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What are the benefits of gamifying admin tasks with Octopus Energy?
The Rest is Entertainment is presented by Octopus Energy. Now, they've looked at admin and decided it should behave much more like a game show.
When you provide your meter readings, they will give you a spin of a wheel, which allows you to win prizes, allows you to win Octo Points, which you can spend in the Shoptopus. Yeah, it's the gamifying of the boring bits of your admin. Now, listen, you know how much I love Octopus Energy. The prizes, I'm going to say, are not quite up to the standard of the Wheel of Fortune. The biggest ever prize on the Wheel of Fortune... So over $1 million. What feels more similar is some of the random prizes they'll get on the Wheel of Fortune. They've had ceramic Dalmatians. I saw one where you could win a Gucci calculator. You think, okay, that's two of my favorite things. There was an Onyx bin.
Yeah, again, I'm not dissing the prizes, but I would have probably gone for the Dalmatian.
None of these things you have to worry about with Octopus Energy. It is simply octa points to spend in the shop.
Well, you have to submit your meter reading to earn a spin. And then you get prizes you don't actually have to persuade yourself you want, like money off your next bill.
You can get £1,000 off your bill. If you get the top prize, which is 800,000 octa points, £1,000 off your bill, just on the spin of a wheel.
Hello and welcome to this episode of the Rest is Entertainment Questions and Answers Edition. I'm Marina Hyde.
And I'm Richard Osman. Hello everybody. Hello Marina.
Hello Richard. How are you?
I'm very, very well. Don't forget we're doing a special Q&A very soon with Sir Paul McCartney.
You think I forgot?
I'm not forgetting that. You're not forgetting it.
I'm thinking of genuinely very little else.
Well, no, you'll think about this episode first.
Oh, yeah, because above all, I'm a professional.
Yeah, above all. If people say, what's one word you'd use to describe Marina? And let's say professional.
I'm still excited I can do the intro to this particular edition of the show.
You did great. Without messing up.
I know, every time I do it, I still can't believe I've done it.
A little fist pump. A little Andy Murray fist pump. If you want to ask a question of Sir Paul McCartney, we'll be giving your questions, not ours. The rest is entertainment at goalhanger.com. But we are going to be answering your questions this week. I'm sorry that that's a disappointment because neither of us are Paul McCartney. But we start with a question from Beverly G. Beverly G is like an 80s New York rapper. Beverly asked, she's talking about House of Commons television. She said, could the House of Commons up the production value of their select committees? Finally, Beverly, someone said it. If potentially millions of people are watching Sir Ollie Robbins reveal crucial information for our democracy, would it not be a good use of taxpayer money to improve the cameras and mics?
Yeah, we have reached the blockbuster select committee per phase of any government's life. And so, yeah, last week it was Ollie Robbins. This week, there's been Morgan McSweeney and Philip Barton. Let me tell you something, Beverly G, which is that The filming in the House of Commons, and that means in the chamber itself and the House of Lords and on all the committee rooms, is governed by incredibly strict rules, which were mostly established in 1989 when they let the cameras in. And some have relaxed a little, but I will tell you what they are, which will explain quite a lot. The main rules are that you have to focus on the speaker while they're talking. So this is why in the House of Commons, you've got this static angle on the dispatch box, and it's quite wide.
You're not allowed to do a close-up, though, which would just be a head. And zoom in. You have to do head and shoulders. Yeah. All the things you'd want to say, which is, you know, get me Tice now. Yeah. because you want to do a cutaway. You can't do that. They have relaxed them slightly to allow cutaways at all, but they can only cut away to the person who has been named or effectively, you know, by the honourable lady officer or something you know who you're talking about.
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