First broadcast 7th March 2014.
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
David Wharton
John Sergeant
Sanjeev Bhaskar
John Hannah
Kathy Burke
George Havenith
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
David Wharton
John Sergeant
Sanjeev Bhaskar
John Hannah
Kathy Burke
George Havenith
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00:00This is a show where we reveal some of the most amazing facts you've never heard before.
00:26Each of our guests have come armed with their own favourite fact which we will put to the
00:29test under rigorous conditions to decide whose is the best.
00:32So let's see who's on the show tonight.
00:34A fact about my first guest is that his real life wife plays his fictional grandmother
00:38in the Kumars, which technically makes him one half of the Indian version of the Crankies.
00:42Please welcome Sanjeev Bhaskar.
00:43A fact about my next guest is that she says the worst thing that someone has ever said
00:52to her is, don't take this the wrong way, but you look like Kathy Burke.
00:56Don't worry, you look nothing like her.
00:58Please welcome Kathy Burke.
00:59And a fact about my final guest is he appeared in four weddings and a funeral, although if
01:07my wife makes me watch it one more time, it'll be two funerals.
01:10Please welcome John Hanna.
01:11OK, let's get on with the show.
01:12The first round is all about our guests' facts, but which one will be voted the best?
01:21It's time for round one.
01:22Facts off.
01:24OK, Kathy, you're going first.
01:29What's your fact?
01:30Well, my fact is the average human being, on average, on an average day, sweats approximately
01:411.43 pints of moisture without doing exercise.
01:49I have evidence.
01:50I watched a George Clooney box set earlier.
01:54This is what happened.
01:55Oh, nice.
01:56That's all my spent moisture, watching George.
02:05Let's have a look.
02:06Is that real sweat?
02:07That is.
02:08That's my sweat.
02:09That's not your sweat.
02:12Oh, don't.
02:13Is it?
02:17Wow.
02:20OK, so that's a lot of sweat, and that's without exercise.
02:23And that's just sitting there, just as an average person, not even as a fat bird that
02:28don't sweat much for a fat bird, but that is what I would be sweating.
02:33That's a lot of fur.
02:34Just sitting around.
02:35Are you a sweater, John?
02:36Yeah.
02:37I mean, I exercise quite a bit.
02:38I cycle quite a bit.
02:39Do you?
02:40And what's interesting is, like, if you're getting the air going across you, you don't
02:43realise how much you're sweating until you try and scratch your head with your helmet
02:48on, and then it all just runs down, because there's the spongy bits in your helmet.
02:52But that's like doing some...
02:53So you try to scratch your head with your helmet on?
02:55Well, you forget!
02:58I thought I had a wasp in my helmet yesterday, because it was, like, really sore.
03:01I thought, I'm getting a kind of permanent sting.
03:03Anyway, we're getting...
03:04Are you sure it wasn't a bee in your bonnet?
03:06I'll be here all weekend, enjoy the chicken.
03:10Do you know what's difficult to equate for me, is that if you get, you know, a fat person
03:14running, and they're sweat, and then you get, I don't know, something like an Inuit
03:18sitting in an igloo with a hole in the ice.
03:21Yeah.
03:22Do they still do that?
03:23They're certainly doing cartoons.
03:24Yeah, yeah, well, that's exactly what I mean.
03:27To equate them as an average, and you kind of get that, it just seems...
03:30But not in Africa or the Arctic.
03:33No, but even in Africa, if him, fat boy in Africa, wasn't running and was just sitting,
03:39he would sweat that amount, because that also includes the moisture that comes out of your
03:43breath.
03:44Are you including breath moisture?
03:45Yeah, breath moisture is included.
03:46Oh, did I not say?
03:47Do we have...
03:48Oh, well.
03:49OK, I think we've had enough sweat chat.
03:51Let's see what someone dripping with 1.43 pints of sweat looks like.
04:02Sweat is nature's very own biological air con unit, regulating the body's temperature
04:08when it gets too hot.
04:09But do we really produce an average 1.43 pints of sweat on a normal day?
04:14Before we put this to the test, it's important to define exactly what we mean by sweat.
04:19We lose moisture from our body in three different ways.
04:22Firstly, when we get warm, we start to sweat.
04:25Also, when we breathe, we breathe out moisture.
04:28And finally, there is a certain amount of leakage of moisture through the skin, even
04:32without sweating.
04:33That's what we call insensible moisture loss, because we can't see it.
04:38So for the test to be accurate, we need to consider both kinds of sweat.
04:42How nice.
04:43First, we needed to find an average test subject.
04:47Meet Rob.
04:49He is an average age, average weight, average height, and lives in an average temperature
04:55part of the world.
04:56In other words, Rob is the most average person there is.
04:59But he's a very nice man.
05:02So how exactly will we measure Rob's sweat?
05:06We've stitched pockets of silica gel into the clothing of the participant, and that
05:09will absorb all the moisture he produces.
05:11And to get the best possible results, we needed to make sure none of his body moisture escaped.
05:17So we put Rob in his waterproof suit, which he had to wear for a full 24 hours.
05:22We measured the weight of Rob's clothes with the silica gels before the experiment,
05:27and we will measure them again afterwards.
05:30The difference in weight will tell us exactly how much moisture he produced.
05:35So now Rob has silica gels and a waterproof suit, he's ready to sweat.
05:41In order for us to ensure an average amount of sweat, Rob had to have a very typical day.
05:48At 6.59, Rob had a bowl of crunchy nut cornflakes.
05:54At 7.10, he brushed his teeth and waited for a bus for 10 minutes.
06:01By 8.00am, he'd set up his record stall.
06:06At 12.00, he had lunch where he always does.
06:09Can I have steak and cheese, please?
06:11He ate a steak and cheese pie, whilst also checking the latest football news.
06:16At 3.00pm, it was time to pack up and head to the pub for a well-earned pint.
06:21A pint of lager, please.
06:23It's tough business collecting sweat.
06:26Then, off to the local Chinese for dinner with his family.
06:30And there was just enough time to fit in an episode of their favourite show.
06:36And so to bed, alone.
06:39Because Rob's wife didn't want to share a bed with him in the sweatsuit.
06:44Right, time for Rob to strip and to weigh the silica gel crystals.
06:49So, let's compare the measurements.
06:53Taking the weight before the experiment,
06:56and the weight after the experiment,
06:59we calculated that Rob produced nearly one pint of sweat.
07:03Combine that with the invisible sweat that Professor Havenith mentioned earlier,
07:08that gives us 1.6 pints.
07:11So, the weight before the experiment,
07:14and the weight after the experiment
07:18gives us 1.6 pints.
07:20More than the average 1.4.
07:23Incredible.
07:25Now, Rob, go and have a shower.
07:33So, what do you think of that, Sanjeev? Are you impressed with that?
07:36No, I'm still thinking about the cartoon Eskimo
07:39and the fat black guy in Africa.
07:41Well, I'm guessing the guy in Africa is going to be sweating,
07:44but so is the guy in the...
07:46So, is the guy in Africa going to be sweating?
07:48Well, it depends what he's doing, but I imagine...
07:50Do you know him? I know who you're talking about.
07:52Oh, yeah. Big fat Eddie? Yeah.
07:54Nigerian guy? Yeah, he's a Nigerian guy.
07:56Oh, he's a sweater, then. Oh, fair enough, then.
07:58Sweaty Eddie.
08:00It's the Inuit that I'm not sure about.
08:02OK, now it's time for you to score Cathy's facts.
08:04So, based on what you've seen, what are you going to give it out of ten, Sanjeev?
08:07Well, I think I'd have to give it seven.
08:09Seven? Seven.
08:11Why seven? Hey, I was going to give you three.
08:14I thought I was going to give you seven.
08:16Well, why not more? Cos it's a true fact.
08:18Well, yeah, but to be fair, you did say 1.43 and it was 1.2.
08:20Do you know, you were way out.
08:22What about wee? What about wee?
08:24Wee's not sweat, that's urine.
08:26Good point.
08:28I don't think...
08:30No more points, then.
08:32Go back and do the experiment and say,
08:34do you know that undignified test we did on you?
08:36Would you mind adding to it by weeing on the clothes as well?
08:38Mate, I've done everything I could.
08:40I've got a way of getting your wife back into bed with you.
08:43We're in continental France.
08:45OK, so what are we going to give it, Jon?
08:47Somewhere between two and ten.
08:49Now, are you struggling with the numbers, or...?
08:51The nine.
08:53The nine, yes.
08:55Because I think there's always got to be a little bit of room for doubt,
08:57for, you know, dribbles from wee.
08:59There's no wee involved. Let the wee go, Jon.
09:01There's no wee involved.
09:03Cathy's never mentioned wee.
09:05But isn't it OK, like, the fluid that's coming out of the body, then?
09:07Yeah, but he's not weeging in the toilet,
09:09he's not weeging in the clothes.
09:11You're saying...
09:13So what you're saying on national television...
09:15What you're saying on national television is...
09:17You've got to allow for some of the wee going into your clothes.
09:19What happens to you, Jon? Do you wee?
09:21Are you incontinent, Jon?
09:23After I've had a pint and then been to the Chinese,
09:25I usually need to go to the toilet for a bit,
09:27but if you've been gaffer-taped into a teletubby suit...
09:29He'd had a sip on it, he'd guess you're out,
09:31and he wees into the toilet.
09:33There is a point here, which is that people who exercise...
09:35They're only weighing the clothes.
09:37But when he unzips in order to have that,
09:39there could have been a...
09:41What, has he got a hose, like a sprinkler?
09:43No, actually...
09:45No, because...
09:47No, I think I understand what he's saying.
09:49He's like, if he had a little bit of dribble,
09:51if he didn't shake it after a wee,
09:53is that what you're talking about?
09:55Yeah, yeah.
09:57And then put his todger back in the suit,
09:59then the actual dribble from the todger
10:01would have been included on the weight.
10:03On the weight.
10:05So therefore, it would be 1.43,
10:08cos it was 1.6.
10:10So you're certainly going to say the dribble...
10:12APPLAUSE
10:14So he...
10:16Do you know what? I'm starting to sweat.
10:18LAUGHTER
10:20Or maybe I'm just urinating in my own clothes.
10:22LAUGHTER
10:24OK, so, what was the final score?
10:26So I've completely lost track. Sanjeev said... Seven.
10:28Seven. Nine.
10:30Jon said nine. Eventually.
10:32I'm also going to say seven.
10:34So let's see what your total is, Kathy.
10:36You're on 23 points. That's a good score.
10:38APPLAUSE
10:42We encourage Kathy's fact.
10:44After the break, it's Sanjeev's turn
10:46to try and win us over with his.
10:48See you in a bit.
10:50APPLAUSE
10:54CHEERING
10:56APPLAUSE
11:00Welcome back to Get Facts, Don't Echo,
11:02the show that puts some pretty amazing facts
11:04to the test.
11:06Still with me are Sanjeev Bhaskar, Kathy Burke
11:08and Jon Hannah.
11:10APPLAUSE
11:12Now, before the break, Kathy scored 23 points
11:14with her fact about sweating.
11:16Right, Sanjeev, it's your turn.
11:18What fact have you got for us?
11:20Contrary to popular belief,
11:22you are able to sneeze with your eyes open.
11:24Sneeze with your eyes open?
11:26With your eyes open.
11:28Maybe one of the seven dwarfs learnt this,
11:30cos all the others kept nicking his stuff.
11:33I've heard rumours that when you sneeze with your eyes open...
11:35Have you heard this?
11:37..that your eyes pop out.
11:39Was there an experiment where somebody gaffer-taped
11:41somebody's eyes open and made them sneeze
11:43to see if it's possible?
11:45Is it that kind of criteria?
11:47Well, no, the thing is,
11:49there's no muscles at the back that would push them out
11:51anyway, and it's not like your nose bone
11:53is connected to your eye bone or anything like that.
11:55I know a song about that. Do you?
11:59Did you say eye bone? Yeah. Is there an eye bone?
12:03In certain cultures.
12:05Your turn.
12:07I thought an eye bone was like an iPhone,
12:09but when you've got a blocked nose.
12:11Is it possible to sneeze
12:13without, at the same time,
12:15releasing a tiny bit of wee?
12:17Doesn't that depend on your age?
12:19Can I just confirm
12:21I'm checking for a friend?
12:25I was told this on set
12:27last week, actually, by a colleague
12:29who said that if you sneeze
12:31and you fart at the same time, you do a backflip.
12:33Sorry.
12:35Seriously, this was told to me the other day.
12:37I think if you burp at the same time, you go back in time.
12:39Not long, about ten minutes.
12:41But anyway, it's...
12:43I think you can, yeah, you can...
12:45Eyes open, you can sneeze.
12:47But also, the worst thing that people do
12:49with sneezes is try to suppress it.
12:51You know, when they do that...
12:53Like that. And that's a Zapruder moment.
12:55I think it's worse than that. The people who don't suppress it
12:57but do the big build-up
12:59You've got the tiny sneeze.
13:05Like a little chihuahua fart.
13:09Sneeze like a man!
13:13But anyway, I think it's a useful fact
13:15because it could save your life.
13:17Wow, that's a big claim, Sanjeev.
13:19Listen, for that momentary, you know,
13:21when your eyes close and stuff,
13:23you could be hit by a poison dart.
13:25That would be...
13:28Whereas if your eyes are open the whole time...
13:30Is this by the Inuit
13:32who's fishing, yeah?
13:34Yeah.
13:36I was fishing.
13:38It was Fat Eddie.
13:40Nigerian fella.
13:42OK, I think we need to see this
13:44but before we do, we should probably find out
13:46the science behind it.
13:48The reason our eyes shut automatically when we sneeze
13:50is down to a natural reflex.
13:52The nose and eyes are linked by cranial nerves.
13:54So the stimulation
13:56from the sneeze
13:58travels up one nerve to the brain
14:00and then down another nerve to the eyelids
14:02triggering a blink.
14:04But how can some people
14:06sneeze with their eyes open?
14:08Well, if you've got enough time,
14:10it's possible to train yourself
14:12to fight against the natural reflex
14:14to close your eyes.
14:16But what about the myth
14:18that your eyeballs would pop out
14:20if you sneezed with your eyes open?
14:22Well, your eyes are actually quite secure
14:24and your eye sockets aren't connected
14:26to your nose at all.
14:28So although a sneeze can erupt from your nose
14:30at an explosive 200 miles an hour,
14:32it can't transfer this pressure
14:34into your eye sockets
14:36to pop out your eyeballs
14:38and there's no muscle directly behind the eye
14:40to contract and push out your eyeballs.
14:42APPLAUSE
14:44Well, that's the science.
14:46So I suppose we should see
14:48if we can make some people sneeze
14:50without closing their eyes.
14:53If they can, they can do it
14:55and help our scientific test.
14:57It's amazing the websites you can find
14:59people on nowadays.
15:01So let's meet our sneezers, Murtaza and Jake.
15:03APPLAUSE
15:05Murtaza can do it whilst keeping his eyes open
15:07with his fingers, is that correct?
15:09Correct, yeah.
15:11Sanjeev, you're going to be eyeball watcher
15:13so make sure they don't blink
15:15or, more importantly, pop out.
15:17So off you go.
15:19I'd better give you the implements.
15:21I'll tell you what, Sanjeev,
15:23if you carry on standing like that,
15:25I'm thinking of an idea to make you sneeze.
15:27He's going for the tickle-up-the-right-nostril
15:29technique.
15:31He's old school, that's how I'd have done it.
15:33Get a bit sneezy about it. He's going, he's going,
15:35I can see it. He's got the look of a man
15:37who's about to sneeze or do something.
15:39Here we go.
15:43Let's all get out of the studio
15:45as quickly as possible.
15:47Right.
15:49Let's confirm that with a slow-motion replay.
15:55That is it.
15:57He did it.
16:05Now, Jake is even more unique because not only
16:07can he sneeze with his eyes open, he doesn't even
16:09have to use his hands.
16:11Keep going now. If there's anything you want to stick up there,
16:13let me know.
16:15I think it's coming.
16:17He's got a sensation. He's looking up to the lights.
16:19It's coming.
16:25That was impressive. Have you ever looked at that in slow motion?
16:27That was absolutely brilliant.
16:33Pretty good. Pretty impressive.
16:37There you go.
16:39It really is possible to sneeze with your eyes open.
16:41Let's hear it for our sneezers.
16:47OK.
16:49So, we've tested Sanjeev's fact,
16:51but how impressed were you, Cathy?
16:53Jake's obviously a bit of a special case,
16:55but I didn't believe
16:57he had to hold his eyes open.
16:59But that's still...
17:01No, that's cheating, isn't it?
17:03Because I said that right at the beginning.
17:05Gaffer tape, chopsticks, something.
17:07Chopsticks would be a bit extreme.
17:09It's a light entertainment show.
17:11We're not interrogating them.
17:13I thought you'd say it's really disgusting.
17:16This isn't going to cost me £2.50 a minute,
17:18as usual, is it?
17:22I don't know what happened, but years ago,
17:24and I think I was a bit drunk, anyway,
17:26and I had...
17:28I was eating an onion bhaji
17:30and something happened
17:32and I coughed
17:34and I felt a bit
17:36of the onion here
17:38and it was like... And I thought I had a bit of...
17:40You know when it gets long and stringy
17:42because it's all in the batter?
17:44Coughed again.
17:46I promise you this is true.
17:48Felt something then sort of behind here
17:52and I went like that.
17:56And I got it and I pulled out
17:58from my nose then
18:00and I felt it come from
18:02there
18:04and out my nose.
18:06APPLAUSE
18:12OK, so, Cathy and John,
18:14what are your marks out of ten?
18:16Well, I was quite impressed,
18:18so I'm going to give it nine.
18:20Ooh, a healthy nine, John.
18:22I'm going to go with a seven. You're going to go with a seven.
18:24OK, I'm going to give it
18:26a six.
18:28Do you think that's a bit harsh? I do, yeah.
18:30In that case, five for cheap.
18:33LAUGHTER
18:35I think that's more than generous.
18:37I'll give you the six.
18:39So let's have it up and see where you are on the leaderboard.
18:41OK, Sanjeev Baskar
18:43is in second place with 22 points.
18:45APPLAUSE
18:49And last but not least, John,
18:51it's your turn. Tell us your fact.
18:55Well, it is true that
18:57if people believe they have had
18:59alcohol,
19:02even if it's not really alcohol,
19:04they will feel and behave
19:06like they're drunk.
19:08Even though they've had none whatsoever?
19:10Even though they've had none whatsoever.
19:12If they believe it to be alcohol,
19:14like if you've run out of vodka
19:16and you just give them the tonic
19:18with the ice and lemon
19:20at a party, you just do that
19:22to somebody for fun.
19:24Otherwise known as the Scottish party.
19:26LAUGHTER
19:28It's not just Scottish, it's like for people you don't
19:30really like to come to your party.
19:32They call the English the Scottish party.
19:34So you're saying that if someone
19:36believes that they're actually
19:38drinking alcohol, but they're not,
19:40they will behave as if they're drunk.
19:42Actually, my point's a little bit different, I suppose,
19:44you know, if you take an experiment
19:46and you get six people, say,
19:48for an experiment, say, and five of them are drinking
19:50and one isn't, and everybody starts
19:52getting a little bit, ha-ha, you're gorgeous.
19:54You know, and then that other person...
19:56When he's drunk!
19:59That old battle Scottish job.
20:01Beer goggles.
20:03LAUGHTER
20:05If you've had a hard day at work and you go to the pub
20:07and you get a pint and you take that first sip
20:09of beer and you go,
20:11but it hasn't actually gone into your system yet, has it?
20:13So there is some psychological trick
20:15going on where it's tricking you into thinking
20:17it's relaxing you, because it's not going to your bloodstream that quick,
20:19has it? Yeah, it's the thought of it, though,
20:21isn't it? That's the relaxing, it's like
20:23when you do that, oh, that's,
20:25you're just relaxing.
20:28No, no, but the thought that
20:30you are going to be really relaxed later.
20:32I'm going to be as relaxed
20:34as a newt in about two hours.
20:36LAUGHTER
20:38So, OK, you've heard what this lot think, but join us after the break
20:40when we'll see just how off your face
20:42you can get on tonic water. See you after this.
20:44APPLAUSE
20:47APPLAUSE
20:57Welcome back to Duck, Quack, Stone, Echo,
20:59the show that educates you on bizarre and amazing facts.
21:01Now, before the break, John Hannah told us
21:03that people will think they are drunk
21:05and act like they are drunk if they believe
21:07they have consumed alcohol.
21:09So let's see the experiment.
21:12DRINKING ALCOHOL
21:16Drinking alcohol has the ability
21:18to turn people like this
21:20into people like this.
21:22And it seems the British in particular
21:24are very good at it.
21:26We're so good, in fact, that apparently
21:28we're able to get completely drunk
21:30without consuming any alcohol at all.
21:32But is this really scientifically possible?
21:34Let's talk to the expert.
21:36The sociological term
21:38for the British attitude towards alcohol
21:40is ambivalent drinking.
21:42This means, as a culture,
21:44we view alcohol as a disinhibitor
21:46which can manifest itself
21:48by making us more amorous or aggressive.
21:50Some scientific studies show
21:52if you firmly believe and expect
21:54alcohol will make you behave a certain way,
21:56you can do just that.
21:58In fact, you may be able to feel intoxicated,
22:00displaying some drunken behaviours,
22:02for example, on a non-alcoholic placebo.
22:04So, in the name of science,
22:06let's get a lot of people drunk
22:09or not.
22:13For this experiment,
22:15we needed a bar,
22:17students,
22:19and lots of tonic water.
22:21Half the students
22:23are going to be drinking just tonic
22:25and the other half
22:27are going to be drinking vodka and tonic.
22:29At least, that's what we're telling them.
22:31With some simple deception,
22:33we're going to give both groups tonic water.
22:35The only difference
22:38will have vodka on the rim of their glass
22:40just to give the illusion
22:42they're actually drinking alcohol.
22:44Bottoms up!
22:48We started with the classic speech test.
22:50We asked the students
22:52to recite a series of terribly tricky
22:54tongue twisters.
22:56We monitored their ability to articulate
22:58and to concentrate.
23:00First up were the tonic drinkers.
23:02Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
23:04Peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
23:07Where she sits, she shines.
23:09And where she shines, she sits.
23:11Our sober tonic drinkers
23:13did well on average
23:15with only a couple finding it difficult
23:17to recite the tricky tongue twisters.
23:19Next up
23:21were the fake vodka drinkers.
23:23Let's see if all that tonic
23:25has gone to their heads yet.
23:27Peter Piper picked a peck of...
23:29A peck of pickled Piper.
23:31If Pepper Piper picked
23:33a peck of pickled peppers.
23:36A peck of pickled peppers
23:38that Peter Piper picked.
23:40I saw Susie sitting in a shoe.
23:42Shines shop.
23:44Where she sits, she shines.
23:46And where she shines, she sits.
23:48Can you try saying that
23:50after five fake vodkas?
23:54For our final test we went old school.
23:56We decided to leave the students
23:58to their own devices
24:00and see what happens when we turn the music up.
24:03Our non-drinkers didn't behave
24:05any differently.
24:07However, our
24:09vodka drinkers started
24:11to get more sociable.
24:33And to think,
24:35they haven't even had a drop
24:37of the hard stuff.
24:39After just two tests,
24:41the evidence is conclusive.
24:43As the scientists suggested,
24:45those who thought they were drinking
24:47behaved as though they were drunk.
24:49Now someone,
24:51get them a Jagerbomb.
24:59There you go.
25:01They were hoodwinks, weren't they?
25:03I didn't know they were going to have the vodka
25:05on the rim.
25:07You're not suggesting that the vodka
25:09on the rim got them drunk?
25:11No, but I'm just saying
25:13that I didn't know there was going to be
25:15vodka on the rim.
25:19That's all I'm saying.
25:21I get this complaint a lot.
25:25OK, we've tested John's facts. Sanjeev and Kathy,
25:27time to show us how impressed you were.
25:30Are you going to give that, Sanjeev?
25:32Again, it's that thing of,
25:34had they been given a lathe to operate afterwards,
25:36then...
25:38We've got to keep it in the realms of health and safety.
25:40Well, yeah, exactly.
25:42You've got to test it to its limit.
25:44My difficulty is that students do
25:46and very often act a bit
25:48twat-ish.
25:50That's the only element
25:52of issue I have with it.
25:54You'd like to have seen someone lose a finger, basically.
25:56It would have helped.
25:59But also older people, because older people react
26:01differently to it.
26:03Students react in a very limited number of ways, I think.
26:05So you wanted to see a very old person, drunk,
26:07operating a lathe.
26:09But again, it's undoubtedly true.
26:11So, you know, points.
26:13Seven, probably.
26:15Give it a seven. OK, Kathy?
26:17Well, I was pretty impressed by that.
26:19I will give John nine.
26:21Give him a nine. OK.
26:23You know what?
26:25For his rugged good looks
26:27and the fact that he braved denim
26:29and carried it off,
26:31I'm going to give it a nine as well.
26:33So let's see what that puts you on the leaderboard, John.
26:35John Hannah's in the lead
26:37with 25 points, ladies and gentlemen.
26:39APPLAUSE
26:43So, John's at the top of the leaderboard,
26:45but that could all change
26:47after our next round.
26:49It's time for Fact Finder.
26:51APPLAUSE
26:53So, as much as my guests have brought in facts,
26:55we've got a studio audience to bring in those, too.
26:57We've had a look at them, and John, Kathy and Sanjeev
26:59have each picked out their favourite one
27:01in the hope that it will win them the most points.
27:03John, whose fact do you think can win it for you?
27:05Jamie Rose. Jamie Rose.
27:07Would you like to stand up, Jamie? How are you?
27:09Fine, thanks. You? I'm very well, thank you, yes.
27:11And not many people bother asking back.
27:13I was quite thrown by your interest.
27:17Where are you from, Jamie? I'm from Hinckley in Leicestershire.
27:19Oh, very nice. And what do you do?
27:21I'm a forklift driver. Forklift driver?
27:23Yeah. Oh, very good.
27:25Ever dropped anything on anyone's toe?
27:27My stack fell over. Your what fell over?
27:29I got a triple stack and it fell over.
27:31You did a triple stack and it fell over?
27:33Yeah, pretty much.
27:35Can you talk in non-forklift driver terms?
27:37What's a triple stack?
27:39I had... Three things. I couldn't work this out.
27:43So you had three things on the blades.
27:45Let's call them the blades. Forks.
27:47All right, the forks.
27:49I suppose the clue is in the title.
27:51OK, the forks, you smart-arse.
27:55So you had three things on the fork.
27:57I was stacking it. I put the first one in,
27:59put the second one in, put the third one in.
28:01Went for a break. Is this your toes?
28:03The stack's fallen over. You didn't stack it properly?
28:05I was told to triple stack and I shouldn't have done.
28:07What's the most amount of stacks you've ever done?
28:11I think I've gone five high.
28:17We've only got ourselves a five-high stacker,
28:19ladies and gentlemen.
28:23Mr Five-High Stacker.
28:28Wow. So tell me this, Mr Five-High Stacker,
28:30forklift truck driver from Leicestershire,
28:32what's your fact?
28:34Goats have accents.
28:36Goats have accents?
28:38Whilst cows have regional moos.
28:44When you say accents, are you saying the accents
28:46of the region they live in?
28:48So is a Geordie goat going...
28:54And have you ever heard this in actual practice?
28:56No, I've never heard it, but I've got it
28:58on good authority from my cousin.
29:02Can I ask what your cousin does for a living?
29:04She's still at school.
29:06She's still at school?
29:08How old is she? Eight.
29:12What's this eight-year-old girl called?
29:14Say hello to her. Madeline.
29:16Madeline. Hello, Madeline. It's nice to see you.
29:18You might want to sort of...
29:20cut down on the calpol a bit.
29:26I'm telling you! I'm telling you!
29:28I heard it with me ears!
29:32It might just be calpol round the edge of the spoon.
29:35That's a good point.
29:37Try that. Try it on, putting the calpol around there
29:39to see if you get the same results.
29:42What do we think, Kathy? Do you think there's anything in this?
29:44Well, it depends on
29:46how they're looked after.
29:48It depends on how much human contact they get.
29:51If they're...
29:53What are you talking about?
29:55Have you got any pets?
29:57Yeah. What have you got? I've got a dog.
29:59What kind of dog is it?
30:01It's a dog called Shenanigans. It's a Border Terrier.
30:03Border Terrier? Yeah.
30:05And is it slightly like Cockney?
30:07She is.
30:09What do you mean, she is?
30:11Is she begging like this?
30:14What do you mean, she's... Can you be slightly Cockney?
30:16Is it barking in a Cockney way?
30:18No, when I go, I go...
30:20That's our sort of...
30:22Oh, and now we're relaxed and we're at home.
30:24And I do this noise...
30:26And I swear to you,
30:28she's lying there and she goes...
30:32I promise that is true.
30:34There's a point... I used to wonder this,
30:36about whether, you know,
30:38dogs that were brought over from India
30:40here
30:42could talk to dogs here,
30:44or whether they had an accent.
30:46Because the thing is, I'll tell you why I say that.
30:48Well, they wouldn't have an accent,
30:50they'd have a completely different language.
30:52No, no, English is spoken very widely in India,
30:54even amongst the dogs.
30:56Am I the only one of you who doesn't think
30:58Dr Dolittle's real?
31:00What?
31:02But the thing is, you know,
31:04so if you look at kind of, you know,
31:06kids' literature and stuff like that,
31:08here, dogs say,
31:10right? In America, they say...
31:13In India, they say...
31:15And you kind of go, actually,
31:17if there's a noise that's been attributed
31:19to each place, then maybe they sound different.
31:21I've been to other countries and I don't recognise any,
31:23you know, the dogs... I've been to Germany,
31:25I don't remember any of them going...
31:29Yeah, but if you see English people
31:31taking their dogs aboard,
31:33their dogs tend to bark at the foreign dogs
31:35louder and slower.
31:40Like a Bobo.
31:42Bobo's going...
31:44There you go.
31:51Now, we can't test this fact because we've only just heard it,
31:54so we've got a panel of genuine scientists
31:56to do the hard work for us.
31:58So please welcome rocket scientist Dr Simon Foster,
32:00expert in cell biology and genetics Dr Emily Grossman,
32:02and chemical engineer David Walton.
32:04It's our Verifiers!
32:06CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
32:10OK, so let's see what our Verifiers think.
32:12I actually hope this... I hope it's true.
32:14I really do. What do we think, Verifiers?
32:16Well, amazingly, it's absolutely true.
32:18Great!
32:20No, it's not!
32:28Is it true? It is true.
32:30The call sounds of domestic animals
32:32have always been thought to be totally genetic,
32:34but there are farmers in Somerset
32:36who've been claiming for years
32:38that their cows moo
32:40with a sort of West Country drawl to their mooch.
32:44But a study was done a little while ago on goats,
32:47where they actually took baby goats
32:49and they found that brother and sister goats,
32:51when they were babies, to be expected,
32:53they were sort of bleating similar to each other.
32:55But as soon as they were old enough to go out
32:57and form social groups and make friends,
32:59then they started bleating more like their mates
33:01and less like their brothers and sisters,
33:03so they were basically picking up or learning an accent.
33:06Kind of the same way as human kids do
33:08when they go to school and they start speaking
33:10like their mates and not like their mums and dads.
33:12But what's clear is that these animals
33:14are actually learning in some kind of social way
33:16far more than we thought they'd be able to.
33:20OK, we're going to score this at the end
33:22once we've heard everyone's fact.
33:24OK, your next, Sanjeev, whose fact have you gone for?
33:26The fact here is from lovely Lynne Reader.
33:28Stand up, lovely Lynne Reader.
33:30My fact is that you break your toes
33:32on average ten times a year.
33:34You break ten toes every year.
33:36Now, how do you know this?
33:38Well, they're very small.
33:40You're basing it on the science that they're very small?
33:43Is that it? Please tell me there's more.
33:45We put our feet through a lot.
33:47Lots of accidents, dropping things.
33:49Sportsmen break lots of toes.
33:51But we... Are you...
33:53I haven't broken any of my toes, ever.
33:55But you don't know, because sometimes you don't feel it.
33:57Oh, I do?
33:58I wouldn't even feel that I'd broken my toes.
34:00No, because sometimes the...
34:02The break is so small, it's like a little hairline crack
34:04that sometimes you can get in your fingers.
34:06Oh, we're breaking our fingers regularly as well, are we?
34:08And then you don't know if you've broken your toe.
34:10What are you doing with your life?
34:14OK, it's time for our verifiers to give us their verdict.
34:16Unfortunately, that's not true.
34:18Well, not quite.
34:19It probably stems from the fact that athletes,
34:22dancers and people in the military
34:24sometimes get really tiny stress fractures
34:26from really intense exercise.
34:28But normal people probably won't.
34:30And if you've ever broken your toes, I have.
34:32They're really painful.
34:34It swells up, goes gammy, basically,
34:36and you can't really walk on it.
34:38So it's not true.
34:42Sorry about that.
34:43You're still lovely, though.
34:45OK, finally, Kathy, whose fact have you picked?
34:48I have picked Ollie Wilden.
34:50Ollie Wilden, where are you?
34:52Do you want to stand up, Ollie?
34:54What's your fact?
34:55Blue whales are so enormous...
34:58Is that it?
34:59That would be awful, wouldn't it, if that was it?
35:01Like, really big, man.
35:04They're, like, huge, yeah.
35:07Sorry, blue whales are...
35:08Blue whales are so enormous
35:10that a human being could crawl through
35:12their largest vein or artery.
35:14Wow.
35:15That's a sexy fact, isn't it?
35:17I like the thought of it.
35:19Getting all snug in a vein.
35:23Any human being?
35:24Is it anybody?
35:25I think they'd have to be really big.
35:27Is it anybody?
35:28I think they'd have to be reasonably young.
35:30Reasonably young?
35:31So we have to send children down there?
35:33That's a hell of a thing, isn't it?
35:35To tell your children.
35:36Why don't they just tell you that the veins are, like,
35:38two feet wide and you can, like, have all sorts of things
35:40that could be inside it, rather than, you know...
35:42Having to talk two feet wide to a person.
35:44No, but they always use two humans
35:46so that you can empathise with it, you see.
35:48Yeah, but we know what two feet is, don't we?
35:50Empathise with crawling through a vein?
35:52Well, because you put yourself in that position
35:54because we're an arrogant species
35:56and much better to say,
35:57oh, you could crawl through a whale vein
36:00than I'll get this bin and put that through a whale vein.
36:04Which would be about the right size, wouldn't it?
36:07So, Ollie, how do you know this fact?
36:09I was in Antarctica early this year.
36:11Right.
36:12And we had a whale specialist with us
36:13that would tell us things about it.
36:15What were you doing in Antarctica?
36:16I was with an environmental group.
36:17Can I just ask?
36:18You know the whale expert, you know when he told you this fact?
36:21Yeah.
36:22Did he giggle afterwards?
36:24No, they were trying to impress us as much as possible
36:26because there was a glacier expert,
36:28a whale expert, bird expert,
36:29and they wanted their lecture to sort of be voted the best.
36:33Who was the best?
36:34What, Glacier Guy?
36:35Yeah, I liked the Glacier Guy.
36:37Oh, yeah, he invented the mint, didn't he?
36:41Any truth in this one?
36:43Well, yeah, you've got to appreciate just how big a whale is.
36:46We do appreciate it.
36:47Do we appreciate how big the whale is?
36:49Yeah, I really appreciate it.
36:50The blue whale is enormous.
36:51Enormous, twice the size of a tyrannosaur,
36:53four times its weight, 150 tonnes.
36:56Now, you, ladies and gentlemen,
36:58have five litres of blood in your body.
37:00A blue whale has ten tonnes of blood in its body.
37:03Right.
37:04OK?
37:05Your heart, in order to bump it round,
37:07is about the size of your fist.
37:09A blue whale's heart is the size of a Ford Mondeo.
37:12Now, coming out of your heart,
37:14you have an artery called the aorta,
37:16which carries all the blood to the rest of the body.
37:18Yours is the size of your little finger.
37:21The blue whale's aorta
37:23is the size of about a metre diameter.
37:26So an adult male could crawl through the blood vessel
37:30of a blue whale.
37:31And I've seen papers where people have dissected blue whales
37:35that have been washed up and have seen it.
37:37They've not got to look to do it.
37:39No, they're blue whales that have died.
37:41Yes.
37:42They've then dissected them to see it.
37:43And had a goat crawling through it?
37:44I don't think he'd crawl through,
37:45I think he should have looked next to it and waved.
37:47Wow, that's a fun day, isn't it?
37:49OK, so what do we think of that?
37:51A disgusting bit of information.
37:53I liked it.
37:54You liked it?
37:55Apart from one thing.
37:56What's that?
37:57We've got 5 litres of blood, but the whale's got 10 tonnes.
38:00Yeah.
38:01Well, comparatively, I don't get the difference.
38:03It's funny, a minute ago, you didn't want men,
38:06you wanted measurements in units.
38:08He's just giving you litres.
38:09I don't understand what you're...
38:10Can you not see it?
38:11How many men is that?
38:12How many men is that?
38:15So we've heard the facts, but how many points
38:18will our verifiers give them?
38:19After the break, we'll find out who picked the best one
38:21and whether Sanjeev, Kathy or Jon will be crowned
38:23tonight's Duck, Quacks, Don't Echo champion.
38:37Welcome back.
38:38Before the break, Kathy, Sanjeev and Jon
38:40chose their favourite fact from the audience.
38:42Our verifiers have told us if there's any truth in them,
38:44but how many points have they awarded each one?
38:46Let's find out.
38:47Jon, what was the fact that you chose?
38:49Jamie Rose is informed by his eight-year-old cousin,
38:52Madeleine, that goats have accents and cows moo.
38:56In regional moos.
38:58Verifiers, what do we give it?
38:59It's definitely true for goats.
39:01They have accents as they grow up,
39:03so we're going to give 10 points.
39:04Yay!
39:05APPLAUSE
39:06Lovely.
39:11Sanjeev, regardless of the fact that you voted?
39:14The fact was from Lynn Reader,
39:17who said you break your toes on average ten times per year.
39:20OK, what score are we giving that, verifiers?
39:22Seeing there's some truth in this,
39:24we've decided to give it three.
39:26Give it three?
39:28A bit harsh.
39:30Kathy, please remind us of your chosen fact.
39:32The chosen fact was from Ollie Wilden,
39:34and he says that blue whales are so enormous
39:37that human beings can crawl through their veins and arteries.
39:41Yes, we did hear that.
39:43Verifiers, what score are we going to give it?
39:45Well, we thought about that one.
39:46We were going to give full marks,
39:48but Ollie said a child,
39:49and we're scientists and very precise,
39:51and it's an adult,
39:52so we're only going to give nine points for it.
39:54Wowee.
39:55APPLAUSE
39:56So, let's come all up onto the leaderboard
39:59and see the final scores.
40:01Sanjeev, fast score in third place.
40:03Kathy Burke, second,
40:04but tonight's winner, with 35 points,
40:06is John Hanna.
40:07CHEERING
40:10Well done, John, you're tonight's winner,
40:12which means you're the lucky one
40:13who gets to help me prove my fact.
40:15And tonight it involves a sponge,
40:18a shower curtain...
40:20Oh, no.
40:21..and a leaf blower.
40:22Anyone got any ideas?
40:24No, but I'm leaving.
40:27My fact is you can make a hovercraft
40:30from simple household items.
40:32So let's test it out.
40:33It's time for Max's Fact.
40:35APPLAUSE
40:36So, what do you think of these bad boys?
40:43Erm...
40:44It looks like something you've made in your shed.
40:47It does.
40:48Well, that's exactly, exactly what I've done.
40:50So, as you can see, we've got...
40:52We have the deck chairs, therefore sitting in.
40:54Tell me if I get too technical.
40:56We've got spade handles here.
40:58We have fire extinguishers.
40:59Underneath is the shower curtain,
41:01and this is just a bit of old plywood.
41:03All of it is just household objects
41:05you can find in your house.
41:06Don't know what you're doing with these in your house,
41:08but forget them.
41:09That's decorative item.
41:10So, whilst me and Jon slip into our experiment onesies,
41:12let's find out how this is even possible from David Wharton.
41:15The principle of the hovercraft is really very straightforward.
41:18If we have a vehicle and underneath it
41:20we put a cushion of air
41:21that is at slightly higher pressure
41:23than the air outside
41:24and hold it in place with a skirt,
41:26then that pressure will work in every direction,
41:29including upwards,
41:30and if the thrust upwards
41:32matches the weight coming down,
41:34by Newton's first law,
41:35it'll sit in equilibrium,
41:37and then we can make it go forward
41:39using the fire extinguishers by Newton's third law,
41:43because every pressure that comes one way
41:45there's an equal and opposite reaction
41:47which will send our hovercraft off in the other direction.
41:50We're going to use the leaf blower
41:52to provide the air pressure,
41:54the curtain underneath to provide the skirt.
41:57It's a brilliant design.
41:59It's a wonderful principle.
42:01I just hope it's safe.
42:04APPLAUSE
42:07Thanks, David.
42:09So, John, these spade handles
42:11are attached to the fire extinguishers
42:13and should send us flying.
42:14I should point out that there's no brakes on this.
42:16Right.
42:17So we've got a load of people standing by
42:19making sure we don't bang into the walls.
42:21Can I just say something before we start?
42:23Why is it some people, like, can just carry anything off?
42:26You genuinely, even dressed that up, look quite cool,
42:29and yet I look like they're making Wallace and Gromit into a movie.
42:33Right, are you ready?
42:35Yeah.
42:36Right, let's turn these leaf blowers on and fire them up.
42:39Holy...!
42:43OK. Whoa!
42:45HE SCREAMS
42:57HE SCREAMS
43:03HE SCREAMS
43:05I was going to go and drag her down to me,
43:07but I couldn't get her on the skirt.
43:09HE SCREAMS
43:14HE SCREAMS
43:16So, here's proof that you can make a hovercraft
43:19from household items.
43:21CHEERING
43:25So, that's all for tonight.
43:27I bet you had this quick, because I need to get home on this.
43:30So, a big thank you to my guests, Sandy Bashore,
43:33Kathy Byrne,
43:35and Sean Hanna.
43:37See you next time. Good night!
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43:48Put your hands down. Now your fingers. Wiggle your fingers a bit.
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