The £5K T-shirt is going up for auction, as part of a private exhibition (though the auction will be public). The goal is to get another £5K for WaterAid.
Bec is recording from her cupboard, while Matt is recording in Perth, the cupboard of Australia.
On his way to Perth in Australia, his flight stopped at Darwin, a Matt First™. More flight anecdotes follow, and Bec philosophizes about travel and holidays.
The day the second Horror Heights book "Now LiveScreaming" came out, Bec was asked to do a gig in Glasgow, where she rode a tiny horse, beat a 16 year old boy, and high-fived a bunch of kids by accident. Matt has a running joke with James Grime involving high fives and handshakes. Matt and Bec discuss types of awkward high fives, and invite listeners to share theirs.
How many n-th cousins and how many times removed are you from the common harbour seal?
Bec complains about the family tree of Back to the Future. Matt explains how the cousin naming scheme works: You first need to find the nearest common ancestor of yourself and the cousin you want to locate. You and the cousin both have a distance (measured in generations) to said ancestor. The shorter distance minus one becomes the degree n of the cousin (n-th cousin), and the absolute difference between the distance becomes the degree m of removal (n-th cousin m times removed).
Matt tracks down the closest common ancestor, which was 82 million years ago. He then estimates how many generations lie between it and both the seals (21 million generations) and humans (27 million generations). We are 21 millionth cousins, 6 million times removed.
Bec meanwhile found a McFly family tree. Marty McFly's dad is probably 3rd cousins with his wife, which Bec assumes to be legal.
Darren has written ⅓ of a novel but doesn't know if it's bad or worth completing. How can they find out whether or not it's bad without letting anyone they know read it or putting it on the internet for everyone to read?
It's bad because it's not completed. Whether to complete it is a personal choice. Writing a book is only half the effort (or even less), the rest of the effort is revising and improving it. Also, even if the start is good, the rest of the novel may be bad. Bec recommends the book "On Writing" by Stephen King. Book titles are a lot like cats.
Bec's voice cuts off just after she starts saying something.
Vax Headroom points out that Matt made a maths mistake: Matt says that 4096 is 2¹⁴ while it is 2¹². The sound snippet in question is reviewed and Matt is caught red-handed.
Vax Headroom knows it's 2¹² because a 12 bit analog-to-digital converter has a max value of 4095 and they use them all the time in the software they write to control space craft.
Frank asks whether Matt knew that "Lutin Malin" is French for "clever gnome" before describing him as looking a bit like a gnome. Matt did not know that.
Since Matt went to Australia, the fart pills arrived. Bec has been taking them. Her farts do not smell of roses, but they have become less gassy and less bad. She'll keep taking them in the hope of a more conclusive result.
Ones of people (3 people) have offered to put together a wiki. They will coordinate with Matt and Bec. In a future episode, there might be a call for extra volunteers.
The results of the poll are in. 44% chose "Nah, no idea" while 42% chose "Yes, totally remember it".
Matt forgot to bring his cards to Australia, so he ran down to the shops and bought a deck. He shows Bec 8 cards, one of which is her card.