Hello!
Morning!
This is noisy,
[Laughs]
can you be quiet please .
[Sound of rushing water]
We are, if you watched thevlog a few weeks ago about the wee hoose in Lairg,
do you remember that?
In Lairg? Yes.
Well we're about five miles south of the wee house
and we're at a place called the Falls of Shin,
[Shaun] What?
[Colin] What?
I thought you said something else.
Falls of Shin, that's what you can hear in the background,
is the waterfalls.
Falls of Shin, it sounds like a body part doesn't it, like the falls of shin,
it's like an injury a football player might get, falls of shin.
like the rising buttocks.
The back fat knol.
[Laughing]
Did you like that one?
Yeah
The pubic mound.
Nooooo!
What?
There is a place called The Mound where we live isn't there?
[Shaun] There is yeah.
So this is the River Shin,
it flows from Loch Shin,
which is back in Lairg, there's the big loch and then there's the little loch
[Shaun] The dam.
and then it blows down here
and this is really nice, there's like a little viewing area
you have to walk down a load of ramps and steps.
[Shaun] No idea how I'm gonna get back up.
Now every summer
the salmon that was spawned just to bit further up there
come back, they come from the North Sea, they swim up the Dornoch Firth
back into the River Shin
and they actually try and jump these falls
They don't try, they make it.
to get up to the spawning point further at the top.
Some of them are really good,
I think it's a bit like you're doing your driving test,
Right.
because some of them do it first time, like me.
[Shaun] And me!
Did you pass your driving test first time?
Yeah
I thought it took you a few times.
No.
I remember the people screaming and like, get out the way.
[Laughs] There are a lot of people jumping into hedges.
[Car horn]
It is really nice down here
and you can come and watch the salmon jumping
and there's loads of walks, there's like four really nice walks that go through the Glen and the woods
and obviously because of the salmon fishing is really popular a little bit further downstream.
But that's not why we're here today.
Is it not?
No, I mean this is like quite a decent gash in the landscape.
[Laughing]
What? [Laughing]
[Laughing]
but this is not what we're here to talk about, [Laughing]
in fact it's a little bit noisy with the falls,
What?
With the balls?
With the falls!
You said balls!
You're spitting on me.
I think we're getting a bit too excited,
we need to go somewhere a bit quieter so I can tell the story.
OK.
No, come on.
[Music playing]
[Music fading]
I weren't just showing them my sexy ears,
I was kind of implying that we're in a quieter place now.
I don't know anybody that gets off on ears do you?
One of you will.
It is a bit quieter here,
do you know why we're actually here today?
and it's not to do with I don't know, back fat know or whoever it is,
Falls of Shin.
What if I was to tell you, that where we're stood right now
is near enough in the center of one of the biggest asteroid impact craters in the world.
You thought the Loch Ness Monster was the story of Scotland, I tell you this is it.
We're just outside Lairg,
which is in Sutherland in the North Highlands in Scotland.
Now some scientists believe
that 1.2 billion years ago
an asteroid two miles wide
that's bigger than the one that destroyed the dinosaurs
was traveling at 40,000 miles an hour
and it smashed into the Earth right here. [Sound of explosion]
[Shaun] In Lairg!
Now the impact was equivalent to 940 million Hiroshima atomic bombs.
[Shaun] Oh my Lordy!
[Colin] Imagine that.
[Shaun] WOW!
The force of the impact drove the asteroid five miles into the Earth's crust
WOW!
and it's scattered debris for about 40 miles in each direction.
It created a crater 25 miles in diameter
and it destroyed all the life within 200 miles outwards of the impact zone,
whatever life there would have been about 1.2 billion years ago.
Not a lot.
It would have just been them, what are they called?
slimy things, intelligent phoebies.
PHOEBIES????
What am I thinking of?
[Laughs] Amoeba!
Amoebas, that's it yeah.
PHOEBIES????
[Laughing] Intelegent phoebies.
[Laughs]
Now over the years this huge 25 mile wide crater
has slowly been kind of covered and filled in with mud and sand
and then as recently as 430 million years ago,
recently, it's like last week isn't it?
I remember, I had some TDK C90 tapes when that happened.
[Laughs]
There was a load of rocks shifting across Northern Scotland
and that buried it and filled a bit more of it in
Right.
and then not long after that,
well about 429.9 million years later from that,
That's not long.
They built Lairg on top of it.
[Laughing]
[Colin] They did.
[Laughing]
Now they'll doubtless be one or two million of you at home now,
Million??
saying that's not right it was here or it was here or you got this wrong.
I'm just repeating what the man told me.
We don't care anyway.
He was quite drunk at the time.
no it is actually based on a theory by a paleontology curator
from Ulster Museum a few years ago.
I always thought paleontology was spin in plates.
[Comedy music playing]
[Laughs]
Is it not?
No, it's dinosaurs isn't it.
Is it, well it's a bit before then isn't it.
But it comes from a museum in Ulster, so if you want to kind of berate anybody,
go and berate him. I thought berate meant something different till I looked on the thesaurus,
which also sounds like a dinosaur.
[Laughing]
[Music playing]
Did you know?
What?
That Lairg in Scottish Gaelic
translates to Shank.
[Laughs]
Ham shank!
That what Cockney rhyming slang when I was at school for something was that.
Yeah, ham shank!
Lairg is ace you know, if you've not been to Lairg, you've got to come.
Every year they have the Lairg Gala,
[Shaun] They do.
which is really good, they have the Crofters Show
and then once a year they have the biggest one-day sheep sale in Europe
It'd make a good Christmas present wouldn't it, a sheep.
Why?
It just would, it's like thoughtful and unusual isn't it.
Have you got my Christmas present yet?
No.
I'll tell you what you can get me if yo want.
Go on then.
There's a new aftershave by Justin Bieber.
Oh you're kidding me.
[Laughds] Nooo, you could get that.
Then I can get up every morning and
it'd be nice to have Justin Bieber squirting on my neck
[Laughing]
Smell nice all day then wouldn't I.
Ohhhhhh!
What?
NO!!
Ok.
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Back flap knob or whatever it's called.
Pubic Mound, can't remember.
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A swinger?
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Oh dear, you're gonna have to leave us alone, we're having far too much fun here.
We are.
We'll see you next week, take care, bye-bye!
Ta-ra!
[Music playing]
Five,
four,
three,
two,
I nearly licked to your ear then.
My dad always said that I were a good swimmer.
He said you're not the sharpest tool in the box, but you were a good swimmer when it mattered.
It is a really nice place to come and, I don't know spend four minutes.
I can think of more interesting things to do in four minutes.
[Laughs]
[Shaun] That long? [Colin] Twice!
Twice! I did say twice.
[Laughing] I can't stop!
Hello.
I'm cold.
Hellooooo!
Come on!
Three two one, it means prepare, get ready, look at the camera.
I was yawning!
Not scratching your
[BEEEEP!]
I've got another five numbers to remember now.
If you are phone numbers of a certain singer he'd know it!
[Clicks] Justin!
[Laughs]
I make myself laugh sometimes.
Five four three two... [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Oh god. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
You're crackers! [Laughing]
[Laughing]
You laugh when you're ready. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Give up! [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Give up, you'll make me cry. [Laughing]
and then it'll spoil it. [Laughing]
[Laughing]
Come on. [Laughing]
I'm getting hangry now.
I could be a curator,
you could be yeah, you don't even know
I could curate.
you don't even know what that means do you?
[Laughing]
[Colin] three two [Shaun] Careful.
Wouldn't it be nice though to wake up on the morning and have Justin Berber, Bieber..
Arrgghhh!
YAYYYY! We're done.
[music playing]