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This is the Technical Difficulties.
We are playing Citation Needed.

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I've got an almost-randomly selected article

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from everybody's favourite reliable source of knowledge, Wikipedia,

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and these folks can't see it.

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Every fact they get right is a point, and a ding [DING],

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and there is a special prize
for particularly good answers, which is...

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And today we are talking about Stefania Follini.

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Of course! Stefania Follini of the Wiltshire Follinis,

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if I'm not too mistaken.

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Definitely not the Wiltshire Follinis!

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Oh, bollocks. I'm out then!

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Right!

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Broad guess at which country we're insulting today: Italy!

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Yup! Correct! [DING] Have a point.

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Wahey!

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Hold-a onto your pasta pizza lasagna!

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Oh, here we go...

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All right. Sports person?

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No, not at all. Interior designer, actually...

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From Italy?!

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But that's not what she's famous for.

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She's not famous for anything she did, chaps.

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This is going to be a tough one.

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She's not famous for interior design. She had...

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Did she drive an Italian car?

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No. She, erm... she had an experiment on herself.

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Another head.

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just playing 'Smoke On The Water' over and over again,
[Laughter]

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Don't think medical surgery had got that...

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The world's first two-headed —
you know, that one there, the other one just about here.

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It's about 1989.
Medical science definitely hadn't gotten that far.

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Was she trying to work out what would happen

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if you wore the same pair of jeans for three years?

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Whoa.

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Now...

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You're wrong. You're obviously massively wrong.

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But it is a kind of — it's a self-imposed...

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thing that went on for a hundred and thirty days.

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Lived in a hot-air balloon!

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Oh. Lived somewhere, yes.

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— In a hot air balloon.
— Under the sea.

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Down where it's wetter.
Down where it's better!

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[Sings]
Under the sea!

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Not quite. You're very close here.

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Underground.

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Yes! In a cave, in fact. [DING]

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For why?

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Interior design purposes?

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No... an experiment about circadian rhythms.

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— You get a point, by the way, just there.
— Ah, thanks.

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Not just a niche in some rock —
we're talking, absolute proper underground...

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— Yup.
— A cavern then, rather than a cave.

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'Mites-go-up, 'tites-go-down kind of cave.

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Yes. She actually has the women's world record
for longest cave isolation.

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Was it presented by Norris McWhirter, that certificate?

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Old school reference!

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Thank you!

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I'm reasonably sure I've heard or read somewhere before,

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that in darkness,

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the circadian rhythm of a human is about twenty-three hours.

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Apparently, it actually drifted towards, first of all, a twenty-eight-hour day,

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then a forty-eight-hour one.

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But you're absolutely right, have a point [DING]

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for it being away from twenty-four hours.

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Does that mean we'd do more in the dark?

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Is that what you're saying?

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Away from any reference, away from the sun coming up over here,

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setting over there. Away from that...

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our bodies generally go for 25, 26, 27, 28 hours.

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I am so surprised that a business hasn't set up underground

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just to get longer days out of people.

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I think that's basically the Amazon warehouses.

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— Wahey!
— Hmm.

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Does that proportion...

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Does that mean you might get, I don't know, a three-hour dinner break?

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Actually no — forty-eight hours, it'd be double, wouldn't it?

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Yeah. Well, no, it wouldn't. You'd just work twenty-four more hours.

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I can't see them adding an extra...

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No, but your dinner break would have to be longer, wouldn't it?

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That depends. I mean, you're the union man here.

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I *am* the union man, thank you very much!

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[Singing]
'He is the union man, he comes from far away...'

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'He can play—'
No he can't, he's on strike.

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just playing 'Smoke On The Water' over and over again,
[Laughter]

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And he can negotiate, I think you'll find.

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So, obviously she was down in the cave with no external light,

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no clocks, no anything like that.

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Wait a minute. She's an interior designer.

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— Yes.
— She's going to have clocks.

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And cushions, and tables and things like this as well, isn't she?

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Throws.

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Throws!

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What do you think she did take down with her?

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A chaise longue.

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It's —

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Something with big flappy cuffs.

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It's describing them here as 'her only companions'.

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MDF.

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So anything that would keep her spirits up during isolation.

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— Cats.
— Paint.

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White spirit.

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Desert Island Discs.

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White spirit?!
[Laughter]

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'This is a far superior drink to meths!'

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Erm, not quite what... did you say 'cats'?

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Yes.

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Not quite right.
In fact, you wouldn't want them down there.

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Moles!

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Ants.

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— [Laughing]  I can't take ants with me!
— Dog.

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You're going the wrong way down the cartoon food chain.

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— A duck!
— Oh, okay. Mice.

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Mice. Thank you, point. [DING]

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'Two "friendly mice" named Giuseppe and Nicoletta'.

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We are in Italy, naturally.

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Er, no we're not.
Do you want to take a guess where it was?

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France.

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Austria.

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Switzerland.

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Wrong continent.

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— Why the...? Sorry, are there...
— South America then.

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They've got their own f***ing caves!

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Are there no f***ing caves in Europe?

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But this was partly organised by NASA.

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— Ooh.
— 'Merica!

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Hang on! Why did NASA come to an interior designer and say,

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'Do you want to live in a cave in... wherever for a year?'

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Look, they wanted to use the cave later on,

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they needed somebody to fit it out,
and they wanted it done for free.

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Can you imagine that?
'Well, er, now you've been down here...

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'I just wonder, while you're in, could you, er...

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'just zhoosh the place up a bit while you're in?

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'I mean, you know, a couple of throws...'

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'The feng shui is not quite right.'

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'It's not quite — the qi is off...'

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'I think we need some of the walls painting, definitely.'

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She actually decorated the cave 'with cutouts made from cardboard'.

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...of people? Tell me it was of people.
[Laughter]

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Er... it doesn't say.

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It was like a cutout of Bill Clinton.

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No, it's like that bit from Bugsy Malone,

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where they've got one bolted to a little minature railway road so it looks like —

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— Isn't that Home Alone?
— Home Alone.

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— And Bugsy Malone as well.
— Really!

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Yeah, it is both.

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When Fat Sam's gang has all been 'killed',

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they set up a load of cardboard cutouts...

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Maybe the train thing's Home Alone, but...

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What else did she take down with her?

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Skateboard.

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Not really all that good on a cave floor.

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Well, yeah, but something to learn.

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Fifteen pounds of LSD.

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'Herbal substances'.

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— Food.
— Yeah, fair point actually.

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Well okay, yes, there was food down there, but as companions.

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It's actually not that different
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The voice of Morgan Freeman.

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No, the only way she could communicate
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Morgan Freeman.

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A bat.

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— Just a computer, was what I was looking for.
— Sign interpreter.

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Where! In when?

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1989. So it was just a text terminal
that talked to the folks at Nasa.

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Bear in mind that Nasa's backing this up.

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So she's getting light, then, from the screen.

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Oh no, it didn't say without light.
It's without natural light.

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— Yeah.
— What are the units here?

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— Yeah.
— Oh! Sorry, I thought she was in the dark!

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No, no!

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No, no, she'd just got no outside datum
to tell when it's day and night.

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Oh! But wouldn't the lights turning on and off give you an idea?

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No, she's in control of that.

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Ohh.

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She doesn't know when nighttime is.

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Yeah. She can exist as she normally would,

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but that then settles down into twenty-eight hours.

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This is where the perseverance that you'd need to do the thing

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wouldn't pay off for me. I'd just keep a clock going,

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and just turn the lights off at the right time.

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Well, that's the thing. She wasn't allowed them.

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The computer wouldn't have had a clock.

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It would just be a terminal back and forth to tell...
to communicate with people.

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Wouldn't you, right, at least on April the first,

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have taken the opportunity to really s*** her up

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via that computer terminal?

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If she can't see the outside world,

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I'd have just typed the word 'HELP' repeatedly,

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with 'THEY HAVE DONE IT.'

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'OH GOD THEY HAVE DONE IT' — repeatedly.

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Er. No.

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— '89, yeah, that'd be a bit harsh.
— Yeah.

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Yeah, but I wouldn't say who 'they' were
and what they'd done.

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It's five years too late, really.

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It would turn out all they'd done is block the toilet

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in the gents' first floor loo.

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She lost a lot of weight while she was in there,

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because obviously her rhythms have spread out,

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so she's taking meals less often, she lost weight.

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She actually came out on May the 22nd, 1989.

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Is the next question going to be,
what day did she think it was?

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Yeah. In fact, you can have a point for correctly guessing

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— ...what I was about to ask there. [DING]
— Nice.

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She went in on January 13th,
came out May the 22nd.

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— And she thought it was the middle of March?
— And she thought every day was two days?

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— Something like that, yeah.
— [DING]  D'you know what...

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March the 15th. Exactly the middle of March.

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I would have pretended it was later.

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Oh, he's claiming his biscuit right now.

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— Get in there.
— That's mine, this is mine...

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The room, by the way —
do you want to guess what its size is,

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and what it was made of?

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Because they actually built a room down in the cave.

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— Hang on!
— Plasterboard.

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I'm rewinding from my admiration.

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I thought she was in a pitch-black dark cave, tripping over things...

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Dripping things like moss and...

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Yeah. Suddenly they've built her a bijou residence down there.

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It's hardly a bijou residence.

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— Tent.
— Chipboard.

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It's a 20-by-12-foot acrylic glass room.

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— Glass?
— Glass?!

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Acrylic glass, yeah.

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Why?

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Okay, so she can still see out to the cave,

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but she's constricted in movement? Eugh!

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Yeee.

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Is that the kind of thing they only give them when they go to Mars?

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That, I think, was one of the reasons, yeah.

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It was an experiment on circadian rhythms,

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on how you can survive with no external cues.

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But you're trapped in a box that you can see out of,

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just to black, which is...

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Oh my God, that's horrib... actually, now I see.

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The bubble idea, that's even worse.

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I thought she might have had a Portakabin or something.

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Stefania Follini has the women's world record.

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There is a men's world record for complete isolation,

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which is again taken...

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Was it the Russians in that thing that's happened recently,

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that was three hundred-odd days?

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That wasn't underground chamber isloation.

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They were still kind of locked in a room.

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I'm not going to make a joke at all —

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I'm going to say something like the Chilean miners?

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Er, no. It's an Italian sociologist and caver

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called Maurizio Montalbini.

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Who just wanted a really long holiday doing his hobby.

252
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Yeah.

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'Er, it's a... study. Yeah! Can I get this paid for?'

254
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Fair point, actually.

255
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The interior designer's cave wasn't her natural environment.

256
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But a caver would like to be in a cave.

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Sociologist and caver?

258
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'Hmmm... how can I get this comped?'

259
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That's actually an entire year.

260
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He entered on December the 6th, 1992,

261
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got out December the 5th, 1993.

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After she'd done it, then.
He was going for the proper record.

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Yeah. He broke all records...

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thinking it was June the 6th.

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So he'd, again, had about double the time
that he thought he'd actually...

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Wow, that's a lot more than spinning out

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to a twenty-eight-hour rhythm, isn't it?

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Yeah. Well, they said with her as well,

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it became a forty-eight-hour rhythm.

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Yeah, twenty-eight to forty-eight. Wow.

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Just quoting what it says here —
I'm not sure what this means:

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'...his immune defence system fell from a level of 23 to 0'.

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— NO!
— Dun dun dunnn!

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Not zero!! Zero's the worst number!

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So presumably there's not a lot living down there,

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so it's not fighting stuff off all the time.

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There are no units given in this at all.

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This is basically a maths teacher's...

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Resistons... seses.

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All we know is, whatever it is,

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if something drops to zero, that's bad.

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So above the cave, for Stefania Follini,

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there was a trailer.

284
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For what film?

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Just on a loop, endlessly. She went insane.

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When they announced the end of the experiment to her,

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you know, they sent down the message saying,
'It's okay, you can come out,'

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What do you think she sent back?

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And this may be a translation from the Italian

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or it may be the original.

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'F*** off?'
Question mark.

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'I've just got the place looking how I want it!'

293
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You know what? Point. [DING]

294
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It was actually 'Are you really serious?'

295
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But you're absolutely right,
it was a question mark in disbelief.

296
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So I'm giving you the point for that one.

297
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Yeah!

298
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I also like the newspaper article.

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I'm now looking at the original here that it references.

300
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What happened to her immediately after she came out?

301
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What were the scientists doing to her?

302
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— Poking.
— Probing!

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Point! [DING]

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— Poking?
— Yup. Who said 'poking' first?

305
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— One of us.
— Er... one of us, yeah.

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— I'm going to give you both points.
— Hahey!

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'[P]oked with needles and tagged with electrodes'.

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Bzzt. Bzzt.

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And then given some vouchers and told to 'enjoy herself'.

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'Here's one free McDonald's —

311
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'oh no, your immune system's dropped, hasn't it.'

312
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'Don't eat it!'

313
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What's surprising me here is,

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now I'm looking this up, I've just made a connection here...

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because there's the article from the Daily News in 1989:

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Experiment coordinator?

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Maurizio Montalbini.

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just playing 'Smoke On The Water' over and over again,
[Laughter]

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Ooh! Ooh!

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I'll put my tinfoil hat on for that one, thank you very much.

321
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The guy who later went on to break the record again,

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was the experiment coordinator.

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Presumably because he is the world's expert

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on staying in a cave for a long time.

325
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On staying in a hole, yeah.

326
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He learned all he needed to know
and then used it against her.

327
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He was like, 'F*** doing it first.'

328
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'It could kill me! Let some other f***er do it.'

329
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While she's down there, all the time he's just sat there,

330
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rubbing his hands and going, 'SOON.'

331
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I just like the idea that he just went...

332
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'Right, I need to do this experiment prior to mine...

333
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'What profession to choose?

334
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'Who will be hardiest against these hardships?'

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[Together]
'Interior designers!'

336
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You're actually, with the whole rubbing hands...

337
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'Miss Follini', it says,

338
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'heard a human voice other than her own' for the first time.

339
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'Stefania, I am your God, talking to you.'

340
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— Whoaa!
— Dude had issues!

341
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Of all the things he could have said!

342
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He'd be laying in bed going,
'What do I say? What do I say?'

343
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'What do I say? Argh!'

344
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'I know! "This is your God talking to you!"'

345
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I like the idea that he hired James Mason
just to make sure it sounded right.

346
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The last thing, then,
is a quote from a news article about this.

347
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'She dismisses concern that her contribution to science was an ordeal.'

348
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What did she say it was instead?

349
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'It was all right, really.'

350
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— Time to think.
— Cheap holiday.

351
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You know, I'm going to give Gary the point on that.

352
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'It was a very simple thing.' [DING]

353
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Urgh. Yeah. Yes it is.

354
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Oh, I like her. Her answers to questions are good.

355
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I assume she was allowed books.

356
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Yes.

357
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Well, the books that she took in.

358
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And a guitar.

359
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Oh God.

360
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I knew there'd be a guitar.

361
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That's a fair point, though. You are going to Mars,

362
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there's what, five, six of you or something?

363
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You're getting on there, you strap yourself into the capsule...

364
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There's going to be that one dickhole,

365
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just playing 'Smoke On The Water' over and over again,
[Laughter]

366
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— on a s***ty twenty-quid acoustic guitar.
— [Groans]

367
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And he's got it slung over the back of his space suit:

368
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'Hey guys, I brought this along!'

369
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Oh, f***. 'Kumbaya'  for the rest of eternity.

370
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There was a moment when I was a fresher,

371
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that someone directly above me, in the room above me

372
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was playing 'Smoke On The Water'
and just trying to learn it.

373
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I just remember,
'Dun — dun — dunnn...'

374
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After about five minutes of this, I just hear:

375
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Door slams —
stomp, stomp, stomp, stomp...

376
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Door opens.

377
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Clunk!
[Electrical buzzing]

378
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He pulls the plug out.

379
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Door slams — stomp, stomp...

380
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Not a word said.

381
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Either that or someone gets in the space capsule with a guitar,

382
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or hauls in an accordion or something.

383
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[Tuneless noise]

384
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'I think we've got room for this, don't you?'

385
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[hums] 'Captain Pugwash!'

386
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A harmonica. Just one of the sunsets, lying there going,

387
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[Western harmonica]

388
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I love the idea that she's not down there
with some acoustic thing,

389
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that she's got, like a two-hundred-watt Fender stack,

390
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and a Gibson SG,

391
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mirror hat, just rockin' out in this cave.

392
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[à la Metallica]
'Master! Master!'

393
00:13:55.800 --> 00:13:56.420
Yeaaaah!

394
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To be fair, there are astronauts on the ISS —

395
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I mean, Chris Hadfield was one —
who took their guitar up with them.

396
00:14:01.120 --> 00:14:03.120
On space musician facts, though...

397
00:14:03.120 --> 00:14:06.000
Neil Armstrong took a theremin to the Moon, didn't he?

398
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— Did he?!
— Did he?

399
00:14:07.780 --> 00:14:09.460
I have *never* heard that before.

400
00:14:09.620 --> 00:14:10.880
Yeah, I think he took a theremin with him.

401
00:14:11.060 --> 00:14:13.520
'Screw this, guys. It's not gonna sound spacey enough without it!'

402
00:14:13.780 --> 00:14:15.280
All: [Theremin sounds]  Woo-oo!

403
00:14:15.500 --> 00:14:17.500
Yeah, but the way you play a theremin, can you imagine?

404
00:14:17.500 --> 00:14:19.500
You're in the capsule, and Neil Armstrong's like...

405
00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:21.060
Woooo-ooooo!

406
00:14:22.780 --> 00:14:24.660
That's not strictly true, but I can tell you

407
00:14:24.660 --> 00:14:27.420
that we have an article here called 'Music Out of the Moon'.

408
00:14:27.420 --> 00:14:29.280
A cassette tape of that was taken...

409
00:14:29.420 --> 00:14:30.700
Oh. Fair enough.

410
00:14:30.840 --> 00:14:33.080
...by Neil Armstrong, to the moon,
and he played it back to them

411
00:14:33.200 --> 00:14:35.200
Oh thanks, Neil. Brilliant.

412
00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:37.180
Just that bloke, when you're trying to drive,

413
00:14:37.180 --> 00:14:39.860
you know, really concentrate,
and someone puts their friggin' CD on.

414
00:14:39.860 --> 00:14:41.780
That's him with his theremin music, innit.

415
00:14:41.780 --> 00:14:45.300
'Brought this! Woooooo!'
...for his Moon landing moment.

416
00:14:46.080 --> 00:14:48.860
All right. At the end of the show, congratulations Gary —

417
00:14:48.980 --> 00:14:51.260
DAAAAH! YES! YESSS!

418
00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:52.920
...you win this one.

419
00:14:53.180 --> 00:14:54.980
GET IN THERE!

420
00:14:55.180 --> 00:14:56.960
So excited, his hood came off!

421
00:14:57.120 --> 00:14:58.700
I'm kind of disappointed that...

422
00:14:59.580 --> 00:15:01.580
...kind of disappointed that he's not wearing a parka,

423
00:15:01.580 --> 00:15:03.460
so he can sort of put it over his head like Batman.

424
00:15:04.200 --> 00:15:05.280
YES!

425
00:15:07.720 --> 00:15:08.820
BOOM!

426
00:15:09.500 --> 00:15:11.500
That's what we play the game for!

427
00:15:13.040 --> 00:15:15.040
ARE YOU NOT ENTERTAINED?

428
00:15:17.080 --> 00:15:19.080
You win a trip to the edge of the atmosphere

429
00:15:19.080 --> 00:15:21.080
with the host of the '90s game show Small Talk.

430
00:15:21.280 --> 00:15:21.900
Oh, really!

431
00:15:21.900 --> 00:15:23.600
It's Ronnie Corbett Low Earth Orbit.

432
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So do enjoy that. In the meantime...

433
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— That's been Matt Gray...
— Bye-bye!

434
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That's been Gary Brannan...

435
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That's been Chris Joel.

436
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I have been Tom Scott.
We'll see you next time.

437
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