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13: The Imitation Gay (Live from Pride in London)

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The Sci Guys

Comedy, Education, Science

4.9640 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This episode was recorded live at the Pride in London Pop Up.

We talk about poisoned apples, Benedict Cumberbatch, and early 1900s party games, which are all somehow related to Alan Turing. If you missed your chance to see us live, tune in and pretend like you were there! 

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0:00.0

Hello everyone. This is Corey just dropping in before the show to let you know that this is not our usual setup, so it might sound a little bit different, and that's because we recorded this episode live at the Pride in London pop-up. So thank you to Pride in London for letting us do this, and Guys, the show where we talk about the crazy, weird and wonderful stories from the science world.

0:30.0

I'm Corey, and as always, I'm joined by my co-hosts, Champ, and Luke Cutforth.

0:33.5

Hello.

0:34.2

And we're live at Pride.

0:35.6

Yes, our first live show, Corey.

0:36.9

Mention that, Corey. Well, I was gonna mention that until you cut me off.

0:40.3

We're doing a live show in a pop-up shop at Pride in London.

0:43.3

Yeah, thank you to Pride in London.

0:44.3

Yeah, thank you for having us. This week we'll be talking about poisoned apples and conscious computers.

1:01.2

Conscious computers don't exist, Corey.

1:04.3

Well, we'll find out about that, look.

1:05.8

Or do they?

1:07.4

Alan Turing.

1:10.5

Alan Turing was an English scientist

1:12.2

specialising in cryptanalysis, computing

1:14.9

and theoretical biology.

1:16.8

He's known as the father of artificial intelligence.

1:19.9

During World War II, World War II,

1:22.3

he was instrumental in cracking the Germans' enigma code.

1:25.8

Turing was also a bit of a gay.

1:27.8

He was. He was a bit of a gay. He was.

1:28.8

He was a bit of a gayman. So that's what we're going to be talking about today. So yeah, do you guys know anything about Alan Turing at all? Do you know anything about Aaron Turing? Oh, yeah. There was a film about him. Yeah, he was better to come about to the film one time. That's actually, yeah. So he was born in London on the 23rd of June, 1912, and he was a genius from a young age.

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