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

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Joining me today:
he reads books y'know, it's Chris Joel.

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Third time's a charm.

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Everybody's favourite Gary Brannan, Gary Brannan.

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Join me in my secret expedition,

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to Noel Edmonds' secret underground bunker...

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of filth!

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And the bounciest man
on the internet, Matt Gray!

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Today's show is sponsored by the word cuneiform.

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Getting highbrow here.

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In front of me I have an article from
Wikipedia and these folks can't see it.

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Every fact they get right is a a point, and a...

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You OK there?

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Might be reaching coffee saturation.

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I'll start being funny any minute now.

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Can we just...

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Good siren noise there.

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Can we just take a minute to acknowledge 
how good that siren noise was?!

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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 a point, and a ding [DING].

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And there's a special prize for
particularly good answers which is:

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♫[MYSTERY BISCUITS]♫

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You will put your back out doing that
at some point, Gary.

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All in the name of wit.

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And today we are talking about Thomas Midgley Jr.

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Son of Thomas Midgley?

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I mean one would assume so, yeah.

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It doesn't explicitly say that here.

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It'll be under early life. I'm pretty sure.

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It's not! It just said where he was born.
Which was the town of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania.

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Also known as a 'Slut Drop'.

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I said that before I thought about it!

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- That's a better joke than I was thinking about.
- Pennsylvania, you're it this week!

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Either that, or it's a town at the bottom of a cliff.

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Above it is a large woodland. 
With a very heavily disguised edge of cliff.

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"What are we going to call this place?"

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That's my impression of a beaver, by the way.

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I don't know what noise they make 
when they hit the ground, I've never seen it.

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A siren noise by the sound of it.

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Oh, it's a trumpet.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. Grew up in Ohio, then. And went to Cornell University with a degree in mechanical engineering.

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He sounds like an awful person(!)

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His father was an inventor and he was an inventor
and he made, I think a... great change to the world.

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Although it might not have been for the better.

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The automatic French horn?

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Why would you need an
automatic French horn, Gary?

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To save you having the trouble of
playing a French horn, dickhead!

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You've got player pianos, why not player French horns?

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-Yeah!
-OK! Yeah!

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Come on. It's the general trend towards
playerisation of the entire orchestra.

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They just stumbled on the kettle drum.

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It's a self-boiling kettle drum.

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It's just a kettle with the drum attached to it and steam...

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"That's not quite what we had in mind. 
But useful in the morning!"

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Eight am.

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"But I do have hot water for tea now, so that's good."

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And everybody's awake!

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No.

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That's not what he invented.

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I'm out.

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Tom, are you asking us of all the things that could 
have been invented in the 1900s

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I was hoping that you might hit on something
I could move towards it. But no...

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Ivory harvesting machine?

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...since you went with automatic French horn and ivory harvesting machine, no! Nothing like that.

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Let me see if I can narrow this down a bit. He was working at Dayton Research Laboratories.

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Oh! Dayton Research Laboratories!

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Still no idea.

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...which are a subdivision of General Motors.

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So what would he be working on, 
in about 1920? This is December 1921.

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Nuclear powered car?

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The double decker bus?

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No, no, but you are technically closer. It's something to do with how cars are powered.

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Nuclear powered double decker bus!

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I mean...

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That's a great film actually.

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That's combining both noes there.

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Wait. What film is that? I remember that.

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- The Big Bus.
- The Big Bus!

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Big Bus, brilliant.

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All I remember is someone pulling a lever and the flags of all nations popping out of the top of it.

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Yep. Yeah.

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Wow!

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It actually predates Airplane! as well.

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- It was a comedy, wasn't it?
- Yeah.

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Aaw!

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Well "comedy".

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If you want a serious one, did
you hear about Supertrain?

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No?

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This was a massive flop for NBC, in the US.

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It was one of the worst, one of the most expensive
and greatest television failures of all time.

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This sounds like it should be in 
my DVD collection already.

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You know how they had the Love Boat?

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I do know how they had the Love Boat.

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Would you explain the Love Boat for our viewers?

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The Love Boat was a serial. I think it was probably weekly or something. Where you have a cruise liner.

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A boat went around, trying to shag other boats.

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My God! The one with the oil tanker! 
You should have seen that one.

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Lubricated.

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That's kinda what it sounded like.

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Make sure this one is called the 
'Gary Brannan Sound Effects Special'

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As I have just done a cruise liner shagging an oil tanker.

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Actually, yeah! Sorry!

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♫[MYSTERY BISCUITS]♫

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Recognise the effort this series.

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Erm, no. I don't think it was a comedy. It was a kind of a light drama maybe. Romantic drama.

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Where you had a cruise liner...

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So was this like Tugs?

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No, no, no, no.

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Wow! I bloody love Tugs.
Tugs, by the way, to digest...

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- Digest?!
- Tugs was like Thomas the Tank Engine on water.

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We are now three diversions deep.
But keep going.

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- We'll circle back round.
- Tinder username!

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This is, I think, the third season in a row...

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where you have referenced Tinder, despite 
being the one married person at the table.

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Yeah! The one who's safest to reference
it without any eyes swivelling on it.

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That's fair.

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But the Love Boat is a giant cruise liner...

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and you have guest stars every week and romantic things would happen, while at sea.

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- Right.
- But because you're in international waters...

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there's all manners of deviancy you could get up to.

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This was the point. You could have a 
steady, regular cast for the crew...

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and guest stars each week, 
for the passengers on the ferry.

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Superdeathtrain!

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Supertrain.

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Which was NBC going,

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"Huh. They've got that, what can we do differently so it's not a complete ripoff? Let's put it on a train."

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Wow!

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"Let's put it on a nuclear powered train, that goes from New York to Los Angeles, in 36 hours."

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"That's a great idea. That can't possibly fail."

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Yes, when you do the math, that means 
the train is doing about 80 miles an hour.

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That's hardly impressive.

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That's hardly impressive at all. No.

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In fact you can do that on the West Coast Main Line.

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You actually could.

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Double width train, so you can get
some sets and things like that.

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- Of course.
- Stupid, stupid idea from start to finish.

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But it was like, "this is the big series. This is what we're going to do."

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Sounds expensive.

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Yes, it was massively expensive... it did not work.

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Why did we talk about Supertrain?

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- I don't know. We talked about nuclear powered...
- Big Bus.

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- Nuclear powered bus. The Big Bus.
- Big bus.

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Yep.

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- And then where were we...
- And I said nuclear powered cars.

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- Because it was an invention for the motor.
- Because he was working in Dayton...

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Because Thomas Midgley Jr...

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invented something about how cars were powered.

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God, I watched Inception last night. 
And this is more difficult.

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That's not surprising, I've seen Inception.

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What was the invention in the 1920s?

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That would reduce the...

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- That would make engines more effective.
- Was it an electric car?

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No it wasn't.

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No, it was definitely petrol. In fact this
was something to do with the petrol.

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Leaded petrol?

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Point! [DING]

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Absolutely spot on.

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Nice. Nice, harmonisation there.

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Yeah, that was good.

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He added tetraethyl lead...

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The scamp!

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...to petrol and discovered it reduced 'knocking'.

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On heaven's door?

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Yes! Yes that's why...

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"Do you need to cure Bob Dylan?
Use lead!"

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(That worked for JFK.)

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"What did he die of?"
"Lead poisoning."

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Do you know, when it got to unleaded cars,
in the early 90s, when it started coming in?

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They stopped selling four star. 
Four star petrol used to be leaded petrol.

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-And two star.
-And two star, they stopped selling it.

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A relative of mine, who shall remain nameless,
he's an older gentleman, shall we say

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Decided he wanted to convert his car to use unleaded petrol. It was quite an expensive procedure.

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So what he did was, he got unleaded petrol. Put it in the tank, and then bought, through a magazine

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today it would have been off a dodgy web site, 
but in those days it was a magazine

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some 'thing' you could put in your tank,
to make your car unleaded.

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When they came, it was effectively lead shot.

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So he put unleaded petrol in... lead shot in,
which re-adds lead. Let's face it.

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And he was convinced that his car was running on unleaded petrol, with all the benefits thereof.

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Genius!

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So this was the problem. Lead in petrol does
reduce 'knocking'. What's the problem there?

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- It adds lead.
- It adds lead!

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Yes, absolutely. Have a point [DING]

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It adds extremely toxic lead.

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Which then gets sprayed out,
in the exhaust, over everyone nearby.

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Which is why we went to unleaded petrol. 
Which is why we had all that.

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Because lead is bad!

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If you didn't know that.

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What happened in 1923, just two years later,
with Midgley? What did he do?

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[CHORUS] Die of lead poisoning!

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I mean not quite, I'm not actually giving 
anyone a point there, because, between the...

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no one was a third of a
point close enough, to get that word.

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But he did take a prolonged vacation, 
to cure himself of lead poisoning.

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What did they call the addition?

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Lead.

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No!

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No. They knew that would not work well for marketing, so with tetra, ethyl and lead, They picked?

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-Plumbum.
-Plumbum!

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Pumbum, ooh! Latin joke!

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'Tis indeed.

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Yeah, but you can't say 'Putting bum in your petrol tank'!

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No, they went with ethyl

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Plumbum petrol.

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"Plumbum petrol, good for you and your car!"

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So they had a prototype plant...

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They started making the stuff...

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You don't make lead form plants.

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Isn't a prototype plant a seed?

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They had a prototype factory.
Where they were making the stuff.

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What happened to the people who worked there?

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[CHORUS] They all got lead poisoning!

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Point. [DING] Yes.

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So this is clearly quite dangerous stuff.

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Midgley called a press conference,
to demonstrate its safety.

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What did he do to demonstrate?

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Sprayed it onto some kids!

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He ate a sandwich made of lead.

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Killed the journalist, through lead poisoning.

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He produced a song and dance number 'Lead! It's Great!'

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He had a lead lolly.

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Lead lolly, yellow lolly!

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He turned up on a set, 
made entirely of lead, and produced a sitcom.

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-You're all...
-Right?

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-Dancing around...
-Did he writhe around in lead shot?

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-You know like...
-What a great age Victoriana was!

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You know like mud wrestling, but lead wrestling.

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You know what Matt? You're bloody 
close enough. No one else is going to get it

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[DING] He wrestled in lead?

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No, he poured the stuff all over his hands...

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Yeah?

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and then just put the bottle under his nose,
for sixty seconds, just sniffed it... for a while.

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And then died of lead poisoning.

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He claimed...

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He's already got the first signs of lead poisoning,
of madness, already. Let's face it.

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Well he claimed, that...

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Hang on! Lead? He poured lead

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Not liquid?

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Poured... the stuff with lead in it

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The stuff they were putting in the petrol

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Molten lead over his hands.

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Argh!

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"This is fine, really!"

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He said he could do this every day, without succumbing to any problems whatsoever. What then happened?

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He died?

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-He succumbed to lead poisoning? 
-Lead poisoning?

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No, he managed to survive.

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His hands fell off?

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There and then.

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"Well this is embarrassing!"

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I'll give Chris the point [DING]. 
He retired, because of lead poisoning.

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'Cause of lead.

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Did I even say that?

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I mean I'll take it.

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To be honest, I kinda kept track, 
all amidst the ridiculous suggestions

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of what you could do with lead at a press conference .

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-I kind of...
-Are you saying you couldn't writhe around in lead?

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At a press conference?

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-I mean that...
-Call a press conference!

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You'd get quite severe burns.

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He's in a lead suit

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-It's rather...
-"Hello? Bring me the lead..."

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"Also, tell me what accent this is."

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"I don't know..."

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"And why I'm speaking in to my hand?"

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"Sir! That is lead."

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"Fantastic!"

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So needless to say, he didn't have 
a great effect on the environment.

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Well, I mean he had a great 
effect on the environment. It wasn't a...

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-Good one.
-A 'great'... effect...

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on the environment.

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So he moved on to somewhere else, in General Motors.

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Yes?

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He moved out of that division. Obviously lead went
on to be quite successful... as a thing, in petrol.

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Did he move on to drinkable arsenic? 
Or something like that?

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Well, you say that!

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He did.

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Did he put lead in the windows? Or lead in the...

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Leaded windows on cars. All little hexagons

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Stained glass cars.

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Beautiful image of St. Christopher
on the rear window. It really, really is.

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Admit it...

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It needs thousands of pounds now 
to replace it now. It really does.

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Admit it. You want it though don't you?

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Of course I ****ing want it.

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Why doesn't the Popemobile have that?

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Very difficult to make that bullet proof, I imagine.

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Oh, that's fair. That's fair.

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Stained polycarbonate, doesn't 
really have the same ring about it.

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You just need the lead then.

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Forget the window.

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It's an actual leaded window.

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It's lead lined lead.

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You might be being a bit
generous with window there, Matt.

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It's safe from...

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Just a shield.

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It's safe from Superman though.

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Superman can no longer see the Pope. That's fine.

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Oh yeah, 'cause that's how Superman gets his kicks.

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We technically have two popes, which is quire rare.

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-I don't have any popes.
-Well...

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I mean you guys have been in my house.
If you can find one pope!

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You've got a pope infestation.

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"Oh, I'll tell you what mate, it'll take a while to get..."

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I've tried spraying in Anglicanism. It's not shifting 'em.

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The weirdest thing is, they don't breed. But you know.

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The thing is, you could bring in your Anglicanism, 
but you just end up with an infestation

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of bishops and archbishops, which are even
harder to get rid of, because they...

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Because they can only move diagonally!

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Thomas Midgley Junior, meanwhile

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Meanwhile, back at the Popemobile.

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Having retired from that...

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This is a day of sound effects for you.

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Having...

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Can we have a goose please?

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Go back to the old standards.

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And let's go for train.

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And both together.

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Thank you.

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That was a good one. A good combo one.

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That's one of the better ones in recent years.

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Old school! Old school.

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He moved on from the cars divisions of 
General Motors and he moved to Frigidaire.

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Oh for ****s sake he put loads 
of CFCs in the atmosphere!

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Point! [DING]

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Absolutely right!

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What a ****!

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I think on a list of people who shouldn't have bothered...

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He's on it!

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Can you imagine, wherever one might end up,
beyond the icy veil of the hereafter

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He's sat there. 'So what did you do in life?'.
'Well I invented leaded petrol...'

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'Right and ...'
'But then I moved on to putting lots of more dangerous

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chemicals in the atmosphere, after that.'

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All of our problems now, are his fault!

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Are his fault.

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This is the thing. What did CFCs, and what did
all the new stuff, the Freon and things he put in fridges...

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...fix?

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What was there before?

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What's more dangerous than that?

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What's more immediate. If you didn't know,
because to be fair, they didn't know...

340
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what would happen with CFCs.

341
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If you don't know that. 
What are they a safe alternative to?

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Some other kind of gas that's cooling

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Ammonia.

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[CHORUS] Ah!

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Ammonia is very good at being compressed.
And as a heat exchanger, it's pretty much unparalleled.

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But it is extremely toxic and 
extremely unsafe and a little bit...

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There are some alternatives.
I've got chloromethane or propane.

348
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Ooh! Propane powered fridge!

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Yes! That's...

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It's not ideal.

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Electrical fault...

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Yes. That was one of the problems with it.

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You are just coming back to lots of houses with holes in their roofs, where the fridges went upwards.

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That kind of thing.

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If it's good enough for Indiana Jones...

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Yes. He basically invented the idea of using CFCs as refrigerants, and then into aerosol spray cans.

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And... things like that.

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-And he won medals for this, because, to be fair...
-Oh, he would have.

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-They did...
-Better than the alternative.

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Better than the alternative, but the 
long term consequences weren't known

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The King's Medal for Environmental ****ery, I think.

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He's actually on an interesting list, in Wikipedia.

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because the manner of his death

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is also somewhat unusual.

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Is he on the list of unusual deaths on Wikipedia?

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He is.

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Auto-erotic asphyxiation?

368
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You're right on two words there. Auto and asphyxiation.

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He didn't do an Isadora Duncan, did he?

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You are going to have to explain that reference.

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Isadora Duncan, Nineteen, twentieth century actress, was killed by her scarf becoming entangled in

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the back wheel. Her long scarf in an open top car, becoming entangled in the back wheel.

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I thought you said Wizadora.

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Very different.

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He contracted polio, at 51.

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Which left him quite severely disabled.
So he's an inventor.

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He's bed ridden.

378
00:16:30.680 --> 00:16:32.340
He didn't invent the iron lung did he?

379
00:16:32.340 --> 00:16:33.860
No, the motorised bed.

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He's got a grabby system of 
a series of ropes and pulleys.

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Point. [DING]

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And he accidentally roped and pulley'd himself.

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Point again [DING]

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Absolutely right. He invented an 
elaborate system of strings and pulleys...

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and he got entangled in it, 
and there was nothing he could do about that.

386
00:16:48.560 --> 00:16:50.420
That is a heck of a way to go!

387
00:16:51.140 --> 00:16:53.100
Did he end up getting buried in lead?

388
00:16:53.780 --> 00:16:55.480
Lead casket, yeah.

389
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I doubt it?

390
00:16:57.180 --> 00:16:58.620
With a lot of coolant.

391
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They buried him in a fridge.

392
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-Lead fridge.
-A lead fridge.

393
00:17:03.220 --> 00:17:05.640
So at the end of the show. Congratulations Matt.

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I'm giving you the win here.

395
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You win a hellbound Ford Transit,

396
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previously owned by a Belgian action star, 
that's had a genetic copy made of its mandible.

397
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Van Damme's... van...?

398
00:17:17.700 --> 00:17:20.020
Van Damme's damned van...

399
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and...

400
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something.

401
00:17:21.440 --> 00:17:24.460
It's Jean Claude van Damme's 
damned clone-jawed van.

402
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I tried!

403
00:17:26.560 --> 00:17:28.220
So congratulations there.

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With that, we say goodbye to Chris Joel.

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To Gary Brannan.

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To Matt Gray.

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Bye bye YouTube.

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I've been Tom Scott and we'll see you next time.

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