I've invited three YouTubers to come over and play a trivia quiz,
but doing that in reality is a bit difficult at the minute.
So instead, they will be joining me virtually at the top of this broadcast tower,
where one of them will win tonight's star prize:
twenty seconds to plug their stuff at the end of this video.
We did kind of blow the budget on the set.
Anyway, three players: one of them will win,
and two will be Disconnected.
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Players, welcome to the top of the tower! It's good to see you all.
Jaiden, I'm gonna come to you first.
How are you doing? How's life?
It's pretty good. Working, and that's it.
But it's good. There are a lot of folks I know
who have work and not much else going on right now.
It's fair, though. Not much is happening right now.
How are Ari and Tofu? They're pretty good.
They're not here, because they'd yell a lot.
So they're somewhere else, but they're still good.
I'm gonna point out for folks who don't know, they are the birds.
They're my birds... back there.
Alright well, thank you very much for coming along.
You and your opponents all have three bars of signal.
Lose all your bars of signal, and you are off the show and disconnected.
We fall off the tower(!)
To our deaths(!)
That's when I get a bit more budget for this.
Although that is a brilliant idea, Hank, and...
I'm gonna file that away for later.
The important thing is you don't lose a bar of signal
for getting a question wrong.
You lose a bar of signal for getting a question wrong...
and your opponents calling you on it.
So if you don't know the answer:
bluff, sound confident, pretend that you do.
So Jaiden, first question. Got a choice of categories for you.
Would you like Crimes or Colourful Birds?
Oh, that's an easy one.
I would like Colourful Birds, please. I own two.
I am just reading down the top of this, and we...
Fine, you'll get Colourful Birds.
Which colourful bird was chosen to be the national bird of India in 1963?
Why would anyone know this?
I just need to run through colourful birds real quick.
Colourful birds from India.
The peacock?
Jaiden says the peacock.
Ellen, Hank... how do you feel about that answer?
So, here's how it works: you can choose
to challenge that answer if you want to.
If you do, put your hand up, say you challenge.
First one to do that will take on Jaiden.
If you challenge and Jaiden's wrong, then she loses a bar of signal,
but if you challenge and she was right,
you lose the bar of signal.
Right.
But there is one other thing that
if she can sneak a wrong answer past both of you,
you both lose a bar of signal.
So, Jaiden says peacock. Would you like to challenge that answer?
Well, here's the thing.
I think that it's completely possible that it is peacock,
but I do not think that Jaiden knew that it was peacock...
'cause she did not seem at all certain.
And I think that there are many colourful birds...
Maybe. of which peacock is one.
I think peacock is the most colourful bird, so it's a pretty strong answer.
Ellen, Hank, are you gonna challenge?
No, and you are absolutely right, Jaiden. It is the peacock.
Was that...? Oh, really?
Oh, dang! Nice!
Totally gonna pretend that I knew that.
I'll try to do a celebratory peacock call. [imitates peacock]
That's a good peacock call!
Thank you. That is what they sound like.
Ellen, how is Dungeons & Dragons going?
I'm having fun every two weeks
sitting in my room dressed up as a wood elf druid,
pretending to be a cat, a bear, and an octopus at various points.
It's great fun.
You've convinced me. I'm tuning in.
Ellen, choice of categories:
Would you like Island Nations or Film Directors?
Film, film. Alright.
Which film director also directed the pop video for Michael Jackson's Thriller?
Oh! Oh, I know this!
I also know the— the dance.
Thank you for the demonstration.
I'm glad someone did that, 'cause I wasn't gonna!
Just in case, to remind them(!)
The director is John Landis.
Does anyone wanna challenge?
No. I do not.
Everyone's looking quiet on this one.
Ellen, you are absolutely right. It is John Landis.
Yes! No!
You really are. Honestly. Yeah.
Nice.
You can't challenge when it's right, huh(?)
If you get the answers right, you cannot lose bars of signal here.
Hank, I have to ask you before we get to the question:
how is TikTok going?
Oh, it's... I mean, as a creator, I find it to be very fun.
I find it to be asking me to have fun, which is great.
'Cause other platforms are asking me for other things right now,
which are also important, but...
I'm terrified of all social media platforms. We're recording this on the day that
it turned out that Twitter basically gave hackers access to everyone's accounts.
So, why are we doing any of this, you guys(?)
Yeah, I mean, I gotta delete all my DMs right now.
Hank, I saw your edamame bean TikTok on my Twitter feed the other day.
And it was a good TikTok. Good job. Hey, thanks.
I was... I was super drunk. Thanks.
Yeah, that's what made it!
Hank, this is an interesting pair of categories for you.
We have Board Games or US States.
I mean, I know about both of those things!
I'll go with US States, because I will be less ashamed if I get it wrong.
Alright, which US state plays host to the annual stock car race
called the Daytona 500?
Oh, that is unfair.
I grew up in Florida.
That's where I'm from!
Sorry, you guys!
That is either the most confident bluff I have ever seen...
or someone who grew up in Florida.
Jaiden, Ellen, what do you wanna do?
Nothing. Yeah, no, I...
I'd challenge someone who grew up around the question(?)
Yeah, you're absolutely right.
Again, I am just reading these in the order that they are on here.
Hank, you got fortunate there!
So, round one over.
Three lives intact. The questions get harder.
Jaiden, would you like Planets or Asian Countries?
Planets. Planets, alright.
Which planet of the Solar System has the hottest average surface temperature?
Mercury.
Jaiden says Mercury.
Right... Ellen, Hank?
I think I should challenge it.
Now, that was not technically a challenge.
That was the thought that you might.
Thank you for sharing your opinion, Hank. Let's move on.
Ellen, what do you think?
It's the closest to the Sun,
but it also depends what... the planets are made up of.
'Cause some of them are gaseous, and sometimes the gaseous planets are hotter.
I don't know whether the distance from the Sun also makes a difference as well.
It's been a while since I've looked at any of this sort of stuff.
Do either of you want to challenge?
Hank has put his hand up. I would like to challenge.
Hank is challenging.
What do you think the answer might be? You don't need to be right.
Like, you've challenged. That's all that counts.
Well, here's the situation. It depends on what you mean.
Clearly the "surface" of Jupiter is hotter than the surface of Mercury.
'Cause Jupiter does have a surface down there somewhere, and it is extremely hot.
But also, Venus's atmosphere keeps it extremely hot,
and I think that at surface is the hottest part of Venus,
which I think on average makes it hotter than Mercury.
Hank, you are absolutely right.
Jaiden, it was a wrong answer unfortunately, and Hank has called you on it,
so you are down to two bars of signal.
Crap, I feel like I would've challenged myself too.
As soon as I said it, I was like, "That's not right."
I sort of knew, but then I didn't trust myself.
Ellen, next question to you. I've got a choice of category for you:
You can have Body Joints or Cartoon Characters.
Ooh...
I'll go Cartoon Characters. Alright.
The cartoon character Norville Rogers is better known by which nickname?
E—Ellen... I'm just gonna... just... Norville Rogers?
You're meant to bluff. Just gonna... Just gonna throw that out there.
Bluffing is good. No-no-no, I know this.
Yes, I believe it was an alternate name for...
Orville the Rabbit.
Orville the Rabbit?
Jaiden, is Orville the Rabbit a thing?
You make cartoon characters.
Oh, but I don't do rabbits.
I'm thinking about if Roger Rabbit is connected with any of this.
Is this a British thing? I'm not gonna let you know.
Is anyone challenging?
Someone give me the answer!
I'm not seeing any challenges. Last call?
Jaiden, we gotta challenge the— Fine, I will challenge! Jeez.
You're putting it on me? You've got life to spare.
You took one of my bars, Hank.
Challenges, um...
Orville the Rabbit, is that actually a cartoon character?
I'm not saying it!
Given all the pop culture knowledge here, I was expecting one person to know
that Norville Rogers is Shaggy from Scooby-Doo.
Oh my God! Ellen, it's a wrong answer, I'm afraid.
And Hank correctly called you on it. No, I had no idea.
So, that is a bar of signal gone for you. You're down to two.
And Hank, the next question is for you.
I gotta say, one of the things you said in the email invite was:
"This will be a fun, low-stress, no prizes..."
I'm not experiencing no stress!
Categories for you, I can give you Measures of Length or Rivers.
Which would you like?
I'll take Measures of Length, Tom. Alright.
What measure of length is equal to one eighth of a mile?
One eighth of a mile...
I think that that would be a decimetre?
Decimetre, says Hank.
Jaiden, Ellen... you are both in a precarious position.
Jaiden, Ellen... how do you feel about that?
Hank's smart, so...
I didn't even know what, like, a decimetre was.
I'm assuming decimetre is 100 metres.
Don't look at me! I'm not giving you hints on this!
Sure.
The sceptical look on your face, Ellen!
I'm gonna trust him on it, I think.
Hank, how much of a bluff was that?
Because, I've got to level with you.
Combining the US and metric systems was... an interesting strategy.
I don't even know what a decimetre is. I'm not entirely sure it's a thing.
It's ten centimetres.
It's ten centimetres?!
It's one tenth of a metre. Oh, my God.
I was thinking it sounded small, but I was like...
Is that— Was I thinking decametre?
What was I thinking? I don't know what you were thinking.
The answer is furlong.
And Jaiden, Ellen, you should have challenged.
Hank has snuck a wrong answer past both of you.
So Jaiden, you are down to one bar of signal.
Ellen, you are down to one bar of signal. Dang it!
Oh no.
Do people know about furlongs?!
You are both in the United States...
and of the generation that would be expected to get US measurements.
I had high hopes for you on that one.
I'm embarrassed by the metric messup that I made.
So you guys should feel— also be embarrassed for your Imperial problems.
We should all be embarrassed.
It's a little bit safer for you, Jaiden,
'cause a right answer cannot lose you a bar, no matter what.
So if you get this right, we know you're safe for now.
So, would you like Musicals or Comic Villains?
Oh, God. Um...
I'll do Comic Villains? Alright.
Which comic villain did Arnold Schwarzenegger play
in the 1997 film Batman and Robin?
Aw, I was ready to say the Terminator, but that's not my answer.
I heard the rest of the question.
I'm nervous because Ellen looks like she knows the answer.
I was 17 years old in 1997. How old were you, Jaiden?
I was busy being born!
I have this film on VHS at one point in my life.
That's how. I have the advantage here. Ohh, it's not looking good, Jaiden!
It's not looking good!
There's no lifelines and stuff in this show, right?
No...
The Penguin.
Jaiden says the Penguin. That is great.
You came up with a Batman villain, and you did it with strength.
Yeah, that was good. Yeah, I was in the ballpark, right?
Temperature-wise, especially.
Ohh! Ellen, that is... very hot.
There is a link!
Someone's gotta challenge. Who's it gonna be?
Me. Yeah.
It's Mr. Freeze. It's Mr. Freeze.
You were very, very close with the Penguin.
So close!
Was the Penguin also in that movie too?
If he was, he wasn't played by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Jaiden, I'm really sorry.
It happened quickly, but that is your last bar of signal gone.
Thank you very much for playing. It's been a pleasure to have you,
but you have been disconnected. Thanks. Thanks for having me.
Ellen, Hank... congratulations! Oh, no. I feel so bad!
It was to save myself, I'm sorry!
Congratulations to both of you.
We will see you in the second round after this commercial break.
This is not a green screen.
It's an LED wall and LED floor
on the SmartStages here at White Light Studios in West London.
It's connected to an extended reality system made by disguise,
which tracks the position of that camera over there,
and renders the scene from exactly the right perspective,
including filling in the gaps around the stage with virtual set extensions.
If we can move that camera around a lot,
it is a really weird feeling standing here with distant objects moving around me,
but from the camera's perspective, it looks perfect.
And the big advantage over green screen is I can make eye contact with people.
I don't have to cheat my eyeline or rely on a monitor.
Everyone is exactly where they're supposed to be.
And I don't have to worry about finding my mark either,
because my mark is literally just there for me to see.
Semi-transparent objects just work. Refraction and reflection just work,
because there's real light to be refracted and reflected.
The studio lights track me in real time and make sure that I'm spotlit as well.
No post production, all real-time rendering.
This can go straight to hard disk or live broadcast.
In the next episodes of Disconnected,
I'll talk more about how this works behind the scenes,
but until then, thank you to disguise, who built the tools to make this work,
and White Light, who've pioneered this around the world for years.
There are links to both of those in the description.
Right, back to the show!
Players, congratulations on making it through to round two.
You both now have two bars of signal for this final round,
and it's gonna be head-to-head.
I'm gonna name a category of things,
and all you have to do is name things in that category.
Back and forth, one after the other.
If you have a wrong answer and your opponent challenges you on it,
you lose a bar of signal.
But if you challenge your opponent and they were right,
No penalty for letting a wrong answer slip past you.
It just makes your job harder.
Does that all make sense?
Alright. Hank, you had more bars going into this round,
so you are gonna be going first.
We are looking for fruits that end in the word "berry".
So, just to be clear, these are any fruits and plants
whose names typically in English end in "berry".
Beware: botanically, they may not be true berries.
That doesn't matter. We're looking for the English name.
So Hank, you serve. Okay.
Um, strawberry.
Hank says strawberry. Ellen?
Raspberry.
Raspberry. Hank?
Blueberry. Blueberry.
So far, I'm guessing no one's challenging. Ellen?
Elderberry.
Ellen says elderberry.
I can't see the list here, by the way. Hank?
Blackberry.
Gooseberry. Gooseberry.
Hank, confidently nodding there.
Hayberry.
Oh, now you look sceptical here, Ellen.
I'm like, is that fake or is it just American?
Wow, that's a very different set of things there.
"Fake or American?"
I'm gonna let it slide.
Dewberry.
Dewberry, says Ellen.
Dewberry? Hank...
I wanna challenge dewberry.
It doesn't sound real. Is that a challenge?
It's a challenge. I challenge dewberry.
That is a challenge from Hank.
Now, I'll tell you this much.
Hayberry is not a berry.
You could've challenged on that, Ellen.
I should've... no! I think a hayberry is a berry.
I don't have hayberry on the list here.
It doesn't matter. Either way, it doesn't matter,
because Ellen, you didn't challenge.
But you did say dewberry.
You didn't say doobry.
Doobry is just a word for, like, a knick-knack.
You said dewberry.
I think it is a confident bluff.
I think she did great, but I've never heard of that thing.
Ellen?
Have you ever eaten a dewberry?
I don't know.
I obviously don't know!
Neither do I, but I'll tell you what.
It is a type of berry. You are absolutely right.
Yes! No!
I don't know where from your memory you dragged that up,
but it was a great answer.
Hank, that is a bar of signal away from you.
Ellen, congratulations. It's two bars to one,
and you have first service on this next list.
We are looking for countries that have a royal family.
So, this is any sovereign state which currently has a monarch of head of state.
It includes those in the Commonwealth if they are still ruled by Queen Elizabeth II.
Ellen, it is you to serve.
Okay, uh...
Denmark. Hank?
I'm gonna go with the United Kingdom.
I did wonder— I did wonder why you let Hank have that gift there.
Yeah, I just thought I'd be nice.
Guessing you're not challenging that one.
Ellen, back to you.
Spain.
Ellen says Spain.
I can't see the list here, by the way. Hank?
Canada.
Canada? Well, it is in the Commonwealth.
So yeah. Australia.
Hank? Sweden?
Ellen?
Trying to remember which one...
Oh yeah, Finland.
Ellen says Finland.
Saudi Arabia. Ellen?
Trinidad and Tobago.
Ooh...oh. Now we're playing that game, huh?
It's just like, "Alright, let's just list Commonwealth countries."
Both Hank and I went, "Ooh!"
I had one on my head that I knew. Oh, the Netherlands.
Hank says the Netherlands. Ellen?
New Zealand.
Oh, dang it! Why didn't I say New Zealand?
Poland.
Ellen?
I'm not sure about that. I'm gonna challenge that.
I'm gonna go for it. Dang it!
Dang it, I have no idea if Poland has a monarch!
It's been around for a while, but probably not that long!
I don't know!
That is a challenge from Ellen.
So, here's the thing, Hank. You could've challenged on Finland.
Finland does not have a monarch. Really?!
You could've challenged on Trinidad and Tobago. It's a republic.
That was a wrong answer.
But you didn't.
And all the answers you gave before that: UK, Canada, Sweden, Saudi Arabia,
Netherlands, they were fine. Denmark, Spain, Australia, all fine.
None of that matters. It matters... about Poland.
And Poland... Poland had monarchs!
I know it has had monarchs!
And now they have a president. It is a wrong answer!
Hank...
Ellen, you were correct to challenge Hank.
I'm sorry, that is your last bar of signal gone.
Hank, it has been lovely to have you here,
but you've been disconnected. Good night!
Ellen, that is the show!
You win— You win the end card. I don't know how I did that!
You win twenty seconds to plug everything you do and anything you want.
That is the end of our show. Thank you very much for watching, everyone.
We will see you around. Ellen, twenty seconds. Take it away!
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