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Hello, hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as the News | 0:00:14 | 0:00:21 | |
coming to you from up the creek in Greenwich London. My name's Dan | 0:00:22 | 0:00:26 | |
Schreiber. I'm here with Anna Ptaszynski, Andrew Hunter Murray and | 0:00:27 | 0:00:27 | |
James Harkin. APPLAUSE | 0:00:28 | 0:00:33 | |
Last week's debut show attracted a certain amount of comment from | 0:00:34 | 0:00:38 | |
people saying it looked cheap. A very technical reason for that - we | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
have no money. LAUGHTER | 0:00:42 | 0:00:46 | |
. Literally, none. Many on social media have pointed it out, like this | 0:00:47 | 0:00:54 | |
person who says, "It looks like a hostage video." | 0:00:55 | 0:00:59 | |
LAUGHTER APPLAUSE | 0:01:00 | 0:01:06 | |
Each week we'll talk about the most interesting things we found from the | 0:01:07 | 0:01:10 | |
last seven days' news. We're not going to Bam barred you with | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
statistics nor predict the outcome of the presidential election, but we | 0:01:15 | 0:01:18 | |
might tell you, for example, that according to a resent study that | 0:01:19 | 0:01:23 | |
Donald Trump's favourite word is "I" and his fourth favourite word is | 0:01:24 | 0:01:29 | |
trump. Yeah. OK, let's begin. In no particular order, here we go. | 0:01:30 | 0:01:32 | |
Starting with you, Anna Ptaszynski. My fact this week is that on his | 0:01:33 | 0:01:37 | |
trip to Vietnam this week, Obama took with him his own personal blood | 0:01:38 | 0:01:42 | |
bank, a fake Cadillac and an exact replica of that fake Cadillac. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
LAUGHTER The Cadillac is his presidential | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
car, there was an article in autoweek saying it's not really a | 0:01:53 | 0:01:56 | |
Cadillac because it's entirely designed by the Secret Service. The | 0:01:57 | 0:01:59 | |
reason is that presidential cars used to be bought from Cadillac then | 0:02:00 | 0:02:02 | |
they'd revamp them with the security stuff that they needed. So the | 0:02:03 | 0:02:07 | |
president's car has lots of bullet-proof and bomb proof stuff | 0:02:08 | 0:02:11 | |
and James Bond style gadgets. They ended up being so heavy and | 0:02:12 | 0:02:15 | |
cumbersome that the Cadillacs they bought would immediately break down | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
constantly. So it just wasn't workable. I love that they call it | 0:02:20 | 0:02:23 | |
the beast. That's the name of it. When they take it anywhere, Obama is | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
like, "Let's get the beast." And it is a beast. You look at it and it's | 0:02:29 | 0:02:33 | |
a phenomenal thing. The car, as a result of being so heavy, it can't | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
go above 65mph. So if you're trying to chase the president... You might | 0:02:38 | 0:02:45 | |
even be able to do it on foot. The other thing is that it only gets | 0:02:46 | 0:02:49 | |
about five miles a gallon. If you're chasing after it, you can wait for | 0:02:50 | 0:02:54 | |
it to run out of petrol. Then you can't do anything. The thing about | 0:02:55 | 0:02:59 | |
the beast is that it's bomb proof, it's bullet-proof. It can detect | 0:03:00 | 0:03:02 | |
chemical and biological attacks. There's quite a lot of security | 0:03:03 | 0:03:06 | |
information about it that has to be concealed. There are things leaked | 0:03:07 | 0:03:11 | |
and reported on. It has a cabin that can be used as a panic room. It can | 0:03:12 | 0:03:15 | |
shut out the outside world. Obama has a phone next to him, a direct | 0:03:16 | 0:03:22 | |
line to the White House, so he can always call up Joe Biden, if he | 0:03:23 | 0:03:26 | |
wants to. Any of us can turn a room into a panic room. You just go into | 0:03:27 | 0:03:31 | |
a room and freak out. You missed the premise of that film. | 0:03:32 | 0:03:40 | |
Special loops replace door handles which allow Secret Service agents to | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
hold on when running alongside the car. I cannot think of a situation | 0:03:44 | 0:03:50 | |
in which that is useful. Why is there a fake one, sorry? The beast | 0:03:51 | 0:03:54 | |
isn't actually that one car. The beast refers to 12 cars. Everywhere | 0:03:55 | 0:03:59 | |
Obama goes he takes two with him. He travels in one and the other comes | 0:04:00 | 0:04:03 | |
along to act as a decoy. I would ask for more than that, if I were him. | 0:04:04 | 0:04:08 | |
If someone attacks you, there's only a 50/50 chance they're going to get | 0:04:09 | 0:04:13 | |
it right. Could you bring more? He has a special helicopter called | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
marine one, there are two or three of them. At the last moment, the | 0:04:17 | 0:04:20 | |
right one lands. Oh, the president is in this one. It's like a | 0:04:21 | 0:04:25 | |
three-cup trick. The president instead of a tiny, red ball. Various | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
sources say it only has one window that opens and that is the driver's | 0:04:31 | 0:04:36 | |
window that only opens 2. 75 inches and that is for the sake of paying | 0:04:37 | 0:04:45 | |
tolls. I'm sceptical about whether or not Obama is paying tolls as he's | 0:04:46 | 0:04:49 | |
travelling through. Let's get to Obama. He went to Vietnam. It was a | 0:04:50 | 0:04:55 | |
mammoth operation to get him there. It was about 800 enterage that took | 0:04:56 | 0:05:00 | |
him there. It cost so much. They estimate that there were at least 50 | 0:05:01 | 0:05:05 | |
planes required to fly him there. Wow, yeah. It's insane. It's a bring | 0:05:06 | 0:05:10 | |
Obama to a country it costs so much. When he went to Belgium a while ago, | 0:05:11 | 0:05:18 | |
it ended up costing the country, for a 24-hour visit, it cost Belgium 10 | 0:05:19 | 0:05:25 | |
million euro of their own money. You'd be like, let's just Skype. He | 0:05:26 | 0:05:31 | |
came to the UK last month. When he was here, you weren't allowed to fly | 0:05:32 | 0:05:37 | |
a kite over London. What? The regulations, it was mostly aimed at | 0:05:38 | 0:05:40 | |
drones, but they included kites in the regulations. I don't know, you | 0:05:41 | 0:05:46 | |
put a bomb on a kite or something. Or he just hates kite flying. Do you | 0:05:47 | 0:05:54 | |
know what he wasn't allowed to do when he visited London? No. He | 0:05:55 | 0:06:01 | |
wasn't allowed to land his helicopters on Windsor Palace | 0:06:02 | 0:06:04 | |
gardens by order of Her Majesty, the Queen, because she said this year, | 0:06:05 | 0:06:08 | |
when he arrived that last time he came and landed his helicopters on | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
her gardens, he ruined her lawns. He said, I'm landing six helicopters in | 0:06:15 | 0:06:18 | |
Windsor Palace, because that's how many I need to come to lunch. She | 0:06:19 | 0:06:23 | |
said, no, you can only have three. Well done Lizzie standing up to him. | 0:06:24 | 0:06:28 | |
APPLAUSE We need to move on shortly. A | 0:06:29 | 0:06:35 | |
patriotic round of applause. I like the comparison this week in news | 0:06:36 | 0:06:42 | |
between Obama's vehicles, as we've discussed, and then Cameron's | 0:06:43 | 0:06:45 | |
vehicle news that he had. He's bought a second hand car for his | 0:06:46 | 0:06:48 | |
wife. Which a lot of you probably saw. It cost ?1500. Yeah, it was a | 0:06:49 | 0:06:56 | |
Nissan Micra and his security detail, what their job is, is to | 0:06:57 | 0:06:59 | |
stand behind the car while he's in the driver's seat and make sure the | 0:07:00 | 0:07:03 | |
back brake lights are working. LAUGHTER | 0:07:04 | 0:07:09 | |
A whole different world, isn't it? OK. Let's move on. It is time for | 0:07:10 | 0:07:15 | |
fact number two and that is James Harkin. My fact this week is that in | 0:07:16 | 0:07:21 | |
Google's Paris offices, Friday meetings are accompanied with cheese | 0:07:22 | 0:07:26 | |
and wine. That's nice, isn't it? In the London office, they have | 0:07:27 | 0:07:32 | |
meetings in a padded cell. So this is the story this week where French | 0:07:33 | 0:07:38 | |
police went into Google's offices because they were literally doing a | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
Google search... LAUGHTER | 0:07:42 | 0:07:47 | |
APPLAUSE They were looking for evidence that | 0:07:48 | 0:07:52 | |
Google was dog a lot of work in France and should be paying their | 0:07:53 | 0:07:54 | |
taxes in France rather than paying them in Ireland, where they kind of | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
sometimes do, at the moment. I thought, there was no pictures | 0:08:00 | 0:08:02 | |
because they didn't really show pictures of what the police were | 0:08:03 | 0:08:05 | |
doing, but I thought I wonder what they saw when they went in. I had a | 0:08:06 | 0:08:09 | |
look at what the officers are like and that's what they have. They have | 0:08:10 | 0:08:14 | |
a phone booth made out of an old Citroen car in the middle of one of | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
their offices. That's one of David Cameron's wife's old ones. Google | 0:08:20 | 0:08:24 | |
has a post box in Bermuda where ?8 billion in profits goes each year. | 0:08:25 | 0:08:30 | |
The number of that box is 666. No joking, really. What happened to | 0:08:31 | 0:08:34 | |
don't be evil? I know. What the hell. In America they had an | 0:08:35 | 0:08:39 | |
incident in which workers have blamed Google Maps after they | 0:08:40 | 0:08:43 | |
accidentally demolished the wrong house. They were brought in to | 0:08:44 | 0:08:48 | |
demolish a house, they put it into Google Maps and they showed up at | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
the wrong spot and they just demolished the house. And the lady | 0:08:53 | 0:09:00 | |
who owned the house was furious. I think she couldn't comprehend how | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
something like that could happen. Was she in there at the time, was | 0:09:04 | 0:09:07 | |
she left standing with just the rubble around her? Googling... What | 0:09:08 | 0:09:13 | |
do you do when someone is knocking your house down? I was looking into | 0:09:14 | 0:09:18 | |
offices around the world in any news that's happened about offices this | 0:09:19 | 0:09:22 | |
week. There's an amazing bit of news, which is that Dubai have | 0:09:23 | 0:09:27 | |
opened a new office, which has been completely 3D printed. Isn't that | 0:09:28 | 0:09:31 | |
amazing. Let me show you a photo. This is it. | 0:09:32 | 0:09:37 | |
That guy is 3D printed as well. So yeah, it was unveiled in Dubai. | 0:09:38 | 0:09:44 | |
They think now the idea is that we will start 3D printing buildings. | 0:09:45 | 0:09:49 | |
That's revolutionary. Is it the office printer inside the office | 0:09:50 | 0:09:54 | |
that the printer built? That is true about 3D printers. There was one | 0:09:55 | 0:09:59 | |
that they taught to make other 3D printers and nobody knows how many | 0:10:00 | 0:10:03 | |
of them there are in the world. Wow it keeps just making a new printer? | 0:10:04 | 0:10:08 | |
It can do. It has the ability to. Once it's made a few, it can carry | 0:10:09 | 0:10:13 | |
on. There's a map of America, according to the queries that each | 0:10:14 | 0:10:17 | |
state submits on Google the most, right? It's not the thing searched | 0:10:18 | 0:10:21 | |
for most, just the most asked question out of all the states. For | 0:10:22 | 0:10:26 | |
example, people in Delaware searched how to get away with murder more | 0:10:27 | 0:10:34 | |
than any other state. Wyoming Googled, "What is Wyoming? In Texas, | 0:10:35 | 0:10:47 | |
it was, "Where is the internet? Georgia had, "Why are my nipples so | 0:10:48 | 0:10:53 | |
sore? Best of all, Mississippi, "Can I get a what what? | 0:10:54 | 0:11:02 | |
APPLAUSE So Google have been trying to make | 0:11:03 | 0:11:07 | |
it when you ask in casual conversation it can respond in a | 0:11:08 | 0:11:11 | |
casual way. They've been feeding the AI computers at Google romance | 0:11:12 | 0:11:16 | |
novels, over 2,000 romance novels so that it can then, when you Google | 0:11:17 | 0:11:21 | |
something, respond to you in quite a human way, because apparently | 0:11:22 | 0:11:24 | |
romance novels are very accurate about how we generally are in | 0:11:25 | 0:11:31 | |
conversation. Really? Dan, Dan, tear my bra off. | 0:11:32 | 0:11:37 | |
LAUGHTER After that they got it to write | 0:11:38 | 0:11:42 | |
poetry. They gave it the first line of a poem and then you had to, it | 0:11:43 | 0:11:46 | |
worked out what the rest of the poem would be. So I'll read some of | 0:11:47 | 0:11:52 | |
those. Amazing isn't it, so, what is it? It hurts, isn't it? Why would | 0:11:53 | 0:12:00 | |
you do that? You can do it. I can do it. I can't do it. I can do it. | 0:12:01 | 0:12:08 | |
Don't do it. I can do it. I couldn't do it. | 0:12:09 | 0:12:16 | |
APPLAUSE Why are my nipples so sore? We | 0:12:17 | 0:12:20 | |
should more on guys. You got anything more? I was looking into | 0:12:21 | 0:12:27 | |
other tax news. There was this article on the go simple tax | 0:12:28 | 0:12:31 | |
website. It was about a tax return that a man sent in and the answers | 0:12:32 | 0:12:37 | |
he gave to some of the questions. Regardless of your opinions, I think | 0:12:38 | 0:12:39 | |
you've got to appreciate his sense of humour. In response to the | 0:12:40 | 0:12:42 | |
question - do you have anyone dependent on you? The man answered: | 0:12:43 | 0:12:51 | |
2. 1 million illegal immigrants, 2. 2 million unemployment Jeremy Kyle | 0:12:52 | 0:12:56 | |
scroungers, 900,000 criminals, and 650 idiots in Parliament and the | 0:12:57 | 0:13:01 | |
whole of the European Commission. APPLAUSE | 0:13:02 | 0:13:09 | |
HMRC said it was unacceptable. And he replied saying, who did I miss | 0:13:10 | 0:13:19 | |
out? An angry man. OK. So we're halfway through our show. It's time | 0:13:20 | 0:13:22 | |
to look at the stories that you've sent in via e-mail and social media. | 0:13:23 | 0:13:29 | |
James, let's start with you. I got this from Jess Wilkie. Scientists at | 0:13:30 | 0:13:34 | |
air kus University have worked out why fruit flies have such humungous | 0:13:35 | 0:13:43 | |
sperm. A male sperm is 20 times longer than a fruit fly and it turns | 0:13:44 | 0:13:49 | |
out it's the shape and length of the re-September cull inside the fruit | 0:13:50 | 0:13:52 | |
fly and longer sperms are better at kicking out the smaller sperms out | 0:13:53 | 0:13:57 | |
of the female's body. If you stretch the sperm out, then it would be | 0:13:58 | 0:14:02 | |
longer than the fruit fly. The re-September cull is Spiralled. 20 | 0:14:03 | 0:14:08 | |
times longer? Yeah, yeah. No thank you. | 0:14:09 | 0:14:12 | |
Not going to go on fruit fly dating websites now. Andy? This was sent in | 0:14:13 | 0:14:21 | |
and it's that the Norwegian consumer council has revealed that the | 0:14:22 | 0:14:25 | |
average Norwegian's phone apps have terms and conditions which all | 0:14:26 | 0:14:28 | |
together are longer than the New Testament. They had a read-a-thon of | 0:14:29 | 0:14:35 | |
the average Norwegian's terms and conditions on their phone apps and | 0:14:36 | 0:14:36 | |
it took over 30 hours to read out. I got this one from the Manchester | 0:14:37 | 0:14:51 | |
evening News. It is that undercover police raided a warehouse in | 0:14:52 | 0:14:55 | |
Cheetham Hill looking for ?40,000 of fraudulently obtained soda and found | 0:14:56 | 0:15:03 | |
?17,000 of fraudulently obtained sofas instead. Time for our third | 0:15:04 | 0:15:11 | |
fact, my fact. Thomas Becket's elbow is currently on tour. This is the | 0:15:12 | 0:15:19 | |
800-year-old monk, Thomas Becket, who is returning to the UK in order | 0:15:20 | 0:15:25 | |
to do a tour. He is going to be showcased around many different | 0:15:26 | 0:15:29 | |
churches, and he will be blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury. I will | 0:15:30 | 0:15:37 | |
give you a quick visual. This is the elbow. It is a fragment of elbow, | 0:15:38 | 0:15:43 | |
really small. I feel like the surrounding is because they know it | 0:15:44 | 0:15:49 | |
is not very impressive. Give it some golden rays. He is going to get to | 0:15:50 | 0:15:54 | |
one of the churches at Westminster. We have bits of Thomas Becket here | 0:15:55 | 0:15:55 | |
as well. They are going to put it together, | 0:15:56 | 0:16:08 | |
like a jigsaw. Great. In theory, it is a reunion tour. Be great if you | 0:16:09 | 0:16:14 | |
thought you were getting tickets for elbow and it turned out to be that. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:22 | |
It is so weird, with the Becket elbow. They keep saying in all of | 0:16:23 | 0:16:27 | |
the news articles, it just includes, probably Thomas Becket's elbow. We | 0:16:28 | 0:16:32 | |
don't know if it literally is his elbow but we're happy to accept that | 0:16:33 | 0:16:37 | |
it be. They were very clever when he died. There were businessmen who | 0:16:38 | 0:16:41 | |
thought ahead, to make sure they maximised the relic potential. There | 0:16:42 | 0:16:47 | |
is an eyewitness account from a guy caught Edward grim at the time who | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
said, brace yourself, the crown of his head was separated from his head | 0:16:52 | 0:16:58 | |
in such a way that the blood died the floor of the cathedral. And | 0:16:59 | 0:17:02 | |
people spend subsequent days to -- flocking to the church to try and | 0:17:03 | 0:17:05 | |
mop up his blood on cloth, knowing it would be valuable. They would | 0:17:06 | 0:17:11 | |
take some of the blood and put it in that of water. Then they would take | 0:17:12 | 0:17:15 | |
some of that water and it would cure you from your ills. The original | 0:17:16 | 0:17:23 | |
homoeopathic medicine. Union -- you can go online and in the way you can | 0:17:24 | 0:17:27 | |
look at a list of bands coming to the UK, there are relics of dead | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
saints touring all over. You can go and see the relics of the passion on | 0:17:32 | 0:17:35 | |
tour at the moment. They have some good gigs coming up. Do they have | 0:17:36 | 0:17:45 | |
support acts? Thomas Moore, from the time of Henry VIII, and Bishop John | 0:17:46 | 0:17:48 | |
Fisher, they are going on tour together. They are touring around | 0:17:49 | 0:17:59 | |
the US. I have started looking into what is going on in archaeology and | 0:18:00 | 0:18:03 | |
history. This week, archaeologists discovered that Stonehenge was not | 0:18:04 | 0:18:09 | |
so hard to build after all. That is a new conclusion. This happened a | 0:18:10 | 0:18:13 | |
couple of days ago. This week, they did a test by having rope and people | 0:18:14 | 0:18:18 | |
and pulling them along. They did it and found it was incredibly easy. | 0:18:19 | 0:18:24 | |
They were like, this is actually the easiest thing to put up. All these | 0:18:25 | 0:18:28 | |
years of thinking it is an impossible task, and it is not. If | 0:18:29 | 0:18:32 | |
you look at a list of people who have S Club eight -- excavated | 0:18:33 | 0:18:38 | |
Stonehenge, in 1979 it was excavated by Mr Pitts, and in 1915, Mr Stone. | 0:18:39 | 0:18:47 | |
UNESCO have recently said this week that Stonehenge might be in trouble | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
jute or climate change. They had a load of sites around the world which | 0:18:53 | 0:18:56 | |
might be a problem with climate change, and one is Stonehenge | 0:18:57 | 0:19:00 | |
because of warmer winters and wetter summers meaning more burrowing | 0:19:01 | 0:19:03 | |
animals which might arrow underneath and they might fall over. Of all the | 0:19:04 | 0:19:10 | |
things to panic about regarding climate change, that is quite low | 0:19:11 | 0:19:18 | |
down on the list. Because it is so easy to build another one. We need | 0:19:19 | 0:19:23 | |
to move on. Other religious news this week. World youth Day is a | 0:19:24 | 0:19:29 | |
Catholic gathering every three years. The next one is in July in | 0:19:30 | 0:19:34 | |
Poland, and people attending from Westminster have been given a phrase | 0:19:35 | 0:19:38 | |
book, a Polish phrase book, containing the phrases, I love you. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:44 | |
Then, if it is going well, will you marry me? And it also has, | 0:19:45 | 0:19:49 | |
unfortunately I have a calling to the religious life. Time but our | 0:19:50 | 0:19:57 | |
final fact of the show, Andrew Hunter Murray. The world's largest | 0:19:58 | 0:20:01 | |
solar plant has just been set on fire by itself. Not a great week for | 0:20:02 | 0:20:15 | |
the sum. It is in the American desert and it is unbelievably cool. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:20 | |
It looks so good. I will show you a picture. This is what it looks like. | 0:20:21 | 0:20:26 | |
It is amazing. There are two ways of doing solar. Fault Oval take cells, | 0:20:27 | 0:20:30 | |
which you see on people's roofs, and this method, concentrated solar | 0:20:31 | 0:20:37 | |
power. This is 173,000 mirrors, each of which has a motor. They all focus | 0:20:38 | 0:20:42 | |
the rays of the sun on this massive tower, and at the top is a boiler | 0:20:43 | 0:20:47 | |
full of water which heats to something like 1000 degrees. That | 0:20:48 | 0:20:53 | |
drives turbines and makes electricity. Unfortunately, this | 0:20:54 | 0:20:56 | |
week some of the mirrors went wrong and set the tower on fire. I had | 0:20:57 | 0:21:05 | |
never heard of this before. The thing with these mirrors is that | 0:21:06 | 0:21:10 | |
they can be dangerous, right? Is it true that they are setting birds on | 0:21:11 | 0:21:17 | |
fire? It is true. About 28,000 birds each year, they think. And they call | 0:21:18 | 0:21:22 | |
them stream is because they look like little shooting stars. There is | 0:21:23 | 0:21:30 | |
another facility planned under the flight path of the golden Eagle, so | 0:21:31 | 0:21:33 | |
they are concerned that they will set the birds on fire. It makes me | 0:21:34 | 0:21:38 | |
suspect that solar power is masterminded by cats. That is 28,000 | 0:21:39 | 0:21:47 | |
birds which is a large number. But there was a study in 2014 which said | 0:21:48 | 0:21:52 | |
that every year, the number of birds which died from hitting windows in | 0:21:53 | 0:22:06 | |
America is 988 million. What? Even the minimum estimate was 1 million | 0:22:07 | 0:22:10 | |
every day of the week. I have read that, and I called Bull shipped. | 0:22:11 | 0:22:21 | |
They did it on the flip side, so obviously they were not counting on | 0:22:22 | 0:22:24 | |
that happening so much with the birds. They did stop the size of it | 0:22:25 | 0:22:29 | |
and they brought it in a bit because they were encroaching on the habitat | 0:22:30 | 0:22:33 | |
of the desert taught us, so they actually made it smaller than it was | 0:22:34 | 0:22:38 | |
originally meant to be. One thing I know about that desert tortoise is | 0:22:39 | 0:22:44 | |
that if you pick it up it can we itself to death. They get frightened | 0:22:45 | 0:22:50 | |
and expel water. In the desert, you need as much water as you can get, | 0:22:51 | 0:22:54 | |
so if you are in Nevada, do not pick them up. On the environment, my | 0:22:55 | 0:23:00 | |
favourite story this week is that Leonardo DiCaprio has got into | 0:23:01 | 0:23:03 | |
trouble because he hired a private jet to fly from Can to New York and | 0:23:04 | 0:23:09 | |
came back the next day, flying 8000 miles in total, to pick up an | 0:23:10 | 0:23:11 | |
environmental award. Cans macro. He should have done it in this solar | 0:23:12 | 0:23:25 | |
powered plane, unbelievably cool, which is ultralight with massive | 0:23:26 | 0:23:31 | |
wings. The pilots are Captain Picard, whose grandfather was | 0:23:32 | 0:23:37 | |
believed to be the inspiration for Captain Picard in Star Trek, so | 0:23:38 | 0:23:43 | |
amazing. They are the most extraordinary family because the | 0:23:44 | 0:23:45 | |
grandfather was the first to go to the highest point of the | 0:23:46 | 0:23:52 | |
stratosphere. And then another family member went to the bottom of | 0:23:53 | 0:23:55 | |
the ocean, and Bertrand Picard was the first to go around the world | 0:23:56 | 0:24:00 | |
completely. So they have gone up, down and around before anyone else | 0:24:01 | 0:24:05 | |
in the world. What a bunch of fucking show-offs. I reckon there is | 0:24:06 | 0:24:14 | |
another one every Christmas who goes home and they say, what have you | 0:24:15 | 0:24:19 | |
done, Jeff? I have a very nice job and a nice family. Well, we went to | 0:24:20 | 0:24:24 | |
the top of the world. One thing about solar impulse, they have to be | 0:24:25 | 0:24:31 | |
ultralight because they did not even take a razor because the extra | 0:24:32 | 0:24:35 | |
weight would have been too much. It was so light it just has a cockpit | 0:24:36 | 0:24:39 | |
which you can sit in, and it has a toilet built into the pilot's seat. | 0:24:40 | 0:24:43 | |
There is no room for an extra toilet. If you are flying and you | 0:24:44 | 0:24:48 | |
want to go to the loo, you are already there. Do you have a photo | 0:24:49 | 0:24:54 | |
of this aeroplane? I have one. That is what it looks like. All right, | 0:24:55 | 0:25:05 | |
Jeff Picard. They have a wingspan about the same as a 747, but it is | 0:25:06 | 0:25:13 | |
170 times lighter. They need the massive wings because they are solar | 0:25:14 | 0:25:18 | |
panels. I was reading about news where the sun has been disruptive. | 0:25:19 | 0:25:24 | |
The sun is beating down so hard that the streets are literally melting. I | 0:25:25 | 0:25:29 | |
have a photo. It looks like a dead zebra. It is the opposite of a dead | 0:25:30 | 0:25:39 | |
zebra. It is just melting and people are literally getting stuck and | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
having to get out of their shoes and being rescued. The idea of a fire | 0:25:44 | 0:25:48 | |
being created by reflective surfaces sounds like it would be a one in a | 0:25:49 | 0:25:51 | |
million chance but apparently it is really common. Last month there was | 0:25:52 | 0:25:57 | |
a set of curtains set on fire in Wiltshire, and the firemen who went | 0:25:58 | 0:26:00 | |
to put out the fire said, it is caused by the reflection from a | 0:26:01 | 0:26:05 | |
reflective item, a mirror, we sometimes call it. It is a common | 0:26:06 | 0:26:12 | |
thing. I remember reading a few years ago that a fortune teller had | 0:26:13 | 0:26:15 | |
her house set on fire because her crystal balls at the house on fire. | 0:26:16 | 0:26:27 | |
She never saw it coming. That is all of our facts. Just time to share | 0:26:28 | 0:26:31 | |
four stories we did not cover. James. From Africa, Nigeria has | 0:26:32 | 0:26:38 | |
declared a tomato state of emergency because of the parasite called tuta | 0:26:39 | 0:26:55 | |
absoluta. Cornwall Council has ordered a taxi firm to repaint its | 0:26:56 | 0:26:58 | |
signs because of the events arrangement of letters. It is called | 0:26:59 | 0:27:10 | |
the port Isaac shuttle service. This was from BBC News. An Essex woman | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
has been given a 12 month suspended sentence for taking boxes of | 0:27:15 | 0:27:17 | |
chocolate from supermarkets, removing the chocolate from the | 0:27:18 | 0:27:20 | |
wrappers and replacing them with rubber balls, marbles and conquerors | 0:27:21 | 0:27:23 | |
and putting them back on the shelves. The court heard that her | 0:27:24 | 0:27:31 | |
motives were unclear. And here is my final fact from the Guardian. The | 0:27:32 | 0:27:39 | |
singer of my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard has never made | 0:27:40 | 0:27:45 | |
a milkshake. In a separate interview in the Independent, MC Hammer has | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
revealed that he does not actually like hammers. He finds them a scary | 0:27:49 | 0:27:52 | |
proposition. APPLAUSE | 0:27:53 | 0:27:59 | |
And now, over to Jane Hill in the studio. A man in Greenwich, London, | 0:28:00 | 0:28:08 | |
has denied he is called Bernard. The man, who wears glasses, has a | 0:28:09 | 0:28:11 | |
strange accent and does not appear to own a razor goes by another name, | 0:28:12 | 0:28:16 | |
but we don't yet know what that is. That is all from Anna, Andy, James | 0:28:17 | 0:28:23 | |
and me, Dan Schreiber. See you next week. Goodbye. | 0:28:24 | 0:28:44 | |
Once upon a time, there was a great and glorious king. | 0:28:45 | 0:28:53 | |
But they would all see him destroyed. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:57 |