manually with someone else straw we put it up your nose 178 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:11,759 Anyway in 1837 he wrote that sir 179 00:16:11,759 --> 00:16:15,679 Robert peale was a smooth round peg in a sharp cornered square hole and lord linhurst 180 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:21,919 Who was bill's lord chancellor is a rectangular square cut peg in a smooth round hole and it turns out the reference to peale is 181 00:16:22,000 --> 00:16:27,279 Slightly less insulting a round peg in a square hole is a better fit 182 00:16:27,679 --> 00:16:30,799 So it will fill a maximum of 79 percent 183 00:16:31,120 --> 00:16:35,679 Whereas the square peg can only fill 64 percent of the round hole and sometimes it matters 184 00:16:35,679 --> 00:16:40,879 What is the most famous example of fitting a square peg in a round hole that saved lives as anybody? 185 00:16:41,120 --> 00:16:45,360 I know this apollo 13. It is i've got to put this what's the quote this in that 186 00:16:45,679 --> 00:16:47,679 Yes, what is that? 187 00:16:47,759 --> 00:16:50,080 Is what it was like the worst chat up line ever 188 00:16:56,720 --> 00:16:58,720 Come on 189 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:07,759 I've got two of those it's from apollo 13 190 00:17:07,839 --> 00:17:08,559 Yeah 191 00:17:08,559 --> 00:17:14,339 The weird thing about the apollo 13 film is that when they had test audiences they complained that the ending wasn't realistic 192 00:17:15,839 --> 00:17:20,400 So what happened was there was an explosion and it forced the crew into the lunar module 193 00:17:20,400 --> 00:17:22,240 It was sort of a kind of lifeboat really 194 00:17:22,559 --> 00:17:27,039 So it was designed for two people for 36 hours and not three astronauts for 96 hours 195 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:31,680 And carbon dioxide was building up fast and they needed to replace something known as co2 scrubbers 196 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:36,799 Which is a sort of a piece of equipment which absorbs co2 and they only had square 197 00:17:37,259 --> 00:17:41,680 Scrubbers from the main command module and so they did a sort of bodge 198 00:17:41,759 --> 00:17:45,599 They used two pairs of underpants technically known as liquid cooling garment bags 199 00:17:46,240 --> 00:17:48,559 I know that's what i'm gonna call them now. Yeah, I know exactly 200 00:17:52,319 --> 00:17:54,319 Yes lcg bags 201 00:17:54,640 --> 00:17:57,359 Two socks a bungee cord and a lot of uh duct tape 202 00:17:58,160 --> 00:18:00,720 And it and it got them home in other words a bra bra 203 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:06,160 Did anyone see those their nasa transcripts of when the poo escaped 204 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:11,279 I spend a lot of time in deep google 205 00:18:11,839 --> 00:18:15,680 Much more time than I should no, but they release 206 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:19,039 You know all the transcripts of all the astronauts conversations 207 00:18:19,519 --> 00:18:25,759 And if you search through you can find quite a lot of transcripts of escaped astronaut poo and the chat around 208 00:18:26,000 --> 00:18:28,000 Whose is that? 209 00:18:31,039 --> 00:18:34,559 How would you know if it was yours or not, I mean, oh you would know you would 210 00:18:35,599 --> 00:18:37,599 Well, you just deny it anyway, yeah 211 00:18:41,680 --> 00:18:43,680 Look at that 212 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,799 They use a lot of duct tape does anybody know if it's duck tape or duct 213 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,039 Tape, which is correct. Uh, I would make a bid for duct 214 00:18:55,759 --> 00:18:57,839 As in the word fixing ducts 215 00:18:58,640 --> 00:19:03,759 Fixing ducts with a brand name. No, so it was originally called duct tape. Uh dates 216 00:19:03,839 --> 00:19:07,680 Yeah dates from 1899. It comes from the word doik in dutch, which means canvas 217 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:09,119 So it was canvas backed tape 218 00:19:09,119 --> 00:19:16,240 So duct tape is the original and it became duct tape when people began to use it more more frequently for ducts 219 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:18,640 For shutting up ducks. Yeah 220 00:19:20,079 --> 00:19:21,440 Kidnapped 221 00:19:21,440 --> 00:19:24,000 Yeah, keeping people against their will. Yeah 222 00:19:24,640 --> 00:19:26,640 I would have no 223 00:19:26,640 --> 00:19:28,240 What? 224 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:31,599 I use it for replying to microphone stands. I don't know what you're talking about 225 00:19:33,200 --> 00:19:36,160 Dark fantasies of you got when I was at boarding school 226 00:19:38,480 --> 00:19:42,559 We used to wax our legs with it. No, did you really? Yes. Wow 227 00:19:43,200 --> 00:19:47,200 Wow, we used to have that loo roll. That was like a little paper. We used to write home on that 228 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:53,619 Dear mum and dad, i'm writing these with my own shit 229 00:20:02,559 --> 00:20:05,599 I'm in zero gravity. This is the worst boarding school i've ever been to 230 00:20:08,559 --> 00:20:13,200 Right here is a watermelon. You should all have water. Oh, it's heavy 231 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:18,240 Now I want you to demonstrate the best way to test if it is ripe 232 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:22,319 Well, I know you're um, this is probably going to set your alarms off but 233 00:20:23,680 --> 00:20:27,839 No, that's that's entirely right. It's well actually to slap it really what really? Yeah 234 00:20:28,000 --> 00:20:32,960 So if it is right, it'll have a deep sound to it a bit like somebody knocking on the door or beating a drum 235 00:20:33,920 --> 00:20:37,279 Mark twain said to eat a watermelon was to know what the angels eat 236 00:20:37,839 --> 00:20:39,839 He's never had a crunchy, has he? 237 00:20:46,319 --> 00:20:51,140 In america, there's a weird racial stereotype about black people liking watermelon 238 00:20:51,519 --> 00:20:56,880 Doesn't exist in malawi or kenya or any of the places I was so when I went to north america 239 00:20:57,119 --> 00:21:01,599 And people were implying this is like a racist thing. I was like it's just a watermelon 240 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:06,160 I didn't understand that people were implying an insult saying oh you want a watermelon? 241 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:12,079 Yes, I do richard prier said that but when he went to africa and spent time there and he saw 242 00:21:12,559 --> 00:21:14,559 black people doing every job 243 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:21,039 All the management positions were black people everybody in the hotel whatever role they had was so they completely transformed his 244 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:26,559 view because he'd grown up in that culture where there were certain associations of black people that just 245 00:21:27,279 --> 00:21:32,000 Didn't exist in africa. It's like being a woman and going to scandinavia, isn't it sandy? Yeah 246 00:21:32,640 --> 00:21:36,960 Let's try avocados people. I love going to scandinavia. There's lots more people look like me there 247 00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:41,200 What beards? Oh that okay. What do you mean? What are you suggesting? 248 00:21:47,890 --> 00:21:49,890 I was going to go for bewildered 249 00:21:53,250 --> 00:21:59,170 It looked like all the nordic mythical creatures rolled into one some composite 250 00:22:00,049 --> 00:22:02,049 Small goat under a bridge and what? 251 00:22:03,009 --> 00:22:09,170 Would you do to find out if an avocado is ripe squeeze it obviously, yes, so 97 percent of people squeeze them in shops 252 00:22:09,170 --> 00:22:10,690 And do you know what it does? 253 00:22:10,690 --> 00:22:12,690 bruises damages 254 00:22:13,170 --> 00:22:16,049 The best way to tell if it's ripe is can you see that there's a little 255 00:22:16,609 --> 00:22:21,009 Uh tiny stem at the top if that comes away easily 256 00:22:21,650 --> 00:22:25,970 And uh, and you can see green underneath. So i'm just going to remove it 257 00:22:26,369 --> 00:22:31,170 Uh, then it is ready if it is dark. This one's ready. Uh, then it means it's not ripe 258 00:22:31,650 --> 00:22:37,250 If it's not ripe, what can you do to hasten its ripeness? It must be an urban legend 259 00:22:37,329 --> 00:22:43,009 They say put it next to a banana. Yes, darling. That's absolutely right. It's like a banana grooming it. I don't know how 260 00:22:47,490 --> 00:22:50,529 No, so what you do is you put it in a paper bag with either an apple or a banana 261 00:22:50,690 --> 00:22:56,369 For two three days at room temperature, so it releases ethylene. It's one of your top plant hormones 262 00:22:56,849 --> 00:22:58,849 I for the very first time 263 00:22:59,089 --> 00:23:05,569 In lockdown, I decided to grow tomatoes from seeds and I had my first tomato this morning off my tomato plants 264 00:23:05,569 --> 00:23:08,130 Which are now taller than me. I mean not that tall but you know 265 00:23:09,809 --> 00:23:14,309 It was delicious. Yes, it was like a completely different experience 266 00:23:15,250 --> 00:23:22,450 It was nothing like a tomato that you buy. No in lockdown. Our road had a sunflower growing competition and um 267 00:23:23,490 --> 00:23:24,450 my 268 00:23:24,450 --> 00:23:26,930 15 year old sprayed all the seeds with links 269 00:23:29,809 --> 00:23:34,369 And what happened is it meant most of them didn't grow and the ones that did grow 270 00:23:35,170 --> 00:23:36,930 Are dwarf 271 00:23:36,930 --> 00:23:39,410 But did not the sunflowers get a lot of girlfriends? 272 00:23:46,279 --> 00:23:49,079 Slapping your melons is a good way to check they're ripe, but it may 273 00:23:53,319 --> 00:23:57,099 Is there a button that we can press for when the innuendo goes off the scale 274 00:23:57,099 --> 00:23:59,099 Uh 275 00:24:01,980 --> 00:24:06,079 Slapping your melons is a good way to check they're ripe, but it may get you kicked out of tesco 276 00:24:08,700 --> 00:24:14,619 Not sure i've been in a test case right um avocados away just not a sentence i've ever thought to say 277 00:24:17,420 --> 00:24:24,960 Worst bombing raid in history avocados. Oh god we put the we where's the bombs? Oh, they're in tescos 278 00:24:27,579 --> 00:24:33,180 Here's a risky question for you sally, okay. Oh, can you explain male idiot theory? 279 00:24:33,980 --> 00:24:35,980 I guess it's the fact that 280 00:24:43,980 --> 00:24:46,539 I always think like one man isn't an idiot 281 00:24:46,619 --> 00:24:53,099 But when we congregate you become idiotic like for example, if you're alone and you go to a curry house 282 00:24:53,420 --> 00:24:55,420 You will order a sensible 283 00:24:55,500 --> 00:24:58,779 Curry, but if you're with your mates you order the hardest one 284 00:24:58,940 --> 00:25:03,099 Yeah, you don't want your teenage boy going in a car with other teenage boys. Exactly 285 00:25:03,420 --> 00:25:06,940 He's much more likely to die if he's got friends in in the car 286 00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:11,180 The phrase male idiot theory was coined by an american cartoonist called john mcpherson 287 00:25:11,500 --> 00:25:13,500 Um, but it sort of made its way into scientific literature 288 00:25:13,740 --> 00:25:16,779 And it's the fact that men are more likely to take risks, especially young men 289 00:25:16,940 --> 00:25:21,680 Uh, in fact the number one killer of young men aged about 15 to 34 is stupidity 290 00:25:22,000 --> 00:25:23,200 Um 291 00:25:23,200 --> 00:25:28,079 They have more emergency department admissions more sporting injuries higher mortality due to accidents 292 00:25:28,319 --> 00:25:33,119 Just much more likely to take senseless risks where the actual payoff is negligible 293 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:36,720 Even non-existent such as becoming a comedian. Yes, exactly 294 00:25:39,039 --> 00:25:42,319 Do you know about the darwin awards? Yeah, about the deal. Yes. Yes 295 00:25:43,839 --> 00:25:46,640 You know thinning out the gene pool of the most stupid 296 00:25:46,960 --> 00:25:51,599 Yeah, it it honors people who die or become sterile thanks to their own stupidity 297 00:25:51,839 --> 00:25:56,559 Individuals who protect our gene pool by making the ultimate sacrifice of their own lives 298 00:25:57,039 --> 00:26:00,400 My favorite is the terrorist who sent a package containing a bomb by post 299 00:26:00,799 --> 00:26:04,559 And the package was returned for inadequate postage and he opened it 300 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:12,559 That was wonderful 301 00:26:12,559 --> 00:26:17,440 But the idea is that is that men are inherently more risk-taking. I mean, it's a slightly controversial idea 302 00:26:17,759 --> 00:26:20,480 It's also to do with conditioning that young boys are sort of brought up to yes 303 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:26,400 Test themselves you're reinforced if you take a risk, it's like it's awfully the clothing for kids 304 00:26:27,039 --> 00:26:30,079 The young boys all the t-shirts were rascal terror 305 00:26:30,720 --> 00:26:33,920 Brave and girls are cutesy princess princess 306 00:26:34,559 --> 00:26:38,160 A friend of mine noticed the other day that photographic adverts for a particular sporting brand 307 00:26:38,640 --> 00:26:42,640 All the boys and men were actually engaging in the sport 308 00:26:43,039 --> 00:26:46,960 Whereas all the girls and women were simply stretching or posing with a ball 309 00:26:47,920 --> 00:26:49,920 I'm fine with that 310 00:26:50,480 --> 00:26:52,480 Yeah 311 00:26:53,200 --> 00:26:59,039 Yeah, see I think it's women tend to tend to be a bit more organized and empathetic and I've got to say I trust women 312 00:26:59,440 --> 00:27:03,119 More when it comes to say something like a global pandemic, you know 313 00:27:03,440 --> 00:27:06,559 I think all the countries that are run by women have done much better than the ones 314 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:08,720 Well, there's an interesting theory about that 315 00:27:08,720 --> 00:27:10,720 To be honest people argue it on both sides 316 00:27:10,799 --> 00:27:16,400 But you're absolutely right that you know, for example, new zealand did extremely well during the pandemic. Yes angela 317 00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:20,480 It actually angers me to watch how sensible she is 318 00:27:20,960 --> 00:27:22,480 Oh really? 319 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,000 It's like going over to see someone who's got a better marriage than yours 320 00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,279 Every time he's actually making so much sense 321 00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:36,480 So the real problem is that risk is quite difficult to quantify and one of the ways in which you do it is 322 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:41,680 With balloons. So there's a thing called a balloon analog risk task or bart 323 00:27:42,079 --> 00:27:44,079 And so what happens is you're given a balloon 324 00:27:44,160 --> 00:27:48,240 These are actually done on a computer screen and as you inflate the balloon your reward 325 00:27:48,640 --> 00:27:55,759 Grows, but if the balloon pops then all points are lost and it's working out how big to inflate your balloon 326 00:27:56,000 --> 00:27:59,440 The bigger the balloon gets the more risk-taking you are. So I thought this is marvelous 327 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:05,440 Let's have some balloons and we'll see who is the biggest risk-taker and it turns out. It's too big a risk 328 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:08,000 Uh 329 00:28:12,079 --> 00:28:14,480 You blow into it and then share it with the world 330 00:28:15,680 --> 00:28:17,680 So we can't take the risk 331 00:28:18,319 --> 00:28:20,319 Of seeing what risk you would take 332 00:28:21,839 --> 00:28:22,880 I know 333 00:28:22,880 --> 00:28:25,119 We're trapped in an existential bind. I know 334 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:32,880 Right, what happens if you put 10 attractive people on a raft in the atlantic channel five series, yes exactly 335 00:28:33,119 --> 00:28:34,319 Immediately 336 00:28:34,319 --> 00:28:37,380 There was a mexican anthropologist called santiago genovese 337 00:28:37,759 --> 00:28:44,000 And he was very intrigued by the idea that most conflicts between monkeys is about access to ovulating female monkeys 338 00:28:44,400 --> 00:28:46,559 He wanted to find out if it applied to humans 339 00:28:47,119 --> 00:28:52,079 So in 1973 he put this raft together and he filled it with 10 attractive people 340 00:28:52,160 --> 00:28:56,640 And then he wanted to sail them from the canary islands to mexico. They'd all die of thirst wouldn't they? Well 341 00:28:57,359 --> 00:29:01,440 It was a 12 meter by 7 meter raft. He advertised internationally lots of people wanted to go 342 00:29:01,440 --> 00:29:07,539 The final lineup included an alaskan waitress a french scuba diver an israeli doctor and a japanese photographer 343 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:11,680 He called the experiment the peace project, but the press called it the sex raft 344 00:29:13,599 --> 00:29:14,799 It didn't go well 345 00:29:14,799 --> 00:29:16,319 Did someone die? 346 00:29:16,319 --> 00:29:19,200 No, but they didn't get on you tried to get them to have sex 347 00:29:19,359 --> 00:29:25,599 You know by by saying you two together and nobody liked that on a raft. That's a very yeah wobbly orgy. Yeah 348 00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,680 Yeah 349 00:29:30,000 --> 00:29:33,119 There were hurricanes approaching and he insisted that they carry on 350 00:29:33,279 --> 00:29:39,440 He thought the danger would make people act on their instincts and so on and eventually the raft mate staged a mutiny 351 00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:46,799 And threw him out of the group. So it didn't work at all. Um, does anybody know what this picture is that you used to illustrate it? 352 00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:51,539 Oh, I hope it doesn't look very cheery. No, it's called the raft of the medusa 353 00:29:52,099 --> 00:29:56,099 So there was a french frigate called the medusa it set sail to senegal in 354 00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:01,240 1816 and the captain hit a sand bank and there weren't enough lifeboats 355 00:30:01,700 --> 00:30:05,059 So they built a raft, but only 15 people survived 356 00:30:05,539 --> 00:30:08,819 Uh, this is a famous painting of it a 19th century painting by theodore gerico 357 00:30:09,380 --> 00:30:12,740 It didn't help. I think that they took casks of wine with them instead of water 358 00:30:13,299 --> 00:30:15,299 Well initially it would have been all right 359 00:30:16,259 --> 00:30:20,660 But you know how you get a bit peckish so they turned to cannibalism. Yeah. Yeah, none of it's 360 00:30:21,619 --> 00:30:22,980 Yeah 361 00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:26,339 Starts off fine bit of wine and then it all gets out of hand 362 00:30:27,140 --> 00:30:30,660 It is an extraordinary painting and what are they reaching for like? 363 00:30:31,380 --> 00:30:34,819 They can see a boat in the distance a deliveroo boat. Yeah 364 00:30:36,900 --> 00:30:39,380 This is the moment when they just before they were rescued 365 00:30:39,779 --> 00:30:42,420 But the painter he was so determined to get it right that he spent 366 00:30:42,900 --> 00:30:48,099 Weeks and weeks going to morgues and and he kept the severed head in his studio for about two weeks 367 00:30:48,740 --> 00:30:54,819 Um, how long do you think somebody could survive out at sea if you were in a boat by yourself a week 368 00:30:55,380 --> 00:30:57,059 You reckon a week a week 369 00:30:57,059 --> 00:31:02,500 So there's a gentleman called jose salvador alvarenga. He holds the record for the longest time lost at sea 370 00:31:02,819 --> 00:31:07,880 He went fishing one day the man he did not know at all called ezekiel cordova 371 00:31:08,339 --> 00:31:14,339 And they got blown off course. They were a little sort of 22 foot skiff. It just had no top on it at all 372 00:31:14,740 --> 00:31:20,339 Cordova lost hope he refused to eat and then he died this gentleman here alvarenga. He floated for 373 00:31:21,519 --> 00:31:26,339 438 days what I know he managed to catch fish. He drank turtle blood 374 00:31:26,740 --> 00:31:32,339 He managed to catch some birds bits of food on floating pieces of plastic. He drank rainwater 375 00:31:32,339 --> 00:31:37,299 He drank his own urine and eventually ended up naked on a beach in the marshall islands 376 00:31:37,299 --> 00:31:42,019 Which is he'd probably traveled five and a half thousand miles from mexico today 377 00:31:42,019 --> 00:31:44,339 Apparently, he's got a phobia of water anybody surprised 378 00:31:46,420 --> 00:31:49,220 It seems a bit harsher than they're chucking him off this boat. Yeah 379 00:31:53,059 --> 00:31:55,700 It looks like he's been thrown out of a nightclub, didn't they 380 00:31:57,220 --> 00:32:02,019 He got sued actually by cordova's family. Uh, they sued him and said accused him of cannibalism 381 00:32:02,099 --> 00:32:05,380 But he passed a polygraph test and said he didn't do it 382 00:32:05,940 --> 00:32:09,220 So that was the end of that but 438 days. That's amazing 383 00:32:09,779 --> 00:32:13,779 Amazing, I mean he says he says that I mean he probably a couple of weeks 384 00:32:14,660 --> 00:32:16,660 It looks like he's been 385 00:32:16,660 --> 00:32:21,539 On the island for a year. He'd been on the island. Yeah, yeah married that woman married some local 386 00:32:22,980 --> 00:32:30,599 How long have you been here? Oh, I just landed. I was at sea for a year. No, you haven't been running a bowling alley in tahiti 387 00:32:33,700 --> 00:32:37,140 Now let's spend some time with my favorite army official 388 00:32:37,700 --> 00:32:39,700 General ignorance, yes 389 00:32:40,019 --> 00:32:45,859 There thank you fingers on buzzers, please apart from humans. What's the world's deadliest mammal? 390 00:32:48,819 --> 00:32:52,180 Hippos hippos are unbelievable. Yes 391 00:32:55,460 --> 00:33:01,059 Certainly if you are traveling in africa the hippo is more dangerous almost than any other the guides at lake malawi 392 00:33:01,140 --> 00:33:03,779 Yeah, that put the fear of god in you 393 00:33:04,259 --> 00:33:10,180 But then again like when I was in rwanda they're oh it's the gorillas the gorilla I guess whatever guy you are 394 00:33:10,339 --> 00:33:16,579 The hippos are unbelievably dangerous and what's annoying is they'll take pink milk. Did you know that? Yeah, they like charlie and lola 395 00:33:17,140 --> 00:33:21,859 Like charlie and lola, there's a big problem in columbia with hippos pablo escobar's hippos 396 00:33:22,339 --> 00:33:26,819 You know the renowned cocaine dealer he bought a load of hippos in the 80s 397 00:33:27,380 --> 00:33:33,700 And then then it all went wrong for him obviously and um, but the hippos have survived and mated and procreated 398 00:33:33,779 --> 00:33:38,900 There's now about 80 of uh of the so-called cocaine hippos. Are they doing their own drug deals on the side? 399 00:33:44,500 --> 00:33:51,380 It's not a him in the world's deadliest mammal it's dogs has this been tested if we put a hippo versus a dog 400 00:33:51,460 --> 00:33:55,380 I'm betting on the hippo. Well, it's it's about how many uh deaths it causes 401 00:33:55,859 --> 00:33:59,619 It's the spread of rabies. It kills 25 000 people every year 402 00:33:59,779 --> 00:34:02,740 So they are responsible the dogs for 99 percent of infections 403 00:34:03,140 --> 00:34:05,700 Particularly in countries where there's a large number of stray dogs 404 00:34:05,779 --> 00:34:08,980 So places like india and so on are particularly at risk 405 00:34:09,300 --> 00:34:13,380 Does anybody know how to calculate the age of a dog in human years? 406 00:34:13,940 --> 00:34:17,300 I've heard people talk about this but time is not subjective. No, right 407 00:34:17,300 --> 00:34:22,019 I can't be like it can't be like how old are you i'm i'm i'm 40 but i'm 20 deliso years 408 00:34:22,420 --> 00:34:24,420 Like time is time 409 00:34:24,820 --> 00:34:29,059 Well, it isn't because how long does a dog live? Well 15 if you 410 00:34:29,619 --> 00:34:33,539 So 20 if you're lucky lives about 15 years and a human being maybe sort of 80 years 411 00:34:33,699 --> 00:34:36,179 So what was the used to be the calculations seven seven? Yeah 412 00:34:36,260 --> 00:34:39,619 A human year was seven dog years and um, it's it's bunk apparently 413 00:34:39,860 --> 00:34:46,260 They've done a new study of labradors and what you have to do is multiply the natural logarithm of a dog's age by 16 414 00:34:46,739 --> 00:34:48,739 And then you add 31 415 00:34:49,219 --> 00:34:54,820 So I did this for my dog who is four and a quarter years old and it made her 54 416 00:34:55,539 --> 00:34:58,980 So you would think in the old in old money that she was you know 417 00:34:59,059 --> 00:35:04,820 Coming up to 30, but in fact, she's much older than you thought. So my age is 16 times the dog's age 418 00:35:06,820 --> 00:35:10,440 Minus 31 to say I feel you've not entirely 419 00:35:21,219 --> 00:35:24,500 The thing the dog does first thing in the morning, oh that yes 420 00:35:25,139 --> 00:35:26,980 log off 421 00:35:26,980 --> 00:35:28,980 So so get it in a bag 422 00:35:29,059 --> 00:35:33,860 So logarithmic growth has the effect that the rate of growth diminishes over time 423 00:35:34,179 --> 00:35:39,300 So it's the opposite of exponential a logarithm. So something grows exponentially bigger 424 00:35:39,380 --> 00:35:44,500 Then the increase gets more and more as time goes on. So for example, an infectious disease is exponential 425 00:35:44,739 --> 00:35:49,380 Uh, so it starts with a few people and then as time go by it infects more and more people something which grows 426 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,780 Logarithmically gets large very quickly, but the increase quickly flattens out 427 00:35:54,099 --> 00:35:59,219 So so for example losing weight losing weights, you probably lose a lot the first month as time goes by you lose 428 00:35:59,460 --> 00:36:02,260 Only a little bit and it's doesn't mean dogs age more slowly 429 00:36:02,420 --> 00:36:06,900 So what happens is they age very quickly to start with and then it levels off 430 00:36:06,980 --> 00:36:11,139 So we have a look at a list we've got so for example, a three month old dog 431 00:36:11,699 --> 00:36:16,739 Is the same as a nine-year-old human? Can you see how it changes six months is 19 a year 31? 432 00:36:17,059 --> 00:36:23,139 It just takes one year to reach that age. So by the time it gets to where my dog is four years old 53 433 00:36:24,019 --> 00:36:28,420 Yes, so really interesting this formula I have to say is specific to labrador's and it does vary 434 00:36:28,900 --> 00:36:31,539 Um, why should you put lots of plants in your flat? 435 00:36:35,300 --> 00:36:41,059 Because of the um lovely, um way that uh, they uh produce 436 00:36:44,340 --> 00:36:47,940 So what you're saying better air quality better air quality 437 00:36:47,940 --> 00:36:49,940 Better air quality 438 00:36:53,760 --> 00:36:55,039 So they look really nice in houses 439 00:36:55,039 --> 00:37:00,559 but they've done a study at Drexel university in philadelphia and they found if you wanted to purify the air in your 440 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,500 Home, you would need between a hundred and a thousand plants per square meter 441 00:37:08,559 --> 00:37:12,320 Icing open the window. That's what i'm gonna go with a bit of febreeze. Yeah 442 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,239 Yeah, I mean they're good 443 00:37:14,239 --> 00:37:17,920 They have a positive benefit plants if you spend time around them because it makes you feel better 444 00:37:18,320 --> 00:37:22,480 It's good for depression. Uh, in fact, the japanese have a thing called forest bathing 445 00:37:25,440 --> 00:37:27,840 And it's just about going outdoors listening to the sounds 446 00:37:28,400 --> 00:37:30,400 Tasting the air they talk about yes 447 00:37:30,719 --> 00:37:34,400 I suppose especially important in japan because about 80 percent of people live in cities in japan 448 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:39,119 Now each of you has a coconut. Oh, this is wonderful. I want you to give it a shake 449 00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:42,239 What liquid are you listening for? 450 00:37:43,599 --> 00:37:45,599 Coconut milk, is it right? 451 00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:52,960 No, no 452 00:37:54,960 --> 00:37:59,039 There is no milk in a coconut isn't the water from a coconut called coconut milk 453 00:37:59,440 --> 00:38:06,079 No, so coconuts have coconut water in them, but coconut milk is made from pulped coconut flesh 454 00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,719 Do you know it's illegal 455 00:38:09,119 --> 00:38:11,360 To send coconuts to fiji 456 00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:14,239 by mail 457 00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,000 How deep is the googling 458 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:20,559 What 459 00:38:20,559 --> 00:38:26,559 Because I wanted to send a coconut to fiji why no, but but why would you even want to I was on task master 460 00:38:27,280 --> 00:38:30,000 It was like get get the coconut as far away as possible, right? 461 00:38:30,079 --> 00:38:34,639 So I thought i'll post it to fiji. Yes, it turned out it's banned. That's all I want to do now 462 00:38:36,320 --> 00:38:38,900 After this airs, there's probably going to be a big problem 463 00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:44,480 There's going to be a lot of returned coconuts 464 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,920 The postage would be quite expensive 465 00:38:48,000 --> 00:38:50,239 Yeah, well, could you not just put a stamp on it? 466 00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:58,559 So you want to conceal it you want to convince them it's not a coconut, but that's exactly what they think you would do 467 00:38:59,920 --> 00:39:03,920 Just they would go like surely wouldn't have just put a label on the outside of the coconut 468 00:39:04,000 --> 00:39:07,360 No, no only a man would do that only an idiot 469 00:39:10,079 --> 00:39:12,320 Put it in a square box. Yeah, there you go 470 00:39:14,239 --> 00:39:16,400 Right coconuts away, thank you 471 00:39:17,119 --> 00:39:22,800 Uh now to return to the random theme of today's show, uh, you've got weapons under your desk 472 00:39:23,199 --> 00:39:25,199 Uh, please put your masks on 473 00:39:25,519 --> 00:39:29,300 Uh, because I don't want anybody to get hurt and I want you to demonstrate 474 00:39:30,239 --> 00:39:33,860 Firing at random and I hope none of you is an american policeman 475 00:39:38,239 --> 00:39:41,760 At random, yep, which way did you fire it darling I fired at sally 476 00:39:42,239 --> 00:39:46,480 Okay fire at random now i'm gonna fire it delete well sally actually 477 00:39:49,119 --> 00:39:53,280 Hold on what have you not pulled the thing down then right. Oh 478 00:39:54,559 --> 00:39:57,199 That was the loudest noise i've ever heard my entire life 479 00:39:58,719 --> 00:40:01,199 Have you fired one yet? No, I haven't. Oh, sorry 480 00:40:04,159 --> 00:40:07,679 Wow, they're quite strong. It went off in my hand governor. Oh 481 00:40:08,559 --> 00:40:10,800 Are they quite can you hit my greatest? 482 00:40:13,360 --> 00:40:15,360 Okay 483 00:40:26,239 --> 00:40:28,239 Okay, that's it no more firing 484 00:40:28,239 --> 00:40:29,039 Okay 485 00:40:29,039 --> 00:40:33,119 So the word random originally it was about something happening at great speed 486 00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:35,679 But when you were told to fire at random if you were a soldier 487 00:40:35,920 --> 00:40:40,239 It had a really specific meaning and the idea was that you wanted to fire the maximum possible range 488 00:40:40,639 --> 00:40:44,159 And the way to do that is to fire at exactly 45 degrees upwards 489 00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:47,440 The very first thing you did sadly was that you fired at this angle 490 00:40:47,840 --> 00:40:53,199 It's sort of intuitive that used to be known as firing at random my favorite fact about bullets 491 00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:56,079 Wow, which I think I learned here 492 00:40:56,400 --> 00:41:02,079 Yeah, because if you fire a bullet from a gun and at the same moment you drop a bullet 493 00:41:03,039 --> 00:41:05,599 The two bullets will hit the ground at the same time 494 00:41:06,239 --> 00:41:12,159 No, yeah, isn't that amazing? Wow, it's really isn't that doesn't that depend on the gun? 495 00:41:12,880 --> 00:41:15,840 This is very boring, but I think it's it's because there's force 496 00:41:16,400 --> 00:41:20,400 Coming that way and force coming that way. Yeah, so you change this force 497 00:41:20,800 --> 00:41:26,000 It's going to still interact with the gravity. I I don't know what that's probably that's sounding good 498 00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,719 I would go with that 499 00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:33,840 I should have just said it more confidently. Yes, I should have thrown in logarithms in it. Yes. Yes 500 00:41:34,320 --> 00:41:36,320 Look we could try that with a nerf bullet 501 00:41:36,480 --> 00:41:38,480 Okay, okay 502 00:41:39,679 --> 00:41:45,440 Right and then drop it at the same time. Okay. Okay. Here we go. Okay. Do you want to count me down? 503 00:41:46,239 --> 00:41:49,440 What do I gotta do here? I'm gonna yell when I see the bullet. Okay 504 00:41:51,840 --> 00:41:54,960 Here we go three two one 505 00:41:55,039 --> 00:41:56,239 One 506 00:41:56,239 --> 00:41:58,239 Boom. Oh, yeah 507 00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:06,480 You can hear the noises, yeah, it's not weird 508 00:42:07,840 --> 00:42:10,079 Well, that's the finest experiment I wasn't expecting 509 00:42:12,159 --> 00:42:16,559 So to fire at random used to be just to fire up in the air the the furthest you could 510 00:42:16,880 --> 00:42:20,400 The idea of something being random the way we use it today is a much more modern 511 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:23,940 Usage and the thing of it meaning something weird and unexpected 512 00:42:24,179 --> 00:42:27,059 Which is also a modern use is that comes in about the 1980s 513 00:42:27,460 --> 00:42:29,699 American college students use it to you know 514 00:42:29,780 --> 00:42:32,579 Somebody who doesn't belong on our dormitory floor or something was a bit random 515 00:42:32,820 --> 00:42:37,780 But they use that term random wrong like, you know a random showed up at the party 516 00:42:38,099 --> 00:42:42,579 Oh, yeah, it's just a human that's not random if it was a llama apparently and random ruined 517 00:42:43,460 --> 00:42:47,780 Yes, the one I can't stand is it was like cold and I was like tired and oh 518 00:42:48,420 --> 00:42:50,420 So I was like literally dead. Yeah 519 00:42:50,420 --> 00:42:52,420 Yes 520 00:42:57,219 --> 00:43:03,219 It's time for the scores which i'm going to assign randomly in fourth place with minus a million. It's bill 521 00:43:05,860 --> 00:43:07,860 I've never had a million 522 00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:14,969 In third place with 33, it's sally second with 68. It's deliso 523 00:43:17,349 --> 00:43:21,750 And first with a record 150 000, that's the weight of a blue whale in kilograms 524 00:43:22,469 --> 00:43:24,469 What are the odds it's alan davis 525 00:43:27,030 --> 00:43:35,440 Thank you to thank deliso and sally and bill and alan that's all from qi this time 526 00:43:35,440 --> 00:43:39,679 And I leave you with this radical random number remark from astronomer arthur eddington 527 00:43:39,679 --> 00:43:43,440 We used to think that if we knew one we knew two because one and one are two 528 00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:49,780 But we are finding that we must learn a great deal more about and thank you and good night