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Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, it's tidyfoot John. That's called a room floor. Hey, everybody,

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Speaker 1: staylefoot John, Za man, let's room flow.

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Speaker 2: Just to come in a room flog.

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Speaker 1: What's on the cutting room floor today? Amanda?

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Speaker 2: You know I love me science. Brendan, you do like

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Speaker 2: I do, like putting on my lab coat and hearkening

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Speaker 2: back to my beyond two thousand days?

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Speaker 1: Didn't you just wear a lab coat once? Is that true?

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Speaker 2: I often had to wear a lab coat, and it's

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Speaker 2: like I was up for election. You know, they're always

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Speaker 2: having to wear these days. It's high viers. We didn't

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Speaker 2: have to wear high vias. We had lab coats. We'd

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Speaker 2: wear safety goggles, we'd wear hard hats all that.

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Speaker 1: Weren't you in a place sometime and you're looking at

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Speaker 1: a fancy shop.

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Speaker 2: That's how I knew it was time for me to

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Speaker 2: leave beyond two thousand. I had a morning off in Paris.

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Speaker 2: I thought, look at that dress shop across the road.

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Speaker 2: That looks nice. There was a shop that sold lab

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Speaker 2: coats and industrial equipment. I thought, maybe it's time I

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Speaker 2: give this job up. I'm still wearing it though. Let

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Speaker 2: me tell you about this. This is the story of

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Speaker 2: two Australian mathematicians who have called into question that old

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Speaker 2: adage that have given infinite amount of time a monkey

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Speaker 2: pressing keys on a typewriter could eventually write the complete

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Speaker 2: works of William Shakespeare. This is known as the infinite

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Speaker 2: monkey theorem. Have you heard of it before, Brenda, I

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Speaker 2: have heard of it. Yes, yeah. It's a thought experiment

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Speaker 2: that's long been used to explain the principles of probability

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Speaker 2: and randomness. So this new peer reviewed study, led by

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Speaker 2: Sydney based researchers Stephen Woodcock and Jay Fleta, have found

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Speaker 2: that the time it would take for a typing monkey

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Speaker 2: to replicate Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems would be longer

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Speaker 2: than the life span of our universe, which means that,

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Speaker 2: while mathematically true, the theorem is misleading. So they looked

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Speaker 2: at the abilities of a single monkey as well. So

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Speaker 2: they looked at the ability of a monkey also the

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Speaker 2: series of calculations from the current global population of chimpanzees. Chimpanzees,

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Speaker 2: do you think they are in the world? Six million,

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Speaker 2: two hundred thousand? It's not that many, is it?

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Speaker 1: Two hundred thousand in the whole wide world? Hang on,

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Speaker 1: is that two hundred thousand.

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Speaker 2: Millions here two hundred thousand.

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Speaker 1: Hang on, monkey chimpanzees like.

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Speaker 2: In Tarzan, because you don't sane goodall ones.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you don't see monkeys and movies anymore. Remember there

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Speaker 1: was a whole thing about a monkey in the movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they'd have a wine shirts on and they

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Speaker 2: chop around like last Secret Jim and Marta Harry Lancey,

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to wear a pair of sand just what

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Speaker 2: I look like in heels.

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Speaker 1: Just to Lancelot Lynk Secret Chim was Lancy and Hare

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Speaker 1: in the scene together. But I think they could have

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Speaker 1: done split scene like where they didn't Bewitched when they had.

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Speaker 2: Would have taken too long. Look, they would have used

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Speaker 2: a lot of monkeys.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Uh, what about Wally.

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Speaker 2: Warm He was he a chimp? Yeah, well he was

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Speaker 2: an ape, but he was an apri or a chimp.

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Speaker 1: It was I think it was a chimp. I don't

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Speaker 1: think you can train an ape. Murray Field the voice

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Speaker 1: to Wally Warpermure. So somewhere along the line, it's not

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Speaker 1: culturally sense.

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Speaker 2: No, it's not meaning on the line it is, it's inappropriate.

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Speaker 1: It's animal cruelty, cruelty.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, the results indicated that even if every chimp,

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Speaker 2: Wally Wallpermure and Marta Hari and Lancelot Lincoln the chief,

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Speaker 2: all of them, it was wasn't there a chief? Or

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Speaker 2: am I mistaken it? For get smart? Was that troop?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 2: I think there was a chief. Anyway, if all the

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Speaker 2: chimps in the world were enlisted and able to type

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Speaker 2: at a pace of one key per second until the

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Speaker 2: end of the universe, they still wouldn't have come close

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Speaker 2: to typing out all of Shakespeare's works. Wow, there would

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Speaker 2: be a five percent chance that a single chimp could

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Speaker 2: successfully type the word bananas in its own lifetime. It

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Speaker 2: would just randomly type.

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Speaker 1: There's a five per It just passed away on the typewriter.

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Speaker 1: It would eventually come to bananas.

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Speaker 2: And the probability of one chimp constructing a random sentence

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Speaker 2: such as I chimp before I am comes in at

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Speaker 2: one in ten million billion. Their researchers shot, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 2: but you know what book They were able to smash

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Speaker 2: out fifty Shades of fifty by Brendan Jones. I did

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Speaker 2: it in ten minutes, just one chimp, extraw extraordinary chimp,

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Speaker 2: and they threw their feces.

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Speaker 1: I'm going to throw summertine now available just in time

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Speaker 1: for Christmas. By the way, yeah, not.

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Speaker 2: Ever another year that remainder has been as massive more cakids.

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Speaker 1: That's said the day contact tomorrow for both John's and

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