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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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Follow me on Twitter at toast @...!

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No, it's bollocks.

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[Laughter]

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Everybody's favourite Gary Brannan — Gary Brannan!

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[Sings]  'Pull down your pants and s*** on the ants,
In an English country garden.'

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I'm going to have to get the bleep out in the first minute!

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Thought I'd make it easy for you.

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And the bounciest man on stage — Matt Gray!

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We're live! We can do visual gags!

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[Laughter]

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Like Bob Dylan before he went electric.

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

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[Audience sings]

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MATT and TOM: Oh yeah.

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And today we are talking about Ruth Belville.

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MATT: Belville?

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GARY: Belville! A town of bells!

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TOM: I mean, I don't imagine that's the etymology...

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Well, you never know, do you?

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Oh! Is it a town of Ruth Bells?

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Oh!

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Ruth Bell-ville. Right.
Okay, sorry. That took me a second.

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No. Two words, one name.

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Is it a person or a place?

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TOM: It is definitely a person.

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MATT: It's a person?
GARY: It's a person.

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CHRIS: Is it a woman?

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TOM: Yes.
GARY: Get in!

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[DING]
TOM: Yup.

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Point for that man!

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MATT: First point of the day.

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Is anyone keeping track of the points here?
Because I'm not. I'll be honest.

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[Laughter]

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GARY: Well, we never do.

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TOM: Do you want to guess
whenabouts we're talking about?

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The Victorian era!

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[DING]
TOM: Yup.

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GARY: When we play our best.
CHRIS: Never fails.

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GARY: The time of big hats and iron!

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Does she have any iron?

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[Laughter]

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Careful answer!

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She has some silver.

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Used to be gold, it's now silver.

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So she has no iron.

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She's not massively anaemic,
if that's what you're saying.

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That's not in here.

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Yeah, you know me, Tom.
I'm right there on the anaemia gags.

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Did she have a trouser press?

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TOM: She is famous for having a physical object.

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Oh great. So we've got a woman who has a thing.

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With silver, that was originally gold...

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GARY: A silver thing.
MATT: Was it a goblet?

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TOM: I'm sorry, was it a what?

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Was it a goblet?

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CHRIS: Hang on, a gold...?

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That's not the gesture for 'goblet', Matt.

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MATT: One can cup a cup.

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Yeah!

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TOM: We've found the audience's level. That's good.

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And it's down there!

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It is something that would come in silver and gold.

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It would have a silver or gold case on it.

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MATT: Was it a jewellery?

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Watch!

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TOM: Point! [DING]
MATT and GARY: Wahey!

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TOM: You're absolutely right.
MATT: You're our points man.

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Absolutely.

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It's the beard that's feared.

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Elizabeth Ruth Naomi Belville, 1854 to 1943,

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and known for carrying around a watch.

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Okay.

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Was she... I'm going to go with something answery.

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Something to do with trains and time zones?

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I mean, given it's a watch — it's to do with time.

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[Laughter]

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No!

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MATT: I'm not hearing a ding!
[DING]

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CHRIS: Official keeper of the Queen's O'Clock.

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Oh, you know what... [DING]

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It's not quite — it's close. Official Keeper of
the Queen's O'Clock... we're getting closer.

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CHRIS: Corgi s***ting time.

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Greenwich Mean Time
certainly has something to do with it.

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Corgi S***ting Time...

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I've just realized I said that.

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It's little used. It's 37 minutes off the hour.

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MATT: CST.

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'Excuse me, Ma'am, I just need to take the corgis.'

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[Queen voice] 'Oh yes, it's s***ting time.'

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Just going to set my watch to Corgi S***ting Time.

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I tell you what, it is basically —
that 37 minutes is corgi s***ting time.

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'Finchley! They're still in the parlour!'

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Someone at Buckingham Palace somewhere is
pulling out the elaborate silver dish right now.

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CHRIS: Used to be gold, you know.

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It does tarnish so.

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GARY: Yes!

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Why would someone in Victorian London,
and later, up to World War Two,

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be going around with a watch?

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Was she an official clock-setter
for some town or borough?

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TOM: Hmm... I'll give you a point for that. [DING]

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Certainly — I don't think official. This was not...

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Unofficial. Going around setting it
to her own bloody time.

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She's a guerrilla time setter.

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GARY: You can't set time on a gorilla!

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They don't wear watches!

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It's like a s*** Banksy!

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'Ah ha ha! You thought it was
five minutes later than it is!'

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GARY: Yeah, but would —
MATT: 'But I *know* it's wrong, 'cos I have a watch!'

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Ah! Now...

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Can I make the point, if the gorilla told you the time,
you wouldn't disagree with it though, would you?

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Whatever time he says it is.

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TOM: I will point out, you're getting very close there.

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This is how...
[Laughter]

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No, Gary isn't. Matt is.

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This is someone who went round selling...

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MATT: Oh! Oh!
CHRIS: Time.

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'I know the time! Give me a fiver
and I'll tell you the time' — kind of person.

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[DING]
TOM: Yup.

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Oh my God.

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TOM: Absolutely right. Spot on.

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I bet you can do that in Leicester Square.

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I mean, you wouldn't want to do it in Parliament Square,
because you've got Big Ben there,

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but Leicester Square...

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[Laughter]

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GARY: 'It's 11:55.'
DONGGG...

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'Trust me. That's wrong.'

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That's not actually Big Ben.
That's just Gary going 'DONGGG...'

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Which bit of me, remains open to be seen.

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If you do go to Parliament Square on a Thursday night,

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you can just see him standing in the corner
doing an impression of Big Ben.

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Yeah! I even put the pointy hat on and everything.

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And for some tourists, the very small / far away thing,
it does work as well.

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How big's the pendulum, Gary?

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You don't want to know.

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Hahey!

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All I'll tell you is, it's regulated by a penny every year.

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That's true, innit? They regulate
the pendulum on the clock on Big Ben

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by putting pennies on or subtracting it,
to half a second or something?

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Something like that, yeah.

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Old pennies.

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Well, with the exchange rate at the moment,
it's going to be pounds by the end of the year.

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We're rich!

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And you wanted us to do the Brexit one. There you go.

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Yes. This was a woman called Ruth Belville,
who like her father and her father before her...

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Her father and *his* father before *him*...
[Laughter]

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GARY: Get a diagram!

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MATT: For generations.

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Pronouns are always difficult.

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MATT: Generations. You need the word 'generations'.

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For generations, had sold the time to people
who needed to know it accurately.

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So where did she go to get that?

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Time Magazine.

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It's a grudging Biscuits.

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But it's a Biscuits.

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Oh, we're not putting scales of biscuitry in here, are we?

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So where did she go to get the proper time
in Victorian London?

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This was originally 1836 when her father created it.

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The London Time Dump.

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[Laughter]

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[Laughter]
TOM: Now...

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That's a good description for what this would be.

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GARY: Oh great! I win then.

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I'm not giving you a point for it...

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but where in London —

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GARY: Damn my short arms!

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Where would you go to get the time?

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Greenwich, I would assume.

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Yeah, Greenwich.

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Yep. [DING] Absolutely right. Greenwich Observatory.

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You see the nonchalance on that?
[Click]  Yeah, it's fine.

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Greenwich Observatory, you would go
to the clock that is outside it...

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Surely you'd go to its herb garden.

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-- [Groans] Thyme!
-- Oh, f*** you.

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Oh.

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I heard a muttering of discontent in the crowd there.

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GARY: That got the reaction
it purely deserved, which was 'Ughh...'

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That's just the despair of 400 people in front of me.

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That is what my puns are worth!

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Ahh.

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That's bat under the arm, back into the pavilion,
shaking your head — really, I'm sorry.

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Yes. There is a clock outside
called the Shephard Gate Clock...

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What's unusual about it?

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MATT: It's got sheep on it!

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No hands on it.

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Shepherds only can go under it!

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No to all of those things!

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Are you sure?

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I mean, it's set on a wall, so if anyone
could get under it I'd be very surprised.

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Is it on a Viking street named Shepherd Street?

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Er, no. It's by the Shephard Gate of the Observatory.

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Sheep work like sundials, don't they?

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They all face the same way...

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TOM: Go on...?

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Yeah, 'cos when you go past many fine Saxon churches,

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what you find engraved on it is four holes
for you to hook the hooves in.

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For a sheep.

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It's twenty past Flossy.

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That kind of thing.

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Then they fall off, you get a goat,
causes all kinds of problems.

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They have to be recalibrated with
a penny on their back every few rounds,

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just to get them to within a few seconds.

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MATT: So I was wrong.

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TOM: Yes, you were.

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It is a fairly standard clock.

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There is something unusual about it,
particularly for that era,

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that you would need to tell the time, day, night...

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24-hour?

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24-hour! Have a point. [DING]

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Absolutely right.

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24-hour clock, so you would go there —
or she would go there,

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would set her watch exactly, and then
go around to hundreds of clients...

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Why didn't someone undercut her and just charge slightly less with a different watch?

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Ah! And there you have stumbled upon something,
so I'll give you a point. [DING]

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Oh, lucky me!

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She came 'under attack from St John Wynne,
a director of the Standard Time Company.'

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Standard Time!

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'Twenty past three! Get out!'

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What kind of criticism did he give
in a speech at the United Wards Club?

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'Oh! I will not take time from a woman!'

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'This is not a place for her!'
Something horrific like that?

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You're close enough. [DING]

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He said 'she might have been using her femininity...'

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Eh?

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TOM: Fe-mi-ni-ni-ty...
CHRIS: ...ni-ni-nin...

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ALL: Femininininin...

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'... to gain business.'

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Oh, I see.

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'D'you want to buy *my* time, luvvy?'

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'Free some time?'

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The speech was published in The Times...

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Ayyyy!

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[Applause]

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With both of you doing that impression,
because I've got a very vivid imagination,

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I've just got you in low-cut Victorian dresses
hanging round a pub in the East End...

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and really I can't sleep for a fortni... oh no...

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Hiya, luv...

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Why are my hands still doing this?!

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Augh!

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So yes. Following the publication
of the comments, what happened?

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She got really pissed off and threw her watch at him.

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But it was on a chain, so she could keep doing it.

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MATT: Is that like a yo-yo?

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'Don't! Criticize! My! Timekeeping!'

248
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I hope it had a bell in it,
so every time it hit him, it was like,

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Ding! Ding! Ding!

250
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I just like the idea of,
'What time is it?'

251
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'I've got no idea...'

252
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'You want to know what time it is? It's whuppin' time!'

253
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Er, quite the opposite, actually.

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MATT: Nothing.
GARY: She took it in good humour.

255
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She did. It 'resulted in an increase in sales'. And, er...

256
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What did she say about his comments?

257
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'T***.'

258
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There was a little bit... a few more words in there —
Don't. Don't.

259
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He'd just given her free advertising.

260
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GARY: That's nails! Love that. Yeah.

261
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'Er, excuse me, Miss.
I hear you provide... services of time...'

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'I'd like to buy some of your... time.'

263
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'All right. It's 2:30. There you go.'

264
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'That wasn't quite what I had in mind.'

265
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'But my watch is accurate now, so...'

266
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'I can't say I lost from this transaction. Good day!'

267
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Yes. She lived to the age of 89...

268
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And she'd know that, 'cos she's got a watch.

269
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She... how long did she have
before that for her retirement?

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None at all. Because she'd just
keep going till she carked.

271
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Close. But a little bit.

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Twelve minutes exactly.

273
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They found a watch on the body.

274
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GARY: Till her w...

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CHRIS: Come on then.

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GARY: Matt Gray's dead. Here we go.

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TOM: That's the look that means
this is about to hit the cutting room floor.

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Everybody, roll up your sleeves. This one's coming.

279
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[Rising]  Ohhhh...!

280
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GO!

281
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This is terrible!

282
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Did she meet her untimely death at...?

283
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[Groans]

284
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[Groans]
[Cheering]

285
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Oh, no! No!

286
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That wasn't even the joke!

287
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I hadn't noticed that! That was better!

288
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I was going to say, did she die at the third stroke?

289
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No, but she got three years of retirement.

290
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GARY: Well, 1940 is Blitz.

291
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I think that's the start of the Blitz.
So she's walking through Blitz-torn London,

292
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telling the Nazzies to eff off while she's
walking around with a clock in her hand.

293
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Hero!

294
00:12:51.620 --> 00:12:54.500
Actually, yeah. 'It's teatime,
they'll be bombing in 15 minutes.'

295
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How did she know that?!

296
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Ohhh!

297
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Just putting it out there.

298
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There is a reference to a buggy in here as well,
so I imagine there was something else...

299
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She may have been riding...

300
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GARY: She was on a go-kart?

301
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TOM: 19th — a Victorian-era go-kart?

302
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Oh come on, Gary. It's an iron scooter!

303
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Ohhh.

304
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Designed by Brunel himself!

305
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And there...! First reference to Brunel... 20 minutes.

306
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If you've got your bingo cards,
that must be a line by now, it really must.

307
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Says the man in a Bob's Full House hoodie.

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TOM: A reference which precisely thr...

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TOM: ...one person in the audience —
thank you for that cheer — gets.

310
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That's exactly the one in 400 people
this is aimed to appeal to.

311
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As am I, let's face it.

312
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So, when she retired...

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after the generations of doing this,

314
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and it was clear that this was not necessary any more,

315
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because the Standard Time Company,
while they did not win, themselves,

316
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technology moved on.
What was the Standard Time Company selling?

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CHRIS: Substandard, shoddy time. Not collected
fresh from Greenwich every morning!

318
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'Just send 'em yesterday's time.
It'll be fine, it's only slightly stale.'

319
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GARY: Big buckets of time, lined up by the gates.

320
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Filling it from the hand-pump of chronology!

321
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CHRIS: 'There ye go.'

322
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CHRIS: 'We've got some time back in the Devonian.'

323
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CHRIS: Geology joke there...

324
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GARY: I imagine time being dispensed sounds like,
[Blows raspberry]

325
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Gary, that's how you imagine most noises.

326
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Fair cop.

327
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Actually, we may as well,
while we're doing bingo and Gary noises...

328
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Goose!

329
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[Honks]

330
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Goose on a train!

331
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[Two-tone train horn]
[Goose honk]

332
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Goose being hit by a train.

333
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[Train horn]
[Goose honk]

334
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It's what they were all waiting for, Gary.

335
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That's what you paid your money for. I know that.

336
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What was the Standard Time Company selling?

337
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How did they get their time to people?

338
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I realize I'm treating time as a physical thing here.
How did they tell people the time?

339
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MATT: Telephoning?

340
00:14:48.760 --> 00:14:49.260
Nah.

341
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Or telegramming? Or tele... communicating
in some kind of way on a wire?

342
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TOM: ...there's a word. There's a word!

343
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Telegraph! Morse code!

344
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Text message!

345
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TOM: [Strangled noise]

346
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MATT: Skype!

347
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[DING] Gary gets the point. It was a
'telegraphic time signal service',

348
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But I'm giving Matt a point as well,
[DING] because he was *so* close.

349
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GARY: Bulls***!

350
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He got the idea, you got the word.

351
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GARY: In mill towns, in t' north where we come from,

352
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they'd go round, basically a man with a great big stick,

353
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would just whack on the window to wake you up,

354
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and that was the knocker-upper,
because he was the only one with a watch.

355
00:15:19.540 --> 00:00:18.140
Yeah. He was the knock-her-upper.

408
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[Laughter]

357
00:15:22.640 --> 00:15:25.600
Lots of kids that looked suspiciously similar,
if you know what I mean.

358
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Yes, the Standard Time Company
sold a telegraphic time signal,

359
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but by that point, we had radio, we had military time...

360
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and the customers were starting to die out, essentially.

361
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Did you have the speaking clock by then as well?

362
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19...36, so it did exist.

363
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There is one other signal at
the Royal Observatory in Greenwich...

364
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Obviously she went up, got it from the clock,
got it from the official source.

365
00:15:48.380 --> 00:15:52.280
What happens every day at the
Royal Observatory on the top of the hill?

366
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Someone gets their fingers trapped in a door
and yells, on the hour.

367
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No one's ever got round to fixing it.

368
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GARY: 'I'll just get the milk — ' BOOM.

369
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GARY: 'AAGH! JESUS WEPT!'

370
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Set the clock...

371
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TOM: Where did that come from?!

372
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Where does it all come from, Tom? I don't know.

373
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No... 1 pm at the top of the hill in
Greenwich Park, a thing happens.

374
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GARY: Somebody drops the balls!

375
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Point! [DING]

376
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[Tittering]
TOM: Do you want to explain that?

377
00:16:18.560 --> 00:16:20.660
That sounded worse than in my head... yeah.

378
00:16:20.660 --> 00:16:23.540
S***. Yeah. There's the time... ball, isn't there, that falls —

379
00:16:25.860 --> 00:16:29.740
TOM: See, this is one of those things
that sounds rubbish, but actually isn't.

380
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Thank you.

381
00:16:31.440 --> 00:16:32.760
TOM: That's actually a good mime.

382
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That's Lord Time himself there.

383
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Do you want to explain the time ball?

384
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MATT: Please explain.

385
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I can't understand the time ball! It's a ball
on a stick that drops down at one o'clock.

386
00:16:40.980 --> 00:16:43.720
Is it something like so ships on the River Thames

387
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could synchronize their chronometers
before they set off,

388
00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:49.200
on a sail, so they knew it was one o'clock?

389
00:16:49.200 --> 00:16:52.920
A bit like the one o'clock gun in Edinburgh, where
they fire a big f***-off gun at the top of the castle,

390
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to scare all the tourists, 'cos that's
what it's for these days, let's face it.

391
00:16:55.900 --> 00:16:57.600
I was once at Edinburgh Castle...

392
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Hold on.

393
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[DING DING]

394
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Thank you!

395
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TOM: Carry on.
GARY: Thank you.

396
00:17:02.160 --> 00:17:03.340
There's a third one needed.

397
00:17:03.900 --> 00:17:05.860
I was once at Edinburgh Castle on holiday.

398
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I was looking down through the telescope
as the one o'clock gun went off —

399
00:17:08.220 --> 00:17:10.740
You see them bastards duck, down on Princes Street!

400
00:17:13.180 --> 00:17:14.720
If you're ever in Vienna —

401
00:17:14.860 --> 00:17:17.460
GARY: That means nothing to me.
MATT: [Sings] 'Oh, Vienna!'

402
00:17:19.100 --> 00:17:23.340
They test the air raid sirens
in the city once a month still.

403
00:17:23.500 --> 00:17:24.980
GARY: Ho ho!
CHRIS: Oooh.

404
00:17:25.540 --> 00:17:28.580
Which I imagine is just to annoy tourists now.

405
00:17:28.800 --> 00:17:29.600
GARY: Yeah.

406
00:17:29.860 --> 00:17:32.260
Like, it's the three-minute warning,
the bomb's about to drop...

407
00:17:32.440 --> 00:00:18.140
I want a helmet and to be able to run.

408
00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:20.880
[Laughter]

409
00:17:36.760 --> 00:17:39.360
Why are both those things unachievable for you?

410
00:17:48.060 --> 00:17:49.780
Congratulations Chris, you win this one!

411
00:17:52.740 --> 00:17:56.100
You win a gambling den for nocturnal birds of prey,

412
00:17:56.100 --> 00:18:00.020
run by the star of the Godfather
from the back of a '59 Chevy.

413
00:18:00.340 --> 00:18:01.520
GARY: Oh, Jesus Christ, no.

414
00:18:01.720 --> 00:18:03.020
Someone just got that, I think.

415
00:18:03.320 --> 00:18:05.880
It's Al Pacino's El Camino Owl Casino.

416
00:18:12.060 --> 00:18:14.780
With that, we say thank you to... Chris Joel!

417
00:18:16.320 --> 00:18:17.440
To Gary Brannan!

418
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Matt Gray!

419
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Bye-bye, studio audience!

420
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We will see you in ten minutes after the interval!