Cunk's Best One-Interview Experts - Part 1

so is this the actual Doomsday Book this is the actual Doomsday Book yes and it's usually under glass isn't it this book well usually it's not accessible at all so it's very rarely um on display um so this is really quite a special occasion that we've got it out for you to be able to see it today so you're not allowed to touch it no I thought that was because of the curse the curse yeah I heard that there was a curse on it I've definitely not heard that I don't think there's a curse I thought it was going to be like you know rers of the Lost Ark where that Nazi gets his face melted off yeah I thought it was going to be like that I'm afraid not if we came from monkeys why are there still monkeys because some of those monkeys that lived a long time ago um turned into other monkeys that we see today like chimp monkeys or and so on all right so the monkeys that didn't turn into humans they must be gutted that they did didn't turn into humans right sometimes when I watch these past life hypnosis programs on satellite channels all the people on those they're always ladies in Waiting or Gladiators they're never monkeys why is that um probably because they don't actually remember their past lives it's probably not true but I find it easier to believe that I was a lady and weting than a monkey well it's may be easy to believe that your ancestors were ladies in waiting but I I don't see the problem between believing both that your ancestors were ladies in waiting a few hundred years ago and before that monke ladies in Waiting how much money gets made at Christmas all together I'm sure we spend hundreds of millions of pounds at Christmas and how big a cut does the church get the church doesn't get anything and they don't get anything no no the supermarket near me has got about 30 tilts how many many tills does Amazon have they must have Lads they don't have any tills what they have a computer one computer yeah cuz no one goes there do they they just I but I thought they'd start to ring it through no the computer does all that so there's one man at a computer just going no I don't think there's a man no no it just goes automatically you do that you're the till did the printing press actually change anything of significance if Gutenberg had invented printing which meant that ideas could be communicated throughout the world um our culture would not have developed in the same way as it has so in many ways he has made the world our modern world today so that's your idea of significant so how does the Doomsday Book compare to A Book Like The Runaway by Martina Cole well I've not read The Runaway by Martina Cole but I think okay I think that's a work of fiction so it's a made up story whereas doomsday is recording the land and land holding in England before the Norman conquest and after the Norman Conquest it kind of lists um who holds land and what's within that land and how much it's worth and it does that in a lot of detail um so Roger holds a land here called it's just called uh milder hope it's probably going to have a different name now so how can we free the people living in this book well they don't live in the book but their souls are inside the book I don't think that's necessarily true I think this records information about them but it's not they're not in there it's just you know it's just a record about them it's it's it doesn't sort of contain their being or anything like that we don't need to worry about them you sure I'm sure I've got an expert here with me or have I or am I here maybe I'm imagining them or they're imagining me or am I hello philosophy lady am I here uh yes how do you know well I can see you I can probably feel you uh I can hear you lovely warm hands thank you um it is possible that I'm Dreaming yeah um or I could be dreaming too couldn't I or you could be dreaming yes but you asked me whether you were here um so and it's true if you were dream if I was dreaming that wouldn't have happened no if you were dreaming that wouldn't have happened if I would dreaming then my belief that you are here might be false right and unless I can tell that I'm not dreaming therefore it's possible that you're not here yeah but if we both sort of nip ourselves well the trouble with nipping yourself like that is you might dream that as well I mean any test you can do to see whether you're awake you could do when you're asleep any belief that could be false if you were asleep is a belief of whose truth you can't be certain unless you can be certain that you're awake a lot of revolutions seem to be about poor people overthrowing the rich do you think billionaires like Elon Musk should be worried about getting guillotined I think that the French Revolution certainly made a lot of people who were powerful um very very worried about their existence I suppose Elon Musk could invent a machine that chops his own head off electronically before the mob arrives ah you know much more about this an idea I'm just guessing what is a building a building is anything that anyone has built so my shoes are a building there may not be a building um they're a physical object I guess a building is also something that people in some way live in or inhabit right and my nephew makes buildings in Minecraft how much more does he need to do to be considered a qualified architect well to be a qualified architect in this country you have to study five years at University and do at least two years in professional practice and how many of those years would be studying Minecraft very few of them you could continue looking at Minecraft at the same time but you wouldn't normally use Minecraft as part of an architectural education have you thought about just selling celebrities you know for their organs because I'm sure someone would pay a fortune for like John Bishop's kidney uh no we haven't thought of that and I think that the comedians do quite a lot for us sometimes that they don't want to do and I suspect the sale of bodily Parts would be slightly more than they or their representatives would be talking point though wouldn't it if you had John Bishop's kid it would be a certainly morbid talking point if John was no longer alive I killed John Bishop would no no no I'm just saying I killed John Bishop would be a odd talking point why did Stone Edge people bury all their stuff underground were they worried someone might steal it no that's how we find it it wasn't always underground it was on the top the reason we find it as archaeologists is that we go out and we dig it up oh how will the world end well the sun will run out of fuel in about 4 billion years or so and actually before that it will begin to to swell up expand and so we think the Earth will get incinerated do you think we might be able to do something about it stop it being incinerating yeah stop it being all the the sun burning the Earth can't we put it out with a big hose or something it's an inevitable consequence of the laws of nature you're you're pleased with that are you you're happy with that you can live with that well there's nothing I can do also the Andromeda galaxy is going to hit us the Andromeda galaxy a whole galaxy is going to hit us yeah on about the same time scale actually so as the sun runs out of fuel and expands and incinerates the earth a galaxy of 400 billion stars is going to collide with us you're much gloomier than I expected cuz you're quite Smiley well yeah well it's it's quite a long time in the future speaking as an expert in architecture do you ever watch homes under the hammer no I don't no you don't watch homes under the hammer I've never never seen it no you've never seen homes under the hammer I've never seen homes under the hammer why not you must have heard about it I haven't heard about it no don't you and the other Architects talk about it it's not a subject that's ever come up now I think you'd enjoy it I think you get a lot out of it I should go and have a look yes yeah I think you should what's the most disgusting thing you've heard someone do with a red nose because my mate Paul he he did this party trick that he always does with the red noiles and he put it sort of on his intimate skin and it sort of tore it and he went septic actually I think that might mean he qualifies qualifies for some sort of Charity money that is the first and most disgusting thing I've heard done with the red no it's awful Isn't it to think what people might be doing with them right now so after the universe ends there'll be nothing depends what you mean by after the universe ends well it's exploded well it's not going to explode it's going to we think carry on expanding right and then forever well that'll be fine want it we need the space you get to the point if it carries on doing that then galaxies get ripped apart and then solar systems get ripped apart and then even planets get ripped apart and even atoms get ripped apart so what all the stars will die um even all the black holes that are left the final sort of end points of the most massive stars will evaporate away so can we could we fall down a black hole Yeah you could fall into one is that the same because I heard that you could be if you know this is one way that the world could end is that we're all just sucked off through a hole it's uh it's I mean that must be terrible can you imagine what it would feel like to be sucked off through a hole Yeah

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Published: Tue Nov 07 2023