💃 LET'S GO GIRLS 💃

[@ergodeus]

Bro I was so invested in what he was saying 😭

[@hafsa.90]

Me too :/

[@NotAnYoutubeChannel]

Ommggg me too!!! Never gonna have that asnwer.. Damn it.

[@mrfood7u772]

Idk, but basically in economy, they try to simplify decisions, cause thay are hell of alot, and they do this with math. Althought sometimes they are so simplified that the core value of the decisions themselves get lost and so, batsh*t happens.

[@masaboih]

He was about to make a point about how economists think they can build metrics/models to measure value/risk or whatever, which is linked to financial crisis in many ways, for example to basel I act, failure to account for increased systemic risk of cdos and in general making models too complicated so their supervision gets difficult but still cant account for everything --> should use mathematically simple models with common sense.

[@MaxOakland]

Me too!

[@felixcatnapping]

This conversation almost had a meaning, thank you to whoever called at the right time and save us all

[@TypicalEveningPictures]

I swear they had that ready just in case a conversation started to mean something 😂😂😂

[@stephjovis3469]

​@@TypicalEveningPictures I think she did say something like that in an interview. That they agreed to call if it gets too serious 😅

[@VictoriaSobocki]

Hahaha

[@VictoriaSobocki]

@@stephjovis3469Do you have a link? Haha

[@hungariangiraffe6361]

I think it was her mate Paul.

[@angie81190]

Dude had hand on his head,he was really trying his hardest and actually succeeded answering Philomena's questions

[@colinluckens9591]

Or ALMOST did lol.....

[@hfs-lk5ip]

I think he was gonna say "economists think they can build a predictive model of the economy, and when it inevitably goes wrong they don't have the resources to avoid economic collapse"

[@writershard5065]

@@hfs-lk5ip I was actually really interested in hearing what he had to say about that lol.

[@kaonashi93]

Philomena Pholomenaie

[@samsarasagaram]

Hence the call 😂😂

[@mohamadshafiqmohamadhanifa7853]

“he’s not annoyed, bring in the ring tone”

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

Yeah, that was definitely setup but still funny as hell.

[@ElficGuy]

EXACTLY! HE WAS HAVING A MOMENT!!

[@mandash4762]

​@@Pagliacci_Rex Yeah it was on purpose (shes an actor) but he didnt know

[@Pagliacci_Rex]

@@mandash4762 yeah, I know.

[@mandash4762]

@@Pagliacci_Rex oh, sorry

[@MBM16cr]

"I think that actually you're right in a way" Interviewer: 👁️👄👁️

[@ThePhysicalReaction]

I used to respond to my ex-gf in this way at lulls in the conversation. we're no longer together.

[@ryanpinard1975]

​@@ThePhysicalReaction My dog likes scrambled eggs as a treat

[@imperiumoccidentis7351]

@@ryanpinard1975 I have an insect bite on my leg

[@avinav8688]

​@@imperiumoccidentis7351 My landlord threw me out of his house .

[@aperson9782]

​@@ThePhysicalReaction my fruit bowl has grapes in it

[@jayc369]

"If we took Maths out of the Equation" is the most revolutionary sentence I've heard in recent times...

[@SimonFrack]

You can have word equations though.

[@walkingwith_dinosaurs]

Fr😂😂😂

[@Verulyrus]

YES i was thinking the same thing, i love it so much. 'If we took grammar out of the sentence' type shit

[@coco13579]

you can take the equation out of maths but you cant take the math out of the equation

[@user-pt2el1tt1r]

Then we're fcked...

[@melanieburg7614]

The fact that she remains composed after hearing he thinks she is "right in a way" is tantamount to her talent.

[@superrsick]

Talented or dumb like oh no he’s not mad producers got to call her ?????

[@lelesoares2362]

@@superrsickit’s a comedy show it’s not that serious.

[@CoppuChan]

@@superrsickyou can’t tell satire apart from serious tone??

[@henryrugg4971]

tantamount or testament?

[@melanieburg7614]

@henryrugg4971 I think your correct, would be better stated testament - cheers!

[@shroom2692]

"I think you're right in a way" You can see in her eyes she was not prepared for that answer

[@seamusreddy9020]

It's a comedy called cunk on britian😮😮😮

[@shroom2692]

@@seamusreddy9020 I know

[@ebonyblack8109]

When the bs you spout is actually a fresh new take😂😂😂

[@rishujeetrai5780]

Production be like: Damn he's agreed with her. He's agreeing. Quick, protocol B. What's protocol B? Call her damnit!

[@sagnikbiswas8922]

Exactly my thoughts 😂

[@Hellbender32]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@Hellbender32]

Makes sense!

[@benjo_5]

Just what I was thinking too

[@TheChuckFina]

It may be her mate Paul.

[@WailingWhale717]

Just when we get a serious answer to her mind melting questions...

[@Steampuke]

Exactly! Phew, close call! They dodged a big one!

[@rezazify]

Sounds like a fascinating response as well

[@xCoNa14]

​@@rezazify yeah, I was genuinely interested :'(

[@asgacc8789]

Honestly I was mind blown. Really wanted to hear it

[@paracosm8977]

Actually he's my fav guest expert - he always takes Philomena's words so serious and tries his best to make them have sense

[@dimaggiogiovanni]

Who's the guy?

[@freebeerishere]

@@dimaggiogiovanniRobert Peston

[@rose-ui6hk]

his struggle to answer "what's the most political thing that happened in britain" yet absolute determination to do so will always amuse me

[@TerexJ]

​@@rose-ui6hkI loved that one and her follow up question when he said he couldn't come up with an answer.

[@michellemarie9526]

The most intelligent people really try to meet people exactly where they're at - they treat every idea like a precious jewel and they humbly try to work with it.

[@anantmalik]

Yes. He was trying to see the overuse of math. He understood that economists think that they can build economics purely mathematically but it is not true. An economist knows that he must have a human element to consider whenever economics is being discussed ... ❤🎉😊

[@spb43sainik]

I love how he is being decent to agree with her, but holding his head with horror at the same time

[@harisultan99]

we love the horror

[@samulilahnamaki3127]

How come in horror? Many see that as a completely valid way to study economics. Behavioral economics is a whole field of that. Economy is more of a mass psychosis than collection of math equations. (Edit economy, not economics, freudian slip 😅)

[@starcitizen890j5]

No. He’s just really dumb. He is the reason that the UK government had to spend money during the covid pandemic explaining exponential growth because he could not understand it at a press briefing 😂.

[@TheIronalvarohide]

​@@samulilahnamaki3127 yes, something so important it shouldnt be let for the economicians

[@lemon4087]

I can't with that pose 💀💀💀

[@sarthakgautam5311]

the disbelief in his eyes when her phone rang 💀

[@briton3851]

Rung*

[@MsPowerpuff20]

​@@briton3851 *Rang

[@gamergeek7482]

Lmao seriously. I laughed my ass off. I feel like that was too random even for this show but his reaction was priceless.

[@Lotus1111]

🤣🤣🤣

[@hungariangiraffe6361]

​@@MsPowerpuff20 I love English 😂

[@honor_ed5875]

That one time when her question was taken rather seriously and then.. let's go girls😂

[@DreamBodyChuks]

The producers had to interrupt him cause he agreed instead of disagreeing with her😅

[@Alice-si8uz]

It's kinda clever in a way as people can get switched off when complex issues get discussed like math and financial theory. Cutting him off draws interest in what he was saying as poeple want closure on what he was about to say so look into this idea.

[@inkblots]

I actually wanted to hear his full answer.

[@Steampuke]

NNNNNo.

[@liav4102]

I think he’s going in the direction of an economist is a sociologist more than they are a big picture accountant when they are doing things well

[@astalavista_84]

He would basically have said that Economists think they can build models to predict what will happen but its just hubris

[@thebastardbrasta9260]

"If we took the math out, we'd have to say in simple English what was really happening. So, in 2008, they made make complicated calculations saying that banks don't have to worry about mortgages not being paid back because the odds of *everyone* being unable to pay their mortgage was next to nothing. But what happens is, of course, houses couldn't keep getting more expensive forever, and when you hit the peak, then you can only go down. And so people stop paying their mortgages, because they'd rather give up the house to the bank. The banks tried to desperately sell the houses to get the mortgage money back, but the other banks sold houses too, and nobody really wanted to buy them, so there isn't enough money to go around. And it's impossible to have an economy with too little money to go around, which creates the crisis. If we had a really simple system, where banks sort of just had to use their common sense, they might have seen how risky mortgages could be and been more careful, avoiding the crisis."

[@1799alexandre]

He probably would say something based on the Austrian economics perspective I think

[@YouOpaOpa]

Dude was actually elaborating something interesting from that! I need the rest!

[@germanher7528]

He was gonna talk about how the predictions models are very complex (mathematically and data wise) but can't really predict the future with high certainty, this in Imo is because as much data you could put into the model it would have a practical limit and all influencing factors cannot be predicted since data becomes unmanageable, unless in a rigurous closed system, so sometimes even common sense can be a better predictor. For example in high risk credit lending the prediction models basically becomes gambling while common sense suggests to stay away from it 😂

[@YouOpaOpa]

@@germanher7528 Yeah, I think he was going to say they can build a perfect system but not take into account the human factor which leads to inhuman practices.

[@cheydinal5401]

I think what he meant was that economists can sometimes think that because they can describe what happened in the past, relatively accurately, with a mathematical formula, they then start to think that they can also predict the future just as accurately, with that formula It gives the economists a false sense of security After all, the economy is just a bunch of people doing some things, you can't super accurately predict political events with maths (or at all, really), and also can't predict economics with maths (or all that good in general, actually)

[@hotmoms8951]

@@cheydinal5401 Absolutely! And make learning about it more accesible to the general public who don't know advanced math haha. Make the economy more for the people yk?

[@Quephara]

So do I

[@nuberiffic]

How she ever managed to stay in character is simply beyond our mere mortal understanding

[@thisIsFunnyLolz]

I like to think that the ringtone is a back up plan. So if the interviewee is actually making sense and getting deep into stuff, then one of the producers or assistants will call her to trigger that😂

[@GabrielRodriguez-vv6lb]

She must have that ringtone on hand for every interview just in case someone starts saying something poignant

[@maazkalim]

You a British State broadcaster agent?

[@Anonymous-es4jo]

Isn't poignant a smelly fish?

[@deltasi]

​@@Anonymous-es4joit means pitiful

[@aimanazminovich3602]

@@Anonymous-es4jo What fish is that

[@whocares_bear]

@@Anonymous-es4jo It's a smelly cheese.

[@elenaevans4121]

She's definitely carrying this channel fs

[@PixlyPenguin]

Channel?? It's a TV programm

[@IAmTheGlovenor]

@@PixlyPenguin You're definitely the least brightest crayon in the box, huh?

[@PixlyPenguin]

@@IAmTheGlovenor qué? Am I a crayon? Then I got to go to the doctor quick!

[@hotzebruh6331]

@@IAmTheGlovenor he definitely is lol

[@justslightly7794]

Let's not be impolite, just because someone didn't understand the comment

[@ExpendableRedshirt]

Got love Philomena, she's become a national treasure.

[@mkien2005]

Philomena Cunk for UK's PM!

[@HugoStiglitz88]

She's a planetary treasure. The entire human species should treasure her

[@nomalangabraston5792]

Bros head broke mid convo😭🤣

[@dahat1992]

Literally the only time she's ever looked surprised is when someone actually agreed with her.

[@Bongi344]

There's one more, the black death and condom one

[@hohenmarqiii9114]

​@@Bongi344 and when she found out about laika

[@Bongi344]

@@hohenmarqiii9114 yes

[@clockup5878]

@@hohenmarqiii9114 And when she found about atomic weapons.

[@JoeMartinez18]

She was like "Wait, my BS made sense?"

[@NegativeProcess]

She even looked surprised he went along with it 🤣

[@Narutouzumaki-ku2vm]

She’s right tho. Often if you do nothing in an economy, it will correct an inflationary or recessionary gap on its own. The entire economic debate lies on the quantity the government should intervene with fiscal/monitary policy to make economic recovery faster.

[@krismine99]

​@@Narutouzumaki-ku2vm you see, I think that's mixed. Pre globalization that would work out pretty well, but globalization created a lot of competition for manufacturing and services to the point where if a government doesn't intervene to a substantial degree, then that country will simply fall out of favor. She's right in the sense that too often people try to roleplay as God and control the uncontrollable

[@ronque23]

I’ve never watched the BBC so much in such a short period of time.

[@nyChannel09]

"If we took math out of the equation." Thats just a genius sentence

[@miamesa8652]

"If we took maths out of the equation" is definitively the best thing I've heard in a long time edit : there I fixed it, maths is now plural

[@alan-dx2zf]

It's maths not math in the UK😂

[@tejug1161]

😂😂😂

[@seriously58]

Good luck with driving a car where math was taken out of the equation :p

[@yebarow]

​@@seriously58The expert seems to disagree with you because he said that cunk was right in a way 😂

[@pbezunartea]

@@seriously58 _Good luck with driving a car where math was taken out of the equation :p_ Nah, as long as physics still works... ;)

[@augustjay6436]

Omg her eyes got so wide when he started agreeing with her. Like oh shit....we weren't dumb enough PLAN B PLAN B

[@professionalmexican7919]

Yeah

[@nguyenvu8262]

Her question is actually quite profound in a way. But it's the writer who wrote it, she just spoke it.

[@TheEndermanNestGPage]

@@nguyenvu8262 you don't know she didnt write it and delivery can be more important than what she's saying

[@nguyenvu8262]

@@TheEndermanNestGPage If she even kind of understand the question, she would not have any reaction when an seasoned professional agrees.

[@bryanfongo327]

​​@@nguyenvu8262she's a *comedian* and she is in character, it doesn't matter what Diane understands as she will always act like Philomena. She made that face because she thought it would be funny and that's it

[@FaithSpitsbergen-wj1yx]

It was the call that stunned him 😂 Totally ready to do away with the maths, and announce he was running for office.

[@Saurischian]

Who is this gentleman? He's incredibly awesome

[@alicequayle4625]

I think it's Robert Peston.

[@jasminehouston-burns1691]

I like how she never lets the conversation get too serious.

[@red_calla_lily]

I don't... IMO, adapting and recognizing authentically great moments when you see them is more important than show-horning in a few jokes for laughs. It really elevates a good show to a great one. Why have experts when they're not allowed to explain anything? This guy is so passionate about his subject, it's so sad to see him shut down like this. Entertainment doesn't have to be just jokes, it can be insightful moments, too.

[@aimanazminovich3602]

@@red_calla_lily Maybe it’s not fitting in a comedy

[@LolaOpheliac]

@@red_calla_lily You don’t understand the point of the show, like, at all.

[@jacobwilson8657]

"LET'S GO GIRLS" priceless hahaha

[@Minelaughter]

He looked so disrespected 😭

[@SuperBindya]

Man he is so handsome ❤

[@grandmastatus]

Right he’s like an older David tennant? Who is this person!???

[@pattyb6003]

I love this guy. He's trying really hard to help Philomena appear smart.

[@kenma6421]

She makes historians question their own history

[@dcmastermindfirst9418]

You mean their own logic.

[@jusletursoulglobaby]

his expression is GOLD!

[@blaquemoonmajesty33]

She blew his mind

[@BigComedyNetwork]

Not sure why anyone else even bothers to do comedy. She is the GOAT!

[@ArTryy]

He was so shocked, that he needed to hold back his hair to prevent them from falling 🤦🏻‍♂️🤯

[@Kishan18]

The look on his face when her phone started ringing is too good

[@Alice-si8uz]

He's so baffled lmao

[@ChiLouis69]

I died immediately 😂😂😂😂

[@palash7570]

This is a real question actually, and he was going right too😂

[@reddishsky8614]

For real, I was reall paying attention to that 🥲

[@hereandnow3156]

As a business major I genuinely wanted to hear what he was going to say and then it cut him off😂

[@Slashresto]

@@hereandnow3156rofl same dude

[@BioTheHuman]

​@@hereandnow3156I think he obviously didn't mean that math was the problem but rather the economists who misinterpret that or that are totally detached by reality and only look at the numbers.

[@ggfdd5925]

​@@hereandnow3156 as someone who has no background related to that I claim he was about to say that economists think they can build mathematical models to predict the future but those can be very unreliable in extreme situations

[@gauravkumar3146]

I love her accent and voice.

[@Patrick-sb2sb]

LOLOLOLOLOL!! Great satire with the wonderful British dryness!! Luv British humor!

[@RigelOrionBeta]

It's actually a really good point, and I think the responder was going to get into the morality of economics instead of simply one based on metrics that have no relationship to what the end goal of economics should be - a better world.

[@rikardb]

This should be top comment! Economics is something else and twisted in todays society!

[@TheDarkPacific]

Agreed.

[@Frank.av3c]

As an economist, I feel like he was going towards the propensity of oversimplifying human and human behaviour into numbers which may not end up behaving like they should according to text.

[@lukebowman7513]

brilliant comment! I was thinking the same thing. I get the gag of this show, but when there is an opportunity to learn it should be taken in full stride, it shouldn't be hushed away simply for the sake of mediocre comedy.

[@EdgyVidyaGeneral]

...economics is the study of how people use resources, not an attempt to "make a better world". So he would never say what you said because its nonsense.

[@user-oy4vu3ck3u]

Ok but I do actually wanna hear what he's got to say. It's so exciting when experts get to start questioning things and deeper conversations happen and I am starting irl for these types of conversations

[@lazyraccoon1526]

Ff you want to know about the financial industry using too much math you should look up how big of a market the derivatives market is, derivatives like futures, options or swaps. That's how basically how the world economy exploded in 2008, where the derivative market of mortgage loans was bigger than the market of mortgage loans itself.

[@cb250nighthawk3]

He's got nothing to say, actually. The equation crumbled.

[@Shuang_Shuang]

The panic when her question made sense 😂😂 "What do we do?!?!?!" "I DON'T KNOW! CALL HER OR SOMETHING?!"

[@ehaseagyeno4622]

I wish I will someday get the opportunity to tell this lady just how much of her dry humour means to me 😂😂

[@bigtex4058]

If you take out the maths, it's no longer an equation.

[@Just_Jamie4Realz]

R/technicallycorrect

[@vulkeule5306]

@@Just_Jamie4Realz r/technicallythetruth

[@vulkeule5306]

@Vulkeule r/technicallythetruth

[@Just_Jamie4Realz]

@@vulkeule5306 Shit

[@kypzethdurron]

You got the joke, well done Texas /s

[@Rainbow_Neos1]

Why is he an older David Tennant?! The mannerisms and even word formation are ON POINT.

[@VioletLilikoi]

I thought the same thing! 😂

[@lovecandy4608]

I thought I was the only one hallucinating.

[@johnarryn1777]

Was literally thinking the same

[@shelleyjackson9443]

David Tennant is Scottish though, and this guy is English

[@Rainbow_Neos1]

@@shelleyjackson9443 When David plays the doctor he does an English accent.

[@Of_infinite_Faith]

"If we took maths out of the equation " is such a crazy sentence

[@nou257]

i feel like the one the cameraman calls philomena when the interviewee starts to agree with her😂

[@starhealer3635]

The way she nods in complete utter agreement of like "guys it's finally happening" brings me so much happiness.

[@sussusamongus6592]

Hell yeah. I knew it was going too smoothly 😭🤣

[@Alice-si8uz]

It's kind of brilliant in a way though cause cutting him off gets people invested in what he was going to say when math and finance can make people switch off lol

[@arminpeter125]

her face, when he said, YOUR RIGHT.

[@frosecold]

I love this... Her straight face is priceless

[@phontogram]

the david tennant vibe is strong with this guy

[@christianmcbrearty]

I thought it was David at first lmaooo

[@ilghiz]

And the phone was actually TARDIS calling

[@kintsugikame]

I was thinking more of a healthy Stephen Hawking

[@OGimouse1]

Came here for this

[@daphnebanks6493]

I'm so in love with his voice!

[@phytoplankton7003]

He’s grabbing his head to block his soul spilling out his brain 😂

[@joshuahoover6841]

She is a gem that needs to be protected at all costs

[@dliap98]

i love this guy. by far my favourite interview with her

[@priyamaran8257]

His voice is just ❤️😭

[@solus8685]

Ikr and paired with that accent... 🤤🤤

[@busdrinker3734]

And his eyes lol!!! Agreeable man!

[@Nick-xc4fy]

The one time someone actually agrees with her craziness and that happens...

[@shawnkelly5419]

OMG! She's so adorable and brilliant. ❤

[@PinoyBowlerGS92]

"Sorry about that" 🤣

[@maxsilbert]

Damn I really wanted to hear what he had to say but that ringtone was perfect 😂

[@nimamoradi2779]

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little really know" I think he was trying to say something similar

[@samoryTure]

She is a legend.

[@yourerightimwrong4567]

How does she keep a straight face?!? I mean, taking *maths* out of the _equation?!?_ lmao

[@Toonamik]

is she the IT CROWD actress?

[@gamewithgreg]

​@@Toonamik no, this is Diane Morgan, she's been in a few things but notably After Life with Ricky Gervais

[@azubukofelix1133]

Her questions would always stretch you out of the norms of reasoning

[@joelstalcup2464]

This woman is an international comedic treasure. My abs hurt from laughing so hard at all these Cunk interviews 😂

[@joseph8208]

I was literally ready to listen to his response. But was also just as pleased to hear that song again!

[@Lecintel]

Philomena has such beautiful eyes

[@niara6]

The way he was holding his forehead 😂😂😂

[@IsyAweigh]

He was so sweet about realizing that he was going to have to lie down on the floor to lower his expectations enough. Then... the ring tone 🤣🤣🤣

[@noway-.-]

Haha that's hilarious. I also wanted to hear the rest of his explanation!

[@sciencenerd777]

I am in LOVE with HIS VOICE AND ACCENT

[@Upndouin]

Have you seen her in After Life with Ricky Gervaise? She is also so funny in the series.

[@akpokemon]

i'm jealous of his eye area too. No dark circles, puffiness, hooded lids...

[@XiUNOiX120]

Brothers Mind...got blown to the 69th Dimension 😂

[@Twisted.Nothing98]

I was genuine wondering what could go wrong… she never fails

[@idkreally5263]

She was suprised he agreed😂😂

[@harulango8614]

his response was too good so she has to use the backup plan

[@tomsmith6882]

“If we took maths out of the equation” is just such an outstanding line 😂

[@sour8182]

The hand on forehead in the next scene was hilarious

[@zeylasacli1641]

This is acc the first time I wanted to hear what the interviewee had to say😅

[@jet__girl]

Give her all the awards

[@amberv9424]

The look on HER face when he agreed with her and then went on to explain! 😂😂😂 I was like OMG one of them got her! Until he phone rang 😂😂😂

[@charitymaseko2770]

I love this guy, he gets her and just goes along with her madness 😂😂

[@ash.ab.5575]

she is a social media genius

[@Vicstarz26]

The Shania Twain song got me good 😂😂

[@LuzDoSol-yr5bv]

His face of disbelief. 😂😂😂

[@timbuckthe2nd642]

The way she nods in surprise when he agrees with her. 💀 👁👄👁

[@benius42]

If you take maths out of the equation… Most brilliant pun ever

[@carrieharvey8667]

She’s hilarious 😂 . I love it

[@thisguy9919]

Thank you Prince Ali! You motivated this amazing beautiful comedy!! She is FANTASTIC!!

[@elgirl19]

Damn as an economist I really wanted to hear what he had to say.

[@ANunes06]

Seemed like he was driving towards something like economists think the economy can be "modeled", but we're talking about individual human behavior on an aggregate scale. Maths can't explain Tulipmania, for example. But we may never know.

[@elgirl19]

@@ANunes06 yeah I learned a lot about how economists in the 20th century tried to make economics into physics and how that can lead to some terrible results. communism for example tries to be very scientific in its economics and that leads to some pretty bad stuff too, to put it lightly.

[@richtarget1127]

I think the main thing was that money is power and that power is electricity

[@cheydinal5401]

I think he was saying that because of all the fancy maths, economists tend to have a false sense of security, believing they can predict the future, when they of course can't

[@lampy4485]

“If we took maths out of the equation” She’s genius😂 comedy gold

[@xanderreyno]

It's the nod when he says "I think that actually you're right in a way." And she nods like "Yes, of course I am."

[@niamhoconnor8986]

I think he was gonna say "accurate conjectures"

[@lega-4494]

She seemed surprised he understood her that fast😂

[@portman2396]

She’s literally a national treasure 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@raymartsalasquilantang2818]

"Can we use something else instead of numbers"😅 unbelievable!

[@AColonDashSix]

That poor man tried his very best to give a good answer

[@PJCelis]

This is a real question that adults only dare to ask under the guise of comedy.