Matt and Lucie use a different account to watch videos than to create videos, and YouTube suggests Matt to said account. Matt, however, doesn't like to watch his own videos, making its statistics slightly works. Matt and Bec discuss thumbnail clicking statistics.
Bec did the Jonathan Ross Comedy Club recording, which will come out in a couple of days right after Britain's Got Talent. Matt explains that this is a big deal.
Correction from the show notes: Bec's episode of Jonathan Ross's Comedy Club aired on 10th September (Series 1 Episode 2).
Matt got a shoutout from the Seth Myers show, after a video he made about the quality of talkshow hosts filming from home. Colbert didn't reply, but Seth thanked Matt for the tips and Matt continued assisting Seth. Bec was frustrated that he mention this earlier.
Since episode 1 is when the podcast starts, is this an n-out-of-n+1 thing as 12 months ends at the 13th episode as there is a month between each episode?
Does the goal of 100 patrons after one year from episode 003 (note) apply in episode 012 or 013? Matt counts the month leading up to an episode as the month of the episode (the producers' perspective), while Bec counts the month after the episode (the audience's perspective). Taking both perspectives into account, there's 13 months in a year. Matt proposes a linear fade-in during the preceding month and a linear fade-out during the succeeding month, keeping the total amount at 1 the entire time. Awaiting ding from author.
Previously, Bec and Matt talked about a Ferrero Rocher pyramid from a classic commercial. How many Ferrero Rochers do you require to assemble a platter of the proportions as seen in the commercial?
@setalyas on Twitter used a circle-packing website to work out the amount of Ferrero Rochers. Packing smaller circles into a big circle is a really hard problem. Matt bought almost hundreds of Ferrero Rochers with his Seth Myers consultancy money to verify the results experimentally. After a lot of trial and error, Matt has successfully stacked the balls, though he has not counted them. Matt promises to lend Bec his sweets after counting, so she can have a go (and definitely not just eat them all).
"The outer layers are a manifestation of what's going on inside" — Matt Parker, 2020
Follow-up problem: Is 216 chocolates spoiling the people? Bec used her new ambassador powers to guess that there are about 200 people. Matt notes that having exactly as many sweets as guests is top-tier ambassadoring. Bec suggests that only one sweet per person is spoiling their fun.
Matt calculates that the maximum number of Ferrero Rochers in a pile before it collapses under its own weight, based on his own measurements, is 68'814'850 Ferrero Rochers in 650 layers, costing just over £26.25 million.
How do we determine when an area changes name based on volume? At what point does a room become a great room? At what point does a great room become a ballroom? When does a ballroom become a great hall? And in the other direction: What about a hallway? At what point does a hallway become a room? And when does a closet become a room? Is it number of doors?
Number one: What makes a room a room is whether it can fit the thing that the room is named after. A closet can't fit a bed, so it's not a bedroom.
Number two: The word "hallway" comes from "hall", which was a large building. It is also a room, but with lots of doorways to other rooms going off it. Its name doesn't change based on its volume.
Number three: A room becomes a great room when Bec Hill is in there.
A "problem solved, ding, bye" from Bec
The T-shirt is finished and Bec wore it on the Jonathan Ross Comedy Club. She will post info about the money going to WaterAid on her socials.
The number of patreon supporters at the time of recording is 97. It seems likely that the goal from episode 003 (note) will be met, regardless of how a year of episodes is counted.