Billy and Dec’s Bronze Age Youtube Transcription Adventure.
While I was watching one of my all time favourite experimental archaeology videos the other day, I noticed that Youtube was offering an on-the-fly transcription. Out of idle curiosity, I clicked on it and found the results baffling, poetic, funny, and baffling.
Seeing as it might draw more attention to Billy and Dec’s masterwork of public engagement (the secret is, give them lots of free beer), I thought I’d do a point by point human vs. Youtube transcription comparison. You can find the results underneath the video, which I strongly suggest you watch first. And when you’ve finished, you may want to watch it again.
Because one day, you too may have ‘no doubt at this point forks were used for making me all virgin right now.’
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Human
Billy: ‘This is my version of a fulacht fia. it’s very very rudimentary but it has to be – we’re dealing with the Bronze Age. Conventional explanation for fulacht fias is that they were used for cooking sites. You fill the trough with water, heat your stones in a fire, deposit the stones into the water, add a, add some meat, and over a period the meat is brought to the boil. We’re turning that notion on its head an reinterpreting the function of the monument. We believe that boiling makes it horrible. Roasting is much quicker, less labour intensive, and nine out of ten people would agree that it tastes nicer.’[/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘Four mime-version felicia. Story very rudimentary but have switched because we’re dealing with the bronze age. Convention explanation for for the fears is that they were cues for co concerts. He feels trough water, he’s distorting fire, put the stores into the water, adept add some east and over a period meatballs. To avoid words turned that notion on its head and she’s reinterpreting that function of the monuments. We believe does twenty-six harp will sink is. Essentially much quicker, that’s different answers miners had people recruiter takes tay-sachs.'[/one_half_last][one_half]
Human
Dec: ‘Ohhh – that is lovely! It’s really nice. Gets you at the back – Jesus I’m flushing already, after a brief – after a couple of glasses – oh of course. It’s 11 o’clock in the morning so that might be. . .’[/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘Or but it’s not easy. It’s a really nice. Gets its back to chase inflation already after a brief afterwards opelika – hospital costs eleven o’clock morning seventeen.'[/one_half_last][one_half]
Human
Billy: ‘This is a replica trough. I’m an archaeologist, I’ve excavated a number of examples – maybe five or six fulacht fias in the last ten years?’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘This is a replica trapped. Accurate as service delivery zappa’s – but six-foot fees last time ten years.‘[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Dec: ’This comes directly from our pit in the ground, our fulacht fia. This is a four day old brew. We’ve got approximately a hundred and ten litres of it, out of three hundred litres of water. We could have made three hundred litres of it, but we only made a hundred and ten.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘This constructive market but none of them are full of these. Missus four-day-old group. We’ve got to talk to the equipment in the students, three hundred lives where we could made three on the dangers of the spirit really made ten.‘[/one_half_last][one_half]
Human
Billy: ‘There’s about 4,500 reported examples around the country – the majority of them are found in Cork. I figure it’s becaue North Cork, very good arable land, and being able to raise a lot of good crops there. And also, stone’s important. So, we’re trying to be as elemental in our approach as possible. And we’ve had to use the quipment that would be available to Bronze Age men. Minus buckets, Milton and scrubbing brushes.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘Jazz is about four thousand whitewater report examples from from the country – majority fulcrum cork. That I figure it’s because called north cork timecode arafat’s packed their bags republic roster. Also have stoltz porky. Sold were fighting as elementary in our phones as possible. Or that you see fit should be developed management minus focus nism yeltsin’s.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Dec: ‘We’ve invited loads of people over for a taste of our Bronze Age beer, and to see the whole process and we’re going to demonstrate the whole process to them, and make another beer. And of course it’s going to be different in taste to this one, because each, each brew tastes completely different. First brew we used elderflower, but last week the elderflower all ran out – elderflower season’s over, so, bog-myrtle and meadowsweet – that’s what we’re using this time. So, whatever you’ve got to flavour it, you use to flavour your new beer, so every month it’s going to be a different beer, so it’s, and it’s wow – it’s like a, it’s a real grainy taste, a real malty taste, real malty taste to it, but ah, a real deep flavoursome taste as well.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘Government but a lot of people overcome a taste of or project there, see the whole process an ongoing struggle posted and make another trip and of course is on the contents of this. It’s each brutus league raspberry we used out of that the other three are already forces over so bombardment of cities those who were using this time. So whatever you guys flavors used to live in a new person spirit every month, could be a different view so its arms well. So I catherine that’s a real grainy takes real multi text real multi tasters real deep flavor subsist.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Billy: ‘It’s actually a very straightforward process. ’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘It’s actually very straightforward past.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Dec: ‘Ah the barley, it’s malted barley, ah, and so, what’s happening now is with, we’re putting more heat into it, putting the heated water onto it, the enzymes in it, they’re breaking the starches down into sugars, so the ba, the water in it is turning into sort of a sweet barley water. We’re going to add about fifty kilogrammes of malt barley to it. And, the general rule is about five times to one. So, fifty kilogrammes of barley, three hundred kilogrammes, or, three hundred litres of water. So we have about three hundred litres of water in there at sixty five, well, it’s probably around sixty degrees, and, that’s all going to turn into a sweet, what they call a wort, which is your basis for a beer. And we’re going to draw the water off, and then bail it into, ah, fermenting containers, and ah, and then leave to to ferment for three days, and, and we’re just adding brewer’s yeast, we’re not relying on wild yeast, at the minute.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘Body it’s mental two-party, what’s happening now is putting more, he’s interested putting his was right, the enzymes and out of the breaking this touches down in shippers, barbara boxer is trying to sort of this week finally waters . Without fifty kilograms of most voters, the general despair five times to want fifty kilograms of three hundred kilograms. Art spiegelman has water so we are both religions, will turn left at sixty-five boats from your own sixty degrees, him that’s all the time to us we split the call the white, which is your basis for beer. And we’re gonna draw the water often they listen to it containers or under and then leave from an for two days, I’ve, just we’re just out of the received relied on module.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Billy: ‘Presumably in the Bronze Age they’d have a vessel like that. Now that’s a model replica, of course they could have used muslin, or some other textile, ah, to, to sieve it. We’re just transferring the wort into fermentation vessels.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘Do you read about it maybe did it that’s like that. Shit at but models replica to defuse Moslem, submit extent, at toothed deception which was transformed to work late intact politician best.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Dec: ‘And so this’ll be ready, once it’s settled it’ll be ready for drinking in a week. Seven days.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘So this would be ready, when she thought it would be ready for drinking and we’d like it seven days.'[/one_half_last]
At this point Billy and Dec circulate amongst the crowd, asking people their opinions on the brew – unfortunately some of the audio wasn’t transcribed by Youtube, but if you watch the video, you’ll see it’s only a line or two here and there.
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Human
Guest taster: ‘That’s fine stuff, that’s grand. It’s lovely.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Findstuff that’s right.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘A more, refined flavour let’s say.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Playing favorites.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Guest taster: ‘I’ll go with that, yeah.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Like that, but all of that.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘It’s good, good, really.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Good.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Billy or Dec: ‘What’s it taste like?’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: Blank from Google.[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘Sweet and um, yeh, yeh, really like it.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Fiserv, lulu. House.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Billy or Dec: ‘You’re getting a lovely head on that one actually.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Loving environment.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘Slangevar. Mild, wouldn’t be my favourite, perhaps I’m not used to it, be a guinness and a (didn’t quite catch it) I know myself.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Fired with one of my favorite and perhaps an unusually candid happy against an opponent announces.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Guest taster: ‘It’s rich and natural. . .(didn’t quite catch the last bit) .’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Yesterday night and I’m pleased to meet strict.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘A little bit bitter, but not strong, it tastes, ah, very nice.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Anything to do that not strongly considering dot.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘You can feel it going around your belly and warming you up and just spreading around, I love it.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Twenty-two forty billion warming up the scribner owned, I deserve a second'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Guest taster: ‘Brewed to perfection in the Bronze Age. Smooth, no acid, ok it looks kind of like grapefruit juice, but it tastes like a mild English ale, without the heaviness. It’s actually very addictive, I think, because it doesn’t even taste alcoholic, but I’m sure it is. I think along with the dead boar and the rain, yeah, I feel very comfortable in the Stone Age.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Guest taster: ‘Rude to perfection in the Bronx ny. Because no one no lasted, okayed looks kinda like grapefruit juice but it takes Michael miles initiate without evidence. It’s actually very addictive, capitals needed just a holiday, I get along with the dead born being out of the rain, Sally Field I feel very comfortable in stoney.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Dec: ‘Now some of the people were not so happy about the taste of the beer, ah, simply because. . .’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘What’s on the people were not still happy about the case of the day simply because little.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Billy: ‘Who? I’m going to find that guy.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: (Nothing from Google)[/one_half_last]
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Human
Dec: ‘Well, I’ve been looking for him as well, but. . . but people have been taking bottle away for god’s sake, I mean, we’ve no beer left, it’s all gone.’ Billy – ‘The beer is drunk.’ Dec – ‘We made, we made ninety litres of that beer. . . ‘ Billy – ‘And it’s gone.’ Dec – ‘It’s gone. There’s nothing left.’ Billy – ‘The fact is all we had to do was make one bottle – we made hundreds of bottles, and those bottles are gone. So people have voted with their palates, and with their bellies.’ Dec – ‘With their bellies, they voted with their bellies.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘All the way that they had while I’ve been looking for them as well but we were taken apart simply forgot sorry, anemic bear left it’s all good.’ Billy – ‘Near is no need to.’ Dec – ‘Be made nineteen reaches of that their.’ Billy – ‘Has got.’ Dec – ‘To stop not in.’ Billy – ‘That factors always do make one hop – we made hornets, about those bottles are gone. So people of orange with for pilots and with their bellies.’ Dec – ‘Depends.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Billy: ‘I have no doubt at this point, that fulachts were used for making beer. All we’re doing, right now, is flying a kite. It’s a theory – there is absolutely no hard evidence for it. But of you add up the circumstantial evidence.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘I’ve no doubt at this point forks were used for making me all virgin right now. The slightest bikes it security. Juries absolutely law hired evidence first. Course if you add up the circumstantial evidence.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Both: ‘And the experimental evidence.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Both: ‘Army fomented an experimental evidence.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Billy: ‘And you look at examples right throughout Scandinavia, through Britain, and through Ireland, this just makes sense. And if you saw, witnessed the process today, it’s very very simple. It works, and people enjoyed it, and that’s the proof.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘And you look at example as wright wrote Scandinavia true Britain bencher wiretaps distance makes sense. Benefits all have a witness processing, it’s very very simple. It works, people-to-people enjoy it and esther proof.'[/one_half_last]
[one_half]
Human
Dec: ‘And if we’re proved wrong, if someone turns round and comes to us in five days time and says to us, and points out a flaw, we’ll immediately go, hands up, brilliant, yep, ok, yeah we see that.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Dec: ‘Paper proved wrong, if somebody comes returns renters and five days time ancestors, points at immediately go yet, okay, now we see that.'[/one_half_last]
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Human
Billy: ‘So there’s the gauntlet, throwing down, give us the flaw.’ [/one_half][one_half_last]
Youtube
Billy: ‘Says the goddess sold out, divert the flow.'[/one_half_last]
Well, quite. An English Heritage introduction to fulacht fia (also known as burnt mounds) can be found here. The unadulterated Youtube transcription can be found below the line-break.
Youtube transcription with timestamps.
0:14
four mime-version felicia
0:16
story very rudimentary
0:18
but have switched
0:19
because we’re dealing with the bronze age convention explanation for
0:23
for the fears is that they were cues for co concerts
0:26
he feels trough water
0:28
he’s distorting fire put the stores into the water
0:31
adept add some east and over a period
0:35
meatballs
0:36
to avoid
0:37
words turned that notion on its head
0:40
and she’s reinterpreting that function of the monuments
0:43
we believe does
0:45
twenty-six harp
0:47
will sink is essentially much quicker
0:49
that’s different answers
0:51
miners had people recruiter takes
0:53
tay-sachs or
1:04
but it’s not easy
1:06
it’s a really nice
1:10
gets its back to chase inflation already after a brief afterwards opelika
1:14
hospital costs eleven o’clock morning seventeen
1:18
this is a replica trapped
1:21
accurate as service delivery zappa’s
1:24
but six-foot fees last time
1:26
ten years
1:29
this constructive market but none of them are full of these
1:32
missus four-day-old group
1:34
we’ve got to talk to the equipment in the students
1:38
three hundred lives where we could made three on the dangers of the spirit
1:41
really made ten
1:43
jazz is about four thousand whitewater report examples from from the country
1:48
majority
1:49
fulcrum cork that i figure it’s because called north cork
1:53
timecode arafat’s
1:55
packed their bags republic roster also have stoltz porky sold were fighting as
2:00
m elementary in our phones as possible
2:03
or that you see fit
2:04
should be developed management
2:07
minus focus
2:08
nism yeltsin’s government but a lot of people overcome a taste of or project
2:13
there
2:16
see the whole process an ongoing struggle posted
2:19
and make another trip and of course is on the contents of this
2:23
it’s each
2:24
h brutus league
2:27
raspberry we used out of that
2:31
the other three are already
2:33
forces over so bombardment of cities
2:36
those who were using this time so whatever you guys
2:39
flavors
2:40
used to live in a new person spirit every month
2:43
could be a different view
2:45
so its arms well
2:47
so i catherine
2:48
that’s a real grainy takes real multi text real multi tasters
2:54
real deep flavor subsist
2:56
it’s actually very straightforward past
3:11
uh…
3:20
body it’s mental two-party
3:23
what’s happening now is
3:25
putting more he’s interested putting his was right
3:28
the enzymes and out of the breaking this touches down in shippers
3:33
barbara boxer is trying to sort of
3:34
this week finally waters
3:36
without fifty kilograms of most voters
3:41
the general despair five
3:43
times to want
3:45
fifty kilograms of
3:47
three hundred kilograms art spiegelman has water so we are both religions will
3:51
turn left at sixty-five boats from your own sixty degrees
3:55
him
3:57
that’s all the time to us we split the call the white
4:00
which is your basis for beer
4:02
and we’re gonna draw the water often they listen to it
4:05
containers or under
4:07
and then leave from an for two days i’ve just we’re just out of the received
4:11
relied on module
4:52
do you read about it maybe did it that’s like that shit at but models
4:57
replica
4:59
to defuse moslem submit extent
5:02
at toothed deception which was transformed
5:05
to work late intact politician best
5:14
so this would be ready when she thought it would be ready for drinking and we’d
5:17
like it
5:18
seven days
5:28
huh
5:37
everything
5:40
findstuff that’s right
5:44
playing favorites
5:45
like that
5:47
but all of that
5:50
dampening
5:52
good
5:57
home
5:58
fiserv
6:00
lulu
6:02
house
6:03
loving environment
6:14
fired
6:16
with one of my favorite and perhaps an unusually candid happy against an
6:20
opponent announces
6:22
yesterday night and i’m pleased to meet strict
6:29
anything to do that
6:30
not strongly
6:33
considering
6:35
dot
6:36
twenty-two forty billion warming up the scribner owned i deserve a second
6:46
rude to perfection in the bronx ny
6:49
because no one no lasted
6:52
okayed looks kinda like grapefruit juice
6:54
but it takes michael miles initiate without evidence
7:01
it’s actually very addictive
7:04
capitals needed just a holiday
7:07
prematurely
7:07
i get along with the dead born being out of the rain sally field i feel very
7:11
comfortable in stoney
7:14
what’s on the people
7:16
were
7:18
not still happy about the case of the day
7:21
simply because little
7:22
all the way that they had while i’ve been looking for them as well but we
7:25
were taken apart simply forgot sorry
7:28
anemic
7:29
bear left it’s all good near is no need to be made
7:33
nineteen reaches of that their has got to stop not in that
7:37
factors always do
7:40
make one hop we made hornets about those bottles are gone
7:43
so people of orange with
7:45
for pilots and with their bellies
7:47
depends
7:49
i’ve no doubt
7:50
at this point
7:53
forks were used
7:55
for making me
7:56
all virgin right now the slightest bikes
7:59
it security
8:01
juries absolutely law
8:03
hired evidence first course if you add up
8:06
the circumstantial evidence
8:08
army fomented an experimental evidence
8:11
and you look at example as wright wrote scandinavia true britain bencher
8:15
wiretaps
8:16
distance makes sense
8:17
benefits all have a witness
8:19
processing
8:19
it’s very very simple
8:21
it works
8:23
people-to-people enjoy it
8:24
and esther proof
8:25
paper proved wrong
8:27
if somebody comes returns renters and five days time ancestors
8:31
points at
8:34
immediately go
8:36
yet okay
8:37
now we see that
8:39
says the goddess sold out
8:41
divert the flow
