Jingle Music: You there, boy. What podcast is this? Why, it's Lexx Education, Mr. Merry Christmas.
Laura: Hello, and welcome to a very festive edition of Lex Education, the Comedy Science Christmas podcast, where comedian Chris this was me, Laura Lax, tries to learn Christmas science from her Christmas Eve brother, Ron.
Ron: Ho lo. I'm Ron.
Laura: Merry Christmas, Ron.
Ron: Merry Christmas, Laura. I was desperately trying to work out whether Rondolph the red nose or Rudolf the red nose Rondeer.
Ron: It was better, and then I abandoned both and went further.
Laura: I like Rudolph the Rednosed Rondeer because it also sounds like oh, it's Rudolph the Rednosed Ron, Dear.
Laura: How Christmas? Are you? Christmas?
Ron: Ron debated putting up Christmas lights today.
Laura: But Ron, it's Christmas week.
Ron: I've been using candles.
Laura: Ron, I know we're recording this at the beginning of December, but we're releasing it on the 19th, so can you pretend it's Christmas week?
Ron: Sorry. Yeah, I broke the Grinch's jaw yesterday. I'm having a great time.
Laura: I mean, Ron, when this gets released, you'll be in sunny Mexico.
Ron: No, not quite.
Laura: Oh, my God. Just let me have something here. ;'Ron, have you got your decks up?
Laura: No, it's only the 1 December. Are you going to be in Mexico?
Ron: No, technically, actually, I won't have yet.
Laura: Say hello In a Christmassy way.
Ron: I’m Ron. I'm trying so hard.
Laura: To do what?
Ron: To be Christmassy.
Ron: You weren't very Halloween on the Halloween episode.
Laura: F*** your ass. I was so Halloween. I listened to all that stuff.
Ron: Yeah, and I've done hours upon hours of research for this Laura CONEZ. I was watching her past midnight last night researching this s***.
Laura: I can't believe we're doing a festive end of term episode and you've already made us have a row.
Ron: No, this has not come from me.
Laura: This has come from all I've done is be jolly and ask you about Christmas.
Laura: Why are you screaming?
Ron: Because you were telling the same that I was, like, shooting you down for stuff.
Ron: I wasn't.
Laura: I was just correct and punched the.
Ron: Grinch permit hospital saving Christmas.
Laura: Well, no, but oh, were you thinking the Grinch at the beginning of the film?
Ron: Yeah, like it's in the classic word, the Grinch.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Sorry.
Ron: When someone says that they're a bit of a Grinch about stuff, they don't mean the redeemed Grinch at the end of it.
Laura: I was picturing the end Grinch and I thought, he's learned to love Christmas.
Laura: And then you punched it.
Ron: No, that's never how anyone means anything.
Laura: The one at the end.
Laura: They should, because that's how he is the most of time.
Ron: Yeah, but if you were to reference any bad guy in most things, if you're like, oh, he's the voldemort of.
Laura: This or that voldemort doesn't get redeemed, he dies.
Laura: Changes mind.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: No, he dies.
Laura: Yeah, but the Grinch changes his mind.
Laura: So the Grinch now canonically loves Christmas.
Ron: Yeah, but you don't just use the end state of someone to then describe them.
Laura: They do.
Ron: Well, that's weird.
Laura: No, it isn't.
Laura: That's how you left the story with them.
Ron: Yeah, but you can't say that our grandma is the sauron of Christmas because they're both dead.
Ron: That's not how it works.
Laura: Well, I don't think deadness is a personality trait, though, is it?
Ron: No.
Laura: Anyway.
Laura: Merry Christmas, listener.
Laura: Ron and I aren't spending Christmas together this year.
Ron: I'm going to be in Mexico from the 22nd until the 7th.
Ron: Laura, what are we doing for our Christmas episode?
Laura: We're having a f****** row, that's what we're doing.
Ron: Let me do to you.
Ron: I did to the grinch.
Laura: Poor Grinch.
Laura: He's only just got over like that.
Laura: Probably physical trauma of his heart growing three sizes and now he's punched in the neck.
Laura: Hey.
Laura: Well, so, as it's the end of term, we are going to be watching a Christmas movie.
Laura: But because Ron loves science so much, ron can't just watch a Christmas movie quietly.
Laura: Ron has taken it upon himself to study the science of the Christmas movie that we are watching.
Laura: Ron, why did you so badly want to do this?
Ron: It's not how it went down.
Ron: Laura wanted an excuse to watch a Christmas movie in late October.
Laura: I had an excuse and that was that.
Laura: It was late October and it's a free country.
Ron: So Laura watched Home Alone.
Ron: I did, and has set me the challenge of scientifically analysing the defences that Kevin sets up.
Laura: Yeah, so I've seen a couple of videos online where medical doctors assess the damage that would have been done to the burglars if they'd been through Kevin's actual booby trap.
Laura: And I thought, that paint can swinging.
Laura: I bet that's some physics.
Laura: What's that door handle made of, then?
Laura: That it got real hot.
Laura: I thought, there must be a lot of science in this.
Laura: So Ron is going to help me understand the science of the McAllister defences.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: And we're going to start with the one that almost had me leaping out of the window last night.
Laura: Yeah, let's start with Ron's worstest one.
Laura: Christmas Chain.
Laura: Cool.
Laura: Chain cool.
Laura: Jing cool.
Ron: Let's intersperse this whole episode with Jerse Christmas facts.
Ron: Laura, what's your favourite Christmas song?
Laura: Favourite Christmas song?
Ron: Oh, not the punchy segment.
Ron: I thought it would be.
Laura: I love so many Christmas songs.
Ron: Is it mittens?
Laura: No, it's not mittens.
Laura: Is it Carly Rage?
Ron: It's Carly Rage, isn't it?
Laura: Give me your strongest pair, your warmest pair of Mittens, please.
Laura: Very bad song.
Laura: If you're interested, do look it up.
Laura: What do I love of Christmas songs?
Laura: I tell you what, I love it's actually.
Laura: Who's it by?
Laura: It's called by like, porky and meat or something.
Ron: It sounded like S Club Seven or something.
Laura: Yeah, it's something like that.
Laura: No, hang on, I need to find it.
Laura: What's yours while I look?
Ron: Jesus Christ.
Ron: I thought you were just going to be like, don't you stop the cavalry.
Laura: I do like that one.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Mine is Christmas wrapping by the waitresses.
Laura: Oh, that is a good one.
Ron: Brilliant.
Ron: And then shout out to don't you stop the cavalry by.
Ron: Was it Jonah Lewis?
Laura: Jonah Lewis.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: What is he like?
Laura: He didn't really understand the rules of Pointless, if I'm totally honest, but he seemed like a really nice man.
Laura: He took pointless very seriously, but didn't really seem to understand it.
Laura: But a very nice guy.
Laura: What the f*** is this Christmas song called?
Ron: Jesus.
Laura: Christ.
Laura: You're just singing f Club Seven.
Laura: Christmas comes around just like a Shooting Star by Danny and Lizzy That's what.
Ron: It is talking in me.
Laura: I'm listening to it now.
Ron: How are you so out of breath?
Ron: You sat down.
Laura: I was singing along, but I don't know the words, so it's just like panting along.
Ron: That's disturbing.
Laura: I'm quite full.
Laura: I just ate a load of roasted vegen tofu and pasta.
Laura: So you know when your tummy is, like, sitting on your lungs?
Ron: I'm well into tofu at the moment.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Can you get cauldron tofu where you are?
Ron: What's cauldron tofu?
Laura: It's really firm tofu and they do a teriyaki one and a smoked one and it's like very flavoursome.
Ron: No, I just get normal firm tofu.
Laura: Christmas.
Ron: There is a curry flavoured one that they do, but it's like four times the price, so I don't get it.
Laura: Just roll your own in some curry powder.
Ron: Exactly.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Anyway, Ron, stop trying to put off watching this Christmas movie.
Ron: I thought that would be a brief segment.
Ron: It's almost time for the next one.
Ron: Right.
Ron: Laura, the first one of Kevin's defences that you asked me to investigate yes.
Ron: Is Kevin pours a bucket of water outside of some stone steps leading up to his house.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Would it freeze within an hour?
Laura: Yeah, because you assume it's less than an hour because it's like late afternoon when he pauses it, by the looks of things.
Laura: And then the burglars arrived just as darkness is falling.
Ron: So you really sounded like that wasn't the end of the sentence.
Laura: No, I'm just setting up the science equation.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: I spent a long time trying to work out if this would freeze, what.
Laura: Would be colder, the ground or the air.
Ron: So it's less about what's colder, it's more about something that is called the.
Laura: Heat transfer capacity jingle heat transfer capacity jingle all.
Ron: Which is much higher between stone and water than it is between water and air.
Ron: What is the heat transfer capacity?
Laura: So how quickly something can change?
Ron: How quickly heat transfer between it okay, because air famously bad conductor of heat.
Ron: That's why when you have a puffy jacket, it's mainly air in there.
Laura: Oh, and feathers.
Ron: You didn't know this?
Laura: No.
Ron: Air is a terrible conductor of heat.
Ron: That's why things like polystyrene are good.
Ron: That's why foam is used for insulation, because it's little pockets of air.
Laura: Why don't you just use an empty box?
Ron: Because it works better if the air can't move around.
Ron: Because if air can move around, then you get convection currents and then that will transfer heat.
Ron: But if the air is stuck in these little bubbles, then it transfers very slowly.
Laura: Okay, all right.
Laura: I've learned something already.
Laura: Barely two minutes into the episode and I'm already learning.
Ron: So, Laura, what do you think we need to know to work this out?
Laura: We need to know the temperature of the air, the temperature of the stone on the floor.
Ron: I didn't work it out for both.
Ron: I just did it in the air.
Laura: What do you mean?
Ron: I only did it with the air versus the water.
Ron: I couldn't do it with both the stone and the air touching the water.
Laura: Okay, I don't know what that means.
Ron: Just imagine it's just freezing because of the air not just floating in the air, it's just freezing because of the air, not because of the stone.
Laura: Okay?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So air temperature and the temperature of.
Laura: The stone and okay.
Laura: What are you saying?
Ron: Just ignore the stone is all I'm saying.
Laura: I can't.
Laura: That's the bit.
Laura: What?
Laura: It's freezing on the stairs.
Ron: Yeah, but to work out if it would freeze outside right, I've just done it about the air taking their temperature out of the water, not the stone.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Okay, bye.
Laura: It's not confusing.
Laura: Yeah, all right.
Ron: What else do we need to know?
Laura: I don't know now because I don't know what bits you're ignoring.
Ron: Well, I'll tell you if you say one of them.
Ron: What else?
Laura: Okay.
Laura: The temperature of the water.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And basically one last thing.
Laura: Now, I've taken a second because I wanted to say the temperature of the bucket that the water came out of, but I've changed my mind on that as an answer.
Laura: Maybe the volume of water.
Ron: Exactly.
Ron: Well done.
Laura: And actually holding a screwdriver.
Laura: That's menacing.
Ron: It's on my desk, so I'm going to gesture with it.
Laura: Have you been pretending to do DIY or as dad been wrapped?
Ron: No, I do DIY.
Laura: Give over.
Ron: I fix things.
Ron: What do you fix things but break?
Ron: F*** off.
Laura: You're just a little handyman.
Ron: No, I own a screwdriver.
Ron: It's on the desk.
Ron: Having just been used to screw in a screw.
Laura: What are you screwing screws into?
Ron: The handle on my window gets a.
Laura: Bit loose.
Ron: So I DIY it back in.
Laura: You really are Bob Builder.
Ron: Maybe six days ago.
Ron: Screwdriver is still out.
Ron: Because I'm just that much of a handy man.
Laura: Just never know when you're going to need to grab it and use it.
Ron: So, yes, all of these things.
Ron: And then also we need to know the shape that the water is in.
Laura: What?
Laura: The shape of water?
Laura: That was a film, wasn't it?
Ron: That was a film with Sandy B, I think.
Ron: Didn't she try to f*** a murder?
Laura: No, it wasn't Sandy B.
Laura: It was that woman from Paddington, wasn't it?
Ron: Hugh Bonneville.
Laura: Not the woman from Paddington.
Laura: No, that's a man from Paddington?
Laura: No.
Laura: Who was in it?
Laura: The woman from the Theory of Everything.
Laura: She was in.
Ron: It wasn't Eddie Redmain?
Laura: No.
Laura: That's another man.
Ron: Jessica Chastain.
Laura: I don't know who that is.
Laura: No.
Ron: The little Brian Dallas Howard.
Laura: Were they?
Laura: In theory of everything.
Laura: No.
Laura: Who's?
Ron: The little Beth Rigby from Sky News.
Laura: What are you saying?
Laura: What's happening?
Laura: No shave of water.
Ron: I haven't seen it.
Ron: Laura christmas segment break.
Ron: What's your favourite Christmas movie?
Ron: B Swift.
Laura: This time it's while you were sleeping.
Laura: Sally Hawkins.
Laura: Would you mean that's not a Christmas film?
Laura: Yes, it is.
Ron: How is it?
Laura: He literally gets pushed onto the track on Christmas Day.
Ron: It happens at Christmas.
Ron: Is it a Christmas film?
Ron: No.
Ron: Let's go see this again.
Ron: What's yours?
Laura: Run?
Ron: Iron man three.
Ron: Anyway, it's not.
Ron: It's probably elf.
Laura: Elf is good.
Laura: Have you watched Spirited yet?
Ron: No.
Ron: What's that?
Laura: It's the new Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds Christmas musical.
Ron: I haven't, although shout out Meg, our younger sister.
Ron: Her and me used to watch paranormal activity every Christmas.
Ron: That was a fun tradition.
Laura: I thought you said you've done loads of research for this.
Laura: You are padding this episode like nothing's.
Laura: Like a padded jacket that's warm because of the air.
Ron: There is a lot to get through, actually.
Laura: Right.
Ron: So I had to do some should.
Laura: I be making notes?
Laura: Is there going to be a quiz?
Ron: Nice Christmas?
Ron: F*** it.
Laura: Correct answer, that's one.
Laura: Point to you, Ron.
Ron: I got my first point.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: I told you that microphone setup was precarious.
Ron: Yes, and it has been for weeks.
Laura: Why don't you become professional?
Laura: This is why we need to start a patreon.
Laura: So we've got some money to turn you into a professional.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Anyway.
Ron: Right, so I had to do some guesstimations.
Ron: Okay, so I reckoned that kev's.
Ron: Stairs outside kev.
Ron: Now, is it a metre and a half by about 20 centimetres.
Ron: Right.
Laura: 20 centimetres.
Laura: At least 30.
Ron: Please don't fight me on this because.
Laura: It'S like foot and a step has to be deep enough for a foot to go on the whole thing.
Ron: Please don't fight me on this because they have to do all of the sumners again.
Ron: Say that's fine.
Laura: All right.
Laura: But then you owe me some for some lessons after Christmas.
Ron: No, because it's Christmas.
Ron: And then I guesstimated that water on a step might be two millimetres deep.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: That equals 600 mill of water on each step.
Ron: That seemed like more than I was expecting.
Laura: Of course, it wouldn't disperse equally, would it?
Ron: Yeah, it'd be about water is famously flat.
Laura: No, but the step wouldn't be.
Ron: Why not?
Laura: Ah, just nothing ever is, is it?
Ron: You cannot nitpick like this, right?
Laura: I'm not nitpick.
Laura: I was helping you out.
Laura: You said it was more than you thought.
Laura: And I was saying, oh, here you go.
Laura: Have it be less if you like, then.
Ron: Anyway.
Laura: Laura what so inflexible.
Ron: Shut up.
Ron: What formula do we need to work out how much energy it would take for this amount of water to cool down.
Ron: Delta m C delta theatre.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: So M is 600 miles, right?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: C is 4.18.
Ron: Now, what is Delta Theatre, I hear you ask.
Ron: So I Googled average cold water temp coming out of a tap.
Ron: 20 degrees.
Laura: No, that feels too warm.
Ron: Why?
Laura: Because that's room temperature.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Where do you think the water was before it came out?
Ron: The tower in the room outside.
Ron: No.
Ron: Yeah, that's why it said online, 20 degrees.
Laura: Is it?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Water will feel colder because it's got a higher heat transfer capacity than air.
Laura: You see, this is where temperature is a big lie, isn't it?
Ron: No.
Laura: Yeah, because you say it's like when they say, oh, it's 20 degrees today, but with wind chill it feels more like 16.
Laura: Well, then it's 16 degrees, isn't it?
Laura: You're nobed, no, it's not.
Laura: It is, though.
Ron: No, it's not.
Ron: Because if that's what no, it feels.
Laura: That'S what it is.
Ron: No, because the temperature of something has got nothing to do with how hot or cold it feels.
Laura: That's all temperature is.
Ron: No, it's not.
Ron: Have you learned nothing?
Ron: Temperature is about the internal energy of it.
Laura: No, not really.
Laura: That's not useful.
Laura: Whereas how you feel is.
Ron: Well, no, because then the temperature would change depending on what you were wearing and what you were doing beforehand.
Ron: Oh, I'm wrapped up in a coat.
Ron: So it's 20 degrees for me.
Ron: No.
Ron: Dense Laura.
Laura: Oh, my skill is 20 degrees.
Laura: You know.
Ron: No, you're wrong and I'm sorry, but no.
Ron: So there's two parts of this thumb that we need to do.
Ron: Obviously, you and I both know that we need to work out how much energy it would take to get this water from 20 degrees to zero degrees.
Ron: And then what else do we need to know?
Ron: Laura?
Laura: Heat constant.
Ron: Don't just say things.
Laura: What was the guy where you have a ceiling of your temperature before you change into a new one?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So that's the specific latent heat of fusion.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: The posh guy, the MP for Milton Keynes.
Laura: Specific layton.
Laura: Hunt.
Laura: Hunt.
Laura: Buzzard.
Ron: Heat of fusion.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So we can work this out.
Ron: Right?
Ron: So the energy to get 20 is going to be 600 times 20.
Ron: That's how many degrees it's fallen.
Ron: Times 4.186.
Ron: That's the specific heat constant of water.
Ron: This gives us 50,232 joules we need to take out of this water to get it down to zero.
Ron: Okay?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: The specific latent heat of fusion is just 600 times 334.
Ron: This gives us 200,400 joules that we need to take out of it for it to freeze.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Ron so that's 250,632 joules to freeze all of the water.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: That's how much energy we need to be sucked out of this water, right?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Now, we need to work out how quickly that's going to happen for this.
Ron: We're going to use.
Ron: I think it was Newton's Law of cooling.
Ron: I Googled this.
Ron: The average low temperature in Chicago in December is minus four degrees centigrade.
Laura: That's warmer than average, though.
Ron: Average coldest temperature.
Laura: What does that mean?
Ron: It's the average coldest temperature in December.
Ron: I can't say it simply.
Laura: They've taken all the coldest days and then that's the average of them?
Ron: Yeah, it's the average coldest temperature.
Laura: So do they take one day a year and then take the average?
Ron: No, they take December.
Laura: In.
Ron: It the average coldest temperature.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Yeah, I love it.
Laura: And then that's only minus four.
Laura: I thought that would have been colder, to be honest.
Ron: Well, it's not.
Laura: Excuse me.
Laura: A scientific question, Your Honour.
Laura: What kind of average did they use?
Laura: The median, the mode or the other one?
Ron: I don't know.
Ron: Mean, probably.
Ron: The mean.
Laura: Yeah, that's what I would have used.
Laura: Cool.
Laura: Then it wouldn't be a round number, probably, would it?
Ron: I don't know.
Ron: It's probably rounded.
Laura: Rounded.
Laura: Even though four is the spikiest number.
Ron: You're very derailing when you try to join in on the map.
Ron: I wonder what show what coverage they would have chosen.
Ron: Actually, I kind of show you learned Scholar.
Ron: Right.
Ron: So the formula that we need to use now, which I think is Newton's Law of Cooling, which I didn't write this down when I was doing my notes, is Q equals Ha brackets, T brackets, little T, close brackets, minus T environment, closed brackets.
Laura: This is the least Christmas Eve I've ever felt in my life.
Ron: So T, little T, that's the temperature of the thing we're cooling down.
Ron: That's the water.
Ron: That's 20 degrees TNS, that is the temperature of the environment.
Ron: That's minus four.
Ron: So that's 24.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: 20 minus minus four is 24.
Laura: 20 minus minus four is a positive.
Laura: You take the two minuses and you pump together, makes a positive.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: H is the heat transfer capacity.
Ron: Now, I had to do quite a lot of googling for this because there's no just book where it has the heat transfer capacity of air on a step in Chicago.
Laura: There will be after.
Ron: This, though, so the HTC for air is anywhere between ten and 100.
Ron: So I decided to generously go for the top end because it's windy, because it's December.
Ron: Also, we're ignoring the step, which would have increased the heat transfer capacity.
Ron: So I've gone to the top end.
Laura: It would have been colder than the air, wouldn't it?
Ron: No, maybe not, but it would have had a higher heat transfer capacity, so it would have felt colder.
Ron: It would have sucked energy out of the water more.
Laura: So if you'd sat on it, you'd have gone, oh, this step is colder than the air.
Ron: Not if you were a learned doctor like me.
Ron: You'd have said, oh, this step sucking the heat out my b*** more than the air is right now.
Laura: And everyone would have walked away from you and said, let's not be friends with this small sciency child.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: So we went for 100, similar to your actual childhood.
Laura: And I apologise for that.
Ron: So we went for 100 on this.
Ron: Okay.
Ron: Then a capital A is the area of the thing that we're trying to work out.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: The step of the water on top.
Laura: Of the step, 2600 miles.
Ron: No, that's the volume we have to work out.
Ron: The area.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: The surface area.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: You understand?
Laura: Yep.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So had to do two times 1.5 times naught, .2 plus two times 1.5 times naught, .02 plus two times naught point naught, two times Naught point naught naught two crikey.
Ron: This all came to zero.
Ron: 68 metres squared.
Ron: It's the surface area of the water on the step right now.
Ron: So then you times H by A by TT minus TN, 100 times zero point 668 times 24, and you get 1456.32.
Ron: And that's how cold it was.
Ron: No, that is how much energy is getting sucked out of the water per.
Laura: Second, right into the sky.
Ron: Then we have to take the figure that we had before the 250632 and we have to divide that here.
Ron: We have to divide that by two.
Laura: The makers of this film had to do all this before they even made the film.
Laura: It wasn't accurate.
Ron: For some reason.
Ron: I don't have the perfect figure for this, but let me just work it out again.
Ron: 56.32.
Ron: We'll divide that by that and we get 172.09.
Ron: That up to 172.1.
Laura: That's in seconds, laura in seconds, yeah, every second.
Ron: So, by these calculations.
Laura: By my calculations.
Ron: The water would freeze just under three minutes.
Ron: However, obviously, this is bollocks, because, as I realised after I did all of this, as the temperature goes down, the temperature difference goes down.
Ron: So once the temp once the water is 19 degrees instead of 20, the temperature difference has been 23 instead of 24.
Ron: So then less energy is getting sucked out of it at all times.
Laura: Right.
Ron: Do you understand?
Laura: Yes, Ron.
Laura: Yes, I do.
Ron: Ron so more energy is going to flow out of something that's like yeah.
Laura: I f****** understood it.
Ron: Yeah, but you said it really vacantly.
Laura: Ron of everything you've said in the last seven minutes, that was the bit I understood.
Laura: The most slide is less steep.
Ron: Yeah, the slide is less steep.
Ron: So all of that was completely pointless with no idea.
Laura: All right, science.
Laura: Okay, well, let's say then, if it was three minutes for the first degree to freeze and we've got 20 degrees of it, so let's say it was three minutes for the first one, four for the next one, five for the next one, then how long would it be?
Ron: Ron I don't know.
Laura: Well, work that out.
Ron: No, that would take ages.
Laura: No, it wouldn't.
Laura: Just 20.
Laura: Wait, four.
Laura: You want to do three plus four plus five, plus six, plus seven, all the way up to 24, wouldn't you?
Laura: And then you'd have the answer.
Ron: Well, no, I'd have to work out how much it would how long it would take for it to drop one degree and then I'd have to change.
Laura: The that's what I'm saying, though.
Laura: Let's call that three minutes because you said our three minutes.
Laura: There you go.
Ron: I don't understand what well, it was a good segment.
Laura: Well done, everyone.
Laura: What's your favourite type of outdoor Christmas light?
Ron: I like the ones that are white, but a little bit gold.
Laura: Yeah, I know what you mean.
Laura: A warm white.
Ron: Yeah, a warm white.
Ron: I think if you got those almost UV blues up there, you're a joker.
Ron: I think you're the kind of person that would go under the table to pick up a joke from a cracker.
Laura: Who wouldn't do that?
Ron: Well, that's where you've got blue lights.
Laura: I haven't got any blue lights.
Laura: Get f***** if you actually even have any Christmas lights round your way.
Laura: Or is it all a bit posh?
Ron: Last year there was someone that dangled a Santa off a balcony and then took it back in March.
Laura: Oh, wow.
Ron: Well, everyone's in Flat, so it's a bit difficult to decorate outside of Flat, isn't it?
Laura: No, you can still do round your windows.
Laura: People don't yeah, it's a bit posh.
Laura: People go all out.
Laura: Where I live, all those projectors inflatable snowman.
Laura: It's great.
Ron: It's very low class.
Laura: Yeah, I love it.
Ron: What's your favourite type of Christmas light, Laura?
Laura: Too much.
Laura: I love it when somebody buys six new decorations a year and has no filtering system and their house looks like a garden centre.
Ron: I just remember being a child and just begging dad to put up Christmas lights every year.
Ron: We were never, always saying no, and.
Laura: Then we all moved out and they started putting them up.
Ron: Yeah, but I get it.
Laura: Do you?
Laura: I love having a little jingly house.
Ron: No.
Ron: I don't even put muck inside, really.
Laura: Fran?
Laura: What's wrong with you?
Ron: There's a lot of effort, isn't it?
Laura: I'm going to punch you in the neck, it seems.
Ron: Wherever do you think a jaw is?
Laura: Did you not say in the neck your jaw is?
Laura: Basically you can't put your jaw in your neck.
Ron: You just opened your mouth.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Where's my jaw now?
Ron: All right, moving on.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: When he's wrong, he hasn't got an argument.
Ron: So I did do a bit because I failed then.
Laura: You didn't fail, Ron.
Laura: You can't fail as long as you tried your best, you can.
Ron: I did.
Ron: I was doing this so late last night.
Laura: Well, you should have maybe started doing it before the night before, like I do with all my it was the.
Ron: Night before Lex education, and all through the house, Ron was scratching his head, trying to figure out whether a bit of water would freeze in Chicago in December.
Laura: Also, this film was made, like, 30 years ago, so it's probably colder in Chicago then.
Ron: Maybe.
Ron: Right.
Ron: The next thing that I wanted to talk about why ice is so slippery.
Ron: Do you know this?
Laura: No, I don't know.
Ron: So it's basically because what happens is, when you step on it, the pressure from your shoe or whatever on the ice basically melts a very thin layer of water on the top of it.
Ron: So you're never actually touching ice.
Ron: What you're touching is a thin layer of water, which then just acts as a lubricant.
Ron: It makes it very slippy.
Laura: Whoa.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Hey, Ron, I've got a science fact for you.
Ron: Go on.
Laura: Did you know that water is the only liquid that freezes from the top down rather than the bottom up?
Laura: And that is the only reason why life on Earth is possible.
Ron: I didn't know that.
Ron: Yeah, it's a very good fact.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: Do you know why that is?
Laura: No.
Ron: Well, it's just because the structure, ice, like the crystal structure that it forms, is just less dense than water, so it floats.
Laura: Oh.
Laura: So even if the ice forms at the bottom, it floats to the top.
Ron: Next one.
Laura: Laura jingle Bell jingle ding Jingle in the podcast.
Ron: Doorknobs, that's the next one that you asked me to look into.
Ron: Yeah, the doorknob thing.
Laura: Isn't that dickheady that they have their initials on their doorknob?
Ron: Yeah, they can f*** off.
Ron: But also they're a bit too into the whole family thing.
Ron: Oh, look, we're going to have 100 children.
Laura: I know they only have two.
Ron: There's loads of kids in that film.
Laura: Yeah, they're cousins.
Ron: Are they?
Laura: Have you not really watched it?
Ron: I have only seen it, like, twice.
Ron: Yeah, once when I was a child and once last year.
Laura: I think there's like, two or three because his buzz is his brother, but Fuller is his cousin, I think.
Ron: Who's Fuller?
Laura: The one that p***** the bed.
Laura: His actual brother.
Laura: That's kieran culkin.
Ron: I love Kieran culkin.
Ron: He's in one of my favourite movies.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: He's in home alone.
Ron: If you weren't Scott Pilgrim vs The.
Laura: World, if you weren't such a beginning of the film Grinch, then you would know this.
Ron: I have seen it.
Laura: Yeah, well, once.
Laura: That's the same as not having seen it, really, isn't it?
Ron: Yeah, a bit.
Ron: We watched the Twelve Gifts of Christmas last night.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Was it good?
Ron: That dog s***.
Laura: Is that like a Hallmark movie?
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: Yeah, that sounds good.
Ron: It was the is it was very funny.
Ron: It was a portrayal of what boomers think, like Gen Zed or millennial people are.
Ron: Because it's just like this woman who's like an artist.
Ron: She takes pictures at the beginning of the film.
Ron: She just walks into a gallery and goes, like, hey, can I'm here to maybe get like, a gallery showing of my art.
Ron: And then the woman in the gallery is actually really nice about it and she's like, oh, do you have an agent or something?
Ron: Have you done similar things in the.
Ron: Area.
Ron: And then she's like, no, just trying to make it.
Ron: And then the woman in the gallery, she says like, oh, well, this is for established artists, not someone on their way up.
Ron: She didn't even say for urchins like you.
Ron: She for people on their way up.
Ron: They go somewhere else.
Ron: She spends the whole rest of the film slagging off this gallery.
Ron: Woman like, they didn't even look at my paintings.
Ron: Just a man bent from the street and came in and demanded like, you to have a gallery showing in Manhattan Madness.
Ron: Also amazing film for obviously filmed at the height of summer.
Ron: They're like all of the trees.
Ron: It was filmed in Salt Lake City in Utah.
Ron: All of the trees are full of leaves.
Ron: So what they did was they just greyed out the background of loads of the shots.
Ron: So it's just these grey trees blowing in the wind.
Laura: Oh, no, I love that when the snows like roll out snow and everybody's like wearing loads of layers, but they're all open so no one gets heat strike.
Ron: Yeah, it is amazing.
Ron: So then she's an artist.
Ron: She decides to sack that in.
Ron: What she does is she fails after asking one gallery for a thing once.
Ron: So then she just becomes a personal shopper.
Laura: Why?
Ron: Because she's good at buying Christmas gifts for people.
Laura: That is actually something you could make a living out of.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So what she does is she just like she goes to a bakery a lot.
Ron: Her only advertising she does for her new business as a personal shopper is to just put some business cards on the counter.
Ron: She then spends the next 75% of the film saying, yeah, but I'm going to make a website.
Ron: And she makes a website and they briefly show it on screen.
Ron: And it says that she has a good connection with a baker that she's friends with Eva.
Ron: So she lands one client, right?
Ron: Who's this hunky business man that doesn't answer his mom's calls even around Christmas time.
Laura: I think he got his heart broken around Christmas.
Ron: He's just a f****** dream, to be honest.
Ron: His character motivations there.
Ron: The whole thing were just baffling because he's like one of these guys.
Ron: He can't leave the office.
Ron: He's always there.
Ron: She's always like, what are you doing on Saturday?
Ron: And then he's like, you know me, babe.
Ron: I'm going to be in the office.
Ron: So she lands this one client, who's this guy.
Ron: He just wants her to buy twelve gifts for people he knows at Christmas.
Ron: She instantly goes and rents a flat.
Laura: What, on the back of the commission to find gift?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: She's like, okay, I've got a successful business and we've got one client.
Ron: Can't see this coming to an end.
Ron: He's always going to need gift sport for him.
Ron: She goes and starts viewing flats and stuff.
Ron: She then loses him as a client and then that is her motivation for her picking up the phone and being like, yeah, I will get the flat.
Ron: It was a riot.
Ron: Really recommend it.
Ron: Please watch this film because there is one performance in it that I found so baffling, I really that person had wandered onto set by accident.
Ron: It was amazing.
Laura: All right, we'll watch it by next week's episode, the Twelve Gifts of Christmas.
Ron: Right, okay.
Ron: The doorknob thing.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: Right.
Ron: Basically the question is, would putting a thingy on one side of the door managed to give that much heat on the other side of the door?
Laura: Yeah, I think it would, because there is like a metal stick that goes through all my door handles.
Ron: Yeah, they're definitely connected.
Ron: But first we need to know a few things.
Laura: The volume of door handle.
Ron: No, maybe voltage, 230 volts.
Ron: What is that thing?
Laura: Oh, yeah, that little why would you have that?
Ron: When I was doing this, I was just like because you see that scene, you see pictures of him hanging it on the door and you're just like, yeah, that's the McAllister's hot stick.
Ron: So I Googled it and according to BuzzFeed, what that thing is, is an electric charcoal starter.
Laura: What?
Laura: Now, an electric charcoal like starting a charcoal fire?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: So you just take there, you let it heat up and you just whack it in the fire, and then it just sets fire to the charcoal crikey.
Laura: So that's going to be quite hot then.
Ron: Yeah, so I googled it.
Ron: Now, this is modern tech.
Ron: This is 2022 electric charcoal starters.
Ron: They are 550 watts and they can apparently get to 600 degrees Celsius.
Laura: S*******, nora that's six boilings.
Ron: That's six boilings, exactly.
Ron: Now, I don't know about 80s technology.
Ron: I don't know how far electric charcoal starters have come along in the last 40 years.
Laura: Well, you'd think it's quite a simple piece of tech, so I'd have thought not wildly, it's basically a soldiering iron in it, but bigger.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: I've gone off these stats.
Ron: I haven't f***** around with it.
Ron: Now, I Googled what are old doorknobs made out of?
Laura: Something that doesn't tarnish by how shiny it is.
Ron: Now, the answers I got were brass, bronze and iron.
Laura: I'd go with brass for the McAllister's one.
Laura: It looks brassy.
Ron: It looks brassy, doesn't it?
Ron: However, before Joe Pasquali puts his hand on it, the brass dawnob is glowing red.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Now, brass glows red at about 700 degrees.
Laura: So the coal heater couldn't have got it that hot.
Ron: No, because the coal heater itself only goes to six and there's going to be energy losses from one side to the other.
Laura: So it's not brass.
Ron: Well, it could be iron.
Ron: Iron goes hot at 460 degrees.
Laura: Okay.
Ron: Now, I didn't know what formulas to do about doorknobs indoors metal, electric heater, but I think we're going to debunk this one.
Ron: I don't think that if you put that thing on one side, that much heat energy would get transferred to the other.
Ron: Side.
Laura: Okay.
Laura: Because he was branded, wasn't he?
Laura: He had an M in his in his hand.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: And this is, of course, if they are even using iron doorknobs, as discussed, the McAllisters are fancy b******.
Ron: They're probably brass doorknobs.
Laura: Yeah, I wouldn't have thought an iron doorknob, unless unless what?
Laura: The McAllisters made their fortune because that's quite a big house that they've got there in some Chicago prime real estate.
Laura: Maybe.
Laura: Mr McAllister's job was he was at the forefront of coal starter fire technology and they had one that was three times as powerful as everyone else's.
Ron: Maybe that could be the case, but I still think we're going to debunk this one, to be honest.
Laura: All right, yeah, fair enough.
Laura: So we could have frozen the outside fairly easily, probably, but we can't burn Pokchopusquali's hand off unless we have iron doorknobs.
Ron: Unless we have iron.
Ron: Like, the thing is that the the electric charge starter is getting to 600 degrees, but he's just hanging that over.
Ron: He's not insulating.
Ron: It like channelling that heat into the doorknob.
Ron: As we know, heat rises.
Ron: So that's going to just be it's going to heat up the room a lot.
Ron: And don't get me wrong, the knob is going to be hot.
Ron: That's going to be a hot knob, but hot.
Ron: 460 degrees on the other side.
Ron: And then we've also got to factor in that if this thing's almost 500 degrees hot and that wooden door hasn't.
Laura: Caught fire oh, that's a good point.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: You've frozen.
Ron: Your video is frozen.
Laura: Oh, that's a shame, because I'm pulling some really cool shapes.
Ron: All right, you're back.
Ron: So, yeah, we're debunking that one.
Ron: mythbusted.
Laura: Oh, you love Mythbusters.
Ron: All right, Laura, what's your favourite Christmas food?
Laura: Roast potatoes.
Laura: No.
Laura: Yes.
Laura: Chocolate.
Laura: Mould wine.
Ron: I think I have mould wine.
Ron: All the other ones are things you have all year round.
Laura: Yeah, but when you're well, what else isn't?
Ron: Pigs and blankets.
Ron: Turkey veteran stuffing.
Laura: Vegetarian.
Ron: Yeah, but you still like these things like you used to.
Laura: Yeah, but I would feel too sad saying they were my favourite now, because then it's just like, oh, yeah, life is meaningless when you care.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Being vegetarian does we're in this conversation.
Laura: I love chocolate orange, but as regular listeners know, I've been eating those for the last two months already.
Ron: Yeah, I like stuffing.
Laura: I like stuffing, too.
Laura: I think pigs and blankets would have been my favourite pre vegetarian red cabbage.
Laura: I do love red cabbage.
Laura: Ron, you've got me there.
Laura: You've done me a pre Christmas grinch.
Laura: Oh, ungrinched.
Ron: You've been crunched.
Ron: Right, the next thing that you asked me to investigate, Laura, was the Tarantula that is dropped on Simon and Simon Garfunkel's head when he's breaking in.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: So the Tarantula in Home Alone is a Chilean rose Tarantula, otherwise known as a Chilean fire Tarantula, otherwise known as a Chilean redhead Tarantula.
Laura: Oh, lots of names.
Ron: It's the most common type of Tarantula in the USA.
Laura: Because it makes a good pet.
Ron: Because it makes a good pet.
Ron: Now, what are good pets?
Ron: Not laura venomous.
Ron: Ron hugely dangerous.
Ron: Exactly.
Ron: I will highlight this.
Ron: I was reading the Wikipedia page for this type of tarantula quote.
Ron: This tarantula has a diverse diet, including grasshoppers, crickets, moths, beetles, cockroaches mealworms, small lizards and mammals.
Ron: Not that diverse, I think.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: That's a lot of very similar things that this direction is eating.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: The females can live up to 20 years old.
Laura: Oh, yeah.
Laura: We don't know whether buzzer's one was a male or a female.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: It can be up to 20 years old.
Ron: But because they haven't actually been in the market that long, we don't actually know how long they live because, like, we haven't had them for that long, is what Wikipedia said.
Laura: Do you know parrots live to, like, 80 years?
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Parrots are like, as smart as, like, children.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: That's wild.
Laura: 80 years.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: But how are they at defending a house?
Ron: Tarantulas.
Laura: Parrots?
Laura: Tarantulas.
Laura: Well, here's my guess, Ron, is that the tarantula just wants to head for heat.
Ron: Okay, so you think he's going to climb on the knob?
Laura: No, but when it lands on Daniel Stern's chest and then he screams no.
Laura: Is it Joe Pesci's chest?
Laura: I think the tarantula would like Daniel Craig.
Laura: No, Daniel Stern.
Laura: The other one.
Laura: That's not Joe Pesky.
Ron: Oh, goff.
Ron: Uncle.
Ron: Yes, Tom.
Laura: When he announced a haircut in a while, he looks like I think the tarantula would run for a warm bit, like the neck of his jumper or his armpit.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: I don't think it would like loud noises very much.
Ron: Okay.
Laura: What did you ask me?
Laura: Did you?
Ron: How they'd be good at defence, not about their likes and dislikes.
Laura: I don't think it would have any sense of defence.
Laura: I don't think it would know it was defending anything.
Ron: No, me neither.
Ron: That's fine.
Ron: That's fine.
Ron: What I was getting at is my phone extreme battery saver is on.
Ron: Well, turn it off.
Ron: Venom wise.
Ron: They do have venom.
Ron: It is administered through the fangs.
Ron: You're paying attention?
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Are you on your phone?
Laura: I'm not on my phone, no.
Ron: What are you looking at?
Laura: Some colourful labels, but I am listening.
Laura: Venomous is distributed through the fangs, but this one isn't venomous, as we've already established.
Ron: No, it is venomous.
Laura: What we said thought it wasn't.
Ron: No, you said it wasn't.
Laura: Yeah, I remember that.
Ron: I said not hugely dangerous, I say, aren't the facts, but it's not really dangerous to humans.
Ron: The venom wouldn't I think it would probably hurt a lot, but they'd be fine.
Ron: However, the Chilean rose tarantula's biggest defence is it has, erticating hairs located on its abdomen.
Ron: What it does is it rubs them out.
Laura: Like a pineapple.
Laura: No, porcupine.
Ron: Worse than that.
Ron: It sloughs them off by scratching its abdomen with its legs.
Ron: These hairs are then an irritant, and when they get in contact with the prejudiced.
Ron: Skin or eyes.
Laura: Oh, no.
Ron: Yeah.
Laura: It shaves its b*** all over you.
Ron: Basically.
Ron: It's kind of like defensive Dandruff is almost.
Laura: I bet that Tarantula feels really bad about itself at Tarantula reunions, just all the other guys have got really cool defensive mechanisms.
Laura: Is anybody go to Gillette?
Laura: I assure you all you wait if this gets in your eye.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: But at the reunion of the Chilean rose Tarantulas, the bare butted Tarantula would be the c*** of the walk.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: It's gotten to a fight out.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Smooth.
Ron: So I deemed this defence, although maybe not something that would have stopped the wet burglars completely.
Laura: Wet bandits.
Ron: It definitely would have hindered them as they came into contact with other defences.
Ron: So I deem it unbunk.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: And I think the average person wouldn't know they are not learner doctors like us, they wouldn't know that they're just dealing with a little bit of itching powder off a spider's b***.
Laura: So I'd be quite perturbed to see that crawling towards my mouth.
Laura: I always freaked me out that when the spider lands on him, he screams like that I would be closing orifices not opening new ones.
Ron: Agreed.
Ron: That scream haunts me to this day.
Ron: Now, Laura, what's your favourite Christmas present.
Laura: That I've ever had?
Ron: No, just what's your favourite type of Christmas present?
Laura: Board game.
Ron: Yeah, board games are good.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: What's yours?
Laura: Ron.
Ron: I like that when you get those selection packs that are like in a tray, there's like a crunchy that you can give to mum and like a flake and dairy milk and stuff.
Laura: And a curly worley.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Kelly Whirly.
Ron: Kellywood used to be the size of a small ladder.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Not anymore.
Ron: That's weirdly.
Ron: One of my favourite quotes from the thicker bit, right, the last bit now, this isn't going to take very long because I didn't do lots of research for it.
Ron: Paint cans.
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Because he did that really well.
Laura: Little Kevin McAllister to know how long a string to hit them both.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: So I was trying to work this out, I was trying to work out how much force a paint can would apply to a face.
Ron: I was trying to work out how much energy that paint can would have as it was swinging down on that pendulum.
Ron: And then obviously I needed to know how much force or energy it would take to obliterate a human skull.
Laura: Yeah.
Ron: Encased in a meatbag.
Ron: I could not find this information anywhere.
Laura: No, but you are on several lists.
Ron: Things I Googled this afternoon was quite horrific.
Laura: Some Belgian police are sitting around like if there is anybody who wakes up with their face staved in, it was this little sciencey boy.
Ron: The weird thing is though, right, that I was asking this, I was getting nowhere.
Ron: I text a friend of the podcast, Noah, I'm like, hey, man, if you wanted to know how much force it would take to kill a person through blunt force impact to the head.
Ron: How would you find that out?
Ron: He texted me back and was like, maybe look at bike helmet studies and they might have the information there.
Laura: He's so smart.
Laura: Friend of the smart boy.
Ron: So I did that.
Ron: So the Belgian police are going to be like, oh, he was trying to work out how to kill someone, but then like planning for if they were wearing a helmet.
Ron: But anyway, so I really struggled with this one.
Ron: So basically what I'm going to do is treat you an answer on reddit.
Ron: So shout out Chandler a year ago for answering the question.
Ron: The question request was by Philly Mac, 33, in Home Alone.
Ron: When Kevin swings the paint cans off the railing, how fast are they going?
Ron: How much force and damage would they create to a human face?
Ron: So then Chandler says two story stairs, approximately 8.53.
Laura: Oh, I love their writing style.
Laura: I love it.
Ron: Really setting the scene detective noir style.
Ron: He ascended perhaps six to eight steps.
Laura: She had a figure that had been poured into the room like fog off a duck's back.
Ron: She is all the way up to here.
Ron: You have filthy animals is relatively short man.
Ron: Let's say his head is then 2.9 metres up from the ground floor.
Ron: So a pendulum of 5.65 metres, putting it into a pendulum calculator for one gravity is an oscillation of 4.77 seconds.
Ron: Putting that through an angle calculator for a 90 degree perfect pendulum, assuming the first drop is roughly equivalent to a perfect pendulum, gives that a max speed at the bottom of 7.45 metres per second.
Laura: Yes.
Ron: I don't remember, but memory serves that they were smaller cans, half gallon, so let's say 2.6 kg.
Ron: So that would be a momentum of 19.37 kilogramme metres per second.
Laura: I like to imagine that Chandler is a married man with three children and they are all being bathed and put to bed.
Laura: And his wife is saying, are you coming to help?
Laura: And he is writing the thesis of his life on reddit, like, no, darling, my time has come, I'm helping the people.
Ron: Let's have a look at his timeline.
Ron: Yeah, you might have nailed it then.
Laura: Yeah, I'm very good at reading people.
Ron: Yeah.
Ron: Anywho, then he goes on to say a 100 miles per hour fastball has about 6.66 kilogramme metres per second momentum.
Ron: So we're a full three times that, 100 million mph fastballs to the face.
Ron: Of course.
Ron: Pretty horrendous industries.
Ron: So triple that amount is brutal.
Ron: Broken nose and orbital caved in, fractured skull and shattered jaw.
Ron: Just like the grinch.
Ron: The whole nine yards, depending on the way it made contact.
Laura: Right.
Ron: What Sharon Law says.
Laura: So that would have been the end of it, in actual fact.
Laura: There.
Laura: Just doof.
Laura: Down they go.
Ron: Yeah, I think so.
Laura: All right, Ron.
Laura: This has been the greatest end of term film I've ever watched.
Ron: Yeah, it was fun, wasn't it?
Laura: Yeah.
Laura: Thank you for doing all that work, Ron.
Laura: Did you have a nice time once.
Ron: I stopped doing the f****** Water magazine?
Laura: Well, it's our first Christmas as a podcast and we would like to say thank you to everyone who's been listening.
Laura: Considering we've only really been running for half the year.
Laura: We've built something pretty lovely, haven't we, Ron?
Laura: We have, yeah.
Laura: Do you want to say anything, Ron?
Laura: God, you get so awkward once there's no science anymore.
Ron: Yeah, because it's not scripted anymore.
Ron: I haven't written this bit out.
Laura: No, just say something from the heart.
Ron: Yes.
Ron: Nice to be around.
Laura: No, in your voice you dork snore.
Ron: Well, she, it's nice to be around.
Laura: See what I have to put up with?
Laura: Anyway, listen, I love you and Ron does too.
Laura: He just can't say it because he's so aware and awkward.
Laura: We are doing another Christmas episode next week because it felt very odd to get straight back into the curriculum on the 26 September.
Laura: Yeah, so next week, Ron, what are we doing?
Ron: You can't do normal stuff when you're in the year Gooch.
Ron: No, what we're going to do is we are going to do a triple science flying reindeer special.
Laura: I'm very excited about this.
Laura: We've actually bought two reindeer and we're going to teach them to fly live on Lexus Education.
Laura: No, we haven't done that, but we're going to find out about Reindeer flight that will be out next week.
Laura: But listen, have yourselves a very merry Christmas.
Laura: Please keep safe and happy and warm.
Laura: Reach out if you need someone to talk to.
Laura: I know this year can be very difficult for people, so hey, we will be on the social medias tweeting and doing science nonsense.
Laura: And if you are with family or friends or loved ones or alone, we hope you have the absolute best time and we will see you next week.
Laura: Merry Christmas.
Ron: Merry Christmas, everyone.
Laura: Christmas dismissed.
Laura: Class christmas.
Laura: What do you think of that one.
Ron: Costa Smith?
