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This is the Technical Difficulties,
we're playing Citation Needed.

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Joining me today: He reads books, you know — it's Chris Joel!

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Quarrelsome quislings questing quickly through quixotic questions are we.

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— Nice!
— Aaahh!

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Thank you, thank you.
That's why I was in the loo so long.

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Bounciest man on the internet — Matt Gray!

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Hello YouTube.

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And everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan!

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I rode the Queen Mary and came third in the derby!

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How many queens were alive at the time to be the Queens' Derby?

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'And up front it's Elizabeth! It's Elizabeth the First in the front!'

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In front of me I've got an article from Wikipedia 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 the special prize for particularly good answers which is...

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Oh! Sorry. Yes.

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Yeah. I've got a buzzer this time!

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How louche are you today?

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Oh, I do... so obliged, gentlemen.

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Can we just get you a cocktail glass while you do that?

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I usually am, it's just the different table setup. You don't see me so much, darling.

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Yeah. Can we make reference early on in the episode that we have moved from Matt Gray's kitchen...

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Today, we're live from SPACE!

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THE MOON!

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We need a greenscreen, guys. It's curtains.

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It's just the blackness!

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Today we are talking about the SS Bessemer.

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Is that to do with the smelting process?

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Now there's an intro to any kind of thing.

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Why would you say that?

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Because it's the Bessemer steel smelting process!

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You're gonna have a point. [DING]

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Whoa!

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Because it is named after and invented by...?

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Bessemer.

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Thank you.
[Laughter]

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Sorry — 'Named after and invented by?' 'S.S.'

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Sir Henry Bessemer, who... 
you were talking about steel there?

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Well, I'll defer to my...

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Sorry, before I go 'Right Honourable Member', you do realize this looks a lot like Question Time?

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I will defer to my honourable friend here, the member for Sheffield...

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The member for Rotherham.

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I don't know what you've heard! It's lies! All lies!

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Ha!

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— You just got 'Member for Sheffield' there, haven't you?
— Yeah.

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Steelmember!

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That's what they used to call me!

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Sounds like a South Yorkshire Bond film!

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ALL: 'Steelmember...' [Trumpet riff]

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'Bollocks! We're not using gold, it melts too easily!'

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'We'll go down there, get 'ot steel!'

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It's just a scrappie!
James Bond versus the local scrappie.

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Bond is strapped to a slab of old railway locomotive,

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while Steelmember comes up with a gas torch, and just very closely —

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'I'll get your nadgers in a minute if you don't give in!'

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I was imagining him on the windshield
of a smashed-up car.

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[Gas torch sound]
'Might take 'alf an hour but we're gonna get there!'

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'I'll turn t' wipers on!'

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Thump! Thump! Thump!

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'Oh! Oh! Oh!'

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[Sean Connery voice]
'Shtop it! That's enough!'

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[Sean Connery voice] 'I'm starting to quite enjoy thish. Does it have two shpeeds?'

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'No, Mister Bond. I expect you to f**k off!'

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A long time ago...

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...in a galaxy far, far away in Rotherham...

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Sir Henry Bessemer.

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I don't know.

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So is that the name of the article?

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No, the article is 'SS Bessemer'.

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Ship with a steel-clad rather than an iron-clad hull,

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or steel hull or something like that...

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Ooh, it was certainly first ship with something, but...

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Made by that... it's the, erm...

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No holes in it.

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Outboard motor.

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Ship-sized diesel engine.

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Massive whacking great outboard.

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Takes ten men to steer it.

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Never mind that, it takes ten men to start the thing.
[Motor noises]

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It's like a tug-of-war.

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Huge blokes charging up the deck.

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I think you'll find the first outboard motor was a Viking, paddling.

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On the end of a stick.

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'Sven! Your turn.'
'Ugh...'

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'Ulf! Faster, Ulf! Faster!'

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[Paddling noises]
A little backstroke — a little front crawl...

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'How long to this "Enga-land"?'

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Bessemer, though, it's the steel crucible.

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That was the thing he invented was the steel crucible,
where you would —

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Yes. Have a point. [DING]

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You put pig iron into it...

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What did he do?
What's the difference in his process then?

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It removes impurities.

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By...?

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Er... hotness.

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No!

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It's on a steel...
A crucible is a big bowl, innit.

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— Yeah.
— That'll do 'em right!

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— Yeah.
— On a windey thing, what tips over,

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'A windey thing!'

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and all t' hot metal comes out, into a box,

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and that makes... knives.

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Yeah.

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[Laughter]
Yeah!

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I went to school!!

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Sheffield, there.
Sheffield summed up...

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Sheffield steel summed up in a few important words there.

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It's a big bowl with stuff that comes out of it. Yeah.

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...what makes knives!

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You need to be the narrator on How Things Are Made.

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Steel... knives!

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It goes in this box and knives come out.

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There is something else that goes in with the iron.
Into the crucible.

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Men!

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A lot of it. It has to be pumped through constantly.

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— Max Bygraves.
— Air.

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Air! [DING]

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There is a market for pre-1940s steel.

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As in scrapping it and re-selling it.

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Why do you think that might be?

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T' olden days air were cleaner!

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— Yes! [DING]
— Wahey!

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What was it cleaner of?

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Sulfur.

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No. The clue is in '1940s'.

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About 1944, 1945, specifically.

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Whoa!

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— Radiation.
— Cool!

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Bingo. [DING] Cobalt.

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Well! I push my glasses back and say, How's that!

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Background amount of radiation increased enough

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that if you're making radiation detectors,
or anything that goes in a radiation-sensitive process,

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you need pre-1940-something steel.

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— Well, there you go!
— Cool!

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So you have to go back in time,

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and forge your forgey thing...

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That's iron, isn't it.

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Or you raise a sunken ship.

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[Singing]
'So I can make accurate meters...'

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[Singing]
'You raise me up...'

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And big boxes of knives.

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'Boxes of kniiives...'

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You don't need pre-radiation knives.

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This is not a significant amount of radiation.

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I want a post-radiation knife!

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'Cooks the steak while you slice it!'
[Sizzling noises]

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I'm fairly sure that at some point in the Victorian age,

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after the discovery of radiation,

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but before the discovery of radiation-induced cancers,

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someone will have made a radiation knife.

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— Radiation was all the thing.
— Yeah.

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It genuinely was.

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In any treatment you would just give someone
a bit of radiation.

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I know for a fact that when my uncle was at school,

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the popular prank was to get the little bits of radiation

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and shove it down boys' arse-cracks.

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Ohh!

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What, like pennying someone?

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Pretty much, yeah.
Just with deadly, deadly radiation, that's all.

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'Plutoniumed your bum!'

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'Ooh, it burns!'
'Aaaargh, that's gonna sting!'

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One of my old physics teachers claimed that he'd found a radium blanket in his loft.

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It was a blanket infused with radium, because it was warming.

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Well, one of the products, one of the most radioactive ones, early 20th century, is watches.

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— Yep.
— Yes.

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I were taught that one at schoo-wel!

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So was I!

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'Glow in the dark, you say?'

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'Yeah, that's fine. Dip there, lick the brush, you'll be fine. Just paint it on.'

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It's like we're all the result of
the same education system, isn't it?

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How strange!

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I thought you were schooled up a mountain
by a Buddhist master.

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That's just Rotherham Comprehensive.

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It was still a state school! I'm not posh!

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State-funded Buddhism?

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You know what, I'd be in favour of that.

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Yeah.

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Everybody just needs to chill out.

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'Now you have learned the wisdom of the writing
and the metal-making

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with the box with the knives.'

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And now you move on
to the next mountain of Rotherham,

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where the Chuckle Brothers will teach you —

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NO! NO!

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Oh, secondary school was awful.

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Rotherham Steel, with a gigantic crucible of metal:
'To me, to you, to me...'

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'Oh! We've burnt several people to death.'

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'Oh dear. Oh dear oh dear.'

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And sports was just David Seaman.

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If you're American, don't Google the Chuckle Brothers.

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Or Rotherham.

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No, no, no! Do!
They're childhood comedy legends.

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That's true. Don't Google their single
with Tinchy Stryder from last year.

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Do!

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A long, long time a go, we talked about Henry Bessemer,

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who invented the steel-making process named after him,

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established the town of Sheffield as a major manufacturing centre.

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But he had a lot of other inventions.
A lot of other patents.

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Plate glass, making a continuous ribbon of plate glass...

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Of iron!

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'Makes a better door than a window.'

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The SS Bessemer was one of his less successful inventions.

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Was it a box of knives that sank?

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'It's made entirely of metal!
Left to right, all the way through! Solid!'

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I mean, you're right — SS is Steam Ship.

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So we haven't actually got what it is yet?

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Not yet, no.
We are a good half, two-thirds of the way through.

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But we have talked about Henry Bessemer,
and the steel-making process.

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Is it one of the ones that's got
the rotatey thing on the back?

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So we've got a crap boat.

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Ooh... we have an experimental boat.

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I'm gonna say, is it something to do with
steam turbines or something like this?

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Thinking of the industry or anything,
or it might have been steam engines...

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No, this is...

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You wouldn't expect it to be coming from someone
who had so many successful inventions.

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Hovercraft.

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This is to designed to combat a common problem
if you're on a cross-Channel ferry.

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Did he build it in Sheffield so that there was
no chance of getting wet?

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Um...

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A common problem on a cross-Channel ferry...
people on booze cruises weren't allowed on?

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It was built in Hull, just to, er...

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Ugh.

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Were no French aboard?
[Laughter]

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I mean, not initially, no...

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It's a common problem in the Channel.

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Cross-Channel ferry, full of them.

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Was the duty free actually cheap?

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Was it a flat-bottom boat?

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To stop it grounding?

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Ooh! No...

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Because there are sand deposits in the Channel, I think.

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There are, but no.

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Was it an attempt at bow-loading doors
or anything like that?

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Bowel-loading doors?

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Bow-loading, not bowel-loading.

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It's a very easy mistake to make.

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'Roll on! Roll off!'

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Is it Henry Bessemer's giant mechanical arse,

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crossing the Channel, made of steel?

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Steelsphincter!

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Sorry... Steelsphincter is another Bond film.

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No, no, he's like Jaws. He's like a Bond villain's henchman.

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'Don't put your fingers in there! He'll have them off!'

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[Slicing noise]

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He's eventually vanquished by the fact that someone
has a giant magnet and he flies arse-first onto it.

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Yes. Yes.

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We're looking for a common problem with
cross-Channel ferries — with any ferry, really.

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Seasickness!

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— Point! [DING]
— Right!

248
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— An anti-seasickness boat?!
— An anti-seasickness boat.

249
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What's the point of being on a boat?

250
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Exactly!

251
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I'm sorry, getting seasick is not the point
of going on a cross-Channel ferry.

252
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It is the prime experience!
[Laughter]

253
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So was this like a boat with like, a thing that
kept level all the time in it or something?

254
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[DING]

255
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Aha! A whole kind of thing to counteract...

256
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Like you used to get for your CD Walkman in your car?

257
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Yeah, basically.

258
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But for people.

259
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That's something that a lot of our audience are gonna be a little bit too young for there.

260
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Oh, **** off. Really?

261
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CD Walkman?

262
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The international sign there for a CD Walkman.

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It's the gimbal...

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Wobbly CD Walkman. Woooo!

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You see, children... Hello.

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In the old days...

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we used to have to take our music with us

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on little plates that looked like a little shiny disc.

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You would put them in a machine, and when you walked,

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if you walked too fast, the music would jump, like Spotify when it's s***.

271
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Can you believe, children, that you could only listen to one album at a time?

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A small bit of our audience is post-MP3.

273
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Like, they were born after the —

274
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Why would you post the MP3 when you could email it?

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Out.

276
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Well, you have to print it out first, don't you?

277
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You are entirely right. It was an entire cabin.

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The saloon of the boat was suspended on gimbals

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and kept horizontal so you weren't rolled about.

280
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That's gonna be worse, isn't it?

281
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That's gonna be like the old British Rail APT.

282
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Advanced Passenger Train, yes.

283
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Because your brain is gonna go,
'Hang on a minute, I'm moving but not moving,'

284
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and the net result is: Heulgh!
Everywhere.

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'I can see that I'm moving... but I'm not.'

286
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Yes. And the other problem is, it only stopped roll.

287
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It didn't stop pitch,

288
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and it also didn't stop surge, I think it's surge — or heave.

289
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Heave, that's it.

290
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I think heave was the problem we were trying to get rid of.

291
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[General heaving sounds]

292
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The technical ship term is 'heave', which is the up-and-down,

293
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the kind of feeling that gravity is increasing and decreasing.

294
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So you're just in this saloon...

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...that's not moving in one axis, but is moving in the other two.

333
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Yes.

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Sorry, I'm just imagining someone called Serge and someone called Heave.

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Yves?

299
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The butler with the inner ear problem: Ask Heaves.

300
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'Well, sir... oh. Oh God.

301
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'Erm, I could give you — blergh!'

302
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Ask Heaves! His little icon is a butler who's going:

303
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— Slightly green in the face.
— Yes!

304
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If anyone does want to quickly Photoshop that up... yeah.

305
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So the ship, it was actually made, it set sail.

306
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It went from Dover to Calais. What happened when it got to Calais?

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Crashed!

308
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Point! [DING]

309
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Just kept going.

310
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It quite literally did.

311
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Right now it's somewhere in Austria.

312
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You can have a point for that as well [DING],

313
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because it failed to answer the helm, and just hit the pier.

314
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'It's ringing! Someone pick up! Helm!'
'Hello?'

315
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You know that gag from Airpline! where the plane just comes through the window?

316
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That and the Calais pier. It just kept going.

317
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At which point did it stop, Sir Henry Bessemer pokes out and goes, 'Partial success.'

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'We got over, and we f***ed up a bit of France.'

319
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'Turn round!'

320
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I like how you went with Airplane! rather than Speed II.

321
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Where it happens with a boat.

322
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Yeah. Okay, yes, that's true.

323
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After two attempts to enter the harbour,

324
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it crashed into the Calais pier *again*, this time demolishing part of it.

325
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Erm... the ship remained in dock,

326
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and then was sold for scrap.

327
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It did actually have a trial with passengers on board,

328
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but one important bit didn't work.

329
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The passengers. They were all on strike.
[Laughter]

330
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The wiggly thing.

331
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The wiggly thing, yes, exactly right. [DING]

332
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So it's SS Bessemer's non-wiggly wiggly thing.

333
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Yes.

334
00:14:08.740 --> 00:14:11.720
So it worked better on the way back when it was broken...

335
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Than on the way over when it was working.

336
00:14:14.180 --> 00:14:15.840
Yup. What happened to the saloon?

337
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Because the saloon was really well appointed — not the gimbal bit,

338
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but the actual sort of really lavish drawing room?

339
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Shipped to shore and used as a restaurant or...

340
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given to a hotel or...

341
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Yeah, [DING] I'll give you a point for that.

342
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His house?

343
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I'll give you both a point. [DING]

344
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The designer had it moved to his home.

345
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But it still kind of kept level even though it wasn't really moving.

346
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You could have it as a flight simulator!

347
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Or boat simulator.

348
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'When you are in an earthquake,

349
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'you will want to be in this room,' was what he said.

350
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'For you can have all the experience of earthquake,

351
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but without the roll.'

352
00:14:46.620 --> 00:14:47.120
Yes!

353
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'Have you ever wanted to experience just two-thirds of an earthquake?'

354
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'A vast improvement, sir! A vast improvement!'

355
00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:58.120
What eventually happened to that saloon? The last surviving bit of the ship?

356
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Sold for scrap.

357
00:14:59.900 --> 00:15:03.460
Well, again, it had a slight problem in about the mid-1940s.

358
00:15:03.780 --> 00:15:04.720
Did it get all blown up?

359
00:15:04.880 --> 00:15:07.300
Yes, have a point. Direct hit from a bomb in World War Two. [DING]

360
00:15:07.680 --> 00:15:10.640
And it wasn't radioactive until that point.

361
00:15:12.400 --> 00:15:15.660
Because all the furniture was made of uranium.

362
00:15:18.240 --> 00:15:19.420
A warming seat.

363
00:15:21.360 --> 00:15:22.840
Oh, that'd be horrible, wouldn't it?

364
00:15:22.840 --> 00:15:25.160
You know that unnerving warmth when you take over somebody's seat?

365
00:15:25.160 --> 00:15:26.880
Just a seat that has that all the time.

366
00:15:26.880 --> 00:15:29.800
Just sits in the room with people going,
'...ooh. Oh no...'

367
00:15:29.980 --> 00:15:30.480
'Ooo.'
'Oh.'

368
00:15:30.880 --> 00:15:33.540
On that, congratulations Chris, you win the show...

369
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[Laughs] Seems unlikely.

370
00:15:37.500 --> 00:15:38.540
You got points.

371
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Eh, whatever!

372
00:15:41.160 --> 00:15:42.600
On that note, congratula —

373
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Gary got the biscuits.

374
00:15:44.520 --> 00:15:45.720
Yeah, but the biscuits aren't points.

375
00:15:45.860 --> 00:15:46.660
Oh no, yeah, you got points.

376
00:15:46.780 --> 00:15:47.760
The points are points.

377
00:15:48.020 --> 00:01:25.940
You may have gathered, viewers, that this entire show is bulls***.

407
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[Laughter]
Yeah!

379
00:15:51.740 --> 00:15:52.780
In so many different ways.

380
00:15:53.020 --> 00:15:55.240
Except when he wins. Then it's really good, you'll notice.

381
00:15:55.460 --> 00:15:56.220
Then it's brilliant!

382
00:15:56.500 --> 00:15:58.440
Congratulations Chris, you win this show.

383
00:15:58.440 --> 00:16:03.220
You've won rum and lime-flavoured Mexican food cooked by the star of Taxi and Matilda.

384
00:16:03.220 --> 00:16:05.460
It's a Danny DeVito mojito burrito.

385
00:16:06.460 --> 00:16:08.640
That sounds all right, actually. Do I get to meet the chef?

386
00:16:08.960 --> 00:16:11.560
Sadly no, it was shipped over. It's a bit cold now.

387
00:16:11.840 --> 00:16:12.380
Awww.

388
00:16:12.640 --> 00:16:14.520
With that, we say thank you to Chris Joel,

389
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to Matt Gray,

390
00:16:15.520 --> 00:16:16.060
Goodbye, YouTube.

391
00:16:16.280 --> 00:16:17.100
...to Gary Brannan.

392
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I've been Tom Scott. We'll see you next time.

393
00:16:20.680 --> 00:16:21.180
...no.

394
00:16:21.320 --> 00:16:22.560
That would be part of the 'Reckless'.

395
00:16:22.860 --> 00:16:24.180
...no, it didn't. No.

396
00:16:24.480 --> 00:16:26.760
What, like a hippo spray? That kind of thing?

397
00:16:26.960 --> 00:16:27.680
Oh, don't — I've seen that.

398
00:16:27.860 --> 00:16:29.580
...Doctor Bradford Crayne, which —

399
00:16:29.800 --> 00:16:30.520
Bradford!

400
00:16:30.880 --> 00:16:31.500
— just sounds like...

401
00:16:31.880 --> 00:16:32.940
Bradford Crayne.

402
00:16:32.940 --> 00:16:34.860
'Hello, Bradford Cranes...

403
00:16:35.560 --> 00:16:37.880
'yeah, we've got a 9-ton, a 14-ton,

404
00:16:37.880 --> 00:16:40.120
'and erm, Maurice Micklewhite.'

405
00:16:40.520 --> 00:16:42.220
...Where's the hyphen in that?

406
00:16:42.860 --> 00:01:25.940
I'm trying to diagram the sentence...

407
00:01:25.940 --> 00:04:21.200
[Laughter]
Yeah!

408
00:16:46.800 --> 00:16:49.760
Anywhere you can put a hyphen changes it.

409
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