Do Go On - 360 - Alan Turing & The Enigma

Episode Date: September 14, 2022

You may have heard the name, or seen the movie, but this week we learn a bit more about Alan Turing, and cracking the Enigma code. Support the show and get rewards like bonus episodes: dogoonpod.com or patreon.com/DoGoOnPod Submit a topic idea directly to the hat: dogoonpod.com/suggest-a-topic/ Check out our new merch! : https://do-go-on-podcast.creator-spring.com/ Stream our 300th episode with extra quiz (and 16 other episodes with bonus content): https://sospresents.com/authors/dogoon Check out our AACTA nominated web series: http://bit.ly/DGOWebSeries​ Twitter: @DoGoOnPodInstagram: @DoGoOnPodFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/DoGoOnPod/Email us: [e-mail] Check out our other podcasts:Book Cheat: https://play.acast.com/s/book-cheatPrime Mates: https://play.acast.com/s/prime-mates/Listen Now: https://play.acast.com/s/listen-now/ Our awesome theme song by Evan Munro-Smith and logo by Peader Thomas REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turinghttps://www.britannica.com/biography/Alan-Turinghttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/05/obituaries/alan-turing-overlooked.htmlhttps://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-alan-turing-cracked-the-enigma-codehttps://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-imitation-game-didnt-tell-you-about-alan-turings-greatest-triumph/2015/02/20/ffd210b6-b606-11e4-9423-f3d0a1ec335c_story.html Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Melbourne and Canada, we got exciting news for you. And we should also say this is 2026. Jess, what year is it? 2026. Thank God you're here. Right now, I'm in Melbourne doing my show with Serenjai Amarna, 630 each night at the Cooper's Inn Hotel, having so much fun. We'd love to see you there.

Canada, we are visiting you in September this year. If you've somehow missed the news, we are heading up Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Toronto for shows. That's going to be so much fun. Tickets for all this stuff, I believe, are online. And I'm here too. And welcome to another episode of Doogone. My name is Dev Hornikey and as always.

I'm here with Jess Perkins and Matt Stewart. Hello Dave. Hello, Dave. Hello, Matt. Hello, Dave. Hello. Great to be back together. Isn't it?

It's so good to be here at the stupid old studios. What a lovely space this is. That's right. The new studio. It's all happening here. Yeah. Absolutely loving it. Hopefully you can hear it at home that this is a good space.

Hear that? That's silence. That's good stuff. That's crispy. That's crispy. Maybe too crisp. Can we get the crispy crispiness down? Evan, sorry, Evan's in the booth next door.

And could we soften this? Soften that? Soften the crisp? Thanks. Thank you. That's better. Yeah, that's much better. Thanks, Evan.

Evan Monroe Smith. Evan Monroe Smith. Hey, if Evan was here, I'd ask him to explain how the show works. But obviously, doesn't have a mic in that next room. So, Jess, instead I'm going to ask you. Why do I have to do it? To ask Matt, to explain the show. Well, the way it works is one of the three of us gets a top.

topic which we go away and research. We just lather ourselves up in it. We learn it. We take a deep dive and we really get to know it. We get the ins. We get the outs. We buy that topic a drink. Yeah.

We get to know it a little better. And then buy that topic a second drink. And if things are going really well. Yeah. Then Wednesday. We invite that topic back up to our hotel room. We drop our hotel key in the margarita glass and say, hey, maybe I'll see it later. I say, why did you put this in my drink?

What is the hell? That's all sticky. That's disgusting. I was drinking that. And anyway, so we learn about a topic and then we write that into a bit of a report, usually somewhere between three and 15,000 words. And then we bring that back and we tell it to the other two in report form. And the other two, just listen.

Occasionally maybe go on a bit of a tedious tangent. Oh, no, they don't do that. They just ask questions that might also benefit the listener to hear the. answer to. But sometimes they'll do an awful riff that goes nowhere, but they keep fucking chasing it down as if maybe it'll turn around soon. That's right. And they, you know, if everything's working well, the editor will edit those out.

And Jess will be editing this week's episode. She'll also be doing the report. But to get on a topic, Jess, do you have a question this week? I do. My question is, who? Who? Mike Myers. He said, Al.

Who did Benedict Cumberbatch portray in the 2004? Oh, the code cracker. Alan Turing. Turing. Turing. Now, who gets the point there? Dave, you said the code cracker. I'm paying.

I'm giving it to me. You also interrupted me as I was reading the question, which is incredibly rude. Oh, do we not do that? Do we have to wait until the question is being read? You must wait until the question has been read. Damn it. Let's all go around the room and say if we've seen the film. Me, no. Me, yes. Me also yes because I was writing this report. Okay. And it's not a documentary, but I just thought maybe it would explain some of the complex maths. Maths all the better.

Oh, gotcha. That's right. In the kitchen before, we were talking about how you have a maths heavy report coming up and it now makes sense. Yeah, I was saying I wish Dave had done this report. Just because it like, it is obviously maths heavy. Anyway, so yes, the topic is Alan Turing, which has been suggested by a bunch of different people, including Fred Whitehead, Katrina Goldman, Ben Johnson, Hannah Hemsley, Callum J. Burgess Wiley, Braden, Ian Whitehead. Maybe connected to Fred Whitehead?

Probably. Miguel Acosta, Holly Hayden, Justin Goddally and Dominic S have all suggested as a topic. A beautiful bunch of names. Fantastic. Beautiful bunch of names. I'd crack their code any day. Would you?

I don't know what that means. But would you code their crack? Certainly not, Dave. That is inappropriate, please. Yeah, you can only... We're trying to do an... Save that to the marriage. We're trying to do an adult podcast here, not an adult podcast.

There's a difference. Yeah, we're more easy listening than that sort of adult. That's correct. Yeah, okay, so you've seen the film, Matt. Do you remember anything? No, I saw it when I was at the cinemas. I have no idea of, like, was it 10 years ago or something? But where were you?

2004. No, 2014. Okay. Because remember, you have a special ability to remember where you were when you first saw a movie. No, I used to have that, but my memory is fading. That one, I can't put out from a picture. I was in a cinema.

I think I saw it by myself. I was killing time. He's closing his eyes and you can see the eyes, a bit of rapid eye moving. It's amazing. He's going back in time. Take me back. Take me back.

Take me back. I was at the Melbourne Central Hoyt's. Okay. Wow. Oh, shit popcorn. I hate Hoyt's popcorn. It's no good. Jess, actually, her secret talent,

she can tell you where the good and bad popcorn is. Yeah, village popcorn's better. Village is better. Absolutely. I didn't know that. Points of shit. It's a bit cardboardy.

Yeah. Are you eating the box? Oh, I tried to continue the riff there, but that is fun. Dave, we're not doing an adult podcast. We're doing an adult podcast. Sorry, sorry. Are you eating the box?

That's very confusing. Are you eating some books? Okay, so, but I mean, this has been suggested many times. Dave, you're very quick to. to pick who I was talking about. Yes, because I think I've put it up for the vote myself before. I think it's come second, at least once for the Patreon supporters. Yeah, well, that's really interesting.

Because people, like you say, you go through the hat, there's a lot of suggestions. Well, I put this up, I put up four potential topics, and this got 50 something percent of the vote. Wow. Nice. Like it was a bit of a lands side of the other three. Yeah. Are they duds? Oh, yeah.

Yeah. It was the history of Little Toes. Like he defeated Nazis with maths. Is that how you pitched it because I'd vote for that? It's not how it was, well, maybe it was how it was pitched. I do, I remember it being pretty sad and grim. I don't remember leaving their feeling good about anything. Okay.

It's another, is that, is that, I can hardly remember this film at all? You remember the feeling. Yeah, I remember the feeling. Is that one of your great talents? You remember the feeling you have as you leave a cinema? Yeah. He's doing the eye thing again. So anyway, we'll let me tell you about.

Fantastic. Alan Matheson, Turing. Oh my God. Nominative determinism. Oh my God. His middle name is math. I didn't, the whole time. Okay.

I also said to Dave earlier that this has been one of the hardest reports for me to write because I don't understand 95% of it. You don't even understand the word math. You use maths there to explain how much you don't understand math. Oh my God, I did. Look how good I'm doing. Alan Matheson Turing. Holy shit, that's good.

He was born in June of 1912 into a rather well-off family of status. His father Julius. Great name. He was a senior colonial administrator with the Indian Civil Service, and his mother was the daughter of Edward Wallace Stoney, who was the chief engineer of the Madras Railway, so a railway company that operated in southern India. So this is during, like, British India.

Alan's parents decided they wanted to raise their children in Britain and moved to London before Alan was born. He had an older brother as well. And during his childhood, though, his parents split their time between Hastings in the UK and India, leaving their two sons to stay with a retired army couple when they travelled. So they'd just sort of go back and forth. I say.

I thought of it as well. Hastings, I say. From the ages of six to nine years old, Alan attended St. Michael's, a primary school in the St. Leonard's on sea. Nice. And even... St. Michael's in St. Leonard's. Freaking hell.

St. Michael's, St. Leonard's on sea. How Christian are they going back then? They fucking love saints. They love saints. Me too. You know when? I love the saints the saints the most. 66 because that is the year they won their one and only

Fairfell AFL Premiership. I want an exciting time. Not counting the pre-season finals like the Wizard Cup. I mean, who does count that? I'm not many people. I've got a wizard cape. Even from a very young age, Alan showed signs of being an immensely academically gifted child.

The headmistress recognized his talent, noting that she has had clever boys and hardworking boys, but Alan is a genius. Imagine that in your school report. Hey, I've had clever kids come through this school. He's a genius. I've had clever boys. I've had hardworking boys.

Alan is a genius boy. I've had boys, I've had them all. Clever boys. Sporty boys. Little boys on bikes. Pimpley boys. Nauty, cheeky, greasy little swiney boys. But your boy.

He's a genius. It's a genius. After St. Michael's, he was a student at Hazlehurst Prep School until he was 13. And then he went to Sherbourne School, a boarding independent school in the market town of Sherbourne, Sherbourne, in Dorset, in Dorset. Borse. An anecdote that I read said that the first day of school

coincided with the 1926 general strike in Britain. It was like 1.7 million workers went on strike, largely those working in transport. But Turing was so determined to attend school. that he rode his bicycle unaccompanied 60 miles or 97Ks from Southampton to Sherbourne stopping overnight at an inn. What? Like any other kid would be like, oh, I can't get to school.

Oh, so sad. I miss school. Oh, I'm miss school. But he's like, I'll get on a bike and I'll get to school. Remember when I mentioned a report recently that my bus broke down on the first day of school, we were all like, I guess we're not going. Yeah. And then another bus turned up.

I'm like, boom. It's sort of like when a teacher doesn't turn up. up to the teachers late to class and you're like, and then they walk in, you're like, fuck. Now we actually have class. I'm just turning up. He's written overnight. So imagine he's his first day is now Tuesday.

He gets there and he's the only student there because no one else bothered. Yeah, but he rode his bike. At Sherbourne, Turing's interest and skills in maths and science continued to grow, although this was much to the disapproval of some of the teachers at Sherbourne, whose definition of education placed more emphasis on the classics, like studies in Latin and ancient Greek. The important stuff, I think. Yeah, more of your practical stuff, stuff you could use later in life.

Maths. What? It's just squiggles and numbers. Latin. Latin, that's good squiggles. Well, yeah, once you finish school, you'll have an abacus that'll do the maths for you. Exactly. But you can't carry your pocket Latin everywhere? Can you?

How we have a conversation with anyone if you don't know Latin? Yeah, 40thus quo fiddleus. Fidelius. Strengths through loyalty. How will you read the Saints motto? Exactly. You'd have no idea. His headmaster wrote to his parents, I hope he will not fall between two stools.

I don't know what that means. If he's to stay at public school, he must aim of becoming educated. He must aim at becoming slightly thicker than a piece of paper. He's too thin. He might fall between the two stools. What if he gets

lost? I can't see What if he flits out a window? I can see him if he's standing face on, but as soon as he turns to the side, he disappears. He's but a wisp. That is such a... What does that mean? I don't know, but yeah,

maybe it's sort of like he'll fall behind or something. Imagine if you're all the parents, you're used to getting the reports that say, your boys are genius and now he's going to fall through the stools. He's got to learn. He's got to learn the classics. Oh, fall between two stools comes up when I start to Google it. Fail to be or take one of two satisfactory alternatives.

Right. I've heard that phrase, but enjoy it. Work fell between two stools being neither genuinely popular nor truly scholarly. Okay, so I still don't truly understand. The headmaster goes on. It's because he's sticking with this fad of maths. Yeah, maths and science. If he is to be solely a scientific specialist, he is wasting his time at a public school. We weren't be teaching him maths and science.

Thank you very much. I mean, they're doing maths and science classes. Over there, public school means private school, doesn't it? It's all right? Yeah. So this is like a, this is a boarding, a fancy boarding school. Right. Yeah, and it's the other way around for us.

Despite this, Ellen continued to demonstrate remarkable abilities. And at 15 was solving advanced problems without even studying the specific subject. Like he hadn't done any calculus, but he was like quite easily solving calculus problems and stuff. Like it just came very naturally to him. One of the biggest things, well, I can't wait to find out where he's going to laugh at. This is going to be so funny. This is going to be so funny. Here we go.

Everybody sent your expectations. Everyone, shush, shh, shh, shh, go on, Dave. I was thinking, was he a calculator in another life? Reading God, I laugh because it was the dumbest thought I've ever had. Hey, what's this guy? Hey, was he a calculator in another life? Hey, what's going on? I'm so stupid

I'd say stupid stuff all the time and so much weird are coming from you I'd say that something that's stupid ten times a minute when you do it it feels real weird that's why I laughed at my own thought you fucking idiot I thought

I'll be a calculator in another one oh no that's good stuff that's actually really good stuff that's very good stuff that's actually really good I'm glad we got that I'm glad we got that's yeah oh my God that is good that is actually really good I am struggling to breathe this must be so baffling for especially in someone's first episode listening to this girl yeah I love to hearing I just wanted to hear about this maths heroes.

He's always interested to me. I love maps. I'm sure I'll understand this. Well, your hero was a calculator and another one. Like, imagine it. Imagine if he was actually he was a calculator in another life.

But that means a calculator died and was reincarnated. Which means calculators have souls. Dave, this is a lot bigger than I think you realize. If you're turning him upside down, he looks like boo. No wonder if it was falling through stools.

He goes, if you turn a cat going on its side. That's a whistle. But a wisp. But a wisp. Holy shit. I mean, that's an early break. Yeah, we had a little breakdown pretty early. That's a breakdown.

That's not a break. That's a breakdown. Okay. So he's at his fancy school. One of the biggest things for him to come out of his time at Sherbourne was his friendship with fellow student, Christopher Morkham, who has been described. as Turing's first love. They bonded over mathematics and science

and were inseparable at school. How much does he love math? So that was his first love. So true. So true. Oh, my God, so true. That's a great point. So true.

I mean, this is described by others. So maybe Turing would disagree and so math was his first love. Sadly, Christopher Morecambe died in 1930 at the age of 18 from complications of bovine tuberculosis. What? contracted years earlier by drinking infected cows milk. So he'd been sick for quite some time and he passed away at the age of 18. I've never heard of that and I'll just add it to the list of things I'm terrified of getting.

Yeah, I don't, yeah, I think we're probably okay now. This was in 1930. We'll see. That's it. I've given up milk. Morkham's death was understandably a devastating blow to Alan who stayed in contact with Morkham's mother, Francis for many years after Chris's death. In a letter to Francis, he wrote, I am sure I could not have found Anywhere, another companion so brilliant and yet so charming and unconcated.

I regarded my interest in my work and in such things as astronomy to which he introduced me as something to be shared with him and I think he felt a little the same about me. I know I must put as much energy, if not as much interest into my work as if he were alive because that's what he would have liked me to do. So in a way he kind of coped with grief by working that much harder on the topics of science and mathematics, the things that brought them together. After Sherbourne, Turing was an undergraduate at King's College in Cambridge and was awarded first class honours in mathematics.

At the age of 22, he was elected a fellow of King's College. He was granted this fellowship based on the strength of a dissertation he'd written in which he proved a version of the Central Limit theorem, which obviously I don't need to explain. Please don't ask me to. Maybe Dave should for the listeners who don't know it. As it turns out, this had already been proven 13 years earlier in 1922, by a Finnish mathematician.

Turing didn't know that when he wrote his dissertation, but the committee was still impressed with his work, even saying that if Turing's work had been published before Lindenberg's, the Finnish mathematician, it would have been an important event in the mathematical literature of that year. So they were still like, no, this kid's all right.

Do you love that? Hey, if you'd somehow done this 15 years earlier, it would have been important. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And even if this guy hadn't proved it 13 years ago, we'd be like, Whoa, you know, so good job. And is it, there would have been no doubt that he, like it wasn't possible he cheated or something?

No, because it was like they'd, he'd proven it in a different way. Oh, right. Yeah. So it was different. Yeah. This is from Britannica.com. In 1936, Turing seminal paper called On Computable Numbers with an application to the Enshriden problem. Mm-hmm.

was recommended for publication by the American mathematical logician, Alonzo Church, who had himself just published a paper that reached the same conclusion as Turing's, although by a different method. Turing's method had profound significance for the emerging science of computing. Later that year, Turing moved to Princeton University to study for a PhD in mathematical logic under Church's direction, which he completed in 1938. So he's just, he's brilliant. and he's like his his work is yeah profound and very significant

and is he doctor by like the 8 of 26 yeah yeah that's pretty awesome a PhD in in 1938 yeah you're right wow um so I turn again to Britatiga dot com to also explain what the enshriden problem is let's see if you can follow this what mathematicians called an effective method for solving a problem was simply one that could be carried by a human mathematical clerk working by rote. In Turing's time, those rote workers were in fact called computers, and human computers carried out some aspect of the work later done by electronic computers.

The enshrined and problem sought an effective method for solving the fundamental mathematical problem of determining exactly which mathematical statements are provable within a given formal mathematical system and which are not. It's pretty nice and clear, I think. A method for determining this is called a decision method. In 1936, Turing and Church independently showed that in general, the enshrined and problem has no resolution, proving that no consistent formal system of arithmetic has an effective decision method. That's from Britannica.com.

I mean, couldn't anyone have said that? For anybody who didn't follow, the New York Times sums it up a little simpler. It's the idea that there is no single algorithm that could determine the truth or falsity of any statement in formal logic. So there's no like one universal algorithm, I see. suppose. See, this is why I immediately regretted putting this up to the vote and it winning. Because I was like, I don't understand this. But I mean, it's one of those things where it's like, oh, it's great that they work that

out, but it would have been more satisfying if they'd worked out a thing that did decide what's provable and what, you know, what is it? Yeah. What you can and can't say, but still, if it can't be done, they've worked it out. Well, it was in the course of his work on the Enshridon problem that Turing invented the universal Turing machine. It was an abstract computing machine that encapsulates the fundamental logical principles of the digital computer.

An important step in Turing's argument about Encharden Problem was the claim, now called the Church Turing thesis, was that everything humanly computable can also be computed by the universal Turing machine. It was essentially like he sort of theorized computers. This claim is important because it marks out the limits of human computation. During his time at Princeton, in addition to his purely mathematical work, he also studied cryptology, also known as cryptography,

and it's the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of adversarial behaviour. It's breaking codes. Right, gotcha. I was thinking cryptozoology. That's where my... Did your mind go to the lizard man? Absolutely.

And his love... Of the butterbeams. by means. Something you must know about the... You must know that. Because it just would have been an amazing, like, main degree is, of course, mathematics. Yeah. But he minded an interpretant.

Like, that would be fun. Yeah. But that doesn't make sense. Puzzles and coats. Yes. It's interesting that the human computers, so the word computers and computing came from an old profession. Yeah, that's right.

You know, it's just people like doing maths. That's fascinating. Sitting there computing stuff. I did not know that. Yeah. So after completing his PhD at Princeton, Turing returned to Cambridge in 1938. Of course, the following year, World War II broke out and Alan Turing joined the Bletchley Park Code Breakers at the Government Code and cipher school, working in makeshift huts, clustered around a mansion in Bletchley and Milton Key.

That's funny that there's a mansion right there, but they're in a hut. They're like, let's hop some huts around, okay? Let's just quickly put together some huts and get to work. Their greatest initial challenge was figuring out the method of encryption of the German Enigma device, which was invented 20 years earlier by Arthur Sherbius, a German electrical engineer who had patented as a civil machine to encrypt commercial messages. So you've heard of the enigma. Yep.

Well, Cambridge University has a video on YouTube that explains the Enigma machine well enough that even I could almost understand it. So I'm going to use that to try and explain it as well. very funny if I just put a video on now. Listeners can kind of hear it in the background and you guys going, ah. If you get one of those screens you pull down. So that's what I'll be using now.

So it's about the size of a typewriter and an enigma machine has a second set of letters above the keyboard called a lampboard. So if you press a letter on the keyboard, the machine generates a different letter to represent it on the lampboard. So you might press K, but F lights up. Think of typewriter keyboard and then it's flat on top. and there's all the letters there and they light up. Inside the Enigma machine are three rotors which turn after pressing a key,

making the wires of the circuit rotate. So this changes the circuit completely, meaning that even if you pressed the same letter every time, you'd produce different letters in the code. Amazing. It's incredible. Encoded messages would be a particular scramble of letters on any given day that would translate to a comprehensible sentence when unscramble.

So Enigma operators received code books, which specified which settings the machine would use every day and every morning the code would change. I think it was like every night at midnight, I think. Right, so if you had one from a few days ago, it's different. It's different. The codes are different today. So you might somehow figure out a way to crack that code,

but the settings are different today, so it doesn't help you crack today's code. That's so amazing. It's incredible. The standard Enigma machine had over 150 million, million, million possible daily settings. It's 150 with 18 zeros after it. Quintillion.

150 million million million possible. All you need is 150 million million chimps on a typewriter. One of them's going to write Shakespeare. And crack a coat, I guess. Manually, I think I heard that it would take them 20 million years to do one message. And they had to find a way to do 20 million years of work in about 20 minutes. Are they still doing it? They're still working on it now.

And they will be for quite some time. Now, as early as 1932, a small team of Polish mathematician cryptanalysts, led by Marion Rojjovsky, had succeeded introducing the internal wiring of the enigma. They'd kind of figured it out. And by 1938, Rojovsky's team had devised a code-breaking machine they called the Bomber, which is the Polish word for type of ice cream, which is a great thing to name some really civilised technology after. If it was an Australian one, it would have been called, Buffalo Bill. Buffalo Bill.

obviously. The gay time. Gay time. Buffalo Bill. Gay time Bill. Gay time bill. What about Splice? Gaytime Bill.

That's good. Cornetto. Cornetto. Drumstick splice. Gaytime Bill. Callippo. Myler scoop shake. Sunny boys.

Sunny boys. Actually is a good name. Yeah. It's quite cute. Yeah. Almost named my dog, Sunny. The bomber only worked by on German operating procedures

and a change in those procedures in 1940 meant the bomber was now useless. Like they'd sort of figured something out but then the Germans changed how they were doing it and they're like, well, now we don't know. So during the autumn of 1939 and the spring of 1940, Turing and others designed a related but different

code-breaking machine that they called the bomb. It's bomber without the A. Oh. Bit of fun. That's quite confusing during the war though, isn't it? It is actually, yeah. How many bombers? have we got?

Yeah. Have you placed the bomb? Yeah, it's not a good idea. And bringing it through an airport would it be a nightmare? One time, have I told you this story? One time on Simply the Jest, which is a segment I do on radio where we get people's stories, somebody told us a story about traveling, they were coming home to Australia after traveling around Europe and their little brother said to their parents, has anybody checked

to the bomb and they got taken into a room and like interrogated but what the sun had meant was the Bureau of Meteorology which people commonly call the bomb and he was an eight year old was just asking is anybody checked the weather at home no they poor kid anybody checked the bomb and then someone just said to the security this kid just asked if they've checked the bomb security had to like they called to the Bureau of Meteorology in Australia and asked if oh where was this there was overseas oh right so they because they don't know that you'd be like it's no no it's the weather It's the Bureau of meteorology, but it's also so funny that a kid is asking that. Yeah.

And go check the bomb. Am I dressed appropriately for our arrival home? Do I need a jumper? I think that's very funny. So yeah, it's confusing. Don't call things bombs. Don't. But I'm going to say the word bomb quite a lot more now.

Your bag gets pulled across and through the x-rays and they're like, sorry, can I look in here? What is this? Oh, that's just a bomb. Yeah, that now you've... It would also be pretty stupid to admit that if it was like a good. So you've got the entire Bureau of Meteorology in your bag? Yes. Actually, no, I've got it on my phone.

That's an ad for the app. Yeah. We've just written an ad for the app. For the bomb app. Yeah? We should cut that and send it off. Cut that. Here you go.

Here you go. There you go, Boreau. Hopefully no one's listening to this on speakerphone. As they go through the X-ray. Bomb, bomb, bomb. La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-bomb. Sex bomb. So...

Sex bomb. Sex bomb. The non-sex bomb searched for possible correct settings used... Oh, cop that, Alan. Oh, great. So he's not a sex bomb. He's not a sex bomb. Damn.

He was played by Benedict Cumberbatch. Yeah. Please. That's true. I feel silly now. The sex bomb searched for possible correct settings used for an enigma message. so like the rotor order, the rotor settings, plug boards, there's a lot. Using a suitable crib, a crib's a bit like a cheat.

It's like an attack model for cryptanalysis where the attacker has access to both the plain text, which is called a crib and the encrypted version. It's like, yeah, it's like having a little, it's like when you're trying to figure out like what kind of code is and you have like this symbol means C and this symbol means, okay, now figure out the rest. It's like having a little cheat. You've got a little bit of the information and can kind of work backwards from there, or you can eliminate things from there.

So the bomb essentially went through and it's detected when a contradiction had occurred and ruled out that setting, moving on to the next. So it's just kind of whirring through trying to get the settings right. It's very strange. Most of the possible settings would cause contradictions and be discarded, leaving only a few to be investigated in detail. So essentially, like, it was a process of elimination. It could rule out certain combinations, therefore bringing the number of possible meanings down.

But it usually ended up sort of needing to, like it would kind of figure out what settings. And then people would have to go and like manually code break stuff anyway. And but you were saying there's like a quintillion amount, which is a word I'd never heard before. 150 million million million. But then they'd eliminate a bunch of those so that'd be easier to work out. Like 120 million million million. I don't. I should say, I don't think I haven't heard that word since.

Ryan ruined the cotillion in season one of the OC. I don't know what that means either, but he ruined it. He ruined it. There was a cotillion there as well. Yeah, and he ruined the cotillion. What a bad boy. From the wrong side of the tracks. Gene A. Chino.

It's a long time since I've seen it. That's another. Great song. California. California. Dialed it. Yeah, bing, we're... Yeah, I can't like...

I reckon that song isn't good, but I love it. No, I think it's good. Exactly. Oh, wow. Good double. Okay. Am I the deciding vote now? Yeah, does that riff?

Do do, do, do, do. So good. But maybe it's... Maybe it's just been overdone. But now I'm like, nah, it sucks. Oh, okay. Sorry. Hey, we had a real, uh, little, uh, bear goalie-lock scenario.

Yeah. It's just right. So in the case of the Enigma, the German High Command was very meticulous about the overall security of the enigma system and understood the possible problems of Cribs. So it was like we know that people could sort of figure some stuff out. The day-to-day operators on the other hand were less careful. The Bletchley Park team would guess some of the plain text based upon when the message was sent and by recognizing routine operational messages. So for instance, a daily weather report was transmitted by the Germans at the same time every day. The bomb.

The bomb. Due to the regimented style of the military reports, it would contain the words, a wetter, German for weather, at the same location in every message. So knowing local weather conditions helped Bletchley Park guess other parts of the plain text as well.

So if they're like, okay, they're talking about the weather and they're talking about this place so we can figure out what those words are. And so then kind of work backwards. Yeah, they're figuring out bits and pieces of information. It's very interesting. Other operators too would send standard cellular

or introductions. An officer stationed in the Quataro depression consistently reported that he had nothing to report. Don't tell me that's what brought him down. Well, getting used to these sort of habits and quirks meant that the code breakers had enough info. They could figure out other parts of the message. Like, oh, it's this guy. And he always says, I've got nothing to report so that we can figure out that's what these codes are.

Heil Hitler occurred at the end of every message as well. So they also could sort of figure that out too. So just by them being consistent. It's so, it's such a, it's all such a clever system they've put together. What was it called? The enigma. The enigma. But yeah, they're, they're being so regimented.

Yeah. Isn't that like a, yeah, classic German thing, is it? Where you just sort of like, you know, precision and all that sort of stuff. Same time a day every day. Yep. And that's what's bringing them down. Yeah. It's pretty funny.

You'd think part of the system would have, should have been, and it probably has been since we go, we have to fluctuate when we send these out and mix it up. Mix things up in different ways. phrase things differently. And don't just say nothing to report every day. Yeah.

Only report, if you've got something to report. Yeah. Yeah. If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Say some gibberish. That will actually make it out. It would be very confusing for everybody.

The chicken clocks. That means nothing's happening. Yeah. Cluck. Clucks is the chicken. It means send help. I'm in trouble. So at Bletchley Park in World War II, strenuous efforts were made to use

and even force the Germans to produce messages with known plain text. So they tried to sort of like sneakily get information out of them. So for example, when they were lacking in like cribs or those little cheats, Bletchley Park would sometimes ask the Royal Air Force to seed a particular area of the North Sea with mines, a process that came to be known as gardening. just go plant some seeds. So they'd just drop a whole bunch of mines in there. Then the enigma messages that came out soon after

would most likely contain the name of the area or the harbour threatened by those mines and that gave them little bits of information so that they could kind of work backwards from there. So they would purposefully like, they'd force the Germans to talk about a particular place just so they could figure it out. Very clever.

By late 1941, Turing and his fellow cryptanalysis, Cryptanalysis, nailed it. Gordon Welchman, Hugh Alexander, and Stuart Milner Barry were getting frustrated. Building on the work of their Polish colleagues, they'd set up good working system for decrypting Enigma signals, but the limited staff and bombs meant they couldn't translate all the signals.

They needed more resources. And with any military or government project, there are a million steps and a lot of red tape to get money or resources. And they weren't successful in getting those things through the proper channels. and this is from a World War II website I found called Wikipedia.org. So it says,

so in October they wrote directly to Winston Churchill explaining their difficulties. They emphasized how small their need was compared with the vast expenditure of men and money by the forces and compared with the level of assistance they could offer to the forces. So they're like, hey, you know, like you're either going to lose a whole bunch of soldiers or you could give us a little bit of money, we could probably save some of those lives. As Andrew Hodges, biographer of Turing, later wrote, this letter had an electric effect. Churchill wrote a memo to General Ismay, which read,

Action This Day, make sure they have all they want on extreme priority and report to me that this has been done. So within a month, the Chief of the Secret Service reported that every possible measure was being taken. The cryptographers at Bletchley Park... They moved fast back then, don't they? Within one month. Within one month.

Wow. They'd done something. And the cryptographers didn't know of the Prime Minister. response. But one of them, Milne Barry, recalled, all that we did notice was that almost from that day, the rough ways began miraculously to be made smooth. So things just got a little bit easier. They never got the thing being like, hey, we're taking care of this. Yeah, yeah, never got that. But just things got easier. And they're like, I think it worked. I think that letter worked. Wouldn't that be a morale boost to hear that the prime minister's on board? You would think that,

yeah. So maybe tell them. Stiff upper lip in England. Hey, yeah, we let's, we don't. Don't be proud. We just forge on. That's right. Keep on, carry on or whatever. So financial support for this department meant that by the end of the war, more than 200 bombs were in operation. We're talking about weather websites.

Weather websites. For a visual of the bombs as well, they were very big machines. They were about two metres wide and two meters tall, 60 centimetres deep. They weighed about a ton. Wow. Each had 108 small drums on the front, split into three groups. of 12 triplets. So there's 36 of them in groups. Each triplet corresponded to the three rotors of an enigma scrambler. So essentially these little drums, they look like little wheels,

would mimic a human testing every possible combination and option, but in a fraction of the time. In the early models of the bombs, the drums rotated at a speed of 50.4 RPM and later versions 120 RPM. And we're able to test 17,576 possible positions for, one road to order in 20 minutes. So they're suddenly like working through stuff really quickly. That's sick. It's pretty, it's very cool and it doesn't make sense in my brain. But a lot of people say it's significant.

I mean, it sounds incredible, but if there's 120 million, million, million combinations, is it making it that much easier? It's significant, but you've also got how many of the machines working on at once. It's not just one machine. They had 200 by the end. So if they're all working through one part, you get it fairly quickly. So Turing traveled to the United States in November of 1942 and worked with the US Navy cryptanalysis, cryptanalysts.

Why is that such a hard word to say, cryptanalysts, on the naval enigma and bomb construction in Washington. And he also visited their computing machine laboratory in Dayton, Ohio. Oh, God's country. During his absence, one of his colleagues, Hugh Alexander, assumed the position of the head of hut eight, which is where they were working, although Alexander had been the de facto head for some time

because Turing had very little interest in the day-to-day running of the section. In the movie, the imitation game, Hugh Alexander is depicted as like a kind of rival. He's put in charge from the beginning and he tries to get rid of Turing, and they all bully him and hate him. It's one of those classic movie tropes of like enemies, we don't understand or appreciate your genius.

Oh, would you look at that? He's really smart. Oh, you know what? He's actually a good dude. Yeah, I'm on his side and I'm going to stand up from to the big bosses. Alan is my best friend. It's that sort of enemies to friends. But in actual fact, they weren't enemies. And the people who worked with Turing were incredibly fond of him.

The movie really depicts him as like, you know, one of those misunderstood geniuses. And he's very like, takes everything very literally. And he doesn't have the greatest interpersonal skills and stuff. But everybody that actually worked with him is like, no, he's lovely. He's really great. Oh, that's annoying. Yeah. But it just had to be more.

interesting for the film. Isn't it funny because that's how so many people know the story. Yeah. There's no, it feels like there's not enough responsibility shown by a movie maker sometimes. Yeah. It's like you're actually sharing an important story now everyone thinks this is that guy. Yeah. I mean, if you just had him portrayed as a, as a regular person who was probably, I mean, he is quite literally a genius. So he probably is maybe a little bit eccentric or a little bit different or you know, communicates in a different way or whatever. But like people didn't dislike him. In fact, Hugh Alexander wrote of Turing's contribution. There should be no question in anyone's mind that Turing's work was the biggest factor in Hutt-eighth's success. In the early days,

he was the only cryptographer who thought the problem worth tackling, and not only was he primarily responsible for the main theoretical work within the hut, but he also shared with Welchman and Keen the chief credit for the invention of the bomb. It is always difficult to say that anyone is absolutely indispensable, but if anyone was indispensable to Hutt 8, it was Turing. The Pioneer's work always tends to be forgotten when experience and routine later make everything seem easy. And many of us in Hutt 8 felt that the magnitude of Turing's contribution was never fully realised by the outside world. So that doesn't sound like somebody who hates this guy. Sounds like somebody who really respects him. And can I ask a question? The bomb, it now is able to decode

completely or still is it just bits and pieces? I think it's, I think eventually, it was decoding completely. Amazing. Which then they said like, keep that secret. Right, because you don't want the enemy to know that you can read everything they're saying.

Didn't want anybody to know. Like even their own, like even other people within... Because there could be moles or whatever. Yeah, so they're like, nobody can know that we've cracked it, which is incredible. So the code breaking efforts at Bletchley were exhausting.

They were difficult and they came with more ethical dilemmas than one might expect. As they got better and better at intercepting messages, they often knew an attack was going to occur, but if they suddenly started moving every ship that was about to be attacked, it would give away to the Germans that they'd cracked the code. So often they had to just let things play out. Oh, that's a bit dodgy, isn't it?

You're like, oh, we know your ship's about to get blown up, but we can't. We can't move you. Because if you suddenly, or you had to make decisions about which things you could intercept and which you couldn't because, yeah, if all of a sudden, every single thing that Germany's planning on doing, If all of a sudden, like, that ship has disappeared or that, you know, everybody in that town has evacuated or whatever,

then the Germans are going to be like, how are they, how do they know? And then they change their... It's like a greater good sort of thing. They change the way the enigmas work. And so now we've got to start from square one. Brutal decisions to be made. Awful. Due to the problems of counterfactual history,

it's hard to estimate the precise effect that their intelligence had on the war. However, official war historian Harry Hinsley estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over 14 million lives. Amazing. Pretty cool. That's a lot of lives. That's a lot of lives. That's a spicy meatball. And then shortened it by two years, which is kind of cool.

At the end of the war, a memo was sent out to all those who'd worked at Bletchley Park, reminding them that the code of silence dictated by the official secret act did not end with the war, but would continue in. indefinitely. So they weren't allowed to talk about what they'd done in the war. They weren't allowed to mention it at all. Therefore, even though Turing was appointed an officer of the Order of the British Empire, he got an OBE in 1946 by King George the 6th for his wartime services, his work remained secret for decades. Oh, so no credit can be publicly given.

That's right. What was his OBE said they gave it to him for? Just for wartime services. Well, they just said like soccer, goalkeeper. General wartime. Charity work. Yeah. It's often unless they.

He just had a good attitude about the war and, you know, stiff upper lip. Yeah, he was a crypto as well. Just found Bigfoot. Yeah, pretty amazing. Pretty cool. Yeah. And then King George is like winking when he shakes his hand. Yeah.

Thanks for finding Bigfoot wink. Exactly. King George, not subtle. But yeah, essentially like if anybody asked after the war, you just, well, I worked in a radio shack kind of thing. I worked in a, oh, are you a DJ? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Breakfast Radio. Yeah. Gows are brutal. I'm the real hero of the war. Some people in the trenches, yeah, I was. I got up at 5 a.m. You believe that? Yeah, we played Beat the Bomb.

This is a classic calling games. What's that smell? What's that sound? What's that sound? Which is a lot easier to play on the radio. I'm describing a smell. Guess what it is? It's bad.

It's a bit pongs. Yeah. That's a really bad pong this one. Oh, God. It's got a big sort of thick pong on this one. You can always taste it. It smells a bit. dead like dead you know when something like oh something's died musty it's a musty dead pong um is it a possum

in the wall it is a possum in the wall ding ding ding ding congratulations people want a square of a ration of chocolate and uh yeah the black thunders will be by with a few icy cold cans of co we do radio um um jess um yes um this is from britannica again this is post war in In 1945, the war was over. Turing was recruited to the National Physics Laboratory in London to create an electronic computer. His design for the automatic computing engine, the ACE, was the first complete specification of an electronic stored program, all-purpose digital computer. He's often sort of seen as like one of the founding fathers of the computer. Had Turing's ace been built as he planned it, it would have been vastly, it would have been vastly, it would have.

had vastly more memory than any other early computer as well as being faster. However, his colleagues at NPL thought the engineering too difficult to attempt and a much smaller machine was built, which is called the pilot model AC in 1950. So the plans that he had would have been, had more memory and been faster and they're like, too hard. That's too hard. That's so funny. Yeah, I call it a MacBook Pro and there's no money in this.

You can FaceTime. You can fit all your whole, all your records, everything can fit in this. Nah, who wants that? You can talk into it and it'll take notes for you. Warcraft, what the fuck is that? Alan, you're crazy. What did you do in the war? Tell me.

People who, yeah, his colleagues are like, yeah, we got into this business to change lives. We're trying to make computers and stuff. Not, whoa, but yeah, steady on. Yeah. We don't want to change lives too much. Fucking L, Ellen, chill out. Hey, we're just collecting a paycheck here, mate. Yeah, that's right.

NPL lost the race to build the first working electronic stored program digital computer an honour that went to the Royal Society, Computing Machine Laboratory. Fuck, they lost the race because they didn't really want to enter. Yeah, that's right. It's because they were too busy typing out their letterheads. So many freaking words on the name, am I right? I mean, what are these guys up to? That's a bit that I might do on our breakfast radio show.

Yeah, great. Yeah, like that. What's the deal? Yeah. What are they up to with Matt? Hi. Okay, this week on what are they up to? We're talking about these computer companies from the olden days.

Now, their names were long. Let me give you a few. The Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory of the University of Manchester. What were they up to? And then like a siren or something plays. I think this could be good. That's pretty good stuff. No bad ideas.

All in if you know what they were up to. I don't know. Making computers. That is correct. Well done. We'll send you a ration of chocolate. It's still like the 40s. So he was pretty discouraged by the delays at NPL.

So he took the deputy directorship of the computing machine laboratory in that year. There was no director, but he was deputy director. What? No, no, no. Junior vice president. His earlier theoretical concepts of a universal chewing. machine had been a fundamental influence on the Manchester computer from the very beginning. And after Turing's arrival at Manchester, his main contributions to the computer's development

were to design an input output system using Bletchley Park technology to design its programming system. He also wrote the first ever programming manual, and his programming system was used in the Ferranti Mark I, the first marketable computer. So he's just like, he's sitting in the back, he's working on computers now. He's all about computing. Amazing. It is really cool

Sounds like a bit of a nerd All of a sudden Yeah What happened to you Alan You used to be cool You used to like crack codes Yeah Used to beat Nazis

With your bare hands Used to ride You used to ride 60 miles To go to school When no one else was going What happened to you That is pretty badass Stopping overnight

At an inn To go to school Was pretty funny And was he 12 years old He was like early teens Hello one night One night in the room Please

Oh he's Thrappet only one half bored I'm just a little boy I don't take up a hole bed Do you have any spare cupboards I'm sleeping your cupboard What's wrong with us This is also from Britannica

Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence And of modern cognitive science He was a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large, in large part, a digital computing machine. What is a computer? What is our brain if not a computer? Oh my God. Oh, my God.

Have you ever thought about that? Whoa. Isn't that crazy? What is a computer if not a brain? Totally. What is the brain if not a computer? Oh my God. Oh, my God.

Don't hack my mind. He theorized that the cortex at birth is an unorganized machine that through training becomes organized into a universal machine or something like that. That's a direct quote. Turing proposed what was called the imitation game and subsequently became known as the Turing test. It was a test designed to determine whether a computer can think. So there are extreme difficulties in distinguishing original thought from sufficiently

sophisticated parroting. Indeed, any evidence for original thought can be denied on the grounds that it's ultimately was programmed into the computer. So Turing sidestepped the debate about a exactly how to define thinking by means of a very practical, albeit subjective test. So if a computer acts, reacts and interacts like a sentient being, then call it sentient. Okay. That makes sense.

If a computer acts reacts or interacts like a sentient being, then call it sentient. But that's only if it can pass this test. To avoid rejection of evidence of machine intelligence, Turing suggested the imitation game, and here's how it works. A remote human interrogator with a fixed time frame must distinguish between a computer and a human subject based on their replies to various questions posed by the interrogator. By means of a series of such test, a computer success at thinking can be measured by its probability of being misidentified as a human subject. So if a human is asking a bunch of questions and based on the answers goes, that's a human, but it's actually a computer, then you're like, well, then the computer is thinking. computer is is responding like a human it tricked you you thought it was a human but it's a

computer so it's sentient he's saying give him the vote it's learned give him the vote we should be able to marry computers is that what it was that what he was angelo for or long does that sort of make sense yeah you're staring at me Dave oh so but he's saying that so they are they are sentient but our computer have has there been any sentient computers especially back in his time I'm definitely not back in his time. But I think just his argument is like... If it looks like shit, it smells like it tastes like shit. Probably shit.

Yeah, that's exactly it. If it's talking like a human, it's responding like a human, let's just say it's human. If a computer can trick you into thinking it's a human, like let's just call it human. Let's say it's learning and it is sentient. Okay. Very interesting. But that's where the imitation. game came from.

That's as in the title. The title. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. So Turing was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of London in March 1951, a very high honor, yet his life was about to become very difficult. In 1952, he met and started a relationship with a man named Arnold Murray, and in January Turing's house was burgled. Murray said he knew the burglar.

I mean, in some, like some resources say that Murray was the one who, burgled him. Others say he just knew who the burglars were. And in their line of questioning, detectives asked Turing what his relationship with Murray was. And when they discovered that the men had a romantic, a physical relationship, both Turing and Murray were charged with gross indecency as homosexuality was a crime. Turing was later convinced by the advice of his brother and his own solicitor to enter a guilty plea. And he was convicted and given a choice between imprisonment or a probation. Imprisement would mean that he would be unable to work and Turing chose the probation, which came with conditions. He had to agree to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce

libido known as chemical castration. Gosh. He accepted the option of injections of a synthetic estrogen rendering him impotent, causing breast tissue to form and just generally causing him to feel really unwell. His conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and bar to barred him from continuing his cryptographic consultancy with the government communication headquarters but he was able to keep his academic job which is why he chose to take the probation because if he'd chosen imprisonment he would have lost both right and his life's work is his life exactly right i'm remembering why i left feeling sad yeah yeah it's awful sadly on the eighth of june 1954 a housekeeper discovered alan turing dead at his home cyanide poisoning was

established as the cause of death, and an inquest determined that Turing had taken his own life, although others have suggested alternate explanations, and members of his family also denied that his death was self-inflicted. In August 2009, British programmer John Graham Cumming started a petition urging the British government to apologise for Turing's prosecution as a homosexual. The petition received more than 30,000 signatures. The Prime Minister Gordon Brown acknowledged this petition, releasing a statement on the 10th of September, apologising and describing the treatment of Turing as appalling. Thousands of people have come together to demand justice for Alan Turing

and recognition of the appalling way he was treated. While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him. So on behalf of the British government and all of those who live freely thanks to Alan's work, I'm very proud to say, we're sorry, you deserve so much better. I don't know why he's so proud to say. You're not actually doing anything.

I'm so proud. That would have gone through so many script writers and checks. I'm like, why? It's too self-congratulatory. Yeah, I'm a hero for saying soz. Really stood out. Soz, Alan, suck say. I mean, it was the law at the time and you were dealt with accordingly and appropriately

based on your crimes. There must have been people going, I don't want to apologize. does. Well, we want to, well, all right. Well, if you're going to do it, make sure it sounds like we're doing a great thing. And make sure it's very clear that, I mean, that was the law at the time and it was actually quite fair what happened to him. But so sorry. On the 24th December 2013, Queen Elizabeth II signed a pardon for Turing's conviction of gross indecency with immediate effect. Announcing the pardon, Lord Chancellor Chris Grayling said Turing deserved to be remembered and recognized for his fantastic contribution to the war effort and not for his later criminal convictions.

The Queen officially pronounced Turing pardoned in August of 2014. And the Queen's action is only the fourth royal pardon granted since the conclusion of the Second World War. Wow. And normally those pardons happen when it's proven that that person wasn't guilty of what they were charged with or something. Whereas by this incredibly outdated law, he was guilty of it, but she's still given a pardon so good for queen lizzie but yeah a sad end it's such a funny that who was the guy saying

he should be remembered for the things he did not for his criminal yeah it's like wait what the fuck are you talking about no one's no one's thinking poorly of him because of that crime yeah that only reflects badly on hey hey hey hey let's remember he did good stuff for the war not the crimes he clearly committed no one's saying that but it wasn't until like the six 60s that homosexuality was decriminalized in the UK. 67, I think I remember reading. So it was like, it was a long time later. Yeah, just one year after the science on their premiership.

But you're absolutely right. How weird is that to be like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, he did some great staff, incredibly smart person, saved a lot of lives, really like set the groundwork for some things that we use every day now. And we should be really grateful to that. And we should respect that. Maybe it needed this. Yes, he was a dirty criminal.

Maybe it was needed to be said at the time and people were thinking, I don't know, but it just seems weird. This is not that long ago. What are you talking about? Yeah. Nah, nah, no, no, lock him up. Lock him up. He deserved it. Absolutely wild stuff.

So yeah, a sad end, but to a pretty amazing life and pretty amazing story. And I hope that the many people that suggested it feel some sort of satisfaction in that report. I'm sorry Dave didn't do it. Is that what they were saying? I'm sure he would explain. I'm saying, I hope Dave does it. The whole fucking time I was writing this thing. I was like, God damn it, Jess.

No, that's, I found that really interesting. I'm the one who knew the least about him because I haven't seen the movie. Yeah. Yeah, I did not know that that's sadly how he died. That's awful. Yeah. Yeah, it's really sad. And he's only what?

He was 41? Early 40s, yeah. Oh my, my. He's done so much in his life. Yeah. And the logic, I mean, it's so bizarre. back then they're like this is unnatural homosexual what we're going to do is pump you with estrogen yeah because you're it's unnatural to be homosexual yeah so we're gonna fuck with your

against your will basically we'll destroy your libido then you won't want to do this disgusting thing of it's like what are you fucking talking about yeah i don't know how like the what are you thinking and it was like in private not that not that it should have to be but do you know what i mean like it's he it didn't it was only because he was burgled and in doing an investigation they sort of asked like okay this Murray person right who's that to you and he was honest like apparently throughout his whole life he was pretty open about being gay I wonder how much further computers would have developed have you been allowed to work another 15 or 25 years yeah with the thing you loved doing that he was a genius that's right yeah I know and but even if they were just being

selfish. Yeah. That would have been smart to let him keep working. Exactly. Ah, people, huh? Not me. Not us. We're great and we always do the right thing at the right times.

Yeah. But some people, I'll tell you what, they pee me right. They pee, yeah, I'm sorry you got P-Oed. Oh, what about the movie? Did you like the movie? Yeah, the movie's pretty good. Yeah, it's fine. Like, it's...

Did you know the story before you... I'd already started. I think because I didn't know how... It's just so sad. Yeah. What an awful. And the thing as well, so like these detectives who are looking through it, I don't know if there's an element of truth to this part of the movie,

but the detectives turn up to help him and he's not giving them a lot of information. He's like, no, nothing was stolen. And they think it's a bit odd. They think he's a bit odd. And they're like suss on him because he's a professor from Cambridge and a couple of other professors from Cambridge ended up being spies. So they're like, what's he hiding? And that's why they dig a little deeper, but they're suss on him.

And they're trying to find, like, they're trying to get records of his time in the military. And it's empty. And they're like, what the fuck? Because they didn't know what he'd done in the war. Right, because he's like, my clearance is way above yours, guys. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's all been, like, scrapped. Like, there's no record.

Yeah. I basically won the war. Okay, let's just leave it. Let's just say, you're welcome. So they're going through all of this and they have no actual idea. And it wasn't until, like, decades. later. I forgot to write down, but it was something like, yeah, it was relatively recently that it was released and we found out exactly what he actually did quite recently.

Incredible. Ridiculous. So that is my report on Alan Turing and the imitation game. Fascinating. Fascinating. Great story. Obviously heartbreaking, but yeah. Yeah, sad ending, but pretty amazing middle. Yeah. And there's more that he did as well, more sort of like stuff in AI and encryption and all kinds of stuff. Like he, yeah, he did a lot after the war as well.

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And now with this part of the episode, what we do is read out one of the great names of these great supporters. They get to give themselves a title and then they get to ask a question, give a fact or quote a quote or anything really sometimes they'll do a suggestion we've had a rags we've had a recipe before recipes it can be anything uh the first one can i make a suggestion yeah can either um because i'm now fixated on this can you either take your coffee and put it on the ground rather than on the cream couch or swap with dave and have this little thing where you could put it on that little thing dave because i this is good content i have not been listening for a good two minutes just thinking

about that. Should I be wearing pants on this couch? It's a dangerous cat. It's a cream couch, Dave. Of course you should be wearing pants. Always check the color of the couch before you sit down on it pantsless. That's a great rule. Thank you.

Anyway, the first fact quote or question of this week is Paul Mellor, aka lover of savory puddings. Dave, where do you stand on this? Savory pudding? What is that? What is that? What is the same? I don't know. What is a savoring pudding?

I don't know. Like savoring. Is Paul going to tell us? Oh, that's a good point. He's asking a question. Paul, I know Paul, as a regular correspondent, he's a saint's supporter in England. And it just feels like that could be an English thing. A savoury pudding.

They do things a little differently over there. They're crazy. Because is it, you know how sometimes they just refer to any dessert as pudding? They say, what's for pudding? Yeah, true. Is it any savoury? Just anything savoury. I don't normally do this.

I never normally read these out so I read them out, but I just did do a quick skim and the word pudding is in here. Let's see what Paul has to say. Paul writes, Hi guys, loving the pod and content as always. Thank you. And now and content as always. Oh, that's true.

That's what might be would. Hi, guys, loving the pod and content as always. That sounds better. That sounds nice. And now you treat us to a web series two. Artifacts, it's awesome. Oh, that's very nice. Thank you, Paul.

Yeah, for people who don't know, we did a Web Series 6-Parter where we went around Melbourne to some of our iconic museums and galleries and caught some street art as well and told the stories of different pieces of art. In front of the art. You can see it, you can hear it, you can lick it. No, we decided to can't.

No, we were told you cannot lick it. That would happen on a very early episode, luckily. Thank you. So Paul continues. My question for you this week is, have you ever been told a new name for something you eat that you just could not believe? I cannot believe this. I see it, but I do not believe it.

That's a famous bit of footy commentary. And I like to think that that also applies to this. Someone brings out like the closh and they lift it up. I see it, but I simply do not believe it. Do we want to hear Paul's example first? And I love that Paul's done this. Whenever someone asks a question, we always encourage them to also answer the question. Do you want to hear his answer before you give yours?

Yeah, I think I do. Okay, Paul writes, my example is, we have a dish that is a bit of a northern favorite, the steak and kidney pudding. Basically, meat and gravy in a suet pastry, saying that right? It is almost like a soft upside down pie And they are steam cooked They are lovely with chips and mushy peas From the chip shop

I'm pretty sure Dave would be a fan Anyway I was working with a guy From the neighbouring town of Burnley And he ordered his lunch He ordered a Babby's head chips, peas and gravy Yes that is Babby not baby Turned out That was what him and it all

his friends and family called the pudding. I will put a link on here so you can see it, but it kind of looks like a baby's head. Oh my God. But it's called a babby's head. Babby. I've never heard that. Babby. I've never heard that since.

And a pretty strange thing to call something you eat. I don't know if you get these in Australia, but if you do, maybe, maybe, I don't know if you get these in Australia, but if you do, you may be no. what I mean. It's a bit of a sick name. Maybe snake and pygmy pudding is better. Oh my God. I'm finding reading very hard early in this section of the show and I got about to do a lot of reading. Dave, what are your thoughts there? Babby. Babby. I mean, is there a link so I can see an image of it? Oh, okay. Yeah, that's good point. It does. It sounded great until he said it looked like a baby's hair. Yeah, that's not as appealing. Not sure about that. He heard it, but he did not believe it.

Oh no. There's a... You have to pay $8. Put in your credit card details. There's a database error. This is a good podcasting, I reckon. Yeah, this is fun. Dave, why don't you look up steak and kidney pudding

and I'll move on to the next one. No worries. Which comes from Julian Wren, aka the Disney villain defender. Okay. Julian's also asking a question, writing, What villain or bad guy in a movie or TV show do you root for every time? Oh, loot and plunder.

Oh, yeah, Captain Pollution. Is that Luton Plunder? Oh, no, Luton Plunder are the character's names. Yeah. Captain Pollution's a different Captain Planet villain. Yeah. I'm Captain Pollution. That was great.

So that's the full question. Yes, but Julian does answer. Do we even answer Paul's question? No. I feel like we answered Paul's question before I asked the question because we were like, savory pudding? You couldn't get our header out of it. I have Googled it.

Steak and kidney pudding, that's what we're looking at. It does. It does look like an upside-down pie, more than a baby's head team. Yeah, it looks delicious. Oh, okay. It looks like you cut it open and it just pours out. Yeah. Much like a baby's...

So Paul's question, was, have you ever been told a new name for something you eat that you just could not believe? It's such a specific question. I can't think of an example of that. People are like, oh no, that's cold. I'm sure there might be some, but I can't access it in my brain right now. Paul, great question. Babies pudding.

Babies. Thank you for educating us on that. Love that. Back to Julian's question. Movie villain or a TV show villain. Mega mind. Oh, what's Mega Mind? In Mega Mind?

Oh, from the movie Mega Mind? Yeah. Wasn't he a villain? Yeah, that's good fun. Seems like it. That was fun. Mega Mind. That's my answer.

Who else? Who you're rooting for in it? Hmm. What about the karate kid? It's a bad guy on that. Isn't he meant to be misunderstood? I haven't seen that movie in a long time. Um.

I mean, I love it when Darth Vader comes on the screen and just fucks him up. Oh, at the end of that star. War story one? Yeah, when it just comes in and like, you know, all the little the little wussies come in with their lasers and he's like, the little crush. You know, they're all little wussy boys. And then he comes in and, and obviously, you're not supposed to be like,

oh, no, he's evil, but you're also like, thank God, finally a lightsaber in this movie. Yeah. And then he just is really cool. He's cool. Yeah, it's cool. Sorry to step on your toes there, Matt. Yeah, that was. Making great sound effect.

Pretty good. Yeah, that's actually something. one of my sounds. Wow. Sorry to do it better than you right to your face. Wow. Yeah, so you can't do it. No, yeah, that's on me.

I love watching some villains like Dennis Hopper in Speed. Oh, yeah, he's great. Love it. So good. Scar, the Lion King. You evil, evil person. It's got great songs. Jeremy Irons, fantastic performance.

So that's fun. Yeah. Obviously, Voldemort. What a great guy. Great guy. Ha ha. Or that blonde kid who says potter. Draco Malfoy.

I only know him from a girl who said she looks like him on TikTok. She does quite a bit. Yeah, Draco Malfoy, great villain. Great villain. Yeah, I mean, so many. I mean, the harder question would be name a good guy that I root for. Yeah, I don't care. Don't care for him.

No. Ooh, we're doing things by the book. Boring. Yon Fess. Yes. Bye, book. Thank you, Julie. Great question.

Pete Holburton, aka wannabe steel-eyed missile man. Want to be steely-eyed missile man. Pete's coming in with a fact. Writing, the second moon landing Apollo 12 was struck by lightning just after launch.

The electrical surge knocked out its fuel cells and instrumentation. Lighting up the control panel like a Christmas tree and sending gibberish to the screens in Mission Control in Houston. It sounds like they had a little problem. But one of the controllers,

John Aaron, recognized a pattern in the gibberish that he'd seen just once a year before. And he had the crew flick an obscure switch, try SCE to Ox. The switch was so obscure, even the commander of the mission, astronaut Peter Conrad, had never heard of it.

His response was, what the hell is that? But his crewmate Al Bean recognized it, flipped it, and normality was restored. The mission was saved, and Peter Nell became the third and fourth men to walk on the moon a few days later. John Aaron's quick thinking and coolness under pressure earned him the highest possible praise from his NASA,

is it NASA or NACA? From his NACA colleagues, he's known as Steely-Ey-eyed Missile Man, which may even top Cobra as the coolest nickname ever. Steely-eyed Missile Man. And before you asked Dave, we are not calling you that. What about it? Just either Stealy-eyed or Missile Man.

Steal-Ey-eyed Missile Man. I think Missile Man. I think Missile Man. Because I could probably shove you in a missile launcher and just send you off. Missal Man. Missal Man. Our little Missal Man. Missal Man.

Like we're saying it wrong too. Missile Man, isn't it? Missile Man. Missal. Missile man. Missile man. Missile man. Missile man.

Missile man. Missile man. That's bad. He's the missile man. To the tune of Brad's guitar man. He's with me. Everybody. He's a missile man.

I mean, Rocket Man's right there. I don't see it. I also like the name in that story of Elbeam. Albame. That's great. Can I be that? So close to Simpson's going. Al Jean.

Oh yeah. Fun fact. Makes you think. And the last, thanks very much for that one, Pete. And the last one, this week comes from Lily Morley, aka Tide IT Girl.

Definitely information technology IT, not it girl. Yeah, that's me. I'm a tired it girl. Honored by that title, though, Jess, if only it was true, you must have called her the It Girl.

I think I said the IT Girl and then said, well, it could be it girl. Oh, I love that. I'm not that fucking stupid. that I immediately would have said it wrong. I love it, Bob. Do you love it? I love it.

Do you love me? I love you, Bob. And I love Lily, and Lily writes a question here. A question of friend from work always asks when there's a lull in the conversation, what is your favorite crisp or chip? Cheese and onion. If you're American-inclient or Australia. We don't say crisps here.

What do we say? Chips. We do say chips. Yeah, we just say chips. Cold chips or hot chips. There, we use the same word, don't we? But we always know. You don't often have to actually clarify D.

It's only every now and then that you have to go, are hot chips? Yeah. You don't say cold chips. Do Americans, are they the same? They say chips for both? No, they say fries. They say fries for chips.

For hot chips. And what do they say for chips? Chips. Okay. And in England they say chips to chips, but crisps for chips. Okay. Yeah, it's just ways. We say chips for chips, and we say chips.

chips for chips. Yeah. And you get the context. It's only sometimes when you're like, oh, I feel like chippies. And you go, hot chippies, you get, no, chips. Yeah. Or you say potato chips. Yeah, yeah.

If you really want to clarify. But otherwise, usually, based on the context, you know what's happening. Potato chips would mean crisps or chips. And hot chips would be hot potato chips. Yeah. It's actually quite simple. It is pretty simple when you put all that. So the question is what's your favorite crisps?

What do you call a jacket potato? A jacket potato. My go-to for a long time has been salt and vinegar. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I love a salt. I love an S&V. I love a light and tangy. That was my childhood favourite.

Yeah. They're hitting miss, though, to be honest. If you get a good packet with lots of flavouring, nothing like it. But more often than not, you get a pretty shit packet. Yeah. Very bland flavouring. You're like, well, this is ruined my day. So an S&V, I reckon, just for...

It's a ruin my day. It's pretty easy to ruin my day. If not my week. Yeah. I had barbecue last night. We're so similar, Bob. You and I? We're the same. We're the same.

Two peas, one pod. Oh, I like Red Rock Deli do like a honey soy chicken. Holy shit, they're delicious. That sounds good. I'm a big fan of the original, the plain, the salters. Of course, you fucking are. Oh, if I had to guess. Dave, is your only criticism that sometimes are a bit too salty?

Oh, my gosh. My tongue is on fire. Oh, these are a bit spicy these chips. I also like, you don't get them that often, but chicken? Chicken i yeah green green packet I love uh pardon chicken very accessible

they're everywhere but you don't get them that often do you as in actually purchase them yeah what about chicken and twisties much better than cheese twisties I don't like twisties no I like twisties no I always I like the idea of them

but yeah I bought a bag on occasion it takes me a few years to forget that they just make your mouth dry yeah yeah a lot of that uh well are you happy with your answers there

because Lily says that apparently you can tell a lot about people from their favourite crisp which means chip so I wonder what mine says about me mine is pom bears what not sure if they are an Aussie thing too

but they are a little bear shape crisp what that are very light and a good little snack this probably says I'm a five year old at heart love the pod keep up the great work and I hope you all had great holidays well I didn't have a holiday but I thank you you for that all the same Lily.

Dave and Jess had great holidays, didn't you? Didn't you, Dave? You have a great holiday? Separate. Separate holidays. And I was watching. Dave made that very clear when I said, can I come on your holiday? Is that absolutely not?

Get your own holiday, you said. And you did. And I did. I'm looking at pond bears. That sounds like it's right at my alley. Little bear shaped crisps. That's wild that they can, they have that technology over there. How do they make a, how do that?

How do they make a potato and all day? It's like teddy. biscuits. They're fun because you like eat the head first, put them out of their misery, you know. Oh, that's a great question, Lily. I love, I love the cultural differences that we have. And they, yeah. They come in three main flavours. What flavors? Original. Yep, your fav. Staves. S&V. Yep. Yep, mine. Cheese and onion. I don't want cheese and onion. Sorry.

One of my favorite things to do, and I did this on my recent holiday, is, you know, is going and checking out snacks and seeing that like the crisp packets of different colors. Like salt and vinegar was blue. Whoa. That's original. Dave. Yeah. That's a real mind for Dave.

Yeah. But original was yellow. Right. Which makes some sense. I guess. Chips are kind of yellow. S&V is pink. Yeah, obviously.

It's exciting. It was a real thrill. I love cultural differences. Yeah, I love it. I loved exploring the ABC stores in Honolulu. So thank you very much to Lili. Pete, Julian and Paul for your facts and questions there. The next thing we like to do is thank a few of our other great supporters.

Bob, you normally have a bit of a game that's related to the topic at hand? That's true. What do you think in this week? Well, I'm thinking of pulling back the curtain and saying we recorded this episode several weeks ago. And I don't remember any of it. And I did the report. I remember something in it was the cheering test. Yes.

And code cracking. What's their test or something like that? Okay, yeah, cool. Cool. If you're happy with that. Yeah, I love that. That's the first thing that came to my mind. Thank you.

Thank you for listening intently to my report. I remember it. I loved it. Thank you. Enigma machine was another thing that I remember. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yep. Hitler?

Can you work him into the game? I don't think so. Okay. How would you defeat Hitler? Yeah. Turing did it with a puzzle? How would you do it? How would you do it?

Ninja Stars. It was a good combat, actually, you and me. Yeah, that's all bad. I'll pin him to the wall with the Ninja Stars and he come in and cut off his head. Yeah, perfect. All right. You know, or something. If I can kick us off, I'd love to thank from Newman in Western Australia, Katie Clay's.

Katie Clays, the Clays test is a device that measures the temperature of bathwater. Oh, that's good. And you might be thinking, oh, a thermometer? No. You imbecile. Yes, obviously. It's way more complex than that. You just don't have the scientific brain that Katie Clays does.

Yes, because Katie, she's figured out. She can tell, not just the temperature it is now, but the temperature it will be in three hours time when you're getting out. Yeah. And how much hot water you'll need to top up with your toe hitting the hot water tap? The Klaise test, revolutionary. Thank you very much, Katie, for your support.

I'd also love to thank from Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, Brendan Fallon. Brendan Fallon. So the Fallon test. The Fallon test. Okay. It's a... Yeah, go on.

Please, I'd love to hear where you're going. It's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a bit like a, like a clapometer. Oh yeah. You know, like where it's sort of, oh yeah. But it judges, it judges how funny Jimmy Fallon's jokes are. Oh. Yeah. Like, yeah, so it's like an applause.

A pauseometer. But it's the Fallon test. Yeah. And Brendan came up with it. Yeah. Wow. And does it normal, how does it peak? Well, yeah, there's like there's, it's, it's, it's, you know, it's, it's, you.

You know, got a bit of a dial. It's how funny he's being, not how funny he's finding things. Yeah, that's right. Because that'll be off the chart. That one broke. That one. That one, yeah. Yeah, that one malfunctioned.

Is he doing a ride on the Falun test? He's never quite hitting over into gut-busting. Yeah, okay, fair enough. He's very pleasant. Yeah, yeah. He's often sitting in pleasant. Like, the second level is ha-ha. Yeah.

And then there's loll. And then there's raffle. Yeah. And then there's gut-busting. He never quite gets to gut busting. Honestly, that's the dream. The day he hits gutbusting, he retires. Wow.

Then you have to evacuate the... Yeah, your guts. The studio. Your boughs, yep, that's right. Your boughs, but everyone else is evacuated. I would love to next thank Papillon, from Papillion in... N.A. New Inc.

No, what's N.E? North. No, N.A. Nevada, maybe. Nebraska. I'd love to thank from Papillion. It's Nebraska. In Nebraska, in the United States, it's Aaron. Aaron test.

The Aaron test is, it's a test that works out what the initials for the U.S. state stand for. Oh, fantastic. He's figured out the perfect way to remember. You go, I'll just do the Aaron test. You go, N.E., what's that? Nebraska. What's that? New England?

No, that's not a state. But he's got the perfect test where you go, beep, beep, beep. And it works at that. Aaron's so great. He'll say his Aaron test, too. is this test that he did where you had to figure out how many A's you have to put in your show title to be at the front of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival guide.

Every year it's getting more, isn't it? Yeah. It's a comedy show. Bob, would you like to thank a few of our great supporters? Nothing would bring me more joy. I would love to thank from Wheelers Hill in Victoria, Jamia, Hemphill. Oh, fantastic.

Willis Hills, that's sort of vaguely where you grew up? Yeah. In the neighbourhood. Thank you. It's quite triggering. It's where my ex-boyfriend lives. Oh, my goodness. Still.

Probably still, I don't know. Jamia? Jamia. Jamie. The hemp hill test is, of course. It's a, you know, it's a marijuana-related test, I suppose. What do you suppose? I suppose.

And it's just, what it does is that when you've got just a big hall of the old Mary Jane, right, and the cops come in and they figure out, the hemp pill test figures out how much they can skim off the top before being caught by the bloody toe cutters or whatever they call the internal affairs or whatever. Toe cutters. Have I been watching too much underbelly or something? I don't know what toe cutters are. Is that not the term? I don't know, but maybe. So it's for this. So essentially the hemp hill test is for dirty cops.

Is that what you're saying? It's like a ratio to work out. If there's a kilo here, we can probably skim off 200 grams. Yeah. That's a lot. The term toe cutter, the term toe cutter is Australian slang for a person who lives

by torturing other criminals, then robbing them. It's nowhere near what I meant. Wow. Sounds awful. As the name implies, the torture usually involves painful removal of the digits or in some cases the complete foot. And what's the point of it?

Oh no, hang on, here we go, Urban Dictionary, Australian police saying tow cutter refers to members of the Internal Ethical Standards Division. So it is what I meant. You haven't been watching too much underbelly. They're two very different definitions. I haven't seen Underbelly in 10 years. Sure thing, mate.

I swear. I don't support Australian TV, I swear. I hate it. I would also love to thank from Reservoir in Victoria, Alida Trung. Alita Trung from Reservoir. You didn't say Reservoir, did you? No, I said Reservoir. Oh, fantastic.

You south of the Yarotopes. Always pronouncing it wrong, but you didn't. So, oh my God, Jess is, for the listeners at home, Jess is staring me down right now. I haven't heard an apology yet. Because I think Matt, I've heard you refer to it as Reservoir before. Yeah, no, it's funny because a friend. And I actually still haven't heard an apology.

A friend up here in Sydney is looking to move down. there and he's saying and still the day goes on and he's been saying like you can't he's like the locals they don't like it if you call it reservoir it's got to be reservoir and I'm like yeah both sound right to me I don't know and I'm sorry Bob thank you uh what is the trung test the trung test the trung test this is another marijuana one you're never going to believe I'm not going to believe that I don't believe it I don't believe it Dave it's a test stop talking we don't believe you shut up Dave when you work out how much you could get away with as personal use only.

Oh, yeah. Oh, this is for personal use. So if you can get in there and like American film from the early 2000 style, prove that all 10 kilos is for personal use by smoking it in front of the bullet. Have you been watching a bit of underbelly day? All these lingo type terms? That's the trung test. That's the trung test.

And if you can prove it, you get to keep it. That's fantastic. That's a great test. Well, put together, Alida. Love that. Finally, for me, I would love to thank from King Usi. King Usi. King Usi.

They put their whole King Usi into this one. I honestly don't care if we're wrong. It's King Usi. King Usi. In Great Britain, somewhere. Jack Meade. King Usi. King Usi.

King Usi. King Usi. King Usi. Jack Maid, that's the test where the King Usi test is where the tests of... Oh, it's in Scotland. The players that are left out of the national cricket team who should be in there for a long period.

And this test figures out how instantly they will make their first ton. Oh, why, fantastic. Because Usman Guadja was out of the Australian team so long came in and just dominated. King Lucy. King Usi. King Usi. King Yucy. I think they're a bit wrong there.

It's King Usi. King Ussie. King Ussie. That's a very important test because a lot of people that you feel like, they should be in the side. Get him in. Yeah, like Brad Hodge.

Brad Hodge? Yeah. For ages he wasn't. Yeah. Was his last ever innings, a double ton or something? He just did not get enough goes. That's a king. Ridiculous.

But that was because they didn't have the King Ussie test back then. But they do now. So that means. a state won't happen again. Hey, I'd like to thank now from Columbia in a state that I will not recognize until I'm dead in the cold cold ground, Missouri. It is Andrew Hutchinson. The Hutchinson Test.

What's a Hutchinson Test book? The Hutchinson Test is, it's a device that you run across surfaces. You can use it on like carpets, rugs, bedding, or whatever, and it will tell you whether or not someone is pissed on this. I reckon, you know, as we're sitting in an Airbnb, I don't want that test done here. Yeah, but if you were an Airbnb host, wouldn't you want that? I don't know if I'd want to know or not.

Well, you should know because then you'd need to clean it for your next guess. Very good point. Yes, very good point. I reckon on my Airbnb survey, I'd say, do you have... Do you have a Hutchinson device? And if not, then I'm not going to bother cleaning. But if you do, I will clean up. I'll clean up because I have pissed everywhere.

I am like a fountain. At night. I was sure. I was sure it was going to be another. See how much marijuana residue has been there. And if you can skim some off the top. I'm obsessed with that. Sorry to disappoint.

No, piss was better. Piss was so much better. Honestly, I saw a picture of a rug on a Facebook ad. God, you're good. You literally got your feet on a rug. I know. And I was like, oh, carpeted. You said carpet and rug, and I went, I know what she's saying.

How does she do it? How does she use that imagination? I just said bedding. Can't see any bedding in here right now. Okay, so I have thought. That's very true. I've used my noggin. Dave, who else do you want to think?

I'd like to think from Somersworth in New Hampshire. Summer'sworth. Summer's worth. It's not the same, but you know. Somersworth in New Hampshire. Angelo del Guides. Oh, fantastic name. Guaducci.

So it's the Del Guducci test. The del gadoochee test. And that is to work out whether fur and a coat is real or not. So before you throw your red paint, you better do the Delgadoucci test. Yeah, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Of course this isn't real. Or if you're the other way and you want it to be, go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, this is real. Yeah.

Get the paint. I want people to know that I can afford this. I can. I'm rich. What a death involved in this keeping me warm. Many cute little creatures died for me. I want people to know that. For me to look cool once or twice.

That's what I root in Disney movies for Cruella to build. Yeah, Creweller's great. Get that jacket. Get it, girl. Hell yeah, you look great. I look amazing. If all those minks are going to be dying anyway, let's make the most of their skin and fur. What's a mink?

I don't know. Is they? Mink. They're tiny. They're like a mongoose. Mink. Takes a lot of mink. Oh, they're cute.

Oh, no. That felt like a real 90s thing. Yeah, mint coats. Mink coats. That was a real status thing. Old, rich people had mink coats. They're cute as shit. Oh my gosh, they're so cute.

They're so cute. I didn't need to hear that. They're like a little weasel. They are like a little whizzer. It's Weizel. It's Weizel. Did we ever get to the bottom of that? We had about 10 explanations.

I think it turned out that it was this niche one-off joke character from a tail spin episode. Wow. That episode where Beluza pilot. But it was all. People also found it. It was in, there was a character in Frozen,

which I was very flattered when people thought that came out of my childhood. And there was some news newsies or something, but that was like a live action show from the 80s or something, but I hadn't seen that. So I think it must have been tailspin. Dave, I think you got one last person to think. I got one to go, and I would love to thank from Winmalley in New South Wales,

all one word. Ruby Road. Ruby Road. Ruby Road. Jeez. That sounds like a beautiful spot. Now the Ruby Road test, of course, is the test where you are able to. And Jess, just take notice of how much my imagination goes beyond what's in the room.

Oh, get fucked. I said bedding. And this test is... That really threw me off when you said bedding. A test roads to see how many rubies were in the... The mix of the bitumen. He is good. Has it ever left zero at scale?

Yeah, they're still not fully sure if the test works or not, because it's always come up as zero. Oh, another nun. It seems to be working. Beep-bib-bib-bib-bib-bib-bib-bib-bib-bib. No, zero again. Ruby Road, that's a good work if you can get it. Ruby Road.

Well done. Beautiful name. For a boy or a girl. And the last thing we like to do is, I should just say, just recapping. there. Thank you so much to Ruby Road, Angelo, Andrew, Jack, Alita, Jamia, Aaron, Brendan and Katie. And the last thing we like to do

is welcome a few people into the Triptitch Club. Now, for new listeners, the Triptage Club is a place, a very exclusive place where listeners and supporters who've been on the shoutout level or above for three straight years are welcomed in. I'm

on the door. I've got the clipboard. I've got the guest list. Short guest list tonight. Just the one name. Actually, I'm having a look ahead. Next episode's got like 20. Maybe I should do a few extra for a few next week's ones today. What do you think? I reckon.

Let's do it. So we've got a few names then, Dave. How many do you want me to do today? What do we do five today? Five. You're still leaving quite a few to do. Is it legit 15? Yeah, it is legit 20.

What did we do three years ago that made so many people jump on? I don't know. Wow. Sure. Let's do 10, Dave. I reckon you got it in you. All right. All right.

So, Jess, you're normally behind the bar as well. You've come up with a cocktail based on the Turing test. Yeah, it's called The Enigma, and I will not tell you what's in it. That's good. That sounds delicious. Dave, you've only booked a band for the after party. Yes, we have got an incredible act tonight. Obviously, draping himself in a snake.

It is Alice Cooper. Holy shit. Can you believe it? The Prince of Darkness himself. Himself. If that's the name he goes by. So, I'm going to. I'm going to read out the names. Dave is up on stage. He's emceeing the event. Once they come in, Dave will hype them up. And then Dave's a little bit sensitive. He doesn't always feel like he's done the best job, often because he doesn't do a very good job.

How is that I'm talking about? Then Jess is by his side or behind the bar, sort of is Paul Schaefer, just hyping him up. No, I stand right behind Dave. Do you? And I just whispered his ear the whole time. And one hand is on his butt. But she'll never tell you which hand. He finds it very comforting. That's why I feel uncomfortable. He loves it. He needs it. It soothes him. Fortunately, you are wearing a Madonna headset mic so we can hear your whispers.

All right. So you're ready for this big list of ten names, Dave? Absolutely. All right, here we go. Are you feel us the confidence there? Are you ready, Dave? Are you ready? Grab my butt.

Grab my butt. Yeah, see, he loves it. All right. From Ash in Great Britain, it's Wheat-Wee-Tington. Wheatington, he's from Ash, but when I see him, I think cash. This guy's loaded. Yes, he's got money, money, money. He's money.

This man is money. Money, Wheddington. I'd also love to thank and welcome into the club from Glasgow in Scotland. It is Louis Gamal. Oh, Glasgow on in, Lewis. Yes. Love yourself a brisky. Lewis.

From Croydon in Great Britain, it's Kear Beals. Have no fear. It's Kear. That is here. I'm wondering, were we in Great Britain three years ago? Because there were a lot of Great Britain names here. I'd also love to thank from Birmingham in Great Britain. It's Kieran Darcy.

Oh, Kieran Darcy keeps things classy. Oh my God, Dave, yes. And I'd like to thank from Dundee in Scotland, the famous stewards, Dundee DeCanter, home of Hague Crookshank. Oh, I'd just like to thank to say, Hague, Crook, thanks for your support. Yes, and welcome in. I'd love to thank from Shirley in Great Britain. It's Jody Thomas.

Jody Thomas, I'll make you a promise. Yes. You'll have a great time in there. Yes, Jody. I'd love to thank from Attis Cadero in maybe California in the United States. It's Connor Seema. Cimar on down. Simmer on.

I think you're going to say simmer, so this really threw me off. Seema down. Looking ahead, Dave. It's going to be free flowing here. Yeah, yeah. Connor, you make me want to have a great time. There we go. Nailed it. From Bannstead in Surrey, Great Britain, it's William Townsend.

Oh, more like Grandstead. Grand. Grand. It makes sense, wouldn't you? From Grenoc in Inferglide. Inverclyde in Great Britain, Scott Coventry. Oh, more like hot Coventry. Oh my God, not your value. Not your value, but your outfit's fantastic. You're looking stunning.

And finally, from Davenry in Great Britain's Louis William. What was that? Davenry. More like patentry. Come on in. Come on in. Is that something? Yeah, that's good.

Oh, thank you. That's rare praise. You're on such a role, I feel like I almost want to keep going. That's enough. All right. Thank you. And welcome into the club. Make yourselves at home.

Lewis, Scott, William, Connor, Jody, Hayg, Kieran, Keir, Lewis and Wheat. Make yourselves at home. enjoy an enigma beverage. Get ready for Alice Cooper himself. We are not worthy. And yeah, anything to say before we head off for the day, Bob? Just that we love you and that anybody can make a suggestion at any time.

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