First broadcast 10th April 2016.
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
John Sergeant
Rhod Gilbert
Sara Cox
Gregg Wallace
Anne McBride
David Lewis
Lee Mack
Simon Foster
Emily Grossman
Maggie Aderin-Pocock
John Sergeant
Rhod Gilbert
Sara Cox
Gregg Wallace
Anne McBride
David Lewis
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00:00Hello and welcome to Duck, Quack, Stone, Echo. This is a show where we reveal some of the
00:25most bizarre and brilliant facts you've ever heard. Each of tonight's guests have brought
00:28along their own favourite fact, which we will be putting to the test to decide whose
00:31is best. So before we hear the facts, let's see who's joining me tonight. Well, a fact
00:35about my first guest is, he once said in an interview, he cried three times during the
00:40Sex and the City movie. I'm not going to make a joke about it, I just wanted everyone to
00:45know. Please welcome Rob Gilbert! Did you? Did you cry? A fact about my second guest
00:54is that when she first joined Radio 2, she said she felt like a new baboon being introduced
00:59to the pack. Well, that's Ken Bruce for you. Any excuse to show off his multi-coloured
01:03arse. Please welcome Sarah Cox! And a fact about my final guest is that when he signed
01:12up for Strictly Come Dancing, he said he had no idea he was going to be put through hell.
01:15But then again, nor did we when we turned on the telly to watch him dance. Please welcome
01:19Greg Wallace! OK, let's get on with the show. All of tonight's guests have brought in a
01:26fact that they really love, but who's his best? It's time for round one, Fact Off. Sarah,
01:34you're up first. What is your fact? My fact, Lee, is that dogs snub people who are mean
01:41to their owners. So if you're walking your dog and someone's not being nice to you, the
01:44dog will not be nice to that person. Yeah, but dogs lick their own... Can we trust their
01:51own judgement? Oolie-goolies. The oolie-goolies. I know a few people who can lick their own
01:57oolie-goolies and I... And I still trust their judgement. When I used to walk the dogs, I
02:06live on the Kent coast, and there was this really friendly, happy, big, I don't know
02:11what breed it was. It was big and it was, you know, a sizable dog. And it was the happiest,
02:15loveliest, kissable, lickable dog. But he was really friendly and happy. Until you licked
02:22him, and then he kicked off. But he would go nuts at people that walked by without a
02:28dog. Yeah. And he would bark and go crazy at anyone without a dog. He didn't trust them
02:33if they didn't have a dog. And we always wondered what he was saying. Was he saying, you're
02:36weird, where's your dog? Or was he saying, what have you done to your dog? To be honest,
02:41I think the dog is more thinking, I think that strange man just said the word lickable
02:43and nuts and I'm off. The thing is with this fact, I admit that it is quite tricky to test.
02:50Because I don't go to places with my dog where people are generally going to be mean to me.
02:54I don't like go prison visiting with the dog, for example, where I'm going to come across
02:58some like tough crims. As it is, I just go to like leafy parks and run around. There's
03:02not really a chance of... So it doesn't crop up that much? I don't buy it anyway, I don't
03:05buy it. You think the dogs are totally disloyal, they do anything for food. My dog... What
03:09have you got? I've got a miniature labradoodle, but she was... Can I just check what's a labradoodle?
03:14A labradoodle and a poodle? Yeah. So what's a miniature labradoodle? It's a toy poodle,
03:18isn't it? It's a real one. You can get... You can't use a toy one, definitely. If you
03:24gave my dog a biscuit, you could sit there, get me in a headlock and give me a double
03:27nipple twist. My dog would happily watch. She'd join in for another biscuit. Isn't this
03:33your profile on match.com? So, you've heard what this lot think, but is there any one
03:38way to find out for sure? Let's see what happened when we put it to the test.
03:46Dogs, they're very loyal. They'll probably snub you if you're unpleasant to their owner,
03:52even at the expense of a treat. But that sounds highly unlikely. Canines have the capacity
03:59to cooperate socially, and animals that live in social groups are very adept at learning
04:04from each other through observation. In a previous study, when the dog's owner's request
04:10for help from a stranger was declined, the dogs were much more likely to snub the offer
04:15of food from that stranger. When we are snubbed by someone, we react with changes in our body
04:21posture, voice and eye contact. These are indications of how we feel and what we will
04:27do next, such as reduce our contact with that person, which is an indication of dislike,
04:33distrust, even feeling threatened. These signals will be observed by the dog, who will
04:39respond accordingly. For this experiment, we recruited ten dogs along with their owners.
04:47The idea was for each dog owner to request help with lifting a heavy box onto a table.
04:54Strangers arrive, two volunteers, that neither the dogs nor their owners have seen before.
05:02The helpful stranger will give the dog a snack. The other stranger will decline the owner's
05:08request for help, but still offer the same treat. So, off we go.
05:16First, the helpful stranger with Snowy and her owner.
05:19Excuse me, would you mind helping me with the box, please?
05:23Yes, of course.
05:26Snowy immediately realises her owner is being helped and accepts the offer of food from
05:32someone she doesn't know. Then it's the turn of Bolognese Chilli.
05:38Would you help me with this box, please?
05:39Yes, of course.
05:44She sees that her owner is being helped and again is eager to take food from the stranger.
05:51Time and time again, the dogs take the food after their owner is helped by the stranger.
05:58There's one notable exception in the tiny shape of Chocky the Chihuahua, who's having
06:04none of it.
06:07Even so, nine out of ten dogs accepted the treat. But what will happen with the unhelpful
06:14stranger? Will the dogs reject his offer of their favourite treat?
06:19This is Tinker, a Jack Russell cross.
06:21Hello, could you help me with this box, please?
06:23No.
06:24Let's see how he reacts. He looks at his owner and snubs the unhelpful stranger.
06:32Next up is Chilli.
06:34Would you mind helping me with this box?
06:37No.
06:38With her owner noticeably upset, Chilli rejects the stranger's offer of a treat.
06:46Quite incredibly, all ten dogs offered their favourite treat, snubbed the person giving
06:51it because they had been unpleasant to their owner, proving that dogs really are man's
06:57best friend.
06:59There you go.
07:04So, do you think your dog would refuse food if someone was mean to you?
07:10No, definitely not. And definitely not my former dog, my old dog, my old Basset, because
07:15he would do anything...
07:16When you say former dog, has he sadly passed away?
07:17Yeah, he's passed away.
07:18I thought you meant he's now a cat.
07:19No, no. One time, he ran off from me at the park, and he was quite bad at picnic ridding,
07:26so in the summer months, he was a nightmare to walk, you couldn't really have him off
07:29the lead. Anyway, he legged it off, and he came back to me, and he had birthday cake
07:33all over his face. And he'd gone and dived on the middle of someone's delightful... And
07:39I had to find the... I was good, I found the birthday people.
07:42Did you find them? Was she crying, the kid?
07:43No, there was... Well, luckily, it was a lady, but they were sat there looking a bit grumpy.
07:49I was like, ooh, do you want an autograph? And they went, shut up, Gabby Roslin, and
07:54get your dog out of here.
07:57Thankfully, every week, we're joined by our resident experts who can tell us a little
08:00bit more about this fact. So please welcome specialist in cell biology and genetics, Dr.
08:04Emily Grossman, rocket scientist, Dr. Simon Foster, and expert in space and mechanical
08:08engineering, Dr. Maggie Adairin-Pocock, otherwise known as our verifiers.
08:11So, have dogs got any other characteristics we don't know about?
08:19Well, they kind of, obviously, if you've ever had a dog, they have emotions like fear and
08:24happiness, and things like that. But they don't have kind of complex emotions, so they
08:28don't have, like, guilt or shame. That's kind of more of a human thing that's based on,
08:32like, a memory. And, you know, we've got emotional baggage, and dogs don't really carry that.
08:37So that's why dogs, you know people always say, oh, my dog's forgiven me. It's not really
08:40they've forgiven you, they've just forgotten what you've done, basically. So they can't
08:44really, I hate to say it, but they don't really forgive you.
08:47Yeah, but people always do that. They put, like, you know those people that call their
08:51dogs, like, they say, come to mummy, come to daddy.
08:54I say that.
08:55It's always a bit weird, isn't it?
08:56I say that. I mean, not both of those, but I do do the daddy one.
08:58You say daddy?
08:59I do, yeah.
09:00You need to get a grip.
09:01I can't help it. I do, I say, dad will be back later, you wait here, you stay here,
09:04your dad will be back, my mum's going to take you, I do, I know.
09:07Is this on TV?
09:11So that was Sarah's fact, but how good was it? That's down to our audience here tonight.
09:14So using your keypads, on a scale of 1 to 10, how impressed were you?
09:17Please vote now.
09:24So let's find out what the average rating was from our audience.
09:28That's alright, 7. Good start, Sarah. Nice 7 there.
09:31Good strong start, Sarah.
09:32Thanks.
09:33Good strong start.
09:34I'm happy with that, I'm happy with that.
09:36Nice 7 there, or in dog years, just a 1.
09:41So we've heard Sarah's facts, but join us after the break when Rod will try and win us over with his.
09:54OK, welcome back to Duck, Quack, Stone, Echo, the show that puts extraordinary facts to the test.
09:58Still with me are Sarah Cox, Rod Gilbert and Greg Wallace.
10:04Before the break, we saw Sarah win 7 points for her fact that dogs snub people who are mean to their owners.
10:10Rod, you're next. What fact have you gone for, sir?
10:13My fact, Lee, learnt while living a subsistence existence in Indonesia.
10:21Finish that with South Wales, but carry on.
10:24I learnt that bamboo is stronger than steel.
10:29Bamboo is stronger than steel?
10:32That's right, you heard.
10:33That is a bold statement.
10:35It is a bold statement, mate.
10:36I'm not sure that can be true. If that's true, why isn't Superman Man of Bamboo?
10:39Well, it should be. It should be, because bamboo is stronger than steel.
10:42Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it some sort of basket?
10:46The only reason...
10:47You know those famous bamboo baskets?
10:49The only reason it sounds rubbish, Superman Man of Bamboo, is because we think steel is stronger than bamboo.
10:55If we all knew the truth that I'm trying to get out there, that bamboo is stronger than steel,
10:58then Man of Bamboo would be a much better name.
11:00And everybody would think, Man of Steel? That sounds rubbish.
11:02Have you any evidence of this?
11:04I was living in Indonesia, and the old guru, the old man in the village, said to me, in Indonesian...
11:12I haven't thought that through, to be honest.
11:14He said to me, the old man, the old guru said,
11:17Bamboo is the strongest substance known to man.
11:21No, that's pushing it now. That is pushing it.
11:24I said, that's pushing it, guru. And he said, alright, how about this? It's stronger than steel.
11:29He went, alright, that's better. That's what he said.
11:31They use it for everything. Fishing. I was fishing for... well, fish, mainly.
11:37I was fishing with a bamboo fishing rod.
11:39I don't think you need a strong thing to catch fish. We're catching whales.
11:42No, but it's flexible as well. It's strong and flexible.
11:45I would be alarmed if someone said, let's have a meeting, come and meet me on the 23rd floor of such a building,
11:51and I get there, and the skyscraper is made of bamboo.
11:55Actually, in Hong Kong, when I went to Hong Kong, the scaffolding is made out of bamboo.
11:59But it doesn't look right, does it?
12:02It doesn't, because we're preconditioned to think that steel is stronger than bamboo.
12:05It's tied up and not bolted on. It doesn't look right.
12:08Think how strong it is. It goes massively high, and it is the same length.
12:12Think how strong something has to be to be the same width of the bottom as it does right at the top.
12:16There's only bamboo and Simon Cowell's haircut that's actually does that.
12:20That's what he models it on, apparently.
12:22Bamboo is stronger than metal.
12:24Stronger than steel, not just metal.
12:26That is why pandas... Bamboo is stronger and harder to digest than steel.
12:32That's why pandas eat so much bamboo. That's why they don't have sex.
12:36It's the equivalent of eating scaffolding. Would you want to do it after that? No. You'd be exhausted.
12:41I do feel in this that we do have to think about the pandas, just for a moment,
12:46because they've got enough on the plate.
12:48Oh, but they won't have if we keep using all their bamboo.
12:52So, in the Second World War, then, why didn't the Japanese have bamboo tanks?
12:56Well, that's a good point. I tell you what, if the designers of the Titanic were alive today,
13:00they would be kicking themselves about their fundamental error, wouldn't they?
13:03Oh, I should have made it out of bamboo! Can't get an ice cream for a bamboo!
13:07I'm telling you, bamboo is why everyone's so scared of the wicker man. It's hard. It's tough stuff.
13:13Rod, you obviously believe this fact is true, so you'll be able to prove it when we test it out.
13:17But before we do, let's see the science behind it.
13:20Bamboo, not just a panda's meal of choice, but also a material capable of rivalling steel and concrete in strength.
13:28Bamboo can grow to nearly 60 metres in height. It is only as wide at the base as it is at the top.
13:36As well as being strong enough to hold up its own weight, it's also flexible enough to bend in the wind.
13:43Its tubular shape allows it to stay lean and lightweight.
13:50OK, here we have a 2-metre piece of steel attached to a standard 10-metre long tug-of-war rope.
13:57And here we also have our tug-of-war team, who have been trained today by Chief Technician Dave Rudge,
14:02who is one of the coaches for the RAF tug-of-war team.
14:05Now, Dave, you're going to tug on this rope and try and buckle the steel,
14:08and if you can't do it, we will add members of your tug-of-war team until you can do it.
14:13So, OK, Dave, you still feeling confident about your fat rod?
14:16Well, now that I've seen steel for the first time in my life, it does look quite hard.
14:20Is this where you're going to go, sorry, not steel, I meant straws?
14:23Yeah.
14:24OK, Dave, start tugging.
14:29Right, I mean, I think we virtually know that was going to be impossible, right?
14:32So it looks like you need some help, so let's add another tugger.
14:36One day I'll find a catchphrase that will catch on.
14:39So here's David. OK, David, go for it now, David and Dave, away you go, lads.
14:47Can you watch the face, love? My face, protect me.
14:51Right, OK. Oh, there, I've done it. Keep going.
14:54Stop! Stop, you nutter!
14:56That'll do, that'll do, let's have a look.
14:58OK, it took two of you to buckle the steel rod.
15:02Let's see now what happens when you pull on the bamboo.
15:06Can I just say, they won't do it with bamboo.
15:09What you just did there, never. I've never seen it done.
15:12I've never seen it done.
15:15That much is true.
15:16So, Dave, we start with the same conditions, don't we?
15:18So we start with just Dave. Test conditions.
15:20So, please, start pulling on the bamboo.
15:23He's got no chance, love. He's got no chance whatsoever.
15:26No chance.
15:28No. No. OK.
15:30So, it looks like Dave is struggling, let's add our other tugger.
15:34It's David again. Thank you, David.
15:37OK, away you go, lads. See if two of you can break it.
15:40You know, I often ask myself why there isn't more bamboo tug of war on telly.
15:44You'll never do it, lads, not a chance. Never do it. OK.
15:47I imagine it's going to take at least three or four of them.
15:49OK, let's find out. Let's add one more tugger.
15:51This is Damiji. Please, Damiji, if you'd like to join in.
15:56OK, there's three of you now. Let's go. Here we go.
15:59Three, two, one, go. Go!
16:01I'm beginning to have serious reservations about going into Dragon's Den
16:05with my idea for Christmas crackers made of bamboo.
16:08Still no luck. Let's give him a hand. Come on, me and you will give him a hand.
16:11Let's have a go.
16:13OK, let's show you how real men do it, lads. Here we go.
16:17Three, two, one, go!
16:21Come on, put your back into it, lads.
16:24Come on, I'm taking it all here.
16:27Sorry you're at the back, by the way, but I see you more as a bigger anchor.
16:30Yeah.
16:32I think we need more tuggers. Trey and Josh, come on in. Trey and Josh.
16:38Right, be careful, lads. I don't want this to go into...
16:41OK, there we are. Here we go. Go!
16:47Oh!
16:49There we have it!
16:51A big thank you to our tug-of-war team.
16:53You proved Rod's fact that bamboo really is stronger than steel.
16:57Thank you. Thanks, guys.
17:03APPLAUSE
17:10There is your proof. What did you make of that?
17:12That was pretty impressive, right? Yeah.
17:14I thought to see those strapping young gentlemen...
17:17Yes, madam. Yes.
17:19..pulling away on that bamboo was, I thought...
17:22LAUGHTER
17:24..just an enjoyable feature.
17:26All the ladies are right with me and some of the men as well.
17:29Rod, those other fellas weren't bad either.
17:32OK. And I thought bamboo was the hardest thing in the room.
17:38OK, so we've tested Rod's fact,
17:40but let's find out how impressed our audience was.
17:42Time for you to all give it a mark out of ten.
17:44Please vote now.
17:50So let's find out what the average rating was for your facts
17:53and where that puts you on the leaderboard, Rod.
17:55That's a nine. That's all right. That is a nine.
18:00Thank you very much, audience.
18:02Kelly Lander wasn't impressed, though. Where is she, then?
18:05Kelly Lander, where are you?
18:07Kelly Lander, you're in for a whole load of Welsh aggression.
18:10Why didn't you like that, Kelly?
18:12I just don't think it would be practical to use bamboo.
18:15Obviously, steel can be made into different shapes,
18:17so why not make it stronger? That's a very good point.
18:19What do you mean, like what shapes? Give me a shape, I'll make it out of bamboo.
18:22Very hard to make a bamboo fort.
18:24Have you never been to a garden centre?
18:27Classic Welsh chat-up line.
18:35So, last but not least, Greg, it's your turn. Tell us your fact.
18:37Well, my fact is that it's virtually, let's say impossible,
18:42to give away money.
18:45So, actually, if you wander down the street
18:47trying to give away £5 or £10 notes,
18:49people won't actually take them.
18:51And can I tell you something else? It's ironic, I know,
18:53and you'll probably giggle, but I'm a Millwall supporter,
18:55and... You can certainly hide it well.
18:59It's egg on toast! Eat it!
19:03And in the days where you could turn up and just pay at the gate
19:06when it wasn't all ticket, I had more tickets than I needed,
19:09and I tried to give away a Millwall ticket
19:11to Millwall supporters going in, and they wouldn't take it.
19:15So money's even harder.
19:16Why do you think that is? What do you think the reason behind it is?
19:18I think people think that there must be some sort of trick
19:20and they're going to get found out to be an idiot.
19:23What, you mean the kind of fools that if you were to give them, like,
19:26you know, a compliment, they might go,
19:28-"What do you mean by that?" That kind of thing?
19:30Yeah. You're being sarcastic. Yeah, yeah.
19:32I'm going to... Your fact is that you can't give away money.
19:34Yeah. Right, I'm going to ring a mate, see what happens.
19:36Put it on speakerphone so we can all hear it.
19:38Your mate would take it. I'm talking about strangers.
19:40If you wandered around, people wouldn't take money off you.
19:42Hello.
19:44Hi, Lloyd? Yeah, can you hear me?
19:46Yeah, it's Rod. Are you all right?
19:48Yeah, I'm doing good. Yeah, I'm all right, mate, I'm all right.
19:50I've got you on speakerphone, so it probably sounds a bit weird,
19:52but I just... I've, um...
19:54I wanted to give you £100.
19:56What?
20:00Sorry, I've got the TV on.
20:02I want... So, I just... I wanted to give you £100.
20:06Have you been drinking?
20:10I just had a good month, and I thought I'd just give something back.
20:13What, you've had such a good month,
20:15you're going to give me £100? Yeah.
20:18It's all right. Have you told your wife?
20:23He doesn't want it. He doesn't want it.
20:26Lloyd? Yeah?
20:28It's Greg from MasterChef.
20:30Can I give you £100?
20:33What the **** is going on?
20:40Lloyd, Lloyd, sorry, it's Lee Mack here.
20:44I'm from up north. I'm not giving you any money.
20:52He did say, what's going on?
20:54He didn't go, thank you, I'd love that.
20:56He's suspicious, he doesn't trust you.
20:58He was definitely a bit stumped, yeah.
21:00He didn't know what was going on.
21:02He was definitely a bit stumped.
21:04I genuinely thought he'd just go, yeah, right,
21:06here's my bank details.
21:08No, it's really hard to give things away.
21:10People think you're trying to trick them,
21:12or they're going to get caught out and they're going to get laughed at.
21:14Well, I just think there was a catch,
21:16that maybe they were going to, sort of,
21:18catch up with you at some point.
21:23Thanks, Greg.
21:24Well done, Rod.
21:26You certainly made Greg look like an idiot there.
21:30Ha ha, Greg, he's made you look really foolish.
21:33Hey, Rod, do it again.
21:35Go on, really stick it to him.
21:37Stick it to him.
21:39He doesn't like it when I give it away.
21:41Go on, give him all to him.
21:43He doesn't like it when it is, when it is.
21:45Go on, have that.
21:48God bless him.
21:49That shows you the level of Rod's wealth.
21:51Second time and it's changed.
21:55And that's between pens, right?
21:57There was definitely a bone going in there.
21:59There's going to be that awkward tension now, if you're in the show,
22:01where Rod's going, seriously, can I have it?
22:03Can I have it back?
22:05We've had a joke, we've had a laugh.
22:07OK, you've heard what we think,
22:09but join us after the break when we put this to the test.
22:11APPLAUSE
22:20Welcome back to Duck, Watch, Don't Echo,
22:22the show that brings you brilliant and bizarre facts
22:24that you've probably never heard of.
22:26Before the break, Greg told us that it's almost impossible
22:28to give away money. We need to know for sure,
22:30so we put it to the test.
22:36Money. We could all do with a little more of it
22:38for the things we like.
22:40But when we get offered money by a stranger,
22:42we find it very hard to accept.
22:45Is that true?
22:47In our society, we're used to the notion of giving to get,
22:50whether in terms of money or personal exchanges.
22:53It's what we call reciprocal altruism.
22:56Although a few people may be grateful for the free cash,
22:59being offered money by a stranger
23:02is such an unusual experience,
23:04it's most likely to arouse suspicion, distrust and disbelief.
23:09There are several other reasons
23:11why people may choose not to take the money.
23:14There's a hierarchy in exchanges,
23:16which means we tend to perceive the person who gives
23:19as being superior to the person who receives.
23:22Perhaps the biggest reason
23:24is that we're deeply cynical of strangers bearing gifts.
23:28We believe there must be a hidden catch
23:31behind such an unexpected offering.
23:35To test this theory,
23:37we took to the streets with hidden cameras and a wad of cash
23:41to find out if people really will look a gift horse in the mouth.
23:48We sent in our first volunteer, Steve,
23:51a straightforward chap, nothing special about him,
23:54except that he has a stack of money to give away.
23:59How will people respond when he offers them £5?
24:03Just like that.
24:06No, it's for you.
24:08It's because I'm nice.
24:10I've got a special offer for you.
24:12Free money.
24:13There is, right now.
24:15I'm giving away free money. Would you like some free money?
24:18It's free. No catch.
24:20Are you sure? OK, no problem.
24:22Steve isn't having much success,
24:24though a few people warily take the money.
24:27Can I give you some free money?
24:29There's no catch, sir.
24:31OK, thank you.
24:35After approaching total strangers for three hours,
24:39only 3% of them took the money.
24:43But maybe some people found this six-foot man rather threatening.
24:49So, for our second test, we tried a warm and friendly young woman.
24:58Let's see what the response is to Jennifer.
25:02Hello, how are you doing today?
25:04Thank you. Enjoying the sunshine? Yes.
25:06Would you like some money? Thank you.
25:08I'm giving away some money today. Would you like some?
25:10No, thank you.
25:11No catch? No catch.
25:13Oh, come on, there must be a catch.
25:15I've always been told if it's too good to be true, don't do it.
25:18You're giving money to people? Mm-hm.
25:20To everyone? Mm-hm.
25:21Anyone who will take it off me?
25:23No, it's OK.
25:24Jennifer did better than Steve.
25:27But after three hours, still only 6% accepted the money.
25:34We tried a different approach, setting up a stall with a sign.
25:43We couldn't spell it out any more clearly that we were giving money away.
25:49You know there's a sign you don't see every day?
25:51Why are you giving money away?
25:53Just feeling generous today. Really?
25:55Yeah, yeah. It's a trick.
25:57Nothing at all, nothing at all, sir.
26:00But even the few people who took the money were reluctant to believe in our generosity.
26:06No catch? No catch.
26:08There's got to be a catch. No catch.
26:10This test was the most successful.
26:139% of people did take the money.
26:16But as the theory suggests, our volunteers struggled to splash the cash.
26:22Proving that money for nothing just doesn't make sense.
26:30So what do you make of that? That's just amazing.
26:34What do you make of that? They should have had this guy.
26:36That's what I make of that.
26:38He took 20-odd quid off a 6-foot man.
26:40He was after 12.
26:42It is weird that people won't take money, and yet when that woman on the deli at the supermarket
26:45puts loads of bits of free cheese out, it's like a stampede.
26:48Yeah.
26:50So that was Greg's fact. Now our audience is going to score it.
26:52So using your keypads on a scale of 1 to 10, how amazing do you think the fact is?
27:00OK, Greg, let's find out what the average rating was from our audience for your fact.
27:05It's a 7.
27:08It's all right. It's not bad.
27:14Hey, hey, guess what? Somebody gave you a 1.
27:18Liam Kwame, where are you?
27:20Hey, Liam. You all right? I'm all right.
27:23Yeah, do you want to mess with me? My name's Liam Kwame.
27:27You gave it a 1, Liam.
27:29That test weren't done in my area.
27:32Are you objecting to the fact that you didn't get a free fiver?
27:36If I went there, that would be... Where is your area, mate?
27:38Chatham. Chatham.
27:40There's a fella in the front with 20 quid. Make it 15 and give him a fiver.
27:44OK. Rod's in the lead, but there's still plenty of time for Sarah and Greg to catch up in the next round.
27:48It's time for Fact Finder.
27:51Not only do we ask our guests to bring a fact to the show, we also ask our audience.
27:55Greg, Sarah and Rod have each picked out the audience fact they think is best.
27:59And, Rod, you're up first. Whose fact have you picked?
28:02I have picked a fact from someone called Rita Dimitriou Swanick.
28:09Where are you, Rita? Here.
28:11Rita, what is your fact?
28:13So, cows sleep when they're standing.
28:17Can I just tell you, before you finish, this fact is nonsense.
28:21Cows sleep when they're standing.
28:23But they can only dream when they're lying down.
28:27Oh, come on. How on earth would you know that?
28:31It's got to be true, because it's in the horrid fact book by Henry's Horrible Bodies.
28:36Are you reading children's books for your fact?
28:39But they don't stand up and then go down to dream and up and down.
28:44They constantly get up and down.
28:46We only dream in the last part of our sleep, don't we?
28:49The last few 20 minutes, I heard.
28:51Isn't that true, Verifiers?
28:53Some in the first stage as well.
28:55But most of the night we're not dreaming.
28:57Get off!
28:58Well, actually, it makes sense. It's quite logical.
29:01No, no. One thing it doesn't do is make sense.
29:03That I can confirm.
29:05Because when we are in REM sleep, so we're dreaming,
29:09our body is actually paralysed, so we don't act out our dreams.
29:12Is that true? So we're unable to act them out, because it might be dangerous?
29:15So people who are sleepwalking, that has been disabled temporarily,
29:18and they get up and start doing things, and it is dangerous.
29:20So the human condition is, I actually put our body in paralysis,
29:24so we don't act out our dreams.
29:26Now, when a cow is in non-REM sleep, it's fine for it to stand up,
29:30but when it goes into REM sleep, the body goes into paralysis,
29:33so there's two options.
29:34Either it's going to fall down, or it's going to start acting out its dreams.
29:38Now, I don't know what cows dream of,
29:40but it just doesn't seem healthy to them to start prancing around the fields,
29:42acting out their dreams.
29:44OK, we'll score at the end, once we've heard everyone's fact.
29:47Your next, Sarah. Whose fact have you gone for?
29:49Natasha Mog Addis.
29:51Natasha Mog Addis. I like the middle name, that's great.
29:54What's your fact, Natasha?
29:55OK, so the hair wall on the head of a right-handed person goes clockwise.
30:04The hair what?
30:05The hair wall, but most left-handed people have their hair wall going anti-clockwise.
30:13Is that why I'm ambidextrous?
30:19I'm quite into you.
30:21The wall means the direction in which the hair grows.
30:23It's that bit there. Are you right-handed?
30:25I am right-handed.
30:26Yeah? Yeah.
30:27So let's have a look at your head, then.
30:28Well, I can't... I suppose it goes clockwise.
30:30Yeah, it does. It does go around.
30:31Clockwise, yeah?
30:32Yeah, clockwise.
30:33Whereas it would go...
30:35OK, look, Tanferai verifies to give us their verdict. What's going on here?
30:38So the wall, as you said, is the technical name for the bit on the crown where the hair kind of swirls out.
30:44And this is a bit of a tricky one, because this came from a study in 2003 by a scientist in America, in Maryland.
30:50And he actually observed 500 people surreptitiously, kind of in parks and public areas.
30:56And yet when I do this...
30:57LAUGHTER
30:59..he found that over 90% of normal people had a clockwise wall.
31:06And because most people are right-handed, he asserted that that's probably because they're right-handed.
31:11He then observed a small sample of left-handed people and found that they...
31:15Well, actually, left- and ambidextrous people,
31:17and found that they had random assortment of clockwise and anti-clockwise wall.
31:21And he extrapolated from that that right-handed people would have a clockwise wall
31:26and left-handed would be a random mixture of anti-clockwise and clockwise.
31:30However, subsequent studies since then, in the last 12 years, have actually...
31:35Some have verified that and some have actually found no link at all
31:39between handedness and whirl-wall direction.
31:43So, really, the jury's kind of out as to whether that's actually a verified fact or not.
31:47I'm not sure it really, really holds up.
31:49So how do you tell if you're right- or left-handed? What's the definitive way of telling it?
31:52Give him a pen. Now.
31:54LAUGHTER
31:55Finally, Greg, whose fact have you picked out?
31:57James Ford.
31:58James Ford. Where are you, James? Are you all right?
32:01Yeah. Good.
32:02Right, well, that's the end of the chat.
32:04LAUGHTER
32:05I'd like him to get straight to the point. What's your fact?
32:08A head of broccoli contains more calcium than a pint of milk
32:12and more vitamin C than an orange.
32:14A head of broccoli? How big's the head?
32:17How big's the head?
32:18It's about the size of your fist, I suppose.
32:20No, that's not a head, that's a broccoli.
32:22Yeah, that's a head of broccoli.
32:24No, one head is one bit.
32:25No, that's a floret.
32:26What's the matter with you? It's a floret.
32:28It's a very tough thing, talking to you,
32:30cos it's like half threatening and half quite calm.
32:32LAUGHTER
32:34What are you doing? It's a floret.
32:36Imagine if at the Millwall, you were running like a meringue!
32:39LAUGHTER
32:41With a bit of icing sugar!
32:44Sprinkle gently.
32:46That's a floret.
32:47A floret? So you're saying a whole broccoli?
32:49Yeah, the guy that told me, it wasn't huge.
32:52Well...
32:53What did he look like?
32:54Sorry.
32:55LAUGHTER
32:56That doesn't matter, he might have been an expert.
32:58He was supposed to be an expert.
33:00He was a developing chef for the caterers at the school I work at,
33:05and he told the kids...
33:06But he wasn't a greengrocer.
33:07He did by any chance have accidentally come across
33:0950 broccolis recently, trying to get rid of them?
33:11LAUGHTER
33:13Verifies Greg likes James Fat, but is there anything in it?
33:16Well, having more vitamin C than oranges probably isn't that surprising.
33:19He's actually got double the amount of vitamin C,
33:21like a head of broccoli.
33:22The calcium thing is actually really interesting,
33:24because broccoli is actually really high in calcium,
33:27cos you need it, and loads of vegetables are,
33:29cos obviously if you don't have milk, if you don't have calcium in diet,
33:32you can have really bad bones.
33:33And broccoli has got something called vitamin K in it,
33:36which very few things do, and that stops your bones fracturing.
33:39So it's actually really, really good for you.
33:41Milk has only been part of our diet relatively recently.
33:44Cows were domesticated about 10,000 years ago.
33:47Well, that's recently.
33:48It is in terms of evolution,
33:50because we haven't got used to processing it properly yet.
33:53It's all relative, though, isn't it?
33:54If you said I've seen you for ages,
33:55no, I saw you quite recently, I saw you 10,000 years ago.
33:57Yeah, but you're not going to evolve over your lifetime, are you?
33:59Speak for yourself.
34:00Well...
34:01LAUGHTER
34:02So, we've heard the facts,
34:03but how many points will our verifiers give them?
34:05Find out after the break.
34:06APPLAUSE
34:12APPLAUSE
34:16So, before the break,
34:17each of our guests chose their favourite fact from the audience.
34:20We found out whether each fact is true,
34:22but who will get the most points from our verifiers?
34:24Let's find out.
34:25Rod, please remind us of whose fact you backed.
34:28I backed Rita Dimitriou-Stanwick.
34:32Swanwick.
34:33It feels like you've literally got a Scrabble bag,
34:35put your hand in it, gone like that, and just read what's there.
34:38That's what I did do. Right.
34:39Luckily, it came out with her name.
34:41LAUGHTER
34:42And the fact was that cows sleep standing up,
34:44then apparently they lie down to dream,
34:46and then they're back up to sleep again, and they're down to dream,
34:48and then they're back up to sleep again, and they're down to dream.
34:50And apparently it's true.
34:51Verifiers, what do we think?
34:53I love the idea of cows sort of dreaming and living out their dreams,
34:56so I've given it a seven.
34:57Seven.
34:58APPLAUSE
35:03Sarah, remind us of a fact you backed, please.
35:05It was Natasha Mogg-Addis' fact,
35:07and I liked it, Natasha,
35:08and it was that a right-handed person's hair wall there
35:11goes clockwise, and a left-handed might go anticlockwise.
35:15So, verifiers, what are we giving that?
35:17Well, given that one study did verify this,
35:20but only for right-handed people,
35:21because the left-handed people were kind of 50-50,
35:23and even that study has been...
35:25It's been failed to be corroborated by the studies,
35:28so, really, I can only give it a five.
35:30Oh.
35:31Sorry, Sarah.
35:32Finally, Greg, which fact did you go for?
35:34James Ford, who claimed that broccoli has got more calcium than milk
35:39and more vitamin C than an orange.
35:41Verifiers, what are we giving that?
35:43Well, the vitamin C bit is correct,
35:44the calcium bit's a bit dodgy, but it is very good for your bones,
35:47so we're going to give this a six.
35:49A six. OK.
35:50So, let's put all that up onto the leaderboard,
35:52and we can see how it's affected the scores.
35:55OK, Sarah's in third place, Greg's in second,
35:57but Rob's leading with 16 points.
35:59Not bad, Rob.
36:00APPLAUSE
36:01You're a winner.
36:02You are a winner.
36:03Unfortunately, we have lost 20 quid.
36:05There's still time for the rest of you to catch up, though.
36:07We've all heard the guest facts and the audience have brought theirs,
36:09so now it's my turn.
36:10It's time for Max Facts.
36:12APPLAUSE
36:15I've got some facts.
36:17All you have to do is guess what they are from a series of clues
36:19and you'll get points for each one you get right.
36:22So, here is the first one.
36:24We have this.
36:26It's a training shoe.
36:27Correct.
36:29APPLAUSE
36:31And we have this.
36:32Somebody's leg.
36:33That's it. Well done.
36:35LAUGHTER
36:36You know it's been a really good night out when you wake up in the morning
36:39and you find those two things on your bedside table,
36:41and you're like, what was I doing last night?
36:43What was I doing?
36:44Yeah, until you find out that's your own leg.
36:46LAUGHTER
36:47I'll give you clues all about shoelaces.
36:49If it's all about shoelaces,
36:51why didn't you just bring out a shoelace in the first place?
36:53What's the rest of it for?
36:54Well...
36:55Wasting everyone's time.
36:56Just bring out a shoelace if it's about shoelaces.
36:58You couldn't even be bothered to do that before.
37:00So I just bring out the shoelace and not even the shoe?
37:02Yeah.
37:03I'm trying to walk out, why bother bringing out you?
37:05LAUGHTER
37:06OK, it's to do with how you might differ in how you tie your shoelace.
37:10Do your shoelaces up too tight
37:12and the whole of your torso above your knees falls off?
37:14LAUGHTER
37:16Got it.
37:17It could be true.
37:18Is it about the children doing the little rabbit ears
37:21and then there's the more technical version?
37:23It is very much about that, yes.
37:25What?
37:26My fact is, almost everyone ties their shoelaces the wrong way.
37:29So here we have...
37:30You mean they do it differently to you
37:32and you're the only one who does it the right way, yeah?
37:34LAUGHTER
37:35This is my attitude towards everything.
37:37Right.
37:38Take a shoe each.
37:40Verifiers, can you tell us more, please?
37:42Yes.
37:43When you tie a bow,
37:44there is actually a right way of tying a bow
37:46and a wrong way of tying a bow.
37:47So I take a loop in my right hand.
37:50We can follow as we're doing it.
37:51Yes.
37:52Now, if you take the other part of the shoelace,
37:56it depends on which way you wrap it round that loop.
37:58So if you go anti-clockwise...
38:00Which is what everyone, I think, does.
38:02I'll go clockwise.
38:03Yes, I think that's the general...
38:04If you go anti-clockwise and take it round...
38:06Yeah, which is what I do.
38:07..then make your bow.
38:08Yes.
38:09Now, as you let go of the bow,
38:11it has a tendency to line up with the shoe.
38:13That is a weak knot.
38:14At this point, I'm usually calling for my wife to finish it off.
38:17LAUGHTER
38:18It's just fascism.
38:19It's not...
38:20There is no right or wrong way, it's just fascism.
38:23That's what I want to show you.
38:24Now, let me do a right loop again.
38:26And this time, when you do it clockwise,
38:28you get a much stronger bow,
38:29so if you pull it, there's no slack.
38:31Maggie, I don't care how strong the bow,
38:33I'm 46, my shoes have never fallen off.
38:35Not once have they ever fallen off.
38:38All you need, Velcro.
38:40They're great now.
38:41LAUGHTER
38:42Yeah, this will be now for the Welsh people.
38:44If you can't tie your shoelaces, just use Velcro.
38:47LAUGHTER
38:48Right.
38:49Thank you very much.
38:51I still don't know what that was for.
38:53LAUGHTER
38:55Hand over, Greg, I will show you.
38:57LAUGHTER
38:59APPLAUSE
39:02OK, next one.
39:03We have this.
39:06As if you tie up a goose, you have to do it clockwise.
39:08LAUGHTER
39:10We have this.
39:11How do you know that's not a duck?
39:13And we have this.
39:15Lick a goose and it'll bite your teeth out.
39:17LAUGHTER
39:21Right, come on, what's the fact?
39:22Greg licked a goose and it kicked his teeth out.
39:25Do geese have teeth and they don't have a tongue?
39:29No, they...
39:30They do have a tongue.
39:31They do have a tongue.
39:32Do they have teeth?
39:33They do.
39:34They have teeth on their tongues.
39:36What?
39:37Yes.
39:38If you don't believe me, have a look at this.
39:40Verifies.
39:41Can you explain why?
39:42Geese have little tooth-like ridges on the insides of their beaks
39:46and also sometimes on their tongue.
39:48They're made of cartilage rather than enamel like ours are.
39:51And they help the goose to kind of grab hold of pond weeds
39:55and vegetables from ponds and to chop through grass
39:58and also to grip slimy things that they eat like snails and lizards.
40:02LAUGHTER
40:05So that's why you should never French kiss a goose.
40:08LAUGHTER
40:10And my next fact tonight...
40:12I know that's the only reason you don't French kiss a goose.
40:15Also that it's a bit weird.
40:17This...
40:19And this.
40:21What?
40:22Could you make something out of that on MasterChef?
40:25I couldn't make it, but I could roast it quite quickly.
40:28Keep it clean.
40:29Is it about how long you can keep a heart for heart transplant on ice?
40:34It has nothing to do with that whatsoever.
40:36Is it about the heart's reaction if you go into very cold water?
40:39Yes, it very much is that, but a bit more specifically...
40:41The heart shuts off completely while you're in ice-cold water.
40:44Yeah, that's right.
40:46I'm surprised we haven't heard about this before.
40:48You die if you go in cold water.
40:50My fact is... Think about it.
40:52It's the effect that cold water has on the body.
40:55Does it temporarily stop your heart or does it beat differently?
40:59It does beat differently.
41:00I'll tell you specifically what my fact is.
41:03My fact is plunging your face into cold water for 20 seconds
41:07will dramatically slow down your heartbeat.
41:10Now, I will, of course, need a volunteer to help demonstrate this.
41:13Greg, well-volunteered.
41:15Are you just picking me because I won't get my hair wet?
41:19Fair advice. Please explain while we get ready for the demonstration.
41:22So, this is thanks to something called the mammalian diving reflex,
41:26a reflex found in mammals, but especially aquatic mammals
41:29such as seals and dolphins.
41:31By lowering their heart rate when they go underwater,
41:34they can conserve the oxygen they have in their bloodstream
41:36and survive underwater for longer.
41:38Now, it's actually still found in humans as well,
41:40and they're actually in babies up to the age of six months.
41:42If you put them in water, you'll see that they naturally
41:45shut their mouths and hold their breaths.
41:47And this is actually how the picture was taken
41:49on the front cover of the album by Nirvana, Nevermind.
41:52Now, in adults, we see a similar reaction, actually.
41:55If you submerge your face in cold water,
41:58your heart rate starts to lower.
42:00This is actually used in hospitals to actually reset people's hearts
42:03if they've got an irregular heartbeat.
42:05Now, this works best the colder the water.
42:08So, we've got some nice ice-cold water ready for Greg to try out.
42:14OK.
42:16OK, so we're going to test this final fact now with some ice-cold water.
42:20Now, Adrian over here is recording Greg's current pulse.
42:23This pulse meter, can you just show us your pulse meter, please, Greg,
42:26with your finger? There it is.
42:28So, as we can see, Greg's current heart rate is 86.
42:32If this fact is correct, then after Greg submerges his head in the water,
42:36we should start to see it drop after ten seconds, OK?
42:40Obviously, if he leaves his head in for five minutes,
42:43we could get it to stop completely, but we won't be doing that.
42:46So, the time will be up when we hear this noise.
42:49So, Greg, you ready? Yeah.
42:51OK, away you go.
42:55Right, everyone, go.
42:59He's kept his glasses on. I love that.
43:01I love the fact that he's kept his glasses on. It's brilliant, isn't it?
43:04He wants to be able to really see that ice.
43:09I love it if he thinks they're goggles.
43:12It's good till we get it in round the side.
43:16And look at that. His heart rate is now 63 beats per minute.
43:20So, there you have it.
43:22Plunging your head in cold water really does reduce your heart beat.
43:26So, there are my facts, and after this round, let's see the final scores.
43:31Sarah's on 12, Greg's on 13,
43:33but this week's winner is Rod with 16 points.
43:37You're a lot like one.
43:39That's it for tonight's show.
43:41A huge thank you to our verifiers and our special guests,
43:44Greg Lawless, Rod Gilbert and Sarah Cox.
43:46I'll see you next time. Goodnight.
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